Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-05

the American men,"
Thurley regarded the Duke amusedly.
"And would you like to become Mormon?"
His eyes glowed with all his youthful fire
and pent-up eloquence as he turned them
reproachfully upon her. "Princess!' he said
in French. "After this discovery-of your
Her color mounted with the undulating
beauty of zephyr over meadow clover. Il
thought it was your discoveries of our
women, you know-that aroused your in
terest in that obsolete religion" Her an
swer was in German.
He adhered to the tongue that he knew
obscured his observations from Alice.
"For the others, yes. For me Ah what
happiness l have known since came upon
you in your home! But you shall tell me,
Princess, must you live always here to be
content?"
Thurley smiled, and replied in the Teuton
tongue. Il hope to be contented wherever
l may live"
His eyes became imploring. 3Have you
no little word for me alone, in French?'
"How little?" she answered. "There is
always 'non,' you know"
"Ah! How helpless ann he declared
"Those who have Travelled far to find you
do you treat them always thus?"
She could not resist the temptation. Her
answer was in the tongue he desired. "You
are certain you came to New York to find
-me?"
He Redeemed; but did not for a second
drop his glance, held magnetized by her own.
"How could it be otherwise? Have not
the Fates quickly brought me to your side
and given me back my joy thousandfold?"
"But-your Excellency-"
"Not Karl when l asked it SO earnestly,
when | search no farther in all America to
satisfy my hearth"
"There are so many things to talk about
before you return to Hertzegotha," she
said her own glance falling in the uninter-
rupted ardor of his eyes. "Do you not very
soon return?"
"How shall l say-unless you say it for
me? Princess, there are beauties of the
land, beauties of the people, beauty of the
life in Hertzegotha, as you would be certain
to know. Will these not appeal to you and
call you presently there?"
Call me there, your Excellency?"
"You shall make me yet to curse that
word 'Excellency, gracious Princess though
you are" he told her warmly. "Why shall
| hesitate to confess to you the love grown
wild for utterance in my heart? Is it treach-
cry to your love of America for me to beg
that you go to Hertzegotha at my side-my
Princess and Duchess and companion?"
"Good gracious!" said Thurley in English,
turning suddenly to gaze aside where car
riages by scores were rolling by. ooh, your
Excellency, perhaps it is some one you
know!"
His eyes followed hers to a landau wherein
two women were bowling and smiling.
"You know them," said Alice, bowling as
she spoke; "the Clusters. Well have to be
careful, my dear, or our friends will think
we have cut them"
Thurley Immediately began, in her ami
mated way, a description of various friends,
in whom the Duke was interested less than
in Mars theoretical policemen. 1t was any
thing to interrupt and forestall his uncom-
fortably ardent declarations.
A LICE, with her customary grasp of the
situation, rose to the moment require
ments superbly. She had readily OWNED
more than half of the cause for Thurley
abrupt discontinue. She had seemed alb
sorbed in the passing show; but all her fac
ulties had nevertheless been focused on the
looks and speeches of their guest, whose OBJ
vious madness over Thurley had much more
amused than alarmed her.
She was naturally in possession of all the
facts and developments resultant from
Thurley's interview with Baron Won Hoch
haus, and, far more than her protegee, was
pleased at the turn of affairs She was