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highness had warned the girl she
would sleep deeply. The servant made
another noise, then crept away in the
early dawn.
''Ill let her sleep till six" she whis-
pered to herself. why should a
royal princess get up at five Per
haps misunderstood the hour"
Then she went below to the kitchen,
where the half-dozen poorly paid serv-
ants of the impoverished prince of
Saxe-Weimar were waiting to tell her
the gossip of the household. She was
a new maid, and poorly informed.
The Princess Sophia, 1t seemed,
locked herself in her room every night
with tragedy. The tragedy concern
ed the ultimate necessity of royal
houses-money; and that ultimate lux
ury of royal prlncesses-love. A hand
some lieutenant had shot himself for
the sake of the Princess Sophia in
Athens five years before. He was SO
poor that the father of the infatuated
girl, an impecunious fourth cousin of
the Saxon monarch, refused to con-
slider an alliance. And in Heidelberg
that very day a young baron was
lodged whose proposal had been re-
jected as decisively. The baron's ia
ther was the most Influential banker
in Germany; his contribution to the
sinking fortunes of Prince Wilhelm
OF Saxe-Weimar would look like open
barter; the grand duke himself had
forbidden it, The second lover of the
Princess Sophia was. in short, too
rich
Her Heart Broken.
The kitchen gossips added many
details about the royal girl whose
heart had been broken under the iron
discipline of her caste. She had look
ed rebellious of late. Five years be-
fore she had broken an alliance with
a middle-aged, dissipated cousin, de-
creed by her relatives as worthy of
her hand At twenty.seyen, she was
nervous, embittered. Heidelberg SO
ciety saw her rarely. Only her per-
sonal servants realized her natural
warmth of heart nowadays. Housed
in the same castle with her family,
she had estranged herself.
The new maid pondered. 1t croIsse1
J her mind that the fettered, beautiful
princess of Saxony might be glad to
exchange her lot in life with that oil
her maid.
, Suddenly she remembered that up
! stairs the Princess Sophia still Sept
The little servant battered her
thumbs black and blue against the
chamber door before she gave upy5 10
| one stirred inside. AS last resort
she peered through the keyhole. Then
the peasant girl saw the PRINCESS
Sophia's answer to the imperial de
crees that had separated her tortured
heart from her first lover because he
was too poor and from her second be
cause he was too rich.
: The Princess Sophia had killed her
self. Just beyond the door wal
stretched white hand clutching
! pistol
= Born to Life of Sorrow.
e Thus runs the most modern of fair
stories For the sorrows of the PriI
cess Sophia were as real as her SUI
! eide in Heidelberg on September II
: 1918. They were as real as the bulle
4 which Lieut. Hans Elder zu Putlit
sent through his brain in Athens i
1908 for love of her, and as real a
n the grief which the young Baron 70
Bleichroeder carried to Prince WI
helms door on the day of his daugl
ter's funeral-a door from which tn
% baron was turned away. For Han
= r LII. a., -
i, rich: he was Jew, recently Ell
nobled who refused to renounce b
OF faith. The house of Saxe-Weimi
t, will not even acknowledge, at tn
;f date, that the match with the bare
was considered
oI Departures from royal dignity hal
ar been frequent In the house of Sax
no Welmar for nea ly a century, ev
since the family became a mere CT
lateral branch of the royal house
er Saxony, unsupported by wealth
ut real power. Two Of the men-Sophis
uncle, Duke Bernard, and her brotht
Prince Hermann-have escaped fro
an the empty court life into happy p
vate marriages Another, Prince w
helm himself, father of the unhap
ne Princess Sophia, fled to America
ge his youth, served as riding mast,
DIS. clerk. book agent and even as a r,
taurant waiter in New York, but W
no finally persuaded to return to G.
many. marry his second cousin, a
live on a small pension from the he
4. of the house. The women OF {
nv family have remained in the vel,
thy prison which the kaiser provides
an all his connections, however, reno
IL There have been no marriages of I
'''' Saxe-Weimar women out of the Ii
tied and dreary royal circle, no O
ac- ward rebellion, Only excepting
IA Princess Sophia, who answered the
~ escapable rules of her rank with {
by eide.
he Lovers Separated.
Sophia was only twenty when
met Elder zu Putlitz, young n
bat whose family was old enough to