The Prince and Betty
with Marvin Rossiter in the shade of the big sycamore. Elsa and Marvin had become engaged some few days before, and wer
y, I wonder," said Els
turned
ur friend,
at college together. I
l. When did
. What's the matter, Betty? This is
er wistful, but it lighted up when she smiled, and
I shall,"
stant and Marvin had, almost subconsciously, a comfor
ing at so ferociousl
it was at you. Oh, Elsa, I'm miserable! I
et
ng to have the most lovel
some flimsy s
e!" sai
r-act play," said Marvin. "That's not all one cab
nt Mr. Rossiter to hear it. He may be able to tell me wh
. What
r is, and where I've got to go.
cument with raised eyebrows, now r
come instantly Me
ance presence urge
ncel engagements ur
low you draw any mon
m Mauretania sailing
rd Monday train Lond
Dover now mind first
ing a week shopping
Tuesday evening Dine
uesday night for Ma
ind Tuesday night no
do all that later o
arrive Marseilles W
ht will meet you Me
not cable at once
nderstand now mind
come instantly seco
don Paris
OB
said Elsa,
t you badly enough. He hasn't spared expense. He has
he wants me,
es he want you? And in su
re-reading
u'll-like-this-place-it's-fine about it. He seems to look on your comp
rs. Why, he didn't even know where I was. The cable was sent
by taking a boat from Marseilles, it can't be far from the French coast. I should say at a venture that Mervo
ace beaming with proud affe
e that from a boy." He got up from his chair. "Is
it's an ol
touch on Mervo. I'
terrace, Elsa turn
?" sh
smiled
Are you very
tly. Betty looked at her in silence for a mome
e? How does it feel, knowing that there's s
osed he
ight on a summer night while somebody plays the violin far
s opene
er evening and seeing the windows lit
ng her hands, and
it's
't! I can'
hat's the
d again, bu
alous, that's all. I haven't go
enty who would like
face g
d like to be Benjamin Scob
ime, so you'll let me say something, won't you? I think you're getting j
ght. I am getting hard. How can I help it? Do you know how ma
et
em cared the sligh
t what I mean. Why should you
which nature gives hunted animals. I can't think of a single man in the world--except yo
ed forwar
, Be
n't kno
at's hi
hesi
on the witnes
hought you
name. Jo
u tell me before? This is
aughed
d I don't suppose I shall ever see him again. He was a friend of Alice Beecher's brother, who
lainly dis
, then--? What makes
ain, I suppos
never met
a relapsed into silence.
rrace Marvin Rossiter appear
"Scared it up at the f
, and opene
allest independent state in the world. Smaller than Monaco, even. Here are some facts. Its population when this encyclopaedia was printed--there may be more now--was eleven thousand and sixteen. It was ruled over up to 1886 by a prince. But in that year the populace appear to have said to themselves, 'When in the course of human events....'
there? I last heard of him in London.
d Elsa mournfully. "But,