Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-25

"Well cried Diunlm0nd clieeffuliy,
owe got everything settled. ive re-
ceiyea the secretary of the navy, our
captain is TO dance with his wife, and
the secretary IS Lady Angela's partner,
There they 60
For a few minutes the young people
watched the dance, then the lieutenant
said:
Ladies, / am disappointed that you
have not complimented our electrical
display"
II am sure it's very nice indeed and
most ingenious, declared Dorothy
speaking for the first time that even
ing to the officer, but Katherine, whose
| little foot was tapping the deck to the
dance music. tossed her head and de-
clared nonchalantly that it was all
very well as British effort at illumin-
alton but she begged the young man
to remember that America was the
home of electricity.
.sWhere would you have been if II
were not for Edison?"
81 suppose said the lieutenant
cheerfully, chat we should have been
| where Moses was when the candle
went out-in the dark"
ssYou might have had torches, said
Dorothy. My friend forgets she was
wishing the sailors held torches on
that suspended stairway up the ships
side"
Il meant electric torches, Edison
torches, of course
Katherine was displeased at the out
look. She was extremely fond OF
dancing, and here this complacent
young man had planted himself down
on camp stool to talk of electricity.
Miss Kempt, / am sorry that you
are disappointed at our display. Your
slight upon British electrical engineer
ing leaves us unscathed, because this
has been done by foreign mechanic,
whom wish to present to you."
sOh. indeed!' said Katherine, rather
in the usual tone of her elder sister.
81 don't dance with mechanics, thank
you"
| She emphasized the light fantastic
word, but the lieutenant did not take
the hint. He merely laughed again in
an exasperatingly good natured way
and said
Lady Angela is going to be Jack
Lamonts partner for the next waltz"
"Oh," said Katherine loftily, LADY
Angela may dance with any black
smith that pleases her, but don't. I'm
taking it foa granted that Jack La
mont is your electrical tinsmith."
Eyes, he is, and think him by all
odds the firast fellow aboard this ship.
| It's quite li]sely you have read about
his sister. She is a year older than
| Jack very beautiful, cultured. every
| thing that a grande dame should be.
| yet she has given away her huge es-
| tate to the peasantry and works witt
them in the fields, living as they do
| and faring as they do. There was an
article about her in one of the French
reviews not long ago. She is called
| the Princess Natalia."
"The Princess Nataliav' echoed Kath-
crime, turning her face toward the
young man. How can Princess Nata-
liza be a sister Of Jack Lamont? Did
she marry some old prince and take to
the fields in disgust?"
"Oh, no. Jack Lamont is a Russian.
| He is called Prince Ivan Lermonton
when he's at home, but we call him
Jack Lamont for short. He's going to
| help me on the Russian business told
you Of"
"What Russian businessw asked
| Katherine II don't remember your
lpeaking of it."
| Dorothy went white, edged little
| way from her friend, while her widen
| ing eyes flashed a warning at the lieu
tenant, who, too late, remembered that
this conversation on Russia had taken
| place during the walk from the bank.
The young man coughed slightly be-
hind his open hand, Redeemed and
stammered:
"Oh, thought had told you. Didn't
| | mention the prince to you as we were
coming bere?"
mot that I recollect," said Rather
inc. rs he real, genuine prince-a
right down regular, regular, regular,
royal prince?'
81 don't know about the royalty, but
| he's a prince in good standing IN MS
own land, and he is also an excellent
blacksmith" The lieutenant chuckled
| little. HE and his sister have both
been touched good deal by Tolstoian
| doctrine. Jack is the most wonderful
inventor, think, that is at present on
the earth, Edison Notwithstanding
Why, he is just now engaged on
scheme by which he can float houses
! from the mountains here down to New
York. Float them-pipe line them
| would perhaps be better term. You
know they have pipe lines to carry
| petroleum. Very well. Jack has
solution that dissolves stone as white
sugar dissolves in tea, and he believes
he can run the fluid from the quarries
| to where building is going on. 1t