The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-06-21

| decorated, and now and then dog
dressed an a dancer or a 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 q 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
OF him. Then. no Oskar having yet
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
a lesson at all, and as he now knew
the Gettysburg address," he meant to
ask permission to recite 1t to his
grandfather. To be quite sure of it.
he repeated 1t to himself as he lay
there:
"Fourscors and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent a
new nation. conceived in liberty. and dedi-
Gated to che proposition that all men are
created equal"
Late In the morning Milky took him
to the roof. I'VE 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"
"Wen," 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! !"
"The roof. The thing that covers
US and keeps out the weather. The
roof, highness." Milky alternated be-
tween formality and the other extreme
with the boy.
sit slants, doesn't it?" observed his
highness doubtfully.
Part of it is quite fiat. We can
take a ball up there, and get some
exercise while we're about it."
AS matter Of fact, Milky was not
altogether unselfsh. He would visit
the roof again, where for terrible,
wonderful moments he had held He'd
wig In his arms. On q pilgrimage,
indeed, like that of the crown prince
to Etzel, Milky would visit his shrine. |
So they went to the roof. One could
see the streets crowded with people, |
could hear the soft blare Of distant
horns.
''The scenic railway Is in that direc-
ton-" observed the crown prince. lean
ing on the balustrade. IF there were
30 buildings We could see It,"
Fright here" Milky was saying to
himself. "At this very spot. She held
,ut her arms, and +"
1T looks very interesting" said
Prince Ferdinand William Otto. "Of
course we can't see the costumes, but
t Is better than nothing"
II kissed her." Milky was thinking,
lis heart swelling under his very best
unic. "Her head was on my breast.
ind kissed her. Last Of all, kissed
Ter eyes-her lovely eyes"
'If I fell OF here" observed the
.rown prince in a meditahve voice,
I would be smashed to jelly. like
he child at the Crystal palace"
But now she hates me-" said Nix
.y's heart, and dropped about the dis
ance Of three buttons. "She hates me.
saw 1t in her eyes this morning.
)h, Heaven
1--WE might as we'll play ball now"
Prince Ferdinand William Otto
urned away from the parapet with a
Ugh. This strange quiet that filed the
alace seemed to have attacked Milky
90. Otto hated quiet.
They played ball, and the crown
rince took a lesson In curves. But
n his third attempt, he described such
compound curve that the ball dis
ppeared over an adjacent part Of the
oof, and although Milky did some
lood-curdling climbing along cutters,
could not be found.
It was then that the Majordomo al
,ays a marvellous figure In crimson
nd gold, and never seen without white
IOveB-LQe MdJOIuOmO UOWcu IL q
tndow, and observed that II his royal
iRhness pleased, his royal highness'
,ncheon was served.
In the shrouded room inside the win
ows, however, his royal highness
aused and looked around.
ave been here before" he observed.
These were my fathers rooms. My
other lived here, too. When ! am
der. perhaps can have them. 1t
ould be convenient on account OF my
racticing curves on the roof. But I
,ould need a number OF balls"
He was rather silent n his way
,ck to the schoolroom. But once he I
oked up rather wistfully at Milky.
.If they were living" he said, Il am
-etty sure they would take me out {
day"
Olga Loschek had found the day one Z
terror. The failure Of her plan IS |
Milky and Hedwig was known to
q countess the night before. He'd
II had sent for her and faced her t
her boudoir. very white and calm. '
.He refuses" she said. There IL
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