Show 1 t f r rr r iW ti 4 fr r K 1 f 1 A W y r BI I U UP I P k Nr JO ly JO Kf J ct eta u 6 e CHA CHAPTER PTER Continued Continued I 28 28 28 1 I I it was Ras as partly In and partly L G fJ German Tro te understands nel- nel yer j r language He turned to me to 1 tt for him floats float's he saying he asked II German I Is rusty through long use and I never knew any Lys- Lys tf tri However Howe I think I picked up ge e main thing the patriarch wanted i to fO As s far as I can cnn make out I said ties apes trying tring to tell you oU that one Lord will do quite as ns well as an- an other ower The coronation Is to be this But said saM Tro te this young man j isn't t Lord Tell ell him that I told him After I had finished jinet linet Church told him again In sack Ench better German than mine WeLd We Ye Ld d not make much Impression on the All he lie said in reply was dit If it the could not have hn Bunny they would be satisfied with Graf Gmt Tommy Tell him said Tro te that this teens roan man Isn't a count and Isn't Nor Nor- at all Then Tommy Joined In Theres no use sa saying Ing Im I'm not Nor- Nor when I 1 am nm he said though I Imy Itell tell my name with two r rV rs Instead If rh which strikes me as a n more morel moree l en Ible e way of ot doing it As for my i tot jot t being a count if you can get that tto the patriarchs patriarch's head you'll doare do dore sore are re than I can Ive I've been at nt him all aU 3 and so has Miss Church Were We're assured him over and over that Im I'm not a count But he lie ont n be got to understand Not that I 1 tare care what he calls me only I didn't ml ant an any irregularity about the thc mar- mar which there might have ha been if It I 1 gas ras married under a wrong nu name e. e The confusion I said in the patriarchs patriarch's pa pa- mind probably arises from lie te custom prevalent all aU over o Europe ra Q every member of a titled family ui tang the title Take the tr r instance I dout don't know how many there are are are- They're all nil said Tommy ring his hand toward a n group of ot nobles All except seven And Im I'm sure I said that they're counts er Every single one of them said So you yon see I said suld to how howe e patriarchs patriarch's mistake arose He thought that everyone e called orbe's s must be a marquis But hut he Isn't said Is ls It worth while I said correct the mistake now Apparently thought It wase was e e Insisted on having what he called conference with the patriarch I do tf think the patriarch liked It for ere was a wedding feast waiting to t eaten In the great hall haJJ of the tle But nut te was Him Brut lie fie mid find patriarch sei e and Cable Caille went ent off tak- tak p Janet with ith theta them to t act as ns inter inter- ter The princess and Nor Nor-a Lady Nort'S Nor Nor- tS t'S Went ps away together their thel arms ind nd each other Poor Lad Lady ti rI teen been traveling fast for da days s I Ink k slie lie he Jj wanted a bath buth and some tithes hes before she he sat down to the amId the magnificent nobles t I 1 hn had no doubts at the time zt t Tomm Tommy would make muke quite as actable ac- ac table a king of lu as would pd Ird ad 1 I also had hind no doubt douht p. p t Lad Norge s 's s would have been mach more attractive c queen consort pa an n the somewhat plain Calypso m t matter however hail had been ended d Tommy my evidently was more inure than thuu with the tu turn n of e events As Aa c l Lord s 's I remembered ed a rebe re re- Irk rk he be had once onre made to me the Pin n m not a fI prejudiced sort of fellow M t 1 I 1 always s s SU say u about things s Is 15 1 s A d fellow lOa may not have hn been ai at I I school but bui he may he be quite nt sort of fellow Its It's the thc same Th Ih gi girls rl s. s end And he had llad won the g girl 0 of his oice The TIle loss of the throne thron of I. I Lyshe Lyse Lys- Lys he e viewed Mewed with the I utmost Iy Iy I 1 could not feel that I had hud been IHen a u t help either to te Lord Norr Nor- Nor is s. s or r sister Emily Emil J I in the thc whole r alter alt er though It Is worth worthy of ot record still calls me Uncle mil Bill 10 comes to me for ud l advice e when hen he lie 3 trouble which Is more or less freHe frea fre- fre C a tulI He lie never b by an any chance i m In n Ice advice Jc however I dare say jay r t r mum ouid t t get Into worse trouble If heOn he lie heo lier On a this o I was nut not asked s ice advice My I nephew and und his charm- charm 3 t bride ride evidently had a perfect un- un r standing as ns to their future p 1 on In ln L affairs lathered hered that u when s 1 took r A d AI I by the arm ann and sP spoke ke to him lulus f i j 1 gay ay JOu ou U know about your our being i instead ad of ot me the and und all that Im I'm l 7 glad ad j Never really wanted the bit Only promised to take It i please Wease Uncle Ned All the same a I 1 IOu rou know 1 think you owe O me the I a good turn Only for for formy my sticking to Viola through h thick and thin lu fu spite of ot ever everything that everybody said you OU wouldn't be here would y you ou 1 If It theres there's any mortal thing I can do for you in any in-any any way aunt said Tommy just tell me what Sugar it Is s. s Thanks said Norge s. s Well Vell Ive I've married Viola you ou know and of ot course she's n a marchioness of ot Nor Nor- heys and all that which ought to be he good hood enough and Is good enough All the some same the worlds world's full of old cats Im I'm Im I'm not sot talking of Uncle Ned now But there are cats aunts you know and lots more who arent aren't even oen aunts T They'll be inclined to sniff a bit at Viola on account of ot her being a dancer on the sta stage e and that sort of thing Now what I alWa always s 's say Is I this I dont don't care a n d n d-n n what a girl was dancer or 01 anything else Nomore No Nomore Nomore more do you No more does an any sensible sensible sensible sen sen- sible man But If It there are cats inthe In Inthe Inthe the world world and and theres there's no use denyIng deny deny- i ing ng that what that what I say a Is that Its It's better betterto to have ha them purring than mewing mc s Idea no no doubt was fundamentally fundamentally funda funda- mentally sound but I had hail my misgivings misgIvings misgivings ings as to the amount of purring m my sister Emily would do O when she heard of his marriage to a young lady Indy who had become prominent as ns a n public dancer Emil Emily has hns her own Ideas on on many subjects and her views are not easily changed She is a most religious religious re re- woman and devoted to the church It has hns been hinted to such an extent that occasionally she seriously i embarrasses the rector of ot her parish I did not see how Tommy could pr prey eat ent Hunts bunts and und the other I I t I Y p t I is T- T I I 7 r I Ia Il a l 1 7 2 I ff t il ill l C I t I 1 v r 1 I 1 Think You Owe Me a Good Turn ladles ladies who were not not r his aunts from mewing if the they wanted to s explained If It a fellow fellow I I mean to tl to su say a girl Jirl is properly received at court COUlt accepted b by royalty dont don't you ou know then know then she's all right it doesn't nt make malie a bitof bit bitof bitof of difference In reality of course but the sort ort of people Im I'm thinking about believe It does docs Now if you ou could see your our wU way you you Oll and cal Calypso Calypso- 1 when youre you're king and queen queen queen-if if joud you'd take talie Viola la into the p royal yal circle wh why I nobody could sa say a u word vord after that I could th they v I saw auw s point at last In Inthe Inthe Inthe lad ladys lady's the days das of ot King a reputation might not have been b bv by the fuel fact that she bhe he heUS wits was a favorite fa fa- nt lit t the court But things would be quite different when Tommy Tommyy rei reigned ned Whatever we can un do said Tommy Pommy heartily will wili be lie done u at t once Lady of the Bedchamber now or Keeper of the Royal noal Holies Hohes I dont don't know know- much touch about these Jobs But Cut the be best t I of them whatever It is I Is will he be Lad Lady this evening e And dud If I t have an Order lo to bestow bestow I I haven't Inquired In Iii yet et but hut 1 I suppose e I hn have have have- Theres the Golden Adder Addel of Lya Lys L tria I said suld Very few people o outside outside out out- side the royal family hove have It Ii It shall be said Tommy to s the thc vcr very minute I can lay my m In hands on it TIE rUE END |