PRINCE RICARDO. IIg

 

self, but he did not choose to make any remark
at the moment.

The prince ran upstairs to dress. On the
stairs he met the Princess Jaqueline.

“Oh, Dick! are you hurt ?” she said, turning
very pale.

“No, not I; but the monster is. I hada
capital day, Jack; rescued a princess, too.”

‘“* Was she—was she very pretty, Dick?”

‘Oh! I don’t know. Pretty enough, I dare-
say. Much like other girls. Why, you look
‘quite white! What’s the matter? Now you
look all right again ;” for, indeed, the Princess
Jaqueline was blushing.

‘“T must dress. I’m ever so late,” he said,
hurrying upstairs; and the princess, with a
little sigh, went down to the royal drawing-
room.