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The King LJ OF Ui CHAPTER XXX. OSE had to wait nearly two hours for a train to take her back. She paced the platform like a newly cagec wild animal, tortured by feara Jor her boy. This carefully contrived absence of hers, short as it would be, was enough, she felt sure, for the execu tfon of some diabolical scheme against the prince. As the time went on, during which she had to remain helpless, her fears and excitement rose gradually to height that Imagination began to tricks with her, and she fancied sbt heard his voice calling to her for help.

The strongest, bravest woman is superstitious when her deepest tions are concerned. For some few moments Rose felt dizzy, and her heart seemed to stand still; although was ready to acknowledge that the sounds tn her ears were the work of her fancy only, she believed, in spite of reason, that they betokened some present harm happening to Siegfried, tie knowledge of which was thus come to her through the sympathy existed between them. Some Instinct caused her to hesitate before taking her place in the train she had been waiting for, when at last it steamed into the station ten minuies after its time. As, however, she sought in vain for some reason to support this vague feeling, she ended by taking her place in an empty compartment just as the train started. Unable, however, tormented as she was, to retain her seat, she began to pace up and down the small space at her command, and reached the other end of the compartment just as another train from Scarborough began to slacken as it entered Malton station.

It was something more than instinct now which made her scan the occupants of the train, as one by one the carriages were whirled past her straining eyes. The slackening train was bound for York, like that which was carrying Silchester. Who knew Her conjectures ceased, cut short bj horrible, inevitable fact. The train in which she stood was now going fast, but not too fast for her eye? to see her boy, her Siegfried, lying back in a compartment of the York train, his eyes closed am' an expression of intense suffering on his face; while on the opposite seat, bending forward officiously towards him, Rose raught sight of the cringing figure and cat-like face of Donald Keith. With a shriek Rose thrust out her hands towards him; but the train she was in had shot past.

She flew like a maniac to the opposite window; the communicator was not attached. Panting, clenching her hands, beating her breast, she could do nothing until the train, which was a stopping one, reached the next station. There she got out. But what precious time had she not been compelled to She must wait for another train to take her back; already she knew that it would be impossible for her to overtake her darling on this side of London. And in the Rose moaned aloud as fearful suggestions crowded into her mind.

She had seen, with the awful clearness of loving that Siegfried's features were convulsed with agony. Was that 'suffering mental only, and to be accounted for by his supposed loss of her and the explanation Donald would put on it? Or was it actual physical pain of which she had seen the traces ou her poor boy's face? They had tried the poison of venomous snakes, they would not be backward in trying another, since that had tailed. All poor Rose Revel's experience and strength of mind availed little now for her; it was an old-young woman, with drawn face and tottering gait, who got out of the train at York and listened in dumb pnin to the porter who told her that the train for London had just gone: there would not be another, for two hours and a half. When at last she reached town, she straight to Mr. Combermere's office, and, as he had left business for the day, ehe learned his private address, and followed him home.

He listened attentively to the story of the heartbroken woman. The dangers which surrounded Siegfried were real r.o doubt, he admitted; and tie consolation he had to offer was of the poorest. These two calling themselves Ke-ith and Silchester. were unquestionably Russian agents accredited by the government of the Tsar. "I could understand their persecution of him if he had been constantly Tisited by discontented or loyal Ser- ganians," said Rose, "But why interfere with a harmless young man whose only object is to be left in perfect peace?" "You see, they think at any time he may up an active position.

In the the hopes of all subjects of his late father who were loyal turn to him Just as surely as If he were the most prominent of fussy agitators." "Then you think there is no doubt tlu Tsar at the bottom of all "The Tsar or nis ministers. In as autocratic government one is not always sure who is the real autocrat." Kose sprang up with a determined face. "I have made up my mind to do then. I will go and see the Tsar. Perhaps 1 shall be too And her voice trembled.

"But if my affection for that poor lad is so strong that I feel almost as if the very force of it could keep him will plead for him with such words, such fire, that even this great despotic emperor shall listen to me." Mr. Combermere stroked his chin and listened to her with some amusement, but with even more dismay. "You don't surely seriously entertain the notion of such a wild-goose chase," he said at last rather coldly. "I don't wish to pretend that all Rus- ne powerless to release her? The early and sudden Northern twilight had fallen; looking out of the carriage Rose could see only that the houses were becoming fewer, and that gaunt trees began to appear In the distance. They must be on the outskirts or tne town.

Her companion was BUS. piciously silent; for although neither understood the language of the other, both spoke French, in which tongue it would have been easy for him to carry on a. conversation, as Rose, to while away the dreary time of suspense, would have been glad to do. At last the houses seemed to come to an end altogether, and Rose's fears grew stronger when she found, on stopping to change horses at a small hostelry which was little better than a roadside inn, that they had long been clear of town. On they went again after a short pause for the refreshment which Rose could not touch, past thickets of bare trees along a lonely road.

It seemed to Rose that they must have traveled far into the night when at last the horses, which had been traveling at a great pace, were pulled up sharply at the massive gates of an immense park, and a soldier challenged the occupants of the carriage. The officer who accompanied Rose having satisfied the challenger with what sounded to the English woman like one brief, guttural word, the gates were thrown open, and the carriage dashed on along a winding road, along A SMALL ICEHOUSE. eians are the bogeys we have been which looking ia from taught to believe them. But the liberty I the ind saw soldiers at intervals the subject is not a phrase very well understood over there; and remember, your person and the object of your journey would be known, so that is in the last degree unlikely that you would be allowed to come within a hundred, miles of the person of the Tsar himself." "I have some powerful friends," said Rose, "I think I shall be safe. I mean to make the attempt, at all events." Mr.

Oombermere made a grimace. "Very welL I never argue I win set a detective to -work fo the meanwhile, and do ray tost to get the young man back into more Trustworthy society that of Mr. Donald iCeith and his accomplices." Rose left the solicitor with a heavy heart, but with her mind firmly up. The next day she set about necessary preparations for her arduous undertaking. She procured, through the friends whom she had not un- 'ustly called powerful, such introduc- ions as would make her contemplated ourney at least safe for herself.

Then, without any further delay, she started, having saved from her salary enough money to carry out her plans. It was in the first days of April that she found herself, after a bitterly cold but uneventful journey in the capital of the Tsars. Although the worst severity of the winter was over, and the snow, which she had been taught to expect, was no longer upon iiie ground, the northern air was kouu enough to have caused her great inconvenience, if the anxiety at her heart had not been so deep as to make her almost inse-nsible to atmospheric conditions. Her first visit was to the English ambassador, who was courteous, but scarcely encouraging, and who informed her that her movements were being watched, that the object of her visit to Russia was possibly known and certainly suspected, and that it was only through the influence of the powerful friends she was known to have that the police had kept their hands off her so far. He advised her to return to England without delay, assuring her that her errand was hopeless.

"Believe me," he said, "even If you were- see the Tsar you would be no nearer attaining your object than you are now. A despotic government is wheel that turns continually, crushing everything that comes in its way, and that cannot be stopped by any individual, even by the despot himself. I beg you therefore, madam, to take this warning, and spare your country the complications which might arise il you, an English subject, were to get into trouble with the police over here, a contingency which I shall never cease to dread as long as you remain here." His coldness, hie discouragement, had no effect on Rose, who listened with downcast eyes and then simply repeated her request that he would try to procure her the desired interview. She was so persistent, so discreet, she used her influence so cautiously, but so effectively, that within a week the longed-for pet-mission was really accorded to her; an officer arrived at her hotel one morning with the news that he was empowered to conduct her to the royal residence. Rose Revel's heart seemed to stand still.

Now that the moment so passionately desired was re-ally approaching, she began for the first time to doubt her own powers. If her tongue should falter, if the majestic presence should overawe her faculties too much, all her work would be in vain, and her boy more surely lost than If she had never moved in his behalf. She put on her bonnet with its flowing veil and the long nurse's mantle, which gave her tall figure so much distinction, with shaking hands: and took her place with her conductor in a closed carriage, which on the instant droTi rapidly away. Then, for the flm time, a count to her destination flashed into her mind. All the horrors which she had read of or been told about the terribla police system of the White Tsar came back vividly to her recollection.

This permission to appear before the emperor, so suddenly and unexpectedly eranted, might it not be a ruse under cover or which she even now being en to some prison from which all jie efforts her friends might the whole way. The drive through the park seemed never-ending. At last, however, the corses drew up under a vast building, of the exterior of which Rose In vain tried to see something. More soldiers, always soldiers. She was hurried out of the carriage, up the steps and into the building through great doors which seemed to close behind her with snap.

And yet this was not a prison, although the Tlgilant guard, the precautions, and the sort of mistrustful watchfulness -which seemed to peep out tt tt ihc. rprviuU in stately nreriea who passed and re-passed soft steps through the great hall, seemed to Rose more suggestive of a fortress than a palace. Yet this was the palace of the White Tsar. Weighted as she was with the awful responsibility she had taken upon herself, Rose could not help remarking the splendor of the long corridors through which she was led, their painted walls and ceilings, the silken draperies at the various doors, through which she obtained glimpses of sumptuous, brilliantly lighted compartments, such as even her imagination had never pictured before. The brilliant novelty of the scene increased the excitement from which she was suffering to such an extent that throbbin, In her head and a rushing sound in her ears made her fear that she might lose consciousness.

At last the dignified usher, who had ied them with slow steps through a labyrinth of stately corridors, turned and stopped before one of the silk- hung doors. Opening this, he led them Into a handsome room, the walls of which glistened like polished marble. The draperies were of grey and silver brocade, on which hundreds of candles, ranged in pyramidal form in sconces on the walls, threw a soft light. There was no one in the room on their entrance; but after a few seconds of breathless waiting, Rose saw her companion, the silent officer, turn with a bow in the direction of two massive curtains, which evidently concealed the entrance to another compartment. At the same moment, a faint rustle of silk told her that one of the curtains had been moved.

She turned slowly, and made a low curtsey, at first not daring to raise her eyes. "Here is madam," said the officer in French, in a low, respectful voice. And he instantly retreated. "His Excellency the Deputy-Chief of Police," announced the voice of an attendant the next moment. Not the Tear then! Rose felt that she breathed more freely at this respite from the ordeal of the Royal Presence.

She took courage and looked up. A smiling gentleman in evening dress, with orders and decorations sparkling on his breast, was holding' out his hand to her. His Excellency the Deputy-Chief Silchester. BE How to Shampoo tne The face shampoo not only adds to the personal attractiveness of the sham- pooer, but creates a peaceful, cheerful spirit in her. It rests her nerves after a morning's shopping.

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The manner in which ic is best to build one depends very much on kind of material available and its ccsr. Certain principles must be observed and then there will be no trouble. Here are directions furnished by a correspondent of The Prairie Farmer The walls must-be so constructed that there will be no conductors of solid material that will conduct the outside heat to the ice, and they must; also be airtight. The ground must be in such a shape as to prevent water from running or standing nnder the ice. The space between the ice and the roof, strange as It may seem, will contain warm air.

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The approach of the season when meats are usually preserved br smoking calls up suggestions in regard to this subject. One plan illustrated herewith is described in The Country Gentleman by one who has tested it. He says: Where one has but a few pieces of meat to smoke a smokehouse may be improvised in a few moments by taking two empty barrels and arranging them in the manner shown in the cut. In the side of the lower barrel is cut an opening, in which an old kettle is set, filled with smoldering chips or corncobs. The upper barrel has either hooks in its bot- SALT RHEUM Most torturing and disfiguring of burning, skin and scalp humors is h).

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A simple little arrangement of this sort will often do as good work as one on which much money and labor have been spent. The same plan is suggested for use fumigating articles or for bleaching articles with burning sulphur. For such purposes a tighter chamber is required than is needed for smoking meat. This tightness can be secured by wrapping cloth about the point of union of the two barrels, while no opening need be made at the base of the lower barrel. A Fodder Vise.

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