Show K T nr rommy by GEORGE A birmingham copyright by dobbs merrill co W N U service SOME MI SYNOPSIS in london the teller of the story 0 of f the adventures of king tommy and known hereafter as uncle dill Is in informed by lord Nor heya heys son bon of tin an old friend that lord tr hoad fiend of tho the british foreign office Nor heys uncle has a scheme to make him Nor heya heys kin of Ly lystila in co central r 1 aral ku eu rope through gli marriage marriaga e to calypso daughter of xing king laws lawa deposed monarch of that country A financier procopius Proc oplus cable knows there la in oil in profusion in Ly lustrin and with an english king on tho the throne the output could bo be secured tor for 1 ling ing land Nor hoys heys in love with a stage dancer viola temple la in not nit over tho the apropo britlon tho the patriarch menelaus highest ecclesiastical dignitary in Ly lystila is in heartily in favor of the restoration of the monarchy and cable has generously financed tho sentiment calypso Is muk ing a living in the MRS imao cotto cotte berlin cabaret refuses to entertain tile the idea of up viola temple to whom lie Is secretly engaged uncle mils sister emily urges him film to secure a passport from lord for a certain janet satiem church strong minded female who wants to visit isalt in the interests of a society tor for world peace jant janot church loaves leaves for 13 berlin orlin unola Is IR again I 1 appealed to by his slater sister to find a certain curate name not riven given who has left his parish pariah in ireland for a visit to berlin tind cannot be found lord and viola temple disappear from london procopius Proc oplus cable receives information that Nor heya heys with the princess has left there on oil ills his way to Ly lystila but appears with tha th former viola tempi now his wife the question la is who to Is tile the man who hat has rone gone to lystila with the princess part afi II Berlin 6 CHAPTER VII it lg Is ansy to understand how the mistake was made count istvan casimir does not linow know english very well lie iio 11 rea never been in england and at that wine time had find never talked to any E englishman ng lish nian except the tutor who educated him as a boy and taught him film to read sh shakespeare tile the tutor must have been a shakespearean enthusiast a st for casimir lias has more inure quotations ready for use than most of us unfortunately ills knowledge of shakespeare did not help much lit in ills correspondence with procopius Proc oplus cable llie english which cable iteen us cs Is of a n modern and commercial kind ind I 1 ean can fancy tits his wilting willing to casimir yours of ever even date or of the tilt lilt to hand or re Lyst rInn monarchy we regret shakespeare did not write in that style and I 1 do not suppose that casimir understood half cable wrote nor did cable quite understand derat der stand tind casimir ile he was Inell inclined ned to skip the quotations of the counts letters not realizing that they conveyed the most important kinds of information for Ing instance tance might write now Is the winter of our discontent made glorious glor lous summer cable would take dike that for mere orli ornament ament the exuberance of a man mail not trained to business ile ho would fall to realize that Casini tr meant that the restoration of tt the monarchy was a gloriously accomplished fact or would be gloriously accomplished its as soon as aa tile monarch put in an appearance of course tile the similarity of the 06 two bitines deceived casimir lie he was in berlin waiting and watching for tile lie arrival of lord Nor heys pys it wits was natural enough that lie ho should think ills his man had come when lie ho saw in tho the register of the adlon hotel there Is only tile difference of nt one letter between the two names lie ho was further misled by the ill I eve rend 11 tommy lit in those lays days was most particular about ills his reverend everond Il an aal I 1 set himself down as reverend T A Nor reys casimir was not familiar with the he till title it was not apparently accorded to the clergy in shako spearman sp spear earean enn lays days the parson lit in 11 As s you like it was styled staled sir sir oliver as it if he had been n knight on the other kotlier liand hand reverend was used of Ven venetian etlan seigneurs seigne urs anti and such people casimir took it for tin an english version torsion of bloch leborne it left him in no doubt that tommy was the man he wanted tommy of course had never heard of count I 1 do not suppose he had find over ever heard of lord Norlie ys either or of plug cable or indeed of lystila Ly ile he had not tile the slightest intention of going farther enst east than berlin indeed lie he ald did nut not nican mean to leave berlin during tits his holidays unless perhaps for a little trip to potsdam tommy lias bas explained to me exactly why lie went to berlin and what aliat he meant to do there A year or so en earlier iler he had bought a number of jerman marks on tho the advice of a friend who professed to lo be n financial expert at that time lie ho got chree hundred 11 and forty marks for a bound sud nd they seemed cheap enough tommy friend said sad that very soon they would stand rt at five or thirty to a pound tommy believed him film and invested every penny lie ho possessed in german marks I 1 do not know how many lio lie actually bought but the number was ms considerable and the sum ihunt tie ho stood to gain would have been a nice little fortune an investment which prom promises isem to multiply your capital by eleven or twelve la is very even if it pays no interest for a white while As everybody knows tile financial experts tommys tommas friend among their hem were disastrously wrong oven even more hopelessly wrong than experts usually are the marks maiks depreciated rapidly onil and in tile spring Irl ng of 1022 it took one thousand four hundred of them to buy a pound 11 tommy ammy realized lie was tho victim vIL tini ono one of ninny many victims of it a gigantic swindle but being it a man of cheerful nna and buoyant disposition lie lid did not wring life hla hands or curso curse fate ao thought that though marka were of little wo use in england they probably had find some value in their nativo native land eliat la is to say that lie ho would ho be able to buy a good ninny many dinners bottles of wine theater tickets and such euch things with his marks in germany ho asked for n holiday packed ills hla entire storo store of marks in a dispatch box aind went to berlin ile iio meant to stay there as long na as the marks lasted and to have as good a time as ho he could tommy was a fool to buy the marks originally iio was wise lit in his plan for getting rid of them things of the sort lie he wanted really were very cheap in berlin in tile the early part of 1022 ile iio had never been abroad before and he did not know a word of german ile he started with n return ticket a guide to berlin and a german english phrase book which professed to give him spelled phonetically all that a traveler could possibly want to say it must have been a good phrase book much better than most of its kind tommy on the morning after hj arrival was able to ask a cham chain berni tild for hot water a walter waiter for breakfast and another man to clean his boots most phrase books are no use for that sort of tiling thing they only tell you how to say good morning honored sir will you give me tile the pleasure of dining at my house today bringing your gra gracious clous lady with you and things like that which the afie tourist seldom wants while he drank hla his coffee and ante tile the wretched wretch pd little roll which the german hotel botel creepers give to guests I 1 I 1 at this moment janet church came along the corridor wearing a pink dressing Dres sino gown a pair of blue slippers and a very cap who breakfast in their bedrooms lie opened ills dispatch box and counted his money it was the first uret time in my life lie ho told lit it that id been n million wil lIon alre and I 1 liked tile the feeling in fact I 1 gl gloated I 1 do not wonder tho ng german notes are most opulent looking and Ini impressive pres things lings ti far superior in size find texture to the flimsy little scraps 0 of erper which england lias has to be contented with there tire are large gray notes as big as half sheets of note paper worth a thousand marks ench there are beautiful thick notes for one hundred marks kven hven the little markers tire are impressive all Tonn tommas tommys nys notes were perfectly new and spotlessly clean nobody could have helped lingering them lovingly and reverently it was a delight to count them thein but it Is poor fun feeling that you yon are A millionaire all by yourself your it in a hotel bedroom tommy realized that lie ought to be out of doors enjoying himself mid and getting some folla good for his money ile ho its ills coffee swallowed the last morsel of brend bread ami began to then came a knock at the door tommy said Il herein lerein ills face was covered cna cica with thick lather of fona and lio lie did not cart tor for ing ills hla mouth very w wide da but lie he if quite liffe distinctly and lie was suro sure that clerah lerah I was wag the germun for come in lie had said it six time already twice for each of the three servants and it had bech understood under this little the ninn man outside simply went on knocking tommy went to tile door and opened it lie saw count casimir beautifully dressed smiling tind nd bowing politely cusin fr la is always alway beautifully mid and ap lately dressed I 1 have seen film bilm tit lit tile start of a boar limit hunt in lys tria with n tall red feather sticking up la in the front of ills his cap anti and boots that would have suited otio one of if prince Itu It uperta cavalier troopers I 1 have seen him lit in evening clothes and nothing inoru perfect could be found in a drawing room comedy on the london stage I 1 did not see him that morning in the adlon hotel but janet church lias hns given tile me a description of ahli clothes clothen ile iio wore a pale little gray suit stilt with it blue line I 1 in n it anti and creases cren sef in all the right PI places a ces a mauve tic harmonized with tie the b bauo aitio line it a I 1 must ion leave B n blank here and get janet to toil teil mo me about the waistcoat again tommy was lit in crumpled gray pajamas find and his face wilp was soapy count casimir presented ills hla card tommy read the name on it casimir istvan grat graf but was not much enlightened ile he would it if he could have read what was waa printed under the name it was a large card much larger lhnn the visiting car carda s used by ladles in england and there were four lines of small print on it no doubt a description of count cast casl position in society unfortunately these were in a language which tommy had never seen before it seemed a very queer language there were curious curly accents over the alio consonants the letter X appeared with unusual frequency there were several its with their faces turned tile the wrong way looking very much as it if some one had lifted them thein up turned them over and set them down the wrong wity the same thing thin had happened to a couple of Ns and there was a B with a curious little horn attached to it tommy could rend read greek ile he had a nodding acquaintance with the hebrew alphabet and could distinguish between german capital Cs find and Vs count language wag nono none of these 1 I bid you welcome said count casimir in the words of your great shakespeare I 1 say alls well that endi well im afraid said tommy politely that thero Is some ini mistake stake 11 at tills this moment janet church came along tho the corridor wearing a pink dr dressing esting gown a pair of blue quilted slippers and a very cap slie she was on her way to a distant bath she saw Casini lr erect and beautiful lie he Is a very good looking man in front of tommys tommas door silo she also saw tommy with t ts L lather father beginning to dry on his face janet had been three days in berlin worrying tile the consul and the secretaries ret aries arles in the embassy for permission to go on to begalla Me Ale galla she had find not received my letter about emiles lost curate indeed site she never lid did receive it it reached berlin after she had gone away and was finally returned to me some women would have hurried on turning their heads the other way tommy was in ills his pajamas site she herself was most imperfectly clothed but janet does not suffer from froin ino modesty desty find and she loves interfering in other peoples business silo she calls this being helpful and believes it to be virtuous can L I 1 site she said be of any assistance slat si tince to you I 1 speak german cadintri turned put ills hla heels together and bowed boned to tier then lie kissed lier her hand janet in a red dressing dowil and boudoir cup must have been a surprising and rather a 0 disgusting sight but manners are as perfect as ills clothes lie ile would have boded boad ns as politely and kissed lier ter liand with W tile saine elegant devotion if slie silo had stepped straight out nut of lier her bath to be helpful thanks said tommy just tell this gentleman will you that theres some mistake most likely theyo sent him up to tl ti wrong giong room ria im not the man inn n lie he mints to see janet made ninda a long speech in german answered tier lier with ith a still longer speech janet replied to that and etli nn anit immense bense how flow of lan language guate answered her tommy declares that eliat they talked to each other for ten ini minutes then janet turned to hini lie ile says a lla ids name naine Is count istvan tommy Is the victim of a mis take which appears to have immense possibilities are they i pleasant I 1 TO UK |