A sham princess

Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
EGLANTON THORNE
AUTHOR OF THE OLD WORCESTER JUG, WORTHY OF HIS NAME, ETC., ETC.
LONDON
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
56 PATERNOSTER ROW AND 65 ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD
BUTLER & TANNER THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS FROME, AND LONDON.
CONTENTS
A SHAM PRINCESS
Her Devoted Subject
COULD it be that the Princess was going to die? Bert held his breath as the thought smote him. He could almost hear the beating of his heart as he stood motionless, arrested by the painful idea, and gazed with anxious eyes on his sleeping sister.
Prin had been ill for more than a week, so ill that the parish doctor had come every day to see her; but Bert had never thought of death before.