The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-26

l You think that am in love with Channle | Scovilfe. Wel I m not I very fond l of him, that's all, and if it came to a | pinch would marry him in preference to | any prince on the globe. Today I met a l couple of girls who were at the ball. l They told me that the prince is adora ble, They are really quite mad about him. and
 one of them had the nerve to ask what it was going to cost dad to land him. Town Truth says he is to cost ten millions! | Well, you may just tell dad that I'll help I him to practice economy. He needn't pay
 a nickel for my husband-wher get him. So, dearest mother, am going abroad to forget. Miranda is going with me- and 1 think. We haven't got our suit, but MT 1 Bliss says he is sure he can arrange it for me. If we can't get one on the Jupiter i we'll take some other boat that is just as l inconspicuous. You see, want to go on 1 a ship that isn't likely to be packed with l people I knew, for it is my intention to
 travel incog, as they say in the books. I know dad will be perfectly furious, but | Pm going or die, one or the other. Now, l it won't do a bit of good to try to stop me,
 dearest The best thing for you and dad to 1 do is to come down at once and say good | by to me, but you are not to go to the
 steamer! Never! Please, please come, for I love you both and I do want you to love me. Come tomorrow and kiss your horrid horrid, disappointing, 1oathsome | daughter-and forgive her too.
 Mr. B1ithers was equal to the ocea-
 sion. He slapped his knee with re-
 sounding force and uttered an ejacu- 1akion that caused his wife to stare at
 him as if the very worst had happened.
 He was a chuckling lunatic!
 fImmense!" he exclaimed. "Im- mense!'
 "In heavens name, what are you saying, Wi1I?''
 efGreat Scott, can't you see? He
 goes abroad, she goes abroad. See? l Same ship. See what mean? Moth 1 ing could be finer They "But I do not want my child to go
 abroad Walled the unhappy mother. etI cannot bear
 Stuff and nonsense! Brace up! Grasp the romance. Both of 'em sail ing under assumed names. They see each other on deck. Mutual attrac- tion. Love at first sight, Both of 'em. Money no object. There you are Leazeit to me-"
 l S"Maud is not the kind of girl to take up with a stranger on board''- Don't glare at me like that! Love
 finds the way, it doesn't matter what
 kind of 8 girl she is. But listen to me,
 Lou, we've got to- be mighty careful
 that Maud doesn't suspect that we're putting up a job on her. She'd balk
 at the gang plank. and that would be the end of it. She must not know that
 he is on board. Now, here's the idea,' and he talked on in 8 strangely sub dued voice for fifteen minutes, his en- | thusiasm mounting to such heights that she was fairly lifted to the sew
 enkh heaven he produced, and, for
 once in her life, she actually submitted to his bumptious argument without so
 much as single protesting word. The down train at 2:17 p. m. had
 on board most distinguished group
 of passengers, according to the Pull
 man conductor, whose slzi1Ifu1 conniv- ing resulted in the banishment of a
 few unimportant creatures who had paid for chairs in the observation
 coach, but who had to get out, wheth-
 CT or no, when MT. BIithers loudly said it was nuisance having every
 thing on the shady side of the car
 taken "on hot day like this" He
 surreptitious1y informed the conductor
 that there was a prince in his party, and that highly impressed Official at oneo informed ten other passengers that they had no business in a pri- vate car and would have to move The prince announced that Lieuten- ant Dank had secured comfortable cabins on 8 steamer sailing Saturday,
 but he did not feel at liberty to men
 tfon the name of the boat owing to his determination to avoid newspaper
 men, who no doubt would move heaven and earth for an interview. now that
 he had become person of so much 1 importance in the social world. h. deed, his identity was to be more completely obscu1ted than at any time since he landed on American soil He I thanked MT. BIithers for his offer to
 command the royal suit'' on the Jul piter. but declined, volunteering the somewhat curt remark that it was his 1 earnest desire to keep as far away from royalty as possible on the voy- | age over. A remark that MT. BIfthers
 cculdn't quite fathom, then or after | ward.
 1 Arriving at the Grand Central ter mfnal, Prince Robin and the count
 made off in taxicab, snilingIy de-
 cHning to reveal their hotel destina- ton.
 But where am I to send nay attor-
 ney with the agreement you are to
 sign, prince?" asked Mir. BIthers,
 plainly irritated by the young mans obstinacy in declining to be "dropped'' lat his hotel by the BIfthers motor "I shall come to your office at il to-
 morrow morning, Mir. B1ithers," said Robin, his hat. in his hand. He had
 bowed very deeply to Mrs Blithers. fBut that's not right" clustered the
 fnancier. "A prince of royal blood
 hadn't ought to visit a money grub
 ber's office. It's not
 ''Nob1esse ob1ige,'' said Robin, with
 his hand on his heart. "1t has been pleasure to know you, Mrs. Blithers.
 I trust we may meet again. If you
 should ever come to Graustark please
 consider that the castle Is yours, as
 you hospitable Americans would say.''
 we surely will, said Mrs. Blithers.
 Both the prince and Count Quinnox
 bowed very profoundly and did not
 smile.
 And it will be ours,'' added MT
 B1ithers, more to himself than to his
 wife as the two tall figures moved off l