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done what lies in his power for a countrywoman, makes his adieu and retires. A court official, brisk and courteous, takes me in charge. "His Majestyis ready." A mo ment's walk brings-ois to the royal sudy. The eozanai opens the door; the grand equerry bows and retires. A" big, sunlit room, book lined, fur nished in strong, dark colors, several deqp, low, leather chairs, an im mense may trailing across a table, all about a rigidly limited collection of marble fragments, Signed photo graphs, military souvenirs. I pause by the door to make the first court esy. The king strides from his table desk to shake hands! And I note the king in his. study is more simply uniformed than any man in HIS palace! Constantine of Greece, now at the vigorous age of forty-five, is tall as a lance and as straight. His long 'headend .gray eyes indicate his Dan ish blbod, his womanly lower Up and' unexpected dimples are an inherit ance from his Russian mother. His English is salted with the idioms of an American collegian, rapped out in the curt enunciation of one accus tomed to command. "You want me to talk of our war? Mademoiselle, I am a soldier not an orator," he began. "But I can say this: We Greeks have won our recent glorious victory because each soldier believed victory, or defeat, depended on. him! None fought for hire. Greeks came from Attica and Thermopylae, from the Caucasus and America. "Each loved our little Greece with all his heart! Every man knew he was needed. Compared with the beefy Bulgarians, they seemed to me small, of light weight, immature, only they were old ,in endurance. Bizani, for instance, was taken by waiting lying on mountain tops, with snow to drink and corn to gnaw, while salt fish, curdled milk, hard bread and a few cloves of garlic--that was a feast! "My men are soldiers. But not like the Turks or the Bulgars! No Greek has it in him to commit atroci ties to slay and pillage or worse. "At Nigrita my soldiers dug forty victims from a pit, old men and wo men, some of them half alive! Near Doxato, Bulgar troops surrounded a hill where Capt Cordale later found babies' bodies lanced through and through. "It is estimated that Bulgarians have massacred in one year between 450,000 and 500,000peaceful non combatants men, women and chil dren. Not a village through which . they passed but was looted and par tially burned!" The king's jaw squared. His closed fist smote the table nervously as if he hesitated to voice a horrid-mem-ory. His majesty's easy courtesy tempted me to speak. Every soldier knows that when the royal commander-in-chief sent -his men into a desperate cdl-de-sac , the crown prince of Greece went with them. 1 mentioned the incidnt. The mobile lips were firm, but the gray eyes smiled. "My sons, being officers, belonged to the army. They are Greeks and nothing else," commented the king. "My eldest son was nearly killed at Yanina. An exploding shell broke his -wrist watch also nipped his ear. By the mercy of God he was not wounded. His brother did very well, too. The third stayed at home. His mother thought him too young for the-field." The father heaved a sigh of retrospection. , "How old is Prince Paul?" .( Again that honest, self-accusing, smile: "Eleven," confessed his Ma-. iesty! "They tell me you went to Russia for the eBilis case. Well, I think that ritual murder charge a shame yes, ridiculous. Public opinion will not stand for it It is.too late in the day for such superstition. We Greeks want no such 'news.' I have forbid-