e, the Princess could not help laughing, his air was so
desperate. If only those cows could have known who he was, and
appreciated the honor!

"Pray, pray don't mind," she begged. "You have done more than most men
could have done. After all, I'll have a glass of Rhaetian beer with
you, to drink your health and that of your Emperor. I wonder by the by
if he, who prides himself on doing all things well, can milk a cow?"

"If not, he should learn," said the chamois hunter, viciously.
"There's no knowing, it seems, when one may need the strangest
accomplishments, and be humiliated for lack of them."

"No, not humiliated," Virginia assured him. "It's always instructive
to find out one's limitations. And you have been most good to me. See,
while you were gone, I ate the slice of bread and ham you cut, and
never did a meal taste better. Now, you must have many things to do,
which I've made you leave undone. I've trespassed on you too long."

"Indeed, lady, it seems scarcely a moment since you came, and I have
no work to do," the chamois hunter insisted.

"But I've a friend waiting for me, on the mountain," the Princess
confessed. "Luckily, she had her lunch and will have eaten it, and her
guide-book must have kept her happy for a while; but by this time I'm
afraid she's anxious, and would be coming in search of me, if she
dared to stir. I must go. Will you tell me by what name I shall
remember my--rescuer, when I recall this day?"

"They named me--for the Emperor."

"They were wise. It suits you. Then I shall think of you as Leopold.
Leopold--what? But no, don't tell me the other name. It _can't_ be
good enough to match the first; for do you know, I admire the name of
Leopold more than any other I've ever heard? So, Leopold, will you
shake hands for good-by?"

The strong hand came out eagerly, and pressed hers. "Thank you, gna'
Fraeulein; but it's not good-by yet. You must let me help you back by
the way you came, and down the mountain."

"Will you really? I dared not ask as much, for fear, in spite of your
kind hospitality, you were--like your noble namesake--a hater of
women."

"That's too hard a word, even for an Emperor, lady. While as for me,
if I ever said to myself, 'no woman can be of much good to a man as a
real companion,' I'm ready to unsay it."

"I'm glad! Then you shall come with me, and help me; and you shall
help my friend, who is so good and so strong-minded that perhaps she
may make you think eve