The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, March 27, 1908, Page 2, Image 2
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Princess
Virginia
?'t By C. N. and A. M. WILLIAMSON.
Authors of "The Lightning Con
ductor." "Rosemary In Search
of a. Father." Etc
Copyright, 1907. by McCIure. Phil
lips & Co.
?f CHAPTER THREE M
HIS is perfectly appall
ing!" groaned the un
fortunate lady who
passed for this adven
ture under the naineol
Miss Manchester.
"Perfectly glorious!"
amended her companion.
The elder lady pressed Baedeker tc
her bosom and sat dowu with some
abruptness. "I shall have to stop here."
she panted, "all the rest of my life ami
have my meals and my night things
sent up. I'm very sorry, but I'm cer
tain I shall never be able to go back."
"Don't be absurd, my poor dear.
We're absolutely safe." said Virginia.
"I may be a selfish wretch, but I
wouldn't for the world have brought
you into danger. You needn't go down
yet Let's explore a little farther. It's
easier than turning buck. Surely you
can go ou. Baedeker says you can. In
ten minutes you'll be at the top of the
col."
"You may as well tell me that I'll be
in my grave. It amounts to the same
thing," wailed Miss Mauehester. who
was. in the sphere of happier duties.
Miss Letitia Portman and had beeu
the princess' governess. "I can't look
down, I can't look up. because I keep
thinking of the unspeakable things be
hind. After I get my breath and have
become resigned to my fate I may be
comparatively comfortable here for
some years; but, as to stirring either
way, there's no use dreaming of it."
"Well, you'll make an ideal hermit
ess," said Virginia. "You've exactly
the right features for that profession
austere, yet beuevolent. But you're not
really afraid now?"
"Not so much, sitting down." admit
ted Miss Portman. slowly regaining
her natural color.
"Do you think, then. dear, that you'd
relapse and lose your head or any
thing if 1 just strolled on alone to the
'Au revoir."
top of the col for the view which the
guidebook says is so fine and then
come back to organize a relief expedi
tion, say in about half an hour or so?''
"No-o," said Miss Portman; "I sup
pose I can bear it. I may as well ac
custom myself to loneliuess, as 1 am
obliged to spend my remaining years
on this spot. But 1 am not at all sure
the duchess would approve"?
"You mean Lady Mowbray. She
wouldn't mind. She knows I've a good
head and?physically?a good heart.
Besides, I shall i.ave only myself to
look after, and one really doesu't need
a chaperon in going to make an early
call on a mouutain view."
"Dearest princess. I'm not so sure of
that in regard to this mountaiu view."
"Miss Mowbray, please, you're verj
subtle. But 1 really haven't come out
to look for the mouutain view you re
fer to. Y/ou ueedu't think it. I dou't
know where his lair is. but it's prob
ably miles from here, and if 1 knew 1
wouldn't hunt him there. That would
be uu peu trop fort. and. anyway. I'm
inclined to believe that mother is right
about those dresses. I shall have such
nice oaes at Kronburg. So you see
you can conscientiously give me your
blessing and let me go."
"My dear, as if I could have sus
pected you would search for him! You
are In Iihaetia not to pursue, but to I
give an emperor who wishes to have I
a certain princess for his consort a
chance to fall In love with herself."
"If he will?if it can be so. But
what do Helen Mowbray and Letitia
Manchester kuow about the love affairs
of emperors and princesses? Au re
voir. dear frieud; I'm going. By and
by, if you have courage to lift your
eyes, you'll see me waving a handker
chief flag at the rock corner up there."
Virginia took the alpenstock which she
had laid down and began picking her
way daintily, yet pluckily. toward the
col which she had named as her goal.
There was another route to it, leading
on to the highest peak of the Schnee
horn, only to be dared by experienced
climbers, but the way by which the
girl and her companion had set out
from Alleheiligen nearly four hours
ago was merely fatiguing, never dan
gerous, and Virginia knew that Miss
Portman was safe and not half as
much frightened as she pretended.
They had started at S, .just as the
September sun had begun to draw the
night chill out of the keen mountain
air, and now it was close upon 12.
The princess was hungry.
In NordeckJVthe frontier town of
Rhaetia Tis you come in from Ger
many, she had bought rucksacks for
herself and Miss Portman, to be used
upon just such mouutain^excurslons
as this, and today the brewn canvas
lags were being tested for the first
tUae> Each rack sack stored aa^ad*
quate luncheon for its bearer, while ou
top, secured by straps passed across
the shoulders. lay a folded wrap to be
used in case of rain.
Virginia's burden grew heavy as she
mounted, though at first its weight had
seemed trifling. When she had waved
her handkerchief at the turning and
passed out of Miss Portman's sight It
occurred to her that It would be clever
to lighten the nicksack and satisfy her
appetite at the same time.
The one difficulty was that in her
present position she could not safely
unstrap the bag from her shoulders,
open It, take out the parcel of luncheon
and strap it on again. The way was
too narrow and the rocks too slippery
to attempt such liberties. At a short
distance, however, and only a little out
of the path to the col she could see a
small green plateau, the very place for
a rest But could she reach it? The
girl stood still and looked wistfully
across.
The place could be gained only by a
scramble over a ledge of formidable
rocks and climbing in good earnest
here and there, yet if the thing could
be done at all it could be done in ten
minutes, and to come back would be
comparatively easy. Virginia was
tempted.
'?The dear Letitia will be enting her
own lunch by this time and won't miss
me if my half hour is a long one." she
thought. "And. anyway. I said half
an hour or so. That means almost any
thing wheu it comes to an argument."
Another moment and the girl bad
started. She was brave at first, but
when she had gone halfway?a way
which was longer and far more dif
ficult than she had fancied?she was
conscious of a certain sinking of the
heart. She even felt some nualms of
sympathy with .the sentiments and in
tentions Miss Portman had expressed
and heartily wished herself back by
that good lady's side, but it was against
her principles to be conquered, especial
ly when being conquered meant turn
ing coward or something like it, and
she scrambled on obstinately, her
cheeks burning, her heart thumping
and her lips pressed together.
What a grim, remorseless giant the
mountain was. and what a mere creep
ing fly upon its vast shoulder she! Lit
tie cared the old mountain that she
was a royal princess and that the em
peror who ruled the laud of which it
was part had the intention of marry
ing her. It would thwart that im
perial intention without a qualm nor
turn a pebble if the poor little princess
toppled over its cruel shoulder and fell
in a small, crushed heap without ever
having looked upon the face of the
Uhaetian emperor.
Then there came a later moment
wheu, like Miss Portman, whom she so
recently laughed to scorn, the princess
felt that she could' neither go on nor go
back. She was horribly homesick. She
wanted her mother and the garden at
Hampton Court and would hardly have
thrown a glance of Interest at Leo
pold if he bad appeared before her
eyes. There were tears In those eyes,
and she was hating the mountain and
all Rbactin with her whole strength
when from the mysterious distance
around the coruer of the plateau there
came the sound of a man's voice cheer
fully yodeling.
Never had a sound been so welcome
or seemed so sweet. It was to Vir
ginia as the voice of au angel. "Help,"
she called?"help:" first in English aud
then, on second thought, lu Khaetian.
The yodeliug abruptly stopped, and a
man appeared round a corner of rock
beyond the green plateau. The sun
shone In his eyes, and he shaded them
with his hand to look up at her. Vir
ginia stared hopefully, expectantly. A
glance photographed a tall figure In a
gray coat passemoiled with green, a
soft green cap of felt, short trousers,
bare knees, knitted stockings, nailed
boots; thank heaven, no tourist, but
evidently a mountain man, a guide or
a chamois hunter perhaps ?at all
eveuts. one capable of coming to her
rescue. These things she saw and
thought in a flash, and then the browu
hand that had shaded his eyes dropped.
She caught sight of his face.
It was the emperor.
A moment ago she had felt that she
could look at him with indifference
and would a thousand times over pre
fer a glimpse of the dear old house at
Hampton Court, with an easy way to
reach it, but now everything was
changed. There was no longer any
danger. He was there. lie was com
ing to help her. A power higher than
his bad arranged this as their first en
counter and would not have takeu the
trouble to bring him to her here If
the meeting were to end lu ignominy
or disaster.
He had run across the plateau. Now
the nailed boots were ringing on rock.
She could gaze down upon his head,
he was so close to her. He was look
ing up. What a noble face it was?
better tiiau all the pictures! And the
eyes
Virginia was suddenly and wildly
happy. She could have sung for joy,
S?d d&vm the steeply sloping rock.
a song of triumph, and, losing her head
a little, she lost her scant foothold as
well, slipped, tried to hold on, failed
and slid down the steeply sloping rock.
If the man had not sprung forward
and caught her she would probably
have rolled over the narrow ledge on
which he stood aud gone bounding
down, down the mountain side to her
death, but he-did catch her and broke
the fall) so that she landed tightly be
slde blm and within an ace of being on j
fcaij&ees* - _
I After all, it had been a narrow es
? cape, but the man's arms were so
strong and his eyes so brave that Vir
i ginia scarcely realized the danger she
j had passed. It seemed so inevitable
i now that he must have saved her that
i there was room in her thoughts for no
j dreadful might have been. Was it not
the oue man sent to her by destiny,
when if this thing had not been meant
since the hour of her birth it might
easily have beeu some mere tourist
sent by Cook?
All her life had but led up to this mo
ment. Under the soft hat of greeu fell
adorned with the beard of a chamob
was the face she had seen in dreams.
A dark, austere young face it was,
! with more of Mars than Apollo In its
lines, yet to her more desirable than all
the ideals of all the sculptors since the
world begau. He was dressed as a
chamois hunter, and there was nothing
in the well worn, almost shabby,
clothes to distinguish the wearer from
the type he chose to represent, but as
easily might the eagle, to which in her
heart she likeued him, try to pass for a
barnyard fowl as this man for a peas
ant. So thought the princess
(To Be Continued.)
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