Show 1 t A Disciple of Prince Flor FI zel BY HARRISON G RHOADES L I 1 1 I z t 0 1 I V I fl j I f I f j t t 1 1 4 th or f I Ii E I 11 f i 4 a t f 3 t tt i 4 41 id 1 t b Charles Edward took a step forward and broke his word of honor Thoe who bO U ars lL with Robort Robart New Arabian ra lan Nights will rom remember ember that the nd ad ot of Prince Florizel of took tok ptA e not in the capital city of his own 60 land but in tho great groat town of Lon dec this accomplished creature 0 of Imagination who g the t affection ot of all classes by bythe bythe the seduction of his manners and b by a generosity was not flu fkr from beIng the tho ideal of Mr rr Charles Charlos Awitin it is not strange that the of Britain has always to the young youns American a richer and more promising field for whimsical I ture than New York Thu Th story bogins with a conversation upon the or of finding ro mince In modern life lite It took place hi a box at a London theatre In which young roun Mr rr Austin and a friend found tb m one June evenIng The pe period nod Js is that which Charles Edward is phed to term his unregenerate days das meaning b by this the time Ume before beCore ho was marrIed mArriM By th time the had fallen on the second act of the adventures of a aI I in fl doublet and ancI hose Mr Austin lied hid that it was a vo very dull play pla It t was as seeIng This said Charles Edward Is not Perhaps not replied Paul Cary lull Ull Its got somethIng or of the feeling It bettor better than It if the hero wore wor a tr frock k oat dont you think RubbIsh said his friend decisively dross dress and an oDors hat are aro the fos um of a adventure and London in this year or grace is far more ro f mantle mAntic to my mind than ParIs In the them m dl a ages ost S see It that way What for example Charles Edward I I would bo b your our Id of an adventure for If this wor mediaeval times w 1 e might have our swords out ont three or I four times thues on the W way 1 home A lovely lady might signal to us front from a lofty Alcony Oh All 11 the corro things C uld tonight You remember the Stevenson n stor story whore a young comes out or of a London theatre the entrance stands II a neat little brougham with n a coachman In Iii sober biu livery As the young oun man passes by a hand gloved glood In white makes maltes t th g sture or of beckoning to him while hUe he catches n a glimpse or of a 0 i In a white cloak with a cloud of lace enveloping her hood head and partially her fare the tung man advances to the brou brougham ham I 1 PODS the tho door deor And springs In There Thero P l theres adventure for you ou MAh h well It if al an I It 1 seams scorns to tome me 1111 the tho sort or things not unheard of S perhaps sufficiently vulgar as I dare say Pardon me mc I dont mean that It If yoU ou notice the tho brougham you will see a crest upon It perhaps oven een n a coronet Romance then I take It consists In InS S baying a duchess tall fall In love with you youat youat at first sight She might not be a duchess and she might not fall rau in love hove Ot Of course such sucha n a combination Is the dream But I dont fool feel that ono one could count on either ducal rank or tender She might be merely a lovely lady In i distress 8 In desperate need pf f n a genUa than man to do something In her service 5 Theres adventure Talk of your ro in doublet and hoseI snap my fingers at It Conic Como out Into the UtO lObby and smoke Instead Suggested Paul 1 Them was Wa ono one moro more the two more acts of the theS S lay the Usual acts and the audience audienceS S h look at the Usual audience Thi presented the tle ordinary show ot of elaborately dressed heads bare dors dori end white shirt fronts The boxes Contained no ono one ot f especial Next the onO one which contained Charles Edward and his friend sat a lady alone hut but so tar far In the shadow of the tho cur l that she could scarcely be bC called t I 1 an and object or of interest Bored by the play pIny uninterested In Iii the audience the tho Irinco welcomed the final fall faU tJ of t curtain and cool tho prospect 0 of the night aIr outside They sauntered forth upon the pave mont n and d S Near then the ted hap the Ule I It entrance stood i neat with So a coachman In sober bite livery As Charles Edward by a hand the gloved in white St or of beckon big to him while ho he caught aught a 0 glimpse of a lady In a white cloak n or of lace tace with a cloud enveloping her bor head and par nar COncealing her face tace Ho He advanced Unhesitatingly to the opened Iho door drove arid and Sprang In The rhe coachman 1 ort oft SWIftly In the direction o Of square and Paul 1 Cary as hM In I 1 a dream pUrsued d his solitary of toward hl hi hotel Upon the door tie SI r lie hl carriage lie he had noted a 0 crest LS was as not sure that It was not ot a core q It IL t rue faintest st I lh the C PE rumo ot of violets Ioleta filled 1 5 11 brougham Tho Ind lady was sitting as a In n a the lh corner as Lt she could retreat fUce Jac lace BUll a r 11 co her he heda da o but Charlest Charlesi the glo 1 It hAd hd arm I 1 UI 1 1 rr have haV told the to S S f 1 C to the Savoy I want ant you to tal take e mo moto moto to supper Is that the right place placeIt It is a good place unless perhaps you I refer prefer the Carlton Canton Oh I dont know I never gO to supper I suppose you Sup Supper er Is an essential meal said Charles Edward gravel I am sure you are right In begInning to have it and I am enormously flattered that you ou Inaugurated so charmIng a custom in my company compan He took her hand the hand that md had beckoned to gave n a little S gasp Oh dont she plead pleaded ed Alt Ab chere protested her hor companion Charles Edward had let go her hand and ond the lad lady regained something ot of her composure you ou can call me that I wont If y you u prefer to be incognita nita even to me And I apologize If you are a duchess You really dont kno me Dear lady I 1 seen you ou yet the Inside 0 of a 8 carriage Is absurdly dark I was in the box next yours to tonight night ined the er I 1 ver hoard heard your conversation Ah Ab said Charles Edward then do you ou love adventures too ItI I dont know sas the tha I 1 never had one Then you ou are aro a lovely lady in die dis tress tressI I dont know came cama plaintively Im certainly in great trouble And I 1 know youre lovely Please dont try to flirt with wilh me Not to flirt at a m ment was a course Which had littie beside eccentricity eccentricity and unexpectedness to I I 1 1 these were both qualities In which Edward dealt exten extensively extensively and so ho he endeavored to obey his companions orders in n a cheerful spirIt The Tho already stoOd in the tho theline I line lIno ot of carriages waiting to discharge their occupants atthe aLtho brightly Illum mated entrance of the tho restaurant and nd CharlEs Edward was now enabled to see his companion more plainly That she Was a lady ho he had not doubted from th the beginning but ho be had scarcely been prepared for the tho almost excessive re refinement ot of her features for th the highbred poise of her head and and for the troubled look in her dark blue blueeyes blueeyes eyes Charles Edw Edward rd withdrew Ids his g gaze ze Well here we are h he said She peered out at the entrance and the staircase up which was as passing the tho gay freight of the preceding carriages A kind of nervous tremor passed over oyer her and she clasped her hands more tightly to together together gether as they la lay in her ber lap lapOlt Olt Oh I dont think I can faco it I 1 dont think I can she hc said almost bye hys Perhaps you are arc Tight right this place may be It a little out or of fashion Shall we 0 go to the tho Carlton Canton 1 The lady nodded and Charles Ed Edward Edward ward putting his head of the win windOw dOw offered to the splendidly gold braided functionary who stood ready to open the carrIage door the most tar ter terrible t Insult ault ot of that individuals export experience Once ence by asking him to direct the coach wan lIan to drive to a 0 rival establishment The brougham drove swiftly owa away and the lady gasped Thank you thank you Let me think thinkIe If Ie she thought tn In the brier brief perIod of silence that followed so did her corn com compan pan panion Ion It was one of the rules of the game ot of fantastic adventure as he un understood Understood It never flavor to be agitated how however ever even amazing a turn events might take And agitated ho was not But that he was not ravaged by curIosIty could not have been said with truth He was un to see what distress other than hunger could be alleviated by supping with hundreds of others at either the Savoy or the Carlton Canton The brougham turned Into Northum Northumberland borland berland avenue and the lady broke the silence II I have havo perhaps taken an unfair ad advantage vantage antage of you Not ns as yet et replied Charles Edward lightly though Im at your merc We are was the ladys adys solemn statement probably followed by de detectives detectives Ah are arc we exclaimed her compan companIon Ion fooling feeling nn M he spoke that his tone betrayed too plainly the boyish delight which he could not stifle I hope So at least I to tell you that this may cause you great trouble and I have haV no rIght to ask it ot of you I 1 acted f the impulse ot of the moment It I you will stop the now and get out I believe you will run no rJ kB And I Ith th thank you a thousand times for tor the spirit In you have met me let me ask one Question his voice olee sounded did S say Y did you you were ere in great distress and that I could help you ou Yes But Its a desperate way for tor torme ford me and d It may be an unpleasant one This sounded in Ia an almost lIte literal anse like Uke adventure with a 8 At this moment the carriage drew up the CArlton 4 I realty really nut supper you 0 ovI said he heThe f The lady dy l g the r reappear Of the thc note whimsical of cof ed c I 00 by a faint smile but she was as sun still seri serious son otis ous Thank you ou she said You shall shaH more before you commit yourself to anything beyond supper III It Is probable that not often in that great white room which flashes pink toward mIdnight with tile the shaded lights of its supper tables has a young man spent a more pleasant hour than did Charles Edward was his fair incognita tal ta Her vivacity though he suspect suspected ed it to be unusual wIth her and the result of the excessIve nervous strain which she sho was undergoing was never nevertheless nevertheless charming I ought to point out celebrities to you Its the usual thing at supper ho he said But there are twoS two objections One Is that there probablY arent many here and the other is that as Im a stranger I probably know them if there were Charles Edward gazed about the room Suddenly ns en sometimes happened In a crowded place a long vista opened for foran foran an instant and he caught a glimpse of ofa ofa a young woman at the op opposite opposite end of the restaurant And yes theres Nancy Scott the AmerIcan actress who has made such sucha a hit at the Quadrant theatre His companIon held her head a little higher and turned paler than before III I should imagine the creature comes here or to the Savoy for supper every night Creature said Charles Edward Why I know Miss Scott and If ever there was as Doubtless interrupted the tho lady you will see my husband sitting next to her Charles Edward leaped leape to his feet et and gazed Scott The man with wilh the small blonde mus mustache mustache tache But I know him I met him at attea attea tea at Miss Scotts only the other day Then you are Lady Holbrooke He resumed his seat I m a very unhappy woman You had better tell me something about it you said Charles Ed Edward Edward ward gently X 1 wm will try to under understand understand stand standI I II I have embarked on such a career of madness tonight that I may as well give you my confidence said the lady And she told her story Lady Holbrooke a Puritan by nature and a lover hover of all the ments and delicacies of good form had married a aman aman man Whom one would like hike to call a Bo Be Bohemian It if the word had not of late years ears been cheapened beyond all hope of salVation The marriage had been beena a love match and this fact had at first kept In the background an all their differ differences differences of haste hasta and disposition Lady I love of rural peace and calm and her distaste rot lot London and its whirl ot of worldly gayeties had been intensified by the coming of a child Lord Holbrooke on the contrary had for London something of the feeling which the has for the as asphalt asphalt of Paris and when country life had produced upon his health its duo due tonic and Invigorating effects affects he longed I Ito to feel the pavement ot of Piccadilly once more beneath his feet and to mix in inthe the thc amazing and miscellaneous society which was his acquaintance At first Lady e had occasionally ac accompanied companied her husband to town but bu bushe she had found it beyond her powers to tomake make even a pretense of enjoying her herself herself self She could Jever go with her hu husband barid more than a third of the way Into his various Bohemian sets At this point Charles Edwards knowledge of the world was not or of the yet he felt that the tho so let into which Lord d to lead his wife was only mildly unconventional and was always respectable ThIs was v s the more evident to him when It appeared that all the differences ot of opinion In the family had nt at l st crystallized into the of what their relations should be with Miss Nancy Scott Lad Lady Holbrooke did not know Miss Scott and refused to Her husband had made Nancys acquaIntance at a time when his hig wIfe had declined to leave leavo The child had died young oung and Its mother had clung do de despairInglY to the lonely life Ufe she had chosen to lead Charles Edward di divined th attempts which h her l husband had made to dIstract the current of her thoughts and curiOusly enough he di divined bat Lord had ad admired admired mired abd 1 his ils wife But lie also guessed how the tho continual strain strahl of a quiet life hue at W was s smore more than the companionship loving earl carl could bear As to the definite question ot of Nancy Scott Lady was as more nore precise Even to the Quiet of 01 had female friends rl of r h hers rs managed to carry carTY Ute the tale talc of Miss MIas Scotts brilliant career r and of the constant presence of Lord Holbrooke in her train X i cannot you to make your yours s lf absolutelY notorIous in London with an actress would be the ladys suggestion put concisely if you that thit Im in love loe with her hEir Its not so Humph t I know what actresses actresS S tiro J You YOl would Hk like h her l enormously Ab OVA all things she hc might t 5 I 1 Q I F t wi k J JJ 1 J J person you could thoroughly ou call caU mylo my low Bohemian in L London U UThe I The discussion at rose to toa toa a pitch when Lady began to talk rather wildly about divorce It Is out of the question protested her husband You cant charge mo me with cruelty and you cant charge me with any ot er offense The Impasse thus presented to her hOr view gave the tho final twist to Lady Hol quivering nerves ThIs was the mornIng of the very day when thIs narrative began She could not divorce her husband He laughingly assured her that he would not divorce her ber and that he could not if ho he would flis laughter jangled in her ears and with rage to her own aston anton astonishment almost as much as to his sh she found herself telling her husband that ho he should havO hav evIdence which would force h him m to divorce her within twenty Cur hours Laws are arc foolishly arranged she sha S said to Charles Edward as the tho coffee came but one finds a way through thorn them sometimes I went to the play tonight without a ghost oan of an idea Now I 1 want you to drive me |