Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-19
BY MARK LEE LUTHER

"A human Almanach de Gotha, suggested Ann, as
he 1 o E would no a
pudgy little book
Buckley wagged fat finger at her. Now you're
poking fun at me, he charged. You think my IN
terest in these people is snobbish.
mo, ;" she protested
"Well, then puerile; but it isn't It's scientific
curiosity Atavism is not fiction Heredty has played
a tremendous part in history. A man like Rodoslav,
about whose descent have fairly accurate data
to the most fascinating study EARTH AT any
moment he may reincarnate the past.
Ann recalled her uncles dicum about Price Bucklevs
latent possibilities Decidedly he not all ooshness
and bubber.
asked curiousy.
"In Rodoslav? Perhaps none. All those conflicting
nhertances may neutralize one another. They did in
his father I'm told He was merely an ider. was the
Bourbon stock that seemed to to the
face in him. They say he even had the Bourbon
and temperament His son, luckily is more the Serb
Stephen Neanya himself probably had Just such brown
eyes and hair They Servian if he had never
stepped foot out of Belgrade.
How much you seem to know about that part of the
world! Have you been there!
Never; but hope to go. l wish my work would
take into the Balkans. There not many corners
left in the world where you find the twentieth
century and the Middle Ages side by side. But
man proposes and the Department OF State d1spOSes
For the present 1 must content myself with watch
ing stray specimens like Rodosav and wondering
when his wild romanticism will break out I'm sure
it's there.
Ann also was sure it there. Had she not
Rodosav dreaming before the statue of Jeanne d Arc
fired by Lathams fight across the moon? She found
herself thinking rather well of Buckley for his divnation
of the real Rodoslav. At the time she thought
rather the of Page for his hasty inference
who took such ofhand views OF Old World facts might
be quite uncertain in his New World theories. Had
he also failed Brescia? 1t absurd reasoning
on her part but AIMS mental processes seldom squared
with logic. She felt thing first and found
label for it afterward Thus now She borrowed con-
venient phrase from Buckley and called her undoubted
and growing interest in Prince Rodoslav scientific
curiosity.
THIS justified research, and research led her into
strange byways An Ananach de Gotha found its
way her desk hen after prolonged conference with
bookseller, she added many volumned history OF
Medieval Europe collection of Servian poetry done
into French, account of motoring in the Balkans
Gladstones tract the Bulgarian massacres, and-an
aterthought of her own-a life of Jeanne dare They
made scholarly she aligned them the frivolous
little boudor with its view of the Arc de Tromphe up
the and she promised herself course of study
unlike anything in her Paris experience indeed in her
life anywhere since she escaped the school of clostra
austerity.
In of this plan she neatly cut the pages of
two of the volumes of history and looked at nearly all
the excellent photographs in the book that described
motor trip in the Balkans At this point she recalled
important engagement for tea at Rumpelmeyers, and
her bookish researches in the field of heredity
definite end.
But she went thinking about it, nevertheless. If
miraculous psychologist could have secretly ire
PANIED her pretty head and in the fractions she alb
horred, have tabulated her maiden medtations, he
would have decided that quite veeghths of them had
to do with Prince Rodoslav. The remainder, with vary
ing value concerned fall millinery, aviation and Oliver
Page. Something unlike this did, in fact happen to
Ann before she many days older and the adept who
performed the delicate operation CHANGED to belong to
the profession as Price Buckley.
RARON SACCARELLO did not resemble Buckley
however. Though his head had gone bald and his
brows and mustache had turned from black to gray
and from gray white in the diplomatic service of Italy
the word diplomacy rarely crossed his lips. He was SO
old that legend already made free with him. When men
pointed him out they mentioned that he had sat the
feet of Cavour. confounded Napoleon I'LL outMitted