Show r BE HE PRINCE 0 OF F GRAUSTARK ARK Eft f By GEORGE BARR BARB McCUTCHEON V KE W YORK TORS DODD MEAD AND 1 COM COMPANY ANY 1914 SYNOPSIS J Mrs William Witham W. W Blithers Blither h wit a very large Jarge fortune purr OIl dau daughter Maud aud Appi i au e ee JJ J. J whom till they y are e a tor fore ern n They y to t 1 c hl v n Mv en nUl Is Cum t when u a I teal eat prince prance arrives arrive I t j Truxton the th the they e that Iu kar Kama cast nj rJ rna nil over ove- which tho i rune rul rule y t nc to 0 rn meet et a a. wg tilt loan Joan t I time n w thin th the year car negotiations fur tor with wild ag Maud aud and nd nil D i iu to Q mutt lOG fl matter the tho rd uri irL ll like all Jl the o rest of i b be 9 flea 6 of ot ind inde inde- 11 Le c. c alter a moment ho he him that told ei B. B refrain from talking lit bt to the he ou cup tort COlt of even en in ih the he Ho had beard that 0 01 f big KH family ar speak pe k ot vt their posses posses- II oW there s fI DO no reason rason in an th thab the thene e ab hy ne no C shouldn't u t t consider his hist t Ut f erf etc bc cried d a Ito Ho He ha has hM fao w. w 0 o 0 offer 1 He lie a doesn't eve even cn n that tut hat ud is in existence exist enec How lion r I such uch a thin thing J f Bay ns wit 06 merely y Iy looking coking ahead hut t that's 18 s dr l otto n s Look Ahead Yo You u ii 1 It ti U well ell as 35 1 do Where would ahead r if it I f hadn't looked going to happen be be- s fiat hat WAS wP ye fellow bad haa his e ca es open f tOIl ran to mo that t f Where I 1 sav s1 sayf 1 q I bo ho u it r Y core t rc where would e now B f moiled cd ahead loll and seen what a aig with irith the tho daughter of ot Judge Judg IN ig would roald mean to me in the lon long longI h I T Re Nt H Helt felt elt that Lo ho had bad uttered a l retry tty ty and convincing compliment r made a bad bargain i in iu m mv my L J Jr LOO r aar and it t wasu wasn't t t guess gues wor worl worn worl T dear de l married you You my nl Ioa j you oa were cre the tho foundation t ich f I it 1 1 l h tow ae c II tike he said paid wearily you 1 0 rho rho Hid it it a thousand times tics toa on which 1 I built my tern i tl it cs I know Will Pill itI 1 i MI UI it still l unalterably Jy op opposed ton to n b. b aj ourselves in tho he eyes Mr lr J Mrs Ir King Bing I 1 dont don't understand you 1011 will after atter you think i it t rye aLe acid taid id quietly and aud be he scowled o iti perplexity tj Dont Don't t you OU think hed he'd bo a goo good d for lor Maud lauds he asked after i c minute Bate He felt feJt that he had d I U tt it over o I a you OU thinking of k Wall rill I ebe nc demanded I not Dot But gall all you youve you've 0 gotis got gotis is to ray 3 ho hos ho's s 's the tho man map for r and sd Ill I'll Ill I'll-I'll Ill I'll do tho rest rost That's 5 kind und of a man I am Lou y You u sayI say I dont don't want Count What What's Hia Ilis that that is you dont don't want him asu as lS asas as u con TOU did ond did and you do say eay that thatto would to bo bo the grandest thing in the theMa dd it if Ma Maul l could be bo the Princess of Will lJJ what I eaid said Well I if f you Lt f her to be the princess S 01 of ott THAT n T I K IN that she is providing pro this fel F to U a gentleman and worth worthy of her caly prince I ever knew wa was a ad d dra ra rascal al and Im I'm going to be tut fril abbot ibis this his one You remember remembert t is no question about Prince ka- ka Bald jaSd she be sharply sha a the is only onIl question how WIll kill Lo he want You mean e mean settlement I fore uc Un live u you von no DO romance romaneo in your JOur soul tm CD Blithers I 1 never rever believed a in fairy stories SI l h ie grimly grimh And nd what's more I t t toe tAke a any stock stok in cheap novels novel bWL Am American heroes go o about it into royal families and md all It t Port wrt of rot It i isn't D t done Lou ca I want Int nt to marry mar marr into a royal fam fam- t r Rot pot ot to put up the c coin in te ce Robins Robin's n biD 5 mother the tt Yetive poor married d an American In Info Te e let wo mo remind von B s is this ibis Rv t I lI cast of the setting W i quoted I You Y 00 must learn pronounce It tt 1 r was nas good at foreign Ian Ian- I f tt Br tho f war ay where 15 is Mau nud d waited for additional W AS s pot Bot vouchsafed vouch so EO be he de de- J el f f fearfully a lith OCt gg arille t a lea j II lies Hos He 5 a n loafer Lo LouI Lou Loo u toed Is the worM world I dont don't liVo liko liko th tho oa lit lit- o r r. r Hei l 1 it o of s a very good family m my v r et a r-n r ln Jore fora with i y p rG IG 1 hornier A Aed hy not not Isn't every cry one eh S SI lore I I f with th IH heri I o so 50 BO ho admitted d 1 1 I is Jaco faro faco bri brightened the s 8 no r. t fall 1111 reason wh hy p this thu prink princA o n is Well ell heels beets over O head is h S SWell I a ier there S- S Syo yo OU arol That will wil 1 I n. n ln to in tho settlement beIt bo bo- ue-s ue dic a It least ifa if- if rence of oC a n cour couple o of or off f U e 9 a abruptly Yon 1 ou are nrc post stID Will et I Cant Can't yo ou 1 butr but but- I aliat t that M udie I r t now cowl Sure u up p eo ever T r see CO it is By B gracious Got em f m all t to herto her ber to looks look and beat t mil mile mila when i itry it t try 1 1 o style hi his and Oh voice t to b y e n a t u rr t lay 1 I to her bout about t e inet 1 t torJa ti Ht et if to I ro be ook him were you jOU I over O tint first f r r- r TER n. n Discuss Robin R Ro i l lea Ck n of Graustark tI ng a diAl chap was a as s as on ono journey would ouM se eo o t Little hUn him ot of bein w would one an e lad aM d distin g the tho descendant of f o thed far line Uno of the tle P e de e 8 Unmistakable thou h ln in fi to in bl his eye that than n ex now man maD Invited the o ot of i nr y ODe nos his bi F II Uis laugh b eras WilS n. n free reo I spirits I I ne his a as t ben tb manner nil all blithe and nd this of fair aid u into fR i ty ot of caste carelessness lay It a the looked ell rhea steady ens f 1 t they tl k kf With mirth it met md tho the gaze garo of the world with witha a 1 serene screno imperiousness that gave pavo avo way 1 before no mortal influence it told with without I out nut n stor story of i centuries I For or be beas as tho the son sea of oC a n princess princes royal I and the blood of ot t ten n scorn score rulers of men man I had hall come como down to him as a heritage ot of strength His JUs mother the beautiful gracious and lamented e act nl all all all' rot royal ro al circles cir clr- dies cles by hr the tho cars when she marr married Cd the American merian meri an Lorr Lorry back bac in tho lOll Ae A e ecial art alt a t of the ministry bad had legalized I this ibis union and nud the son of or the American I was JS not deprived cd of his ri right bt to sue suc succeed Geed to tho the throne which his forbears forbear ua had occupied for centurion centuries From his bia mother bo ho had inherited the tho right of ot I kio kings s from his father the tho spirit of or freedom from his mother tho power of ot majesty from hi his father the tho power toI to i see seo eo beyond that majesty When Ii little tUo than a babe haLe in iu arms arm ho was orphaned or orphaned I and the affairs of state fell upon the tho shoulders of oC three loyal 31 and devoted do Ir men n who served as reg regents until until un until til ho bo became of age Wisely they served ed both him and the p people Ople through the yeans ears that int inter intervened r- r between the tho death of oC tho the princess prin kegs cess and her consort and the tho day when ho reached his bis majority That da day ay was vas wass vasa a glorious one iu in ID Graustark The 1 peo heo people 0 plo pIc or worshiped tho the little prince when no o was ryas in knickerbockers and played cd with toys tows thy caw w him grow WOW to o manhood with hearts that were full fun of hope hO c and contentment they made mado him bim their real realI ruler with the same came mo joyous spirit that I had attended him big in the he days daye when beat ho be sat wt at in great rent throne and made madi bo bo- Oll that he was one of the tho mighty despite the fact t that his bis little It legs g bare barely are are- ly lv reached to tho cd edge o of ot the tile gol gold and I s sliver silver J er and sat fi at and slept soundly through h hall all tho the befuddling sessions of ot the cab cao- cabI cal cal- met inet Ho lIo was 7 r when the great eat revolt I headed by Count came so near to overthrowing ins the government to and he behaved liko Jilo tho prince that he ho wa was It wa was during those perilous times that he came canio to know the gallant Truxton Kin King in who whose c homo bomo be ht wa was waa now a hap 11 py Py guest But before Truxton King ho hc know Dow know tho the lovely girl Jirl who became the wife of that devoted dc adventurer and who to him wan waa always s to bo be Aunt Loraine As a 3 very erv very small boy bov he be hat had paid paM two visits to tie homeland of his father but after tho the death eath of his bis parents his valuable little person was 1 guarded to so jealously ly by his subjects that not once had he set eat et foot beyond ovond the tho borders of Graustark except On on two wi widely sep ep occasions ions of reat c-reat an and ceremony at the tho courts of ot Yi Vienna eOlia and St. St Petersburg and a secret journey to London Loudon when he Ic was 17 li It t appears appear that he was determined to see gee a great I football match On each ach of these occasions occasion oc oc- occasions casion be lie was W-I attended b by watchful members of the cabinet and certain military units in the now for far from in insignificant significant sig t standing aunty army As a 8 matter mat mat- mater t ter er of fact inet ho witnessed d the thc football match from the ordinary stands surrounded surrounded sur stir r rounded by bv thousands of unsuspecting Britons b but t carefully wedged cd cd in be bo bei tween two generals of b his own arms armr arm armand and flanked by a minister of ot war all of oC whom were exceedingly bored b by the contest and more or fr less appalled by y h his is enthusiasm Ho Hc had bad in insisted In- In s listed isted on going to the match to enjoy enjo it for al all it wn was worth forth to the real spectators those spectators those who sit or stand eland where tho the compression is not unlike that applied to a box bog of sardines The Thc regency expired when ho he was 20 o years rears of a age c an ami he be became ruler in is fact facts of himself as xe well a as of the half haU million subjects who had bal waited pa for the great day dad that was to see ECe him Trim crowned crowDed and glorified Not ot one I was as there in that goodly half million who stood out 8 against st iI hun him on that triumphant triumphant tri tri- um bast day not one who possessed e sed aullen a n aul sullen ullen eta or resentful heart Ho lie was their prince princ and they loved him well After that wonderful core coro nation day he ho would nc net never cr forget that he hc was a. a t prince or that the thc hearts of a I. I half million were gaga to throb with Uh love lovo for him M su long loni as he wa was alas man a as well as lS prince Mr r. r Blithers was very close to the truth when ho enid said to himself if you remember that the financial situation in tho the far tar oil ulI principality was vas nut not all that could ho bo desired ft fl t i is true that Graustark was in Russia's debt to tho the extent of sorno somo about in others words words- words words- and that tho the clu of day reckoning was ver c very near at hand hanel The loan was wag for a l pen period pared of twelve b years and had he been D arranged cd contrary to the tho advice ico of John Tullis an American financier who rho Jon long Ion had ball been heen interested in tho welfare or of out the thc principality through friendship for or the tho lamented ort Lorr Lorry He Ho bad enough to realize zo that Rn Russia ia would font provo prove a hard credi tor even en though t ho she ma may mav havo bavo been heen Bin Bin- cere in her ber protestations of for tho the modest borrower A stubborn clement element in the tho cabinet o overcame his hig hi opposition however pr the tho nn ant debt was contracted taxation in creased bv by popular vote and a period perio i of governmental thriftiness I rat rated d. d Railroads highways s 's and aqueducts built owned and tod controlled con cou- trolled by the tho state and the city eity n of f ei s re rebuilt after the devastation created durin during the tho revolt of Count Mar Mar- and his bis minions There B seemed emed t to p he be some J prospect t of vindi vindication for th tho o ministry and full Tullis is who lived in Edo Edo- i I wei welsh weiss s. s was fair minded enough h to admi admit t that their action appeared to have bavo been bee n I for Cor the hest best Tho The people had prospered i and nuel taxes w ero paid in full fall and without complaint The TIll reserve fund fun grew w steadily ily and surely urah and there wa ovary overy r that when the tho hugo huge debt came cam C plus duo it would bo be pi paid d in e cash h. h But Dut o ou on u the von gory ert crest st of their prosperity earn alOe a adversity For two years tin till crop e failed and a pestilence I pp swept through h I tho the herds The Hood flood of ot os a th that drat t hA had 1 been pouring poulin into th thu treasury dwin died lie into a n pitiful rivulet the little if tl e that came in in was applied of to administration n purposes and nna th tn r maintenance of the tile army Inn and there wa ing w not 50 so a a as n left teft over Ocr fo for tor wr r tIt the so roo sin ihn fungi fund To fo be he continued tomorrow |