The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-31

an evening hour with a village sweet
- heart, was stealthily Swallowed. Be
8 fore this. fine ladies had changed gar
e ments with their maids and escapes
from divers unpleasantnesses.
s At the end of two days the COUNTIES
v was able to be up. She move'
e languidly about her room, still to-
j weak to plan.
: And on the fourth day came thu
crown prince of Livonia on a pill
grimage.
. The manner of his coming was this
There are more ways than one OF
, reaching the hearts of an uneasy peo
pie. Remission of taxes is bad one
1t argues mistake in the past, in ex
acting such titheS. Governments may
make errors, but must not acknowl.
edge them. There is the freeing OF
political prisoners, but that, too, is
dangerous, when such prisoners
breathe sedition to the very prison
walls.
And there is the appeal to sentiment.
The government, pinning all its hopes
to one small boy, would further endear
him to the people. Willy statesman
on this to offset the rumors of He'd
wigs marriage.
"a pilgrimage!" said the king, when
the matter was preached to him. "For
what? My recovery? Cannot you let
your servant depart in peace?"
"Pilgrimages," observed the ychancel-
lor, "have had marvellous results, sire.
I do not insist that they perform
miracles, as some believe,"-he smiled
faintly-"but as a matter of public
feeling and a remedy for discord, they
are sometimes efficacious.'
81 see," said the king. And lay still.
| looking at the ceiling.
"Can 1t be done safely?" he asked
at last.
1.-THE maddest traitor would not
threaten the crown prince On a pill
grimage. The people would tear him
limb from limb"
Nevertheless, 1 should take all pre-
cautions said the king. "a mailman
might not recognize the-er-religious
nature OF the AFFAIR.
The same day the chancellor visited
Prince Ferdinand William Otto, and
found him returned from his drive and
busy over Hedwig's photograph frame.
ct is almost DONE" he said. 81
slipped over in one or two places, but
it is not very noticeable, is it?"
The chancellor observed it judicially,
and decided that the slipping over was
not noticeable at all.
"Otto," said the chancellor gravely,
Il want to talk to you very seriously
about something 1 would like you to
do. For your grandfather"
"I'll do anything for, him, SIR"
1--WE know that. This is the point. |
He has been Ill for LONG time. Very |
ILL.,"
The boy watched him with trou-
bled face. "He looks very thin" he |
said. Il get quite worried when / see
him.
Exactly. You have heard of Etzel?"
Prince Ferdinand William Otto's
religious instruction was of the best.
He had, indeed, heard of Etzel. He
knew the famous pilgrimages in order,
and could say them rapidly, beginning,
the year of Our Lord 915-the Emperor
Otto and AdeIheid, his spouse; the
year of Our Lord HOO, Ulrich, Count
Of Ruburg; and so on.
"When people are ILL.," he said sage
ly, they go to Etzel to be cured"
Precisely. But when they cannot go
they send some one else, to pray for
them. And sometimes, If they have
faith enough, the holy miracle happens
and they are cured"
The chancellor was deeply religious,
and although he had planned the pill |
yrimage for political reasons, for the {
he lost sight of them. What
(, after all, this clear-eyed, clean '
hearted child could bring this miracle
# the kings recovery? 1t was
famous shrine, and stranger things had I
been brought about by less worthy s
agencies. "
Il thought" he said, that If you 1
would go to Etzel, Otto, and there pray G
or your grandfather's recovery, it n
t would be a good thing" '
The meaning of such a pilgrimage
lawned suddenly on the boy. His eyes
He'd, and because he considered 1t IN c
manly to weep, he slid from his chair C
md went to the window. In
'Tm afraid he's going to die" he K
aid, In smothered voice. u
The chancellor followed him to the b
window, and put an arm around his
houlders. Even that would not be h
0 terrible, Otto," he said. death, t,
0 the old. is not terrible. 1t is an
pen door, through which they go glad 6
?, because-because those. who have Fl
one ahead are waiting just beyond Il
!" II
Are my mother and father wait a
,gT e,
Eyes, Otto"
He considered. "And my grand b.
lotherr al
YES"
Hell be very glad to see them all Il
gain" III
every happy, Indeed. But we need h,
IN here. too, for a while. You need tt
i'm and-L SO we will 60 and pray h,
} have him VISIT little longer be-
~ he goes away. How about itr hi