Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-02-14
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER 1.-The crown prince of Ii
vonia, Ferdinand William Otto, ten years
Old, taken by his aunt to the opera, tires
II the. singing and slips away to the park
tnd there makes tho acquaintance OF
Bobby Thorpe, little American boy.
CHAPTER JI--Returning to the palace
1t night the crown prince finds everything
" an uproar as result OF the search for
ng,. the boys grandfather, who is very
|, the need for better protection Of the
rown prince and suggests that the friend
nip OF the neighborlng king of Karnia
g cefnented by giving the Princess He'd
2 in marriage to him. The old king
ually agrees.
CHAPTER IIT-Hedwig herself. who
owes Milky Lnrisch, Otto's aid de camp,
and Larisch are upset by the kings de-
cision.
CHAPTER Iv-Countess Loschek, lady
a waiting to Annunciata, in love with
Sarl of Karnia, is jealous Of HedWlg. She
lots TO start a revolt in Livonia by send
ondtions in the country. Peter Niburg,
Who was to deliver the message, Is be-
rayed by fellow clerk. Herman Spier.
CHAPTER v--Niburg is robbed OF the
lssive and a dummy letter substituted;
aptain Larisch. unaware Of the substi-
ution, holds up Karls chauffeur and se-
sures the envelope.
Continued from yesterday
Milky unfolded his length quietly.
The gears were grinding, the driver
bent low over his wheel. Very de-
liberately, now that he knew what he
vas going to do, Milky unhuttoncd his
unic and slipped it off. 1t was rash
hing, this plan he had in mind, rash
lnder any circumstances, in moving
particularly rash here, where be-
tween the cliff and prccipice that
FELL far away below, was only wind
ing ribbon of uneven road.
Milky, he waited his moment, and
hen, with one singularly efficient ges-
IRE. he flung his tunic over the
ehauffeur's head. He drove ear
himself, did Nikky-not his own, of
purse he was far too poor--and he
1ounted on one thlng--an automobile
driver acts from the spinal cord, and
rot from the brain. Therefore his
rain may be seething with thousand
renzies, but he will shove out clutch
I'D brake feet in an emergency, and
old them out.
So it happened. The mans hands
1T the wheel, but he stopped his car.
lot too soon. Not before 1t had struck
lie cliff, and then taken a sickening
rrve out toward the edge Of the
recipice. But stop it did, on the very
lge of eternity, and the chauffeur
I'D 1t there.
Set the hand bralSe" Milky said.
he lamps were near enough the ecge
make him dizzy.
The chauffeur ceased struggling, and
the hand brake. His head was stilY
vered. But having done that he
mmenced a struggle more furious
AN forceful, for both of them We're
lndIcapped.
And now Milky was forced to an
nsoldierlike thing that he afterward
ried to forget For the driver de-
eloped unexpected strength, refused
. submit, got the tunic off his head,
nd, seeing himself attacked by one
IAN only, took courage and fell to.
lie picked up a WRENCH from the seat
eside him, and made a furious pass
bit Nikky's head. Milky ducked and,
fter a struggle secured the weapon.
III this in the car, over the seat back.
1t was then that Milky raised the
wrench and stunned his man with ifs
t was hateful. The very dun thud
If it was sickening. And there was a
bad minute or two when he thought
he had killed his opponent. The man
iad sunk down in his seat, sodden
Ilump of inapimate human flesh. And
Milky, whose business, in way, was
':illing. was Mortified.