The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-07

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found that the dapper young white.
clad naval officer who took her TO
Washington and introduced her to
the president and to the secretary
of state was an fnnpostor, VINO not
only deceived her and the hlgn
government authorities at the ma
rional capital, but squandered much
of the all too small amount OF the
cash capital she brought with her.
She has found that the Princess
Zordochene, who went with her TO
Washington and was introduced to
the president as Grown Prince OF
Egypt" has been classed by the
British foreign Office as "un-
known"
The plan of setting down on
princely estate somewhere in the
United States, in Central Park pre-
ferred, is shattered. Where Fa-
TINA got the idea that this exceed
ingly generous government would
be delighted to give her a vast
grant of land upon which to live,
with her heirs and assigns for
ever, no one knows. But in any
event she thought that all that was
necessary was to ask.
This the unslim princess was not
long in doing. The chattel of the
reigning house of ancient Afghan
stan wrote to the authorities at
Washington that she heard so much
of this fair land she could con-
ceiVe no greater glory" than living
here, upon a proper estate, where
she might rear her sons into Ame.i-
can citizens.
An assistant secretary of state,
or someone in Washington, wrote
back that it was frightfully graft
flying and all that sort of thing to
have her royal highness say sucn
sweet things about America, and to
entertain such a laudable ambition
as American citizenship for her
three stalwart and worthy sons,
but there really wasn't any way at
all the government could give her
a grant of land and set her up in
light housekeeping.
The princess thought there must
be some mistake about this and
wrote that If she could see the
president she could fix things up
satisfactorily. The Washington
authorities heard no more of her
until she appeared upon the scene
one day, accompanied by the bogus
naval officer, Weinberg, "the IN
known" crown prince of Egypt, i'm
maculately dressed, with silk top
per, and everything, and three per-
sons.
Sight for the Gods.
The princess at that time was a
sight for the gods. The weather
in Washington was somewhere In
the hundreds-it was mid-July-
- but the princess had on so much
Ngaudy and gorgeous raiment tina
GAS she swept from the Willard
y hotel lobby to a waiting automobile
she looked for all the world like
rainbow ship in full sail. Tn
most marvellous part of her cos
tune was an exceedingly shov
skirt, beneath the flowing oIte
draperies of which exposed a Wild
expanse of cerulean blue cotton
stockings. Why the blue stockings
Well the president had graciousl,
agreed to receive the princess a
3 O'Clock in the blue room at tn,
White house.
What she said to Mr. Hardin,
about the grant of land is no
known. but in any event Fatima re
turned to New York empty hand Il
and almost empty Of pocket. Blu
this did not alarm her She has
brought with her the great damon,
which had been in her family 70
centuries and which she said wa
a real rival of the famous Koohi
Nor The princess called her dia
mond the Dayai-Nor.
The impostor Weinberg took ;
great fancy to the diamond an,
entered into a contract with thu
princess to sell or convert" tn
stone. The contract stipulated
that he was not to sell for less thai
$3.50, 900 With that tidy sum tn,
princess felt she might buy tina
princely estate-if she so wished
or that she might covert the $50, 00t
gold dollars into a million or 81
Indian rupees, return to the Dor
ders of her native state and liv,
happily ever after.
The diamond, however, did no
find ready market, nor did tn,
diamond appraisers Of this intense
1y commercial city place the sam,
upset" value named by the prin
cess. 1t is reported that eventual,
she received an offer of SIS, 900 fcl
the stone which she declined will
all the royal dignity at her com
mand.
BY this time, however, the hote
proprietors and other creditors haC
become clamorous. The princes:
seemed to have no other visibi,
means of support than the spark
ling Dayi-Nor. So the diamond wa.
attached-not once but many times
Then one of the sons negotiated {
loan Of $4,000 additional on tn,
stone. The stone is in the keepin.
of trust company, there to remain
until long after Fatima has depart
ed these shores, when it may b.
sold.