Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1937 — Page 5

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The characters and situations in this story are wholly fictional and imaginary and are not intended to portray any actual persons or events.

CHAPTER ONE

TALL, black-haired man in a gray business suit stood on a terrace beside the royal lodge and moodily watched the evening shadows sliding over clipped hedges and flawless lawn.

Twenty miles away, to the east, the lights of the capital city of the great empire of Northumbra put a glow on the darkening sky. The lodge—no rustic affair of logs, despite its name, but a great mansion of cut stone—rose behind him, its vast bulk seeming to express the solidity and massive weight of the

empire whose monarch it housed.

The man turned restlessly, looking from the eastern glow in the sky to the pile of masonry behind him.

Lights gleamed from French win-

- dows in the wall at his back. The

windows swung open, as he gazed at them, and a trim young man in the uniform of a naval lieutenant came out and stepped briskly across the flagged pavement. Halting a few yards from the tall man in gray, this officer clicked his heels and said, “Your Majesty, it is ready.” The tall man straightened with an air of relief, and flipped his cigaret into the shrubbery. “Curtain for the last act, eh?” he said quietly. “All right, Bart. Ill be right in.” The officer wheeled formally, as if he stood on a quarterdeck in the presence of an admiral, and went back inside. The tall man took one more look around him at the exquisitely artificial landscaping, the formal flower beds, the hedges in which not one leaf was out of place, and drew a long breath. Then, thrusting his hands deep. into his pockets and throwing his head back with a half-defiant gesture, he followed the officer through the French windows and into the room. Half a dozen men stood about the spacious room; some of them were in uniform, some in formal civilian attire. -All of them automatically drew themselves erect as the tall man came in . Their eyes were fixed on his face—on the black mustache, the tired eyes and the boyish mouth that were recognizable in every country on the globe—and they murmured, “Good evening, sire,” as he crossed briskly to an inlaid table before the wide fireplace.

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HE acknowledged their greeting with a careless flip of his hand and bent over the table to look at a single sheet of paper that lay on it. The royal crest decorated the top of the sheet; there followed a dozen typewritten lines which stated that “I, King Paul the First of Northumbra, hereby surrender, renounce and abdicate all rights to the throne of the empire.” The tall man read it through quickly. Beside the table stood an elderly man in evening clothes. He had an imperious Roman nose that jutted proudly above -a luxuriant white mustache, and his eyes had the direct, piercing look of a man who is accustomed to command. “your majesty,” he said, “I regret

" profoundly that ‘I am obliged to

offer this paper for your signature.” The King looked at him and gmiled suddenly. «I believe that you really do,” he said. He glanced around the room, seemed mildly surprised, and took a second look around. “Isnt my brother here?” he msked. : “He has gone to his rooms,” said the hawknose man. “He asked me to tell your majesty that he was too affected to remain. He wishes to see your majesty immediately afterward.” The king smiled sadly, this time. “poor Joseph. He takes it hard,” he said. Then he turned to the table. From a stand of ornately carved gold he picked up a pen. For a moment he stood looking at its point, as if he had never had a chance to examine a pen point before; then, as if he had come at last to some decision, he put pen to paper and in a steady hand wrote «paul R.” at the foot of the waiting sheet. He laid the pen down carefully, stood erect, and looked about the room. “Well, gentlemen, it is all over,” he said. ” n ” O one moved. He looked at their faces, as if trying to read ‘the expressions on them; but all were elaborately impassive as if each man had donned a mask. “The king, gentlemen,” said Paul, “js upstairs. I am going to him now. He will be down directly.”

He strode across the room, passed

again—rather

that was precisely the case. He had dropped the weight of a great empire. : He tapped at a door at the end of a hall, opened it and went in. The room was dusky, the tall windows standing out as gray oblongs in the dark walls. A slim young man stood by one of them, silhouetted indistinctly against the deepening: ‘wilight. He did noteturn around as Paul came in. Paul walked rapidly across the room and laid his hand on the youth’s shouldek. “Well, Joseph,” he said affectionately, “it’s all over. The King is dead. Long live the King—and may God protect and preserve him.” The young man turned. A pale, anxious face looked up through the gloom at the man who had just renounced. the throne. e “Qh, Paul!” said the young man. “Paul! Why . . .” His voice was unsteady and his features worked as he strove ‘to control himself. He gripped .Paul’s upper arms with his fingers. Paul smiled the affectionate, pitying smile of an older brother. “Why?” he said softly. we've gone into thai enough. Let's just say that I've laid down a job I ought never to have taken up. Let’s say that after giving 35 years to the empire—25 as prince, and 10 as king—I am trying to get a few brief years for myself. And let's also say, Joseph, that the throne and the crown are in better hands now than before—for they are held by a man who really believes in them.” : 8 8 2

OSEPH looked into his eyes for a long time. Then he jerked himself away, almost savagely, and with a visible effort straightened himself and regained control of his emotions. When he spoke his voice was flat and expressionless. “I suppose they're waiting for me —down there?” “They are. Joseph.” “You're leaving—at once?” “Right away. I expect the car is at the door now.” “And Ill never see you again.” “Never again. You don’t belong to yourself any more, my boy. You belong to the people—to millions upon millions of them, carrying the hopes and the aspirations and the dreams of all of them around on your shoulders. You'll want to get away from it; you’ll feel 2) of that as an actual, tangible weight, pressing down on you without a ‘let-up, day and night, as long as you live. It'll be hard, especially when you see poor, downtrodden people look

Go on down, King

“Surely

fou a country

up at you out of their misery and say, ‘God save the king!’ with a break in’ their voices, so that you'll know that unless you help them no one will . . . and then you’ll discover that the throne and the scepter are only make-believe, after all, and that there's pitifully little you can do for them ..."” He stopped abruptly and stroked

his brother’s shoulder.

“Go on down, your majesty,” he said lightly. “And—goodby. not to think toc badly of me.” The young king gripped his hand, hard. “Think badly of you! You've always been—my king! And you always will!” Joseph turned and went out hurriedly without looking back.

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T= open doors threw a fan ot yellow light into the porte cochere. Paul came down the steps and got into the waiting automobile. A guard saluted rigidly, the car door closed with matter-of-fact finality, and ‘the car sped noiselessly off down the drive into the darkness.

Half an hour later the car swung in through the medieval gate of ancient Fort St. Gregory. It rolled quietly past the great battlements, turned, and came at last to an open meadow which had been grazing ground for the garrison’s cattle, since time immemorial, until a new kind of warfare had come along and turned it into an airport. The car stopped just behind a row of floodlights which turned the field into a dazzling expanse of unearthly vivid green. Attendants sprang to open the door and transfer the luggage. A general in full regimentals saluted as Paul got out. It took but a few moments for Paul to get into the gray monoplane that waited, its propeller glinting in a silver circle as it idled in the! glare of the floodlights. A private fastened” the hatch on the luggage compartment and sprang nimbly

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down. The general came forward to lean in at the door for a final handshake. The door was closed, 2 voice cried “All clear!” and the drone of the motor rose to a roar. The plane trundled awkwardly across the sod, left the ground, seemed to balance itself uncertainly, and then became a thing of grace and austere beauty, rising above the floodlights and cleaving a straight course through the dark. “ They flew high, and the lights of the capital spangled the blackness neath. There it lay, the world’s proudest city,’ girt with the memories of a thousand years of empire; and the man who had given it all up with a stroke of the pen looked down as its starry diadem slid by beneath him and drifted off to the west. They came to the sea, end

ing lights of his majesty’s great ships of war as they lay at anchor. And then they were out over the ocean, and the land fell behind them, and the lights of the capital rimmed the invisible horizon far ir the rear. And Paul did not look back, for he was through with the past and all its memories. He peered over the pilot’s shoulder at the unfathomable blackness ahead, as if he were trying to make out the fair shape of a future that was to be his own.

(To Be Continued)

TRAFFIC OFFICER TO SPEAK Traffic Officer Otto Maas is to address the William Garfield Post, American Legion, in the Garfield Park Community House at 8 p. m. today on safety. He will show two reels of American Legion safety pictures.

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SOIL PROGRAM MEETINGS SET FOR TOWNSHIPS

Marion County Farmers to Hear Agent Outline ?37 Requirements.

A series of eight meetings to outline the 1937 soil conservation program to Marion County farmers is to be conducted next week by County Agent Horace Abbott. The first two meetings are scheduled Tuesday night in Perry and Lawrence Townships; Wednesday, ‘Washington and Wayne Townships; Thursday, Warren and Franklin;

Friday, Pike and Decatur. Places of the meetings hae not been announced. The basic principles of the 1937 program listed by Mr. Abbott are: 1. Total acreag:. of soil depleting crops should not ¢ zceed the soil depleting base Tor ie farm. 2. Corn acreage should not exceed the corn acreage mit for the farm. 3. To have all ai reage of crop land that is not in sjil-depleting crops in good stands »f soil-conserving crops.

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