attractive on the third day the having arrived all set out on their return to stopping at over night as before a sugar princess made no trouble his appetite was good and he liked going about among the strange streets of the metropolis with a special attendant who was provided for him the others managed to fill up the time agreeably until news came that mr van s steamer had been sighted then when the meeting with this all important person was imminent grew again i know what the world will say that i have an for her money he told repeatedly i am as proud my love as i am poor if mr had his proper senses he might undo his work in me i should at least feel then that i had expectations but when i am merely a beggar she saw how deep his feelings were and hesitated to say more she would leave it to her father to dispose of these ridiculous notions mr van s welcome was very warm he was rejoiced to see peter who recognized him at once but was surprised to hear that his wife had returned home he looked extremely well and was in excellent spirits the voyage had been so calm that he had not had a bad quarter of an hour during the whole of it a few days later all sailed for having the extraordinary good fortune to catch the on her return trip mr the arranged that the party should occupy his entire table and during the voyage contributed largely to their comfort and pleasure on arriving mr van ben and a sugar princess went of course to the family residence while the others at various hotels mrs van received her daughter with great and gave absolute orders to the servants that if mr called he was not to be admitted meetings between the couple were therefore held for the present at mr van s office and it may be added that they were of daily occurrence and of prolonged duration within a few weeks olive received a letter from her brother asking her to come at once to new york he said he had settled all his business troubles satisfactorily and was prepared to offer her a home again with him though sorry to leave she was very happy at the news and took the first steamer for a sugar princess chapter writes to olive my darling sister so wrote to olive some weeks after the events in the preceding chapter i have so much to say to you i hardly know to begin but before i record news some of which i think will surprise you let me say again how glad i am your brother has been relieved of the troubles h hung over him papa tells me it was never anything more than a between partners and that thorn did right in trying to protect his interests i suppose it was owing to his suspicion of the men with whom he had to deal that made him assume the name of stone to them give him my regards and say we shall be glad to welcome him whenever he finds it convenient to visit our island now for my story a short time ago mr was informed through the agency of that he had fallen heir to the title and estates of a german nobleman who was i think his great uncle there being no reason why he should refuse the fortune he wrote promptly to germany sending the necessary papers and later went over himself he is now fully entitled to be called a count and a sugar princess mamma has modified her objections to our marriage since she will after all have a in the family to humor her i must call him by his first name will consent to use his new title for a time though he with papa that handles of that sort are not becoming in a full republican living under the folds of the star banner mr is so well contented in that he has decided to remain here his mind is completely restored and one of the first things he did when he was able to execute papers was to destroy the will by which he and the previous one by which he devised his property to him in these altered circumstances has managed to muster courage enough to ask papa for my hand as if that hadn t been arranged for all practical purposes before and as soon as he returns we are to be wedded at my home in the most approved fashion i know you will congratulate me dear i never really gave up expecting it would happen but i confess s remarkable run of luck did not seem very probable when we were in last autumn and now for the strangest part of my history i don t think it was meant that i should ever know it at all but it has come out little by little papa was so fearful that mamma would marry me to some foreigner that he arranged with to have a man follow us and keep him informed of our every movement mr the head of the firm undertook the important commission you may think you didn t see anything of him but you did he merely assumed a x sugar princess new name and with us as w hat do you think the rev i understand that in his early days mr was an actor and that his most successful were those of he certainly filled the part this time with some success as i think you will agree nor is this all feeling that mamma needed to influence her at the right moment he had his wife who was already at on another case go along also that lady as you may now be able to guess passed under the name of mrs 