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THE TERRIBLE TWINS

highness; and I zay zat she does not wiz zese chil-
dren blay."

The fine gray eyes of the princess were burning with a somber glow. She was angry, and her mind was teeming with the instructions of her young mentors, especially with the more violent in-
structions of Erebus.

She gazed straight into the sparkling but blood-
shot eyes of the raging baroness, and said in a somewhat uncertain voice but clearly enough:

"Old—red—peeg."

Miss Lambart started in her chair; the baroness uttered a gasping grunt; she blinked; she could not believe her ears.

"But whad—but whad—" she said faintly.

"Old—red—peeg," said the princess, some-
what pleased with the effect of the words, and de-
sirous of deepening it.

"Bud whad ees eed zat 'appen?" muttered the bewildered baroness.

"If you do not find me children quickly, I shall write to my father that you do not as the English doctor bids; and you were ordered to do everything what the English doctor bids," said the princess in

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