The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-11-18

Thaxter is: No wonder the king likes
him sol"
CIarinond, who did everything with
grace, soon had himself presented to
kathleen and her mother precisely as if
he were some ordinary friend of Eric's,
with whom the latter had CHANGED TO be
moving among the paths
''And it all went of so easily!" as
Mrs. Kennaird remarked after. ''Bc-
fore we knew it, Kathleen, he had
shaken hasds with both of us, and had
asked you if you didn't want tn go with
him and see the carp fed in the great
marble basin of the graHdcs sIUr!"
Kathleen and the king walked side
by side, it is true, but they only paused
for a moment to watch the carp dine,
afterwards passing on to where the ter
races of the palace dropped grandly
down to an artificial lake, and a hum
dred windows blazed like huge dia-
monds or rubiss where the westcring
sun smOte them. Above, on the long
marble balustrades, two or three pea
cocks We're perched, one pure white as
the scuIptured stone itself and below,
half way between the luy-Pads and the
rustic landings, houted a few stately
swans.
Somewhere behind one of those ra-
diant windows the princess of Brindisi
sat, and near her was Blanca d'Este. 1t
was quite probable that the king knew
he rislzed maternal observation during
his present saunter with the young
! American lady whom he had sought to
] know Since the arrival of his mother
/ he had not presumed thus publicly to
4 associate himself with any new foreign
T acquaintance. If Kathleen had been a
man her disrelish might have had its
I limits. At present there in her palatial
/ Rmbuscade, with her cherished Blanca
I to share the humiliation, whether real
: or Eancied. this disrelish became q
J boundIess disgust.
/ ut pleases me greatly, mademoi-
] selle,' the king was meauvFh lille saying,
/ in his flexible and almost native French,
/ that you should so care for Saltravla
] after so brief "a stay here"
How can one help caring for it7"
1 returned kathleen, as they paused on
/ one of the velvet-sWarded terraces.
I Looking sideways across her shoulder
f she perceived that the same group
which had accompanied the king before
they met were following him now, at a
distance respectful and discreet. She
perceived, too, that her mother and
Mrs Madison were also not far behind
them This was possibly what her com
panion wished 1t struck her that he
was a gentleman, this comely and faz-
cinating monarch, who wished many
things most deeisIvely, and who had
the art OF making his desires operative
the touching OF an electric bell and the
sll1nnaoHing of a needed lacquey.
The weather here" she continued,
sis aiweys so enchanting And then
she looked into CIarimond's face with
one OF those smiles that his dislike Cd
commonplace women had even thus
quickly caused hmm To feGl was the har
binger OF something az least quicl1enel
I by Piquancy- 81 am already sure. mon
| sisur,' she added, that "a Dffas gt Es 5s15
temps are subjects which you control al
pleasure You keep the first auainblg
e2iled and You allow the last, like
one of your ancestors court-iesters, &
/ do ali the genial things that Il uleases'
. Glarirnond laughed: ''No, msdemot
sellc," he replied, you uverrats my
powers OF dominion I'm more sensible
than that PARKWAY English king vvhC
commanded the sea TO obey him. or thai
; Persian one who whipped it with rods
I no BE CoETTs-rruu