New-York tribune., 1910-12-25

in vain for the magical wand that would place again
in her grasp the qeenshp 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 season once more
opening for lions and conquest IN Gotham, had for
weeks been ready for anything socially desperate and
had felt herself helpessly baf1ed
A hundred times she had cOnned the old devices en-
ployed in all her SET and a hundred times had A1no
them out worthless for her needs She amply
aware that nothing short Of something and resist
lessly magnetic, something gleamngly startling could
avail to establish her anew.
To-day in the park the germ of a thought had sunk
to the tropics of her BRAIN there to sprout with pr0de
ious celerty and expand luxuriant foliage The germ
had been planted by the sight of hurley Ruxton dv-
ing Stuyverants car WITH such glr as that to ez-
plot what ends might she not ach1eves
Who i'm the world could the girl have been, and where
had Robley found her? That any young woman 50
brilliantly unartifcialy beautiful and able, moreover
to drive car, could have entered the social cOnste-
ton without her knowledge was to Alice Van Kirk
positive sting She felt inundated excluded rejecting
that the Stuyverants and others Of their circle had
it were, kept her from knowledge that this exquisite girl
had dawned upon their world
ARRIVED at her horne she tool, no time forrenoval
of frrs gloves in her haste TO employ the phone
She called up the Stuyverant residence and soon had
Roblev on the wire
NY poor dear boy" she purred in the raouthpece
svrnpahetically, Il positively worried about your
wrist You've had it treated, of cOurse?
Right as a trivet, answered Stuyverant cheerfully
Good of YOU to call me up, I'm And, by The
way, AnCc-
1Robey who is she, you lucky anirnal2 interrupted
the woman irnpatieny. You know in your pam YOU
merely nunbled her name.
No not in pain; in desperation he confessed HIM
self no less eager than Alice discover Thurley en-
tty and devise some chance to meet her without delay.
I'm glad called me You may be the one being
on earth who help me to find out who she Is and
where may encounter her again.
"Robevi" said his sympathetic friend. you don't
mean to astonsh this increuOus with the
that you don't know who she is Why, my boy-but
where
'Harken, he adnonished. You re aware that Prin-
cess Th1rvnla is here IN America 1nCOgt
Il am, of course; but
1T NAV not be she I'm half hopeful half afraid II
is. She all alone in the park when | had my fall
She came to nv aid with all the simplicity and courage
of ROYALTY felt the indehnable air of something regal
about her from the She would not reveal the rt
little hint of who she was and insisted being taken
back where had found her, by my man.
'Why Rob1ey Stuy-"
That ism all She dropped little handkerchef in
the car 1--we got it Alice, the corner IS marked
with a crestl Now"
How could it be Princess Thirvinia2 OF course he'd
speak English perfectly; but her servants her rete,
her equipage, and all?
when we know she's here incognito?" he answered.
How could she move about in the gulse OF a PLAIN
American if retinues and royal coaches tagged
her all through the paric2 can't be but If YOU
had really seen her and read the descriptions Of the
Princes
Good graciousi | never thought of that! Do YOU
fancy anv woman would have overlooked her wonderful
eyes and brows that gold of her hair that color Rob
Alice he interrupted there isn't a single being
the world with your cleverness to help me find her out
Don't YOU see that I've got to find her now? man
can't have the luck break his wrist like that but
in lifetime How will YOU manage to find herr
'HeavensI'' answered Alice laughingly. Exactly
as I'd pounce upon any needle in haystackt m dis
appointed in you, Robley, to be candid You've been
stupid really, to permit her to escape like this.
Pv-C, -pefT T haGr1 bfaT