Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14

"Oh, | am quite serious. My ponies and
the dogcart are IN DumOnt'S catalogue for the
next sale. | resigned my membership OF the
polo club to-day. Tomorrow, or exc tonight,
/ look for job. AS you, mother O mine, have
heard men say in your beloved West, I'm going
to butt in"
"I-er-suppose you-er-look to me for
some assistanCe?" cougte ed Prince Michael.
His wife rose. Her face was gray-white, her
eyes blazed. ALEC knows poor. Why
torture him-and me? l refuse to allow it.
| refuse!"
Her voice took tragic note, thin and shrill;
there pitiful quivering of her lips which
wrung her sons heart, and he was utterly at
loss to understand why discussion as to his
future should lead to this display of passion.
But, mother darling" he cried, why are
you grieving so? You and Dad must maintain
a certain state,-one begins by assuming that,
and it is no secret that the belgrade side of
the family was not blessed with wealth. Very
well. Let me try to adjust the balance-the
bank balance, Ell? Really, why weep"
Alec's gallant attempt to avert the storm
failed again. His Serene Highness muttered
words in foreign tongue that sounded any
thing but serene. The Princess did not under
stand; but her son did, and the good humored
CLEAN died out of his eyes.
&" Perhaps, sir" he said stiff1y, this subject
had better be discussed when my mother is not
present"
Prince Michael looked at him fxedly For
some reason the little man was very angry, and
he seemed to resent the implied slur on his good
taste. " | am determined to end this farce once
and for alli'' he vowed. Before you joined
us, l told the Princess"
THE door was flung open. The young man
who had followed Joan and Alec into the
Louvre that morning rushed in. His pink and
white face was crimson now, and his manner
that of unmeaSured, almost uncomfortable, ex-
element He gazed at them with wildness
that bordered on frenzy, yet it was clear that
their own marked agitation was only what he
expected to find.
''Ahl you have heard?" he snapped, biting at
each syllable.
Heard what, julius" demanded Mon
seigneur, with an instant lowering of the
princely mask, since Julius dabbled in stocks
and was reputed well to do.
1.-The newsl The news from Kosnovia!''
Prince Michael affected to yawn. "Oh, is
that ALI he asked
"All! Great Heaven! what more would you
have? 1t means-everything.
My good Julius. it is long since was so dis
turbed. What, then, has happenedl The
Danube in food is no new thing"
THE Danube!'' and the newcomers voice
cracked. $50 you do not know-sire?"
The little word seemed to have the explosive
through the room and left them all silent, as
though their were stunned and their
tongues paralyzed. Alec was the first to see
that some event far out of the common had
reduced his cousin, Count Julius Marulitch, al
most to a state of hysteria.
We are at cross purposes" he said quietly.
MY father, like the rest of us, read this morn
ing about the Overlooking of the river"
COUNT MARULITCH waved his hands fran
- tically. He was literally beside himself.
His full red lips not at all unlike those of the
youth in Joan's picture, moved several times
before sounds came.
1t is at least my good fortune to be the first
to congratulate my King!' he cried at last.
BE calm, l pray you; but a tremendous
change has been effected at Delgratz Last
night, while Theodore and the Queen were at
dinner, the Seventh Regiment mutinied! 1t
on guard at Schwarzburg. Officers and
men acted togetherl There was no resistance!
1t was impossiblei Theodore and Helena were
killed. This man, who appealed for calmness,
was himself in a white heat of emotion.
A stihed scream, a sob, almost groan broke
from the Princess, and she chung to her son as
though she sought protection from that BLOOD
thirsty Seventh Regiment. Prince Michael,
fumbling with eyeglass, dropped it in sheer
nervousness. Alec, throwing an arm round his
mother recalled the hoarse yelling of the news
boys on the boulevards. Was it this latest
doom of monarchy that they were bawling SO
Justify? He glanced at his father, and the dap
per little man found it incumbent on him to say
something.
But, Juus-is this true? There are so
many canards You know our proverb: A
stone that falls in the Balkans causes an earth