Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-04-23

done her the honor" MIRA. 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, l was crazy
crazy with love-as have been ever
since first 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 more 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 l love. You
! followed again back to Europe"
''Win you have cream or lemon?"
asked Elizabeth. suddenly remember
ing the tea things.
so why-why-wi you not have
me?"
Shall go over it all once more?"
asked Elizabeth, smiling but cruel
I've seen enough of these inter-
national marriages to make me sick
II ever marry-which / doubtful
marry an American. I'll marry a man
who can take care of me, just as
though | didn't have d 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 ultra-modern daugh-
ter Of hers; but the prince was listen
ing, sober, intent.
Il can't work, the way you mean, :"
said Prince Frederick with bated
breath. I'm Hohenstaufen. l 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 7
do SO with honor, I'd blow out my
brains"
1--WE dropped my FAM" said Mrs.
DRAGON.
The prince recovered it for her with
a little laugh just as the music, with a
succession of ripping scales sugges,
tive of fight of butterflies, went up
into the air and was silent
Silent. also, for most of the time
were Mrs. DRAGON and her daughter as
they veshome little later through
the high-arched allees of the Bots
They were stopping at the Bristol
would be moving on soon to one of the
German spas, Wiesbaden most likely
And they were both willing to pretend
that 1t was this approaching departure
from Paris that kept them little re
strained, little blue.
Finally Mrs. DRAGON spoke.
Don't you think you're a bit brutal
with him, Beth? Young Germans have
been known to kill themselves"
"Oh, he'll show up again." SAID
Elizabeth.
Paris was like a pond overstocked
with goldfish-fille6 with the rich and
idle from the four quarters of the
world. Came the end of Grand Priz
week, and it was as though some
mighty hand had opened all the sluices
of the pond. The goldfish scattered.
The DRAGONS fingered longer II
Paris than they had expected mat
ter of new gowns-and then foateC
on, with other goldfish, to the German
resort. But still there was no sigr
of Prince Frederick Won Hohenstaufen
It troubled them both a little secretly
He wasn't acting in accordance will
form. Generally when an impover
ished prince once fixes his attention
on a dazzling bait like Elizabeth ORA
eon-handsome, educated, immeasur
, ably rich in her own right-he be
comes as a ravening pike.
So they both thought They wer,
not without experience. But they sail
nothing about it. Not until one night
It was the night that followed
hideous day. From early morning the.
had been crowded with stranger
whom they feared and distrusted il
, the tiny, suffocating compartment 0
a third.class railway carriage All da,
the train had crawled and stopped
then crawled again, like a wounde,
worm, while other trains rushed b,
with lordly authority. Soldiers, he
melted. brusk, impersonal, had jerkel
the door Of the compartment open a
times, had stared and talked amonl
themselves, but had answered no ques
tons.
; Even more lugubrious was the deer
ening night. 1t had begun to raiI
Then, finally. as though the wounde
worm was completely exhausted, tn
\ train came to a halt and moved a
4 more There was another hour G
sitting misery, then once more tn
door was jerked open and there cam
the order in the clipped, military Gel
, man of Prussia:
"A1l passengers get down."
1t was almost panic as the shudde
ing civilians-men, women and chi
dren, Dutch. Belgian, French, Englisl
American-clambered out; but info
nation somehow got about that her
they were to remain until mobilizatio
was complete, that there was a hot,
in the neighborhood that was to b
n, their temporary prison.
IT And what Is the name OF tn
placer" Elizabeth asked a mammot
&. Belgian, who, with his wife and fog
children. had been their cellmat