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(?.> s . . ? ,t ? ???? ? .-s.i..- . . ..? I -wm ; ...... . ; ? ? ? THE ==_ jj :;?i:: Fk ? I y? ? ? ^Princess Virginia i: By c. n. and a. m. williamson, , '[ * .* ; .* Author# of Lightning Conductor." "Row- . ; ** . ? . ? . ? mary In Search of a Father." tie. 4 ' ><&<H ? T : V COPYRIGHT. 1007. BY McCLURL. PHILLIPS L- CO. | * ? *'!?* r*-- ? - ? '? w V ?"V,OrVW?rv V V Through the gate of dreams ties the fair land of romance in to which you would travel, find ing welcome relief from the daily grind. Now you are invited to accompany the Princess Virginia, who determines that the royal personage who would honor her with his hand must fall in love with her and woo her as any other man would a woman. Therefore she travels incognito in his realm, meeting adventures strange and full of excitement. You will learn with pardonable pride thai the American blood in her veins gives her un independence un heard of in the presence of kings, but most of all you will want to know how she succeeds in her bold undertaking. That you will enjoy every minute of the read ing is assured by the verdict of thousands who declare "The Princess Virginia" to be a most delightful story. Wlivw ?-iTi^sTtTrm ^CHAPTER ONE/ y iw.g.rs'.'ar.fiWi: Jt**m ? v ?* o," Mid the i>rlin-?*s?: "110, I'm dashed If I do." "My darling child," exclaimed the grand WkJJ? duchess, "you're Irupoa witC/ slble. If any one should bear you!" "It's lie rvlio's Impossible," the prin cess amended. "I'm Just trying to show you"? "Or to shock me. Von nre so like your grandmother." "That's the best compliment any one can give me. which Is lucky, as It's given so often," laughed the princess. "Dear, adorable Virginia!" She cud dled Into the pink hollow of her hand the pearl framed Ivory miniature of a beautiful, smiling girl which always hung from a thin gold chain around her neck. "They shouldn't have named me nfter you, should they. If they hadn't wanted me to tie like you?" "It was partly u question of money, dear," sighed the grand duchess. "If my mother hadn't left a legnoy to my first daughter only on consideration that her own extremely American name of Virginia should lie perpetual ed"~ "It was a delicious way of being pa trlotlc. I'm glad she did It. I love being the only roynl princess with American blood In my veins and an American name on my handkerchiefs. Do you believe for an Instant that if Grandmother Virginia were alive she would let Granddaughter Virginia mar ry I'rlnee Ilenri de Touralne?" "I don't see why not," said the grand duchess. "She wasn't too patriotic to marry an Kngllsh duke and startle London as the first American duchess. Heavens, the things she used to do if one could believe half the wild stories my father's sister told me In warning! And as for my father, though a most charming man, of course he could not ?er?have been called precisely es tlmable, while I'rlnee Ilcnrl certainly Is, and an exceedingly good match even for you?In present clrcum stances." "Call him a match If you like, moth er. He's undoubtedly a stick. Hut, no; he's not a match for me. There's only one on earth." And Virginia's eyes were lifted to the sky as If, In stead of existing on earth, the person In her thoughts were placed as high as the sun that shone als>ve her. "I should have preferred nn Eng lishman for you," said the grand duch ess, "if only there were one of suitable rank free to"? "I'm not tmnking or tin Englishman, murmured her daughter. "If only you would think of poor Henri!" "Never of him. You know, 1 Bald I would be dash"? "Don't reiH-at It! Oh, v. hen you look at me In that way, how like you are to your grandmother's portrait nt home the oue In white, painted Just l>efore ber marriage! Oue might have known you would t>e extraordinary. That sort of thing Invariably skips over a gen eration." The grand duchess laid down the the ory as a law. and. whether or no she were right. It wns at least sure that she had Inherited nothing of the tlrst Virginia's daring originality?some of her radiant mother's beauty perhaps, watered down to gentle prettlness, for the hereditary Crand iHx bess of Buu menburg-Drtppe nt fifty one was still a daintily attractive woman, n middle aged Dresden rhlnu lady, with a per fect complexion preserved by an at most |>erfect temper, surprised eye brows, kindly dimples and a conven tional upper lip She was not by birth "hereditary." Her lord and ivory much) her master had lieen that and had selected her to help him reign over the hereditary grand duchy of Raumenburg Drtppc, not only because bcr father was au English duke with royal Stuart blood n his veins, but liecause her Virginian not her hud brought much gold to the Northniorolaud exchequer. Afterward ho hud freely spent such portion of Ibut gold Hs lutd come to his coffers In trying to keep his little estates Intact. Itht now It was ull gone, and long ago le had died of grief and bitter disap pointment. The hereditary grnud duchy e. Kauuienburg-Drlppe was ruled by a cousinly understudy of the German Emperor William II.: the one son of the marriage had been adopted as heir to Ids crown by the childless king of llungarln: the handsome and lamenta Idj extravagant old Duke of North uioreland was dead; his title and vast estates had passed to a distant and dis agreeable relative, and the widowed grand duchess, with her one fair daughter, had lived for years In a pret ty old house with a high walled gar den at Hampton Court, lent by the generosity of the king and queen of England. I'or a long moment the Dresden china lady thought in silence and some IMcg of sadness. Then she roused tier s' If again and asked the one and only real princess with an American name what. In the way of a match, she real ly expected. "What do 1 expect?" echoed Virginia. "Why. I wish for the uioon?no, I menu the hiiii. But 1 don't expect to g t it." "Is that n way of saying you never intend to marry?" "I'm afraid It amounts to that," ad mitted Virginia, "since there is only one man in the world 1 would have for my husband." "My dearest! A man you have let yourself learn to enre for, a man be neath you? How terrible! But you see 1 no one. I"? "I've never seen this man. And?I'm . not 'In love' with lilin. That would bo ! too foolish, because, instead of being ' beneath, he's far. fur above me." "Virginia, of whom can you be talk ing? (tr Is this another Joke?" Virginia blushed a little and, Instead of answering her mother's look of help less appeal, stared at the row of tall hollyhocks that blazed along the Ivy hidden garden wall. She did not speuk for an instant, and then she said, with . the dainty shyness of a child piuned to I n statement by uncomprehending eld i ers: "It Isn't a Joke. Nonsense, maybe, yet not a Joke. I've always thought of him?for so many years I've forgotten when it flrst began. He was so great, sji?everything that appeals to me. IIow could I help thinking about him and putting him on a iiedestal? I? there's no Idea of marriage in my mind, of course, only?there's no other man possible after all the thoughts I've i given him?no other man In the world." | "My dear, you must tell me his name." J "What! When I've described him?al I most do you still need to hear his | name? Well. then. 1 I'm not nshnm 1 ed to tell. It's I.eopokl." \ "Leopold. You're talking of the em ; peror of Rhaetla." "As if It could have been any one else." "And you have thought of him. you've cherished him. for years as an 1 Ideal! Why. you never spoke of him particularly before." "That's because you never seriously wanted me to take a husband until this prim, dull French llenrl proposed htm I self. My thoughts were my own. I i wouldn't have told you only?you see , why." "Of course, my precious child. How ' extremely Interesting and- and romaii j i tic!" Again the grand duchess lapsed j | Into silence, yet her expression did not i i sugg-'st a stricken inlinl. She merely appeared astonished, with an astonish ment that might turn Into an emotion I more agreeable. Meanwhile it was loft for Virginia ! to look vexed?vexed with herself. She ! wished that she had not betrayed her 1 |K>or little foolish seeret so shadowy a | secret that It was hardly worthy of the ' name Yet 't had been precious?pre ' i ions since childhood, precious as the immediate .towel of her soul because It had been the Jewel of her soul, and no one else had dreamed of Its exist ence Now she had shown it to other eyes, almost flaunted It. Never again could It be a Joy to her. In the little room, half study, half boudoir, which was her own there was u desk, looked In her absence, where souvenirs of the young emperor of ltliaetia had lieon accumulating for years. There were photographs w hich Virginia had contrived to buy secret ly?portraits of lAHtpold from an early age up to the present when be was shown as a tall, dark, cold eyed, warm j lipped, tirm chinned young man of I thirty. There were paragraphs cut from newspapers telling of his genius as a soldier, his prowess as a moun taineer and hunter of big game, with dramatic anecdotes of his haughty courage lu time of danger, his Impul- i ? Ive charities ids well thought out ! s< hemes for the welfare of his subjects In every waik of life. There were black and white copies of bold, clever pictures he had painted There was martial music com posed by him and plaintive folk songs adapted hy him. which Virginia had tried soft ijly to herself on her tittle piano when I nobody waa near. There were rejxjrta ; of speeches made by blu) since Uls ac cession to the throne, accounts of Im provements in guns uud an invention of i. new explosive. There was a some what crude yet witty play which he hud written and numerous other rec ords of the accomplishments and achievements uud even eccentricities which bad built up the Princess Vir ginia's ideal of this celebrated young man, proclaimed emperor after the greut revolution eight yearn ago. "You are worthy to be an empress." Her mother's voice broke into Vir ginia's thoughts. She started and found herself under inspection by the grund duchess. At first she frowned; then she laughed, springing up on a quick impulse to turn earnest into jest and so perhaps escape further cate chising. "Yes, would I not make an empress?" she echoed, stepping out from the shadow of her favorite elm into the noontide radiance of summer. The sun poured over her hair as she stood with uplifted head and threaded it with a network of living gold, gleam ing into the dark gray eyes rimmed Willi black lushes uud turning them to Jewels. Iler fair skill was as flawless in the unsparing light as the petals of lilies, and her features, though a repe tition of those which had made a Vir ginia girl famous long ago. were carved with royal perfection. mere is no real reason wny you should not make an empress, dearest," Slid ber mother, in pride of the girl's beauty and desiring, womanlike, to promote her child's happiness. "Stran ger things have happened. Only last week at Windsor the dear queen was saying what a pity poor Henri was not more. But, no matter; he is well enough. However, If? And when one comes to think of it, It's perhaps not unnatural that Leopold of Ithaetia lias never been mentioned for you. although there could be nothing against the mar riage. What a match for any woman? a supreme one! Not a royal girl but would go on her knees to him if'? "I wouldn't." said Virginia. "I might worship him, yet he should go on his knees to me." "I doubt if those proud knees of his will ever bend in homage to man or woman." replied the grand duchess. "But that's a mere fantasy. I'm seri ous now, darling, and I very much wish you would be." "Please, I'd rather not." smiled Vir ginia uneasily. "Let us not talk of the emperor any more?and never again after this, mother. You know now. That's all thnt's necessary, and"? "But it's not all that's necessary. You have put the Idea into my head, and it's not un unpleasing idea. Be sides, it tins evidently been in your head for a long time, and I should like to see you happy?see you in a position sucli as you're entitled to grace. You are a very beautiful girl (there's no dis guising that from you, as you know you are the image of your grandmoth er, who was a celebrnted beauty), and the liest blood in Kurope runs in your veins. You are royal, and yet?and yet our circumstances are such that?in fact, for the present we're somewhat handicapped." "We're beggars," said Virginia, laughing, but It was not a happy laugh. "Cophetua married the lieggar maid," the grand duchess reminded her, with elaborate playfulness. "And, you know, all sorts of things have hap pened in history?much stranger than any oue would dare put in fiction if writing of royalties. My dear husband was second cousin once removed to the German emperor, though lie was treat ed? But we mustn't speak of that. The subject always upsets me. What I was lending up to is this?though there may he other girls who from a worldly I "Yet, would I not make an empresst" point of view are more desirable, still you're strictly within the pale froui which Leopold Is entitled to choose his wife, and If"? "Dear little mother, there's no such 'If.' And, as for me. 1 wasn't thinking of a 'worldly point of view.' The em peror of Xthaetia barely knows that I exist And even if by some miracle he should suddenly discover that little Princess Virginia Mary Victoria Alex andra Hlldegrade of Raumeuburg Drlppe was the one suitable wife for him ou earth I wouldu't have him want me because I was 'suitable.' but?be cause I was Irresistible. I'd want his love?all his love?or I would say. 'No: you must look somewhere else for your empress.' " "But that's nonsense, darling. Hoy al people seldom or never hare the chance to fall In love," said the grand i duchess. ?Tin tired of tieing royal." snapped the priucess. "ileiug royal does uoth In,' hut spoil all oue's fuu and oblige line to do stupid. borlug things which uue hales." "Nevertheless noblesse does oblige," went on the Dresden china prophetess of conventionality. "When alliances ure arranged for women of our posi tion. we must coutent ourselves with the hope that love may come after marriage, or. If not. we must go on do ing our duty In that state of life to which beuveu has graciously called us." "Itother duty!" broke out Virginia. "Thauk goodness, in these days not all the king's horses and all the king's men can make even a princess marry against her will. I hate that everlast ing cant about 'duty in marriage.' When iieople love each other they're kind and good and sweet uud true be cause it's a Joy, not because It's a duty. And that's the only sort of loy alty worth having between men and women, according to me. 1 wouldn't accept anything else from a man, and I should despise him if he were less or more exacting." "Virginia, tlie way you express your self is almost improper. I'm thankful that no one hears you except uiyself." sal I the grand duchess. But at this moment. wheu clash of tongues and opinions seemed imminent, there oc curred a happy diversion in the arrival of letters. Virginia, who was a neglectful cor respondent. had uothing, but two or three important looking envelopes claimed attention from the grand duch ess. and as soon as the ladies were once more alone together in the sweet scented garden she broke the crown stamped seal of her sou Adalbert, now by adoption crown prince of Hungaria. "Open the others for me, dear," she lemauded excitedly, "while 1 see what Dal has to say." And Virginia leisure ly obeyed, wondering whether Dai's news would by and by tie passed on to her. It was always an event when u long letter came from him, and the grand duchess invariably laughed and exclaimed and sometimes blushed as she read, but when she blushed the letter was not given to the crown prince's sister. There was a note today from an old friend of her mother's of whom Vir ginia was fond, uud she' had just be gun to be interested in the third para graph, all about an adorable Dandy Dlumout puppy, when an odd. half stifled ejaculutlon from the grand duch ess made the girl lift her eyes. "lias Dal been having something be yond the common in the way of adven tures V" she inquired dryly. Her mother did not answer, but she had grown pink and then pale. Virginia began to be uneasy. "What is the matter? Is anything wrong?" she asked. "No?nothing in the least wrong, far from It. Indeed: but, oh, my child:" "Mother, dear, what is it?" "Something so extraordinary, so wonderful?I mean us a coincidence? that I can hardly speak. I suppose 1 can't be dreaming. You are really talking to nie in the garden, aren't you ?" "I am. and 1 wish you were telling me the mystery. Do. dear. You look awake, only rather odd." "It would be strange if I didn't look odd. Dal says?Dal says"? "What lias lie been doing?getting engaged?" "No. 1t is?your emperor, not Dal. who talks of being engaged." "Oh," said Virginia, trying not to speak blankly, trying not to flush, try lug not to show In any way the sudden sick pain in her heart. Of course she was not in love with him. Of course, though she had been childish enough long ago to make him her ideal and foolishly faithful enough to keep him so, she had always known that he would never be more to her than u shadow emperor. Some day lie would marry one of those other royal girls who Were so much more suitable than she That would be natural and right, as she had more than once told herself with no conscious pang, lait now that the news bad come, now that the royal gill was actually chosen and she must hear the letter and read about the liappv esent la the newspa pers. it was different. She felt sud denly cohl and sick under the blow hurt ami defrauded and even jealous. She knew that she would hate the girl ?some wretched, commonplace girl, with stick out teeth, perhaps, or no fig ure and no idea of the way to wear her clothes or do her hair. But sho swallowed hard and clinch ed her fingers under the voluminous letter about Dandy Dlnmout. "Oh, so our frleud is going to'be married?" she remarked lightly. "That depends," replied the grand duchess, laughing mysteriously, with a catch In her voice as if she had been a nervous girl?"that depends. You must guess. But. no: I won't tease you My dear, my dear, after Dai's letter, coming, as It has come. In the midst of such a conversation. I shall be a firm lieilever in telepathy. This letter on its way to us must have put the thoughts luto our minds and the words on our tongues, it may tie that the emperor of Ithaetla will marry; it tuay uot. for. my sweet. I>eaut!ful girl. It depends upon?you." "Me?" The voice did not sound to Virginia like her own. Was she. too. dreaming? Were they both in a dream? "He wishes to marry you." All the letters dropped from Vlr gin la'a lap -dropped and fluttered to the grass slowly, like falling rose leaves. Scarcely knowing n hat she did. she clasped her hands over the young bos oin, shaken with the sudden throbbing of her heart. Perhaps such a betraynl of feeling by a royal maiden deoo rously sued (by proxy) for her hand was scarcely correct, but Virgin In bad uo thought for rules of ooiwluet as laid down for bar too often by Uer mother. "Ho wishes to marry?me?" she echoed dazedly. "Why?" "Provideuce must have drawn your Inclination toward him. dearest. It Is indeed u romance. Some day, no doubt. It will lie told to the world In history." "But how did he"? Virginia broke off and liegan agaiu. "Did he tell this to Dal aud ask him to write you?" "Not?not precisely that." admitted the grand duchess, her face changing from satisfaction to uneasiness, for Virginia was difficult In some ways, though adorable in others, and held such peculiar Idea* about life?Inherit ed from her American grandmother that It was Impossible to be sure bow she would receive the most ordinary announcements. The princess' rapt expression faded like the passing of dawn. "Not precisely that?" she repeated. "Then what?how"? "Well, perhaps, though It's not strict ly the correct tiling, you had better read your brother's letter for yourself." Virginia put her bauds behind her back with a childish gesture, and a frightened look came into the eyei which at most times gazed bravely up on the world. "I?somehow I can't," she said. "Please tell me." "To begin with, then, you know what an admiration Dal has felt for Count ' ' /4k **?v ?"VVJ W I LtiSj "He Irishes to marry?met" von Breltsteln ever since that diplo matic visit the Uhaetian chancellor paid to Hungaria. The fancy seemed to he mutual; hut. then, who could ever re sist Dal if he wanted to be liked? The chancellor has written to him from time to time, and Dal has quite en Joyed the correspondence. The old man can l>e witty as well as cynlcnl If he chooses, and Dal says he tells good stories. Now, it seems. In the Informal way in which such affairs are usually put forward, that Count von Breitsteln has written confidentially to Dal. as our only near male relative, asking how your family would regard an alliance lietween I^opold and yon or if we have already disposed of your hand. At last the emperor is Inclined to listen to his chancellor's advice and marry, and you, as a Protestant prin cess"? "A Protestant princess, indeed!" cried Virginia. "I protest against be ing approached by him on such terms." The face of the grand duchess was darkened by the gloom of her thoughts. "My daughter." she exclaimed mildly, yet despairingly, "It's not possible that when tills wonderful chance, this un heard of chance, tills chance that you were praying for, actually falls Into your hands you will throw it away for ?for a sentimental schoolgirl scruple." "I was not praying for it." said Vir ginia. "I'm sure, mother, you would h ive considered It most bold in me to i ray for It. Ami 1 didn't. I was only refuslug other chances." "Well, at all events, you have this one now. It is yours." "Not tn the one way 1 should have loved to see it come. 'Hi. mother, why does the emperor want to marry me? Isn't there some ether reason than just because I'm a proper Protestant prin cess ?" "Of course." Insisted the grand duch ess. faintly encouraged. "Dal men tions several most excellent reasons In hts letter, if you nould only take them sensibly." "I should like to hour them, at nil events," answered Virginia. "Well, you see, the empress of Ubne tla must 1st a Protestant, and there aren't many eligible Protestant girls who would l>e acceptable to the Rhae tlans?girls who would lie popular with the people. Oh, I have finished ubout that! You need not look so des|>erate. Besides. Dal explains that Ixtopold Is a young man who dominntes all around hint. He wishes to take for his bride a girl who could not by any possibility herself lie heiress to a 'hrone. Dal fancies that Ills desire Is to mold his wife and therefore to take a girl with out too many Important and Importu nate relatives, for he Is not one who would dream of adding to his great uess by using the wealth or position of a woman. He has all be needs or wants of that sort. And then, Dal re minds me. Leopold Is very partial to England, which helped Ithaetla passive ly In the time of her trouble eight years ago. The fact that you have lived In England and had au English education would lie favorably regard ed both by Leopold and his chancellor. Aud, though I've never allowed you to have a photograph taken since yon were a child (1 hate seeing young girls' faces In the newspapers aud mngav.Iues; even though they are royal their fea tures need not lie public propertyl and you have lived here tu such seclusion Lbat you've lieen little seen, still the rumor has reached Rhnetln that you lire? good to lo >1; at. Leo|>old has been heard to say that, whatever else the future empress of lihaetia may be, be won't give his people au ugly woman to reign over them And so alto gether "And so altogether, m.v references lieir.g satisfactory, at a pinch I might do for the place," cut in Virginia, with the hot. impatient rebellion of her youth. "Oh. mother, you think me mad or u fool. 1 kuow. uud perhaps 1 am uiad. yet uot mail enough not to see that It would !*' a great thing, a won derful thiug. to lie asked in marriage by the oue man in my world If?ah. that great 'if?he had only seen and fallen In love with me. It might have happened, you know. As you say, I'm not ugly, and I can be rather pleasant If 1 choose?so 1 believe. If he had only come to this land to see what I was like, as royal men did lit the dear old fairy stories, and then had asked me to be his w ife, w hy, 1 should have been conceited enough to think It was because he loved me even more than because of other things. Then I should have been happy?yes, dear, I'll con fess It to you now?almost happy enough to die of the great joy and tri umph of it. Hut now I'm not happy. 1 will marry Leopold or I'll marry no man. but I swear to you I won't be married to Leopold lu Count von Breit stelu's hateful old. cold, cut and dried way." "It's the emperor's way as well as Von Breltsteln's." "Then for once in his big, grand, ob stinate life he'll have to learn that there's one insignificant girl who won't play Grisehla evep for the sake of be ing his empress." The girl proclaimed this resolve, ris ing to her feet, with her head high and a look in her gray eyes which told the grand duchess that it would be hopeless for her to argue down the resolution. At first it was a proud look and a sad look, but suddenly a beam of light flashed into it and began to sparkle and twinkle. Virginia smiled and showed her dimples. Her color came nnd went. In a moment she was a different girl, nnd her mother, be wildered. fearful still, dared to hope something from the change. "How odd you look!" she exclaimed. "You've thought of something. You are happy. You have the air of?of having found some plan." "It found me, I think," the girl an swered, laughing, "all suddenly, just in a flash. That's the way it must be with inspirations. This is one?I know it. It's all in the air, floating round mo. Hut I shall grasp it soon." She came close to her mother, still smiling, and knelt down in the grass at her feet, looking up with radiance in her eyes. Luckily there was no one save the Dresden china lady nud the birds nnd flowers to see how a young princess threw her mantle of dignity away, for the two did not keep royal state and a royal retinue in the quaint old house at Hampton Court, and the big elm which Virginia loved kindly hid the mother and daughter from intrusive eyes. "You do love me, don't you, dear est?" cooed the princess softly as a dove. "You know I do, my child, though I don't pretend to understand you," sighed the grand duchess, well aware that she was about to be coaxed into some scheme, feeling that she would yield nnd praying Providence that the yielding might not lead her into tribu lation. "People grow dull If we understand them too well," said Virginia. "It's like solving a puzzle?there's no more fun in It when It's finished. Rut you wish me to be happy, darling?" "Store than I wish for anything else, excepting, of course, denr Dai's"? "Dal Is a man and can take care of himself. I must do the best I can poor me! And there's something I want so much, so much It would be heaven on earth, all my own, if I could win It?I/eqpold's love, quite for my self. as a girl, not as a 'suitable Prot estant princess.' For a few horrid minutes I thought it was too late to hope for that and I must give Ulm up, because I never could be sure if I ac cepted him without his love and he said it had come afterward; that it was really, really true. Anyway, it could never be the same, and I was miserable over what might have been. Then suddenly 1 saw how it still might be. I almost think I may bo able to win his love if you'll promise to help me, dear." "Of course I will," said the grand duchess, carried out of her pretty little conventional self into unwonted im pulsiveness by the warmth of kisses soft and sweet as the roses on Vlr glnia'd bosom. "That Is, 1 will if 1 can. But I don't at all see what I can do." "I sec. And what I want you to do is to please, please see with my eyes." "They're very bright ones." smiled her mother. Princess Virginia clasped the grand duchess round the waist so tightly that it hurt. Then she laughed, a loud, half frightened, excited laugh. "Dearest, something perfectly wonderful is go ing to happen to you and me," she said ?"the most wonderful thing that ever has happened. We are going to have a?great?adventure. And what the end of It will be?I don't know." [to be cotvrrvrED.) Don't cough your head off when you can get a guaranteed remedy in Bees Laxative Cough Syrut) It is especial ly recommended for children as its pleasant to take, is a gentle laxative thus expelling the phlegm from the system. 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