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"My?iny kindnesses?" cried Marlanx.
"What do you mean, sir?"
"I moau tills. Count Mnrlanx," said
Baklos, looking steadily Into the eyes
of the head of the army. "It "was kind
and considers^ of you to admit nie to
the fortress, i.j matter in what eapael- |
ty. ?*speclally at a critical time like this.
Yg^dh^iot know me, you lind no way
ck whether my Intentions were
lio.^s^w otherwise, and yet I was permitted
to go through the fort from end
to end" No spy could wish for greater
tek generosity than that."
U An almost Imperceptible smile went j
around the tuhle, and every listener
out one ureatnod more rreely. The
candor and boldness of the guard won
the respect and confidence of nil except
Mnrhiux. The Iron Count was white 1
with anger, lie took the examination I
out of Lorry's hands and plied the j
stranger with Insulting questions, each ]
calm answer making him more furious :
than before. At Inst, In sheer lmpo- !
teuce, he relapsed iuto silence, waving 1
his hand to Lorry to Indicate that he
might resume.
"You will understand. Baldos. that
we have some <rau.se for apprehension."
said Lorry. Immensely gratified by the
outcome of the tilt. "You are a stran- I
ger, and, whether you admit It or uot,
them is reason to believe that you are
not what you represent yourself to
be."
"I am a humble guard nt present, sir. ;
mml a loyal one. My life Is yours
should I prove otherwise."
" Yetlve whispered something in Lorry's
ear nt this Juncture. She was visibly
pleased and excited. lie looked
doubtful for an instant and then apparently
followed her suggestion, re
Kamiess or consequences.
"Would you be vllling to utilize your
knowledge as an engineer by suggest- i
ing moans to stre-ythen the fortressV"
I'lir others stared 1:1 fresh amazement.
Marianx went as white as death.
"Never!" he blurted out hoarsely.
"I will do anything the prineess commands
me to do." said Haldos easily.
"You mean that you serve her only?"
"I serve her first, sir. If she were here
she could command me to die, and
there would be an end to Baldos." And
Lc smiled as he said it. The real princess
looked at him with a new, eager
expression, as if something had just
become clear to her. There was a
* chorus of coughs and a round of sly
looks.
"She could hardly ask you to die,"
said Yetive, addressing him for the
first time.
"A princess Is like April weather,
madam," saiu Baldos, with rare humor,
and the laugh was general. Y'etive
resolved to talk prlvntely with this
excellent wit before the hour was over.
She wus confident that he knew her to
be the princess.
"I would like to ask the fellow another
question," said Marlanx, finger
nig ni:* sword Iillt nervously. "You say
you serve the princess. Do you mean
by that that you Imagine your duties
us a soldier to comprise dancing polite
attendance within the security of
these walls?"
"I believe I enlisted as a member of
the castle guard, Hlr. The duty of the
guard is to protect the person of the
ruler of Graustark and to do that to
the death."
"It Is iny belief that you are a spy.
^ You can show evidence of good faith
by enlisting to tight against Dawsbcr1
gen and by shooting to kill," said the
count, with a sinister gleam In his
eye.
"And if I decline to serve in any
other capacity than the one I now"?
"Then 1 shall brand you as a spy and
a coward."
"You have already called me a spy,
your excellency. It will not make it
true, let me add. If you call me a coward.
I refuse to take up arms against
either Ihiwsbergen or Axphaln."
The remark created a profound sensation.
"Then you are employed by both Instead
of one!" shouted the Iron Count
gleefully.
"I am employed as n guard for hej*
royal highness," said Ruldos, with a
square glance at Yotive, "and not as a
fighter in the rnnks. I will fight till
death for her, hut not for Graustark."
UIIAI'TKU XVI.
"f ' lY Jove. I like that fellow's
coolness," said Lorry to llarII
ry Anguish, after tin nieet__J
Ing. "lie's after r.iy own
heart. Why, he treats us us though we
were the suppliants, ho the aluisgivcr.
He is playing a game, I'll admit, hut
he does it with un assurance that delights
me."
"Ho Is right about that darned ojd
fort," sahl Anguish. "Ills knowledge
of such things proves conclusively tnut
he is no ordinary person."
"Yetive had a bit of a talk with him
Just now," sakl Lorry, with a reflective
smile. "She asked him point blank
if he knew who she was. He did not
hesitate a second. 'I remember seeing
you in the audience chnml>er recently.'
That was a facer for Yetive. 'I assure
you that It was no fault of mine that
i you saw me,' she replied. 'Then it must
4 have been your friend who rustled the
curtains?* said the confounded bluffer.
Yetive couldn't keep a straight face.
She laughed, and thee be laughed.
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mo,* she said to hinT* '1 sincerely trust
that 1 may, madaiJBrsaid lie, and I'll
bet my bat he was enjoying it better
than either of us. Of course he knows
Votive is the princess. It's his intention
to serve Beverly Calhoun, and he
couldn't do it If lie were to confess that
lie knows the truth, lie's no fool."
Baldos wus not long iu preparing
plans for the changes in the fortress.
They embodied a temporary readjustment
of the armament and alterations
iu the ammunition house. The gate
leading to tlie river was closed, and
the refuse from the fort was taken to
the barges by way of the main entrance.
There were other changes suggested
for immediate consideration,
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tfie modernizing of llio fortress at some
more convenient time. Baldos laconically
observed that the equipment
was years behind the times. To the
amazement of the othclals. he was
able to talk Intelligently of forts In
all parts of the world, revealing a
wide und thorough knowledge and extensive
inspection. He had seen American
as well as European l'ortilieations.
The Graustark engineers went to work
at once to perfect the simple changes
lie advised, leaving no stone unturned
to strengthen the place before an attack
could lie made.
Two, three weeks went by, and the
new guard was becoming an old story
to the castle and army folk. lie rode
with Beverly every fair day, and he
looked at her window by night from
afar off In the somber barracks. She
could not dissipate the feeling that he
knew her to be other than the princess,
although he betrayed himself by uo
word or sign. She was enjoy lug the
fun of it too intensely to expose It to
the risk of destruction by revealing
her true Identity to him. Logicully
that would mean the end of everything.
No doubt ho felt the same and kept
his counsel, but the game could not
last forever, that was certain. A
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have to think of her return to Washington.
Ills courage, his cool impudence, his
subtle wit, charmed her more than she
could express. Now she was beginning
to study him from a standpoint
peculiarly and selfishly her own. Where
recently she had sung his praise to Yotive
and others she now was strangely
reticent. She was to understand another
day why this change hud come
over her. Stories of his cleverness
came to her oars from Lorry and Anguish
and even from Dangloss. She
was proud, vastly proud, of him in
those days.
The Iron Count alone discredited the
ability and the conscientiousness of
the "mountebank," as he named the
man who had put his nose out of joint.
Beverly, seeing much of Marlanx,
made the mistake of chiding him
frankly and gayly about this aversion.
She even argued the guard's case before
the head of the army. Imprudently
pointing out many of his superior qualities
in advocating his cause. The
! count was learning forbearance In his
, old age. He saw the wisdom of proi
crastlnation. Baldos was in favor, but
! some day there would come a time for
1 his undoing.
In the barracks he was acquiring
fame. Reports went forth with unblasj
ed freedom. He established himself as
the best swordsman in the service, as
well as the most elHcleut marksman.
With the foils and sabers he easily
vanquished the foremost fencers in
high and low circles. He could ride
; like a Cossack or like an American
cowltoy. Of them all. his warmest admirer
was Haddan, the man set to
watch him far the secret service. It
| may he timely to state that Iladdan
1 watched in vain.
1 The princess, humoring her own fancy,
as well as Beverly's foibles, took to
riding with her high spirited young
guest op, many n little Jaunt to the
tills. She usually rode with Lorry o~
Anguish, cheerfully assuming the subI
dued position befitting a lady-ln-waiting
apparently restored to favor on
probation. She enjoyed Beverly's
unique position. In order to maintain
her attitude as princess the fair young
deceiver was obliged to" pose In the
extremely delectable attitude of lieing
Lorry's wife.
"IIow can you expect the paragon to
make love to you, dear, if he thinks
I you are another man's wife?" Yctlve
asked, her blue eyes lieaming with tne
I fun of It all. r
"Pooh!" sniffed Beverly. "You hnvo
only to consult history to find the excuse.
It's the dear old habit of men to
make love to queens and get beheaded
for it. Besides, he Is not expected to
: make love to mo. IIow In the world
did you get that Into your head?"
On a day soon after the return of
L^>rry and Anguish from a trip to the
Jjroutier Beverly expressed a desire to
i' visit the monastery of St. Valentine,
high on the mountain top. It was a
' long ride over the circuitous route by
which the steep Incline was avoided
I and It was necessary for the party te
| make an early start. Yetlve rode wltli
Harry Anguish and his wife the count,
ess, while Beverly's companion was the
| gallant Colonel Qulnuox. Buldos, rolej
gated to)the background, brought an
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1 the roar with Huddnn.
For u weok or moro Beverly had boon '
behaving toward Haldos in the most .
cavalier fashion. Her friends had j
' been teasing her, and, to her own Ini
tense amazement, she resented it. The
; fact that she felt the sting of their sly
taunts was suiHclent to arouse in her
the distressing conviction that lie had
become important enough to prove cm- 1
barrassing. While confessing to her- j
self that it was a hit treacherous and
i weak she proceeded to ignore Baldos
with astonishing persistency. Apart
from the teasing, it seemed to her of
late that he was growing a shade too
eonlldent.
lie occasionally forgot his deferential
air and relaxed into a very pleasing but
highly reprehensible state of friendliness.
A touch of the old jauntiness crop- j
ped out hero and there, a tinge of the old
irony marred Ids otherwise perfect mien
as a soldier. Ilis laugh was freer, his
i eyes less under subjugation, his entire
! personality more arrogant. It was ,
i time, thought she resentfully, that his
temerity should meet some sort of
;heck.
And. moreover, she had dreamed of
him two nights in succession.
IIow well her plan succeeded may
best be illustrated by saying that she
! now was in a most uncomfortable
frame of in I ml. Baldos refused to be
properly depressed by his misfortune, i
lie retired to the oblivion she provided
and seemed disagreeably content. Ap'
pa rent ly it made very little difference
to him whether he was in or out of favor.
Beverly was in high dudgeon and
low spirits.
The party rode forth at an early hour
in the morning. It was hot In the city, j
but It looked cold and bleak on the j
heights. Comfortable wraps were tak- I
en along, and provision was made for [
' luncheon at an Inn halfway up the
I slope. Quinnox regaled Beverly with '
stories in which (Ironfall Lorry was j
the hero and Votive the heroine. lie j
| told her of the days when Lorry, a fu-1
gitive with a price upon his head, j
] charged with the assassination of!
1 i'rinee Lorenz, then betrothed to the |
princess, lay hidden In the monastery I
while Yetlve's own soldiers hunted i
high and low for him. The narrator I
dwelt glowingly upon the trip from the
monastery to the city walls one dark
night when Lorry came down to surrender
himself in order to shield the '
woman he loved, and Quinnox himself
piloted him through the underground |
! passage into the very heart of the ensi
tie. Then came the exciting scene in
which Lorry presented himself as a
prisoner, with the denouement that I
saved the princess and won for the
gallant American the desire of his {
j heart.
"What a brave fellow he was!" cried
Beverly, who never tired of hearing
\ the romantic story. i
! "Ah, lie was wonderful. Miss Calhoun.
I fought him to keep him from
I surrendering. He beat me, and I was j
i j virtually his prisoner when we appear- ;
, ed before the tribunal."
"It's no wonder she loved him and
, married him."
"lie deserved the best that life could 1
give. Miss Calhoun."
J ? "You had better not call nie Miss
; Calhoun, Colonel Quinnox," said she, I
looking back apprehensively. "1 am a
highness once in awhile, don't you
know?"
"I Implore your highness' pardon," 1
I said he gayly.
The riders ahead had come to a
; standstill and were pointing off into
the pass to their right. They were
eight or ten miles from the city gates
and more than halfway up the winding
road that ended at the monastery gates.
Beverly and Quinnox came up with
. them and found all eyes centered on a
small company of men encamped in the
rocky dctile a hundred yards from the
main road.
It needed but a glance to tell her
who comprised the unusual eomnnnv.
! The very raredness of their garments,
the unforgettable disregard for consequences,
tlie impudent ease with which
they faced poverty and wealth alike,
belonged to but one set of men?the
i vagabonds of the Ilawk and Haven.
Beverly went a shade whiter. Her interest
in everything else flagged, and
she was lost in bewilderment. What
freak of fortune had sent those men
( out of the fastnesses into this dangerously
open place V
She recognized the ascetic Uavone,
with his student's face and beggnr's
garb. Old Franz was there, and so
were others whose faces and lietero,
geneous garments had become so fa- |
| miliar to her in another day. The tall
leader with the red feather, tlie rakish
hat and tlie black patch alone was
missing from the picture.
"It's tlie strangest looking crew I've
ever seen," ssid Anguish. "They look
like pirates."
"Or gypsies." suggested Y/tive. "Who
are thov Colonel lliiliinnv^ Wlinf nrn
i they doing here?"
Qulnnox was surveying the vagnj
bonds with a critical, suspicious eye.
"They are not robbers or they would
j lx? off like rabbits." he said reflectlveI
ly. "Your highness, there are many
roving bands in the hills, bet I confess
I that these men are unlike any I have
beard about. With your permission, I
) will ride down and question them."
I "Do, Qulnnox. I am most curious."
Beverly sat very still ami tense. She
was afraid to look at Baldos, who rode
tip as Qulnnox started into the narrow
defile, calling to the escort to follow.
The keen eyes of the guard caught the
1 situation at once. Miss Calhoun shot
Q quick glance at him as he rode up be
I side her. His face was Impassive, but
1 j she could see bis hand clinch the bridle
' rein, and there was an air of restraint
> In his whole bearing.
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