The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22

slumber. "I'm afraid Nada has adenoids, was her thought as she tiptoed back int her own room.
 Closing the bathroom door behind her she stood a moment, her eye travelling owe the various objects lying about; and sh caught sight of something which so startled her that for moment all the blood rushed to her heart, and she was incapable O moving.
 On her toilet table the various trifle which lay around had been collected int, a heap.
 Someone had undoubtedly entered he
 Bit by bit she took it down.
 There, as before, lay a morsel of soile, paper, done up very tight. She unrolled it It seemed to be leaf torn from a penn! block of scribbling paper.
 Attention, Madame la Reine. You r'etes pas veuve."
 Her brain at first would not work Tn, shock was paraiyzing
 After all these years Just as she hat determined to throw off her long breeding to emerge from her seclusion, to make
  sage out of the void
 'Nous n'etes pas veuve.'
 When thought .once more became active it was in rush of fear.
 It seemed that she had been protected not as she had supposed. by the fidelity o. Mistitch, but merely by her own insignifi canoe. She was poor, she was negligible Nobody had troubled to molest her.
 The moment she tried to rise, to live, tt mix again in the world, a cold hand from grave in far Dalmeira reached out ant touched her.
 After what seemed to her long time and was really long enough to make hel feet ache, she heard the tramp of tn, sentry.
 She lay down but long after the blu, glimmer of dawn showed through the in terstices of her reed blinds, her mind wen on hammering at the thought. How hat the message been conveyed?
 It must have been done after Nada hat left her for tho n'eht. have been done, ac .ually, while she slept.
 A servan. Iroin the Nordern embassy hat come overnight to the bungalow. He Wa the only person one could possibly suspect The next thought followed quickly. Tn curious way in which the communication had been placed established the fact that i came from the same hand which had ar ranged it's predecessor for she had neve described to anyone except King Boris him self the odd method of attracting her at tention which had been adopted by the un known letter carrier.
 Must she then return to the hope whicl had visited her upon the arrival of th earlier message, the hope that by som extraordinary chance Leonhardt of Vreld did still live?
 Baron Herluin and his testimony, sur and final, arose before her fancy. Her hus bands death was a fact. It could not b. gainsaid
 It was at this point that she conceived al idea. She would lay the whole question be fore an unbiased person, someone who wa outside the scope of political intrigue, an, had no ax to grind. She sometimes sus pected even Boris and Rosamond of ax grinding where she was concerned, and sh could not blame them. Kilistria was tn main thing in their eyes, and she only little pawn. If the pawn can be used t take a bishop or a castle, so much the bet ter for the game. Such consideration could, however, have no weight wit Humphrey Varley and she had a high opin ion of the young mans intelligence.
 As she unlocked the small carved bo which stood beside her bed, and deposite, ir it, with her other Pannonian relics, tn shabby scrap of paper which had so agi tated her, she determined that, until sh had told all to the Englshman and hear his opinion, she would keep silence on tn