The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13

cite the pride or anger OF BerJnaS brother
But Anton was wholly absorbed in the
kings affairs.
.The next thing was that he decided he
must speak to her face to face. He said it
treating her abomnably to allow her to
go on in uncertainty. l argued, implored,
threatened. No use. He had the bit be-
tween his teeth. l was forced to surrender
to him the key of the iron veranda gates
which meant the death punishment if was
found out-and off he went on his wild err
rand, which almost cost him everything"
"Cost him everything"
Eyes. They had got wind, at headquar-
tiers in Nordenreich, that something was
wrong. They felt sure that old CLAM was
being hoodwinked. Their reason for this
superstition was the fact that the Grand
Duke of Marvilion had such an uncanny
foreknowledge of everymove in the Nord-
ern strategy. Information was leaking,
somehow, and they made up their minds
that the ambassador was relying upon his
precious Swede, Rosmer, as he called him
self, too implicitly. By the advice of this
man-Kamp, his name was-they sent him
down to Floremar, behind the back of their
own envoy. AS you know, was away for
few days, tapping wireless messages in
Gailima; and during those few days the
beast was on the prowl, and we never knew
it. That mad night, when the king swan
from Tuich's Cove and landed at Water
Gate, he was tracked. He knew he was
followed, and he knew it was by some one
who did not belong to the Forest Guard,
because the tracker, whoever it was, fell
back at the inner boundary fence of the
princesss private garden, knowing better
than to risk brush with Mistitch's men. So
the king got in safely, but how to get out
again he could not imagine
"He saw the queen?"
Il think he must have done, though he
has never said word of it to me. l judge
merely by the fact that she put Prince Ra's
coat and cap on him, and sent him out the
other side of the bungalow. l was waiting
for him at spot agreed upon with couple
Of bicycles, and 1 was beginning to think
he must have been taken, for it was very
late-dawn was coming on. Had it not
been for that glimmer of dawn l think it
would have been all ever. l just caught
sight of head, reared for moment, dark
against a little bit of sky that showed be-
tween the trees. l knew it was not the
king, because we had our long distance
signal. l listened with all my ears and
heard, at long, long intervals, the tiny
sounds that indicated that some one was
approaching the bicycles where they lay
upon the ground / was we'll hidden, and
waited. Just as the man got up to where
the machines lay and the brute heard some
thing too. l was SO close then that l was
able to act flashed the light of my pocket
torch right in his face, covering him with
my revolver. l saw he was stranger,
saw him lift his own shooting iron; and I
fired at once. He fired too, but 1 had my
aim, and he had not, could see him, he
could only fire into the ray of my light. He
barely grazed me, but killed him."
at was Kamp?"
at was. l don't quite know what was
the noise we heard, but it was not the king,
for it was half an hour later when he
found me. Then the question of getting rid
of the body became urgent. We took the
Baron Herluin into our confidence. The
king made his plans. Up at my cottage was
the entire outfit of the stranger peddler,
which the king had been using. l went and
got it, we clothed the dead spy in it, the
baron brought a car, and we took it up
to the glen cottage, which my mother and
sister had vacated day or two previously
for Castle Kyriel."
"But l cannot see how you eluded Mis-
titch,' said Raoul in surprise.
eve did not. The king knew we could
not.
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