New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-01-31

r t~emptuously, and gone on to othe
things.
Now everything vas arranged
Black Humbert had put his niece t.
work on Il carnival dress for a small
r boy, and had stayed her curiosity b!
a hint that it was for the American
lad.
"They are comfortable tenants" hi
) had said. "NOt lavish, perhaps, a.
rich Americans should be, but orderly
J and pleasant. The boy has good man
ners. 1t would be well to please him.
t so the niece, sewing in the bach
room, watched Bobby in and out, with
pleasant mysteries In her eyes.
NOW n then, In the evenings
when the Americans were away, and
Bobby was snug In bed, with Tucker
on the tiny feather comfort at lis
feet, the Fraulein would come down.
stairs and sit in Black Humbert's
Dom At such times the niece would
be sent on an errand, and the two
would talk. The niece, who, although
she had no lover, was on the lookout
for love, suspected a romance of the
middle-aged, and smiled In the half
darkness of the street: smiled with a
touch Of malice, as one who has
pierced the armor of the fortress, and
knows its weakness.
But 1t was not love that Humbert
and the Fraulein talked.
Herman Spier was busy In those
days and making plans. Thus, day by
day, he dined in the restaurant where
the little Marie, now weary Of her
husband, sat In idle intervals behind
the cashiers desk, and watched the
grass in the place emerge from its
winter hiding place. When she turned
her eyes to the room, frequently she
encountered those of Herman Spier,
pale yet burning, fixed on her. And at
last, one day when her husband lay
lame with sciatica, she left the desk
and paused by Herman's table.
You come frequently now" she OBJ.
served. ut is that you like us here,
or that you have risen in the shop"
Il have left the shop" said Herman,
staring at her. Flesh, in q moderate
amount, suited her well. He liked
plump women. They were, If you
please, an armful. "And I come to see
you"
Left the shop!" Marie exclaimed.
And Peter Niburg-he has left also?
l never see him."
mo-" said Herman noncommittally.
"He Is Ill, perhaps"
"He is dead" said Herman, devour-
ing her with his eyes.
Dead" She put a hand to her
plump side.
"Aye. Shot rs a spy" He took an
other piece of the excellent pigeon pie.
Marie, meantime, lost all her looks,
grew pasty white.
"Of the-~the terrorists?" she de-
manded, in a whisper.
"Terrorists! No. OF Karnia. He
was no patriot"
SO the little Marie went back to her
desk. and to her staring out over the
place In intervals of business. And
what she thought Of no n can know.
But that night, and thereafter. she was
very tender to her spouse, and put
cloths soaked in hot t%urpentine water
on his aching thigh.
On the surface things went. On as
usual at the palace. Karl's visit had
been but for a day or two. He had
met the council in session, and had
had, because Of their growing alarm,
rather his own way with them.
But although he had pointed to the
kings condition and theirs-as an
argument for immediate marriage-he
failed. The thing would be done, but
properly and in good time. Karl left
them in a bad temper, well concealed,
and had the pleasure Of being Kissed
through the streets.
But he comforted himself with the
thought Of Hedwig. He had taken her
In his arms before he left, and she had
made no resistance. She had even, in
view Of all that was at stake, made a
desperate effort to return his kiss, and
found herself trembling afterward.
In two weeks he was to return to
her, and he whispered that to her.
On the day after the dinner party
Otto went to a hospital with Miss
Braithwaite. 1t was the custom Of the
to send the flowers from its
spectacular functions to the hospitals,
and the crown prince delighted in
these errands.
So they went, escorted by the func-
.tlonaries Of the hospital, past the MILL
tary wards, where soldiers In shabby
uniforms sat on benches In the spring
sunshine. to the general wards beyond.
The crown prince vas almost hidden
behind the armful he carried. Miss
had all she could hold.
4 convalescent patient, In slippers
many sizes too large for him, wheeled
he remainder In a barrow, and almost
upset the barrow In his excitement.
Through long corridors into wards
resh scrubbed against his arrival,
With white counterpanes exactly
'Quare. and patients forbidden to move I
md disturb the geometrical e~xactness {
Il the beds. went Prince Ferdinand ]
Otto. At each bed he stopped, {
q flower, and held It out.
'ome there were who reached out, and {
ook 1t with a smile. Others lay still, {
nd saw neither boy o blossom. (
"They sleep. ~highness." the nurse {
Vould say. {
But their eyes are Open" 4
They are very weary, and resting" Q
In such cases he placed the flower I
n the pillow. and went on. 70
One such, however, lying with va. '
ant eyes fixed on the ceiling, turned