Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-20

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qlacng it or table.
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inc DlrIhuay supper was over II
hau enueo win az american ice cream
Drought III careluiiy Dy Iep@ because
OF us e1pehSIFeheSS. ihey had cut
inc CAKE WIN BODY on 'he TOP ana
the crown prince hau eaten lar more
tIlah was gooa iof MN.
He sat. lingering the Lincoln penny
and feeling extremely full and very
contented.
Then, suddenly, from a far of church
a deep-toned bell began to toll slow
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Prince Ferdinand William Otto
up and listened. The sound was faint:
one felt it rather than heard it, but
the slow booming was unmistakabla
He got up and pushed his chair back
Other bells had taken it up, anc
now the whole city seemed alive wifi
bells-bells that swung sadly from side
to side, rs if they said over ana over
"Alas. alas :"
Something like panic seized Ferdi.
nand William Otto. Some calamity
had happened. Some one was-per.
haps his grandfather.
He turned an appealing face to Mrs
Thorpe. II must 60" he said. Il dc
not wish to appear rude, but some,
thing is wrong. The bells"
Pepy had been listening, too Hel
broad face worked 'They mean one
thing" she said slowly. "I have heard
1t said many times. When st. Stefan'S
tolls like that, the king is dead
mo! No" cried Ferdinand WI
liam Otto and ran madly out OF thF
door.
WhlIe the birthday supper was AZ
its height, in the bureau OF the con
cierge sat Old AGeibert' heaVy ant
despalrlng Ihat very day had nj
learned TO what use the committee
would PUT the lhlorhlatloh ne h'''
given them' ana ms ora heart way
dead Withln MN one may nor nt
loyal for seventy years. anu rheh easily
become traitor
Then, at seven o'clock,
happened.
The concierge's niece had gone
leaving the supper ready cooked or
the back of the stove. Old Adeiheri
sat alone, and watched the RED bars
Of the stove fade to black. BY that
time it was done, and ne was Of the
damned. The crown prince who was
Of an age with the American lad up
stairs, the crown prince was in tins
hands of his enemies. He, old Adel
bert, had done it.
And now it was forever too late
Terrible thoughts filed his mind. He
could not live thus, vet he could no.
die. The daughter must have the pen,
sion. He must live traitor, he or
whose breast the king himself hat
pinned decoration.
He ,roro bis now uniform in homo,