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r? : '1L i i? /D * ^ TII13 UHO |? Beverly pGraosta: ?' iiiiii'1' li'i" 'i''ii' Vi' "It was easier than it looked, you highness S inurmureil Lktldos. "Luc was witirme. The knife went to hi heart. I nin merely scratched. Hi ^esijJ was short, but lie ealight ill !|}J)ove the knee with his claws. Alu your highness, these trousers of liti 11 were bad enough before, but now the are In shreds. What patching I sha have to do! And you may well imaglu we are short of thread and needles an thimbles." "Don't Jest, for heaven's sake! Don talk like that. Here! Lie down uno these cushions and"? "Never! Desecrate the couch t lirauKiurK si ruier r 1, xuc poor no* hunter? I'll use the lion for n plllo "arid St r?i'l< for an operating ta'?l left th/nutes u,y UK>n csU1 l,ave f'l?: ' incr try dressed anil bound?in lac ? * '' ^ l&^cuo animal. Xnsist upon your taking the.s Millions," cried Beverly. "And I decline Irrevocably." Sli stared at biin in positive anger. "Trus ltavone to dress these trilling wound* your highness. lie may not be a pontic, but he is as firm as any prin cess in all the world." "But your arm?" she cried. "Dido* you say it was your lops? Your arm is covered with blood too. Oh, dear me I'm afraid you are frightfully wound cd." "A stray bullet from one of my men struck mo there, I think. You know there was but little time for aiming"? "Wait! Let me think a minute! Good heavens!" she exclaimed, with a start. I lor eyes were suddenly filled witli tears, and there was a break in lier voice. "I shot you! Don't deny it ?don't! It is the right arm, and your ' men could not have hit it from where they stood. Oh, oh. oh!" Baldos smiled as he bare I his arm. "Your aim was good," he admitted. "Had not my knife already been in the lion's heart your bullet would have gone there. It Im ! >* - _ .. .- iiiiiiiiie imil. my arm was in (he way. Besides, your highness, it lias only cut through the skin, and a little below, perhaps. It will be well In a day or two. I am sure you will liiul your bullet in the carcass of our lamented friend, the probable owner of this place." Rnvone, a hungry looking youth, took charge of the wounded leader, whilo her highness retreated to the farthest corner of the cavern. There she sat and trembled while the wounds were being dressed. Aunt Fanny bustled back and forth, first unceremoniously pushing her way through the circle of W men to take observations and then reporting to the impatient girl. The storm had passed, and the night was still except for the rush of the rlvor, Raindrop* fell now and then from tho trees, glistening like diamonds as tlioy j touched the light from the cavern's | mouth. It was all very dreary, uncapny and oppressive t<> poor Beverly. Now and then she caught herself sobbing, more out of shame und humiliation than In sadness, for mwi 1 , o.n. 1IUI. OIIUl the iunn who stepped between her end ! <lentli? What must lie think of her? ,J "Ho says vo' nil *d hettnli ro to bnid,-| Miss Rev- jri' highness," said Aunt i J Fanny nfttr cao of her trips. h "Oh. he does, does he?" sniffed Be,'eriy. "I'll go to bed when 1 plea/ft. \ u . Tell him so. No, no?don't do It, /tint r Fanny! Tell him I'll po to bed when | ^'in sure ho Is quite conifortalle, not j H liefore." , h: "But he's Jos' n pout puncbeher a"? 01 "He's a man, If there ever \as one. ; ?v< Don't let uie hear you call his a pout UI puncher again, llow are l? legs?" Aunt Fanny was almost stlined by , tills amazing Question fromlier ever j 'y (SpiP ! NI< )N 11 At ^????C??????< tfBBhOVP dDBi^IS? .^CXTPP: I S RIGHT. tDWAUE CO. ! DC'C^C-C'C'C^C'C^C'OC I : . 'vV:.: J*.' : J l:\:\.::,v.' v .v.VS:: -.;: ^ 8S?5 By ?? 01 ^ GEORGE BARR Ife ^0 M'GUTGHEON. || B \.vV>A Author of "Grau*Carh" 0*1/ ?p; ** ^ y Cof.:Hiht. I9<vi. ly h.kJJ. |;?:' MuJ end Ccirwny . ?? :*?;V iniMrcf'S, **\\ ijy clou t k answer? Will they have to l?o cut |s Didn't you see thcinV" '3 "IV tie 1 #;;wtl's sake. i?:s y, < 10 Alt <ii<l, Imt yo' til) kindeii surprise 8* Dey's p'etty bud skua up, missy l(! hide's peeled up consid'bio. Hut ^ uln* dang'oi'.s, no, ma'am?jes' si 11 'af* nil." l(; "Anil Ins linn-where 1 shot him? 11 "1'uiTec'ly trillin'. ma'am?ya>' li uoss. Cobwebs \l slop ale bloealin', ' All tole 'em so. but 'at f el loll coll 'u un'stan' mo. Mistch W'hat's-his-nsi be says samiethln' to ate Uoctcli, an' )f doy goes afteb ale cobwebs, f lt nough. 'Tain' bleedin* no mo', ml vv lie's rnostes uoali alo'.n' ve'y flue, I e' lie caiu' walk t'o' scv'l days wiv 5? lalgao' his'n, but"? \ "Then, in heaven's name, how |lj j ... ...? ? *??. ?nxttr i mtf" iilSllie coach. Co anal see If I can alo i thing for him." Aunt Fanny returned in a few i e utos. 1 "He says yo'll alo him a great fa . If yo' jos' go to baial. lie sends g 'spects an* hopes yo' sluE'beh won' ; dlstubbeal ag'in." "He's a perfect brute!" exclalt: ^ , Beverly, but she went over and era , eal under the blankets and among cushions the wounded man had see ! | ed. I i CHAPTER VII. ElIEUE was a soft, warm, y low glow to tlie world wli Beverly Calhoun next look upon It. The sun from 1 throne In the mountain tops was sn ing down upon the valley the ulc | nau ravaged while ho was on the oth i side of the earth. The leaves of t ! trees were a softer green, the white j the rocks and tlio yellow of the roi | were of a gentler tint. The brov i and green reeds were proudly ere | once more. Tho stirring of the mountain nu ' had awakened Aunt Fanny, and she turn called her mistress from the su prisiugly peaceful slumber Into whU perfect health had sent her not f many hours before. At the entrant to tho improvised twdohawber stoo buckets of water from tho spring. "We havo very thoughtful chum but maids," remarked Boverly while Ann Fanny was putting her hair into pn Rentable shape. "And an energeti cook," she added as the odor of broil ed moat came to her nostrils. "Ah caiu' see nothln' o' dat beastes Miss Beverly, an* Ah?Ah got mail sus picions," said Aunt Fanny, with sepul chml despair In her voice. "They've thrown the awful thine Into the rlvejj" concluded Beverly. "Dry's coo .',?, hit!" said Aunt Fannj solemnly./:, r "Good JUven. ho!" cried Beverly. "(Jo and see, this minute. I wouldn't eat thaf catlike thins for the whole world.^ Aunt Fanny came back a few mlnyfcs later with the assurance that they wero roasting goat meat. Tho <k'n of tho midnight visitor was wretched upon the ground not far iway, "And how Is he?" asked ^Beverly, ammlng a hatpin through a helpless much of violets. "He's ve'y 'spectably skun, yo' highoss." "I don't mean tho animal, stupid." "Yo' mean 'at Mlstoh (Joat Man? !e*s settin' up an' chattin' aslfnothln' ippcned. lie says to me 'at we stalit t ouali way jes' as soon as yo' all eats >' b'cakfus'. l)e bosses is hitched > a n* I "Has everybody else eaten? Am I e only one that hasn't?" cried Bever ?L S~ * UU 1 ! " 'Ceptln' mo, 3*0' highness. Ab'111 a c*u hungry as a ponh man's dawg. an*"? | "And In* Is being kept from the ho.-< 1 pltal because I am a lazy, good fo 1 nothing little? Come 011, Aunt Fanny ' we haven't a minute to spare. If b j looks ver.v 111, we do without break fast." : Hut Baldos was the most clicerfu man in the part}*. lie was sitting will ^ his back against a tree, his right urn Wt i< 1 a sling of woven reeds, his blacl pnteli set upon the proper 03-0. "You will pardon me for not rising,' he said cheerily, "but. your highness I am much too awkward this morniiij to act as befitting a courtier In tin (Kv presence of his sovereign. You hav> slept well 7" j "Too well, 1 fear. So well, in fact j tlint yon have suffered for it. Can' jr., . we start at once?" She was dcbatiiij j within herself whether It would hi wt quite good form to shake hands wltl the reclining hero. In the glare of tin vfoy broad daylight In* and his follower looked more ragged and famished tlmi fcfore. but tliev also appeared mov | plotuvesquelj* romantic, c y. "\7ken 3'ovt ha v<* eaten of our humbl I fare, your highucss?the last meal a the Ilawk and Haven." I "Hut I'm not a bit hungry." j?fv "It is very considerate of you, bit ! equally unreasonable. You must ca W I before we start." ^ "I can't boar the thought of your su? a17i fcring when we should he lmiTjdng ti *' i hospital and competent surgeons.1 ^^ lie laughed gayly. "Oh. you needti' j.-'.A laugh. I know it hurts. You sa3- w cannot reach Gaulook before tomot " '.H W..II .... ..... . ....... .... cannot stop uei'o i !;j y minute longer than wo? on, ttnnu you!" A ragged servitor had placed i iiv nnlo howl of meat and sotno fruit he foro her. "Sit down liero. your highness, an, prepare yourself for a long fast. M >.i*B may go until nightfall without food ".. .>^1 The game is scarce, and we dare tin ,iv.'^ venture far Into the hills." jV::k Beverly sat at. his feet ami daintil, began the operation of picking a ben with her pretty lingers and teeth, am Worry we have^io knives and fork.'. 3^^ he apologi/.ed. "I don't mind," said site. "I wis you you would remove that black patch." off? "Alas, 1 must resitr e the hated dii guise. A chance enemy might roeoj o'se nize me." me. "Your?your clothes have been mcni ; do oil," she remarked, with a furtlv hit glance at iiis long legs. The trousei tun; hail been rudely sewed up and no bam ages were visible. "Are you?you logs terribly hurt?" ilgh- "They are badly scratched, but tic an' seriously. The bandages are skillfull ildti* placed," he added, seeing her look c imo, doubt. "Ilavone is a genius." deu "Well, I'll hurry," she s:ild, bins] utah ing deeply, tloat hunter though 1 Iss.v. was ami she a princess, his eye 'o'se gleamed with the joy of her beaut; deui and his heart thmupeil with a moi unruly admiration. "You were ver; are very brave last night," .she sakl^yt (la^ me nnnottneed her readiness to ho on tli lllJ way. With the authority of a geiiuin princess she commanded him* to rid ?i'?- inside die coach, gave incomprchcns; , ble directions to the driver and to tli voh j escort and would listen to none of hi his | protestations. When the clumsy ve ; hide was again in the highway am . bumping over the ridges of flint tin nod I .rn-.t , ? ?:is ncsmc his princess ot wl- J the rear seat, his feet upon the oppo the | site cushions near Aunt Fanny, n wel >rn- | arranged bridge of boxes and bags pro | valine support for Ids long legs. "Wo want to go to a hospital," Beverly had said to the driver very much -el. | as she might have spoken had she been ,eu : Washington. She was standing ;ed ! bravely beside the fore wheel, her faee IPs ; flushed and eager. Bahlos from his ill. ! serene position 011 the cushions watch;bt ed her with kindling eyes. The grlzicr | I * | H ? V ? I I r ?J ( "lro? will pardon mc for not rising 7.1ed driver flrrlrimvl ?..-i 0......... (imi miook his head ; despairingly. "Oh, pshaw! You don't ' ; understand, do you? Hospital?li-o-s- 1 ' p-l-t-n-l," slio spelt it out for him, and j ' j still lie shook Ills head. Others in the motley retinue were smiling broadly. 1 "Speak to liini In your own language, ! I ; your highness, and '>o will be suro to j | understand," ventured the patient. , f "1 am speaking in my?I mean, I [ire- ! t fer to speak in English. Pleaso tell j s ; him to go to a hospital," she said coq- : . fusedly. ftnldos gavo a fow Jovial In- j a. j struct ions, and then the raggedest ; i courtier of them all handed Beverly i n ; Into the carriage with a grace that 1 si | amazed hef- | tc |! "You are the most remarkable goat 1 w . hunters 1 have, ever seen," she remark- ' to ! ed in sincere wonder, j to "And you speak the most perfect , ni English I've ever heard," he replied. \ sit "Oh, do you really think so? Miss Crimes used tq suy ^ wtuMboDQlcss.^ $d ^ r' -i i s lou know l tiad a?a tutor." sue n tlly explained. "Don't you think l* strange we've mot tso Axphuin t r dlors?" she wont on, changing the s Joel abruptly. e "Wo arc not yet out of the wood lie said. "That was a purely American apli ' i'li!," she cried, looking at liim lute 1 ly. "Whore did you learn all y? J1 English V" 1 "I had a tutor," In? answered easil ? "You are a very odd person," i sighed. "1 don't believe that you '* a goat hunter at all." " "If 1 wore not a goat hunter I sho 0 have starved long ago." he said. "\\ R , do you doubt mo?" "Simply because you treat me < ' moment as if l wore a princess i the next as if 1 wore a child. Hum \ goat hunters do not forgot their t R j tion In life." "I have much to learn of the del encc due to queens," he said. S ! "That's Just like 'The Mikado' w ^ Piiiafopo, " slio exclaimed. "I liove you are a comic opera brigand u pirate chieftain, after all." ^ "I am a lowly outcast." he smiled "Well, I've decided to take you I Edelweiss an ' ' t "Pardon mo. uir highness," he s t ' tirmly. "That cannot he. 1 shall go to Edelweiss." >_ "But ,1 command you"? ^ "It's very kind of you. hut I can ? cuter, a hospital?not even at tiank I m;Jy as well confess that I an 1 . .1". ' - - ? * iiuim*1 man iiiin umi nit" msiriicii i are 11 take me dead or alive." *IUVisible!" she gasped, Invol ' ; tnrllyjshrinkiiig from liiin. x I "I nave wronged no man. yet I j. ' being limited down as though I w j a bcasl." he said, liis face turning li \ gard for the moment. "The hills e , CJraustark, the plateaus of Axph I j nnd the valleys of Dawsbcrgen ,> i alive with men who are bent on t big my unhappy but inconvenient y ! lslvr.ce. It would be suicide for nie c I enter any one of your towns or cit j ; Even you rould not protect me .. fear." "This sounds like a dream. Ob, d h inc. you don't look like a hardei criminal," she cried, j. "I am the humble leader of the fal ful band who will die with me wl I the time comes. We are not erimini j. your highness. In return for wl e service I may have performed for y s I implore you to question me no f j. titer. I.et ine be your slave tip to in walls of Canlook, and then you n forget Bnldos. the goat hunter." >t "1 never can forget you," she crl y touching his injured arm gently. "V ,f you forget the one that gave you 1 i wound?" Ii- j "It is a very gentle wound, and I I le ! it so that I pray it may never lies s i She looked away suddenly, y, | "Tell me one tiling," she said, a u f?t coming over her eyes. "You say tl y, : are hunting you to the death. The b \ Al(U:,Km,eullt IIUIst lH' " gliCVOUS c |<? I fenr I have kiIltn.1 more than i e man," lie said in low tones. Again i e j shrank Into (lie corner of the coa I- j "History says that your father was , .>> ?u sonuer and fought In many li s i lies," he went on. - "Yea," she said, thinking: of Ma, 1 i tieorgo Calhoun. 5 "lie killed men then, perhaps, as i have killed them," he said. 1 "Oh, my father never killed a mat 1 cried Ileverly in devout horror. - , "Yet (Jraustark reveres his migli 1 prowess on the Held of battle," sa I lie, half laconically. i I "Oh," she murmured, rcmemberii : that she was now the daughter | Yetlve's father. "I see. You ore n i a?a?a mere murderer, then?" "So. I have been a soldier. That j all." "Thank heaven!" slie murmured an was no longer afraid of him. "Woul ?would a pardon lie of any especii benefit to you?" she asked, wonderin how far her influence might go with tli Princess Yetive. "It is beyond your power to bel me," he said gravel}'. She was silent but It was the silence of deep reflet i tion. "Your highness left the castl ten days ago," he said, dismissing him self us a subject for conversation "Have you kept In close communica tion with Edelweiss during that time?' "I know nothing of what is going oi there," she said quite truthfully. She only knew that sho had sent a message to the Princess Yetive uor or her arrival in St. Petersburg ami of licr Intention to leave soon for the Graustark capital. "Then you do not know that Mr. Lorry is still on the Dnwsborgou frontier in cqnferehco with representatives from Horros, \ Jo may not return for H week, so Colonel Quinnox brings back word." "It's news to uie," murmured Rev* tirly. "You do not seeiu to bo alarmed," he featured, "Yet I fancy It Is not a dangerous mission, although Prince Gnniel is ready to battle at a moment's lotlce." "1 have the utmost confidence In Mr. .orry," said Hovorly, with nronor ?ruu\ "Karon Panglosa, your minister of olice, is In these mountains watching he operations of Axphaln scouts and pies." "Is he? You are very well posted, it eenis." "Moreover, the Axphninians aro planing to attack (lanlook upon the lirst goal from their ruler. I do not wish alarm your highnessy but we may as ell expect trouble before wo come > the Uaulouk gates. You are known i bo In the pass, and I am certain i effort will be made to take possesan of your person." "They wouldn't dare!" she exclalmL uVhiSiK, Saw would auutUUato them I as- Mi a week." it | "Uncle Sum? Is he ivl.;;ed to 5?'_ Aunt Fanny? I'm afraid lie eon ub* : but little against Volga's lighting 1 lie said, with a smile, is," : "They'll soon Hud out who 1 Sain is if they touch mo." she Hi ior* cued jii*siuttly. lie seemed puzzlei nt- was too polite to press her for e ?ur nations, "Hut he is a long wa, and couldn't do much if we were ly. denly attacked from ambush, coul she What would they do to me if 1 are taken, as you suggest?" She was concerned than she appeared to h uld "With you in their hands, CSrau "by would be utterly helpless. Volga < I demand anything she liked and one ministry would lie forced to subni m?l ! "I really think it would be a cs ble joke on the Princess Volga," n ?ta- j Beverly reflectively, lie did not I | what she meant, but regarded hot far- I smile as the clear title to the ser ; of a princess, or j She sank back and gave herself bo- ] to the complications that were liki or grow out of lior involuntary dece] Tlw. mm lliin ' ?'l>i"l> I l..?. than all others was the fear that V uto ! might not l?e in Edelweiss. Aceo i to all reports, she had lately been aid Petersburg, and the mere fact tha not was supposed to be traveling by 1 ! was sutlicient proof that she wa at her capital. Then there wa not | course, the possibility of trouble o >ok. | road with the Axpliain scouts, lmt 1 a I er'.v enjoyed the optimism of yoittl uus i civilization. I Ilnldos, the goat hunter, was dr< tin- ' ly thinking of the beautiful youn; [ man at his side and of the queer am fortune hud played in bringing ore j together. As he studied her fa< iaK. | could not but lament that tnarria Gf least established a barrier betwee iain an'* the advances ids bold heart 1 J otherwise be willing to risk. His >nd- i ^air straggled down over his fore ox_ I an<l bis dark eyes?the patch had I I surreptitiously lifted?were uuus ., I pensive. ICS. I I J It Is strange that you live in < I stark and have not seen its prim before," she said, laying ground l'u for iuquiry concerning the acts u< whereabouts of the real princess. "May it please your highness. 1 r.ot lived long in ( raitstark. lie H n ! it is said that half the people of ' look have never looked upon l,at i face." ou "I'm not surprised at that. Tin u r. | portion is much smaller than 1 II | ined. I have not visited Cat ia^ ' strange as it may seem to you." _ i "One of my eoninanv foil in 1 SOnu' of your guards from 11 it* Ga v"lH ! garrison day before yesterday. Ids I ioun,ed that you wore to reach city within forty-eight hours. A ave detachment of men has been so tl." nteot you at Iaihhot. "Oh. Indeed," said Beverly, bst much Interested. Iioy ' "Thoy must have boon misinfo u? ' as to your route or else your ltii me. escort decided to take you throuj : wrong road. Otherwise we shout ine have mot each other, and the lion s'ie suid, smiling reflectively, el). "Where is I.,abbotV" asked slu 5 a j tent upon the one subject uppernu her mind. "In the mountains -mrrtiy les . north of tins ifass. Had you taken ' route instead of this you would bj I * time have left I.nhhot for the tov j Krros, a half day's Journey from ' i look. Instead of vagabonds you ' cort would have been made up of soldiers, well fed, well clad and l'd satisfied with themselves at least.' "But no braver, no truer than II f> soldiers of fortune," she said eajjne "By the way, are you informed a ?* the state of affairs in Dawsbcrgen "Scarcely as well as your highi must he," ho replied. "The young prince ? what's d name?" she paused, looking to him d the name, il "Dantan?" S "Yes, that's it. What has become o him? I am terribly interested in liii "lie Is a fugitive, they say." P "They haven't captured ldm, tin t, Good! I inn so glad!" ; Baldos exhibited little or no inter o ! In the fresh tonie. - ! "It Is strange you should have t gotten his name," lie said wearily. "Oh. I do so many ridiculous thing ' complained lleverly, remembering w > she was supposed to he. "I have ne\ > seen him, you know," she added. "It Is not strange, your highness. 1 was educated in England and had se but little of his own country when i was called to the throne two years ag ! You remember of course that his mot , er was an Englishwoman, Lady U : Falconer." | "I?I think I have heard some of li history. A very little, to be sure," si explained lamely. 'Triuco Gabriel, Ills half brother, the son of Prince Louis III. by h tlrst wife, who was a Polish countes After her death, when Gabriel wn t*vo years old, the priuco innrrlcvd Lad Ida. Dantan is their son. lie has dster, Candaco, who is but years of age." "I nin ashamed to confess that yo know so- much more about my nelgli bors than I," she said. "I lived In Dawsbergen for a littl while and was ever Interested In tlr doings of royalty. That Is a poor man'; privilege, you know." "Prince Qabrlel must be a terribh man." erlcd Beverly, her heart swellluj with tender thoughts of the exiled Dan tan and his little sister. "You have cause to know," said h< shortly, and she was perplexed untl .she recalled the stories of Gabriel's misdemeanors at the court of Edel weiss. 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