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Show THE Kin By George A. Birmingham Co. W. N. U. Copright by Service Bobb-Mrri- "I'M ENGAGED In London ths teller of the story of the adventures of "King Tommy," and known hereafter as "Uncle Bill," la Informed by Lord Norheys, son of an old friend, that Lord Troyta, head of the British foreign office, Nor h eye' uncle, has a p. scheme to make him (Korheys) liking- of Lystria, In central through marriage to Ca lypso, daughter of King Wladls-law- s, deposed monarch of that country. ' A flnanoter, Proooplus Cable, knows there Is oil In profusion In Lystria, and with an king on the throne the Englishcould be secured for Engoutput land. Korheys, In love with a stage dancer, Viola Temple, Is not enthusiastic over the proposition. The patriarch, Menelaus, ecclesiastical dignitary highest in Lystria, Is heartily In favor of the restoration of the monarohy, and Cable has generously financed the sentiment. Calypso Is making a living dancing In the Berlin cabaret. Norheys refuses to entertain the Idea of up Viola Temple, to whom giving he Is secretly engaged. BTNOPSIS. "Mas-ootte- CHAPTER II ," Continued 2 Having got all that settled, Coble approached Lord Edmund Troyte with a proposal that the marquis of Norheys, my godson, should be king of Lystria. He would have to marry the princess, of course. The Lystrlans, being strong legitimists, Insisted on that. But the princess, so Cable said, was a beautiful girl, with charming manners and far more respectable than her father had ever been. "As a matter of fact" said Troyte, "Bhe's a dancer In Berlin. Wladis-law- s did not succeed In carrying off a penny from Lystria, so both he and the girl have to work for their living. But that Is not an Insuperable to her." objection " "Have you," I said, "laid that part of the schene before Norheys, asked him whether he was willing to marry the princess?" "Not yet." "I would," I said. "If I were you I'd mention that to Norheys before going any further. Inde d, It might be as well to find out what the prin cess thinks about It, too." "She'll be all right," said Troyte. "Her name Is Calypso." Calypso is a pretty name, but I did not see that It gave us any guar antee that the girl would marry Norheys. "Girls are dreadfully Independent nowadays." I snid "You can't be sure." "She's dancing In a cabaret In Ber lin. So Cable says." "She ought to prefer being married, to that," I said. "Still If I were you I'd consult her. I should certainly consult Norheys." Troyte took my advice about con sulting Norheys; but he did not give me the satisfaction of telling me he meant to. He went on to discuss another side of the affair. "The main thing," he said, "Is that England should obtain control of the Lystrlan oil. The civilization of the Twentieth century rests on oil pre cisely as that of the Nineteenth century rested on coal." "Is that fellow Cable an English man?" "He's a British subject," said Troy te, "naturalized before the war." After that I had to listen to an account of the uses of oil in peace and war which bored me; to a descrip tion of the distribution of the present oil supply of the world and the small quantity of it controlled by England. There, I think, lay the real motive of Troyte's action, the explanation of his consent to the plan of setting Norheys on the throne of Lystria. No doubt It pleased him Troyte has a great deal of family pride to think of his nephew being a king. And the Tropes had some slight connection wliUie LystrlHn royal family. No doubt he thought that marriage to the Princess Calypso would save Nor heys from an undesirable entanglement with Viola Temple. Troyte hated the idea of having to welcome that young lady as the next marchioness of Norheys. No doubt also Ca ble's remarkable personality had some Influence with him. I'rocoplus Cable Is accustomed to getting his own way with all sorts of people, and has per suaded several clever men to do foollMh things. Troyte likes and ad mires men of the Cable kind. He has a theory that the British empire has been built up by buccaneers; In the Elizabethan days by buccaneers who went forth In ships and looted, flying the British flog for their own protection, leaving It still fluttering In the places which they sacked after they sailed away. In the Eighteenth bucca the emplre-bulldln- g century neers called themselves merchants, or merchant adventurers, but they acted did. exactly as their predecessors looting, and then leaving the care of the conquered provinces to embarrassed statesmen at home. At the end of the Nineteenth century the buccaneers became financiers. But 'their methods and the results of them were the same ss before. Procoplus Cable was the latest and ablest of emplre-bullderthese filibustering That was Troyte's theory about him. And It Influenced him In favor sf any scheme suggested by Cable. But the main thing was England's teed of oil, and the possibility of obtaining aa enormous auppl of H la TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, certainly white. The daughter wasn't born at that time, but her mother was an Englishwoman and a cousin of your own. It's most unlikely that the girl is black." "Even so," suld Norheys, "she'll be Lystria. For the sake of England's more or less savage, and I don't care greatness he was ready to sacrifice for savages. It's not that I'm parNorheys, If sacrifice had been' neces- ticularly keen on civilization. What I always say about that is that a lot sary. of it is rather rot. Still, that's a difThere was also another consideration which weighed with Troyte. He ferent thing from marrying a savage. came to it when he had finished with A girl ought to wear corsets, you dressthe oil. know, and go to a decent "The Germans," he said, "are maker." 'Xon're wrong about that," I said. scheming to put up a king of their own In Lystria. The man they have "The Central European aristocracy In mind Is the Prlnz von Stelnveldt." and that's the class she belongs to 'I used to know him," I said. "He are quite civilized. She probably was in the foreign office in Berlin. speaks half a dozen languages and He must be a bit too old for the prin gets her frocks from Paris or used cess. Do you think she'd marry to. She can't now, poor thing, for her father Is stony broke. That's him?" 'The princess," said Troyte, "will the reason she's had to take to dancing. And I'm told that she's quite marry the man 6he's told to." I was not so sure about that. The a good looking girl." "She may be," said Norheys, "but spirit of revolt against that doctrine of a girl's duty laid firm bold upon my point Is that is to say, what I the middle classes years ago. Since really feel Is " There he stopped. then it has been spreading upward, "If she isn't black," I said, "and and, I dare say, downward. It would not surprise me to hear that rebel isn't tattooed, and has ordinary manlion is now openly advocated in the ners, and wears corsets, which I'm schoolrooms of palaces. Besides, Ca perfectly certain she does, I don't see lypso appeared to be an emancipated what your objection is." "The fact is," said Norheys, "that woman. If she dances in a cabaret In Berlin she must have shed most I'm engaged to be married to Miss of the garments of conventionality in Temple." "Did you tell your uncle that?" I which most princesses are wrapped. "By the way," I said, "where's King asked. Wladlslaws now? As the girl's fath "No, I didn't, I didn't want to ruf-an- d er he may want to have a say about fle the old boy, that would havej ruffled him. My idea is that you her marriage." "Wladlslaws has gone under utter might break it to him, gently, don't ly," said Troyte. "I don't know you know, so ns not to give him a where lie Is or what he's doing. We shock. What I always say is this If there's a Jarring kind of thing need Hot consider him." which has to be said, It's better for a fellow to get some one else to say it." CHAPTER III "You realize of course," I said, Two or three days later Norheys "that If you refuse to marry Princess came to me in the club where I was Calypso you can't be king of Lystria." "I'd be sorry for that. I don't mind lunching. "Look here, Uncle Bill," he said saying that I'd rather like to be king of that country. If Viola and I could you remember my telling you the " other day about my going in for be go there together "Viola?" a ing king and that sort of thing." "That's Miss Temple. If she and "Yes." up there as king and wen, uncle Neds been at me I couldwe set could have a high old time again and he's rather surprised me. queen, Now, I'm a fellow who Isn't at all and really make things hum. Viola would make a splendid queen, absoeasy to surprise; for what I always top hole." say is: Whatever happens even if lutely "You may put. that idea out of your the Jolly old sun doesn't turn up in I said. the morning at the proper hour take head at once," "Uncle Ned and that stockbroker-frienIt calmly. And that's what I do. of his could have all the oil. make a regular rule of it; but I'm We shouldn't want a drop for ourDouna to say uncle Ned made me selves, and I'd make the good old Jump this time." like the devil. You "If there's anything more surprising Lystrlans dig might try to get Uncle Ned to look than being asked suddenly to be a at it from that point of view." "It won't do," I said. "It really won't." "I don't see why not. I mean to say I think it might be worked If we went the right way about it. I'm not much of a whale on court etiquette and ecclesiastical law but I've always had a notion that there's some sort of recognized dodge by which yon can be married on the double if you're a king, both marriages being perfectly O. K." "There are morganatic marriages," I said. "It's a and unsatI don't think isfactory arrangement. you ought to ask Miss Temple to agree to it." "I wasn't thinking of asking her. The very, lost thing I want to do Is to put Viola Into an awkward position. In fact, I wouldn't do It, not even to please Uncle Ned. My Idea Is to marry her In St George's, Hanover square, with a bishop and bridesmaids and all complete. The other one, this Calypso girl, that Uncle Ned Is so keen on, could be the" morgan I don't suppose she'd mind." "My dear Norheys," I said, "she's a princess, the daughter of a man who a European sovereign until a few "My Dear Norheys," I Said, "She's a was Princess, the Daughter of a Man yeurs ago." "I don't believe a black princess Who Was a European Sovereign would be as particular as all that. Until a Few Years Ago." Look here, Uncle Bill, you've always king," I said, "It must be something been to me and all that. which would make an ancient Koman Just Jolly good you put the morganatic schema stoic Jump." up to Uncle Ned. Be as persuasive "You'd never think," said Norheys, as can. I expect he'll see his "that Uncle Ned would turn out to be way you to work It somehow. But you a giddy matchmaker." must make it quite clear that there's I knew what he was at then. to be no hanky-pankabout Viola's must have taken my advice and Troyte She may or may not be position. mentioned the proposed marriage. of Lystria, but she's Jolly well "He wants me to marry a black queen to be marchioness of Norheys." going I'm "Now said Norheys. princess," "I'll speak to your uncle about it," not a prejudiced, sort of fellow at all. I said, "but it won't be the slightest Any girl may be a lady, don't you use. The thing's Impossible." know? and a fellow ought to marry "I don't see why. Lots of these her, supposing he wants to, like the sultans and and people have king that the poem's about who went whole haremspashas full of wives. I don't round pretending to be a landscape want to go as far as that. At the painter end then married a beggar. I same time. If they con do It, why always soy he was quite right there, can't If he really fancied the girl. But proposing to set you up well, hang It all. Uncle BUI, however on"Nobody's the throne of a Moslem state," I a he must fellow draw Is, unprejudiced sold. "Lystria Is a Christian counthe line somewhere, and I do think It's a bit thick asking me to marry a black try." You "Oh, come now. Christian. princess." can't call those countries Christian. "But," I said, "the Princess Calypso it all. Uncle 1111, It was only Isn't black. What makes you think Hang week I gave a fellow a subscriplast she i$r missionary society especial"Sure to be. All those desert tion toto aconvert the heathen. He tslandy places are governed by black ly wouldn't want to convert them If they I she's dare say good were Christians princesses. already, would he?" looking enough In her woy. Uncle Ned n archbishop "There's there," I seemed to think so. But I don't like them black. And well, hang It all, said. "A patriarch, which Is a supeHis name Is no fellow can possibly be expected rior kind of archbishop. to be pleased when he finds his wife Menelaus." "Rounds to me like Greek gramIs tattooed all over; and they all are. mar," snld Norheys, "for the matter Quite right of her, of course. If It's of that, so does Calypso, and I've althe thing to do In her own country. I'm not blaming her In the least. ways barred learning Greek grammar." Onl Just I don't like It." I snld, "I'm not "My dear boy," you to be a king, or to marry Is not Norheys evidently the lftdy. But I think I ooght to tell strong on geography but his an Isn't Island. that It's Lystria you heart seems to be all right. miles, perhaps hundreds of miles, What's the next development? from the sea, and I don't think that the Princess Calypso enn possibly be black. I met bar father one. He's (TO S CONTINUED.; ommy j BP left-hande- d y If g KTSsrozzir HIE mat Amebkm i i i i ii LEGION j fa Department Supplied by the American Legion Newt Service.) Cxypj for Tiu X4" After the breakdown of the Russian government In 1918, the allies In the World war were confronted with a very serious threat. The Russian people were In distress. Genuan prisoners of war were pushing Intrigues of every sort. 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Experiments already made prove that the radio Is a highly valuable adjunct to hospital equipment. It Is without doubt the most adaptable and popular of recreational fucllltlcs now provided for the disabled. The therapeutic qualities are considered to he as valuable as the recreational qualities. One Important feature of this form of entertainment Is that a patient may listen In or not as he himself feels Inclined. Rev. Father Bellamy Is to Succeed Doctor Clark There Is a story behind the appointment of Rev. Father Bellamy as state chaplain of the New York department of the American Legion, to succeed Dr. J. A. Clark of Oneontn, who resigned because of 111 health. Father Bellamy, through his activities, was one of those In line for election as chaplain at the state convention last year. His election was looked for by many, but he had a different Idea. He worked actively for the selection of Doctor ClRrk end nominated him for the office. 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