Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-01
CHAPTER XIV.

The Crown Princes Pilgrimage.
4 The day when Olga Loschek should
ke returned to the city found her
Ill to travel. No feigned sickness
5, but real enough, matter Of fever
{ d burning eyes, and Of mutteringS
troubled sleep.
Ninna was alarmed. She was fond
her mistress. in spite Of her oc1
,sional cruelties, and lately the
5untess had been strangely gentle,
he required little attention, wished
be alone, and lay in her great bed,
oking out steadily at the bleak noun
ain tops, to which spring never
imbed.
l"She eats nothing" Minna said
fspairingly to the caretaker. "And
pr eyes brighten me. They are all
lays open, even in the night, but they
lem to see nothing"
On the day when she should have
1fturned. tho countess reused herself
hough to send for Black Humbert
letting in the Kitchen below. He had
elieved that she was malingering un-
he saw her, but her flushed and
blow cheeks showed her condition.
"You must return and explain" she
ia. II shall need more time, after
lIWhep he KoGitated. che added :
lEhsre are plenty to watch that ! do
HIT escape. Icould not, II would.
have not the strength"
III madame wishes, can take Q lot
jer!"
! She pondered over that, interlacins
her fingers nervously rs she reflected.
II will send no letter." she decided,
|TNt will give you message, which
5ou can deliver.
Eyes, madame
sSay to the committee that I have
reflected and that will do what they
ash. As far" she added, "as lies in
my power. I can only try"
'aThat is all the committee expects"
be said civilly. and with . relief that
was not lost on her. with madame's
to try is to succeed.
Nevertheless, he left her we'll
kuarded. Even Minna. slipping OF for
In evening hour with Q village sweet
aeart, was stealthily Swallowed. Be
|bre this, fine ladies had changed gar
tents with their maids and escaped
Rom divers unpleasantnesses.
At the end Of two days the countess
las able to be up. She moved
/ nguidly about her room, still too
eak to plan.
AAnd on the fourth day came the
rown prince Of Mvonia on a pill
hmage.
kThe manner Of his coming was this
There are more ways than one Of
aching the hearts Of an uneasy peo-
&. Remission Of taxes is q bad one.
argues a mistake in tho past, In e1-
kting such hthes. Governments may,
lake errors, but must not acknowl-
hge them. There is the freeing Of,
blitical prisoners, but that too, II
hnRerous, when such prisoners
skeathe sedition to the very prison
hlls.
, land there 10 the appeal to sentiment.
le government, pinning all Its hopes
one small boy, would further endear,
In to the people. Willy statesman
lat he was. the chancellor had hit
d this to offset the rumors Of He'd
hgs marriage.
"a pilgrimagei r. said the king, when
) matter was preached to him. For
HAITI Ny recovery Cannot you let,
ur servant depart In peace7"
DaPilgrimages," observed the chance1-!
t.haye had marvellous results, sire.
lido not insist that they perform
,iiracles, as some believe,"-he smiled
hintly-"but as matter Of publici
eeling and a remedy for discord, they
lie sometimes efiicacious."
q zee" said the king. And lay still,
boxing at the ceiling.
I, sCan It be done safely1" he asked
e last.
...The maddest traitor would not
hreaten the crown prince on a pill
srimage. The people would tear him.
limb from limb"
.Nevertheless, should take all pre-
huti0ns," said the king. "A madman
light not recognize the religious
iature Of the. affair" |.
I The same day the chancellor visited
erince Ferdinand William Otto, and
|ound him returned from his drive and
yusy over Hedwig's photograph frame.
/ ri II almost DONE" he said. Y
tlipped over IN one or two places, nut
& III nOk very noti ceablA, II I'll
M ehancellox observed II iudicially,