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TUE ADVERTISER. Subscription Price-12 Months, $1.00 Parable In Aarane. Hates Tor Advertising.?Ordinary Ad vertisements, per square, one inser tion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Liberal reduction made (or large Advertisements. W. W. Ball, Proprietor. LAU KENS, S. C, Mar. 80, 1904. Tho Veterans and Lynching. Barksdalo camp of Confoderate Veto, raus in Grenada, Miss., has issued an appeal to tho people to put down lynch ing, it declares that "suve perhaps for one unmentionable crime" lynching is without justification and it calls upon the Daughters of the Confederacy to U3e all their great inlluenno to ocd the shameful crime of burning human be ings at tho stake. The vetorans of Barksdale Camp well know that the act of lynching Is an aw ful misfortune to the man who has a part in It They know that in the long run the community suffers more than the victim?sulTors in tho demoraliza tion of young men. in the destruction of rospoct for poaco and order. The ADVERTISER does not defend lyuching at any time. It is better nover to uphold it. When the mob takes summary vengeanco in the one peculiur set of conditions, it may be bost to say nothing. Lynohlngs in those horrlblo cases will take place. Tho least said tho better. On the other hand, the people should be taught that to lynch for murdor, for arson, for theft orforanyof tho ordinary felonies, Is for the iynchors, though they number the whole population of a community or county, to bo guilty of the unquali ikd and unrelieved crimo of murder. The Gronada vetorans have spoken in a full, clear knowledge of the truth. ? Tiuto to Do Soinethiug. Tho oily and county of Laurons are ooj >yins{ greater prosperity than they have enjoyed for years. There is more money In Laurens today than tbero h ?s boon In a decade before. The deposits in the banks are larger by at least 60 per cent than they have been at any timo heretofore. A period Hko this should not be al lowed to pass without the establishment of industries which will earn dividends and give people employment. Among other things, Laurens should have its own ice factory. Laurens shou'd make its own brick. Anderson Ins a small factory that makes sus penders?why r.ot Laurens? In Pelzer a mattress factory has been a tine prolit earner?why not Laurens? In New berry colllns aro manufactured at a profit?why not Laurens? With cotton mills turning out dozens of patterns of line cotton goods, it seems reasonable that ready-to-wear garments, such as shirts, shirtwaists and underclothing should be made hero. With the cotton mills of this eoction using groat quan tities of brooms, why should not Lau reus mako tho brooms? Our steam laundry and our furniture factory afford a moans of making a living to numbers of good people. We should have numbers of other fuch concerns. If the sixty lots sold ho-o lately should each have a house, ."100 additional people would I've in them. We cannot expect f.n incoming of 300 people unless we give them something to do. Not every man crn be a salesman or book-keeper or store keeper. We cannot all live by merely swapping dollars with each other. Laurens must have industries that pro vide employment. A concern like 1 ludgens Bros, shops help3 the life of a t iwii Ur more than a new store would help it. Tho town will not soon be In better condition to do something than it is in now. * What Solly's Tumble Proves. The failure of Sully, the cotton bull, tends to provo that dealing or "gam bling in futures" has little substantial effect on tho average price of cot ton. When his failure was announce-}, the price of cotton instantly fell. It dropped a couple of cents tho pound and more, in a day or two there was a reaction and pi ices began to c'lmb. Within a week or two it is not unlikely that prices will adjust themselves quite us though no Sully had over lived, and they may go h'gher than they have gone. Cotton is a scarce orticlo this year and that is the reason that the prico 19 tall. The dealings of the Sullya may and doubtless do hive a temporary inlluence, but on the whole, it is supply and demand that absolutely lixes tho average prioe for the season. Some years ago when the prico of cotton was down to six and live cents a bowl went up that tho "gamblers in futures" were robbing tie prodacrs. Within the past year a howl has been hoard from somo of tho men who spin the cotton that the "gamblers ia fu tures" were destroying their Industry Both cries have been without a firm bottom in truth. Tho "gamblers in futuros" havo boen mere recorders of fluctuations. Thoir successes and fail ures Imvo been little more then indi cators of tho history of the cotton trade?pointers showing how from day to day the relation of the supply !o the demand has Leon understood through cut tho cotton uflng world. Of course, as wo havo eald, they havo exorcised temporary influences, bit the world's cotton crop has beon bought and sold for ten years for about tho samo money that It would havo realised had thoir trlbo novor boen born. The gambler In fu'iKea has his snort as does the gambler at cards. Some times ho wins; somotimos he loses. The industrial world is affected little tnore by tho cotton gambler than by the pokor gimblor. What harm Is done to tho world on the cotton ex changes is porhaps more than balanced by the facilities which the exchanges furnish the outsider for watching and regulating tho ebb and flow of supply a -d domand. * WHAT 13 LIFE? l'j the last analysis nobody kuows but wo do know that it Is under strict law. Abute that Jaw oven slightly, pain results. Irrogu'ar living means derangemont of the organ*, resulting in Congtlpition, Headache or Liver trouble. Dr. King's New Life Pills qtdokly r.:-adju>t this. It'a gentle, yet thorough. Only 26 oents at Lau rens D/ug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. Would Tou Voto for President! When od the 2Srd of April the town ship clubs eleot delegates to the county convention, let us hope that good men will be chosen. The value of the pri mary system lies in the fact that no "ring" oan manipulate affairs provided the people object. The way to object is to attend the olub meeting and partici pate. If a dozen men in a township are | allowed to manage the township con cerns, it were as well to return to the convention plan. It is in these olub meetings that the voice of South Carolina Democrats has a part in choosing a president and vice president of the United States. After the nominations are made the vote ol South Carolina becomes purely me chanical. South Carolina will vote for the Demooratlo nominee9, of course, whoever they may be. The only chance for expression of choice Is In tho olub meetings that choose delegates in the County Convention, which In turn olcc's to the State Convention,?which latter selects spokesmen to record the will of South Carolina Democrats In the National Convention. The Democrat who fails to attend the | ctub meeting on the 23rd In reality throws away his vote for President and Vloe-President of the United States. * A "U?uu Roads" Senator. Sure it is that Asbury 0. Latimer, junior Senator from South Carolina, is being well advertised as a good roads missionary. His fame his already j overshadered that of Jacob Coxey, of | Ohio. The Federal Government spends mil lions In ways a million times more fool ish than in this that our Asbury pro poses. Certainly, the scheme Is wholly undemocratic?It Is "paternalism run mad"--but academic democracy is rarely the measure of a democrat's con biet in these days. We fancy that the Latlmor Idea will grow rapidly and vastly iu popularity?It may havo pos session of tho public mind bofore the politicians have their eye) open, and Latimer's consplcuousness may yet be envled Strange that while B. R.Tillman Is regarded as a far mor? brilliant min than Litimer, he has been in the Son ate ten years without having bis name identified with one single constructive proposition of national Import. Llt imer has s. rved only a year but he will bo remembered as a "good roads Sen ator" whether his scheme succeeds or | not. A Doomlet Languishing. Tho oxposuros published in the Now York papers havo had the effect of checking tho progress of tho Willie Hearst b:>omte\ While the charges of gross personal immorality against Hearst m?y be exaggented or untrue, it is certain that tho Sontheim Demo cratic people will not support him until they have been answered. More than any people in this country, Southern Democrats insist that their public men shall bs personally decent. Sometimes they are deceived into vo ting for dissolute and corrupt nun, but knowingly, they wi'l support on'y those who have rospect for private virtue. * Down With It. Onco again attention it called to the well*understood f .ctthat the prosperity of Laurens farmers will bo best en hanced by tho abolit'on of the lltn system. ? It is a rare offer that The ADVER TISER mikes?The Twice-a-Week St. Louis Republic anl The ADVERTISER - -all for a dollar* In other words you get more than your money's woth in Tho Repub ic and The Advertiser. PROPER TREATMENT OF PNEU MONIA. I'neumon'a is too dangerous a dL ease for anyone to attempt, to doctor himse'f, although be may have tho pro per remedies at hand. A phys'cian should alwayi be called. U thou Id be borne In mind, however, thtt pnou nomla always results from a cold or from an attack of the grip, and that by giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the threatene i attack of pneumonia may be warded off. This remedy is a'so used by physicians in tho treatment of pneumonia with the best results. Dr W. J. Smith, of Sanders, Ala , who is also a druggist, Pays of ii: "I have boen selling Chamberlain's Cough Rome?y and prescribing it in my practice for the past six years I use it in cases of Dneuinonia and have always gotten the best results." Sold by Tho Lnurens Drug Co. OASTOXt'lA, Bear, the The Kind You Hr^e Airvnjs Boi;^.; A Wonderful Saving. The largest Methodist Church in Georgia ca'culat^d to use one hundred hundred ga'lons of the usual kind of] mixed paint In painting their church. They used only 82 gallons of tho Longman & Martinez Paint mixed with 24 gallons of linseod oib Actual cost of paint made was less than $1.20 per gallon. Saved over eighty ($80.00) dol'ars In paint, and got a big donation ocs'.dcs, EVERY CHURCH will be given a liboral quantity whenever they paint. Many houses are well ptintod with four gallons of L. & M. and three gal lons of linseed oil mixed therewith. Wears and covers like gold. Those celebrated paints aro sold by W. L. Boyd, Laurens. Clinton Pharmacy, Clinton. March 1?2m. HINDIPO THE NEW NERVE TONIC AND KIDNEY CURE. Cleanses the Kl.lneys niwl nindrfor, purlnoB the Wood, Puts Flesh ?ii thin people. StrenKtiicnn MM Nerve*. Clears the Itrnlu. Cures Nervous I rlilllty, Insomiiln, Knlllnjr Memor". natures P* VMl, Vlpor, Vitality nnti Strength.>f Youth, in both wenk Men niiilWomen. This New Remedy worksIlk* Mn?k\ but forth, solutely hnrruktm. \V< |K|, yourself before inkliiK. vJH^Hl ^? !1 1>MM. M.OO. hy mail. Wo will < lierrfiillv rvfiind tin? money ff you aro not beuefltted. Try It and bo couvliioxl, Laurens Drug Co. N. B. Dial. A. 0. Todd. DIAL & TODD, Attorneys and Coun sellors at Law. Eoterprtse Bank and Todd Office Build ing. La u r en 8, S. C. ? Sit + o4? \L? 4? w w ^ m* w w w ^Lm w yfe ^4^* .. .ffi *m*> ?iJn ?wrx? <r^s> o^ft> c^yS, ?w? *nfr? ^tce uWr? ?Wfr <n|f?T, GRAUSTARK ...By... GEORGE BARR McCLTCHEON OnpuriahU 1901, by Herbert 8. Stone Tho stealthy couple found the cave and spent an hour or more within its walls, sallying forth after the tardy darkness had crept down over tho mountain and into tho peaceful valley. Then began tho tortuous descent. Quin nox in the lead, they walked, crawled, and ran down the narrow path, bruised, scratched and aching by the timo they reached the topmost of tho summer houses along the facx/ of tho mountain. After this walking was easier, but stcultblness inado their progress slow. Frequently as they nenred tho base they were obliged to dodge behind houses or to drop into the ditches by the roodside in order to avoid patrolling police guards or Ax phain sleuthhouuds. At last, stiti' and sore, they stole into the narrow streets of Edelweiss. Lor ry glanced back and Bhlvered, al though the air was warm and balmy, lie had truly been out of tho world. Not until this instant did he fully ap preciate the dread that possesses a man who is being hunted down by tireless foes. Never did man's heart go out in gratitude and trustfulness as did his toward tho strong defender whose sinewy arm he clusped as if in terror. "You understand what this menus to tne," said Quinnox gravely as they paused to rest. "She will call me your murderer and curse mo for my miser able treason. I am the first to dishon or thQ numc of Qulimox." CHAPTER XXII. GRENlTAX.il LOBBY'S KOB. TIT.E Princess Yetlve had not flinched a hair's breadth from tho resolution formed on that stormy night when she sacri ficed pride and duty on the altar of lovo and justice. Prince Bolnro/.'s ulti matum overwhelmed her, but she arose from tho wreckage that was strewn about her conscience and remained loyal, steadfast and true to the man In the monastery. To save his life was all she could hope to accomplish, and this she was bound to do at any cost. She could bo nothing to him, not even friend. So long as ho lived he would bo considered the murderer of Lorenz, and until the end a price would hang over his head. She, Princess of Grau Btark, had offered a reward for him. For thot reason he was always to be a fugitive, and she least of all could hope to see him. There had been a brief, happy dream, but It was swept nwoy by tho unrelenting rush of real ity. The mere fact that she, and she alone, was responsible for his flight placed between them an unsurmount nblo barrier. Clinging tenaciously to her purpose, she was still cognizant of the debt she owed the trusting, loving people of Graustark. One word from her could avert tho calamity that was to fall with the dawn of the fatal 20th. All Grnustark blindly trusted and adored her. To undeceive them would be to administer a shock from which they could never recover. Her highness' manner was at all times frank and untroubled. She was apparently light hearted. Her cheeks bad lost none of their freshness. Her eyes were bright. Her smile was quick and merry, her wit unclouded. Recep tions, drawing rooms and state func tions found her always vivacious, so much so that her court wondered not n little. Daily reports brought no news of the fugitive, but while others were beginning to acquire the haggard air of worry and uncertainty she was calmly resigned. The 15th, the 10th, the 17th, the 18th and now tho 19th of November came and still tho princess revealed no marked sign of distress. Heavy hearted and with bowed heads tho people of Ornustnrk saw tho 19th fade In the night, tho breaking of which would bring the crush of pride, the end of power. At court there was the silent dread and the dying hope that relief might come nt the last hour. Men with pale faces and tearful eyes wandered through the ancient cnstle, speechless, nerveless, miserable. Rrave soldiers crept about, shorn of pride nnd filled with woo. Citizens sat and stared aimlessly for hours, thinking of nought but the disaster so near at hand and so unavoidable. The whole nation surged as If In the last throes of death. To morrow the potency of Cirnustark was to die, its domain was to bo cleft in twain, disgraced before the world. And on (he throne of this ofilleted land sot the girl Yetlve, proud, ten der, courageous. Tomorrow would see tho north torn from the south, the divi sion of families, the rending of homes, the bursting of hearts. She sanctioned all this because she loved Lorry and because he had done no wrong. Aware of her financial troubles and pursuing tho advantage that his rival'.' dcatli had opened to him, Prince Ga briel of Dawsbcrgon renewed his ar dent suit. Scarce had the body of the murdered prince left the domain be fore ho made his presence marked. Knowing that he was in truth the mys terious Michael who had planned her nbdticiion, she foored and despised blip, yet dared make no public denuncia tion. As Dawsbcrgon was too power ful to be antagonized ot this critical lime, she was constantly forced to sub mit to the most trying and repulsive of ordeals. Tact and .policy were re quired to control tho violent, hot blood ed young ruler from the south. Day aft er day he haunted tho castle, persist ent in his efforts to Induco her to uc ccpt his proposition. So lierco was his passion, so implacnblo his desire, that ho went among tho people of Edol weiss, presenting to them his proposal, hoping thereby to odd public fooling to Ids claims. Ho tpled to orgnnlzo n committco of citizens to go beforo tho princess with the petition that his offer bo accepted and tho country saved. But Graustark was loyal to Its prin cess. Not ono of her citizens listened to the wily prince, and moro than ono told him or his emissaries that tho loss of the whole kingdom was prcfcrnblo to tho marriage ho desired. Tho city sickened nt tho thought. His last and master siroko In tho struggle to porsmido camo on tho after noon of tho 10th, at on hour when all Edelweiss was In gloom and when the princess was taxed to tho point whero tho mask of courage was so frail that she could sea reo hide her bleeding soul behind It. Bolnroz of Axpholn, to quoto from the news dispatch, was In Edelweiss, a guesi, with a few of his lords, In the enstle. North of tho city wero en camped 6,000 men. He had como .pre pared to cancel the little obligation of fifteen years' standing. With tbc hated creditor In the castle, his influence hov ering above the town, the populace dis tracted by the thoughts of the day to come, (iobrlei played what he consid ered Iiis best card. He asked for and obtained a llnal interview with Yetlvo, not in her boudoir or her reception room, but In the throneroom, where she was to meet Itolaroz In Uie moru lng. Tho princess, seated on her throne, awaited the approach of the resource ful, tenacious suitor. He Clime, and be hind him strode eight Btnlwart men hearing a long iron bound chest, tlie result of his effort with his bankers. Yetive and her nobles looked in sur prise on this unusual performance. Dropping to his knee before the throne, Gabriel Bald, Iiis voice trembling slight ly with eagerness and fear: "Your highness, tomorrow will see the turning point In tho history of two. possibly three, nations?Gruustark, Ax phaln and Duwsborgen. I have includ ed my own land because its ruler is most vitally interested. Ho would serve and save (iraustark, as you know, and he would satisfy Axphnln. It is in my power to give you aid at this last, trying hour, and I Implore you to listen to my words of sincerest friendship?yes, adoration. Tomorrow you are to pay to Prince Bolaroz over 25,000,000 gavvos or relinquish the en tire north half of your domain. I un derstand the lamentable situation. You can raise no more than 1?.OOO.OIX), and you an? helpless. Ho will grant no ex tension of time. You know what I have proffered before* l come today to repeat my friendly offer and to give unquestioned bond as to my ability to "Oo! 1 will not hear you!" carry it out. If you agree to accept the loan I extend ?10,000,000 gavvos for fifteen years at the usual rate of in terest?you can on tomorrow morning place In the hand of Axphnln when ho makes his formal demand tho full amount of your indebtedness in gold. Ricardo, open the chest!" An attendant threw open the lid of tho chest. It was filled with gold coins. "This box contains 100,000 gavvos. There are In your" halls nine boxes holding nine times as much as you see here, and there are nine times as much all tohl on the way. This is an evi dence of my good faith. Hero is the gold. Tay Bolaroz and owe Gabriel, tho greatest happiness that could conio to him." There was a dead silence after this theatrical action. "The interest on tills loan Is not all you ask, I understand," said Halfont slowly, his black eyes glittering. "You usk something that (Jraustark cannot and will not barter?the bond of its sovereign. If you are willing to make this loan, naming a fair rate of in terest, withdrawing your proposal of marriage, we can come to au agree ment." Gabriel's eyes deadened with disap pointment, his breast heaved and his lingers twitched. 'i have the happiness of your sov ereign at heart us much as my own," ho said. "She shall never want for devotion; she shall never know a pain." "You are determined, then, to ndhero to your original proposition?" demand ed tho count. "She would liave married Lorenz to Save her land, to protect her people. Am 1 not as good as Lorenz'/ Why not glvo"? tie-ran Qnbrlol viciously, but Yetlvo arose and, with gleaming eyes and Hushing cheeks, Intcrrupteel him. "Go! I will not hear you?not one word!" He passed from the room without an other word. Her court saw her stand ing straight and immovable, her white face transfigured. CHAPTER XXIII. tub VIKlTOlt AT MIDNIGHT. BE LOW tho cnstlo and its dis tressed occupants, In a dark, damp little room, (ironfall lor ry lived a year In a day. On the night of the lJSth, or, rather, near tho break of dawn on the 10th, Captain (julnnox guided him from the danger ous streets of Edelweiss to tho secret passage, and he was safe for tho time being. The entrance to tho passage was through a skillfully hidtlcn open ing In the wall that inclosed the park. A stone doorway so cleverly construe; ed that it dolled detection led to a set of stops, which in turn took one to n long, narrow pnssagc. This ended in a stairway fully a quarter of a mile from its beginning. Ascending this stairway one enmo to n secret panel through which, by pressing a spring, the interior of the castlo was reached. Tho location of tho panel was in one of the recesses in the wall of tho chop ei, hear tho nltnr. It was In this chap el that Yetlvo exchanged her male nt IIre for a loose gown weeks before, and tho servant who soav her como from the eloor at an unearthly hour in the mornlpg believed she had gone there to seek surcease from tbo troubles which oppressed her. lorry was impatient to rush forth from hl? place of hiding and to end all suspense, but Qulnnox demurred. He begged tho eager American to remaiu In the passage until tho night of the 10th, when, all things going well, he might bo so fortunate as to reach the princess without lielng seen. It was I the Beeret nope of tue gultp- captain that his charge could be Induced by the princess to return to the monastery to ?void complications. He promised to Inform her highness of bis presence In the underground room and to arrange for a meeting. The mlsorable fellow could not (lud courage to confess his dlH/?tedieuco to bis trusting mistress. Many times during the day she hod seen him hoverlug near, approaching and then retreating, and had wondered not a little at his peculiar manner. And so It was that Lorry chafed and wi ll lud thruugh a long dJy of suspense and agony. Quinnox hud brought to the little ruom some candles, food and bedding, but he utilized only tho for mer. The hours went by and no sum* mons culled him to her side. What was to become of him? What was to be the end of this drama?. What would the night, tho morrow, bring about? It was 0 o'clock In the evening when Quinnox returned to the little room. The waiting one had looked at his watch a hundred times, bad run In sanely up und down the passage hi quest of the secret exit, had shouted aloud In the frenzy of desperation. "Have you seen her?" ho cried, grasp ing the newcomer's hand. "I have; but, before Qod, I could not ' tell her what I hud donel Your visit will be a surprise, I fear a shock." "Then how am I to sec her? Fool I Am I to wnlt hero forever"? "Have patience! I will take you to her tonight?aye, within an hour. To morrow morning she signs away the northern provinces, and her instruc tions ore that she is not to be disturbed tonight. Not even will sho sco tho Countess Dnginnr nfter 0 o'clock. It brenks my heart to see the sorrow that abounds In the rustic tonight. Her highness Insists on being alone, and Bussot, the new guard, has orders to admit no one to her apartments. Ho is 111, and I hove promised that a sub stitute shull relieve him at 11 o'clock. You are to be the substitute. Here is a pnrt of nn old uniform of mine, and here Is a cout that belonged to Dan* nox, who was about your size. Please oxchango the clothes you now have on for these. I apprehend no trouble In reaching her door, for the household is in gloom und the hulls seem barren of life." Ho threw the bundle on a chair, and Lorry at once proceeded to don tho contents. Ina very short time he woro instead of tho cellkeeper's garments a neat Utting uniform of the royal guard. He was trembling violently, chilled to the bono with nervousness, as they be gan the ascent of the stairs leading to the chapel. The crisis In Ills life, he felt, was near nt bund. Under the stealthy hand of Quinnox the panel opened, and they listened In tently for some moments. There was no one in the dimly lighted chapel, so they made their way to the door at the opposite end. Beforo unlocking the door the captnln pointed to a lance which stood agninst the wall neaF by. "You are to curry that lance," ho sold briefly. Then he cautiously peer ed forth. A moment later they wero in the broad hall, boldly striding to ward the distant stairway. Lorry had been lust meted to proceed without the least sign of timidity. They passed several attendants in the hall and heard Count Hulfont's voice in conver sation with some one in nn anteroom. As they neared the broad steps who should come tripping down but Harry Anguish. He saluted Quinnox and wnlked rapidly down the corridor, evi dently taking his departure after a call on the countess. "There goes your hostage," said tho enptaln grimly. It had required all of Lorry's self possession to restrain tho ery of joyful recognition. Up the stair case they went, meeting several ladles and gentlemen coming down, and wero soon before the apartments of the prin cess. A tall guard stood In front of the boudoir door. "This Is your relief, Bassot. You may go," said Quinnox, and with a careless glance at the strange soldier tho sick man trudged off down the hall, glad to seek his bed. "Is she there?" whispered Lorry, dhv zy and faint with expectancy. "Yes. This may menu your death and mine, sir, but you wouhl do it Will you explain to her how I came to play her false?" "Sho shall know tho truth, good friend." "After I have gone twenty paces down the hall do you rap on the door. She may not admit you at first, but do not give up. if sho bkl you enter or asks your mission, enter quickly and close the door. It is unlocked. She may swoon or scream, and you must prevent cither if possible. In an hour I shall return and you must go back to tho passage." "Never! I have come to save her and her country, and I Intend to do so by surrendering myself this very night." "I had hoped to dissuade you. Bat, sir, you cannot do so tonight You for get that this visit compromises her." "True. I had forgotten. Well, I'll go buck with you, but tomorrow I am your prisoner, not your friend." "Bo careful," cautioned the captain os ho moved awny. Lorry feverishly tupp"d his knuckles on the panel of the door and waited with motionless heart for the response. It came not, and he rapped harder, a strange fear darting Into his mind. "Well?" came from within, the voice he adored. Impetuous haste marked his next movement. He dashed open the door, sprang Inside and closed it quickly. Sho was sitting beforo her escritoire, writing, and looked up, surprised and annoyed. "I was not to bo disturbed?oh"? She staggered to her feet and was In his arms beforo the breath of her ex clamation had died awny. Had he not supported her she would havo dropped to the floor. Her hands, her face, wore like ico, her Breast was pulseless, and thero wus tho wildest terror in her eyes. "My darling?my queen!" he cried passionately. "At last I am with youl Don't look at me like that! It Is really I?I could not stay awuy?I could not permit this sacrifice of yours! Speak to me! Do not at uro like that!" Her wide blue eyes slowly swept his face, piteous wonder and doubt struggling in their depths. "Am I awake?" sho murmured, touch lug bis faco with her bewildered, ques tioning hands. "Is It truly you?" A smile illumined her face, but her Joy was short lived. An expression of ter ror cumo to her oyes, and there was agony in tho fingers that clasped bis arm. "Why do you como here?" she cried. "It is madncssl How and why came you to this room?" Ho laughed like a delighted boy and hastily narrated the events of the past twenty-four hours, ending with the trick that gavo him entrance to her room. "And all this to seo me?" sho whis pered. "To see you and to save you. I bear that Gabriel has been annoying you and thnt you are to give up lialf of the kingdom tomorrow. Tell me evevy thing. It is another reason for my coming." Bitting beside him on the divan, she told of Gabriel's visit and Ids dismissal, the outlook for tho next duy, and then ?ought to convince him of the happi ness it afforded her to protect him from an undeserved death. Ho obtain ed for Quinnox the royal pardon and lauded him to tho skies. So ravishing were the moments, so ecstatic the sen sations that possessed them, that nei ther thought of tho consequences if ho were to be discovered in her room, dis guised as one of her guardsmen. He forgot the real Import of his reckless visit until she commanded idiu to stand erect before her that she might see what manner of soldier ho was. With a laugh, he leaped to his feet and stood before her?attention! She leaned back among the cushions and surveyed him through the glowing, impassioned eyes which slowly closed as If to shut out temptation. "Vou are a perfect soldier," she said, her lashes parting ever so slightly. "No more perfect than you!" he cried. She remembered, with confusion, her own masquerading, but It was unkind of him to remember It. Her allusion to his uniform turned his thoughts into the channel through which they had been surging so turbulently up to the moment that found him tapping at. her door. He bad not told her of his de termination, and tho task grew harder as he saw the sparkle glow brighter and brighter in her eye. "You are a bravo soldier, then," sho substituted. "It required courage to come to Edelweiss with hundreds of men ready to seize you at sight, a pack of bloodhounds." "I should have been a miserable cow ard to stay up there while you are so bravely facing disaster alono down here. I came to help you, as I should." ""But you can do nothing, dear, and you only make matters worse by com ing to me. I have fought so hard to overcome tho desire to bo near you, 1 have struggled against myself for days and days, and I had won tho battle when you cuuie to pull my walls of strength down about my ears. Look. On my desk Is a letter I was writing to y?u. No, you shall not read it. No one shall ever know what it contains." She darted to the desk, snatched up the Sheets of paper and held them over tho waxed toper. He stood in the mid dle of the room, n feeling of intense desolation Settling down upon him. How could he lose this woman? "Tomorrow night Quinnox Is to take you from the monastery and conduct "Volt arc a perject soldier," site ?t/t/. yon to n distant city. It has all been planned. Your friend, Mr. Anguish, is to meet you in throe days, and you are to hurty to America by way of Athens. This was a letter to you. In It I said many things and was trying to write farewell when you came to this room. Ach, what peril you are in here! You are Innocent, but nothing could save you. The proof is too strong. Mizrox has found a man who swears he saw you enter Lorenz's room." "What n damnable He!" cried Lorry lightly. "I was not near his room!" "Hut you can see what means they will adopt to convict you. You are doomed if caught by my men or theirs. I cannot save you again. You know now that I love you. Could you not have been content with that last good by at tho monastery? It is cruel to both of us, to me especially, that we must have Ute parting again." Site hod gone to the divan and now drop ped limply among the cushions, rest ing her head on her hand. "I was determined to see you," he said. "They shall not kill me, nor are Jou to sacrifice your father's domain. Worse than all, I feared that you might yield to Gabriel"? "Ach! You insult me when you say thot! I yielded to Lorenz because I thought it my duty and because 1 dared not admit to myself that I loved you. But Gabriol I Ach!" she cried scornfully. "GrenfnII Lorry, I shall marry no man. You I love, but you 1 cannot marry. It Is folly to dream of it evon ns a possibility. When you go from Graustork tomorrow night, you take my heart, my life, my soul, with you. I shall never see you again?God help me to sny tills?I shall never allow you to sen me again. I tell you, I could not bear it. The weakest and tho strongest of (Sod's creations is wo man." She started suddenly, half ris ing. "Did any one see you come to my room? Was Quinnox sure?" "We passed people, but no one knew me. I will go If you uro distressed over my being here." "It Is not that?not that. Some spy may have seen you. I have a strange fear that they suspect me and that I am being Watched. Where is Captain Quinnox':" "He said he would return for me In an hour. The time is almost gone. How it bus flown! Yetlvo, Yetlvo, I will not give you up!" lie cried, sink ing to his knees before her. "You must, you shall! You must go back to the monastery tonight! Oh, how I pray that you may reach It In safety! And you must leave this wretched country at once. Will you see If QuIllUOX Is outside the door? He quick I I am mad with fear that you may bo found here, that you may he taken before you can return to St. Val entine's." Ho arose and stood looking down nt the Intense face, all nquivcr with the battle between temptation it ml solid tude. "I am not going back to St. Valen tine's," he said SlOW.Iy, "Hut It Is all arranged for you to start from there tomorrow. You can not escape the city guard except through St. Valentine's." "Yetlvo, has It not occurred to you that I may not wish to escape the city guard?" "May not wish to escape the?what do you mean?" she cried, bewildered. "I nin not going to leave Hdelwolss, denrcst. It Is my Intention to surren der myself to the authorities." She gazed ot him In horror for a mo lueut and then fell buck, with a low moan. "For God's sake do not say thatl" sho Wolfed, 'T forbid yuii to think of it. You cannot do this nfter oll I hove done to save you. Ach, you are Jesting. I should have known." Ho sat down and drew her to his side. Some moments passed before ho could speak. "I cannot and will not permit you to make such a sacrifice for me. Tho prop osition of Bolaroz is known to me. If you produce ine for trial, you uro to have a ten years' extension. My duty is plain. I am no cowardly criminal, and I am not afraid to face my ac cusers. At the worst I can die but once." "Die but once," she repeated us if in u dream. "I came here to tell you of my deci sion, to ask you to save your lands, pro tect your people and to remember that I would die a thousand times to servo you and yours." "After all I have done?after all I have done," she murmured pltoously. "No, no! You shall not! Y'ou are more to me than all my kingdom, than all the people in the world. You have made me love you, you have caused me to detest the throne which separates US, you have made mo pray that 1 might be a pauper, but you shall not force me to destroy the inite of hope that lingers in my heart. You shall not crush the hope that there may be a?a?some day!"' "A some day? Some day when you will be mine?" he cried. "I will not say that, but for my sake ?for my sake?go away from this place. Save yourself! You are all I have to live for." Her arms were about his neck, ami her imploring words went to his heart like great thrusts of pain. rum "You forget the thousands who lore und trust you. Do they deservo to be WrougedV" "No, no? neh, Ood, how I have suf fered becuu8o of them! I have betrayed them, have stolen their rights nud made thOU a nation of heggurs. Hut I would not for nil this nation, have nn Innocent man condemned?nor could my people ask that of nie. You cannot dissuade uie. It must be as I wish. Oh, Why does not Quinnox come for you!" She arose und paced the floor distract edly. Ho was revolving u selllsh, cowardly Capitulation to love and injustice, when a sharp tup was heard at the door. Leaping to his feet ho whispered: "Quinnox! He has come for nie. Now to get out of your room without being Boenl" The Princess Yetive ran to him and, placing her bands on his shoulders, cried with the llorccness of despair: "You will go back to the monastery*' You will leave CJraustark? For my sake?for my sake?" lie hesitated and then surrendered, his honor falling weak and faint by the pathway of passion. "Yes!" he cried hoarsely. Tap! tap! tap! at tho door. 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