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The chronicle=news. (Trinidad, Colo.) 1898-current, 1914-02-13


he will spend mu"h Of HE time OF
thc country palaces The famous
Ate Rexlusnz.', n. II. :. called by :he
Bavarians. was commenced in 1895
and completed in 1916. during the
reign Of Macmillan the. First. and
spreads OYER u large area Of ground
There are hundreds of rooms but only
the most important are shown to the
public. and thes. may lie viewed only
during the absence %! the court. The
grounds about the palace urc orns-
mented with fountains. shell ErottOa
and Hover gardens. Eot!, church
and theatre are attached to the pAlac e
for tho sole uge OF the king and his
court. From time to time additions
have been made 10 the building. and
IL one of the few royal palaces Of
Europe which contains modern con-
veniences. The part known ms the
FsstsaAlban "a building Of festival
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sa..s, . nearly siSh: hundred ter
.ens and ~ss completed In .io<s y
% ssid ,hs. the ains intends TO e.
3sas, 'hsss rcsus arc make :hso
.,sn srssAes. 10 Sa-h ;sisS - 30
sssis. consequently sh!s sss. o: ,Ss
paises ul'. Re .iesea &C :As pubt1s
FOR some time.
Naeasorsas g'sises.
The visitor en,sss BY TIRE k-n6a
marble Staircase and passsA .hsuueh
gorSseus,y decorated rooms VII, ia
isis eeers and sA,in hanstnsn lher-
- the s.s ballroom with III c,'-fsi
r~iiess Of dancing Ans sens and ns--
-hsnies painted ~ Y-hv aa.Ns!s- be
e,ra.ssom ~i;h u. t:,ir:..s> t.os;:ats
sf hsau'ifui women: iae tanaus: hall
o. Hattie Saloon. where .ae ~,,l!t m
covered with fourteen 5Ie:ufeA % -
moe, interesting seenss from the w..,
o: iSos.!: 1'h~et - the Ia. q:
chatIfnkSpe. Bs.ba-o.sc rai:. 40
i!shsSa.s 9aioos. ;hs Tsroz. fstF,
md the huge au6;suce ,';:rib.t Wv,
1t. great cs:A;ins' ,ri marble ~t.-s-
cc'ins i:.isid viii, gold. @tis ?. est.
B.snt wts oceur.cd b. SsnciNrr =.
1903. Another rere; ;t.n sa.; c'.''e.~e
paintings Of sce-fe- sso', iAe ryl1so's>
one room known - the rope'r :s.rsT.
,sotne;!,rc. called she pa. w.i.::V.
room I. especially beautiful n ;,s
rich bsroasc s:yIs. !, was aecofE'sd
r, Dareili In 1854. Iis fufn!sii!ax,
arc. perhaps the richest OF any OF 'N>
rooms % the palace, the iniahi saI0
IA ~. centre alone BEING valaea q
zen thousand dollars. while the eha!'s
"a Al
apiece. The inis!d desS Ia pf.csisr@,
whit, ,he sraaii French cioci; OF ~
top ss IN. d.sk IL valued II SSea -,
There 10 - magnificent vcni,isn le.aO
caandeii,. ssu g., number Of tsa.Gt
: rye. orn...cfEi~. The room Ee!s ~
-s.ra~ from tao '..s. that P,s'e r.'iSi
:he Sixth occur.e: !, :.r snms 'is,a
IN the yer rs:.
Tn. par: .re,-r N ;hs Nau:ktoes.'
at,uut four hv0s-si feet long. II s.s
Imitation @: nc RIA Palace at For
ence and g. u .o.,.j with scuiptutsA
trcscoes anl ONE: works OF art. THU
rooms OF Eirs MaNlmiiian the SECOND.
and Queen a.tr.a are particularly fre.
in decoration. The reception tooi.,
Of Queen ss..r - perhaps the prat.'
ties, AZ Its walis are decorated with
sosnos from German poetry. II. glss
contains nome rare Japanese Ind
Chinese porcelain. The TreAlur;.
whers 'hs grown jewels are kept. Il
attached 1" the paIsce ana 10 bsei1s
the roya! church. The theatre II AlaD
attached t" IN. palace and the royAl
family merely walk through the loAS
corridors whom they wish TO attend.
The rovsl coach horses anA. hafrtS&
rourns are n :he rear. also attached
t" 40 main br'ldinK. Altogether the,
palace - like vtlia1e under one I,
roof. for 1t apreAds over several acres .
Owing TO the largo family II the k!rk
many OF the rooms not her6tofofs oc- y
cuptsd win be used. 4.
1t haa been many years since ray |
ETY. reiansd at the psises in NsnicA
but with I'VE unmarried daughteea Of
the royal family the society people
OF the sararian capital are looking.
Forward to brilliant seasons AurlnN
The rsaSn Of the new King. = :.
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from. the iisvnr'Tn thFo.a ans
- his cousin. the rrta,. i'"..n'
EOS .nvs.,sd % tho Dict wl'h ;hr 49,"
81: HI.udu.. ~. Thir1. Kihs OF sia'1-'7
>. 81. Fr.u. Of Dod. RI. rev Lirf
is . soH Il ~. late Prince i.u'tra',.
VINO uas for many yelis rr=ss. n:
Iayarts. Sincc the early eiEhii' ''Te
little country has been practically
without q King OWN. 80 ,hr ir.rniiy
- lpga sons % King Macmillan she
s.tnnG KirE I.ndwI. the second. she
older .f ia. two. cam. 10 the 'hr"n'
81 1856. aud died by hi. own hand ~
1855 Daring the las; ten year1 81 his
life he was r.i..r In na'u. only ~ the
.nairs Of stat. were conducted hy lie
rncir, the late Primo. I.ultrpii. who
had bnsn made regent.
soou after his accession to tho
thron. KING Ludwig the Second be.
San 20 show alarming cccrniriri'ieH
.urh - morbid desire 70 be alone
and an -Strsvssaroc in building PAL
n-.s that were ou' of all reason. A.
,.< year. passed his desire for scciu.
.iou Increased and while he rarely
.p.nt more than week at one place
n. always changed his habit,tion In
;u. middI. 81 the night. and tho poo-
fl- who lly. Ia the Hawaiian high
'iHlA tell weird stories OF TIE King ana
'tz -c;inuc drEhiug through tn. moun-
.lIrg We the middle Of the niIh,. go.
tax rom one palace to another. He
.f.i-rsd tu r-rciv. visitors with the
.,xCr Ion OF Richard Wagner. to
wI;st., lac WAS devoted NJ last II be-
oamu necessary to confinc him to one
~ ace. ana not Ion4 after this he
-c'af4itird suicide. dragsinr his ply
r,slsn to death with him beneath the
va'ers e: S;arnbcrs Lake.
-. younger brother otto then came
g. ~. throne. hut like his brother
snnt .cr,ijic malady -madnos.. had
.. reAAr sv,,.I him aud from 1856 un-
Il i!.c VSnnt he has been King In
n.me on'y. FOR the past thirty years
he has been kept at Furstenrled
where he lives In regal style attended
by - retinue OF court physicians and
nurses. In December. 1917. Prince
Iuitpoid died. and his oldest son
Prince Ludwig. became the regent
It las long been apparent to III,
court physicians that King Otto wal
ihopsisssly insane and 1t was dc.
,cided that hts cousin tho nex'
in line of the ancient Counts of Wit
ltelsbach, should 10 made ruler of the
kingdom IN name a. well ~ In fact
This. however. was not brought aoon
lyafn0Ns sons jpQ9aMsa on ths par
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1. ~s, -t.s,.i. t.n.s sis,ss- = % TT.
ausn,iy sasossed ny i-roas .lsis:.
este: in sH@ rsssess ariits rnv--
mees
The chronicle=news. (Trinidad, Colo.) 1898-current, 1914-02-13

Most saJssias IN psssssae aea'iy
es~eeussA sal as feasoashie pssees.
o. tie chseeieie-Hews - soega
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How Ludwig III. Came TO
he Throne Through The
Insanity Ct Two Kings :
Story Ct The Privileges
Accorded to His People
Nv tie German Fedora.
ton = The Kings Splen.
did Palace At Munich.
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r'-.w pr~fs ago oiia. TITO MAJ
.lus. was formally hri'r1s'.
from. ;hc Bsv-r'-n thsoEa ans
his cousin. the I'rtos. If"..n'
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-10-16
CHAPTER VIII.
The Incredible Thing.


Broad daylight, the top Of morn
ing as rare as ever broke upon the
north country: Alan Law opening be-
wildered eyes to realize the substance
of dream come true.
True it proved itself, at least, in
part. He lay between blankets upon a
couch of balsam fans, in a corner of
somebody's camp-a log structure,
weather.proof, rudely but adequately
furnished. His clothing, rough-dried
but neatly mended, lay upon a chair
at his side.
He rose and dressed in haste, at
once exulting in his sense of complete
rest and renewed well-being, a prey
to hints of an extraordinary appetite,
and provoked by signs that seemed to
bear out the weirdest flights of his de-
lirious fancies.
There were apparently indisputable
evidences of a woman's recent pres
ence in the camp: blankets neatly
folded upon a second bed of aromatic
balsam in the farther corner; an effect
of orderliness not common with
guides; a pair of dainty buckskin
gauntlets depending from nail in the
wall; and-he stood staring witlessly
at it for more than a minute-in an
old preserve jar on the table, a single
rose, warm and red, dew upon its
petals!
There was also fire in the cook
stove, with a plentiful display of
things to cook; but despite his hunger
Alan didn't stop for that, but rushed
to the door and threw it open and him
self out into the sunshine, only to
pause, dashed, chagrined, mystified.
There was no other living thing in
sight but loon that sported far up
the river and saluted him with
shrek of mocking laughter
The place was cleft in the hills,
table of level land some few acres
In area, bounded on one hand, be-
meath the cliff from which he had
dropped, by a rushing river fat with
recent rains; on the other by a second
cliff Of equal height. Upstream the
water curved round the shoulder of
towering hill, downstream the cliffs
closed upon it until it roared through
a narrow gorge.
Near the camp, upon a strip Of
shelving beach that bordered the river |
where It widened into a Deep dark |
pool, two canoes we're drawn up, bot
toms to the sun. Dense thickets of |
pines, oaks, and balsams hedged in
the clearing.
He was, it seemed, to be left severe
ly to himself, that day; when he had
cooked and made way with an enor-
nous breakfast, Alan found nothing
better to do till time for luncheon |
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-10-16
CHAPTER vi.
Disclosures.

Disclosures.
In a little corner Office, soberly fur
nished, on the topmost floor of one of
lower Manhattan's loftiest office-tow-
ers, a little mouse-brown man sat over
a big mahogany desk; little man of
big affairs, sole steward of one of
Americas most formidable fortunes.
Precisely at eleven minutes past
noon (or at the identical instant chos-
en- by Alan Law to catapult over the
edge of cliff in northern Maine) the
muted signal of the little mans desk
telephone clicked and, eagerly lifting
receiver to ear, he nodded with smile
and said in accents of some relief
Ask her to come in at once, please
Jumping up, he placed a chair in in
innate juxtaposition with his own;
and the door opened, and a young
woman entered.
The mouse-brown man bowed Miss
Rose Trine?" he murmured with a
great deal of Difference.
The young woman returned his bow
with show of perplexity: Mr., Dig
by?"
You are kind to come in response
to my-ah-unconven invita-
ton" said the little man. Wont
you-ah-sit DOWN."
She said, Thank you." gravely, and
took the chair he indicated. And Mr..
Digby, with an admiration he made no
effort to conceal, examined the fair
face turned so candidly to him.
1T is quite comprehensive, he said
difidently-"if you will permit me to
say so-now that one sees you, Miss
Urine, it is quite comprehensive why
my employer-ah -feels toward you as
he does"
The girl flushed. Mr.. Law has told
your"
Il have the honor to be his nearest !
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the canoe stared along the sights,
then lowered her weapon and, turn
ing, spoke indistinguishably to the
guide, who instantly began to ply
brisk paddle.
The canoe sped on, vanished swiftly
round a bend.
After long time, Alan voiced his
unmitigated amazement:
"Why-in the name Of heavenl
Why-?"
The girl said DULY: Don't you
know?" And when he shook his head.
Her guide told mine you had saved
her life on the dam at Spirit Lake.
Now do you see?"
His countenance wcs blank with
wonder: "Gratitude?"
Rose smiled YEARLY: Not graft
tude alone, but something more ter
rible. She rose and held
out her hand Not that | can blame
her. But come; If we strike
through here we will, think, pick up
a trail that will bring us TO Black
Beaver settlement by dark
CTo BE CoNTINUED1
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-10-16
1919, by Louis Joseph Vance

Instantly one occupant of the
canoe, young and very beautiful wo-
man in a mans hunting clothes. spoke
sharp word of command and, as
her guide steadied the vessel with his
paddle, rose in her place so surely
that she scarcely disturbed the nice
balance of the little craft, and curved
her 1.-the body over the bow, head
foremost into the pool.
Mr. Law had, in point of fact en-
dured more than he knew; more than
even a weathered woodsman could
have borne without suffering. Forty
eight hours of such heavy woods
walking as he had put in to escape
the forest fire, would have served to
PROSTATE almost any man; add to this
ignoring a dozen other mental, nerv-
GUS and physical strains) merely the
fact that he had been half-drowned
He experienced little fever little
delirium, then blank slumbers of ex-
haustion.
He awoke in dark of night, wholly
unaware that thirty-six hours had
passed since his fall This last, how
ever, and events that had gone before,
he recalled with tolerable clearness-
allowing for the sluggishness Of a
drowsy mind. Other memories, more
vague, of gentle ministering hands, of
face by turns an angels, a flowers,
fiend's, and a dear woman's, trou-
bled him even less materially. He
was already sane enough to allow he
had probably been a bit out of his
head, and since it seemed he had been
saved and cared for, he found no rea-
son to quarrel with present circum-
stances.
Still, he would have been grateful
for some explanation of certain phe-
nomena which still haunted him-such
as faint, elusive scent of roses with
a vague but importunate sense of
woman's presence in that darkened
manifestly absurd
With some difficulty, from a dry
throat, he spoke, or rather whis-
pered. "Water!"
In response he heard someone move
over a creaking floor. A sulphur
match spluttered UNANIMOUSLY. A can
die caught fire, silhouetting-illu illusion,
Of course!-the figure of a woman in
hunting shirt and skirt. Water
splashed noisily. Alan became aware
Of someone who stood at his side, one
land offering a glass to his lips, the
other gently raising his head that he
might drink with ease.
Draining the glass, he breathed his |
hanks and sank back, retaining his |
grasp on the wrist of that unreal
land. 1t suffered him without re-
sistance. The hallucination even
went so far as to say, in a woman's
soft accents:
you are better, Alan?"
He sighed incredulously: "Rose"
The voice responded "Yes!" Then
he perfume of roses grew still more
strong, seeming to fan his cheek like
| woman's warm breath. And a mir
lcle came to pass; for Mr.. Law, who
called poignantly that ali this was
sheer, downright nonsense, distinct
y felt lips like velvet caress his fore
read.
He closed his eyes, frightened his
,rasp on that hand of phantasy, and
rather inarticulately.
The voice asked; What is it,
Iear?"
He responded: "Delirium
But l like 1t Let me rave!"
Thn0 again he silent
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But even as he strove to calm him
self and rest the feeling that some
thing was peering at him from behind
a mask of underground grew intoler-
ably acute.
AT length he jumped up, glared wild
ly at the spot where that something
no longer was, flung himself fran
tically through the brush in pursuit of
1t, and-found nothing.
With a great effort he pulled him
self together, clamped his teeth upon
the promise not again to give way to
Authorizations, and turned back to the
clearing.
There, upon the log on which he
had rested, he found-but refused to
believe he saw-a playing card, a
trey Of hearts, face up in the sun
glare.
With gesture of horror, Alan Law
fed the place.
While the sounds of his flight were
still loud, a grinning half breed guide
stole like shadow to the log, laughed
derisively after the fugitive, picked up
and pocketed the card, and set out
in tireless, cat-footed pursuit.
An hour later, topping a ridge OF
rising ground, Alan caught from the
hollow on it's farther side tire music of
clashing waters. Tortured by thirst,
he began at once to descend in reck-
less haste.
The shelving moss-beds afforded
treacherous footing; Alan was glad
now and then of the support of &C.
dar, but these grew ever smaller and
more widely spaced and were not al
ways convenient to his hand. He
came abruptly and at headlong pace
within sight Of the caves of a cliff
and precisely then the hillside seemed
to slip from under him.
His heels flourished in the air, his
back thumped bed Of pebbles thinly
overgrown with moss. The stones
gave, the moss-skin broke, he began to
grasped at random a youngish
cedar which stayed him imperceptibly,
coming away with all it's puny roots
caught at another, no more substan-
tial-and amid a shower of loose stone
shot out over the edge and down
drop of more than thirty feet.
He was instantaneously aware of
the sun, a molten ball wheeling mad
ly in the cup of the turquoise sky.
Then dark waters closed over him.
He came up struggling and gasping,
and struck out for something dark
that rode the waters near at hand
vaguely resembling a
canoe.
But his strength was largely spent,
his breath had been driven out of him
by the force of the fall, and he had |
swallowed much water-while the field |
of his consciousness was stricken with
confusion.
Within a stroke of an outstretched
paddle, he flung up hand and went |
down again.
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bers Of life in that wasted and move
less frame.
An impish malice glimmered in his
sunken eyes as he kept her waiting
upon his pleasure. And when at length
he decided to speak, it was with a ring
Of hateful irony in that strangely
sonorous voice of his
Rose" he said slowly-"my daugh-
teri am told you have today been
guilty of an act of disloyalty to me-"
She said coolly: You had me spied
upon
Naturally. with every reason to
question your loyalty, | had you
watched"
She waited a significant moment,
then dropped an impassive monosyl-
liable into the silence: "Well?"
You have visited the man Digby,
servant and friend of the man l hate
and you love"
She said, without expression: Yes"
Repeat what passed between you"
81 shall not, but on one condition"
And that is?''
Tell me first whether it was you
who sent the rose to Alan Law-and
more, where Judith has been during
the last fortnight"
q shall tell you nothing, my child.
Repeat" the resonant voice rang with
infexible purpose-"repeat what the
man Digby told you"
The girl was silent He endured her
stare for a long minute, spark of
rage kindling to fame the evil old eyes.
Then his one living member that
had power to serve his iron will, a
hand like the claw of bird of prey,
moved toward a row of buttons sunk
in the writing-bed of his desk
Il warn you l have ways to make
you speak"
With a quick movement the girl
bent over and prisoned the bony wrist
in her strong fingers. With her other
hand, at the same time, she whipped
open an upper drawer Of the desk and
took from it a revolver which she
placed at a safe distance
ITO the contrary" she said quietly,
you will remember that the time has
passed when you could have me pun
ished for disobedience. You will call
nobody: if interrupted, l shant hest
tate to defend myself. And now"-lay-
ing hold of the back of his chair, she
moved it some distance from the desk
YOU NAV as we'll be quiet while /
find for myself what l wish to know
For a moment he watched in silence
as she bent over the desk, rummaging
its drawers. Then with an Infatuated
gesture of his left hand, he began to
curse her.
She shuddered a little as the black
oaths blistered his thin old lips, dedi-
eating her and all she loved to sin,
infamy and sorrow; but nothing could
stay her In her purpose. He was
GREATNESS and exhausted when she
up with an exclamation
of satisfaction, studied intently for a
moment sheaf of papers, and thrust
them hastily into her handbag, togeth-
er. with the revolver.
Then touching the push-button
which released a secret and little-used
door, without a backward glance she
slipped from the room and, closing the
door securely, within another minute
had made her way unseen from the |
house.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-10-16
CHAPTER v.
The Hunted Man.

The Hunted Man.
That day was hot and MINDLESS with
an unclouded sky-a day of brass and
burning
Long before any sound audible to
human ears disturbed the MONDAY
hush, bobcat summing on log in a
glade to which no trail led, pricked
ears, rose, glanced over shoulder with
a snarl and-of sudden was no more
there.
Perhaps two minutes later a success
sion of remote crashings began to be
heard, cumulative volume of sounds
made by some heavy body forcing by
main strength through the underbrush,
and ceased only when man broke
into the clearing, pulled up, stood for
an instant swaying, then reeled to
seat on the log, pillowing his head on
arms folded across his knees and shud-
dering uncontrollably in all his limbs.
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than to explore this pocket domain.
He Toasted famously again at noon;
whiled away several hours yainly whip
ping the pools with rod and tackle
found in the camp, for trout that he
really didn't hope would rise beneath
that blazing sun; and toward three
o'clock lounged back to his aromatic
couch for nap.
The westering sun had thrown a
deep, cool shadow across the cove
when he was awakened by Emporium
ate hands and a voice OF magic.
Rose Urine was kneeling beside him,
clutching his shoulders, calling on him
by name-distracte by an inexplica-
BILE anxiety.
He wasted no time discriminating
between dream and reality, but gath
cred both into his arms. And for
moment she rested there unresisting,
sobbing quietly
What is It? What is it, dearest?"
he questioned, kissing her tears away.
ITO find you all right
was so afraid" she cried brokenly.
"Of what? Wasn't ! all right when
you left me here this morning?"
She disengaged with an effort, rose,
and looked down strangely at him.
Il did not leave you here this morn
ing, Alan. l wasn't here"
That brought him to his own feet
in jiffy. You were mott" he STAN
mered Then who-?"
Judith" she stated with conviction
Impossible! You don't under
stand"
The girl shook her head. yet l
know: Judith was here until this