The Pensacola journal., 1912-10-01

The call came again from the wood
below, louder.
"Oh, it isn't the Baroness. It's Miss
Lambert" said the Princess in a tone
of relief.
You take too much notice of that
Baroness" said Erebus again firmly.
who is Miss LAMBERT"
She's my English lady-in-waiting.
| always have one when I'm in Eng
land, of course. / like her. She tries
to amuse me. But the Baroness
doesn't like her." said the Princess
and she sighed.
"She wouldn't" said Erebus darkly,
for already she had her suspicious of
the Baroness.
Come along: I'll help you down the
bank and take you to the edge of the
wood" said the Terror.
He half carried her down the steep
bank, adjuring her to confine herself
to the simple, il incomplete, statement
that she had been walking in the
wood. His last words to her were:
Don't you stand so much nonsense
from that Baroness"
The Princess joined Miss Lambert
and she did confine herself to the
In the wood. The Terror returned TO
Erebus and found her stretched at her
ease, eating a peach.
81 should have liked one a good deal
sooner" he said as he took one from
the basket. But I didn't like to say
anything about them. She mightnt
have understood"
The seed sown in the mind of the
Princess forthwith bore fruit. That
very night when she was supping, with
the Baroness and Miss Lambert in
attendance, she said that she wanted
some one to play with. Miss Lambert
with thoughtless quickness said that it
was an excellent idea. But the Baron
ess annoyed by the suggestion, and
further annoyed that Miss Lambert
had welcomed 1t, protested vehement
ly; where were the well-born ones in
the Deepings fitted to be the play
mates of a Princess of Cassel-Nas-
sau2
DR.. Arbuthnot was consulted: and
he said at once that from the point of
view of well-bornness, the Twins were
undoubtedly the right children of the
neighborhood to play with the Prin-
cess (if always they could be induced
to play with a little girl), but he
doubted the wisdom of exposing an
impressionable Princess to the infu.
ence of such free and ardent spirits
The Baroness had no doubt at all
about the unwisdom Of doing so. In
the end Virgins was selected for the
honorable post.
In the matter of play the Princess
now led a double life. She spent the
early part of the afternoon with the
Twins and with peaches in the woods
and from tea to supper she played
with Virgins. Between them she was
beginning to acquire muscle; and her
cheeks were growing less pale. But
she was not losing her delicacy at q
speed which satisfied the somewhat
eyigent Terror. and he was the more
put about by it because he and Erebus
were about to go for their annual
change of air and she would no longer
be under his invigorating care.
The Twins took their change of all
at but a short distance from home
since a visit to the sea was beyond the
slender means of Mrs. Dangerfeld. Tc
make I'D to them for this deprivation
they were allowed to encamp for ter
days, if the weather were fine. in the
warm sandstone caves Of Deepine
Knoll, which rises in the middle oi
Little Deeping wood, the property OF
their friend Mr.. Anstruther. the
Squire of Little Deeping. Kind-heartec
as the Twins were. they felt that tc
descend every afternoon to the home