Show 1 t II King Tommy 1 I By GEORGE A. A 1 BIRMINGHAM 3 Copyright by Bobbs Co w. w N. N U. U a I CHAPTER XIII XIII-Continued XIII Continued f 18 18 1 Even ven so so said the king you can cnn t scarcely e. e expect me to answer that r question In n detail Even en at the a ape age e of ot f forty five or If 11 you really ar are forty five fire Fifty VO 1 At any age oge said sold the king such confessions are embarrassing embarrassing embar ra rassing Ing for both of us Besides It Isn't only with Calypso that I want i you ou to use your Influence Theres There's the patriarch Do be he you know our JUr patriarch pa t tria rell 7 I. I I hope to Im I'm going to In to enlist his order sympathies In our eat p-eat movement mo 1 And rm Tm sure you'll succeed said the e king Our patriarch Is full of sympathy with all ll good causes and Fro Fin certain that your movement Is one ohe onet one of t the best Janet helped herself to some of the therea thereal rea real reA which a 0 waiter walter was pushing at nt her ber In a 0 large dish The kin king refilled I her glass She had sipped away alI almost al al- al I most half balf of what was In It i Its the of world r peace face c she said through the medium L I. of the United Christian ChrIstinn Churches In that case cne said the king you youcan 3 3 ran can count with certainty on our patri- patri arch Theres There's nothing absolutely nothing he likes better n the esL es- es L o of 1 world peace ce perhaps the Unity of Christian n I Churches though perhaps h hes he's s 's a little I Inclined to take the view that the theother 4 other churches should hould unite with his tad not his with them I mean to toay ay Ely he thinks that If It theres there's to be a aT T compromise It must be on the basis of ot every ery one else giving But all way L h l ti are ore like e tHat our patriarch pa pa- o 4 Isn't peculiar When we speak of the union of ofa a 4 churches said Janet we mean a n aI concordat based on the essentials of ot I the Christian creed a ait it f Of course said the king and ond itI I youn you'll find our patriarch absolutely 1 Ie threes agrees with you OU about that so long as aB ii ld you rOt dont don't ask him to shake hands j with mth the Archimandrite He lie je ie IS might draw the line there though as asI a I said Id hes he's always on for on anything really good A good cause couse simply fascinates fasl fas fas- If he has bas weakness weakness- him a l ss as S we all have It have It Is that hes he's not so sote rd ond fond as he might be of the things te i arent aren't quite so good as the r. r Causes Take young oung men now As Asi i YOU Ton Toner er very rightly said a few minutes algo go igo young men are young oung men e 0 I said they ought not to be 11 1 t But the they are said the he king ce chat Khat the patriarch cannot be got to lee see ee but I am sure I can rei rely on you OU ii 11 to put the thing before him In the 5 proper roler light After all Miss Temple lis i. i Is a Ion long way war off oft It Isn't as os if she sheIn sheI I fI fIns was ns In the least lIkel likely to turn up In Ind v vI d I fear that I can scarcely undertake under under- take take lake Janet was softened perhaps for the ther st time In her life If It had not r r- r en for the wine the good food and antl 1 the kings king's charming manners she would no flO doubt have replied to him e much more blankly than she did lid She ht even have spoken fiercely I fear tear she said I cannot cannot under under- take Uke to persuade t the le patriarch that aJ Hiss lIis Ns Temple doesn't exist f Well Vell perhaps not not said the king At After r all the patriarch Is a 0 very dif dlf- man to persuade I never could do o It I dare say sa It will really be better better better bet bet- ter If It he doesn't hear hear about Miss Iss Tem Tern pIe at nt all And he never will If Ca Ca- n Irr typo o doesn't tell him I shall not consider It my duty to Ml I Mm hIm said J Janet anet l My business with Ith him him him- Is Js world orld unity through peaceful Christian churches p World peace said Janet through t il Ibe he e Unity of Christian Churches Quite so said the king and even een It If It had been World Churches I 11 L tl 11 tile We Unity of Christian peace I It would still be far more inore more Important thin our little affairs Still If It you ou Calypso not to tell the patriarch pa pa- If Casimir had been there he might 1 I ce said that the king king- kinglike like poor Joor old l sr's worst daughter gave ac sweet sweeta a and most speaking glances ie e to 0 Janet I doubt doubter er very much whether Uly one had hud ever eer made e eyes es at her hernS ins nS inset Wore The treatment had a certain et ta t fleet t. t I I shall shah not said Janet advise u. u tt t the patriarch be he told 1 d I dare dure say sm J Janet's anet's conscience was R he her a little She had hud drunk E t and a halt half of Burgundy Burgund and antl anda k a tie e king was putting a liqueur glass full 4 t cognac nac be beside beIde her coffee That was lien feet t to make her uneasy She budor hud bud or tt I 1 to conceal or help In cona con con- t 1 two a U scandal I suppose she budd hut hail d ders 10 do tr before in her whole life agreed such doubt the thel theof 1 in ia a thing and no l d o of ot It Wk unpleasant B By wa way it se compounding with her conscience In d 1 to o quieting it she made up her herto hera a 33 d to say something f really nasty ija It 1 5 Tommy A. A fiE u re you Yuu aware she said sold that the DUll r nc man a about out whom we have hae been tJ Y t. akl t king ng Is 8 no not what he pretends to Pretends to be a 0 curate said t nf It i and Im I'm perfectly certain of ot the Bort sort I thoU lIt not nott said the king I thought not n Im I'm glad firmed finned youve you've confirmed con con- ID my suspicion urve Ive kno known Janet Jonet perhaps many curates said Ive I've hundreds of ot them and andi never known one ne yet who beth beha be- be ha bayed ed i a ns th thIs I one ne does does- He drinks Brinks the cocktails Mn In l the morning and goes to Mascotte In the evenings TIle The patriarch wouldn't Couldn't dream of doIng such things said the king Which makes maltes me certain not that hes he's a 0 curate Indeed or r indeed a clergyman at ot all That saId sald the king Is more the sort of way a youn young man lil like e Lord might behave e Very Ver possibly I dont don't know Lord Norh eys At the same snIDe time said the king tIlt lit it is not our business to expose the unfortunate young man Deplorable as his conduct it I dont don't see that we need warn worn the patriarch against him For the sake of the reputation of the Church of En England land said Janet uI I I feel that I ought to make It clear that he Is not one of our clergy If he be does anything scandalous while he Is in L said the king kisses a housemaid or anything like that of ot course you'll have to tell the IIi He Pretends to Be a Curate Said the King patriarch and ond Cal Calypso too too that that that- he Isn't a 0 clergyman Y You'd be he bound hound to todo todo todo do that for the sake of ot the Church of England But if he behaves with ordinary ordinary or or- decorum decorum- After all he may have good reasons for pretending to tobe tobe tobe be a 0 clergyman Im I'm pretending to be bea ben a n head waiter walter In order to earn m my living ll Theres There's nothing really wicked about that I dont don't see that either you OU or I are bound to tell the patriarch patriarch patri patri- arch that lies lie's not a n curate So long as os you know the facts I dont don't see that Its It's anybody else's busIness bus bus- iness mess p And I do know them thoroughly I felt bound to tell you ou said Janet but I dont don't see that I need tell an anyone one else Thanks said the king Part III a CHAPTER XIV It took Casimir two da days s 's to complete com coin j his arrangement for the reception of the princess at the schloss The little party party Tommy Tommy the tile princess and und Janet Junet Church Church staYed stayed ed in the best hotel hotel ho ho- tel In Breslau The king took rooms s stor for tor them before he went back hack to BerUn Berlin Ber Ber- Un lin a 0 bedroom for tor Tomm Tommy two bedrooms bed rooms and a sitting room for the la lu In- Aina Th Tho Pho head waiter niter of the Mas- Mas cotte cott Is an Important person In hotel keeping and restaurant circles in Ger Ge- Ger t was treated man many Tommys Tommy's party and consid consid- with the greatest cou courtesy tesy erat ion But the two lays days In Breslau were ere not very pleasant for or Tommy He saw but lt little of the princess and he never saw her alone ulon The They met at meals meals' but Janet Junet C Church was nh a always 13 there Afterward the princess and J Janet onet either elther eith er retired to their own sitting room walk waltz without n asking Tommy Tom Torn or took a with them He fe got ot no chance to m my go of ot explaining himself to the princess that he knew convince con her to or nr trl tryiNg g Miss Temple This worried worried wor wor- orned or nothing nothing of hand the thc ried ned him On the other gradually manner r became princess anil and anil t more mere agreeable The ex ex- more erne ho hostility with which she Rhe had and afterward afterward after after- greeted him In the Ma Mascotte cotte to or or- ward In the train gave save wa way and at lust to friend friend- linary dinar politeness lIness Janet iet of or course was wIt with th princess princess prin prin- nIl all day and talked to her incessantly Inces- Inces cess almost always nb ut world and rind the Unity Unitt of Christian pence peace Churches This would have hav Inclined I feel kindly a young girl girt to any an elen even If he were the l callous breaker man J Jr r of another girls girl's heart And to be doub rul whether Cal CalYPSO came broken Miss Ten Tern Tern- really had bad Tommy Tomm mind when her heart heart Janet plc's pic ot of LG be diverted from the UnIon 11 Churches dropped hints about Tommy which set Calypso wondering She said suld for Instance that Tommy was not the man he lie professed to be So Sotar far tar as os Calypso knew Tommy professed professed pro pro- to be Lord s 's and the i thought that he lie might be somebody else gave her a n queer little thrill of pleasure If It he lie were not Lord Norfie Nor- Nor fie s 's then he was not bound In honor to marry Miss Ils's Temple She began to look at Tommy with Interest at nt first as a man whom It might be her laer dut duty to marry lat later r on onas onas onas as a man whom she might be content to marr marry even if It were not her duty Her view of Miss Temple changed In Inan inan an odd way It occurred d to her as possible that this London dancer might be one of if those wicked women who lure young joung men Into entanglements entanglements entangle entangle- I ments and then n hold them to their half made promises She came by degrees de de- deI I grees to think of Miss Temple as a a. a nuisance some one who ho had hud no right I Ito to be there at all certainly no right to Interfere with Lord s life Tomm Tommy could not fail to observe the change In Calypsos Calypso's manner and tIle the e thought that her feelings toward him were ere becoming more friendly filled him him with a det determination to go with Ith his adventure whatever r happened There e were difficulties One trifling tri fri m fling g In in Itself but singularly em embarrassing embarrassing embar- embar a rassing met him bun almost at af once On th the evening of his arrival while h he was smoking g. g a pipe 1 before going to bed Tommy was greeted by d a cheerful Intelligent looking young Eng Eng- lishman Excuse me sir but arent aren't you C Col Colonel lonel l l. onel Heard Tommy was not Colonel Heard any anymore anymore I Imore more than he lie wa va was Lord s 's but bit buthe buthe he lie knew he lie had Colonel Hoards Hoard's passport passport passport pass pass- port In his pocket and his party were entered In the hotel register egister as Colonel Colonel Col Col- onel and Mrs Heard and Miss GIg Gis- borne TIle The king had done that for them before he lie went nt back to Berl Berlin n. n My I name s said the stranger Is Allen I dont don't think weve we've ever er met Never Neer said Tommy firmly thankful thankful thank thank- ful that Allen was not one Of hf Colonel Heards Heard's oldest oldest friends J J. J But when I saw sow your our name In the hotel register said Allen I thought I Id I'd Introduce m myself se f. Im I'm doing Reparations Reparations Rep Rep- you u know He lle gave goe that that piece of Information as us If it formed some excuse for ImIng hasing having has hav ing seen Colonel Heards Heard's name in the tho register book book- It was an an- anex ex ex- ex cuse Any one concerned with Reparations Reparations Reparations Rep Rep- is bound to be filled with curiosity cu cu- and ought to Investigate In e. e ev everything ev- ev el he lie conies across How lIow le l leis e eIs Is he lie to know whether the conquered nations nations' can or annot pay puy the fines fines' Imposed on them I hope Allen went ent on that y you'll ll Introduce nic me to Mrs Heard Id I'd Id I'd like hike to tell m my sister that Ive I've met her Tomm Tommy could not do an anything thing else IRe but promise to introduce Allen to Mrs Heard next morning But he could not help wondering which of h his s two ladles ladies were the better suited for the tue part Janet Church was almost the theu u age e that colonels' colonels wives generally are me J But nut Tommy knew that he himself looked absurdly young oung There cannot I be he many in Instances of colonels o of twenty six years old married to 10 ladles ladies s of ot two fifty and und Janet looked every everyday j da day of her ag age On the other hand one of his two ladles ladies had hud to pose pos as I the secretary of or the Graves ne Registration tion commission Cal Calypso p o did not lo look k I lII like e a secretary and It would be difficult dif dlf dif dif- to c convince n an any one that she was as chiefly occupied with gras gras' graves s. s Janet with her face and figure looked e l exactly like a n lady Indy wl who o nt 1 her time In t typing letters about tomb tomb- stones Tommy made up his Ind that Cul Calypso must be Mrs I scant to thank Mrs Heard said suld Allen for all her kindnesses to my my sister In 1915 1015 She was ns like a u mother moth moth- er to the girls In that canteen and I she kept a 0 tight hand hund over them too needed It Quite right They The date dute gave gu Tommy a 11 shock In l 1915 15 Calypso was at ot th the utmost four four- fourteen fourteen teen years ears ears of age and could CouIl not possibly possibly pos pos- sibly have have kept a tight ht hand over o uny the Inhabitants of ot ota ofa one OIW except perhaps a n dolls dolls dolls' hou house e. e Tommy altered his plan Janet would have hav-e to be lie Mrs i Heard But he lie was h by liv no me means ns c certain r- r tam tain of how ho Janet would lII like e that She had hind already ad accepted the position of or laid down doun downIn his aunt and It is distinctly in the Prayer Book oot that an un aunt mn may not marry her nephew Janet with ecclesiastical Jn Instincts her strong t tl committing might very ery well object to herself to a breach of tie rie marriage e p laws of the Church l. l TO BE DE CONTINUED |