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EPILOG TO THF. T R A V L L PICTURES BKlHl't * HI.igBWOKT I>h\ &B1 KIMI D I M ROMTHIQKRMAf HKKK in -till a w i 1 will tell on< moi nin hru my I 1 out of the life < bar) V. nd ta\ I M —it lias be n run sin J -t lay—a n N i t has he i a Ion time since 1 heard it. and 1 do n t fa w bl ta t circumstances a m more. Such things are kailj t r- Kotten, if one do< i bgeta ti\ I salary r r i lin. off the old stories every me er fr m a • y book But it is worth a mething, al > the names and dates o the story have escaped the memory, if only its spirtual significance, it moral, has b< in retains It i< just this whioh 1 cannot forgel and which movei me sadly to bears, 1 am afraid 1 am get-tin sick. The poor Kaiser had boon taken pris nor by hi foes and lay closely imprisoned. I think it was in Tyrol. There he sat in his lonely Brief, desert* I bj v all his knighte and countries, and DO one came t hie rescue. I do net know whether he had already the cheese-pale countenance that is bown in p o r t r a i t s of him hy 1 >lbein, the disdainful lower lip was thrust out even farther than in the pictures. It \i as no W ider that he despised the people who fawned ibout him so devotedly under the sunshine of f o r t u r e . and DO* left him alone in his gloomy need. Then suddenly the prison door was opened, and the muffled fiiture o a man entered. When the stranger had thrown b a d his cloak, the Kaiser recogni d hifl aithful Kuni von dor Rosen, the Oourt Fool, U bringing comfort I >1, WM ho w h o N > and counsel, and he u Oourt
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