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-K v it rötli' w u \ O BY OEomAY* BIRMINGHAM o CHAPTER XIX—Continued "And I think." I said, "that yon scarcely do Justice to the courage which our younger clergy undoubtedly p os â te s. A man who would face a Mothers' union two days In a week and would take charge of a Girls' Friendly society for an outing In the country, must be daring enough for any adventure. "No curate," said Cable sullenly, "would venture to marry a princess." "Do you happen to know our patri arch T' said the king. "No, 1 thought not. You wonidn't talk that way about curates If yon did. 1 assure you, Mr. Cable, that our patriarch would do anything. Wouldn't he, Caa Imlrr "He 'dares do all that may become a man.' " said Casimir. " 'Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros or—' " "Your patriarch," said Cable, 'Isn't a curate." "But be was once," mid the king. "He must have been, though before my Urns of course. They alt begin by being curates And I assure you he wouldn't have hesitated—except for moral reasons of course—to marry two or three princesses and their mothers who would be queens If'he'd wanted to. When I tall you that our patriarch has often gone for me with out a sign of nervousness and used language you'd scarcely believe over ' some trumpery little affair about n girl—and that was when I was a king, an absolute monarch, remember, with an army and all that sort of thing. No, there's no use saying that the clergy daren't do things" The discussion was degenerating Into a wrangle of purely academic Inter est. It wa* Troyts who brought us all back to the business on hand. "The real question," he said, "Is not what a curate or a bishop might do, but what has actually happened since the— er —the fugitives reached Lystrla. I sent a telegram to the patriarch say ing that the man was an Impostor. He surety wouldn't go on with the mar riage after that" "Curate or no," said Cable, "I hope the patriarch haa «hot him." "He lies," aald Casimir, "in durance vile. This very morning I received from the patriarch a telegram—" He produced it from bla pocket The king translated it for ua. It told os that Tommy had been pot under ar rest "That ia perhaps the best thing which could have happened," said Troyte. But it was even on his showing, a very bad beat The situation In Lys trla was extremely critical. A revo lution, carefully planned and organ ised, had actually taken place. The patriarch and the nobles, the only people who counted In Lystrla, were perfectly determined to have a king of their own seated on the historic throne of Wiadlaiawa the Hunter, the founder of the Lystrian dynasty, famous a thousand years ago for bis skill in killing boars. They wanted to place on somebody's bead the «Uver gllt fillet which that monarch bad be queathed to his successors. But If they did anything of the sort every Balkan state would mobilise at once and nothing could avert a war anti England recognised the new king and declared herself ready to support him. That, and the benevolent neu trality of France, might save the situ ation. But how could England recog nise a revolution which had either pot no king on the throne or set up some Impossible person like Emily's curate? Troyte explained all that to os, slowly and carefully. "But I thought," Mid Cable, "that you'd squared the League of Nations and aU that lot." Troyte objected to the word "squared." 1 dare say the League of Nations would have objected to it too. What be bad done, bo be said, was to create an atmosphere favorable to the const de ration of the Haims of an Eng lish king to the Lystrian throne. "Meaning Lord Norheys?" said Cabie. Troyte sodded. He certainly bad not meant his "aunospbere" to en velop Emily's curst«. "la my opinion," said the king, "the beet thing for us to do ia to leave "Surely." I said, "uot exactly as 'bey are. That curate belongs more or lew to my slater Emily and shea bent oa finding him. There'll be a frightful row if she discovers him lying fa a dungeon fa Lystrla." lady who accompanied of the facta, and If I Jurte« her char acier correctly,'she will certainty t«ii "Whet English tody?" mid Cahre. Church, Miss Chnrch, and onlesa Fm mistaken about her—" "If Janet Church la there," I said, "she's certain to have telegraphed to every ambessador In Europe and also to the prime minister and the leader of the Labor party and all the differ ent Liberal parties there are, demand ing the instant release of Emily's curate" "What I want to know," said Cable» "ia wbal's going to happen about my oil concession r Nobody could give him any Informa tion about that It had not been granted by the Megallan government. Indeed, It bad not been granted by anybody. Ail Cable really had In writing was a promise that It would be granted by the king of Lystrla when be was safe on the throne "That" said King Wiadlaiawa, "la why I say that things had better be left as they are." "But they can't" I said. "Emily's curate can't be left In prison. Too don't know my slater Emily or yon wouldn't suggest It Besides, there's Janet Church to be reckoned with." "1 think,'' said the king "that by this time the young man baa probably been released, perhaps married, pos sibly even crowned." "Good 0—d!" said TroVte. "You don't mean to say you actually think—" The king waved his hand cheerfully. "The patriarch," he said, "Is a man of unbounded patriotism, devoted to the cause of Lystrian Independence. *o « I » il "He Lies," Said Casimir, "In Durance VII«. Thle Very Morning 1 Received From the Patriarch a Telegram." And be dislikes. Intensely dlsllk«, the archimandrite of Megalla. The Lya trtan nobility wish for a king, on Eng lish king, a sportsman." "Emily's curate seems to be that," I Hid. "My daughter—" said the king. "I am now speaking very confidentially— my daughter rather liked that young I liked him myself. Casimir liked him. Everyone liked him. My daughter's only objection to marrying him was tbs existence of a certain MIm Temple. Now It appears that in bis case there Is no Mtw Temple. It Is likely—I do not aay certain, bat very likely—that Calypso will Insist on the patriarch releasing him. She may even suggest that the marriage should take place at once." Then Norheys slid back the door "which divided the compartment from the corridor. "Thought I'd look in," he said. "Just to see boar you're getting on. Viola has dropped off Into a dose, and I was feeling a bit hipped with no one to talk to." Be isoked around with an amiable smile, as If be were sura of a warm welcome Be got nothing of the sort. Troyte and Cable scowled at him. The king regarded him as an Inconvenient outsider. I looked the other way. Casimir was the only one who spoke He quoted Shakespeare in allusion to L*dy Norheys dose; Birap that knit* ap th* rsvatl'd »leave "Bit It In one," Mid Norheys, set tling down between Cable and the king "Well, Unde Ned. settled op the affairs of eeatern Europe r "No," Hid Troyte. "Wen," aald Norheys. "1 don't want to chip in. dont you know. I bate follows who shove their oars la wheg not asked. BtRL «hat I always My is this; An ordinary sort of fallow with no particular brains sad that kind of thing often gets there, though u dost expect him- to. That's why I'm offertsg to help, it to roe the position is f bio -youTl pick me up j U I'm wrong about facta wou t you. J Unde Ned? Tin oft« feet«." "Facts to this esse." I said, "are mach more like fancies." "That'» ju«t where ! come la," mU Norbejs, "A fact ml* ht have knocked me oat. bat when it come* to fancies Fm there *H the time, theae Lystrian Johnnies seem to «mat a king. Don't aec why they do »7 aelf; but there U la. They've got princess, hut that doesn't satisfy them." ~ "It doesn't satisfy the League Of Nkr Hon a" said the king, "or the Entente power«. That's where the trouble is. The Lyatrlans would be quits satin fled with Calypso. In fact, they'd be very glad to have me back again, all of them except the patriarch. Bat the Entente powers simply won't Stand! me." "That comes to exactly the same thing as what I said," «nid Norbsya. "Well, along comes some fellow ws don't know, dropping like what-d'you call-hlm from the tfalng-a-mwbob Whstr went on«. "A deua ex machins," | suggested "That's not whet .1 meant" Norheys "1 meant a Jolly old bolt from the blue. But whatever wa call him, thunderbolt or little tin god. there he Is quite ready to take on the Job, prince« and all. That's the way things stand. Isn't It. Unde Nedf Troyte was locking oat of the win dow. Casimir murmured something about a Daniel coming to judgment Norheys went on: "WH1. then, why not let hlml That*» what ! always say ; If there's a fellow who'll buck in where wanted then let him buck In; so long as be doesn't Interfere with us" "Unfortunately," «id Troyte coldly, "you've left out of consideration the I League of Nations and the treaty of Versailles and the policy of the AI- • lied Powers" say about all that," said N orheys "Is this; What did we light the war for? I dont know, of course. not so to speak out of my oven Inside I Just fought because all the other fellows I knew did too. But I do know what you «Id at tbs time. Unde Ned, and It's no um your saying yoo didn't, for you did. What ws fought for was] the self-determination of small nation alltles Well, there you are, and yon «mut go back on It now. Lystrla la a small nationality, tant It F' "Two and a half millions before the, war," Mid the king. "Probably about two miniums now." "Couldn't possibly have a «mailer nationality," said Norheys "and what I always »ay 1» this Uncle Nad ; If you've said a thing, you've Jolly well got to stick to It oven If you wish you'd said something else, which of course everybody generally does" I felt quite sorry for Troyts He really did talk about small nationali ties and self-determination several tissas during tha later years of the war. I dare say he deserved to be twitted with It. But I felt I must speak a word for him. "Yon forget." I said to Norheys, I "that you also fought to make the ' world safe for democracy. Setting up an absolute monarch In Lystrla la Sot democracy." "When 1 talk about democracy." said Norheys. "or rather when other fellows like you, Unde Bill, talk about democracy—for It's a thing I never mention myself either In a dub or any where eise— I always My that the | first thing is to settle; What is dem ocracy?" We all felt, I think, that Norheys had better be left to answer bis own question. Troyte, I know, distrusts the American formula—-"By, with, for, to, at, In, the people." None of the rest of os bad a formula at alL "Democracy," Mid Norheys, "simply able to 'Yon means being My. go to h— I* to any fellow who tries to come It over on yoo. That's my Idea ol democracy, and you may say what you Ilka, Unde BUI. that's what most of us Jolly well fought for. Though what I always say la this; We were rather let down In th# end. Still there Is don't you know, a sacred principle and all that, the sort of thing no decent fellow ever go« back on." "The Lystrtana," I Hid, "are evi dently out-and-out democrat«. 'You go to b— I' ae e ms exactly to describe their attitude toward the rest of Eu rope." "Well, then, there you are," «aid Norheys. "And If you'rs there, what's the use of worrying 7" The attendant from the restaurant car came along and told us that luncheon was served. Norheys rushed off to waken Viola. The rest of ui staggered along the swaying corridor. 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