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"Let me tell you n llttio fairy story: There wero once a prlnco und n prin ces*. They loved oocli other. Iltil (ho prince was poor and dared not tell of hie lovt for fear of being though) u fortune hunter. His alienee made the princess angry. So she went and prom* laed her band to another man, and they all lived miserably unbnppy ever after. And the moral of that stupid little etory Is that I'm slek of respect ability, and I'm awake from my crazy dream of love, and I'm going back to Maxim's, and you can all go to -Mar so via!" "He loves me! lie loves me!" panted Sonia under her breath. CHAPTER VI. At Maxim's lAXIM'S after midnight -the show restaurant whither sigh! seeing Americans and other tourl&(s (lock and whose dizzy, machine made merriment they solemn ly believe to be a part and parcel of true Parisian life. On the night of Sonla's garden parly one group of men and women who en tered the Jolly restaurant were so dif ferent from the usual habitues of the place as to come in for not a few amused glances from their neighbors, They were Mine, Natalie Popoff, Mine. Nova Kovltch and Cnscadn and St. Brioche. The visit was Natalie's idea. At Maxim's. She had heard Dnnllo's wild speech of ! good by to Souln and his announcement \ that ho was off to Maxim's. Hence the ambassador's wife, with a feeble ; yearning to atone in some way for the | false position into which the widow had been thrust for her sake, had re solved to follow in the hope of securing a word In private with Danllo and setting matters right again. Natalie had not confided her plan to her husband, and now as the parly were ushered to a secluded table in an 1 alcove she glanced at tbo riotous scene about her with n delighted nervous ness. The delight vanished suddenly, however, and the nervousness waxed to n panic fear as a familiar voice smote upon he." ear. Popoff had Just come In and was standing not ten feet away from the secluded table where his wile sat trembling. "I want to see Prince Danllo at once," ho said to the head waiter. "Has he arrived?" "Not yet, sir," was the reply, "but he | will be here very soon. There Is a 1 supper party waiting for him over there," waving to a tableful of gayly appended girls with tired eyed men. "Really!" exclaimed the ambassador. "I'll just Join them till he comes " He toddled off to the distant table, where, to Nntalie's Jealous eye, he seemed to make himself at home with a phenomenal ease and quickness. lie was scorce seated when Danllo strode in. The whole table rose to give the prince noisy greeting. "Why, hello, your excellency!" cried : Danllo. "This Is queer company for a monument of respectability like 1 yourself to wonder into!" came only to see you," protested ChO ambassador, drawing him aside. "I was bound I'd cotno hero and wait till you appeared if" "Ob, I see." cut In the prince, thor oughly enjoying his confusion. "Fools rush in where" "I didn't rush In." fumed the am bassador; "I crept here In a measly cab, and I sneaked Into tbo place like a pickpocket for fear some one would recognize me. I Prtcrlflcod myself to my country. Suppose my wife should hear of It! I came to Implore you, to east myself on your mercy, to beg you onee more to prevent the widow from"? "I must seo his excellency," Insisted a portly man behind them, his voice booming through the whole room. "He Is here, and I (Hi!" he broke off on sight of Popoff. "Hero you are! I" "My dear Nova Kovltch," pettishly interrupted the ambassador, u nec essary t<? bunt for me wltb a brass band? Couldn't you"? "I'm B?rry to Interrupt you," answer oil Nova Kovitcu, "but hero's a dls ' patch from the Marsovlan ministry, ii seemed t<> mo Important, and 1 brought it on." Popoff took the slip of paper und road aloud: "If Mine. Sadowa'H twenty millions aro allowed to leave Marsovla wo nre u bankrupt country." "Tboro, Prluce Donllo," continued the ambassador, turning on the young man In melodramatic appeal; "you see It's rlgbt ui) to you! Your country ap peals to you to save it! You are Mar BOVltl's last hope. Marry the widow and"? "I'll marry no one I" flared up'Danllo. "To iho deuce with matrimony and Mlirsovln and myself! I'm done with Kill;- dreams of love and all that non boiiso. l*in free, uud I'm going to mala; a night of lt. 1"? Ho paused und stood silent, duni fou tided. Mown the little flight of stairs leading into the room u woman was ndvanclng alone. "Sonln!" exclaimed Dan Ho. Willi n word of excuse to the others, ho hurried across and mot the widow as bIio reached the foot of the stops. "You're here," he muttered in hor rified wonder?"here aloneV" "Yes," replied Sonla coldly. "Is It any affair of yours?" "First tin? summer house," he wont on as in :i daze, "then Maxim's." "Quite so. Is that all you have to Bay?" "No," ho retorted; "I have one thing more. You should not marry Do Joli don." "No? Why not. pray?" "Hecauso I"? II.' checked himself. She finished the sentence for him. "Moralise you love me?" she sug gested. lie broke into a discordant, miserable laugh. "Don't laugh that silly way!" she reprimanded sharply. "1 am sorry you don't like It," he obsorved. "It's the only way I know." "Then don't laugh at till. The laugh is on my Side, anyway." "(>n your side?" "Yes. Von nre angry at what hap pened this evening. Hut it wasn't I who was in the BUmincr house witli M. | do .lolldon." "Hut 1 saw you there," he dcclured. "I"? "1 look ji 'other woman's place to get her out oi ?? awkward scrapo wltb her hush ? with M. Popoff. She was"? "And I never oven guessed it!" cried Diinilo, his sullen face breaking into a siullo of utter relief. "What a fool I was! I was grcon and yellow with jealousy. I"? llf cnughl himself up. hut It was too Into. S.-nia's eyes danced. "Hill since you don't love mo," she nsked, "why wore you yellow nnd ' green with"? "Hectiuso green and yellow are our national colors. i am nothing if not patriotic. You see"? "Mine. Sndowa ? prlnco!" gurgled Popoff, trotting up to them, unable J longer to restrain his anxiety. "I hope it is all settled. All nicely arranged, eh?" "Same old fau!" commented ropoff, Idly opening It. Then, with a Jump as his eye vaguely caught tho sentence Natallo had scribbled beueath Do .loll don's avowal, In* screamed: "My wife's ha ml writing! Then It was my wife after all!" "Sir," quoted Nova Kovltch, "Cae sar's wife should he above suspicion." "Hut Caesar never brought his wife to rails!" walled Popoff. "'Dills Is had for me." "No, no!" pleaded Natalie, who at sight of the fatal trinket had left her table and run forward. "It's all a hor rid mistake. I ran explain. I"? "Silence!" commanded l'opoff in his most magisterial manner. "Madame, under section l of the Marsovlun code I hereby divorce you. This fan Is suf ficient evidence." As Natalie started back, dumb with horror, l'opoff turned Impressively to Sonia and, to the willow's amused dis may, sank on one knee before boR ".Mine. Sadowa," he declaimed, "I am free, aud in the name of our fa therland I beseech you to become my wife!" Sonln was seemingly blind to the white misery In Natalie's face and the look of angry surprise in Dautlo's. She answered, with perfect composure: "My dear M. Popoff, 1 am deeply hon ored by your proposal, but before I nc "Madamc, I hereby divorce j/oii." rept It is only fair to tell you that If" I marry again I lose all my fortune." The ambassador scrambled hastily to his feet. "I?I was perhaps Just a wee bit hasty," he stuttered, looking sheepish ly about for a way of escape. Natalie came forward and handed him the fan. "Did you read tho words I wrote on It?" she asked timidly. "I?am-a?dutiful?wife!" spoiled out the ambassador, "Forgive mo! I didn't understand. Shall wo lot bygones be bygones?" Dnililo, who had stood silent during tho odd proposal, now stepped past Popoff and faced Sonia, n new light in bis eyes. "Is it truo you will lose nil your money if you marry again?" he asked in a voice he tried in vain to keep steady. "Yes," she admitted; "It Is true." "I LOVE YOU, SONIA," HE WHISPERED. "If you menu Is madamo to marry Do Tolldon," answered Danllo, "she Is not." "Mut this evening," ejaculated Pop? off, "In the summer house!" 'She took another woman's place," replied (he prlnco, disregarding Xonln'a warning gesture. "Donr me!" squealed Popoff, his curi osity reviving. "Who was she?" "RxetlSO me, your excellency," re marked N'lsh, who-had entered with Nova Kovltch and had hovered aim lessly about waiting to get In a word, "but here Is n fun that was picked up In UiO summer house after the party. You lold mo to search the place, and I did. If I may say so, I"? "Thou why shouldn't I any now what i waul to?" "Why not v" sho agreed demurely. lie drew n stop nearer. "I lovo yon, Son la," ho whispered. Steadily, happily, she met his burn ing eyes iih BllO answered: "I love yon, Danllo. I have always loved \on." "Tut, tut!" fretted Popoff, pushing peevishly between them. "Thls'H nev er do. Von can't marry her, prlnee. You'll both be paupors." "Not (pilie," gently corrected Sonln. "I shall lose iny money, It Is true, but only because I am going to give It nil to my husband." (tub knd.] Mr. Married Man! $100.00 A YEAR FOR 10 YEARS. 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