Arizona republican., 1912-01-06

He saw to it that she came out of th, pool the moment she looked chill. He
 picked out for her the tidbits at their meals. He even brushed out her hair for the thick golden mass was quite i beyond the management of the Prin cess, and Erebus firmly refused to play lady 's-maid. Since the Terror was one of those who enjoy doing those things which they are called upon to do. he presently forgot the unmanliness of the occupation. and began to take pleasure in handling the silken strands.
 It was on the fifth day after a bath. when he was brushing out her hair in the sun on the top of the Knoll that he received the severe shock. Heaven knows that the Princess was not a demonstrative child: indeed, she had never had the chance. But he had just finished his task and was survey ing the shining result with satiSfac- ton. when of sudden. without any warning. she threw her arms round his neck and kissed him.
 "Oh, you arc nice," she said.
 The Terror's inefable serenity was for once scattered to the winds. He flushed and gazed round the woods with hOrrorstricken eyes: if anyone should have seen it,
 The Princess marked his trouble. and said in tone of distress. Don't you like me to kiss yOu?"
 The Terror swallowed the lump of horror in his throat. and said faintly but gallantly: "Yes-Oh. rather"
 Then kiss me" said the Princess simply. smuggling closer to him.
 The deSpairing eyes of the Terror swept the woods; then he kissed her gingerly.
 ''I Gm fond of you. you know" said the Princess in a frankly proprietary tone
 The TerrOr's scattered wits at last worked. He rose to his feet and said quickly: Yes. Let's bc getting to the others"
 The Princess rose Obcdiently.
 But the ice was broken: and the kisses of the Princess if not frequent. were at any rate not rare. The Ter- TOT at first endured them: then hc came rather to like them. But he strictly enjoined discretion on her. Discretion and kisses. however. have no natural affinity: and without their knowing it, Wiggns became aware Of the practice.
 The confidence between tho Twins had always been so full that he was not aware that he was letting a eat out of q bag when he said To ErehIs
 ''I suppose the Terror's in love with the Princess. kissing her like that think it's awfuIly silly" And he spurned the earth.
 Erebus's dark face was all one dusky flush. as. somewhat hrcathlpSSly. Shr drew from Wiggins his idvllic story. Then she rose and with clenched fists and blazing eyes sought tho Princess Sha found her lying back drOwsily fiercely:
 Princess or no Princess, you shan't kiss him."
 The drowsiness fed; and tho Prin- cess sat up. Her gray eyes darkcned and sparkled. She had never made a face in her life: it is quite probable that she was ignorant that faces were made: hut quite naturally she made q hideous face at Erebus. and said: "I shall,'
 If you do. I'll smack you," cried. Erebus; and she ground her teeth
 He won't let you: and if you dc. he'll smack you-much harder" said tho Princess confidently.
 Had the Princess been standing up. Erebus would have SmaCked her then and there: but the Princess was sit ting safely down. Erebus growicd in her throat. turned on her heel. and dashed away in seach of the Terror She came upon him dragging a fallen bough up to the Knoll for irewOOd.
 'I know all about your kissing the Princess, I never heard of such silly '" she cried in tone of the tiercest contempt.
 The shame-faced Terror bushed then he turned braZcn:
 You mind your own business," he said firmly. Tt isn't babyish at all |, Shes asked me to marry her: and I'm going to-so there.'
 In the face of this situation Erebus found herself utterly helpless: she wrung her hands and turned sharply aside into the wood.
 Then followed q period of strain. Erebus assumed an attitude of naughty contempt toward the errant pair. She devoted herself to Virgins. and let them cOldly alone. It is tO be feared that the kisses. having been forbidden, became sweeter and more frequent.
 It was at this juncture that Sir Maurice FalcOncr. the uncle of the Twins. came into the affair. He had from the very beginning taken diff ferent view Of the disappearance of the Princess from that of the rest Of the world. It was his habit to ascribe any uncommon event which occurred in the Deepings 10 his nephew and niece When then he first read in his Morning Post of that disappearance. he said quietly to himself: The Twins again." He was confirmed in his opinion by the sight of reprodu" ton of the Socialist Manifesto in an halfpenny paper.
 But Sir Maurice was not q man to interfere lightly. and he was busy enough Jwith many lunches. race dinners, dances. and suppers to postpone his intervention till the sixth day. when every Socialist Organ iZati0n from San Francisco to Japan