The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15

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 The crown prince danced for joy.
 EVadne unbound her hair, and it show cred about her in the sunshine. Rising to her feet she shook the torrent over her, tossed it back from her eyes and began to run, her arms outspread, her breath quick ening with the joy of her strength and health and beauty. In the privacy of that jealously guarded place she was as afe as if she had been in her own boudoir.
 The pleasure steamers which ply upon tho lake are jealously excluded from coming near the royal, or southwest corner. IT., princess had no fear of intruders; and whel something fell with a light thud in the wood close by which she was dancing along she knew it was only squirrel, leaping startled from bough.
 The rustling which followed the thud was, however, a trifle prolonged, and she lid pause a moment, lips parted and chest heaving, to peer under the shadows of the big trees; but nothing stirred, and she ran back to Raoul, who had brought out bot ties of lemonade and glasses. Seated side by side on the sand they ate and drank, laughing, pickering, chaffing.
 The conversation during the repast was in English, which they spoke perfectly. Evadne had learned it in compliment to the King of Pannonia, who was half English both by birth and education.
 Later the princess cuddled down luxuri- ously in the sand, hair spread all about her in the sunshine, and closed her eyes.
 Ra continued to chatter, but her atten- tion became intermittent. When next she %ooI a%o of I- II. heard were:
 But there couldn't be such thing as a seal in the Karneru sea, could there?"
 "A seal? Dear innocent, there must be thousands. Perhaps you didn't know there are pair of polar bears nesting on Isola Bella, and the other day I met giraffe in the woods"
 Ra giggled. Sure it wasn't hippopo- tamus?"
 Couldn't have been It wasn't Tues. day.
 The two were, under the auspices of Humphrey Varley, the English tutor, taking a course of such British humorists as Lewis Carroll, whose vein made special appeal to them both.
 'It must have been big black dog, tnen,'' persisted the boy.
 "What do you mean? Do you really think you saw something swimming?. Honestly!'
 Hand on my heart. Just now. It was long way off, and you and were in the water, and l was so keen on winning that l didn't take so much notice as I should otherwise have done. Just black head, moving fast, swimming more like a man than dog, 1 thought. <~Only knew there couldn't be man here''
 q should hope notv' gasped the princess sitting up suddenly and beginning to heap sand over her bare pink toes
 "To calm your fears I'll make sure, but you must promise to stay here till l get back. If there is anybody about they are far more likely to hide than to interfere with you"
 With this he ran off, taking a little path through the woods which would bring him out in very few minutes upon the opposite shore of Isola Bella. Left alone, Evadne rose to her feet and stood, her hair gathered into one arm, looking very like study for pictu<-"A Wood Lymph Surprised"
 In all the summers the princess had spent by the lakeside never once had an intruder ventured to disturb her privacy Had man really been in the water at the point where Ra believed he saw him, he must have started from the private forests of Floremar, which girdled all the water for several miles, and this seemed out of the question. Yet she felt much as one might feel upon strong suspicion of there being q concealed burglar in one's bedroom.
 Nothing more terrifying than yourself on this island, Eva," said Ra reassuringly, returning to his communion yho yuaa uAand.