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.' Au Graustarki? dfoN GabrIel" cried Beverly, frowning fiercely. "Alas," sighed the princess, "he basn't an army, and besides he Is find ing it extremely difficult to keep from being annihilated himself. The army bas gone over to PrInce Gabriel." "Poob!" scoffed Miss Calhoun, who was thinking of the enormous armies the United States can produce at a day's notice. "'What good Is a ridlcu lous little army like his anyway? A battalion from Fort Thomas could beat it to" "Don't boast, dear," interrupted Ye tive, with a wan smile. ."Dawsbergen tag a standing army of 10,000 excel lent soldiers. With the war reserves she has twice the available force I can produce." "But your men are so brave!" cried Beverly, who had heard their praises lung. "True-God bless themi-but you for get that we must attack Gabriel in his own territory. To recapture him means a perilous expedition' Into the moitains of Dawsbergen, and I am sorely afraid. Oh, dear, I hope he'll surrender peaceably!" "And go back to JeH for life?'' cried Miss Calhoun. "'It's a.- good deal to expect of bin, dear. I fancy it's much bet ter fun kieking up a rumpus on the outside than it Is kicking one's toes off argainst an obdurate stone wall from the Inside. You can't blame hin for fighting a bit." "No, I suppose not," agreed the prin cens Iniserably. "Gren Is actually hap py over the miserable affair, Beverly. Il1- is ful of entlmusiasi.i and positively achiingr to be it Grauistark-right in the tlhiek of it all. To hear bin talk one' .would think that 'rince Galrieli hs no show at all. 1He kept me u1p till .1 o'lock this morning telling ie that awshergeni didn't know wlat kind of a stig it wa s golig ip against. I lutve a va.' ie idea what he mveanis by 1h1:1t. IHis nunealr did not leave much ro0-n for douabt. lie also sah that we would jolt.- Da wsherPo'n off the 11m1p. It souds enicouraginag at least, does'It it?"' "It soui(ds 41vry Itiily flr you to :ty those higl's." adiltled Peverly. 'ven though lthey co. o eml secoluniie tad. You were 114)1 1it ou for slang.'' Why, 1'm siro tiey re all gool Eniiglish words," re noist raIl ed Yetive. "N; hy r mrly tlkngDn' -1.7 ('I yOu, knowd, wodethat the aee do fight until both sides have talked them selves ouit of breath? We shall have six months of talk and a week or two of fight, just as they always (10 now iaays." "Oh, you Americans have such a comaforta ble way of looking at things," crligd the prtintcess. "D~on't you ever 5Iee te seriotus side of life?'' "My dher, the Amerlean alway3s lets the other fellow see the serious side of lire," Haidi Beverly. *ont wouldn't he so optimlel if a countiry mutch bigger and more power fuil thtan America happented to lbe the other fe'llow."' "It (lid sound frightfully boastftul, didni't li? it's the wtay' we've beeni brought up,) I reckon-even we south crners, who know what it is to lie whipped. The idea of a girl like mue talking abouit war and troue and all that! . It's absurd, isn't it'?" "Nev-erthieless, I wish I could see things tharouigh those (dear gray eyes of yours. Oh,, how I'd like to have you with me throuigh all the months that are to come. Yott would be such a help topme. such ai '10. Nothimr would seem *a*.'X. By -. ORGE BARR 1hor of "Graustark" - yreMS. 1904. by Dodd. Mead and GompaY so hard if you were there to make me see things through your brave Ameri can eyes. The princess put her arms about Beverly's, neck and drew her close. "But Mr. Lorry possesses an excel lent pair of American eyes," protested Miss Beverly, loyally and very happily. "I know, dear, but they are a man's eyes. Somehow there is a difference, you know. I wouldn't dare cry when he was looking, but I could boohoo-all day if you were there to comfort :ne. He thinks I am very brave, and rm not," she confessed dismally. "Oh, I'm an awful coward," explain ed Beverly consolingly. "I think you are the bravest girl in all the world," she added. "Don't you--remember what you did at"- and then she recalled the stories that had come from Graustark ahead of the bridal party twp years be fore. Yetive was finally obliged to )lace her hand on the enthusiastic visitor's lips. "Peace" she cried, blushing. "You make me feel like a-a-what is It you call her, a dime novel beroinel" "A yellow back girl? Neveri" ex claimed Beverly severely. Visitors of importance In administra tion circles came at this moment, and the princess could not refuse to see them. Beverly'Calhoun reluctantly de parted, but not until after giving a promise to acconiany the Lorrys to the railway station. The truniks had gone to be checked, nild the ioulseolll was quieter than it had ieen in aiy days. There was an air. of' dIepression ab lout ite place that hind~ its inception In the room upstairs wheIe soIeri faedCL 11alkins served din.; n1r' forIi a not overtaikative young coliple. "It will 1e all right, deare.t." said Lorry, diviilliug his wife's thought Is as she sat stariig rather soberly straight he fa her. ".Just aK soon as we --vi to 1-:delweiss the whiole. affair wl look so simple that we can lat!gh at the fears of toiay. You see, we are a lon'. waly oft' just now." "I am only afraid of what imay hap lIen bi.'ore wec get there, (reln." sie said iiply. eI leanieq over and kiss ed hier liliri, sililing lit the emiphasis she miconseiously placed on the pro Ueverly Calhoun was anniiounced ,ast beforecorfee w'as served and a mo elit lter was iII the ro0111. 1he stolp ped Just inside the door, clicked her little heels together and gravely brought her halId .to "salute." 110e eyes were spaki'Ii ng aniid her His trembled with "1 think I canii rep~ort to you' ia Ed'el weiss nlext mouth, general," she ahi nIounIced, with soldielly dignily.-' II,er' hearer'01S stared0 at the paicturesq5(uC'e-e c'rit, and Ilaikins so far1 forgot him self' as to dr'op Mr. Lorry's lump of' suguar upon01 the table lnsteadl of into the cuap. "Explain yourself, ser'geant!" 11inal1ly fell from Lorriy's lias. Th'le eyes of' the pinllcess were bieginining to take on a r'apturous glow. "May I hav'e a1 cupj of corfee, Iplease, sir? i've been so ex('itedl I couldn't eat aI mIoutiihfuliat home." She grace fully slid 11uto the (chair1 IIalkilus of fered and broke into an ecstatic giggle that would1( have. resulited in a court mar'tial had( she been1 serving any coilmader' butt Lovec. With ai len~teous1 supply of southern idiloms she succeeded In making them11 under01stand that the mnfjor had prom ised to let 1her visit frienids in the lega tioni at St. P'eter'sburig inI April, a mfonith or so alter the departure or the Lorrys. "ie wanted to know w~here J'd rath er spend1( tihe sipri v g-W~ashin'ton or Lexiu'ton-and I tolId himn St. Peters burg. We had a terr'ifle discussion, an~d nieltther of us ate ai spee'k at din ner'. Mamma said it would be all right for me to go to St. Petersburg if Autit JosephlIle was shill of a muind to go too. You see, aunlitle was s(11Care ailmiost out of her' hoots wheni'i she heard there was pr1ospec't or warll inl Grlaustar1k, just as though a tinmy little wmr like that could sla, hundreds of t hiousambis of' m iles handit-"anid then'i 1 just made(1 11untie say she'dl go to St. P'eterlsbiurg ini April, a wh'lole mionthi sooner' than she expect ed to go in the first pla('e, and" "You dear, dearl 1tev'erlyl" cried Ye tive, rushliug joyously aroundl~ the table to clasp her' in 11er armIfs. "And St. Petersbur~lg rl'ly isn't a hundred thousand miles~ from Edel wveiss!l" cr'iedl Jeverly gayly. "It's much less than that," saId Lor ry, smiling. "Bu~it you surely don't expect to COmeI to Edelweiss if we are fightig. We couldn't think of letting you do that, you Rnow. Your mother woild never" "Aly'mother wasnt fi'lld of it much bigger wat than yg Cian ever hope to be!" erikd evderig, sentflly. "You Cll't stop if I clioosge to visIt Grau stark." "Dobh your fath know that you contenilIte sucli a t.l" itsked Lorry, returning her hal jiiavsp and look!ntu doubtfully into th# swilRumitig blu eyes of his wife. "No, ho doesn't," admitted Beverly a trifle aggressively. "He could stojl you, you know," ho Suggested. Yetive was discreetly si lout. "But he won't know anythiiig about it," cried Beverly triumphantly. "I could tell ih, you know," saild Lorry. "No, you couldn't do anything so mean as that," announced Beverly. "You're not that sort." CHAPTER III. PONDEROUS coach lumbered slowly, almost painfully, along the narrow road that skirted the base of a mountain. It was drawn by four horses, and upon the seat sat two rough, unkempt Russians, one holding the reins, the other lying back in a lazy doze. The month was June, and all the world seemed soft and sweet and joyous. To the right flowed a turbulent mountain stream, boiling savagely with the alien waters of the flood season. Ahead of the creaking coach rode four horsemen, all heavily armed; another quartette followed some distance in the rear. At the side of the coach an officer. of the Russian nounted police was rid ing easily, jangling his accoutermentd with a vigor that disheartened at least one occupant of the vehicle. The win dows of the coach doors were lowered, permitting the fresh mountain air to caress fondly the face of the young woman who tried to find comfort in one of the broad seats. Since early morn she had struggled with the hard ships of that seat, and the late after noon found her very much out of pa tIence. The opposlite seat was-the rest Ing place of a substantial colored wo man and a stupendous pile of bags and boxes. The boxes were continually toppling over, and the bags were for. evel/ getting under the feet of the once glacid servant, whose face, quite luck ily, wvats nucih too black to reflect the niger she witas able otherwise, through years of pfalctice, to conceal. . "Illow indci farther have we to go, lieutenant?" asked the girl on the rear stat plaintively, even huinbly. The ian was very deliberate with his English. le had been reconinenled to her as tile best linguis t in the serv ice at 0i4lovitch, an1d he had a repu tution to suishlini. "It another hour is but yet," he inani aged to infortu her, with a conliident silie. "Oh, dear," she sighed, "a whole hour of this!" "We soon be dar, Miss Bev'ly. Jes' yo' mak' up yo' milu' to res' easy-like, ai' w "- itt tile faithiul ol colore I wOIInl it's :lic h'e wis lost In the wrath %,J. .4) ful exclhaation that accompanied ati other dislodgmeut of bags and boxes. The wheels of the coach had dropped sudtlenly into a deep rut. Aunt Fan ny's growIs were searcely more potent than poor MIlss Beverly's moans. "It Is getting worse and worse," ex claimed Aunt Fanny's mistress petu lantly. "I'm black and blue front head to foot, aren't you, Aunt Fanny?" "Ah' caln' say as to de blue, Miss Bev'ly. Hlit's a mos' monstrous had road, sho 'nough. Stay up ldar, will yo'??" she concluded, jamming it bag into an upper corner. Miss Calhoun, tourist extraordinary, again consulted the linguist In the sad dle. She knew at the outset that the quest would be hopeless, but she could think of no better way to pass the next hour than to extract a mite of Inforia tion from the officer. "Now for a good old chat," she saId. beaming a smile upon the grizzled Rus sian. "Is there a decent hotel in the village?" she asked. 'They were on the edge of the village before she succeeded lit finding out all that she could, and it was not a great Oeal, either. She learned that the town of Balak was in Axphaln, scarcely a mile from the Graustark line. There was an eating and sleeping house on the main street, and the population of the place did not exceed 300. - When Miss Beverly awoke the next morning, sore and distressed, she look ed back upon the night with a horror that sleep had been kind ~enough to In terrupt only at intervals. The wretched hostelry lived long in her secret cata logue of terrors. Her bed was not a bed; it was a torture. The room, the table, the-but it was all too odious for descrIption. Fatigue was her only friend in that miserable hole. Aunt Fanny had slept on the floor near her Anistres' cot, and it was tile good old Colored woman's grumbling that aidoke Beverly. The sun was climbing up the mountains in the east, and there was an air of general activity about the Place. Beverly's wat(h told her thatt it was past 8 o'clock. "Good gracious'" she exclained. "It's nearly noon, Aunt Fanny. u along here and get m1e up. We nmts; leave this abominable llace in tet lin utes." She was up and racing abot eltedly. "Befo' breakfas''" denianded Auit Fanny weakly. "Goodness, A int anny, is that all you Ibiik about'" "Well, hone1y. yo'll b~e thjinkjin moughty .seriouis 'bout Ietkfas' 'long to'ahds 'I(+benl o'elock. Il ,t li'l ttini 1m13' 0' yourn'll be pow'ful m.11ad 'u'ise yo' didn' " "Very well. Atinit Fanny, you can run alotng and have tile woNmNll litut up a breakfast for ts., and we'll 'at it on the road. I postiveoly refurls*e to eat tinother mutuottlatil in tht awful dilning roomn. I'll he dIown inl tenl minu11tes."1 Site wvas do~ia it less. Sleep , no miatter how hatrd earnled, hald re(vived her Spirits atilly. She prolouncled lierself ready for anythiig. There was a whtolesomte disdain Ifor the rigors of the coiling i1de through the imoltains in lth way sihe gae order; for the sZtart. The Itlishi officer mlet her 2 1-rceM r just outside the entrance to the in. ie was less English thAln ever, but he eventually gave her to ujderstand that he had secured permIssion to escort her as far as Ganlook, a town in' Gratimark not inor'e than 'fiteen iulles fromi Edeiweiss andt at least two days fromn llilaik. Two competent Axphahi lan guldes had been retained, and the party was quite ready to start. He had been warned of the presence of briglands in the wild mountainous passes north of Ganlook. T. 11 slans -could go no farther look because of a royal .la fra Edelweiss forbidding the t: v y proach of arued forces. At 'wiilv however. he was sure she e.i < it obtain ain escort of Graust.- . diers. As the big coach crawl. 'p w. mountain- road and farther i-i oppressive solitudes Bever . drew from the difficult lieut.nett slderable information cono(i ii.- t i state of affairs in Graustarl< 4 , : been eagerly awaiting the it, wh something definite could bi'ew rui. Before leaving St. Petersburg early lit the week she was assured that a state. of war did not exist. The Princess Yetive had been in Edelweiss for six weeks. A formal demand was framed soon after her return from America re quiring Dawsbergen to surrender the person of Prince Gabriel to the authoi' Ities of Graustark. To this demand there was no definite response, Daws bergen insolently requesting time In which to consider the proposition. Axphain immediately sent an envoy to Edelweiss to say that all friendly relations between the two govern ments would cease unless Graustark took vigorous-,steps to recapture the royal assassin. On one side of the unhappy principality a strong, over bearing princess was egging Graustark on to fight, while on the other side an equally aggressive people defied Y - tive to come and take the fugiti she could. The poor princess, as' tween two ugly alternatives, and a struggle seemed Inevitable. 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