TWILIGHT LAND

It was the princess.

‘Do you not know me?” said she; ‘I am the queen,
and this is my husband. He is your king.”

All stood silent for a moment, and then a great shout
went up. ‘Long live the queen! Long live the king!”

The princess turned to the captain of the guards.
“You have offered your services to my husband,” said
she; “his commands and my commands are that you
march to the palace and cast out him who hath no right
there.”

“Tt shall be done,” said the captain of the guards.

All the troops were up in arms, and the town was full
of tumult and confusion. About midnight they brought
the false king before King Beppo and the queen. The
false king stood there trembling like a leaf. The queen
stood gazing at him steadily. ‘Behold, this is the hus-
band that thou gavest me,” said she. “It is as I said;
he is greater than thou. For, lo, he is king! What art
thou?”

The false king was banished out of the country, and
the poor fisherman’s wife, who had entertained the prin-
cess for all this time, came to live at the palace, where all
was joy and happiness.

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