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According to Shakespeare these were the words of Hamlet, 

 Prince of Denmark, when he learned that his father's ghost was 

 walking beneath the walls of Castle Kronberg at Elsinore. 



" I'll speak to it, thongh hell itself should gape and bid me 

 hold my peace," repeated Theodore Roosevelt, retracing the royal 

 slave's footsteps on the walls of the historic Castle of Elsinore. 

 Of course, no one knows whether the Colonel had in mind any 

 particular person, any critic, any opposing will when he reiterated 

 Hamlet's determined words. 



Mr. Roosevelt was immensely interested at Elsinore. He 

 listened intently to the relation of the local tradition that Shake- 

 speare visited Elsinore with a party of players, and that the idea 

 of his great tragedy, " Hamlet," came to him there. The Colonel 

 was told, too, that Guildenstern, whom Shakespeare made a 

 courtier at the Danish court, actually lived at Elsinore, and, having 

 met Shakespeare there, visited him later in England. 



THE COLONEL VASTLY PLEASED. 



Although vastly pleased with the entertainments, all of which 

 were given in the name of King Frederick, although he was in 

 South France, Mr. Roosevelt was plainly glad as he coiled up in a 

 sleeping car bunk that night, en route for Christiania. His rest in 

 a royal bed the preceding night was curtailed by the necessity of 

 arising early. 



A crowd was attracted that morning by the unprecedented 

 sight of a flag other than Denmark's, the Stars and Stripes, float- 

 ing over the royal castle. The crowd cheered Mr. Roosevelt and 

 his party as they departed in automobiles for the seventeenth 

 century castle of Frederick sborg. 



After inspecting the castle, a perfect example of Dutch Ren- 

 aissance architecture, the party visited the Alemhouse, which is 

 established in an ancient Carmelite monastery, restored. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Roosevelt with gifts rejoiced the hearts of the old women 

 living in the cells where dwelt in solitude the monks of old. But 

 the Colonel most enjoyed walking the castle ramparts. AtKlsi- 



