Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-15
Copyright BY the Bobbs-Merrin Company
BOOK III.

BOOK III.
CHAPTER X-(Continued).
"TLTHAT is there about me7 sum me
w up 1 am robbed on every side oy
anyone who cares TO fleece me. When
ever 1 am about to accomplish, anything
fall down as II knocked on the headF
She rose from her seat.
you let yourself be robbed because
you are princely You have plainly ieit
behind you every weakness of your child
hood. Look at him in his strength Moh-
sieur Abbel He has sucked in the Vigor
of a new country The failing power OF
an old line of kings is renewed IN MIN
You could not have nourished such a
dauphin for France in your exiled court
Burying in the American soil mas ue-
veloped what you see for yoursen-the
ldngv
He is a handsome man." Abbe Edge
worth quietly admitted.
"oh, let his beauty alonel LOOK at MS
manhood-his kinghoodF
"Of what use is his hnghood II ne
will not exercise it?'
He must!"
She turned upon me hercely.
Have you no ambition2'
"Yes, madame. But there are severai
kinds Of ambition. as there are several
| kinds of success. You have TO KNOCK
people down with each kind. II you want
| IL Acknowledged. As | told you awhhe
ago. | am tenacious beyond belief, and
shall succeed in what undertake
What are you undertaking.
"I am not undertaking to mount
throne"
''I cannot believe it, Where Is there
| n man who would turn from what IS
offered you? Consider the life before you
in this country. Compare It with the IRE
you are throwing away" She joined her
| hands Sire, the men of my house who
fought for the kings of yours plead
through me that you will take your in
| heritance."
| kept my eyes on Able Edgeworth.
| He considered the padlocked book as an
! object directly in his line of vision. It's
wooden covers and small metal paddock
attracted the secondary attention we
bestow on trifies when we are at great
issues.
II answered her:
THE men of your house-and the
women of your house, madame-cennot
dictate what kings of my house should
do in this day."
"Well as you appear to know him,
madame" said Able Edgeworth. "and
loyalty as you urge him, your efforts are
wasted"
She next accused me
You hesitate on account OF the
Indiansv
"If there were no Indians in America
} I should do just as 1 am doing"
IAN men," the able noted, hold In
contempt a man who will not grasp power
when he can"
why should I grasp power? 1 have
1t in myself. 1 am using it,"
Using it to ruin yourself!" she cried
"Monseigneur!" The able rose. We
stood eye to eye. 81 was at the side Of
the king, your father, upon the scaffold
My hand held to his lips the crucifx o.
our Lord Jesus Christ In his death nj
| word of bitterness escaped him. Tru'
son of st. Louis, he supremely loveC
: France Upon you he laid injunction t
, leave to God alone the punishment o
! regicides, and to devote your life to tn,
: welfare of all Frenchmen. Monseigneur
) are you deaf to this call of sacred duty
, The voice of your father from the scat
: fold, in this hour when the fortunes O
: your house are lowest, bids you TAX
your rightful place and rid your peopl
of the usurper who grinds France an,
Europe into the ood-stained earth!"
: 1 wheeled and walked across the foo
: from Able Edgeworth, and turned agail
= and faced him.
a through me. If anything in the univers
could move me from my position, wha
, YOU have said would do it.
n But my fathers blood cries through
me today-'Shall the son of Louis XIV
!, be forced down the unwilling throats @
{ his countrymen by foreign bayonets ?
$ -Germans-English!-S tn
: dauphin of France be hoisted to plac
8 by the alien7'-My father would forbid II
t You appeal to my family love.
, bear about with me everywhere the pic
I tured faces of my family. The fathe
2 whose name you invoke, is always clos
a to my heart. That royal duchess, whoT
a you are privileged to see 'iaily. NOR
v sieur, and I-never-is so dear and sacre
q to me that think of her with a praye
- But my life is here Mon
: sieur, in this new world no man ca
= say to me-'Come,' or Co. 1 am as FIRE
= as the Indian. But the pretender to tn
- throne of France. the puppet Of Russit