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posed to her over in Philadelphia

Miss Elizabeth said to me about in
ternatiOnal marriages. | don't see how
1t applies to us. | know that she is
not crazy for a titie-other than her
own high-born name; and me, I'm not
after-after money"
| The relocated band, responsive to
a frenzied leader, was Ringing and
banging through a Hungarian rhap-
sody, giving promise that it would still
be safe to talk about private matters
| for long time to come.
| Elizabeth told me that you had
done her the honor Mrs. DRAGON be-
gan.
Perhaps / should have spoken first
| to YOU" said the prince, talking rap
idly. But / said, This is America,
where there must not be too much
formality.' Besides, I was crazy
crazy with love-as have been ever
since first I looked at her."
mo scene, please" cautioned Eliza
beth steadily.
The band hinged louder. Her remark
drew blood apparently.
1T is true that have debts" the
prince went on; but they are the
debts of my ancestors. / pay interest
on them No one expects m1re than
that. They are like state debts-what
you call national debt. A national
debt is never paid. But why mention
such things? 1t is you / love. You
! followed again back to Europe"
'Will you have cream or lemon?"
asked Elizabeth, suddenly remember
ing the tea things.
$50 why-why-will you not have
me?"
Shall | go over it all once more ?'
asked Elizabeth, smiling but cruel.
1--we seen enough of these inter
national marriages to make me sick.
If | ever marry-which | doubtful
marry an American. I'll marry a man
who can take care of me, just as
though / didn't have a cent in the
world; one who will work, accomplish |
something, be someone by his own eff |
forts. Since you owe so much, by your |
own admission, why don't you work |
and"
Elizabeth"
Mrs. DRAGON was scandalized, as she /
often was by this uItra-modern daugh-
ter of hers; but the prince was listen
ing, sober, intent.
81 can't work, the way you mean"
said Prince Frederick with bated
breath. I'm a Hohenstaufen. ! be-
long to the empire. If it were not for
that, there is nothing in the world ]
wouldn't do to show you-show you
how | love you. Even now, could J
10 so with honor. I'd blow out my
1rains--"
I've dropped my FAM" said Mrs.
DRAGON.
The prince recovered it for her with
| little laugh just as the music, with
of ripping scales sugges-
i've of a fight of butterflies, went up
INTO the air and was sileat.
Silent, also, for most of the time
we're Mrs. DRAGON and her daughter as
hey drove home little later through | :
he high-arched allees of the Bots. /
hey were stopping at the Bristol, 7
'ould be moving on soon to one of the !
erman spas, Wiesbaden most likely.
nd they were both willing to pretend
nat it was this approaching departure
'om Paris that kept them a little re- f
trained, a little blue.
Finally Mrs. DRAGON spoke.
Don't you think you're a bit brutal y
18th him, Beth? Young Germans have
cen known to kill themselves" n
"oh, hell show up again." said
liZabeth. c
Paris was like a pond overstocked n
it'll goldfish-filled with the rich and d
lie from the four quarters of the "
orld. Came the end of Grand Prix b
eek, and it was as though some s
lightly hand had opened all the sluices &c
the pond. The goldfish scattered. h
The DRAGONS fingered longer in O
arts than they had expected-a mat Y
r of new gowns-and then f1oated S;
/, with other goldfish, to the German | b
sort. But still there was no sign
Prince Frederick Won Hohenstaufen. il
troubled them both little secretly
e wasn't acting in accordance with III
rm. Generally when an impover- W
ned prince once fixes his attention | O
a dazzling bait like Elizabeth ORA IL
educated, immeasur- al
ly rich in her own right-he be- to
mes az a ravening pike W
So they both thought They were OF
t without experience. But they said ST
thing about it. Not until one night. til
It was the night that followed a al
locus day From early morning they
d been crowded with strangers 81
ION they feared and distrusted in
: tiny, suffocating compartment of
hird-class railway carriage. All day sa
train had crawled and stopped, hi
III crawled again, like a wounded
rm, while other trains rushed by FIR,
h lordly authority. Soldiers, he'll tr;
ted, brusk, impersonal, had jerked Di
door of the compartment open at | il
les, had stared and talked among ha
mselves, but had answered no ques- yo
as.
wen more lugubrious was the deep ha
ng night. 1t had begun to rain an