Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-06

last night II 1t had been known that
the richest woman in that assemblage
was a pretty, shy little creature sitting
even one dance"
II shouldn't in the least arc for that
sort of ovation, Kate, and If every one
present were as well pleased with the
festivities as l, they must all have en-
3oyed themselves immensely. 1 believe
my friend Kate did my share of the
dancing as well as her own"
"'She danced, and she danced, and
she danced them a. din / think those
are the words Of the Scottish song that
the prince quoted. He seems up in
Scottish poetry and does not even re
sent being called a Scotchman. This
energetic person of the song seems to
have danced them all to a standstill,
as / understood him, for he informs
me "a means ALI and din means
DONE but l told him I'd rather learn
Russian than Scotch; it was so much
easier, and his highness was good
enough to laugh at that. Didn't the
lieutenant ask you to dance at all?"
"Oh, yes, he did"
"And you refused?"
81 refused"
II didn't think he had sense enough
to ask a girl to dance"
You are ungrateful, katherine. Re-
member he introduced you to the
prince"
Eyes, that's so. had forgotten. l
shall never say anything against him
again"
"You like the prince, then?"
"Of all the crowned heads, emperors,
kings, sultans. monarchs Of every de-
scription, dukes, counts, earls. mar
quises, whom l have met and who
have pestered my life asking me to
share their royal perquisites l think l
may say quite truthfully that / like
this Jack Lamont better than any one
Of them"
"Surely Prince Jack has not offered
you his principally already?"
mo, not yet, but with an eye to the
future l have persuaded him to give
w 4OlSIOA SLu 1Odu MAIN L WILL, WHO
is not only equally humorous but much
Tor sensible than the Russian writer.
Jack must not be allowed to give
away his estates to the peasants as his
silly sister has done. I may need
them later on"
"Oh, you've got that far, have you?"
II have got that far. He hasn't. He
doesn't know anything about it, but
I'll wake him up when the right time
comes. There are many elements of
sanity about him. He told me that he
intended to give up his estates, but in
the first place he had been too busy
and in the second he needed the mon
ey. His good sense, however, requires
refining, sc that he may get rid of the
dross. I don't blame him; I blame Toll
sto1. For instance, when I. asked him
If he had patented his liquid city in
yention he said he did not wish to
make q profit from his discovery, but
intended it for the good of humanity
at large. Imagine such an idiotic idea
as that"
II think such views are entirely to
his credit" affirmed Dorothy.
"Oh, of course, but the plan is not
practicable. If he allows such an in
vention to slip through his fingers, the
Standard Oil people will likely get
hold of it, form a monopoly, and then
where would humanity at large be?
tell him the right way is to patent it,
m1lx0 oil fbn 1anrnU hn cor o-I ,1~o
the cash for benefiting humanity under
the direction of some charitable person
like myself"
ibid you suggest that to him"
II did not intimate who the sensible
person was, but I elucidated the prin.
ciple of the thing"
Eyes. And what did he say?"
MANY things, Dorothy, many things
At n time he became confidential
about his possessions in foreign lands.
1t seems he owns several castles, and
when he visits any of them he cannot
prevent the moujiks, if that is the
proper term for the p%easantry over
there, from prostrating themselves on
the ground as he passes by, beating
their foreheads against the earth and
chanting in choice Russian the phrase;
Defer, defer. Here comes the lord
high executioner,' or words to that
effect. l told him l didn't see why he
should interfere with so picturesque a
custom, and he said if l visited one of
his castles that these estimable people
at a word from him would form a cor
duroy road in the mud with their bod.
les, so that l might step dry shod from
the carriage to the castle doors, and !
stipulated that he should at least
spread a bit of stair carpet we the
poor wretches before l made my prog
ress across his front yard"
"Well you did become confidential If
you discussed a visit to Russia"
eyes, didn't we? 1 suppose you don't
approve of my forward conduct?"
Il am sure you acted with the ut
most prudence, Kate"
II didn't lose any time, though, did ~
II don't know how much time is re.
quired to attain the point of friendship
you reached. l am inexperienced. 1t is
true 1 have read Of love at first sight
and I am merely waiting to be told
| whether mr. NOT this ia an instance nj