Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31

ing to look at her, but with his eyes
fixed IN the irregular skyline of the
city roofs, he told her many things,
of his promise to the king, Of the dam
ger, imminent now and very real, of
his word Of honor not to make love
to her, which he had broken.
Hedwig listened, growing cold and
still, and drawing away a little. She
listened, even assented, as he pleaded
against his own heart, treacherous
arms still folded. And if she saw his
arms and not his eyes, it was because
she did not look up.
Halfway through his eager speech,
however, she drew her light wrap
about her and turned away. Milky
could not believe that she was going
like that, without a word. But when
she had disappeared through the win
dow, he knew, and followed her. He
caught her In Hubert's room, and drew
her savagely into his arms.
But 1t was a passive, quiescent, and
trembling Hedwig who submitted, and
then, freeing herself, went out through
the door into the lights of the corridor.
Milky flung himself, face down, on a
shrouded couch and lay there, his face
buried in his arms.
Olga Loschek's last hope was gone.
: : -. :
On the day of the carnival, which
WAS the last day before the beginning
Of Lent, Prince Ferdinand William
Otto wakened early. The palace still
slept, and only the street sweepers
were about the streets. Prince Ferdi-
nand William Otto sat up in bed and
yawned. This was a special day, he
knew, but at first he was too drowsy
to remember.
! Then he knew-the carnival A de-
1ightful day, with the place full Of peo-
pie In strange costumes-peasants,
imps, testers, who cut capers on the
grass In the park, little girls in pro-
c~ession, wearing costumes of fairies
with gauze wings, students who par
AIDED and blew noisy horns, even horses
decorated, and and then a dog
dressed as q dancer or q soldier.
He yawned again, and began to feel
hungry. He decided to get up and take
his own bath. There was nothing like
getting a good start for a gala day.
And, since with the crown prince to
decide was to do, which is not always
a royal trait, he took his own bath,
being very particular about his ears,
and not at all particular about the rest
&c hlNa Thnn M ncIyor having unt
appeared with fresh garments, he
ducked back into bed again, quite bare
as to his small body, and %snuggled
down in the sheets.
Lying there, he planned the day.
There were to be no lessons except
fencing, which could hardly be called
q lesson at all, and as he now knew
the Gettysburg address," he meant to
ask permission to recite it to his
grandfather. To be quite sure of it,
he repeated it to himself as he lay
there:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent a
new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedi-
Gated to the proposition that all men are
created equal"
Late in the morning Milky took him
to the roof. "We can't go out, old
man, Milky said to him, rather
startled to discover the unhappiness in
the boys face, 'but I've found a place
where we can see more than we can
here. Suppose we try it."
"Why can't, we go out? I've always
gone before"
"Well," Milky temporized, "they've
made a rule. They make a good many
rules, you know. But they said moth
ing about the roof"
1.-THE roof"