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Goose Girl
HAROLD MdcGRATH
Copyright.
109
by
the
Bobba-
Merrill Company
SYNOPSIS
Gretchen, a goose girl,
meet,
mounts.m,-r and I artnuhael,
a
mvstenous
Aniar.n
in Dreilierg, Kingdom ot I Jiri-iuteiu.
consul
Car hik fi
at I loves Princess Hid giade.
"Have your way then.”
CÎÎAPTER tt.
. ton H.S« COVNTBY.
x*^DVNT, must I tell you again
t
uot to broach that subject?
• There can be no alliance be-
tween Ehrenstein and Ju-
gendbeit.”
"Why?’ asked Count .von Ilerbeck,
chancellor.
“Oue of my reasons is »hat I do not
want any alliance with a country so
perfidious as Jugendheit. What! I
make overtures—I. who have beeu so
cruelly wronged all these years? You
are mad."
"But what positive evidence have
you that Jugendheit wronged you?’
"Positive? Have I eyes and ears?
.Have l not seen and read and heard?’
"Your highness knows that I look
only to the welfare of the country. In
the old days it was a foregone conclu
sion that this alliance was to I;.* form
ed. Now. you |M*rsist in averring that
the late king wns tlie chief conspirator
In.alxluctlng her serene highness, aid
ed by ’ Arnslierg, whose successor I
have the honor to be. I have never
The t ’uko departed, stirred ea.h* had
hot bet e.i since the restoration of the
p.-i ncess
He sought his dtvugllter.
Sts* was in the music room. "My
child, ’’ he began, taking Hl’degarde’s
h.i:i I and drawing her toward a win-
d H s: at. "tin* king of Jugendheit asks
for yotir 'land."
"Then I am to marry tlie king of
Jugef.dheit?’’ '1 here was little joy in
her voice.
“Ah. we have not gone so far as
that! Tlie king, through his uncle, has
simply ■ made a proposal.”
•It is for you to decide, father.
What *ver your decision is I shall abide
by it.”
I
"It is a bard lessen we have to learn,
my child. We cannot always marry
where we love, Diplomai y and poll
ties make other plans. But fortunate-
ly for you *-<.u love no one yet. and
the king is young, handsome, tkey say,
and ri Ii.
Politically »(leaking, it
would I m * a great match.”
"I am in your hands
You know
poignantly
disap-
«•its A witiiiw
like wns
plutnp. pretty Hnd wise
Touight I lie mam room of the tavern
swam .In a blue bn*e of smoke, which
Mae lo th»* blnekeueU rafters, bung
with many and various mi usages,
ctns-ses nud dri»*U vcgi»l;it»l«si Dishes
clatter»»»!, then* was n turszing of
ruins, a s, raping of feet and chairs,
a Imnging of tankards.
Gretcben came in. a little better
dressed than in the daytime, the
Range cmi-istlng of coarse stocking4
and slices ot leather, of which she was
<seri sjHindingli proud.
“Will you want me. Frau Wirtln. for
a tittle wbije touight?" she naked.
"Till fi Half a crown as usual.”
Gretchen sought the kitchen and
found an apron and cap These half
crowns were fine tilings to pick up oc
casionally. for It was only upon occa
sions that she worked at th»» Black
E:ig'>
In hD obacurr corner sat the
young vintner. His face brightened
ns he saw the goose girl. In tlie very
corner itself was the mountaineer who
possess«*ii n Swiss watch ana gave
He was
golden coins to goose girls
He was willing to swear that she
wu making fun uf liim. Was she a
simple giMisc girl? Wns she uot Motue-
thing nion». siiiic-tking ile.-p r
\Var
clouds were forming in the skies.
They might gather umi strike t
time A iirl who l ilt the French
produce such a woman spy? I
stein was not I'russla, it was
but flic duchy, with its 2 >.<«*> 1
«us one of the many pul es ilia
In unison with this man I'.isui
plnns. He was certainly pit ', le
a glance at In-r hands i!i solved his
doubts. ThMe hands were used to
toll. They were ill no way disguised.
“You have lus-ti to whool?"
“After a manner. My tent her whs a
kind priest
lint lie never knew tuat,
with know'eilge. he was to open the
g!lt<»s of discontent."
“Then you arc not happy with your
lot ?’’
“Is any one. herr?" quietly. "And
who might you I k * mid what might you
be doing here In Dreilierg, riding with
the grand duke?"
“1 am the Americnn consul ”
Gretchen took a step Ian k.
“What did Colonel Wallenstein «ay
to you?” lie UHk<*d.
“Nothing of itniHirlance. I am used
to it
1 am perfectly able to take care
of myself,” she miswerisl.
“What dal tin* |Milicoman say?”
“What would lie say to a goose
girl?”
“Shall I
“Would It really do any good?”
skeptically.
“It might. The duke is friendly to
ward me, nnd I am certain he would
not tolerate such eondtier in his police.
My name Is Carmichael. Now. lis
ten, Gretchen If ilt any time you are
in trouble you will find me at the
Grand hotel or at the consulate next
door to tin* Black Eagle.”
“I shall remember.
Sometimes I
work In tho Black Eagle.”
“Good night," tie said.
Gretchen extended her hand, nnd
Carniicliael took It in his own, inspect-
Ing It.
"It is u gissl hand. It is strong too.
h<* said.
"It Ims to be strong. Iierr. Good
night."
Carmichael raised ids hat again, nnd I
Grot, hen brentlusl contentedly as she
saw him disappenr in tin* crowd. Slid I
denly she felt an arm slip through j
hers. Her head went round.
|
“I.eo?" she whispered.
It was the young vintner whom Car
nilchnel Imd pushed against tin* wall
that day.
“Who was that?" In* asked.
“Herr Carmichael, the American I
consul”
“Carmli liael!" ho gasped.
“What Is it. Leo?"
"Nothing.
1 grow
mad with
rnge when
of these gentlemen
IT
MIGHT.
DTKE
TOWARD ML
t KtKNDI.T
speak to you. Gentlemen! I know
them all to well. Ah. liow I love you!”
Gretchen thrilled.
“To me the world began but two
weeks ago. 1 have Just Ivegun to live,”
he «hls|M*red warmly.
“I am sad and lonely tonight,” she
said gloomily.
“Why. indeed!”
“Leo, ns much ns I love yon. there is
always a shallow.”
“What shadow?"
“It Is always at night that I see you,
rarely In the bright daytime. What do
you do during tlie day? It is not yet
vintage What do you do?"
"Will you trust me a little longer,
Gretchen, Just a Uttle luager?”
Vet seen any proofs. Show me some- pointed. Why did
busny engngcil In gnawing the leg of
she not refuse oui-
thing which absolutely convicts thorn right, ns became one of the house of a chicken.
and I’ll surrender.”
Carmichael was often a visitor at
Ehrenstein?
“On your honor?"
the
Black Eagle.
lauer he stepped
"What is be like?" she asked.
“My word."
Into the big hull in his evening clotiies.
“
That
no
oue
seems
to
know.
He
The duke struck a bell.
"Good evening. Frau Wirtln. •• 1
“My secretary and tell him to bring has been to his capital but twice in ten
"(iood evening, your excellency."
me the packet marked A He will un years. The young King has beeu in Slit» wns quite fluttered wtieu this fme
Paris most of the time
That's the
derstand."
young man s|sike to her. “What Is on
way they educate» kings t hese days.
Tlie duke was frank In his likes ana
your mind?"
They teach them all the vices. Your
dislil.es. He hated secrets, anil be
"Many tilings." He saw Gretcbeu.
father loves von. mid It you are inclin
loved an opponent who engng<*d him
“Tlie goose girl.” be murmured sud
ed toward Ins majesty, if it is m your
iu ¡In- open, it was this extraordinary
denly. "Is Gretchen one of your wait
rectitude which made the duke so heart to bisxmie a queen, I shall not resses?"
powerful an aid to Bismarck in the let my prejudices stand iu the way.”
"Site comes In once in awhile. She’s
She caught up Ills hand with a
days that followed. The man of iron
a good girl. I’m glad to help tier."
i
ne<*ded this sort of character as a cov strange passion and kisseil it.
Gretchen saw Carmichael and noil
"Father. I do not want to marry any
er and a buckler to bis own duplicities.
ded
Herlx-ck was an excellent foil. He one." wistfully. "But a qm*en!" she
"1 shall tie tit yonder table." In* said.
was ns silent nnd secretive ns sand, added thoughtfully. "Would it lie for Indicating the vacant chair
Carml-
He moved, ns
as it were, in circles.
circles, thus the giHMj of the stale?"
chael made his way to tlie table.
Here
was
reason.
"Yes;
my
objec
always eluding dangerous corners.
Across tlie room he hud not recognized
He was tall, angular, with a thin, im tions are merely |>ersonal.” said the ’lie vintner, but now he remembered.
duke.
mobile countenance, well guardi-d by
"For the good of my country I mil He had crowded him against a wall
his gray eves and straight lips. He
ready
to make any sacrifice "
wns a born financier, with almost lim
“Very well, tiut weigh the matter
itless ambition, though only tie him
self knew how far this ambition reach carefully, There is never any ret rac-
ed. T» ice li:ul lie saved Ehrenstein ing a step of this kind.” He |iaus<*d
from tli<> dragnet of war and with nnd then said:
“You are all I have, girl "
honor.
"My father!" She stroked his cheek.
The secretary cat > in nnd laid a
The restoration of the Princess I Hide
thin packet of papers on the chancel
gnrde of Ehrenstein had been tlie seu-
lor’s desk.
Tlie secretary bowed and withdrew. satiott of Europe. ns had lieeti in tlie
The duke stirred the papers angrily, earlier days her remarkable abduction
took one of them and spread it out For sixteen years tlie search had gone
ou fruitlessly. In a garret III Dresden
with a rasp.
“Look at that.
Whose writing. I tne agents of Herlieek found tier, a
singer in tlie chorus of tlie opera. The
ask ?"
Ilerbeck ran newspapers and illustrated weeklies
over it several raged about her for awhile, elaborated
times. At length the story of her struggles, the mysteri
he opened
a ous remittances which laid from time
drawer in bls to time saved her front direst poverty,
desk,
sorted tier ambition, her education which by
some jinpers ami dint of hard work she had acquired,
brought OUt
out a file duke accused Franz, of Jugendheit.
yell o w letter, Search as they would, the duke and
This
he
laid the chancellor never traced the source
down beside the of the remittance*. The duke held
stubbornly that tlie sender of these
other.
“Yes. they are benefactions was moved by the im-
alike, This will pulse of a guilty conscience and that
ALT, AMERICANS ARK KÎCII,”
HAID
be
SOB Kill. Y.
Arnsberg, i this guilty conscience was in .lugend-
belt.
P. u t ” -mildly
“FORGERY!” ROARED
two or three days liefore.
vint-
A ud was
“who may say
tier turned back tlie lid of his stein
THE DUKE.
that It is not a new grandeur, with all these
and drank slowly.
cunning forgery?”
and attentions and environs?
Carmichael sat down.
Now, tills
■•¡*'orgery!" roared the duke. "Read limes she
vintner's face was something familiar.
this otic from tho late king of Ju- luck care
Carmichael stirred Ills memory.
it
gendheit to Arnsberg then if you still musician friends, the studios,
was not in Dreilierg that lie had seen
doubt."
crash and glitter of tlie o|iera
She was lovely enough to inspire him before. But where?
Ilerbeck read slowly and carefully.
Gretchen arrived witli tlie tankard.
Then he rose anil walked to tho fervor and homage and love in all
Carmichael’s I
nearest window, studying the letter masculine minds. She was witty and which she sat down at
elbow.
talented. Carmichael said she was one
again In tlie slutrper light.
"Will you not Join rue, herr?" be In
Herlieek returmsl to Ida chair. "1 of tlie most beautiful women in all
vited.
wish that you hud shown me these Europe.
"Thank you." said tho vlutner.
She wns still in tlie window seat
long ago. You accused the king?"
Gretchen took up the empty tankard
wlien the chancellor was announced,
"Certainly, but he denied it."
"In a letter?"
“Your highness," he said. "I am and made off. Carmichael was first to
come to announce to you that there speak.
“Yos. Here, read it.”
“She is the handsomest peasant I
Herbis k eomparixl the two “Where waits fur ,\oTi a high place in Hie af
ever saw or knew."
fairs of the world.”
did you find these?"
“You know tier?’’ There was a spark
"The second crown in Jugendheit?”
“In ArnslHTg’s desk," returned tho
in tlie vintner's eyes.
"Your father”—
duke -“Arnsiierg, my boyhood play
“Only for n few days. She interests
"Yes He leaves the matter wholly
mate, tin* mnn I loved and frusted nnd
me." Carmichael produced a pipe nnd
advanced to tho hlgln*st office in my t in my bonds."
power. Is that not the way? Well, I “It is for the good of the state, A lighted it.
“Ah. yes; the pretty peasant girl al
dead or alive. 10,000 crowns to him who princess like yourself must never wed
au interior."
ways interests you gentlemen.’’ There
brings Arnslierg to me dead or alive."
"You are very bitter," said Herlieek. i "Would a man who wns brave and wns a note of bitterness. "Did you
“And have I not cause? Did not my kind and resourceful, but without a come here to seek her?"
"Yon seem to possess a peculiar in
wife die of a broken heart, and did I title—would lie lie au inferior?’
"Assuredly politically. And 1 regret terest.”
not Ixs'iime a broken man? You do
The vintner flushed. “I have that
not know all. Herlieek not quite all. to say that your marriage could never
Franz, also sought the hand of the be else than a matter of politics.”
right," with an air which rather mys
"I am. then, simply a certificate of tified Carmichael.
Princess Sofia. He. too. loved her. but
I won. Well, his revenge must have exchange?"
“That explains everything. I do not
“The king of Jugendheit is young. I recollect seeing you liefore In the
lieeti sweet to him."
“But your daughter has been restor do not see how he cau help loving you Black Eagle.”
tlie moment he knows you. Who can?"
ed to her own."
"1 am from the north; a vintner, nnd
“Duo to your Indefatigable efforts Anil the chancellor smiled.
there Is plenty of work here In the val
“But lie may not tie heart whole.”
alone. Ah. Herlieek. nothing will ever
leys late In September."
“He will be politically.”
fill up the gap between, nothing «-ill
"The grnpe," mused Cnrtnichneei.
"Politics, polities—how I liate the "You will never learn bow to press It
over restore tho mother." Tlie duke
word! Sometimes 1 regret my gar
boWtsl his hend.
as they do in Erance.
It is wine
Ht-rbis k o|K'ms1 another drawer nnd ret."
there; it is vinegar this side of the
The chancellor wrinkled his lips.
took fort Ii n long hood envelope crest -
Rhine.”
"Will you couseut to this marriage?’
ed nnd sealed.
"France,” said the vintner moodily.
“Would it do any good to reject it?"
"Yuiir highness, here is a letter from
“Do you think there « III lie any France
“On tlie contrary, it would do Eh
tho prince regent of .Tugondhclt for
in the future?"
mally asking tho hand of the Princess rensteln great harm.”
Carmichael laughed. "France is nn
"Give
me
a
week,"
wearily.
Ilfldei- trd** fur Ills nephew I'redoriek,
Incurable
cosmic malady; it will al
"A week!" There was Joy on the
win» n nt shortly t-e crowned. My nil-
ways be. It may be benten, devas
chancellor**
face
now.
unmasked,
un-
vice is to accept, to let bygones I m - by-
concealed. "Oil. when the moment tatisi. throttled, but it will not die.
genes."
"You are fond of France?”
"Write th*» prince that I respectfully comes that 1 see flit* crown of Jugend
“Very.”
heit on your beautiful head nil my
decline."
“Do you think It «-Ise to any so
work
shall
not
have
been
In
vain.
“IM nothing in haste, your highness.
here?
”
Temporize. Say that you desire some There Is one thing more, your high
“1 am the Americnn consul; nobody
ness.
”
time to think nlwiut tho matter You
minds my opinions."
"And that?"
can change your mind at tiny time. A
“The American consul.” repented the
"There
must
not
be
so
many
rides
in
reply like this eominits you to noth
vintner.
the
morning
with
his
excellency
Herr
ing. whereas your abrupt refusal will
Gretchen set the tankards down, nnd
Carmichael."
only widen thodiroacli."
There was a sinister note of warning Carmichael put out a silver crown.
“The wider the breach tho better."
"And do not bother about tho
chnnrellor’s voice.
“No. tin. your highness; the past has in the
change."
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disturbed you
We can stand war,
"All Americans are rich,” she said
The Black Eagle (Zum flchwartsen
and it is |M»ssible that we might win.
soberly.
Adler)
in
the
Adlcrgaase
wan
2tM)
year*
even against Jugendheit. but war at
The vintner laughed pleasantly.
this late day would I»* a colossal biun old and had been in the Bauer family
all
that
time.
tier.
Victory would have us where
Had the manager. Frau Bauer, or
we liegan thirty years ago. And an
Insult to Jugendheit might precipitate F'rnu Wirtln. as she was familiarly
called, been masculine she would have
wnr ’•
taM ilgbyi dubfcat BaWT VU.
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