The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1900-12-06
CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VI
During the first year of my residence
in London there happened few events
worth cIlrOnlcling. Shortly after my
arrival HillarS disappeared His two
months vacation stretched into u, and
| was directed to remain in London.
As knew that IIillars did not wish TO
be found. | made no inquiries. He
was somewhere on the continent, but
where no one knew. At one time
q letter dated at st Peters
burg, reached me, and at another time
| was informed of his presence ut
Monte Carlo. In neither letter was
there any mention of her serene high
ness the Princess IIildegardP of HO-
Aenphalia. Since the night he recount
ed the adventure the wayWard prin-
cess had never become the topic of
conversation. grew hopeful enough
to believe that he had forgotten her.
Occasionally | received long letter
from Phyllis. always promptly an
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swereu IL. o any one but me her let
ters would have proved interesting
reading. 1t was not for what she
wrote that cared, it was the mere
fact that she wrote. \ man cannot
find much pleasure in letters which
begin with Dear friend" and end
with Yours sincerely" when they
come from the Woman lIr loves
In The preceding" autumn | completed
my first novel. carried il around to
publishers till | grew To ha1c il as one
hateS Nemesis. and when finally
did place ii il WAS with a publisher
who had just started i'll business and
was necessarily obscure bowed pO-
litely TO my dreams of literary fame
and became wholly absorbed in my
journalistic work. When the book came
out, ! could not but admire the excel
lence of the bOOkmaking, but as l look
ed through the reviews and found no
mention save in books received"
threw the book aside and vowed that
it should be my last. The publisher
wrote me that he was surprised that
the book had not caught on, as he con-
sidered the story unusually clever.
Merit is one thing" he said, 'but luck
is another" | have found this to be
true not only In literature, but in all
walks of life where fame and money
are the goals. Phyllis wrote me that
she thought the book lust splendid"
but took her praise with a grain Of
salt, it being likely that she was par
tiaI to the author and that the real
worth of the book was little in COM
pariSon with the fact that it was who
wrote it.
One morning in early June | found
three letters on my desk. The first
was from HillarS. He was in Vienna:
Ny Dear Son--There is another rumpus. The
princess disappeared on the Goth of last month
They ore hunting high and low for her and incl
dentally for me. Why the is more than ! can un-
derstand, but / received 4 letter from Rockwell
Of the American legation warning that if /
remained in Austria ! should be appreheTAed put
in Jail. hanged and qnartered for no other reason
on earth than that they suspect my having SOME
thing to do with her dislppcaTancc-due, sup
pose, TO that other miserable affair. Though |
have hunted all over the continent, have never
seen the 'rincess Hilde@arde since that night at
B. Where shall ! find her? | haven't the least
idea, but as a last throw | am going TO the prin-
cipality of Hohenphalia, where she Was born and
over which she rules with infinite wisdom The
king Is determined that she shall wed Prince
Ernst He would take away her principalty but
for the fact that there would be wholesale dis
turbance to follow any srclI act II I ever meet
that watchdog of hers, the Count ven Walden,
the duffer who gave my congo, there VIII be
trouble The world isn't large enough for two
such men as we are. BY the way, | played rou-
! lette at the Casino last night and won 5000
francs Well, reyOir, or adieu, as the case may
| be. They sell the WORST whisky here you ever
heard Of It's terrible to have an educated palate
HILLARs.
So he was still desiring for some
thing he could never have! l got out
of patience with the fellow. Even if
she loved him, what chance had he
against the legionS OF tne klng?- MI;
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