Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-03-12

Marry the princessT
mo. Ill marry her IL ! have to.
but won't go back on Viola"
never made all that clear to
Troyte. Indeed. I never tried TO. But
Norheys succeeded In explaining him
self. more or less. to his uncde, and
| heard no more of the matter for
some little time.
Another worry-a small. even a ri
diculous 0ne-came TO make my life
uneasy. My sister Emily wrote to
me that she lost eurate. She want
ed me. to set the whole machinery Of
the British empire TO work to find the
creature for her. He was not. II ap
peared, o particularly valuable curate
Emily admitted that she did not like
him. She went so far as to say that
| he was not the sort of man who ought
to have been in Holy Orders. But he
was the only curate there was in
Emily's parish and they could not
| get on without him because the rec
tor. Canon Pyke. had fallen suddenly
| III.
The curate had gone of on a hol-
lday, which, according to Emily. he
did not deserve. Almost Immediate
ly after his departure Canon Pyke
had broken down.
"All we've heard from him since he
left Is one postcard which came from
Berlin and has picture Of a mu-
scum on IL. don't think, consider
ing all that happened during the war,
that Berlin 10 place clergyman
ought to 60 to for holiday, not a
good clergyman. II seems to me
callous thing to do. scarcely what
should call Christian. Anyhow, he
went there. At least he said he was
going there. and suppose he really did,
for that is where the postcard came
from. He left his address before he
started. In case anything went wrong
In the parish and we wanted him
back. Directly the poor canon broke
down Mrs. Pyke telegraphed to Ber-
lin, but no answer came. Then I tel
egraphed. When l got no answer
telegraphed again to the manager of
the hotel. got a reply saying that
he had left two days after he ar
rived and not given any address.
Now | know that with your infiu.
ence and all your London friends
am sure Lord Edmund Troyte could
do something to help u.s."
Apparently l was to set our con-
sular service to work to find a curate
who was rampaging about Central
Europe. should look nice fool II
went to the Foreign Office with
request like that. was inclined to
agree with Emily. That curate of
hers should never have been a clergy.
man. l sympathixed with her, and
with Canon Pyke. and with the par
ish. I even sympathized slightly with
the curate. But I was not going to
do anything.
l slipped Emily's letters into the
Unanswered" basket on top Of her
earlier letter about Janet Church. But
was not allowed to dismiss the mat.
ter from my mind. I got another let.
ter the next day.
I'm afraid l forgot to mention"
she wrote. that the address he gave
us was the Adlon hotel. He said that
II anything went wrong In the parish
he would come back at once"
She had not forgotten to give me
that address. What Emily had for
gotten to tell me was the curate's
name. That rather tied my hands,
or would have tied them II had
meant to do anything.
Next day I got q fourth letter from
Emily. In It she enclosed twelve
penny stampa
please get our ambassador in Ber-
lin to telegraph" she wrote. "as soon
az he fnds out where our curate In.
don't know what Il costs to send
telegram to Berlin, but send twelve
stamps which ought to be enough
considering the present state Of the
exchange. Besides. an ambassador
probably gets his kilograms sent
cheap"
That letter Joined the others in the
basket.
BY the same post came one from
Suuou Eyke nfmbeiI Writteu IN PEN
ell from his bed He began apollo
getically. He would never have
dreamed Of troubling me with his pri-
vate affairs had not his friend Mira
Chambers Tiny sister Emily urged
him to write to me on a subject very
near to his heart at the moment
the lost curate.
The dear fellow" he went on. els
not In all respects exactly what
clergyman ought to be. At the same
time. he is worthy young man. full
Of heartiness and energy. What
makes us fear that he may have In
VOWED himself In some serious DIM
Guilty Ia that he is by natural dispo-
sition both daring and adventurous.
more so perhaps than one Of our
younger clergy ought to be. II you
can"
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