The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-11
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II shouldn't in the least care 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-
joyed themselves immensely. l 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 l 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 l understood him, for he informs
me "a means 'alP and dim means
done but l told him I'd rather learn
Russian than Scotch; it was so me- ch
easier, and his hlghness was coed
enough to laugh at that. Didn't ths
lieutenant ask you to dance at all?"
"Oh. yes, he did"
and you refusedY'
81 refused
Il 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"
Yes, that's SO. l had forgotten.
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 / have met and who
have pestered my life asking me to
share their royal perquisites l think l
may say quite truthfully that 1 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
up Tolstoi and read Mark Twain, who
IS not only equally humorous but much
more sensible than the Russian writer
Jack must not be allowed to give
away his estates to the peasants as his
silly sister has done. may need
them later on"
"Oh, you've got that far, have you?"
81 have got that far. He hasn't He
doesn't know anything about 1t, 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 besl too busy
and in the second he needed the mon
ey. His good sense, however. requires
refining. SO that he may get rid of the
dross. don't blame him; blame Toll
stoi. For instance. when l asked him
If he had patented his liquid city in
vention he said he did not wish to
make a profit from his discovery. but
intended it for the good of humanity
at large. Imagine such an idiotic idea
as that"
az 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
veution 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.
make all the money he can and use
the cash for benefting humanity under
the direction of some charitable person
like myself"
did you suggest that to himY'
81 did not intimate who the sensible
person was. but I elucidated the prin-
ciple OF the thing"
''Yes. And what did he say?'
MANY things. Dorothy. many things.
At one 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 peasantry 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 exeeutioner,' or words to that
effect I told him / didn't see why he
should interfere with so picturesque a
custom, and he said If I visited one of
his castles that these estimabIe people