| Show HE PRINCE P CE 0 OF F All ST ARK By GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON NEW YORK YORE DODD MEAD AND COMPANY 1914 1814 i tl SYNOPSIS i Mrs Ir William WilHam W W. Blithers with a a. acry q very cry r large luge fortune daughter Maud e tl n whom they are a j 2 t o A s foreign nobleman They Mt wt completed arrangements act a st st. when hen a real prince arrives visiting tho Truxton cee CC J learns arns that at Graustark the tho rs over which th the prince rules Unto have to o meet a bl biz loan Joan t to B time a l the year negotiations s sas ne u f for tor or to v fth T Hh Maud and nd as a Blithers the matteI matter matte In rs his lila RobE Robb is much loved loed by I end nd tea tal b bt been n ever fJ vcr SInce sinco he nc fell feU when a young boy to j to lull the of or Graustark has lias altes al- al kingdom coull could easily prosperous and tes pro tho the money duo to Russia cx- cx ad U l II tt tta failure of ot the tho crops creps for tor t two Sir ju B knows the thc situation i u l sure lire tae he can make mako I satisfactory for tor tho marriage of Maud laud ft the Mrs rs Blithers Is la some- some 1 about thu matter Jar ear of grace remained The Tho min mino o bad Ion long since recovered Jj the tie delusion that t it would woul bo ho O easy furrow tenor from England or trance France to Ilia abi thoro thero being small t of ot a renewal b by the czar even oven ovena evenI I a abort ort period ut at ita a higher rate ot of The great nat nations ln of Europe 1 U plain to tho the principality Q would not put n a Huger finger in Rus lp p pie at t this ItI stage stapo o of the tho lius- lius M r rc Jy Y to RO JO to war wu with hert her t rd boor or Austria luetna u Diplomacy Diplomacy- pM ft if f TOU sou ou will made will made It t impera- impera thAt Stet otter nations should sit eit tight feo to their own 00 knitting so 50 to trap my Oft could afford to ho bo charged with oven cven in a roundabout way m of tLc the angry grumblers r J ni nJ only too loo well woJ known in diplo- diplo welt circles that Russia coveted co theN the abl N of Graustark as 5 a means of jt t troops s into a t remote and al alis al al- is ablo to portion of Austria tria If B bib M w wore ro paid promptly it itou ou would d sible according to international for or the tto great whito bear to take talc lb th these roads and at least a n portio t lie te e border of the rince T. T Au Austria tria T would d beted be ted td by hy the tho prompt lifting of ot th the lot bat her own relations with Rus Rusl sire l ue re so to strained that an offer toto to toto it to the rc rescue of Graustark would lUlen laten at once as an open affront and sly resented Her han hands s were northern and antl western parts of tank tork were rich with ith productive e The Tho government o had bar built rail rail- throughout bout these sections to EO that field d of coal and aDd copper right might bean beIn be bo boID ID In o outlet to the world at large atc M tr tho loan Russia HUsia bad hall do do- o ot t toeo ego prop prosperous sections as sefor sc- sc e for the Ue vast sum a advanced and anderk ark erk in to an nn evil hour had ball sub Bob little emp the trick that Dame Nature was to play pIny in n the end Private banking inet institutions in Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope ropo refused to make mako loans under the rather exasperating perating circumstances pre pro to talco no chances chance Money was not cheap in these bitters days neither in Europe nor America Caution was lS the watchword A vast European war tar was waa not im improbable despite the sincere sincero efforts on the he part of tho the various arion nations nations na na- na to keep out of tho the controversy Nor was Mr Ir Blithers fur Cur from ri right richt ht in iii his shrewd surmise that Prince and his bis agents i T cro not without hope in coming to America at nt this particular time tim Graustark ha had laid h bv by barely half tb the tho amount required to lift the debt to Russia It was not beyond tl tto o bounds lounds of ot reason renson to expect her Iter prince prince to secure the he remaining through private sources in Now i orb ork City ix weeks prior to his ani arrival al in New Sew NewYork NewYork York tho the young prince landed in San Francisco lie He ha had come b bv by wa way of 01 this Orient accompanied by the chief o ot of staff of the tho tho Graustark arm army Count hereditary hereditary watchdog lo to the royal family family and a 1 lieutenant of tho guard Juar 1 Boske Dank Two men a J were cro they who bo would havo o given thousand lives Ii in the tho service of or their prince No o loss less lo loyal al was 38 the l body ally ser tier servant the personal rant ant who looked after wants of tho the Cl eager er young cung traveler tra an aD ED Englishman of the name of Hobbs A Avery Avery very cry poor valet was he but an excel capable person peron when it come como jo to tho checking of lut luggage garro an and the eli divining divining divin divin- J in ing of railway time tim tables Ho He had ball been an aD a agent accent nt for Cook fI s s. s It was quite Quitt impossibly im im- impossible possibly possible Jo to miss mil a train that Hobbs suspected of heill being the right rift one Prince Rubin Robin carne caino unheralded and traYer traversed cd the breadth of tho the continent without attracting more than the atton atton- tion that is bestowed upon rood looking Fount men Like o his mother neatly z a quarter of oC a century before ho traveled trav- trav Hed incognito But where rho ho hail had recd tho the somewhat emphatic name of oC Gut GUI Guy Guy- or h he lie was as known tu to the hotel regist registers rs a as a Mr Ir 11 II Schmidt lH and ser ser- sera vant vant There was romance in the eager of ol Prince Robin Ho reveled in inthe inthe inthe the 10 love dory ory of his parents Th Tar beautiful Princess Yetive Yetive- first saw W ren ell Lorry in nn an express train traiD going go goy o jD lag ing eastward from Denver cr Their wonderful won romance was WI born so 50 to speak ak in a Pullman i i car an and it thrived Fd so 10 o splendidly that it almo aline almOt t upset upset up up- set a dynasty dunst for never never never-in in all of nine centuries centuries had a n ruler of Graustark stooped to with n-Hh a n commoner And so 50 when the tho far ministry ministry minis mini try and house of no nobles les in in Graustark set about to select a wife wilc for their voun oun young ruler they made overtures o to the prince of Dun erzen whoso whose domain do ilo main adjoined Graustark on tho the south The crown princess ot of er cn then but 15 was the tho unanimous choice of tho amiable matchmakers in secret con eon clan chive This was when Robin was 17 li liand Ii and just on over r being fatuously in love II p. 1 on nn nil nv S 1 PRINCE OF GRA GRAUSTARK TARK Continued from p page e s' s 7 with his middle aged l ed instructress in French The princ of cn cl dispatched an m embassy of noblemen to assure his neighbor that the tho match watch would be ue highly high ly Jy acceptable to him and that in proper season tho time betrothal might be an In flounced But alack both courts overlooked over looked tim the fact that there was independent inde jude pendent American blood in ia the tho two t j youn young oung people Neither the prince rince of Graustark nor the crown princess of or 8 whoso er n hosl whoso mother was a Miss Beverly BO Calhoun of Virginia was Virginia was disposed dis dis' disposed posed to listen to tho the voice of expediency expo in iu fact at a safe distance of or miles the tho youngsters figur figur- rati turned up UI their no noses es at each other and frankly conie confessed that t the they 10 hated each other othe arid and In wouldn wouldn't t bo be bu bill bill- lied into getting married no matter what anybody said or something of the sort S poso Im I'm going oin to gas gas' say sat I Ill I'll marry a girl irl I Ive I've 1 never seen i demanded year seventeen Robin full fun of w Not Not I my lords Im I'm going to look II about a t l bit if it you don dont don't t mind The TIle world is full of girls Ill I'll marry the theone theone theone one I happen to want or Ill I'll not marry marryat at stall all Hut But But n. n highness they thoy protested yon you must listen Haten to reason There must be bo a successor to the throne of Graustark You would not have ha the name naDle die with you Vou Tho young oun princess I is isI is- is II Is Is 15 you say h ho interrupted loftily lofti lotti ly Come around 1 in ten years ears and we well we'll n talk it over 01 again again Jut But Im I'm not going to pledge o myself mcf to marry a achild achild child in short trucks namo naino or DO no name Is sho The lords did not know They had hadnot hadnot hadnot not seen the thc young lady Jady If IC she hc is pretty you'd rou bo be sure euro to know it my lor lords s so well we'll assume she isn isn't t I saw her when she was 3 years old did ld and he he certainly was a fright when she cried and aDd IU ruy my lords she cried crail all aU tho the time No I Ill I'll not marry her Be Bo good enough h to say to the tho prince of that Im I'm very ver- much obliged to him out Iut its it's quito quite out of the ques tion And the tho year old arold crown prin princess ess miles mile awa away coolly informed in jn formed her doting parents that that she was tired of being a princess any anyway ny andery and very ery much preferred marrin marrying some ono one who tibo lived in a cottage In fine the she stamped her little foot and said shed she'd he jump into the river before she shed she'd d marr marry the prince of Graustark But hes he's a very ery handsome adorable boy bot ht bewail began an her ber mother And Anil half American just as ns you OU are arc ni- ni chili child put in her ber father agin l Nothing could be more mora suitable than than than- I 1 dont don't intend to marry anybody until 1 Im I'm 10 30 iO at least so EO t that at ends it dad ness daddy daddy I r-I r I mean nican your our poor pour old high high- Naturally we eve do not expect you ou to be married before y you yon n are out 0 or of short frocks my mv dear deu said Prince Dantan aUf stiffly y But Dut a 3 b betrothal is quite another another an an- another other thin thing It is is customary to arrange the these e marriages marrial veers ears before before- Is 18 Prince Robin in love Jo with me mel I ahem that's ahem that's I a very silly eilly ques ques- tion He lie hasn't I seen you since you rou were I a baby But ho bo will be bo in love 10 with mth you rou never nc fear foar He Ho may mav may bo in loV with some seine one else for all aI we know so 60 where do I come in in 7 I Come in ins t gasped her father lather part American dear explained ex cx the tho mother with ivita with her prettiest prettiest smile Besides said lid id the tho crown princess princes with Im not oven going goin to be engaged n asted to to toa a man I Ive I've e never seen And if it you insist Ill I'll run away array as sure ure anything J as u Ana And so tho the matter rested Five Fhe years have h passed paRsed j since nce the initial overtures ove were made by bv th the two courts and ah al thou though h several sly ly attempts were Vere t to brin bring the young youn people to a proper understanding of their case tM aroused not nothing ing more than scornful l Jau laughter on the part put of belligerents as the venerable Baron was nas wont to call cnn them not without pride in his sharp old voice F It It all ahl omes meSi from from from- mixing the tho Mn blood said sud the tho primo prime minister gloomily Or improving in it said aid t id the baron baroa and T was frowned upon And no one saw the tho portentous us shad shad- 01 ow cast eRst br 1 v v the slim SUm daughter of William Wil Wil- liam ham W. W Blithers for the simple simple simple-realon reason that neither Graustark nor cn knew that it They The lived in crone serene i ignorance oran o of tho the fr f. t that that- God while he was as about it put ut Blithers bt Mad bud ad Apple gate ate into the world on p precise ly Jv the same day that the crown crO princess ot f first saw faw the tho light of oC d th Q To ho bo continued tomorrow |
