The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
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l heard him shriek as we were whirled in side here, and then, somehow, it was too dark to see how, something caught the launch, and she was checked. I climbed out instantly, dragging the baroness with me. Von Reulenz followed But there was simply no room for anybody else, and Edoc tried to creep along to find footnold beyond His nerve was all to pieces, and his foot slipped He fell between the rock and the launch, and the shock of his fall dislodged her. In flash, in the twinkling of an eve. she was gone."
 There was rather horrible pause But the inquisitor was not yet satisfied "Who jumped in after the princess?"
 "The head waiter-the Pole-Stepan I think they call him..
 Mistitch and Varley looked at each other. and the Englshman felt the blood drum in his temples. To the tender mercies of that creature-the spy-the man she feared was she abandoned in her death-struggle!
 "Thou must be weary as dog," observed Mistitch to the Englishman as they drew near the water gate Thou too must get / to bed'
 Mot yet" replied Varley with stern mouth. "There is all the west coast of the lake to search.''
 T have had parties searching there all the morning." replied Mistitch curtly.
 "Then we will ascertain if they have found anything. If they have not, we will go back to that devils hole thou and I, and force it to give up it's dead" replied the young man. To which Mistitch responded in an outburst.
 "Oh that thou were a Kilistrian! would with gladness have called thee son;" A loud shouting made him lift his abased head. Niklaus, standing on the landing stage, was waving his arms, and calling out something in their barbarous lingo. Hum- phrey Varley sprang to his feet, tense as bovstring and sent back what sounded like an incredulous question.
 Evidently it was answered in the affirma- tive; whereupon the Englshman tore off his cap, waved it wildly in the air, and shouted as his race seldom shout save on the towing path beside the Isis, or when they go over the parapet
 Theobald saw the tutor and the headman collapse into one another's arms. He be- lieved that the old walrus was kissing the young man.
 Ghastly pale, the prince leaned forward, begging to hear the news. Humphrey did not heed him. He sprang to where the poor old baroness lay huddled among rugs, and knelt beside her.
 "Bar-Bar! Listen! When you hear my news you will be quite well She's alive. She's safe. Our princess! Safe at home at Water Gate. Do you hear mel"
 Alberta moved. She raised herself up. right-a fearsome spectacle, poor lady, in her dishevelment.
 "Evadnev' said she, with breaking voice. "My little love! Oh-God is very good to usw
 "The unsophistication of these Kilistrians is past belief," remarked Van Reulenz the following day to his chief.
 He had had 12 hours in bed, but was still feeling good deal shattered, and only fit to lie in the hammock under the pergola of the terrace at the Kron Prinz. "Seem to love the royal family as if it were their own," he went on. "Old Alberta, mark you! She isn't even a native! A Lascanian, who only came into the country with Queen Rosamond on her marriage! She actually didn't want to live if the princess was dead"
 "Tut, tut" said Glanzingfors. Fear! Nothing but fear! She thought she would get into hot water if anything happened to the girl. But she has escaped. It is to us that the consequences are serious You heard the yelling last night?"
 Won Reulenz nodded, as he drank long