[CHAPTER IX. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRINCESS]
[CHAPTER X. THE PRINCESS RETURNS]
[CHAPTER XI. A FLASH OF LIGHT]
[CHAPTER XII. AT THE LAST EXTREMITY]
[CHAPTER XIII. DEAD AND ALIVE AGAIN]
A SHAM PRINCESS
[CHAPTER I]
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.