The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-18
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Pal I. King of Northumbra,
h.eomes private citizen Paul Fer
rone when he abdieates for the
Low. Of Ardath Richmond, Cana
d;.n.born actress. Paurs younger
brother, Joseph, succeeds to the
kingship. IT.,
choose q charming villa on the
B.y Of St. Francis. Free, they hnd
their new life glorious. And then
one day Paul finds that the curl.
Gus in nearby San Lorenzo, tour.
i.t., the world. still watches him.
He flees homeward sick at heart.
Nights later he meets the vac.
uou, Countess Di Marco, the
American playboy, Reggie Van
THYME and his wife at a casino.
Mrs. Van Thyme, intoxicated, dis.
robes to initiate q fan dancer. In
the midst of this a voice whispers
in Paul's car, "Was il such a bar.
gain-givins up a throne for -
this?"
IL i. Dr.. Sonders, famed archie.
olo.ist and Pauls former tutor.
Paul to get away from this moth.
insness," to do something con.
.truetive, anything worthy of q
king" Paul is deeply moved.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
THE characters and situa-
tions in this story are wholly
fictional and imaginary and are
not intended to portray any ae-
tual persons or eventS.)
CHAPTER V
You were apt to find some odd
fish in the huge apartment of the
Due de Montmiral, in Paris.
An aristocrat himself, the duke
cared not ut all for birth and very
little for breeding; he believed
only in the aristocracy Of achieve.
ment and of brains, and he was
quite capable of closing his doors
to the most blue-blooded of Ouch.
esses and opening them to ragged
and uncouth persons who were
winning fame in the laboratory
the studio or the dissecting room
This evening the duke was Civ.
ing one of his Eat homes" Al
| first glance you would have said
that his guests were motley
| crowd. Some Of them were in
evening dress and some quite OBJ
viously had never owned an eve:
ming dress in their lives, or cared
to. But you would have found
as you circulated among them,
that they were united by one
thing; they believed in the nobil.
ity Of the mind, they were. very
much in earnest about life and It's
activities, they either "did things"
themselves or stood ready to un-
derstand and applaud those who
did.
This one was engaged in abb
struse researches on the atom
that one was translating some
weird heiroglyphics dug IN in
wind-swept Asia Minor; the next
one served in the permanent Sec
retariat Of the League of Ma
tons; another was q rising young
violinist. Paul, wandering through
the apartment from group to
group, felt that here, at last, was
circle Of which DR.. Sonders
must approve intellectually.
It was three months after his
meeting with that outspoken lit
tie archeologist. The things DR..
Sonders had said to. him had fer
mented a rising discomfort in
Pauls mind. He had begun TO
grow just q little bored with the
gay crowd that circled about the
blue Bay st. Francis; the easy,
efofrtless life he led. In the Villa
San Margaret had. come to seem
a little BIT flat and poihtless: the
members of the international
sporting set who buzzed about in
the train of the Countess de Mar.
CO and Reggie Van THYME had
begun to seem just O shade less
dashing and ,companionable than
they had before.
He and, Ardath had remained
at the villa for tive months, af-
ter the .countess's party at the
Casino; then-driven by Paul's
desire to find q society and a way
of life that would quiet his con.
science and take the sting out of
DR.. Sonders' remark about cast.
ing Dearls before swine-they had
set out on an auto tour Of Eu-
rope.
1t had been pleasant enough,
this tour at first, anyway,
when the lazy wandering from
town to town, the overnight stops
at little inns, the rambles through
medieval walled cities, had SEEM
ed like the complete realization
of the footloose responsibility
Paul had dreamed of before his
abdication. There had been,
however, q few Earring notes.
There was one. night, for in
stance, in provincial movie
house, when a newsree) put on
the screen what the announcer
described as Intimate glimpses
Of the pnenplpyed ex-kihgs of
Europe, l.r{ ...
Paul writhed to see himself on
the screen. He looked, somehow,
as useless and as Intellectual as
the other deposed monarchs in
the newsreel. Then the camera TO-
cused on ,Ardath alone-Ardath,
who had just come out Of the
sea, and whose wet bathing suit
chung with startling fidelity to
her luxuriant figure, The ann6unc-
er's gummy. voice remarked that
there seem to be compensations
IN tho Ice ~ onate kinodopoO.