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King Tommy
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By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM
Copyright br BoM» tatrrfll Cm.—W. M. O. Strie»
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CHAPTER XVIII— Continued
"All Asia Minor is more or lesa
Persian," said Norheya, "and. anyway.
1 don't want to take an action against
her. I don't believe I could even If
1 wanted to. on account of having got
married myself before she did. So
that's that; and there's no use wor
rying."
Troyte was talking fast to someone
in the foreign office.
"There'll be the devil of a fnss."
acid Norheys, "if Uncle Ned stirs up
«II those ambassadors and people.
And they won't like It. Nobody would
like It I say. Uncle Ned !"
Troyte, working steadily through
Cable's telegrams, waved an impatient
hand at Norheys.
"It's all very fine." said Norheys to
me. "Uncle Ned may say what he
likes, but they won't like it. No am
bassador would like being polled out
of his bed at this hour of the night
and set on to chase a princess up and
down the Himalaya mountains, as if
she was a goat or a chamois or some
thing of that kind. And what 1 al
ways say is; If nobody wants a thing
done, why do ItT There are lots of
unpleasant things every fellow has to
_ do. Why chip in with unnecessary
ones and make everyone uncomfort
able?"
"Notify the legations at Sophia,"
said Troyte into the telephone, "and
Prague and Bukarest, and Warsaw,
and Budapest, and Belgrade—"
"Juat listen to him," said Norheys.
"Jolly glad I didn't go into the diplo
matic service. They wanted me to.
Yon remember that. Uncle Bill? But
I was tirm about that. 'Not my line
at all,' I said. 'Hate complications
and always did.' Now 1 see I was
quite right. I simply couldn't stand
v being set on to persecute some poor
girl wbo'd run off with the chauffeur.
And I expect that's what's happened.
Looks like it anyhow. What 1 always
say is: If a girl wants to marry a
chauffeur, let her, and be Jolly thank
ful it's no worse,"
Cable had edged over to the table
at which Troyte was sitting at the
telephone.
"Tell them," he said, "to engage
places for us in the Warsaw express.
We must go tomorrow."
"I suppose we must," stfld Troyte
with a sigh.
■t« coww a* must." said Cable.
"Heaven knows what muddle there'll
be If we're not there. It's a compli
cated business and you and I are the
only two people who understand the
whole of It. Tell them to book two
sleepers for us."
"1 say," said Norheys. *'I say.
Uncle Ned. are you really going off
to this what-you-call-'em place to see
the princess?"
Troyte took no notice of this, so I
answered for him.
"He must." I said. "As minister for
Balkan affairs. It's his duty to have
his hand on the helm when tjie ship
Is In the rapids."
Norheys turned to his wife, who had
been sitting quietly and very comfort
ably where Troyte left her,
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"I say, Vi. old thing, what about It?"
She understood him at once, though
I confess that 1 did not.
"I should simply love it," she said,
"and yon promised that we should
have a honeymoon."
"I «ay.
Unde Ned, tell him to book fonr sleep
ers, will you. VI and I are going to
trot along with you."
Troyte very nearly dropped the re
ceiver In bis astonishment. I was a
little startled myself. The very last
place a man ought to take hia wife
for a honeymoon la Into the middle
of a Balkan war, and that. If 1 could
trust Troyte'« Judgment, was Just
what there was going to be.
"Yon can't go with us," said Troyte.
"I'm d—d if you do." said Cable
"You ought to be pleased to have
os," said Norheya. "We'd cheer you
up and all that when you're feeling a
bit down and out"
"You've done mischief enough a t
ready." said Cable "You sha n't go
near Lystria if I can stop yon."
"I don't suppose you can atop ns."
said Norheya "I say. Uncle Ned. do
book those sleepers. I promised Vi
that she should see the black princess,
and she wants to, don't you. Vi?"
"I should like to see Ljfetria." she
"Righto," said Norheya
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said.
"So there you are. Unde Ned," said
Korhey* "You can't go back on Vi
when she comes rushing home all the
way from Paris just to fell yon that
she'd married me. Very few girts
would have done that."
"I protest strongly—" said Cable. •
"That's no use," said Norbey* "If
Uncle Ned won't book the sleepers for
»a we'd have to go without them.
Pee got my pasaport ail right. Ton gave
It to roe yourself. Uncle Ned, and i'll
manage to slip Viola through some
how. You generally can, yoa know.
If yon tip the right man. Beal des.
1 might come la useful. You never
know. That princess has ran off with
the chauffeur and the Lystrisns may
'not want him tor a king. It's a bit
awkward for them. A fellow who's
touching hl« hat to you one My and
yon hare to take yours off to him the
oaxt day. Nobody likes to be Sot in
Weil, you
for that sort of thing,
know, if the worst comes to the worst
and they still want a king. I'll be
there.
Cable, who had been drumming Im
patiently with hla Ungers on the table,
moved over suddenly and looked at
Norheys. I do not know whether he
actually thought that It might still be
possible to make Norheys king of Lys
tria. If the thing were possible, it
would certainly be a way out of a
nasty situation. Even the Balkan war
might be averted.
"1 always said," said Norheys, "that I
fd no objection to being a king, so
long as 1 didn't have to marry that
princess. Well, that part of the pro
gram Is off now. But if the Lystrisns
don't care for the chauffeur, why not I
pop me and Viola on to a couple of
thrones? Not that we want to hoof |
out the princess. We don't. Only Just
if she happens to have done herself I
in by skipping off with the chauffeur,
And that's the sort of thing It takes
a girl a long time to get over*
specially if she happens to he a prln
cess—why. In that case what I aay la :
Why not us?"
Cable Is an adventurer with no
sense of responsibility and little re
gard for convention. Re may have
seriously contemplated financing an
other revolution In Lystria and setting
up Norheys as a king at the end of it.
But Troyte la a serious statesman,
He could not possibly have regarded
Norheys' plan as worthy of considéra
tlon. Nevertheless, he agreed to take
the young couple to Lystria. It was
Viola who persuaded him.
She left her seat, went over to him
In the prettiest possible manner, put
one arm round hia neck and set her
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"Do Take Us," She Said. "We Want
to Go Most Awfully, and I Ought
to Mavs a Honsymoon, Oughtn't IT"
cheek qnlte close to his. "Do take
us." she said. "We want to go most
awfully, and L ought to have a honey
moon, oughtn't 1?"
Troyte picked up the telephone re
celver again.
"Hullo!" he said. "Yes, Foreign
offlee. Lord Edmund Troyte speaking
again. Did I say two sleepers on the
Warsaw express? Well, four will be
wanted. Engage four."
"Say five,
to go. too."
Troyte look no notice of roe. He
laid down the receiver, crossed the
room holding Viola's hand, and sat
down.
"Why on earth do you want to go?"
said Cable.
I said ; 'Td rather like
Into things for myself. And Lord Nor-1
heys 1« my godson, so if you're going
to make him a king, I ought to he
there to help to crown him. God
parents have duties as well as right*
And. besides, I want to find out who
that princess has run away with. 1
believe myself that my sister Emily's
curate has got her, and that Janet
Church has gone along with them to
be bridesmaid."
"Well," I said. "I'm thinking of ap
plying for shares in the oil company
of yours, so, of course. I'd like to look
I picket! up the telephone receiver,
and asked for the Foreign office.
Cable growled. Troyte Ilf a cigarette
and poured himself ont a glass of
brandy. Norheys clapped roe on the
back.
"Good old Uncle BillT be said. 'T
always knew yon were a sport. Tell
ns all about that curate, won't you?"
"That the Foreign office 7" I shouted
down the telephone "Ye* I'm speak
ing tor Lord Edmund Troyte. Please
engage five sleepers In the Warsaw
express tomorrow instead of four. If
they haven't that number vacant tell
them to pvt on another coach. Yes.
A whole roach. Never mind about the
Mr. Cable will settle that
expense,
whatever it to"
CHAPTER XIX
I did nor enjoy the first part of the
Journey to Lystria, for 1 was i«Tt at
moot entirely alone. That I« always
disagreeable to me, for I am a man
of sociable disposition with a vary
strongly formed habit of conversation,
I could not blame Norheys and hia
wife for deserting us. They were on
a honeymoon and It was natural
enough that they should shut IMm*
selves op together In their own coro
partaient. I did not see them, except
at meals la the restaurant car. Troyte
and Cable Ignored me. Cable resented
my being with the party at all and
kept Troyte to himself in another
business. They could not talk busl
ness in any useful way because they
did not know what had happened in
Lystria. All they could do was to specu
late, and 1 might have been useful to
them there. In fact, my guess about
Emily's curate was the only good
guess any of ttilm made,
somewhere in that neighborhood, got
into the train sta
compartment on pretense of talklhg
Casimir, Count Istvan, who lives
tlon, Just outside Berlin. King Wladls
laws Joined us at the Frledrlcbatraaae
station farther on. There la not
enough room for four people to be
ment, so Cable, who does not care
what he spends, engaged an ordinary
first-class compartment farther down
the train. There the four, Troyta,
Cable, Casimir and the king, settled
down. I was not invited to Jota the
party.
Neither the king nor Casimir could
croaa the frontier into Megalta, but
they were willing to go as far as Brea
Ian and tell all they knew about what
had happened. Unfortunately, they
did not know very much.
comfortable In a wagon-lit's compart
Casimir explained that he bad all
along believed Tommy to be the Lord
regarded
erend Thomas A. Norreys' " passport
as a clever trick Intended to deceive
Von Stelnveldt and the Germans
white 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.
It did make Casimir certain that Lord
Norheys had arrived. It would, ap
parently, have deceived Von Stein
veldt and his police if their suspicions
had not been awakened by what hap
pened in the Mascotte the night after
Tommy's arrival.
heard all about that from one of bis
spy waiters.
Von Stelnveldt
The king also believed that Tommy
was Lord Norheys; but he understood
the passport differently. ' His view
was that Norheya pretended to be a
curate In order to clear himself of the
charge pf being entangled with Miss
Temple. Here he expressed the great
est desire to see Viola, and It was
with the utrtiost difficulty that Troyte
kept him from wandering along the
train to look for Norheys' compart
ment. He said that he had particu
larly admired the way in which Lord
Norheys had kept up his prstense.
even acting the part of a curate when
there was no real need tor it.
Then came the question of who Rev.
Thomas A. Norreys really was. The
king did not know. Nor did Casimir,
Casimir could tell exactly what was
} on the passport, and the king repeated
j self. Bat that got them no further,
all that Tommy had said about him
They had to send for me. Cable was
I unwilling to do so; but Troyte Inalst
ed. Cable remembered that 1 bad said
| something shout a curate.
When I heard the story told by the
king and Casimir, I saw at once that
j my guess w«« very likely to be right.
"My sister Emily lost a curate early
"He was last
last week," I «aid.
heard of at the Adlon hotel to Berlin,
where he stayed two nights and then
disappeared. The dates—■"
We discussed the dates and they
fitted In with each other very well. I
could not help looking at Cable with
an expression of satisfaction. The
man had been abominably rude to roe
g| nce we left London and had snubbed
me pitilessly. 1 did not actually say
"I told you so." But I looked ss if I
thought it
"Anyhow," said Cable, "no curate
would dare to marry the princess."
Like many successful business men.
Cable underestimates the courage and
ability of the clergy- In all proba
bility he never speaks to a clergyman
at all and only sees one once In two
years or so clad In a surplice, at some
wedding or funeral which he's obliged
to attend. A curate in a surplice
looks Innocent and mild, not at all
the kind of a man who would seize a
vacant European throne. The same
curate on the golf links is a very dif
ferent person. Besides. Tommy was
an exceptional curat«. I told them
what Emily and Canon Pyke had said
about him.
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