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Sadowa, wealthiest man in Marsovya, fell in love with her, mar- ried ver and did her the exquisitely grace/ul favor of Wying a week later. She inherited his whole fortune--§20, 009,000." "And now I suppose she has come to Yaris to spend it?" "Oh, the money is safe enough for the present, I believe, in the Bank of - SG Natalie, with a little catch in ber breath, ly read the words aloud: "I--love--you! "Why did you write this?" she asked. "Becausé®you forbade me to say it" he retorted. "Tell bis excellency I have come * back," broke in a voice at the door. As a gervant hurried off with the message 'the spehker waddled into the room. He was a stout, ungainly little 'man, clad in the guaiut national cos- tume of Marsovia. Bald of head, pop- ping of eye and with abnormally long red mustache, hls was a personality to excite laughter In a mummy. The newcomer was Nish, messenger and clerk of the embassy. At his ap- preach Natalie and De Jolidon slipped away to the ballroom. A moment later a tall, Tean, fussy man Awith hooked nose and mineing gait' trotted down the stairway and into the salon. "Well, Mr. Nish," he asked peevish- ly, "did you find Prince Danllo at home?" "No, your excellency," faltered the little man. "He"-- { "Did you go thence, as I told you, to the American bar at""-- "Yes, sir. Hut he was not at home there tonight." j "Odd. He's usually very much at home there, I'm told. So you failed in your mission? You couldn't Sand Phim 7 "Oh, yes, your excellency, I found him---that is to ray, 1"-- Marsovia. . But my hasband wants it to stay there. ~Sosdoelk 'thé Marsovian government. Ours is not a rich ¢oun- try, M. d® Jolidon. That's why a new whifte mir appears in my worthy hus- band's head every time one of your Parisian lady killers-makes love to her. It's all wshsurdly, simple." "Well laughed De Jolidon, "his hair needn't turn whiter on. my account. I'll be the one Frenchman who won't make 1pye to Mme. Sadowa." "But/yon must." : Whaat?" »Y Yow must marry her, at any rate." "Are; you mad, Natalie, or is this"-- "It 3s 'no joke, 'and I'm not mad. I've thought it all out™ | 3 The ambassador's wife glanced nery- ously :about her. She and De Jolidon were .ensconced In an alcove Of the salon, It 'was the night of the embassy ball. {| From, the adjoining ballroom came the strains of 'a waltz and the feet. passtag ang the great hallway and broad stairs at the rear of the salon. But for the moment the two had the roo'n to themselves. "lidsten," she said. "My husband sus- pects nothing thus far, but he is cers tair{to in time unless™-- "IPaless I divert his thoughts by mar ryir x some one else? I can't, and you kneaw I can't, for I"-- - . "Yffusht You mustn'tisay it. Iam & dutiful wife. And--whdt are you do- ing ¥" she queried as he Snatched up her; fan from the table. With the pelkeil that dangled from his dancing caild De Jolidon scribbléd three words on sone of the ivory sticks of the fan, theta handed it to his hostess, | soft: gliding of hundreds of dancing | Guests were passing and re- | "Oh, you found him at last? That's better. Where?" "At Maxim's, your'-- + "Maxim's, eh?" snorted Ambassador Popol scornfully. "Idling away his time, as usual, when" "Oh, no, your excellency, not ex actly 'idling' it I may say so. ' He seemed very busy. There were a num- ber of bottles and" -- ! "Was he sober?" "Not distressingly so, your excel- lency. In fact, if 1 may"-- "Did you give him my message? Did you tell him?" "I gave it word for word, sir. I told him his country was calling for him and that your excelledcy desired his {immediate presence at the embassy." "Well, what was his answer?" "He said, 'Give my country my re- | gards and tell it to go to' "-- | «"Where?" snapped Popoff as Nish paused in embarrassment. ~~ . "I'd--I'd rather not say, sir; no place I'm at all familiar with." "Oh, - the ingrate," wailed Popofl, | "the 'ingrate! Here he has been em- | ployed at the embassy all these months, and I've winked at his loafing and his dissipation, and the very first minute I really need him he refuses to come." 'Oh, no, your excellency," pleaded Nish; "scarcely as bad as all that, if I may say so--not 'refused' exactly. He will come. At least he promised to." "Ah, that lifts a load from my brain if he promised he'll come! Diplomat- ically speaking, Prince Danilo's word is as good as his bond." "Diplomatically speaking, your excel- lency," afirmed Nish, "be agrees to # Le here as soon as tie" Heh Snlibed '| head if Decessary, Sober him at any | cost." : magnum of champagne that was'in the ice pall beside him when I left" "How much of it was gone?' - "The cork was not yet drawn, but"-- "Be on the lookout for Mr, Nish. When he comes put ice on his "I fancy it will be cheaper than Sil- fog him up. I'l do my best, your ex- it he ih [ itself at last into the excited 3: . "The widow has arrived!" "Twen millions and unincumbered!" "Widow of Saflowa,. the animatéd money bagf' I Jiite oi! i i il i i i "The Merry Widow!" . td Down the stairway from thé dress- ing rooms and into the salon swept a woman----young, beautiful, vivacious. A light of mischief danced In Her great dark eyes. oy Her masses of auburn hair shone like an fureole above her rather pale, delicate face. About her hoyere ;A half score of gallants, all vying for a word, a look, from the beauty (and fortune) of the Paris season. a Two men--the Marquis. of Cascada and: the Count; de St. Brioche--were lucky enough to claim for a moment or two her attention. ; "No, nol", Sonia was saying in p! test. "At home, in Marsovia, men don't make such pretty gpeeches. - Courtship there is very primitive' and' marriage is for life. When a man makes love:to another's 'wife,' he 'is promptly: 'shot. When a wife flirts, her husband \ ber black hud blue--a good plan, Ed not try it in Paris? = 4 C "Delightful" exclaimed Cascada. "Do you know, maddibe, We have been counting thé mogients until you. ap- peared?" y ET "I can well believe it," assented Sb- nia. "It must have been just like counting mqney." { % "Oh, madame!" protested the. group, horrified. ' . i "Don't I know?" retorted Sonia, a little bitterly. - "It's always like that. People count me like'so much money. If it Is coarse for mé to say 80, re- member I'm a farmer's amughier and that in my country people call & spade a spade" , 3 Popofl ahd Natalle came hurriedly in to pay their respects to. the guest upon Ii | | ; i i 5s af 4 i 1 1 j . B1 dhl fil fs ii idl E a i : Fakid i i | WH : i! g i Fil "But no man ever before loved as I lover" protested Cascada, consciously rising in his emotion, "You are all the world to me.. Until I met you I never thought I could" "Ring off?" grumbled Danilo in his Soop: vaguely bothered by the loud Sonia started. "Some one ts here!" she whispered, pointing toward the hidden couch. "You are mistaken," Cascada; "and even if it were so I am willing for all the world to know how Me seeing you again." : " "The joy is all your own. Is it so surprising to find we in Paris? I am here enjoying 'my wealth--and free dom!" » > v w ~ "I congratulate you on both, especial ly the freedom." MR "Yes, freedom is-one of your fads, I believe," remarked Sonia, "especially make a habit of avoiding marriage-- at the last moment?" . - "Sonia, you are unjust, If rested with e you should be.my wife now, not er man's widow." | "If it rested with you? she mim- fcked. "Well, let the whole story rest now. It's forgotten." « "By you, perhaps--never by me." "Oh, no! I remember it every now and then for my own smusement. But it 18 bard to think of myself as the little Marsovian peasant maid to whotn the dashing eavalry officer, Prince "| Danilo, was once engaged and whom his rich old uncle at the last moment forbade, to marry because of pov- erty. How differently that rich old uncle would look on the mateh to- day! Twenty millions Is a . pretty dowry." "At least It seems you didn't break your heart over losing me," sneered Dantlo. "No; my plebeian heart stood the shock excellently. I soon found con solation--an elderly husband who Hyed just one week after the wedding and left me all his wealth." "Yes; 1 heard how your father forced you into the match. Next time you can choose a husband to suit your. self." "Why should I marry again? I am rich, free. I have everything.' "Including love?' he asked, his eyes devouring her fragile beauty. "I don't believe in. love," scoffed Sonia. "All men are alike. Dozens of whom Marsoyla's hopes so depended. At a sign from the ambassador the oth- ers drew back. 5 i 2 "So you were shocking some of eur Paris gallsnts?' beamed the ambassd- dor. "What a child of nature you are!" y a : "You mean," countered Sonia, "that I am a peasait dressed up. How I wish | | |. sometimes that 1 were a real peasant | ; again? 3 3 AR ¢ remembering the dear old ds farm--thie bleating of the pigs, the dew |. iaid milk, the tomatoes fi rang up and all the simple joys of the coun- try! But I want you to meet tonight some of our Marsovian nobility--for instance, Prince Danilo, a charming young fellow. He'll be here presently. Danilo is" . But the mischief had died out of Sonia's eyes. Her face was paler than was its wont, and there was a stern look as "of pain about the dalsntily chiseled mouth. "I have already met Prince Danilo," she said curtly. "Really?" cried Popoff. Then, not- ing her change of.expression, he added with apprehension: "I hope it was not on gne of his wet days--a charming, lovable youngster in spite of his"-- "I am not interested in hearing about him," broke in Sonia in a curiously level, emotionless voice, "It was long ago that we met. He will have forgot. ten me even as---as I have forgotten him. Let us talk of something else, please." Even Popoff could see something was seriously<amiss. CHAPTER II.. Old Love and New. ELL, hére I am," announced a tall, slender youth, entering the deserted salon a few min- utes later with Nish at his side. "I'm here at my country's call, all right, but my confounded country doesn't seem to be on hand to meet me." . His graceful walk was not wholly steady, and there was a flush on the handsome young face. The late ar- THE LATE ARRIVAL WAS PRINCE DANILO. rival was Prince Danilo of MaYsovia, attache of the Marsovian legation at Paris. As a diplomat he had scarcely scored a specess, for he had a delight- fully normal aversion to work and a simple, unfailing joy in the amuse- ments of Maxim's and bis clubs, "I'll hunt up his excellency at once," Nish was assuring the prince. "Are-- are you quite in condition to see him, if I may' -- "Oh, I'm all right enough," yawned Danile, "only I forgot to go to bed last night. If I could reel off a few yards of sleep"-- "Perhaps I could find you some place to" -- : "I'd prefer a desk, if you ean find one. I always sleep best at my desk. But I suppose" -- ' "There is a couch, sir, over in the | corner behind the palms. How would | that do? YOu could get a nice nap A long, blissful, sonorous snore from the couch. Sonia 'laughed, her eyes alight with amusement. "Snoring and romance don't go well together, marquis," she observed, "and as the snoring doesn't seem likely to protested. "Oh, no, I don't! Men are all alike. Goodby." As the discomfited marquis made his there, And in a little 'While I'd find his fhem are affer my money and make love to me because they can't get it without me." i "Men are not all fortune bunters," he denied hotly. "I for one"-- "So they all say. Bach says 'I love you! Each means my fortune." "They do?' cried, Danilo, In rage at the strong insinnation.. "Well, here's one that doesn't. * I for one shall never say to you, 'I love you?" by A strauge smile stole across her face. She came very close to whére he stood; #0 close that the faint perfume of her hair was sweet in his nostrils; so close that her breath was warm upon bis lips; so close that his bewildered soul struggled in vain fo hide from the glory in her eyes. Her voice was a musical | whisper as she asked: i (To be Continued.) Dig your vegetables already cooked nowadaysg a ' freedom from marriage. Do you still | rg When you buy Underwear ask for the IMPERIAL GROWN BRAND 3 Every garment guaranteed. Dur ability, comfort. 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