Now, Gretlich, I want you to help make Miss Baxter's stay here so pleasant that she will never want to leave us." "I shall do my best, your Highness," said the girl, with quiet deference.
The Princess left the two alone together, and Jennie saw that Gretlich was not the least ornamental appendage to the handsome suite of rooms.
Gretlich was an excellent example of that type of fair women for which Vienna is noted; but she was, as the Princess had said, extremely downcast, and Jennie, who had a deep sympathy for all who worked, spoke kindly to the girl and endeavoured to cheer her.

There was something of unaccustomed tenderness in the compassionate tones of Jennie's voice that touched the girl, for, after a brief and ineffectual effort at self-control, she broke down and wept.

To her pitying listener she told her story.

She had been betrothed to a soldier whose regiment was stationed in the Burg.

When last the girl saw her lover he was to be that night on guard in the Treasury.