The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-01-30

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decorated, and now and then a dog
dressed ns a dancer or a soldier.
He yawned again, and began to feel
hungry. He decided to get up and take
his " bath. There was nothing like
getting n 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 ut 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 rs he now knew
the Gettysburg address," he meant to
ask permission to reclte II to his
grandfather. To be quite sure Of II,
he repeated II ( o himself as he lay
there:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our
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new nation, conceived In liberty. and dedi-
Gated to tho 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 q place
where we can see more than we can
here. Suppose We try It."
"why can't We so out1 I've always
one before"
"Well." Milky temporized, they've
made u rule. They make n 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 alternatcd be-
tween formality mud the other extreme
with the boy.
at slants, doesn't III" observed his
~highness doubtfully.
Part Of II is quite fat. We can
take a ball up there. and get some
exercise while we're about It,"
As a matter Of fact. Milky vas not
altogether unselflsh. 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-
tIon," observed the crown prince, lean
Ing On the balustrade. "If there were
no buildings we could see It."
Right here" Milky was saying 10
himself. AT this very spot. She held
out her arms, and /"
ut looks very interesting" said
Prince Ferdinand William Otto, "Of
curse we cant see the costumes, but
II Is better than nothing"
81 kissed her" Milky was thinking,
his heart swelling under his very best
tunic. "Ilcr head was on my breast,
and ! kissed her. Last OF all, l kissed
her eyes-her lovely eyes"
IF I fell or here" observed the
crown prince In II medltative voice,
IL would be smashed to a Jelly. like
the child at the Crystal palace"
But now she hates me-" said Mix
ky's heart. and dropped about the dis
lance Of three buttons. "She hates me.
saw 1t in her eyes this morning.
oh. Heaven"
1--WE might as well play ball now"
Prince Ferdinand william Otto
turned AWAY from the parapet with a
sigh. This strange quiet hat filled the
palace seemed to have attacked Milky
too. Otto hated quiet.
They played ball. and the crown
prince took q lesson In curves. But
on his third attempt. he described such
n compound curve that the ball dis
appeared over an adjacent part Of the
roof, and although Milky did some
blood-curdling climbing along cutters.
It could not be found.
II was then that the Majordomo, al
ways a marvellous figure In crimson
and gold. and never seen without white
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window. and observed that II his royal
hlghness pleased, his royal hlghness'
luncheon vas served.
In the shrouded Dol Inside the win
dows, however, his royal highness
paused and looked around.
1--WE been here before" he observed.
These were my fathers rooms. My
mother lived here, too. When l am
older, perhaps ! can have them. II
would be convenient on account of my
practiclng curves on the roof. But l
| should need d number of balls"
lie al rather silent m his way
back to the schoolroom. But once he
looked up rather wistfully at Milky.
"If they were living" he said, II am
pretty sure they would take me out
sOday."
Olga Loschek Ind found the day one
Of terror. The failure Of her plan as
to Milky and Hedwig was known to
the countess the night before. He'd
wig had sent for her and faced her
| In her boudoir. vary white and calm