Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03

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"rII marry the one happen to want
or ri not marry at ALL"
given an outlet to the world at large.
In making the loan Russia had de-
manded these prosperous sections as
security for the vast sum advanced.
and Graustark in an evil hour had
submitted. little suspecting the trick
that Dame Nature was to play in the
end.
Private banking institutions in Eu-
rope refused to make loans under the
rather exasperating circumstances. pre-
ferring to take no chances. Money was
not cheap in these bitter days. neither
in Europe nor America. Caution was
the watchword. A vast European war
was not improbable. despite the sim
cere efforts on the part of the various
nations to keep out Of the controversy.
Nor was Mr.. Blithers far from right
in his shrewd surmise that Prince
Robin and his agents were not without
hope in coming to America at this par
ticular time. Graustark had laid by
barely half the amount required to lift
the debt to Russia. 1t was not beyond
the bounds of reason to expect her
prince to secure the remaining 15,O0O,-
600 through private sources in New
York city.
Six weeks prior to his arrival in
New York the young prince landed in
San Francisco. He had come by way
of the orient. accompanied by the chief
Of staff Of the Graustark army. Count
Quinnox. hereditary watchdog to the
royal family. and young lieutenant
of the guard. Boske Dank. Two men
were they who would have given a
thousand lives in the service of their
prince. No less loyal was the body
servant who looked after the personal
wants of the eager young traveller. an
Englishman of the name of Hobbs. A
very poor valet was he. but an excep-
tionally capable person when it came
to the checking of luggage and the di-
vining of railway timetables. He had
been q guide for tourist agency. 1t
was quite impossible to miss a train
that Hobbs suspected of being the right
one
Prince Robin came unheralded and
traversed the breadth of the continent
without attracting more than the atten-
ton that is bestowed upon good looking
young men. Like his mother. nearly q
quarter of century before. he Travelled
incognit0. But where she had used the
somewhat. emphatic name of Guggen
slocker he was known to the hotel
registers as Mr.. r. Schmidt and ser
want"
There was romance in the eager
young soul Of Prince Robin. He rev
eled in the love story of his parents
The beautiful Princess Yetive first saw
Grenfell LOrry in an express train go
ing eastward from Denver. Theil
wonderful romance was born, so tC
speak. in Pullman compartment car
and 1t thrived so splendidly that It al
most upset dynasty, for never-in all
of nine centuries-had a ruler Of Grau
stark stopped to marriage with com
mOner.
And so when the farsighted minis
! try and house of mobiles in GraustarE
! set about to select wife for theil
young ruler they made Overtures tt
the Prince of Dawsbergen. whose do
main adjoined Graustark on the south
The Crown Princess Of DaW&berSen
then but fifteen. was the unanimous
choice of the amiable matchnlukers ii
secret conclave. This was WHEN Robin
was seventeen and just over bein.
fatuously in love with his middle aget
instructress in French.
The Prince of Dawsbergen dispatch
ed an embassy of noblemen to assure
his neighbor that the match would bt
highly acceptable to him and that il
proper season the betrothal might b.
announced. But alack! both court
overlooked the fact that there was in
dependent American blood in the tw,
young people. Neither the Prince o
Graustark nor the Crown Princess o
Dawsbergen-whose mother was
Miss Beverly Calhoun of Virginia-wa
disposed to listen to the voice Of eX
pediency: in fact. at safe distance o
three or four hundred miles the young
sters figuratively turned up their nose
at each other and frankly confesse'
that they hated each other ant
wouldn't be bullied into getting mai
ried, no matter what anybody said. o
something of the sort.
"S'pose I'm going to say I'll marry
girl I've never SEEM" demanded sew
enteen-year-old Robin, full of wratt
Not |, my lords. I'm going to loo
about bit. if you don't mind. Th
world is full Of girls. Ill marry tn
one happen to want or I'll not MARI.
at ALL"
But, highness." they protested. 'yo
must listen to reason. There must b
a successor to the throne Of Graustarl
You would not have the name die wit
you. The young princess is
us fifteen, you say" he interrupts