worth of New U. 8. shal As she takes me Jenkins York, A.. fothe baron, she, 9 My mind as I watched the redection of the r1age ear by out of the dast- the veal, aal a remyat in 3wry steel be as or baron of aourse, has . as good as any count them never seen__ ~ow eould sh6 prince" In the mirror. As she stood a advaed se the so All I have to do is to sem to with an In toward itr s all; here goes. arrange fy she had never front of the cabinet, her profile only was there diddriverem dismounted antpm I ev.m laso at teder. No this princess, who doubtless needs my serv- seen? Two an s the enigma visible. but in that way the of 4 a the door for us. thseahese. Ices, let her have her own way aboul to parfection It was raining at 1ae with bulgig eyes. mediately suggest tiffiives: First. th a her lithe figure was most apparent. This, I todiiymow, and the mht was SO to be With --en-a-a-.. and contradict her not, keep ug whole thing is a hoax)oef hum r the somber everything, 'wbieh your loveliness of her featres.the thati couNd met distnguithe coachmanes I took the sup the a"d ea. a good nerve, and take everything for bl servant In the Aea qwond the prinme a contour of her neck and h~ad f m was al dou stow granted." has wheelp These her shapely and positve that he har to the n; hqr_: seemed ta attitude and gestures formed a most 4 on me from the bato. I hand- r- the- ,,d I wali the me , *ptfs sawd These reflections were made in at the time the possiblie explans beautiful plcwre, which her I d the princess in and was about to d@ the we ae bam-y... occupation . twinkling of an eye. "I shall unot her tions, but. f6 antfUpa ie denouement, I gave an that weath athint I W= A CRISIS IN DLDENDORF. keep intensely tragic interest. a me by the girL sp there myself Ia a few minutes." XT DAVID BA LTS POSTER, highness waiting long," I answered nY afterward found that'hetther was corrrect. She seemed to pause, to hesitate for an "Melamer the FtrN the attendant. "But, as I am somewhat un- Just at this momntIthe occurre Instant; spoke princess Whem I" hal baea--eld up the wh. thought a she looked toward me. and pasned 4 ejths of the coameh "I have forgotten statrne wIth the fetman, the dt"g used to this passage, will you kindly reaei to me that the real k5pa, the man whot a her hands before her eyes; then she seemed aa unibrella. Run in and get one." lhIs (Osgrright, 18, by the akener syndicate.) me your hand, and I will follow you at the princess.intended fly with, was no to form a sudden resolution. She took tuague. ence." other than friend1p the Melanie turned and darted up the steps. "The harea he cerl, hahy. " my in the stocks. He glass into which she had poured the dUg "And you, Herr Baron, why do you ret were "Here it Is, then," said the voice, and I had been Instructed. i4Cle waiting in hi a and dashed its contents over the filled ihought you be." felt about me in the darkness of the to aratfd floor, ome in out of the rain? If you are drip- hOtheshave aso theught s," ig pitch carriage, go and enter tha it again with wine, and came around and I lug wet, what is to become of us, who At the same place and caught hold of a soft, warm lit. pcstern door in the an handed it to me. time mpp&ga...... 4 tile Borgerschlhot wal, d must travel with you?" mia" into his head. '1 am d palm, not so small, either, but a good he was obeying the ofifinlabds of his higi I arose -and bowed to her, and saying: I did* not make about the igta born me. 'TO your any difficulty chasethe baros. He will he lady love, wheiuhe'met He wal , happiness," I drank the sparkling I matter, but got i at once. It was as I without doubt. still gi6eling on the floo r contents at one swallow. Then as I put I tad feared: the carriage had but one mest. of the bridge, with his heel fast betwee m down the glass I remarked: ''I fear there I was still standing and revolving the the fence pickets, wifiel was taking hi a is poisen in It: but f there is its too late." PART i mind, and began to mature plans by which beside the fair lnatter In my mind, when, suddenly, the [might remain on that same place 'inamorata. What iL "Poison!" she exclaimed. "What do you 4 was settled for me the It was about 7 o'clock in the evening spot for an in- turn of the wheel of fortune! The c ,f mean?" and the juestion by driver. einite per ed-days, months if necessary. thought soft whiteness of her face Iwho, as soon as he saw me step insides of a day in the latter part of May In I also the contrast was too Inuch -for my equa . became crimson. lammed about assumed an appearance which indi- and I shook 'With "The of the door to, leaped upon the box. the present year. I was wandering mated my intention. I took on a look of nimity, half-represse d poison your glance," I said. "The whipped the horses and drove away at a a sort of manner the merriment. reflection of your eyes In the wine, which in lazy through leisure, I made it seem as though time was no man can IUrlous pace. The sudden start upset me streets of an old German no object to me. I took out a The princess looked up at me ald spok brave unharmed.' ad seated ne beside the narrow, Irregular yawned, cigar rather She looked at me for a forcibly princess. an exten- and slowly lighted it. and then leaned in a sharply: moment witha town, which I had reached on "What are you laughhig at, sirr curious, questioning glance, and then PART IV. mave tour. I meant to lose comfortable attitude against the stone I described the whole smiled in a bold, bicycle myself. frame of the doorway. occurrence as pei daring way. Now, the seat was rather narrow for and I had done so. The surroundings He fectly as I could, taking care to supprea a "I am ready now, Herr Baron, to run at length lost patience and spoke to mention of the where it away with that is wO persons, so that I was brought much were totally strange and unfamiliar to me, in a voice which quivered slightly with spot had happenecL you; to say, if you still I added to the to your resolution. I have to -loser to her than I would have me. and I had no definite idea of the way suppresased eagerness or rage or both: perhaps narrative certal n only presumed fellow, unimportant innovations of my own. ] t adherechange my gown to a traveling suit, and I I 0 get under other circumstances. The I had come or of the direction I must take "My good there are reasons which will be with make your further presence could do no harm, and they certainly mad a you. Wait for me here." ouch of her shoulder against mine and the to return to my lodgings. rather awkward. here, just now, the story more interesting. Her highnes Saying this, she swept out of the room, I hope you have satisfied me a wafting of some soft stray locks of hair The town was Oldendort. a place of rour curiosity about the and I vias good enough to be immensely amuse dgiving backward look over her shoul- door, bid you my She t der as she passed the Lcroas my face, as the jolting of the car- twenty or twenty-Ave thousand inhabi- good evening, and hope you will have a by descriptign. laughed merrily a through door, in -it it several times,'her air . which there seemed to be a mixture of I lage brought us together, had a tants. It did not belie Its name,. either pleasant melancholy disal archness and of delight- He leeredwalk."at me peared little by little, and I thought that malice. ul charm for me, add I felt that I would for a more antiquated, venerable, me- patronizingly, as he to some Lft to of to mid "my good felow," and it was began gain headway in making ht r myself, I, course, tried think Ike to have It on forever. It could diaeval rookery I had never, in all my ex- nore really acquaintance. To tell the truth, I was the affair out, but, as may be Im- go than I could stand. And so we set forward to And th gol I readily kot be, however, and I reached to perience, seen. Oldendorf, as every one "Why, my dear old I ting to be extravagantly jealous of til ,agined. found it a very serious problem. up pull gentleman," an- peineess. and It me When I was first introduced [own the sash that I the coach- knc ws, or should know, Is the most im- owered, "I am not in the slightest to man, gave exquisite pleasure I 0 into the pres- might stop To hurry put another spoke in his wheel and to mal e ence of the princess I thought, as I before I nan. The sash would not come down. I tcwn or city In the sman Ger- go. tell the truth, I had thought of hand to get tight hold of and to squeezi remarked, that the portant the night here. I do not a little, If necesssary; and so we set for- the princess laugh at the baron, eve n whole matter was a I ried the one on her side. It was alike iss- man of Andel Schwartsburg. spending object to she did know g joke. It was in this that principally ompany, however, and you may remain ward to find the princess. though not she was laughin way I justified I novable. "Your highness," said L "the Every one knows, or should know, also, here with me if you wish." We went about forty steps and cam at him. windows will not open. Shall I break the that Oldendorf is, and has been, I to a door, which W4 riass and make that Idiot of a coachman always "Young man, do not wish for your com- my guide opened. PART III. t the hereditary seat or residence of the pany, and you will do very well without then seemed to be In a sort of long corri 'top?'" took he- ft my arms. or Some of my readers will doubtless wontd "It Is Immaterial to me," she rulers of Andel Schwartsburg-the princely mine. These grounds are private and the dor passage, with a low vaulted ston answered, of a exalted roef. Some small amount of stream what we talked about all the time that 1t '0 'whether you break It or not; excepting pleased when he hears of it. What is this of Andel-Sachs, the living and property very personage. You light -N If will to family will do well to take my advice and go at ed through the cracks of a doorway at th, w ere at supper. This is a very natur II hat, you do break it, I get wet. building which you have brought us? of which, at the nce." further end, aid of which I could mak which I should not like. You do not wish It certainly does not look like a hoteL" reigning representative by question, considering that I had never see n moment, Is his serene highness, "Your advice," said I. "is without doubt these otservations. I suppose I could hay lelanle to go with us, and perhaps it is "Look like a hotell Why should it? Ir9 present her before, and that she had never seen a ust as well." the baron's house, of Prince Ernest Otto von Andel. excellent. and I will take it into considera- got alcng now without help, but I stil V course." tion. I would kept hold of the hand, and before, that she thought that I was so "But. your highness," I protested. "you "Look here." said I; "you need not an- There was also a her Highness like to know first whether perhaps presse princess, rou speak by authority of this same exalted a little tighter. I could also note an an one else, and that I knew that she it must not think that It is by my orders that harness. Keep the carriage waiting ou this von the niece of Ernest. thougl hat dolt of a driver has of without spot, as I want IL Stephanie Ande), personage, and whether he knows that you swering pressure now and then. go. I was, of course, anxious not to sho gone may Ten more ae I had seen them both, a few days before. rdurself are here." We ascended four or five steps to real her. He shall return for her, if you wish like the one I gave you if you do what I this further door, and my ignorance of matters of which ti t. I shall discharge him this minute, if it upon some state occasion, In the state I had evidently hit the nail on the head opening It, we fount jA "I".- baron With him coach, but It was at a distance, and I this time, for he betrayed some uneasiness ourselves in a large chamber. This apart would be supposed cognizant, and >leases you." this I left and rushed into the been able to note that the and glanced and ment had several winduws, but the dual therefore confined myself to h4 "I can take care of myself very well house and up the staircase after the pria. had only prince furtively up down the had letting dIone, and so will find, Herr Bares. Oes. I felt was stout and elderly and glum, and that street. Time pressed him, without doubt, come, so that the light was still im know that I thought her charming. I di you that I must get her away with was and fresh and perfect. I could now, however, note thi .et It go as It Is." all speed posible; I met the lackey who the princess young not tell her so in so many words, either, In There was lively. appearance of my companion. She was i nothing more to Le said, and had shown her up and asked him whoe he pretty girl of about or nineteer strained my Ingenuity to the utmost, to se was secretly pleased at the outcome of had taken her. He indicated a re- The evening was gusty, but the air was eightee:n how times and how I L large mild, and now ard then there came a years of age, with a trim form, long braidi many in many ways ception room at the end of the corridor, of blonde hair and a retrousse nose. Shq could express it to her without exactly sa] There was also the romance of the and I at once entered and closed the sprinkling of rain, for which I did not to deer care, as in a worn snatched her hand! away from me and wen1 ing it; and I think that I discovered at lea itt hing be considered. Running away with behind me. The princess was ol I had enveloped myself such if he was and looking and pictaresque cloak which bad weather .. ee on ahead tbrough .another door, casting fifty ways. Flattery, given with del i-I princess something daring of the window. When sh.' heard my stop could not barm. Several of the streets back at me, as she went, a look of pert- cacy and discretion, has always pleased an d yiquant, but with two women, there would she tur'ed and confronted me with the which I seemod almost ness and 'nquetzy. will always please I-retty women.and I thin oe a good deal of the wholesale element. look of a caged panther. As I advancel thrcugh passed The next that I did not suffer in her th nd It would resemble too much the her dese rted. Here there were rows of empty room we entered was lighted b3 opinion by The sudden rape right hand made a swift movemeat warehouses, with broken windows and de- candelabra, as, in fact, were all of the use which I made of it. start upset me. < of the Sabines. toward her bosom, and she flashed in my She, on her conslderabl Now, all this time I was cayed timbers; here a great house with further apartments through which she took part, occupied myself for sitting squeesed face a bright, narrow-bladed knife. me; and so we went on, up and down stair time in explaining to me the relationsia permitting the lady to take me i ip as far as possible In my own corner of "Stand away!" she cried. "If touch the roof half fallen in, standing in an for the baron. If I was the subject of a i he vehicle, that I you acre of ground which had run to ways, through corridors and suites ol which existed between the Andels and th might give my fair me I will kill your" weeds; both descende hoax, I was certainly right in entering Into c ompanion as much room as I am The there a row of untenanted dwellings, with apartments, and large salons, till I though1 Hohenzollerns; they being the spirit of the and thus possible. fire fashed from the depths of her and there was no end to and all this timf from a common stock. It is needless t 0 thing making the i taturally very respectful toward women. great gray eyes. I had thought her curious gabled fronts upper stories it; scheme recoil in some measure upon the I even call beaut.- over the street-houses that I had not seen a soul beside the girl witt say that I could not dispute her conch might myself chivalrous; in ful enough before, but now she was mag- projecting the sions in the matter, even If I had wishe heads of Its Inventors. I thought of Bak- I 'act, I have very nice notions on the sub- must have been built before the thirty turned-up nose. As we proceeded, thf barah, the barber's second brother in the nificent. war. furnishings and decorations became mon to. To support her position, she read e: j ect. The Idea, therefore, never occurred I went a nearer and held years' "Arabian Nights;" the youth who was en- I o me to step my blouse History that at one elegant. One large salon was around tracts from the Almanach de Gotha, a take advantage of the opportunity open with both bnds, says time, In the fif- hung of which she ticed by the old woman Into the palace of I ind become in exposing my tairt teenth century, I think it was, Oldendorf with dingy life-sized portraits of bewigge, copy work caused Melanie t the grand vizier, any way familiar or ob- front to the point of her knife. and powdeted bring her. I thought to myself, "Here I where he was at first I rusive. There was something also in this "KII me, contained a population of sixty thousand. old dignitaries and soldiers petted and bamboozled, then buffeted and I then," I said. for I knew wel I could well saw go another seemed and witt where I find out who I am." ady's rank, her manrer, and the serious enough that she wouldn't. believe it when I many beast, for he suddenly reached out and ghostly fearsome "Your will pinehed by the beautiful lady and her Iiurity of her which would deserted shops and houses. With the de- suits of armor and old spears and swordi highness pardon me," said ]L slaves. In the words of aausted all theloveliness,subjects of conversation,have She was half ashamed at this. and low- crease and blunderbuases and "The authorities which you have quote the barber, "He I'orbidden the advances of the rankest ered her weapon and turned In population, however, there has Daught my ankle with a ferocious grip. I banners. knew not, poor fellow, that the ladies of c hurl. away ear ccW.e no In the manners or At last we entered a suite of chamben from the Almanach are-witnout doubt coi our ixcepting those upon which It was danger- head: but her emotions got the better ef change in wi Ich the rect. I wish to call your hovi great and powerful lords amuse them- Feeling this way, therefore, toward the her, and she customs of the people or In the gen- belongings seemed more taste attention, selves by such fun as this ius for me to enter. At one time she asked became furious again. Thea ful and More ever, to the fact that of late years man making with any Iwincess, I was the more she to talk, was eral appearance of the streets or build- and wrenched myself loose, but, in doing feminine. "Here," said I t Y young man who Is silly enough to thrust surprised began and I careful not to ings. They are a conservative set in myself, "is where I meet the princess;' inaccuracies have fo their way int0 himself into their that interrupt her. but let her have her say. so, I lost my balance and hurled myself and I was this book. To illustrgfew*hat I mean, it hands." The case of the "You a Oldendorf, and I think that If Gustavus not mistaken. The apartmen wi barber's brother and myself seemed analo- are villain." she cried: "a con- should come into which I now followed you have the kindness to turn to that pal temptible scoundrel! You have broken Adolphus marching through "Fellow?" Melanie, foi of the volume gous, and It occurred to me that I was cer- Your the city today, as he did in 1632, he would he cried, "I will have no that was the girl's name, as I afterwar< whic*ontains my namel tainly at liberty to humor agreement, and your word Is worth noth- door in theloiterersold wall.about discovered, was small She turned over thez es and my eccentric Ing. Is this the Maitre recognize the place and the people at once here." and cozy; it wai said: present]y hostess, and that it behooved me, at the D'Armes Hotel? without any trouble. hung and furnished in soft blue and gar same to be Is this St. Estephe? It Is neither the one for he showed a disposition to hasten mat- ret, and "Here It is: 'Plisber,' time, upon my guard, lest I nor the I had set out upon this night in ques- ters, to was absolutely full of exquisit, 'Johann Woli should be overtaken with misfortunes simi- other. It Is your own house. or the Dumptyby beginningdive headlongthreatenthroughandthebluster.parti- pictures gang,' 'Wilhelm Au us.' it l house of one of tion with the spirit of adventure rife with-. "Fellow!" he cried. "I and ornaments and objects of lux No, must t lar to those of the unlucky Bakbarah. your wicked friends. Do me. a will have no wty. In the center of further down. Ah, I have It now. 'Ludwi not deny It would be useless. in I was like a boy in story book, loiterers about here. Either the room was a smal g I had now been with the princess for an It; And I who wanders out to seek his fortune. or go at once, or table with a cover laid von Pilsener, born 1w-> hour, own It to my shame: I was idiot to thatI willmoment.take stepsI feltto compelmyselfyou."strike the door upon It for two "Look at that" I and her manner, her words and her enough like the knight of old who journeyed forth with linen of dazzling whiteness, and a e'la med. "Do I look actions had a think there was some good In you. Yes. I "Take your steps at once," said I. "I pro as if I were born in operated complete change in was a In quest of daring deeds. There was andshallthe next instant I was in utter dark- fusion of silver utensils of quaint and an 1856y my ideas. I no mow where to find the Maitre I'Armes such dolt that I was commencing to be delighted to see them: but first, "You certainly do seem longer thought that my re- like you. something In the romance of the strange, had I not better tique pattern. !R anywhei' ception was a huge joke. I saw that rithout any trouble?' Driveling fool that I was to help you over the fence?" Melanie near that age," she a - she iv Imagine that, because were tall quaint old town which made me feel as If Ever since we motioned me to wait where red, with cri was serious and in earnest, and I reasoned you a I would like to which seemed to be a stonecommencedpavement.to AstalkI washis was, and to a ical look over my perh,, rood-looking fellow, the which something happen had been going small archway whicl ' it out In my mind in reports j rage growing on him, until now "I should think n said I. son e something this fash- had heard about you could not be true. was quite out of the ordinary. There shothis facethroughwas it seemedtheto veinsme that a light comm'nicated with another chamber, said warmth. "I with ion: That the princess had been in some My was In the air of purple, stood out In a to some was bor.in8t and I natu r- folly Is what saved you. Yes, If it were not something gusty the on his forehead, and his eyebrows had respectful tone, one there: to way indiscreet, that the scoundrel of a for pring night which roused my blood as it "He Is here, your highness." ally object having years added I 0 baron had got some hold that and the fear that, after all. yo come together in a malignant scowl. To I had my age by-a.areless upon her, and that, IL did not have it on your itsmote me on the cheek. get at me. he the removed my cloak and made quit, typesetter. That throughs threats or undue pressure, the un- person. I would I felt as did Don when he and I might perhapsgrippedbe mistaken.fenceIwithrose bothand a presentable what I meant B the Aima rou had a way of leaving everything to the have given you such a dose In that of Quixote, hands, raised one foot and set it between appearance in the blouse ant nachde Gotha." thterrors'in fortunate and lovely creature had been in- wine that glass Sancho found the oarless boat, moored soughtthe for the door and found it. I felt a knickerbockers of my bicycle costume. I duced to make a runaway match with you would have slept for twenty- to If pickets, and lifted himself up, that he was When we had come to coffee, and him. four hours. Again, while we were the shores of the river Ebro. I had great,might heavy latch,over toand triedside. it, but the picturesque, if not conventional. I tie M4 i-There was only one flaw In my chain of In the found such a beat on this when I spring my a moment or two there sounded la:is had retired, the princess leaned back she 'on keep your agreement about the main carriage, if you had attempted to take the night, Now, the iron pickets of the fence rose the rust in her chair, reasoning; had never seen him, it is least with was strolling througn the city of Olden- ling of silk and of dainty lingerie. and i ,ooked :at In- Iteatly for a true, but she had talked with king, the matter about which I spoke to liberty, me. If you had given the 3ix or seven inches above the rail: they of moment, and said: him at the least sign ;f such a you dorf, I would, like him, have stepped Into hungwere aboutwith afourstrongor spring and fastened lady great beauty stood before us. masked ball. How was it that, after hear- thing. would have and, off the floated five inches apart, and, She was "Well?" felt this knife in your vitals. I was wait- it, casting moorings, at their tops, were wrought to the young, not over twenty years o "Well?" said ing my voice, she could still suppose me to moat respectful manner. Can you ask foe down to the enchanted castle to find the with a spring lock. It was ajar whenshapeI age at most, and she was rather tall, an( I. be the baron? Ing for It. even hoping for It: but you of arrow heads, with good-sized barbs pro- "Have you with must be produced and handed to the syndic more?cold, satanicTo be sure, I hare humsored you Ia beautiful and persecuted princess. lecting downward and her figure, though somewhat slender, wai brought it your' sald I blessed the luck which had brought cunning and prudence, as Presently I seemed to have come upon sideways. He had graceful and rounded in its she. me to the door in the usual, saved you. I have risked all, and placed his foot between two of these pick- outlines. 1i Now, as I said before, y Burgerschlact wail for what? For a street which was on the outskirts of the in striking contrast were the wavy masses o I had made up m before him, and I resolved that it was nothing: for I do not be- Upon one side the houses were few ets, and, preparing to step down on my her dark mind to stick to the truth and VonlievePilsener.that youbutevenI didhaveIt becauseit with I thoughtHi city. side, he suddenly lost his balance and brown hair, the limpil gray o I therefore I my duty to aid her in every way in my you. and far between, and what houses there fell her eyes and the soft whiteness of could not say had brougnt it with me; I I and never to till you do not say that you have. Then thee sprawling at my very feet. her skin power, leaWe her side she "If teek me ill ki theIs anman was a dirty scoundrel, and It were seemed to be uninhabited. Upon the Her face was oval, her features anc was free from his you you." end of it, and I will tell you some- This wasn't the worst of his small machinations. The seemednowto methatthat it was the best way to other side there was nothing but a wall; a misfortune, perfect. She was in evening an< best procedure, as it seemed to me. was thing will disarrange your plans some or three hundred feet in ideither,-e titteringfor his orbootgiggling,had slippedsuch asbackwardyoung dress, he did not seem at all to shrink away Lnd show you that are wall two as he and his ankle her arms and neck and shoulders were liki to humor her present design of I tot 'ae place untw I have given It into you a fool for all length, and twelve or fifteen feet in height. maidensfell,give utterance tohadon gonealmostdownall the marble of a eloping. rom me, as I did from her. She seemed your pains. Learn this-that I am not the past the barbs and had become statue. She was somewha world thus be in the very heart of the ather to edge over, slow tentlons. I came up to find you now. le I crossed over to this wall and walkad inextricably haughty In her manner, and there seeme, business and could strike a blow at by advances, princess." saw was iccasions,fastened betweenand a voicethe pickets,of veryjustsweetas ifandhe the Gore and more to my s!de. When the "Learn this, I, along beside It and that the top were in the to be an air of melancholy In her face proper time. In fact, I saw no other way og the mayor a party to the transaction?jolt- sause I had justalso."discoveredsaid that"thattheI amrescatnot Indented Its entire with stocks. which was I ng of the coach would throw her some- baron." throughout length He tumbled about on apparent even when she smiled of remaining with her at all. Thus, in- nearer the embrastures. and that, every fifty feet or so. the floor of the as she did now. st4ad what to mei instead of retreating, bridge and raved and swore in the most of engaging, as I thought, in a wild he would the she there arose from it a small round turret. She acted for a moment as if Irresolut< ard light-hearted I found keep advantage had PART V. The wall was almost covered with and hopeartisticyouway-afterdid not- harmthe manneryourself."of Germans frolic, myself ained, until, finally, she was as close to Ivy tried or hesitating, and then gave me her hang plrged all at once into the vortex of an "Not the baron!" she excleimed, with was full of holes and cracks, so that I -he to raise himself up like a cat- and said: t -I r me as she could very well be without ab- It. Estephe. I knew that you would not he pulled this way and that-he exciting and fantastic tragedy. olutely reclining upon shoulder. More wonder-distended eyes. "Then who in the thought It must have existed for centuries. tugged "My dear baron, you did well to come a In the my wish to remain here, and I have ordered It did not with street, like a bull-he fumed and frothed, but it incredibly short space of fifteen laron.han once.AndI yourremember,presentI waspromise is veryto mame of heaven are you?" stand flush the but fact, I always enter a door in that manner. once." mui utes the princess accom- tempted about fifteen feet back from It. This space was all of no use. The fence had been reappeared, lifferentut my fromarm thearoundwordingher ofandyourbringpreviousthe "I am an American, and my name is John made by a good, honest blacksmith, and I bent low and pressed my mustach, par.ed by Melanie. She had changed weet being still closer. The of fifteen feet was filled by a sort of ditch, against the coral of her small hEr to a temptation Wentworth Jenkins. I was the barom or half tips finger evening g:,wn very chic and Vas a terrible one, but I resisted it gully, choked with weeds and and answered: dainty with a a ron has changed materially sincebravely,I met simply because you called me so, as I make stones, and was from the street traveling sust, somewhat .nd I was afterward glad of it, would like to thrash the baron at this me- separated said the voice, "excepting that you have "You would have seen me sooner, youi shc-rt skirt, a tight-fitting jacket and a rcuThetonight."driver a point never to contradict a lady. Since proper by an Iron picket fence about three could I have soft felt hat kept his horses at the same .t feet put out my candle by opening and shuttin highness, managed It." gray with a feather in the r apid gait as when he started, and we soon nent,[ have iftoldonlyyoutomypleasename,you.will youIn short.be kind£ high. She took her hand away from me beforq side. Melanie was also attired travel- I walked along this iron fence for some in eased over what seemed to be a long wishmoughto tocallgivemyselfme yourer'your friend. Can I net the door so swiftly; but I suppose weca I was half through with it. Ing costume, and carried a small s tone and distance, until I came to a place where it do know meveral handbag whichbridgeyou had ofoutmeofbeforethe town.tonightAt lastwas "There is no reason I should turned ir at right angles and ended at the "Herr baron, you that you ard and wraps. I was very much I judged we were out of the town, because why not do most imprudent?" surprised at this. tothe alightsfavorablehad disappeared,one." but It so, sir! I am Hilda von Waldeck, second wall. Here there was a wooden bridge "I have been the same "Is Melanie was over the ditch, which led to a small but along, for the princess- is waiting for you," thinking thing going with us?" I exclaimed.rather dark and raining still, and the sousin once removed of the Princess Ste- solid lookIng door, beyond which the fence your highness, for the last five minutes." "Certainly, Herr Baron, did you suppose nolsture on the glass made it Impossible phanie. But how was It that you camne to "It was expressly understood that yoi for an instant that I would go without for me to give more than a guess as to me in the baron's place, sir? Did he was contin~ued the same as before. were not to come before her? our send Havmng nothing better to do I passed dark, and you1 She And, besides, you know that that a urroundings. At one time we seemed to rou to me?" carriage drove up half an hour ago In oper poured several drops of somn B was part of the agreement."' Li climbinga quarter,a long,aftersteepwe first started, we "No. Fraulein Waldeck, he did not over the bridge and stood before the door and colorless fluid into one of s "Oh. of me hill, and now we sent In the old wall. It was strongly built of daylight, took up a position amonj thb course," said I, with as 'good1awrere severalplunginglightsdownappearthe furtherhere andside there,of it- me. If I had gone where the baron sent the shrubbery of the park, whe're every one glasses. a grace as possible. "You must pardon hen, again, for a long time, a me. I would be very, very far remnoved oak, and was hung with great, curiously heart beat a little faster than its wea with half an me for not quarter of wrought Iron hinges, worked into many a eye could see it. You are cer- thinking of It, but, as you your- a hour at least, the road passed through a from here. The manner of my introduction tainly not yourself tonight, herr baron." I had said I had not brought it, she mighit self remarked, I am not exactly myself to- nlense, black forest. to your apartments, in the place of the scroll and eaf and flower; but that which "Your We again passed overMeanwhilea bridge, Idrovewas won-some interested me most was a motto engraved highness is right, as usual," I mur- not be pleased. I therefore chose a middi a night."4 lering whether we were on the road to St. barqi. is a wonderfully singular story, and upon the stone cap above the portal, which inured, submissively. course and answered: I wondered at the same time what other I Datephe, what kind of a place It was and will be gladl enough to tell you all about read as follows: "Who enters here leaves "When I gave my word I did not inten( "I have not brought it with me, your agreements that confounded Baron Lud-1 we would be stopped on the itnywhencousin,wethehaveprincess.more leisureWe wereand arechildemaIn a that the affair should be but wig von Pilsener had made for whether more nope behind." ige of enchantments is not past by a good advertised as yoi highness, I can promise that it will be me. rontler by the customs officials. Von P11- and schoolmatesproper placetogether,for It. andYou Ireallywouldhavedie Of course, the Inscription was not In seem to wish it. One would think that yo' forthcoming without fail at the proper mc - Melanie was a trim and pretty girl, to beaener had evidently arranged with his no cause of complaint against me. I have English, but In old German text, and I leal. Now, an ordinary young man might rever planned an elopement before, or, per- ment." sure. At least I had thought so before Crindingoachmangraveledto get delveway,rid of Melanie,and theandcar-if obliged you In your every wish. I have haps, It is an everyday matter for The princess bit her and seemed seeing the princess, but running to had broken his agreement about taking could give It here in the original, as I sounded a tittering Or gig- you t4 Uip some- away tage drew up in front of a building of am a perfect master of the German lan- There run away with a princess" what vexed. with two women was not the same as run- he maid, he would be very likely to break )aron tonight, or pretend to elope with guage, as also of several other tongues; "I can assure your highness that it il "I see, Herr Baron, that you are as muc 4a whetherning awayyorowawith one,Cachmandby a goodwiveddeal. aleIta other agreement. and take the princess tim, that I might simply obtain from him but 1 thInk that such exhibitions of eru- held him fast. Several articles eame out not," I arnswered, for I had made up m; a diplomat as ever." took away a great part of the romance of LnyIghted up.knows where. His man evidently dition are not pertinent to the story, and. Lnd-sO,af his pocketsor BaronduringSomethinghis struggles:Else: aandpock-af mind that, no matter what, I would ad- "I was never more of a diplomat tha:n the thing, and I would not have the same teavenabought that he had the baron Inside of something which is indispensable to the to say the least, are out of taste. etknife, a memorandum a snuff here strictly to the truth. now, your highness," I answered, with a opportunities for protecting the he carriage. I could have told him book, box, "I thought that princess o where In my adventurous spirit, there was andron takeone orthetwoplaceotherof smallthe expectedthings. visitor,I pick- your conduct needed gallant bow. e andstas I wouldher mirssewere shenxtto andbe alone.In buringingIt also find the baron at that moment, and I would certainly have it with himn, and, U something about this door and the in- ed them up, meaning to hand them to him reprimand, and for that reason, and als. "At all events," said she, "you must have occurred to me, for obvious reasons, to aughed to myself as I Imagined his sur- scription over It which met my views ex- when he should become more composed, because I wished to make certain furthea iwith you at St. Estephe, or I do not mas .wonder whether the baron's carriage had wrise and discomfiture when he should find so, I would without doubt have possessed actly. Evidently I needed not to seek fur- but. just then, his coat came stipulations as to the program I had Me ry you. The agreement was that it was t seats In the Inside for more than two had brought me to St. 3ut I shall not be governed byanydown suobover o per-I pf his mqster. Estephe instead th~er. There was a whole world of possi- his head, and he presented altogether such lanie send word to you in your carriage b: be handed to the mayor before the ceri sons, and what disposition we should make ae nyself of it. I am afraid now that it to bilities behind that door. It might well owa ridiculous,and servileoutrageouscnidarattana.spectacleJoa1rthat one of the grooms that you should come te mony, to be by him given to me immediates of Melanie in case it did not. I was will- The princess and I did not talk I me at once the ly afterward." ing to subit to the Inconvenience of tortico of the buildngwere flung open,verythe be that, behind It, I should find the love- laughed till my sides ached. by postern door in the Bur e rid- nuch during our journey. The creaking ly and suffering princess, of whom I was And now comes a very curious thing, gerschlact wall. I hope that now you un "The exact terms," said I, at the sam ing three on a seat, at least, with my jolting of the vehiole and rumbling of in search. When one comes to think merriment derstand matters. fully." time wondering what was this s present two companions, but I drew the indhe wheels nude It of It During my I had incautiously mysterlou line when it dificeult for us to maime It is always through a door that one goesI approached too near this chained wild If I had said that I understood anythini something upon which she set so muc came to sitting on the box