New-York tribune., 1911-03-19
BY MARK LEE LUTHER

he groped for an apt figure Il wonder Why he doesn't
go in for diplonacy' He would not need to carry that
pudgy little book. a..
poking fun at me-" he charged. You think my in.
terest in these people is snobbiSh.
"No." she protested
well then pucrile; but it isn't. It's scientific
curiosity Atavsm is not fiction. Heredity has PLAYED
\ tremendous part in history. \ man like Ro1osav.
about whose descent have fairly accurate data seems
to me the most fascinating study on earth. At any
moment he may reincarnate the past.
Ann recalled her uncleS dlctum about Price Buckeys
latent possibilities Decidedly he was not all oohness
Which ,train DO you think will predominac," she
asked curiously. ,
"In Rodoslav, Perhaps none. All those conflicting
nhcritanccS NAV ncutralZe one another. lhcy did in
his father I'm told He merely an idler II was the
vermont Bourbon stock that seemed 20 come % the Sr
face in him. They say he even had the Bourbon
and temperament His luckily, Is more the Serb
Stenhcn \emanva himself probably had Just such brown
ewes and hair They Seryian as II he had never
stepped foot out of Belgrade.
How much you seem to know about that par' # the
world, Have YOU been there"
"Ncyer; but hope to 60: WISH my "or" would
take me into the Balkans There not many corners
left in the world where YOU can find the twentieth
century and the Middle Ages side by side But
man proposes and the Department oi state di,poses
For the present | must content myself with watch
inc stray specimens like Rodosav and wondering
Ann also was sure it was there. Had She n,t sccn
Rodosav dreaming before the statue oi Jeannc Arc,
fired bv Iatham's flight across the moon! Shc 'pund
herself thinking rather well Of Buckley for his dynation
Of the real Rodosav At the same time she H"ught
rather the worse Of Page for his haSty inference man
who took such offhand views OF Od World tact night
be quite as uncertain in his New World theoHeS Had
he not also failed at BrcScia; II was absurd re- ming
on her part but AIMS mental processes seldom qHarcd
with logic She felt thing first and found rea or a
label for it afterward. Thus now She borrowed on.
vencnt phrase from Buckley, and called her 1'ted
and growing interest in Prince Kodo'IaV a scientific
curiosity. '''f
THIS justified research. and research led h.r into
1 strange byways. An Almanach de Gotha iouH is
way to her desk; then, after prolonged conference ih
BOOKSELLER she added q many yOlunined hstoE ot
Medieval Europe collection of Servian poetry one
into French, an account of motoring in the Ba' MS,
Gladstone's tract on the Bulgarian naSSaceS and IN
afterthought OF her own life Of Jeanne dArc. IHcy
made scholarly row as she aligned them IN the frivolous
little boudor with its view Of the Arc de riomphc up
the avenue and she promised herself course Of study
unlike ANYTHING in her Paris experience or indeed in her
life anywhere since she escaped the scho" OF co' 'rl
In pursuance OF this plan she neatly cut the p i
two Of the volumes OF history and looked al no III
the excellent photographs in the book that dc-. 81
motor trip in the Balkans At this point she rec" an
important engagement for tea at Rumpemeye- and
her booish researches in the field Of hceCity can 20
definite end. =,
But She went on thinking about it, neyerthe', Ii
some miraculous psychologist could nave aecrc' ire
manned her pretty head and, IN the fractions dD.
b0rrel have tabulated her maiden meditation. he
would have decided that quite fvc-cgfths Of then had
70 do with Prince RodoSav. The remainder, with ry'
ing value concerned fall millinery, aviation, and uNer
Page Something not unlike this iid, IN ia.t h@pi 70
Ann before She was many davS older, and the adcp Who
performed the delicate operation chanced TO bcos to
the same profession aS Price Buckley.
DARO\ SACCARELLO lid not resemble B. ,ey,
ID h.,,.-r Thn1t1 M. h.al had pnnr bald and IL