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I supposed those things never happened except in the movies. I was trying to decide whether to laugh or cry or faint away, or whether simply to sit down and wait and see what happened, when the door was flung open again and there stood Valdemir ! “I followed you and saw the outrage !” he cried, catching me close — so close that I could feel his heart pounding. “Come, confess! You were teasing me just now — look me in the eyes and tell me you do not love me if you can!” I looked into his eyes, and I forgot everything for a mad moment. “I do love you !” I cried. “Always ! I do ! I do !” The next few moments belong to me and no one else. I thought it was going to he all I should ever have in life so I took them. Then I grew very quiet and still. “I want to go to my room,” I told my prince. “I want to think over what has happened, and I want you to think it over too. For what I told you is the truth. I am not the princess. I am just a girl, and princes dont marry ordinary girls except in fairy tales !” I knew that it would be no use for me to run away from him again. But as soon as I was by myself I made my plans. I would leave the palace and make my way, flood or not, to Kragcliffe. And afterward when I found Aunt Oilie — for somehow I knew that it would take more than a few bandits to feaze Aunt Oilie! — afterward, we would go back to America and I would put my memory of happiness away in a secret drawer in my heart to take out and look at sometimes in secret when life got too grey and chilly. How I got thru the flood I hardly remember now. I moved mechanically thru the most amazing scenes with only a dim recollection of them when I tried to look back. But I carried something wilder and more turbulent than a flood in my heart ! Somehow I got to Kragcliffe, where I found Aunt Oilie placidly knitting a grey woolen sock beside the throne and Oluf pale and distressed. She said that she had been worried about me, but — being a woman myself I sensed that there was another cause for her unhappiness. “When I whipped up that bandit’s horse and drove him back to the railroad in time to take the relief train,” Aunt Oilie observed, “I never dreamed I was ever going to be chummy with royalty. On principle, I disapproved of ’em ! But, land sakes, this poor child here needed a friend, and some of the headache tablets I had in my bag, and a little decent food which I went down into the kitchen and cooked myself in spite of those heathens in white caps.” She glanced shrewdly at Oluf, “it’s my opinion she’s pining over some love affair! I may not be royal, but I’m a woman, and I know the symptoms !” Oluf blushed, and I saw her glance at a portrait on the wall. My heart gave a great leap, for it was the picture she used to have on her bureau, enlarged — the picture of Prince Gregory. “Then,” I gasped, forgetting that she was a queen and grabbing her arm quite as tho it didn’t have blue blood in its veins, “then you dont want to marry Valdemir after all ?” Oluf shook her head, wonderingly. “Of course not! And I cant understand why he wants to marry me either — he’s never even seen me. But I shall have to sacrifice myself for the good of my country !” “But he doesn't want to marry you,” I burst out, “he wants to marry me! At least he thought I was the Princess Oluf — ” and I told the whole story. “But of course, now that he knows I’m not a princess, it’s all over,” I finished, trying to keep the silly shake out of the words. “Is it?” cried a deep voice behind me, and Valdemir had taken me, before them all, into his arms and kissed me until I knew that somehow my dream had come true. “Princess Oluf,” he said, over my head, “I give my consent to your marriage with Gregory of Masavania.” He turned to Aunt Oilie with a profound bow, “Madame, I ask the hand of your niece in marriage!” It was the first time in my life I ever saw Aunt Oilie fussed. She dropped three stitches before she could answer him. “Pm sure you’re very welcome, Your — Your — Worship,” she said in a flustered tone. Then we were alone, and my prince — But the rest is none of anybody’s business but mine ! ( Eighty-eight )