Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-01-13

IN case l, myself, should fall. He is
not fit to rule. HI is not your king.
But signed h9reunto is the name and
the seal, unmistakable, done in my
blood and his, of your king, Michael
the First, and Of your future king,
Michael the Second, my son. He is
as yet too young fully to know the
gravity Of these presents. But by this
sign you shall know your ruler, shall
these presents come to you, we'll be.
! loved.
In the name of God, amen! MI.
chael, Rex"
Below this signature Of Michael
the Good" said the measured voice
Of Count Frederick, there Is another
observation-disclosures the Second, Rex
Gentlemen, there are two signatures
to these scripts, and there are two
seals"
A sigh Of vonde-, almost Of conster-
nation, came from those assembled.
The only protest was from the hud'
died object in the farther corner Of
the room, where still remained MI
chael, the drunken.
"Whal then, the guard" he
shrieked. Treason to me-after him,
men! This pretender-what is it that
he says What proof has he?-What
proof
This procf, sir" said Count Fred.
erick col'ly and approached to him
the broad page If the parchment
sheet.
Michael gazed stupidlv at what he
saw, uncomprehending Others gazed
also, ana az first could make nothing
of what was there. Count Frederick
went On:
Il recall now, as l see this page"
said he, this writing Of the king, my
father-you hear me, gentlcmen-my
father.
II recall that I saw him place be-
meath the great seal, that other seal
dom in his own blood. ! saw him
draw the blood from his owl arm and
put his thumb in it, and place it here,
thus sealing this document with the
unmista able seal the one alone
which cannot show mistaken iden.
tity.
And here, gentlemen, beneath that
other line of signature, which you
have heard and Seen, there is another,
a smaller, very small seal Of SINH.
lar sort. 1t is the print Of human
thumb-the thumb Of a boz, Of a baby
"a baby then, a man nJw-Who re-
calls that scene vaguely. And here
is the proof Gentlemen, recall now,
1t was my father made this mark; but
1t was his great hands which took my
little one and dipped my thumb in the
blood which he drew from my arm,
and set it here below that name which
he has written, Michael the Second
Gentlemen, who then is your
KING
Even yet they could rot grasp the
full significance Of what they heard
and again the voice of Count Freder
1ck resumed:
go, nov, gentlemen, send out your
agents quickly. Bring here those men
c1y i,,< hn NJ
such things as these. It was Bertillor
who developed that science of infalli
bic Identification 1t was he who
showed that each man carries witt
him, in his person, from his cradle t
his grave, that unmistakable sea
which identifies him infallibly.
Now bring here your men Of sci
ence. Here is my hand as God mad
it, ana as my father held it in his 81
many years ago. Small then-large
and stronger now! God grant it b.
strong enough today to do what m
father did, and 90 it well. All may n.
mind have justice and liberty befor
it always, as those things were befor
mis-.
Gentlemen, you know the histor
O. this kingdom as we'll as l. 70
l.now the long regency following tn
Gretzhoffen war. You know why tina
regency was established. Runor wa
that King Michael died like king
in his own bed. The truth was othel
wise He was murdered here in tn
8 vault below by the men of his ow
: foster Brother.
i IF that be trre-and as God is m
witness. believe r to be true-the
) we we'll may guess which boy wa
brought up under the regent to TAX
Q the place Of king. That was not n,
3 self-Others, relatives Of mine, reare
=. ne, as ycI know, until | an what 20
|, know. And yonder man-this drunke
t waster- lot even che son Of lawfl
l. weulOck, never the Sun If queen
r that man, he was the one accepted g
your king! Treason, you say-wh
6 there was treason to every human b
. ing who lived on Gretzhoffen sol
i when that pretenler took the throne
{: "As fer you, sir. and he steppe
- over to Jay an iron hand On the shou
J. der of the covering man who sar
back upon his seat, your day is den
Il do not say you were party to tn
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