The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-20

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II know l can't" said his
wife, quite as positively. She knew
when she could tell him n thing and
when she couldn't.
1t was quite impossible TO impart In
formation to Mr.. Blithers when he had
the tips OF I'VE resolute fingers embed
ded in his ears. Mrs. Blithers had
lived with her husband, more or less,
for twenty-five years, and she knew
him like a book. He was n forceful
person who would have his own way,
ever though he had to put his fingers
In his ears to get 1t. Moreover, when
he called her my dear instead OF the
customary Lou II was q sign OF SUI
preme obstinacy on his part and could
not by any stretch OF the imagination
be regarded as an indication Of placid
affection. He always said my dear
at the top of his voice and with n great
deal OF Feasibility.
Mr.. William w. Blithers was a self
made man who had begun his career
by shouting Justify at a team Of mules
In q railway construction camp. Other
drivers had tried to improve on his vo-
cabulary, but even the mules were able
to appreciate the futillty Of such an
ambition, and later on, when he came
to own two or three railroads, to say
nothing OF a few mines and a steam
yacht, his ability to drive men was
wen more noteworthy than his power
over the jackasses had been.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blithers had been dis
cussing royalty. Up to the previous
week they had restricted themselves to
the nobility. but as an event Of unex.
ampled importance had transpired I'm
the interim they now felt that 1t would
be the rankest stupidity to consider
any one short Of a prince royal In pick
ing out a suitable husband-or. more
properly speaking, consort-for their
only daughter, Maud Apologize Blith
era, aged twenty.
Mrs. Blithers long ago had convinced
her husband that no ordinary human
being of the male persuasion was wor.
thy of their daughters hand and had
set her heart on having nothing mean.
er than a duke on the family roll
Bhthers alluded to It for awhile as the
payroll-with the choice lying between
England and Italy.
But now. just as they We're on the
point of accepting in lieu Of a duke an
exceptionally promising count, the
aforesaid event c%onspired to complete
iy upset all OF their plans-or notions
30 to speak. 1t was nothing less than
the arrival I'm America Of an eligible
prince Of the royal blood. a ruling
prince at that. AS a matter Of fact, he
had not only arrived In America, but
upon the vast estate adjoining their
WI In the Catskills.
Peculiarly promising to their hopes
was the %indisputable fact that the
princes mother had married an Ameri-
can. thereby establishing a precedent
behind which no constitutional obstacle
could thrive, and had lived very hap
ply with the gentleman In spite Of the
critics.
It appears that the prince after lei
surely crossing the continent on his way
around the world had come to the
Truxton Kings for a long promised and
much desired visit, the duration Of
which depended to some extent on his
own inclinations and not q little on the
outcome Of the war talk that affected
fRo great European nations-Russia
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