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he added, show should / live7"
GLOW do other men livei By
work !"
But that would be a dis
grace!"
Disgrace! 1t isn't half so dis
graceful as to live by the work of
other men,"
"Your father said something of
the same sort to me. But ! fear
that neither of you understands.
A prince cannot do such things"
Kasia threw up her hands.
$50 we come back to the begin
ming of the circle!' she cried.
"Besides, my father would not
permit it," added the prince.
"Aren't you of age?"
"Yes-but he is the head of the
family. He would have me brought
home-from the end of the world,
if necessary-and then l should be
confined. Even my elder brother is
sometimes confined = separated
from his wife, from his children,
permitted to see no one."
"Poor prince!" said Kasia. $50
you II a slave, like the rest of us
rather worse than the rest of us,
indeed! Is there nothing you can
do?"
every few things" said the
prince, beginning really to pity
himself. "You see, there is always
my family to consider-nothing
must be done to injure it's position
or to make it less popular. Even
my father very often may not say
what he thinks or do what he
Wishes"
$50 he is a slave, tool"
eyes, in a way. And it grows
worse and worse. Often, in pri-
vate, he laments the old days when
a king was really a king, who was
venerated and whose word was
law. He grows very angry that
at each election there are more So
cialists. He says that the only
hope for the country is in a great
war it is for that he prepares"
Glow would a great war help9"
ooh, in face Of the common dan
ger, our people would forget their
differences, for they all love their
fatherland; they would fight
shoulder to shoulder. And then,
when it was over, they would all
be mad with joy over the victory,
and there would be new provinces
to add to- Germany, and an i'm
mense tax levied on our enemy to
pay the expenses of the war, so
that our own people would not
have to bear that burden. It would
all be just as it was after the war
with France, when every German
was filled with patriotism, and
when Germany for the first time
became one country. Our house
would again be we'll beloved, it's
authority unquestioned.s'
"But suppose you are de-
feated?"
I'VE shall not be defeated"
said the prince, calmly. "There
is no nation in the world which
Germany could not defeat - ex-
cept, perhaps, the United States.
England will be our foe, and you
will e her tumble to pieces like
a house Of cards. She is but an
empty she'll"
Kasia sat for a moment consid-
ering all this. If this was really
what was in the kaiser's mind
and she could scarcely doubt tit
was foolish to suppose that he
would consent to disarmament.
"What you have told me is not
very promising for universal
peace" she said, at last.
"There can be no universal
peace until we have Inundated
England" replied the prince.
"That is the belief Of. all good
Germans. The conflict must come
soon, and we strain every nerve to
prepare for it. ! betray no secret
when / tell you this. All Europe
knows it. England struggles also
to prepare, but we are always far
ahead. When we are quite ready,
we shall strike. Then, after we
have won, after we have estab-
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