Show ROME ROE IS EXCITED I OVER ENGAGEMENT Italian Court Cir Circles les Busy Directing Di Directing Directing Di- Di New International Alliance KING MAY DENY CONSENT Duke of Abruzzi Disappears rs From Washington Causing Local Comment Republican Special Cable Rome Home e March 2 20 O. Great Great excitement was evident In court circles toda today following following fol Col- fol- fol lowing the announcement that the Duke AbruzzI was about to become cn engaged a e to Miss Katherine The was reported to have had a long conversation with one of ot the members of his entourage on the subject of the projected marriage It was also re reported reported re- re ported porte that the duke was in cable communication with the king who is his cousin It was learned too that Baron Mayer Des Planches the Italian ambassador to Washington had been deputized to pay a visit to St. St Au Augustine Augus Augustine us ustine tine shortly after the duke uke and the party arrived there early in inthe Inthe inthe the present month The result of oC tho the ambassadors ambassador's mission could not bo be learned U lloyal tl Objections lie It was stat stated d t today day on good authorIty authority author author- ity H that the king kin Is determined not to toIve give Ive his consent to the purposed marriage marriage mar mar- e as he ho believes the duke should marry somo some young woman of his own I rank In view of tho the possibility of ot his accession to the Italian throne ne Tho The intimation that the duke was possessed of a mercenary motive In seeking to malT marry the daughter of an American millionaire Is disposed of or orby by the authenticated statement nt that the ducal tiucal fortune Is not less than 2 2 with a prospect of oC further Increase in increase increase In- In crease by inheritance from Crom other members members mem mem- bers of oC the family ELOPEMENT IS RUMORED HUMORED Duko Duke of or Abruzzi he wIll antt Miss Elkins Aho o DL Disappears Washington March 20 O. O Lost strayed or stolen one Italian prince Is the tho wa way society leaders lenders regard the l C of th i t tAt Y The 7 f I 1 tt h h hr r Jd ment With Miss has been nip pod ped JI In iq the bud either cither by the wishes ol or ortho tho the dukes duke's royal roal cousin the king o or of Ital Italy or the tIme sturdy Amerl Americanism ot or Senator Stove Steve ElKins ns who It Is said will not to the purchasing of ot a title for his laughter daughter dau I r have nothing to Sa say were thelast tho the last words of the duke dulce when he made his final appearance in Washington this morning The mournful echo of ot his phrase had not died out when a a. newspaper scout arrived with the tho Information Information in information In- In formation that the duke ulc had not taken the 10 o'clock train to New Now York after all an Where was he He ha had certain certainly left heft the Italian embassy shortly be before before belore be- be fore lore 10 this morning In a coupe an and driven toward towar the station The embassy embassy em em- bassy officials said raid C Certainly they did not know wh why he ic had not gone on tho the train Inquiry at the Elkins home elicited the reluctant admission that he ho was not riot there The Tho sleuths got Ot busy and v. v sound found und that Miss l Elkins had also left leCt the tho city Thero Thero was a mystery Had thc they eloped and was Irate papa chasing I them The smile that the tho senator wore was one of satisfaction either cither because he had saved ed the tho family from a a. duke or gotten otten one into It None could surmise surmise sur sur- mise miso which The fhe general solution of the puzzle hero hero Ts rs that the senator and Miss El Elkins Elkins El- El kins have gone one to New Nc York to see seethe seethe seethe the duke uke depart for nativo climes once more on the Lusitania tomorrow morning |