The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-13

gu re leaVlnS-at once
Right away. | expect the car
is at the door now"
And I'll never see you again.
"Nevcr again. You don't belong
to yourself any more, my boy.
You belong TO the peoplc-to mil
lions upon millions of them. car
rying the hopes and the aspira-
tons and the dreams of all of
them around on your shoulders.
You'll want to get away from it
you'll feel all of that as an actual,
tangible weight, pressing down on
you without a let-up, day and
night, as long as you live. It'll be
hard, especially when you see
poor. downtrodden people look up
at you out of their misery and
say, God save the king!n with a
break in their voices, so that
you'll know that unless you help
them no one will and then
you'll discover that the throne
and the scepter are. only make
believe. after all, and that there's
pitifully little you can do for
them.
He stopped abruptly and stroked
his brothers shoulder.
go on down, your majesty"
he said lightly. "And-goodby.
Try not to think too badly of me. -
The young king gripped his
hand, hard. "Think badly Of you
You've always benny king!
And YOU always will"
Joseph turned and went out
hurriedly without looking back.
The open doors threw a fan OF
yellow lights into the porte coch-
ere. Paul came down the steps
and got into the waiting automo-
bile. A guard saluted rigidly, the
car door closed with matter-of.
fact finality, and the car sped
noiselessly off down the drive into
the darkness.
Half an hour later the can
swung in through the medieval
gate of ancient Fort ST. Gregory
It rolled quietly past the great
battlements, turned, and came at
last to an open meadow which
had been grazing around for the
garrison's cattle, since time imme,
mortal, until n new kind of war,
fare had come along and turned
it into an airport. The car stopped
just behind a row of floodlight.
/ which turned the field into daz
zling eXpanse of unearthly vivit
green. Attendants sprang to oper
the door and transfer the luggage
A general in full regimentalS So
luted as Paul got out.
II took but q few moments fol
Paul to get into the gray mono
plane that waited, it's propelle
glinting in a silver circle as i
idled in the glare of the flood
lights. A private fastened tn,
hatch on the luggage compartment
and sprang nimbly down. TIL,
general came forward to lean il
at the door for a final handShake
The door was closed, voice crieC
"All clear" and the drone of tn,
motor rose to a roar. The plan,
trundled awkwardly across tn,
sod. left the ground, seemed t
balance itself uncertainty, ant
then became thing of grace an,
austere beauty, rising above tn,
floodlights and cleaving straigh
course through the dark.
They flew high, and the light
Of the capital spangled the black
ness beneath. There it lay, tn,
worlds proudest city, girt with tn,
memories of a thousand years O
empire: and the man who hat
given it all up with stroke O
the pen looked down at its starr,
diadem slid by beneath him AM
drifted off to the west. They cam,
TO the sea, and Paul looked dow
and saw the riding lights of hi
majesty's great ships of war a
they lay at anchor.
And then they were out owe
the ocean, and the land fell behin'
them, and the lights of the capita
trimmed the invisible horizon ia
in the rear. And Paul did not lool
back. for he was through with tn
past and all its memories. Ill
peered over the pilots shoulder a
the unfathomable blackness ahead
as if he were trying to make GU
the fair shape of a future tina
was to be his own.
j, Ito Be ContinuedD