Show do 1111 arve m m 7 by GEORGE As A birmingham by bobb merrill cow N U service CHAPTER ER XVI continued 21 ilie rever a scot happens to bo be 10 jonet janet Is scotland Scot lanM 11 ld id abe law cant really de e exactly like abati said tho the princess it would IQ ile inconvenient too ix said janet if that Is tile the law that I 1 im m married to him ailin I 1 shall I 1 aay say and therell be no gelling out of I 1 that rw would lie ile intolerable it I 1 be particularly pleas picas ither either said eaid tommy got abot for me c 11 he ought not to have sald said that but tit he wits was getting angry with janet A a perfect right to refuse a perfect nymn oman has any man ln who asks tier but marry to he be ought not to tell him to ills his fit face cc that lie Is it tolerable intolerable no man can ile be ted to submit tamely to that when hen lie lias has not really lilii lill Kelf self na as a husband Bes besides ldes said calypso if lie mari would 11 to aled you what appen poor I 1 biss temple 1 1 I wish to goodness miss bliss temple as g here salt said tommy you yon wont won t I 1 listen to ahle hut if slie site lvere liere here site sho rould nt want to marry me nav an y more tun than either of you does doe s iut anyhow if yere vere to go 90 on tit nt nil all one of you ou must own on up tip to being my wife ill we you ou settle it between your selves ne walked off walked to tile lie cur car sud ml looked ht it I 1 walked it a little way along the road ind and back again finally at down on a stone and looked at the lie river which ran turbid and yellow under tinder it little bridge but tommys tommas ill temper never lasts long and lie he Is a man of active and ami resourceful mind in it quarter of tin nn hour he was back with a proposal to meet the mhd difficulty dini culty according to that scotch scorch law of yours he said to janet would you remarried he be married to it man if you said you i oil were his wife but lie say lie be was your husby husband nd of course not said janet even if there were witnesses pres ent that matter said eald janet unless we vie both said we were married we boulant woul ant bs be married and supposing while you were saying you were his wife another man said he wits was your husband quite a 11 different man whom you alahn at all which of them would you be married toa to 1 I be married to either sold aid janet even eun according to the scotch law of courso coin so I 1 very well uell said tommy i when we ne got get to talat frontier post pos t you say pay that colonel heard Is your husband ile he cant any ay that youre ills his wife because bebau q hevont he wont be there therefore so you wont ie be married to him I 1 shall say that youre loure in my wife but if you dont clatin claim tie me as it a husband hum band which you wont having already claimed colonel heard then you ou wont be married to me and I 1 shant lie married inar to you in fact we shant either of us be married to any even een by scotch low law that will be all right wont it besides said calypso colonel heard seems to be married already and nothing you could say would make any difference to that would it 0 exactly said tommy another anether point even scotch law cant let a man in for bigamy in that cas val way especially against ills hla will end and I 1 dont suppose heard particular 1 IT I 1 willits wants to marry you so lints settled said calypso janet did not seem satisfied and I 1 ell can scarcely amely wonder A woman ns as intimately ti connected its as she Is with the Ino movement for reuniting the christian churches of the hie world has to lie very careful of tier her reputation it would be 11 terrible tiling thing for tier lier if it were to become generally known that hat site she claimed it married man fis as her that Is the sort of thing a woman never quite bucce succeeds eds in living down find and tile e ft world orld Is censorious the men tit at the german frontier post turned our to be peaceful find and quiet they looked tt tit the passports but made no corn comment ment on then them they inquired whether the travelers were taking any new clothes chino phones 3 photographic apparatus surg surgical leal in instruments ro ments telescopes or dyes out of carmany erinani eri nany manY the princess said that mat their aresser were old all were old all years that they ted cited gramophones gramo phones and never took janet added sole solemnly I 1 finly hat at the party dill did not possess a single lancet or a telescope tommy vlen e understood what was happening told said dpn four or five talmeg cally then there were some inquiry I 1 ea M about the car tie princess asked t he e belittled bearded chauffeur to prod produce tice ills papers Pers in petting getting nt at an pocket 11 e displayed ills his pistols and knives to great advantage the germand Germi ins asked no 0 o more lore questions about the athe car did lot ot look lit at the papers and the ie travelers to go on very likely he ke hey thanked lod V were well 11 rill rid of a knave the when tle tile car reached their icar post turned out but to be men of quite u 1 different kind they looked as bavage e and were quite as well armed Bs 81 the he chauffeur they spoke a tongue tits nett either iier german nor the nn ackling language of tile the gysi holmy anu an and janet fild not understand 11 i 10 0 lt it kven the prin cess seemed As well ns its I 1 can make out olit site salt saying that tile the on tile passports lire fire tint not in the least like us 11 tell stiem sali tIll tillas ts it matter r of opinion oln lin lon find eliat if tiley know kilow the hit recent find voriest Vori elt develop lev elop mits see lit at once that lint these alln f photo graphs represent our selves anti lire are exactly ilkic alko 1 I dont believe etlee li I 1 could eliy nil even in ceriman ner Ce ninn gaid calypso alid I 1 dont know two words orus of which Is clint chevre talk ing the chini neur sp spilla Illg lint so some ic tiling thing lind lanil gono wrong loft left its ills car anil and d the lio balegal Mog allans laug with mih his 1114 overcoat oer over cont flying lang lilo ilo ollan elley were nvere les less 8 It impressed Dressed linn lhnn taw gerlang by ills of weapons in filet were wit not impressed nt lit till fill all alir v did wits lin unbutton button their own OMI coat biats s it and n 1 I show ahu alit pose poa sed weapons or of similar kill kaml i this 11 salil said tommy Is getting quite illde ireland 11 the chaulT pim quack vl nt at tit lie mp in Lys trIan they rell led lit in Ale alexallan gallan 1 it a language lil cli consiliis cons liis 41 4 principally of sounds liko like lils hisses ses lie quacked again but ell it a few fp ases will ali his 1119 9 billack 9 they ahls pd in reply but uttered it feta pw too gradually tile speakers drew diew to grether until the Illegal lans were cre quacking lit it r 1 ti i I 1 iva I 1 ar t it above them the schloss with tho the light still bright on it looked like a fairy palace nearly us its much ns as they hissed and the lie was lils sing frequently the Irl princely princ nees esy j understood about half tiala of what luit each party said Tl iee just asked him site she s said ald which of us I 1 id d your wife tell him said janet to say ini im not but it was too late to tell him film anything lie ile wits was making a fag speech in mingled hisses find and quacks the princess princes giggled again lies iles just told thein slie site said that im mrs heard and that were ere fill all french subjects 1 q I wont be called french said janet 1 11 I hope hell be careful said tommy 1 I cant talk french tiny anny more than I 1 can an german r n why he say we were english its no use saying that to tile megal gallons lans sald said the princess tiley they think the english noer never send belld ar artilles lilles anywhere or to do anything except pit pa other peoples debts for fol thell bliem kut but desperately frightened of the F rench french the chauffe ur quacked find and hissed a little ittle more im awfully uv fully sorry salil said calipso to janet but lies just told them that youre my mald maid the man had heen heel treating land janet as if site she were vero a servant ever since cie lie party left breslau lau slie site wits was d determined e ter to assert herself and not to leave tile Meg allans under it a false impression pres slon all him at once she slie said bald all him at once said bald dense II ellse tell 10 to say sav chilt im tile european representative senta tive of tit the league for establishing world pence peace through tile the union of christian churches sile spoke ro ra fiercely thit calypso dared do nothing but obey alipy tier lier she did tier her best to explain to the chauffeur janet churchs churche position lit in tile religious world I 1 do to not k know now wilfid ant tile beur thought or how much lie understood of what hut was said to liliu nor Is there any way of finding iding fly out what soldiers soldier R or liow ito V lie he told tile the much tiley they understood un der stood but the effect on them was excellent they fill all took off their hots hat 9 knelt down and crossed themselves piously they anu must st somehow time have gathered that janef was nn 9 n ecclesiastic of fin n unusual kind they continued cont inked to kneel for several ml minutes in I 1 hope ope of a n benediction did not give edic tion which janet them tells roe me that Meg allans have tile the reputation of being the limal religious people in europe they take delight in passion plays the greatest ahie blikh tile hey v continually perform keep rows 0 of spittoons spit tous in their churches a sign of real re mence and bave several moll ait authenticated every eco year tear As soon fis is they the ii tint chilt janet was H R priestess tess deaconess or ahl I 1 ess I 1 the I 1 I 1 ey made no g about allowing tile party in arty to go on bairos rol rom roll L after passing tile frontier posts that corner comer of tho tl 0 Me magallan Megall gallan iiii territory consisted of tile lie oil old d kingdom kIngdo ill of Ly L so that tile lie prin cass was nt at last back lit in her own land tile the few feu peasants peasant ft who mho were herding hording eattle on till the hill hillsides sides were ceru find no doubt talked to 0 o one inc another anither in tile quacking language which illicit the lie chauffeur usra ohp little cattle wire nere lys lis tiann cattle long iong horned nathu allt little tle lie heists lIts which lilal looked us its it if they afford led ded little nilla when alive tin and nut not aleh ant nairn dead dt ad tile cottages were I the th roads the lie heather hit selves till ill were cre c re rid tin 1111 drew dreu dep deep hrvat liR of castrian LAs I trian air with keen doll lell slit glit pointed out one thins thing after another to annet 0 who o was ia not deeply interested now anti then slie site clapped lor 4 witia jo jn the spirits of tho brigand chauffeur rose roie too lie he still drove droe carefully cure fully any other kind of drying driving houi have brought swift disaster on in tile rown hut lie mow blow horn when oer ever lio lie saw n man oman oni in or child however ho eur 11 stant lie ile threw off tits his cat mid lot let the mountain air blow w freely through tit thick curly ciely hiter once for a short title lie quickened the curs cars pace fill and pur pursued sueI n hare which wits foolish enough to run straight dilong the lie rond road after a while alle lie he begaii to sing inere snatches of song nt at first in tile lie end whole verses erses this was ikas highly unconventional behavior beli alor lit in a chauffeur driving a royal roal car but calypso Caly iso did not resent it she seemed actually pleased soon she phe joined johnl d him in stinging whon the man epard tier her high treble ring out lie dropped naturally into it i buys bass part the Lyst rians like most luila liala civilized people tire are very ery musical and every kind of singing Is a delight to them calypso started the Lys trian national anthem it a wild ald tune its as exciting ni as tho the with lit in it of the grandeur of the tie old Hussli tn czarist national air tile the joined in ili with it kind of fierce enghu they sang hanff the tune through to geher three or four tinier times then cn ca lapso leaned forward and laid tier lier hand on oil tommys tommas shoulder Bli coln join in site silt scald you sing too lets nil all sing site she shook up janet who was dozing find told tier lier to sing janet lias has no more moie ear for music than a crow lins has are arc the only things she ever attempts to sing and aind I 1 nin am told that when she does the rest of the congregation suffern acutely it was tier lier attempt nt at the Lys trian national anthem which put it a stop to the singing in the end janet who Is quite unconscious of tier her infirmity snug sang loud when she began to enjoy herself slie she has a very powerful voice the chauffeur must have been actually musical more musical than either tommy or the princess 1118 face twitched when dunets high liotta readied reached him ills ilia steering became very erratic and once or twice lie ran the car nr dangerously near tile edge of the rond ire ile tried to fo assuage hla his e en ry by M sounding ills horn fler fiercely cely when lie knew 1 new it high note wits was coming in tile tho song i I 1 suppose this only made tie the discord more intolerable at last lie ile stopped tile car turned round and quacked out an angry speech to like princess calypso understood what he sold well veil enough site she would probably have understood ills his feelings even if lie he hart had not iz spoken olien for site she wits wan sitting beside janet flut but site she wits very ery tactful IS sander says that we had better stop singing alie mountain air Is bad for the voice olce and we shall have sore throats tomorrow if we go on what sandor really said was that unless the english housemaid stopped squalling equalling squal ling lie would be forced by uncontrollable emotion to stab tier her and throw her out of the car they drove on without for the rest of the lie afternoon steadily climbing into the mountains by twist ing and sometimes perilous roads at about six they readied reached tile highest point of a lefty 1 aty pass on ench each side the mo mountains rose to snow clad peaks in front the read dipped steeply into a marrow valley beyond the volley valley stood steep and frowning oni other mountain on its side perched on a plate plateau ati sandor gripped tomiya arm and pointed forward there a gray pile of masonry strod the oldest most impressive and least comfortable for table of the pala palais s of the Lys trian kings tim cur plunged into the valley out of the sunshine into deep shadow above them the schloss with tile the light still bright on it looked like a fairy palace they crawled over a narrow bridge which crossed cros crossed sef a foaming tor lor rel they began a winding ascent along a stony road TO ab nb CONTINUED |