t the caves and the woods they were
using. At last they began to discuss the measure of summoning to their
aid the local police; and for some time debated whether it was worth
the risk of the ridicule it might bring upon them.

Miss Lambart had listened to them with distrait ears since she had
something more pleasant to give her mind to. But at last she said with
some impatience: "Why can't the princess stay where she is? That
open-air life, day and night, is doing her a world of good. She is
eating lots of good food and taking ten times as much exercise as ever
she took in her life before."

"Eembossible! Shall I live in a cave?" cried the baroness.

"It doesn't matter at all where you live. It is the princess we are
considering," said Miss Lambart unkindly, for she had come quite to the
end of her patience with the baroness.

"Drue!" said the archduke quickly.

"Shall eet zen be zat ze princess live ze life of a beast in a gave?"
cried the baroness.

"She isn't," said Miss Lambart shortly. "In fact she's leading a far
better and healthier and more intelligent life than she does here. The
doctor's orders were never properly carried out."

"Ees zat zo?" said the archduke, frowning at the baroness.

"Eengleesh doctors! What zey know? Modern!" cried the baroness
scornfully.

In loud and angry German the archduke fell furiously upon the baroness,
upbraiding her for her disobedience of his orders. The baroness
defended herself loudly, alleging that the princess would by now be
dying of a galloping consumption had she had all the air and water the
doctors had ordered her. But the archduke stormed on. At last he had
some one on whom he could vent his anger with an excellent show of
reason; and he vented it.

Presently, for the sake of Miss Lambart's counsel in the matter, they
returned to the English tongue and discussed seriously the matter of
the princess remaining at the knoll. They found many objections to it,
and the chief of them was that it was not safe for three children to be
encamped by themselves in the heart of a wood.

Miss Lambart grew tired of assuring them that the Twins were more
efficient persons than nine Germans out of ten; and at last she said:

"Well, Highness, to set your fears quite at rest, I will go and stay at
the knoll myself. Then you can go back to Cassel-Nassau with your mind
at ease; and I will undertake that the princess comes to you in better
health than if she h