Show 4 bom 07 A wj ti NY N U sor service v i c t CHAPTER continued Con timed 26 and I 1 think i it hat at you vou tic scarcely arcely do justice to to tit lie courage which our younger clergy du undoubtedly possess A inin who would fe face a Mot mothers liers union two dins days in it week mk m k and would take charge of A girls friendly society for till 1111 outing in ili the lie county country must inest be dm dari in tig enough fur for fally adventure no curate bunite said cable Il tle mul sullenly lenly would venture to miina a do happen to u know our pati I arch sald the king no i hoblit hom lit not you lou woul dilt talk that wnm about euratus if ou u lid did I 1 e you mr cable that our patri would do anything iiii tiling woul diet it hi clis linar lie dares do CIO oil all that lint mav become a ninn sald Caslin lr App approach thou like the lie rugged hesslan hear the lie armed rhinoceros or 01 your patriarch suld cable a curite curate bilut lie was once said tile king ile he kuust lime been though before rny my time of course they nil all begin hi by being and I 1 assure you ou he have except for moral reasons of course to marr two to or three princesses tin and thell mothers who 10 lo would by be queens it lied hell wanted to when I 1 tell ell you ou that our patriarch has often gone for nie me without v ath a 0 sign of nervousness non and ural used language scarcely believe over some bome trumpery tn impery little affair about a girl gill and that was ns when han I 1 was MOS it 11 king icing tin an absolute monarch remember with etli tin an army arid all that sort of thing no theres no use saving paying that the clergy barent to do things lings ti the discussion was as degenerating into i a wrangle of purely purel academic inter it was waa who brought us ill all back to the business on liand the real question lie he said lot not what a curate or a bishop might do but what tins has actually happened since the er the fugitives reached Ly I 1 sent a telegram to the patriarch pad larch saying baying that the man was ft as un an impostor lie ile surely go on with tile inar ringe ariage after that curate or no said cable 1 I hope the patriarch has shot him lie ile lies said eald casimir in durance vile this very morning I 1 received receded front from tile the patriarch it telegram ile he produced it front from ills pocket the king translated it for us it told us that tommy had been put under tinder arrest that Is perhaps the best tiling which liue have happened said troi te hut but it was even on his showing a very ery bad best the situation in istria was extremely critical A resolution carefully planned rind and organized iced had actually taken place the patriarch and the nobles the only people who counted in lustila Li LY were perfectly determined debei mined to have a king of their own seated on the lie historic throne of tile hunter the founder of the dy daust usty fillus famous a thousand years ears ago for ahli skill in killing bartra baars they wanted to place on head the silver gilt fillet diet which that nion monarch arch had bequeathed thed to his successors nut but if they lid did anything ani thing of the sort every eor balkan state would mobilize tit at once anil and nothing could inert avert a war unless 4 england recognized tile the new king and beclar herself ready rend to support him that and the benevolent neutrality of Pir france tInce might save bine the situation rut but ilow how could england recognize it revolution which holcli had bud either put no king icing on the throne or set fret up tip some home impossible person ierson like Uin llis curate explained all ali that to to is slowly and carefully but I 1 thought galal ald cable that squared the league of nations and all that lot objected to tile lie word I 1 dare say the league of i nations would have objected to it to too what lie he had done so lie he said was to create tin an atmosphere favorable to tile the consideration of the lie of tin an english king to the throne tin one Ble meaning aning lol lold loid d Nor norths heys saw said cable no nodded added lie he certainly hall had not meant h his Is atmosphere to cu celop emiles curate in my opinion said the king alie tit e nest tiling thing for us to do Is to leave baye things n they chev tire are I 1 not exactly as 09 St surely irely curate belongs more they tire that and sties hes or less to in my v sister bister ben on find finding ng him therell there 11 be it a frightful row if alia dincov ers him lulng 4 ing lu in 11 dragoon in Ly lystila 1 N nobody reed need ever know sald eald LIA cabla t I 1 e I the ithe english enalls 11 abo w ho companied companies n them said tile the king must be aware I 1 judge her character tf if facts and of tile lie corwill cor correctly Wily she will ce certainly tell what she knows what english lady said cable the kins king la is said ld her buor uumo churell miss liss church and unless im ilu Illi mistaken staken about her if junet lunch church Is viet tefie e I 1 said lica certain to liar I 1 tied to every eun in ili 1 nil drope rope anti and also to tin the primp prime minister ani the alie leader of the labor puit till and till nil alie lie diff different c r tit iberal thru there tire deina demanding id the rele tibe of lillya Im illys curate what I 1 want ant to know mild cable is w willits lints going to blip pet about lily oil nobody could give alve him tiny infozina don that it had not been granted by the Me magallan gallan indeed it lind it aiu been grunted granted by anybody nn lov all cable really lind had in writing was iia it promise it would he be granted by the lie king kill of lystila iiii li ii lio lie hiis its st afe on tin the tin throne one sillo ning is ig liy hy I 1 say M that things hud hold better be left us its they lit allut hut they cant I 1 sigid 11 I 1 curate cant bo be lert in prison arl s on you dont know my illy sister emilly or boll ou suggest it besides Iles ldes there librea li orea 13 junet janet church to be reckoned with etli 1 I think said the lie king that by tills tint elmr the lie young man lins has Y been re relva sed perhaps married in possibly even crowned cio ned good G dl d I 1 said you dont mean to say you ou actually think the king waived ills linni cheerfully the patriarch lie sald Is it inan of unbounded unbound eI devoted to the cause of Lys trIan independence ICY 0 t I 1 he lles alea said casimir lr in durance vile this very morning I 1 received from the patriarch a telegram and he dislikes intensely dislikes the archimandrite of begalla Me galla tile the lva LB trian nobility wish for a king an english king it sportsman Br Frn ollys ilys curate seems to be that 1 I said fold my I 1 ly di nighter sald the king 1 ant now speaking very my daughter rather liked that young man I 1 liked him myself self casimir liked him everyone Ic liked mill ailin my daughters only objection to marrying ailin wits tile existence of a certain miss temple now it appears that in ills his case there la Is no mi miss temple it it IR likely 1 I to not say cert certain aln but very likely that talat calypso calipso will insist on the pu patriarch releasing biliti site she italy even een suggest that the lie marriage should take place at once then Norlie ys slid back tile the door which divided the compartment from the corridor Thou Blit id look in he said just to to see how youre oure getting on viola tills has dropped on oat into a doze and I 1 was feeling a bit hipped with no one to to talk to to ie he looked around with tin an suitable amiable smile as if lie were vere sure of a warm welcome lie he got nothing of tile the sort and arid cable scowled at him the king ye regarded girded win him as an inconvenient outsider I 1 looked the alie other way casimir was the only one who spoke UP ile quoted shakespeare Shrike speare la in allusion to lady Nor Norlie heys ys doze sleep that knits knit up the ravella ravel ld of care lilt jilt it in one said Nor Norlie heys ys settling down between cable anti the king well uncle ned settled up ui the affairs of eastern europe no said sold said N 1 11 I dont want to chip calill in dont you know I 1 hate fellows who shove their ours in when pot inot asked still what I 1 always say Is this an ordinary sort of fellow with no brains and that kind of thing often gets there though yon dont expect him to tanis why k rm offering fering oi to licup it scenia to me the position Is this ills pick ne me up P about fuits wont oa 03 if U api wrong wron g uncle tincie sed s ed viii often a bit beilic on oil facts pacts in thin thim awse en I 1 sold bald are n much more inore like fan fanales cles hints just when I 1 come in sald said Nor heya heys A filet might have knocked me ine out hut but when lien it cornea to fun kunclrs cles im there ull till tile lie time well now these Jolin johnnies tiles seem to want a king dont see why they aln v do my illy self M lf hut eliut there it Is Ili got a princess but that them it all the league leistle of nations 11 the king hug or the entente power where tile the Iro trouble lible Is the would be quite sati mills t lied fied with calap ro in III filet fact be pry kind glad to hilive me ine back again till nil of them except lio lie patriarch pad larch hut but tile the powers pinery simply wont stand 1 0 that bluit comes to exactly tile tie same thiller as what I 1 raid bald lorhe well vell along col comes lits borne fellow we wa dont know dropping like ahot ayou ehll bilm front from tile thing a mo me hob bob ant A deus tx ex I 1 suggested not lilt I 1 inc tint said Nor lipis heys 1 I a jolly old bolt from the lie little blue hut but hanover hn ha tover we call him thunderbolt or little tin kd god there he Is quite re attly to tako take on the joh job princess and nil all glints tile the way things stand it undo uncle ned was loo klitt out of tile window soi about it 11 daniel coi coining littig to judgment went tnt on oil will well then why not lit let him what I 1 always say it if theres it 11 fellow lincic buck in ili where wanted then let him film huck buck in ili so BO long a is 9 tie ile interfere with us its unfortunately coldly youve left out of consideration tile the deague of nations Nation 9 tint and the treaty of versailles and tile ho policy of the allied powers willit I 1 rny about nil all that scald Nor NOil heys leys Is tills alint lint did wo we light tho war for I 1 dont know of course not so to speak out of my lily own ineide I 1 just fought because till all the other fellows I 1 know knew did too but I 1 to do know what you said nt at the time undo uncle ned and its no use your saying you for you did what we fought for was the set self f t ion of small nationalities ali alit ties los well there yu you are anti and you bennt go buck back on it now lystila la Is a bnell nationality 10 it two and it a half lindt millions before the war ar said the king probably about two millions now possibly have a smaller nationality said Norl ieya cys and what I 1 always tiny say Is tills undo uncle ned if youve sald it a tiling youve jolly well got to stick to it even it you anish ash said something else which of course eNery everybody body generally does I 1 felt quite sorry for ile he really did talk about small natio nationals nall ties and self determination several times during the later years ot of the I 1 dare say lie deserved to be twitted twisted with it nut but I 1 felt I 1 must peak a word for hani you forget I 1 said to Nor heys that you also fought to make inake the world safe for democracy setting up an absolute monarch in lystila Is not democracy when I 1 talk about democracy sold Nor Norlie heys ys or rather when other fellows like you uncle bill talk about democracy for its a thing I 1 never mention myself either cither in it a club or anywhere else I 1 always say any that the first tiling thing Is to settle what la Is democracy we all felt I 1 think that had better be left to answer ills own owl question troye I 1 know distrusts the american for formula uy by with tor for to at in the people none of the rest of us had a formula nt at all democracy said Nor heys simply means being able to say you go to li 11 1 to any fellow who tries to come it over on you my idea of dern democracy fird arl you may say gay what hat you like uncle una L lints what most of us Is jolly well fought for though what aliat I 1 always say Is tills we were rather let down in the end still there Is dont you know a sacred principle and ull that tile sort of thing no decent fellow ever goes back on tile Lyst rians I 1 said bald fire are evidently out and out democrats you go to 11 11 1 seems exactly to describe their attitude toward the rest of europe well then there you are said Norl ieya and if youre there the use ansu of worrying the from the restaurant cur car nine along prid and told us that flint luncheon was wai served nerved rushed orr off to waken viola tile rest of us staggered red along the swaying corridor troyles Troy tes forehead was lined with a deep frown always it a sign that lie was waft engaged in serious thought I 1 remembered exactly the same wrinkles when lie wits was bothered over the writing of greek tumbles tit at school which were considered in our day a necessary part of the education of an lang gentleman TO DH BIS CONTI continual NUEl |