The Washington herald., 1914-03-15
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i EANING her chin on her beauti-
IL ful hand, Anna Stuart said to
Charles Captain:


IL full hand, Anna Stuart said tt
Charles Captain:
Charles, you are my SERVANT"
Always, replied the young man.
The time was 3 O'Clock in the after
noon. the scene the East Room in th,
Criterion restaurant They had lunchec
extensively; Captains car, small, gray
and exquisite. awaited them on tn,
nearest rank. Neve- had Anna Stuart
looked more alluring than this after
noon.
She continued in a business strain, as
If no champagne had warmed theiI
veins, and they were not man and WON.
an each CT great physical desirability
Il want the price of three more air
ships in our Golfers before the year is
out"
at will be there" replied Charles
Captain with an extraordinary mixture
of fatalism and recklessness.
I'VE have already a feet of hun
dred and ninety-seyen airships of the
fnect construction. Our funds, too, are
now nearly inexhaustible In
two years we shall see our dream real
lied, if at all. In two years / shall be
Queen of England and of the United
Statesl Back to the inheritance of my
Hcusel and when that time comes,
my friend, you will not find me for
getful. The Stuarts were always good
masters"
She grew graver.
I'VE cannot exactly chronicle sue
cessful year, Charles. There have been
a good many failures, notable attempts
to-enforce loan-from the Bank of
England" When she spoke so of what
was pure thievery he with difficulty
checked his smile. You know" said
she, ''how, when one is foiled in one
wish, one simply itches to grant that
particular wish above all others. /
think l would rather borrow from the
Bank of England, therefore, than from
all the kings of the earth,"
They went out to the car. He drove
her to her fiat in Emperor's Gate. Her
parting words were: Il expect to hear
from you Immediately"
He ran the gray car into her garage,
and made his way 10 his chambers in
PIccadilly. where he stayed when in
Town. He sighed. rumpled his hair
from his brow, tramped up<and down.
with now a frown, now the dawn of a
smile half fierce, half tender upon his
face.
By and by he sat down to his piano.
To order young man, earning 700
pounds year by nefarious practices
with an additional commission on the
results of such practices-to find imme-
iiately the wherewithal to build three
iirships is to set him no small problem
Three of the finest airships co-equal
with. Zeppelin" he murmured, as he ran
ais 1.-the fingers over the keys Rough
~, / suppose about $4,000. Your
majesty! Your majestyr
Phantom suggestions hoated around
him, crazy plots in impossible ways as
sailed his brain. From light, trickling
oarcarolle music he went into a noe
:urne of Chopin; then into a heavier
Brahms; from that somberly into Bee
:hoven's Funeral March,, from that
suddenly in peal of triumph to the
march from "Tannhauser"
He returned TO Emperor's Gate
Your highness, OIL what resources
may | count in certain enterprise"
"On almost boundles: resources, my
good friend
Il want men and money"
Both can be arranged"
Your followers, your Hundreds and
Thousands madan-could | get into
immediate touch with a leader?"
Yes. Immediate"
Instructions. please. madam"
For all his assumed calrr, she saw he
was fevered with adventure. His nos
trils dilated and his eye lusted for it.
Go at tonight to al address | will
give you in the code-you know the
,Ode-and say /, Anna Stuart, sent
20 Il. Charles Captain, to ask for what
5ou want. Then ask"
He left her, wondering, as always. at
ier casualness, her brevity. and her SIM
,licify.
At 8 O'Clock he was in a back sitting
'oom of large and dilapidated house |
n Ptmlico. IN the midst Of a meeting !
consisting of these members:
A stout man with a gleam of mad
less in his eye at one end oil the table. |
A middle-aeed man, insignificant save
Tor his extraordinary tenacious mouth |
Ind rapt eyes at the other end of the |
able.
On either side Of the table six men
If' various ages, and. apparently, social
positions.
The first man spoke, with the CLEAN
his eye more pronounced
Sir. what do you want heres"
Initiating Anna Stuart's simple brev-
~, Captain answered:
Il am Charles Captain, sent from
Anna Stuart to ask certain facilities for
/ certain undertaking"
He observed a sort of visible thrill
running through the men at the table,
Ind they subjected him to a strict
icrutiny. The thrill was explained BY
he first speaker:
I'VE have all heard of you. You are
he recruit to our numbers chosen per-
lonally by her majesty Queen Anna.
You are on an-ehterprise"
Anna Stuart asks me to find the
Fherewithal to bring her feet up from
me hundred and rinety-seyen TO twol
hundred ships"
And you can do it,"
Within week or two"
They examined him piercingly. He n
vas quite easy.
Who are you gentlcmen," he asked.
Fourteen officers of the Hundreds
md Thousands, who direct its actions
n Great Britain. Ny name is Johu
sagtar. My friend there" the
pokesman indicated his yis-a-vis, as
m exiled prince OF the Bourbon fam
ly. and very loyal to the Cause. We
all him Commander Bourbon. To-
hight is our monthly meeting. Her
majesty remembered tina. when she semi