Arizona republican., 1912-01-02

NItu tuSiT oWu. uc QuestlOH or VI IK ] gins, who had always been frequent
 visitor to the camp. occupied them but a little while. He could be safely ad | mitted to the secret; and, informed that the Princess had definitely be come Lady Rowington, he too would be able to declare with perfect UT at any rate sufficient. truthfulness that he had no knowledge of her whereabouts. For the next thirty-siX hours the Princess was in a whirl of
 delightful excitement and anticipation
 more efiicacious than any medicine.
 That evening the Terror perfected
 his device for throwing the searchers
 off the scent. He drew smudged and
 execrable representation of a skull and
 cross-bones on half & sheet of paper
 Beneath them, with more smudges and
 considerable labor, he printed the
 words
 We are revenged. You will never
 see the Princess again. A desperate
 Socialist
 The next morning the Twins bought
 the Princess's camping outfit at Row
 ington. In the afternoon they con
 veyed clothes. blankets. and provisions
 10 Deeping Knoll. It was hard work
 in that sweltering weather. for the
 path through the wood was narrow
 and steep. It was the first year that
 they consented to take with them as
 many blankets 1s Mrs. Dangerfield thought needful. That night they
 supped and slept at the Knoll
 At quarter to nine the next night the Terror nailed the Socialist mani festo 10 the post of the gate of the home wood. because Deeping Knoll lay some three miles away At nine o'clock he met the Princess at the sec ond wicket gate opening from the gar den into tue park. She had bidden her guardians goodnight, gone to her bedroom. locked the door Of it. and then slipped. unseen. out of the house She was so trembling with excitement and fear of discovery that be con ducted her to the Knoll with his arm round her waist. She found 1t very heartening, above all, in the gloom of the woods so filled with inexplcable noises of the night. At the Knoll she found blazing fire. and though. hay ing already supped. she did not join the Twins in their supper. the big cup of cocoa, after her long and tlring journey, was indeed grateful.
 With true courtesy the Twins had given her q cave to herself: but she displayed such terrified reluctance to sleep in il alone. that her couch of bracken and her blankets were moved into tine cave of Erebus. After the journey and the excitement she was not long failing into q dreamless sleep.
 When she awOke next morning. she found the Terror gone to fetch milk Erebus conducted her down to the pool for her morning bath The Princess did not like it tfor she had Lad no experience of cold baths), but under the eye of Erebus she could not shrink: and in she went. She came out shivering; but Erebus helped rub her tO a warm glow and she came to breakfast with such an appetite as she had never before in her life enjoyed
 The Knoll was the ideal camping ground for the romantic; the caves with which it is honeycOmbed lent themselves To a score of games of ad- venture: and the Princess soon found that she had been called to an active life. IL began directly after breakfast with dlsh-washing after that she was breathless for an hour in an exciting game which meant running through the caves and round and over the Knoll as hard as you could run and at intervals yelling as loud as you could yell. After this they put on their bathing dresses. and disported themselves in the pool till it was time to set about the serious business of cooking the dinner. The Terror kept a careful and protective eye on the Princess; helping her for the most part, vigorously to cover the ground at the required speed Also he turned her out of the pool to dry and dress a full half bGnr before he and Erebus left it. After dinner the Princess was so sleepy shat she could hardly keep her eyes open.
 Then came Wiggins He displayed but little surprise at her presence; in- deed he said in q tone of self-reproach II ought to have thought of her being here"
 He brought great tale of the ex- citement of the countryside at her kid I.'s simple-minded inhabit- ants had accepted the Socialist Mani festo as the full explanation of her The Terror said that now all of them would have to be against searchers: and he in- vented peculiar cry which Erebus and Wiggins very quickly acquired. at the sound of which the Princess was to bolt into the nearest cave. or thick bush, and lie hid till the coast was again clear.
 The active life persisted throughout that day and the days which followed It kept the Princess always beside the Terror Always he was using his greater strength to help her to lead it at the required speed. Never in the history of the Courts of Europe has. a Princess been so hauled. showed and lugged over rough ground. On the second morning sGe awOke SD stiff that she could hardly