Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-10-15
King Tommy
BY GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM
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ilsagreeable to me, for am a man
Of sociable disposition with q very
strongly formed habit Of conversation.
could not blame Norheys and bis
wife for deserving us. They were on
honeymoon and II was natural
enough that they should shut them
selves up together In their own com
partment. did not see them. except
az meals In the restaurant car Troyte
and Cable ignored me. Cable resented
my being with the party at all and
kept Troyte TO himself In another
compartment on pretense OF talking
business. They could not talk busi-
ness in any useful way because they
did not know what had happened In
Lystria. All they could do was 10 specu-
late. and | might have been useful TO
them there. In fact. my guess about
Emily's curate was the only good
guess any OF them made.
CaslmIr, Count 1stvan. who lives
somewhere In that neighborhood. got
into the train at Charlottenberg sta
ton. just outside Berlin. King Wladis-
laws Joined us at the FrledrichstrasEe
station farther on. There Is not
enough room for four people TO be
comfortable in a wagon-lit's compart-
ment, so Cable. who does not care
what he spends. engaged an ordinary
flrst-cIass compartment farther down
the train. There the four. Troyte.
Cable. Casimlr and the king. settled
down. / was not invited to join the
party.
Neither the king nor Casimir could
cross the frontier into Megalla. but
they were willing TO go as far as Bres-
Iau and tell all they knew about what
had happened. Unfortunately, they
did not know very much.
Casimir explained that he had all
along believed Tommy to be the Lord
Norheys. He had regarded the REV
erend Thomas A. Norreys'" passport
as clever trick intended to deceive
Won SteInveldt and the Germans
while conveying TO him the news that |
Lord Norheys had arrived In Berlin.
That would have been an ingenious
plan, much more ingenious than any
thing Troyte or Cable had thought Of.
1t did make casimlr certain thar Lord
Norheys had arrived. II would. ap-
have deceived Won Stein /
veldt and his police IL their suspiclons
had not been awakened by what hap
pened In the Mascotte the night after
Itrtfrn aAf Al /
heard all about that from one Of his
spy walters.
The king also believed that Tommy
was Lord Norheys; but he understood
the passport differently. His view
was that Norheys pretended 10 be
curate In order to clear himself Of the
charge Of being entangled with Miss
Temple. Here he expressed the great
est desire to see Viola. and II was
with the utmost difficulty that Troyte
Kept him from wandering along the
train TO look for Norheys compart-
ment. lie said that he had particn-
arIy admired the way In which Lord
Norheys had kept up his pretense,
even acting the part Of a curate when
here was no real need for il.
Then came the question Of who Rev.
Thomas A. Norreys really was. The
ding did not know. Nor did caslmIr. s
,asImlr could tell exactly what was
n the passport, and the king repeated
III that Tommy had said about him.
elf. But that got them no further
they had TO send for me. Cable was
unwilling TO do so; but Troyte insist
d. Cable remembered that had said
about curate.
When I heard the story told by the
ing and Casimlr. saw at once that
~ guess was very likely to be right.
My sister Emily lost a curate early
lst week, said. He was last
card OF at the AdIon hotel In Berlin.
here he stayed two nights and then
fsappeared. The dates
We discussed the dates and they
tied In with each other very well. /
OuId not help looking at Cable with
n expression Of satisfaction The
ian had been abomInabIy rude to me
nee we left London and had snubbed
Ie pItllessly. I did not actually say
told you SO" But looked as II
fought II.
Anyhow" said Cable. mo curate
ouid dare to marry the princess
Like many successful business men.
able underestimates the courage and
lllfty OF the clergy In ali proba
lity he never speaks to a clergyman
all and only sees one once In two
.ars or 80 clad In a surpllce, AT some
eddIng or funeral which he's obliged
attend. A curHte in gurplice
oks innocent and mild. not at all
e kind Of a man who would seize q
cant European throne. The same
rate on the golf links Is a very diff
rent person. Besides. Tommy was
exceptional eurate- I told them
lat Emily and Canon Pyke had said
out him.
fTo nm r.owrrmuwn.