Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-03

"Why, how queer your voice sounds"
| said the little girl in a motherly tone.
| I'm sure you can't be feeling well or
| you wouldn't say such things. l
| should think that being a king your
| self you'd know that when persons
| been a real queen once she wouldn't
care about being make-believe one.
But that's just like men; they
! never do understand. Now there was
one that the Queen knew. She told
me just a little about him one day
to her. She put it in a kind of story,
you know, but liked her so much
knew who it was about.
"Do you know, he thought just what
you did, because she wouldn't marry
him instead of going off for what he
called "a 'career?' And he'd known
her ever since she was a little girl,
too, and ought to have known better,
oughtnt hep.
YES said the Great Man huskily,
II suppose he ought. But you see the
Queen didn't tell him about-about the
money she was paying back. And she
was great deal younger than he, and
beautiful, with a voice that people said
would make her famous, and he
thought that she really cared more to
be stage queen than anything else.
'Tell me, dear, has she still the ring
that he gave her when she was little
grip
"The teenty little forget-me-not
ring that she wears on a chain and
often kis- But-how did you know?"
stammered the child, twisting around
and staring up into his face. 81 never
told you the rest, and your eyes are so
strange"
But the Great Man had risen and
was striding rapidly up and down the
car. "And Alice really cared for me
she cares for me STILL" he murmured.
"While 1, who ought to have stood by
her have only hindered her. And now
she needs help, and I with all my
money haven't the right to help her.
It's too late-I can never make up for
the time I've lost"
II hope you don't mind,' said the
small girl who stood as if petrified just
where he had left her; "but you spoke
so loud I couldn't help hearing the last.
And if you mean the train to Wishita,
it isn't too late. If you could get it
here in Is minutes Sand [ s'pose that's
easy, for a king-we could give the
performance, even if the curtain did
ring up late"
''Train to Washita," murmured the
Great Man-"Why, yes; of course!
How stupid of me-" as he pressed the
electric button. Lets see, how many
are there of your
'Twenty-two now" said the child,
''but don't quite
"And you haven't had the best of
fare in the hotels?"
"Well, it hasn't been very bad, but
yesterday and to-day we've pretended
we didn't want any lunch, because we
knew how things were with"
Never mind" said the man with
something like groan, II only wanted
to know on account of the orders"
Then to the porter: "Ask the con-
ductor to step here"
'The Golden Crown opera company
have been delayed here" he said,
when that official appeared, land I
want them to take this special train
to Washita. Put the whole party in
my private car. Tell the engineer he
must make extra time to get them
there at $50. Telegraph ahead for
clear track, and to Casstown for sup
plies, so that dinner may be served in
this car When the train is ready to
start step over to the station and tell
the company that the train for
W9Shita iS WAITING And ho sire that
everything is done to make them
comfortable. l will follow on the reg
ular express"
AS the conductor withdrew, the
Great Man found himself suddenly
caught in the embrace of what seemed
small-sized tornado. "You really
mean it?" cried the child, half sobbing
We're not going to disband, after all!
Oh, was sure from the beginning that
you were really, truly king, even If
you didn't wear a crown and velvet
robes. But" with sudden clouding
of her face, you won't go away just
when the Queens coming?"
well, you see, the fact is" said the
Great Man, setting the Princess care
fully in the depths of the Turkish
chair, these meetings with royalty
are SO unusual for me that feel hard
ly prepared for another one the same
day So think I'll follow in a COM
mon car. And in the morning I'll ask
for private audience with the
Queen"
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