Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25

7 PHILLIP VERRlLL MlGHELS
for the magical wand that would place again with
her grasp the queenSp she felt essential existence
Van Kirk, who detested the social cyclone" was
away to the north securing Canada, gun in hand in
tent upon moose. His wife, with the
opening for lions and conquest in Gotham, had for
weeks been ready tor anything socially desperate and
had felt herself hepleSSly baff1ed.
hundred times she had conned the old devices en-
plOyed in all her set, and hundred times had flung
them out worthless for her needs. She amply
that nothing short of something and resist
eSSly magnetic, something gleamingly startling, could
avail to establish her
To-day in the park the germ of thought had sunk
to the tropics of her BRAIN there Sprout with prodg
ous CELEBRITY and expand luxurian foliage The germ
had been planted by the sight of Thurey Ruxton, drv
ing Stuyverant's With such girl as that to ex-
plot, what ends might she not achieve?
Who in the world could the girl have been and where
had Robley found her? That any young woman so
brilliantly, unartifcialy beautiful and able moreover
to drive car, could have entered the social consella
positive sting She felt Inundated, excluded rejecting
that the Stuyverans and Others of their circle had
it kept her from knowledge that this exquisite girl
had dawned upon their world.
A RIVED at her home, she took time for removal
of furs Gloves in her haste employ the phone.
She called up the Stuyverant residence, and had
RObley on the wire.
my poor dear boy" she purred in the mouthpiece
sympathetically 81 positively worried about your
wrist You've had it treated, of course?"
Right trvet," answered Stuyverant cheerfully.
Good of you to call me up I'm sure. And, by the
way, Alice"
"Robley, who is she, yoh lucky anima1 interrupted
the woman impatiently. "You know in your pain you
merely mumbled her name.
mo, not in pain; in desperation" he confessed him.
self less eager than Alice to discover Thurleys den
tty and devise chance to meet her without delay.
I'm glad you called me up. You may be the one being
earth who can help to find out who she is and
where may encounter her again..
"Robley!" said his sympathetic friend "You don't
to astonsh this increduous wire with the assertion
that you don't know who she is? Why my boy-but
where"
"Harken," he admonshed. You're aware that Prn-
cess Thirvinia is here in America incogl"
Il am of course but
is. She all alone in the park when l had my fall.
She to my aid with all the simplicity and courage
of royalty. felt the indefnabe air of something regal
about her from the start She would not reveal the first
little hint of who she was and insisted being taken
back where had found her, by my man."
why Robley Stuy-"
THAT isn't all. She dropped little handkerchief in
the 1--we got it Alice, the corner marked
with crest! Now"
How could it be Princess Thirvina? Of course she'd
speak English perfectly; but her servants, her retnue.
her equipage, and ALP?
when we know she's here incognito?" he answered.
How could she move about in the guise of plain
American woman retinueS and royal coaches tagged
her all through the park? 1 can't be sure but if you
had really seen her and read the descriptions OF the
Princess"
Good gracious! 1 never thought of that Do you
fancy any would have overlooked her wonderful
eyes and brows, that gold of her hair that coor Rob-
"Ace" he interrupted, "there isn't single being in
the world with your ceverness to help find her out.
Don't you that I've got to find her now? A
can't have the luck to break his wrist like that but
in lifetime. How will you manage to find herr"
"Heavens!" answered Alice laughingly. Exactly
as I'd pounce upon any needle in haystack! I'm dis
appointed in you, Robley, to be candid You've been
stupid, really to permit her to escape like this"
by George! If hadn't been wounded"
You wouldn't have found her at all. +"