The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-04-20
"Is he-er-in love with herr"

! us he-er-in love with her?"
Certainly. Why not? Isn't every
,ne she meets in love with herT'
IL suppose So he admitted sheep
ishly. His face frightened. And
there's no reason why this prince
shouldn't fall heels over head, is there?
Well. there you are! That will make
Inference in the settlement. believe
ae, II difference of couple of millions
1t least if
| She arose abruptly. You are posi-
lively disgusting, VIII. Can't you think
If anything but
Say. amt that Maudie coming up
/ the drive now? Sure it is. BY gra-
eious. did you ever see anything TO
beat her? She's got 'em all beat a
mile when it comes to looks and style
md oh. by the way" lowering his
voice to Il hoarse. confidential whisper.
L wouldn't say anything to her about
the marriage just yet if l were you.
want to look him over first
Prince Robin of Graustark was as
good looking a chap as one would see
in a weeks journey. Little would one
suspect him of being the descendant of
long and distinguished line of princes
! save for the unmistakable though in
definable something in his eye that ex
acted rather than invited the homage
of his fellow man. His laugh was
! free and merry one, his spirits as effer
vescent as wine. his manner blithe and
boyish, yet beneath all this fair and
guileless exposition of carelessness lay
the sober integrity of caste.
His mother. the beautiful, gracious
and lamented Princess Yetive, set all
royal circles by the ears when she mar
ried the American, Lorry, back in the
nineties. a special act of the ministry
had legalized this union, and the son
of the American was not deprived of
his right to succeed to the throne which
his forbears had occupied for centuries.
From his mother he had inherited the
right of kings. from his father the
spirit Of freedom; from his mother the
power of majesty, from his father the
power to see beyond that majesty.
When little more than a babe in arms
be was orphaned. and the affairs of
state fell upon the shoulders Of three
lUNui iHu Oteu lntli W lO ScI W u a.
| regents until he became of age.
He was seven when the great revolt
headed by Count Marlanx came so
near to overthrowing the government.
and he behaved like the prince that he
was. 1t was during. those perilous
times that he came to know the gal
liant TruXton King. in whose home he
was now a happy guest. But before
Truxton King he knew the lovely girl
who became the wife of that devoted
| adventurer and who. to him, was al
ways to be Aunt Lorraine"
As very small boy he had paid two
visits to the home land of his father,
| but after the death of his parents his
valuable little person was guarded so
| jealousy by his subjects that not once
| had he set foot beyond the borders of
| Graustark. except on two widely sep
arated occasions of great pomp and
| ceremony at the courts of Vienna and
! st. Petersburg, and secret journey to
| London when he was seventeen. tit
appears that he was determined to see
Il great football match.) On each of
| these occasions he was attended by
| watchful members of the cabinet and
! certain military units in the now far
| from insignificant standing army. As
a matter of fact. he witnessed the foot
ball match from the ordinary stands,
| surrounded by thousands of unSuspect-
| ing Britons, but carefully wedged in
between two generals of his own army
and fanked by q minister of police, Il
minister of the treasury and minis
ter of war. all of whom were exces-
sively bored by the contest and more
or less appalled, by his unregal enthu
siasm. He had insisted on going to the
match incog. to enjoy 1t for all it was
worth to the real spectators-those who
sit or stand where the compression is
not unlike that applied TO box of
/ sardineS.
The regency expired when he was
twenty years of age, and he became
ruler in fact of himself as well as of
the half million subjects who had wait
ed patiently for the great day that was
to see him crowned and glerified He
was their prince. and they loved him
well.
/ Mr. Blithers was very close to the
truth when he said Ito himself, If you
rememberl that the financial situation
in the far off principally was not all
that could be desired. 1t is true that
Graustark was in Russia's debt to the
extent of some o0o00,000 gavvos-about
$50 OOO. 900. in other words-and that
the day of reckoning was very near at
hand. The loan was for period OF
twelve years and had been arranged
contrary to the advice of John Tullis,
an American inancier. who long- had