PRINCESS PLAYMATE Then began my father to tell the story slowly, with many a pause and interruption, now searching for words, now racked with pain, all of which I need not imitate, and shall leave out.

But the substance of his tale was to this effect: "After you had left us, the Dukedom went from bad to worse--no peace, no rest, no money.

Duke Casimir took less and less of my advice, but, on the contrary, began again his old horrors--plundering, killing, living by terror and in terror.

He threatened Torgau.

He attacked Plassenburg.