Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-10

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times not to curtsy to me nor to strew
roses in my path as l walk about
We are very informal here in Traumland
We have few manners. We have less
manners than any court | ever saw,
and that is saying a great deal. Did
you have a pleasant walk in the
park"
''Oh, beautiful, ma mi" said the girl.
81 have never seen such a magnificent
park, never! But then, everything is
20 beautiful here"
The older woman laughed briefly
"Oh, yes, she said. I'VE have no end of
scenery. We have disgusting amount
of scenery; but l could wish that we
had few other things" She slipped
one fat arm round the girls shoulders
and her good natured, trivially clever
face showed a very real feeling which
was not often there You are so very
like your poor dear mother, child" she
said You are astonishingly like her
1t takes me back forty years each time
look at you"
The two spoke in Lady Mary's Ian
guage, for the Queen was half English
herself and English was the tongue
habitually spoken by all the royal
family when they were in private.
Indeed, both the present King and
Prince Karl, his younger brother, had
been at Eton, as have many Euro
pean royalties within the last half
century.
Lady Mary's mother, who was now
dead, had been, in her early life, very
intimate friend of the then Crown Prin-
cess of Traumland-M archen, and that
is why Lady Mary had come to make
a visit at the little court.
Il am sorry" said the Queen, that
we couldn't have driven in to the city
for the review this morning; but-well.
to tell the truth Molly, Louis asked me
the King asked me not to come, and
not to let you come. There was reason
for believing that the review wouldn't
be-pleasant in all ways"
Yes, yes, l know, ma m," said the
girl
Queen Catharine turned little away
and frowned out of the window, which
opened upon the palace gardens and
upon the great park beyond, and so to
the hollow valley and the far snow
capped mountains.
Its all this wretched racing and
gambling bill" she said irritably. "A
huge Russian and German syndicate-I
they're called? Syndicates?-is behind
unspeakable cad Tarnau, the president @
Der, has been working hard for it e
the people believe that it ought to be pa
won't have it He insists that it would
the country, just as his father used in h
sist. So of course the people hate him mo-
ever did-and he was never popular. H,
to be- He loathes reigning, you know
wanted to reign. He has romantic idea
sonal freedom and all that Karl Shout
the elder of the two. He'd have made
Karl has the snowy qualities, and the I
him" She laughed. Z" 1t is a rather Q
ton, is it not?" she said Here is
would give almost anything in the world
throne, and whom almost everybody wa
it, and yet he sticks-for a scruple. l S
the situation is unique. Of course, h
surrender in the end. That's plain"
But the young English girl shook he
think he will never surrender while he is a
said She And then, while the Queen Il
curiously, she continued, And beside
peror may intercede for him."
oh, you knew that he had written
said the elder woman Eyes, possib
peror may help him. l don't know"
There came to them from the diret
inner court faint gathering as of HI