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CHAPTER I.
The Girl With the Millions.
" f^piriE widow just now i3 the
I queen of our diplomatic chess1
[ I board," sighed the Marsovian
' 1 ambassador's pretty wife. "She
will be here tonight My husband is
hanging over the banisters watching
for her."
/"But what reason?"
- ^Oh, he has exactly twenty million
reasons for"?
"I don't understand," murmured M.
de Jolidon.
"No? Then you are probably the j
only bachelor In Paris who doesn't
She was the daughter of a poor Mar ovlan
farmer ?no dowry but her
beauty. An enormously rich old banker
named Sadowa, wealthiest man in
Marsovia, fell In love with her, married
her and did her the exquisitely
graceful favor of dying a week later.
She Inherited his whole fortune?$20,000,000."
"And now I suppose she has come to
Paris to spend it?"
"Oh, the money Is safe enough ror |
the present I believe, in the Bank of
M&rsovis. But my husband wants it
^to stay there. So does the Marsovian
. government Oure is not a rich eounm.
try, M. de Jolldon. That's why a new
' ^whlte hair appears In my worthy husband's
head every time one of your
Parisian lady killers makes love to her. [
It's all absurdly simple."
"Well," laughed De Jolldon, "his hair j
needn't turn whiter, on my account
ITl be the one Frenchman who won't
make love to Mme. Sadowa."
"But you must."
"What?" I
"You must marry her, at any rate."
"Are you mad, Natalie, or Is this"?
"It Is no joke, and I'm not mad.
I've thought It all out"
The ambassador's wife glanced nerv/vnaiv
ohAnt her She and De Jolidon !
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were ensconced In an alcove of the
salon.
It was the night of the embassy
a oalL From the adjoining ballroom
\^me the strains of a waltz and the
soft gliding of hundreds of dancing
feet Guests were passing and repassing
along the great hallway and
broad stairs at the rear of the salon.
But for the moment the two had the
room to themselves.
"Listen," she said. "My husband suspects
nothing thus far, but he is certain
to In time unless"?
"Unless I divert his thoughts by mar- j
rylng some one else? I can't and you
bow I can't for I"?
"Hush! You mustn't say it I am a
dutiful wife. And?what are you doing?"
she queried as he snatched up
her fan from the table. With the
pencil that dangled from his dancing
card De Jolidon scribbled three words
on ode,of the Ivory sticks of the fan, i
then handed it to his hostess.
Natalie, with a little catch in her
breath, slowly read the words aloud:
"I?love?you!"
"Why did you write this?' she
asked.
"Because you forbade me to say it,"
he retorted.
'Tell his excellency I have come
back," broke in a voice at the door.
As a sen-ant hurried off with the
message the speaker waddled into the
n Rtout. lineainlv little
y^pan, clad in the quaint national costume
of Marsovia. Bald of head, popping
of eye and with abnormally long I
red mustache, his was a personality to I
excite laughter in a mummy.
The newcomer was Nl?h, messenger
and clerk of the embassy. At his approach
Natalie and De Jolidon slipped
' w'away to the ballroom. A moment later
^a tall, lean, fussy man with hooked
T"nose and mineiug gait trotted down
^the stairway and into the salon.
^**Well, Mr. Xish." he asked peevishi
"did you find Prince Danilo at
(me?"
'No. your excellency." faltered the
ttle man. "He"?
"Did you go thence, as I told you, to
^ie American bar at"?
v v'Yes, sir. But he was not at home
Vje tonight."
Jdd. He's usually very much at
^there, I'm told. So you failed
'^v * w mission? You couldn't iind
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"Oh, yes, your excellency, I found
him?that Is to say. I"?
; "Oh, you found him at last? That's
better. Where?"
"At Maxim's, your"?
"Maxim's, eh?" snorted Ambassador
Popoff scornfully. "Idling away his
! time, as usual, when"?
"Oh, no, your excellency, not ex|
actly 'Idling.' If I may say so. He
seemed very busy. There were a number
of bottles and"?
"Was he sober?"
"Not distressingly so, your excellency.
In fact. If I may"?
I "Did you give him my message? Did
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"I gave It word for word, sir. I told
him his country was calling for him
and that your excellency desired his
immediate presence at the embassy."
"Well, what was his answer?"
"He said, 'Give my country my regards
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," walled Popoff,
"the ingrate! Here he has been employed
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! Diplomatically
speaking, Frince Danilo's word
is as good as his bond."
"Diplomatically speaking, your excellency,"
affirmed Nish, "he agrees to
be here as soon as he has finished the
magnum of champagne that was in the
ice pail beside him when I left."
"EIow much of it was gone?"
"The cork was not yet drawn, but"?
"Be on the lookout for him, Mr.
Nish. When he comes put ice on his
head if necessary. Sober him at any
cost."
"I fancy It will be cheaper than filling
him up. I'll do my best, your excellency."
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But the ambassador nt a whispered
word from n servant had already pottered
out of the room as fast as his
somewhat shaky old legs would carry
him, and the voluble Nish ran along
in his wake.
A commotion swept through the
scattered groups in the foyer?a murmur,
a rustle, a whisper that resolved
Itself at last into the excited phrases:
"The widow has arrived!" "Twenty
millions and unincumbered!" "Widow
of Sadowa, the animated money bag!"
"A Monte Cristo fortune for some
lucky man!" "Her name is Sonia Sadowa;
twenty millions?red hair, too.
but a beauty!" "Twenty millions!"
"The Merry Widow!"
Down the stairway from the dressing
rooms and into the salon swept a
woman?young, beautiful, vivacious. A
light of mischief danced in her great
dark ev^s.
Her masses of auburn hair shone
like an aureole above her rather
pale, delicate face. About her hovered
a half ecore of gallants, all vying for
a word, a look, from the beauty (and
fortune) o( the Paris season.
| Two men?the Marquis of Cascada
and the Count de St. Brioche?were
J lucky enough to claim for a moment
I or two her attention.
"No, no."' Sonia was saying in protest.
"At home, In Marsovia, men don't
make such pretty speeches. Courtship
there is very primitive and marriage
Is for life. When a man makes love to
1 another's wife, he is promptly shot
j When a wife flirts, her husband beats
! her black and blue?a good plan. Why
1 not try it in Paris?"
"Delightful!" exclaimed Cascada. "Do
you know, madame, we have been
counting the moments until you appeared?"
"I can well believe It," assented Sonia.
"It must have been just like
I .counting money."
"Oh, madame!" protested the group,
horrified.
"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 me to say so, remember
I'm a farmer's daughter and
that in my country people call a spade
a spade."
~?^^^ > *'1 Votftlla /mi mo hnrT'i?v11v in
a UfJUiA ciilll .luiani; Uiiuu
to pay their respects to the guest upon J
whom Marsovia's liopes so depended, i
At a sign from the ambassador the oth- I
ers drew back.
"So you were shocking some of our
Paris gallants?" beamed the ambassa- '
dor. "What a child of nature you,
are!"
"You mean." countered Sonia. "that 1 '
am a peasant dressed up. How I wish '
sometimes that I were a real peasant !
again!"
"Ah!" chuckled Popoflf. "Child of na- |
ture, true child of nature, always |
remembering the dear old days on the
farm?the bleating of the pigs, the new
laid milk, the tomatoes freshly dug j
up and all the simple joys of the coun- j
try! But I want you to meet tonight '
some of our Marsoviao nobility?for I
instance, Prince Danilo, a charming
young fellow. He'll be here presently, j
Danilo is"?
But the mischief had died out of j
Sonia's eyes. Her face was paler than j
was its wont, and there was a stern
look as of pain about the daintily
Clwseied moutn.
"I have already met Prince.JW
she said curtly.
vReaIly?" cried Popof?-**?
ing her change of expres;
with apprehensi^^^.
"I hope it vf*
days?a chai.
in spite of hit.
"I am not intt
him," broke in, on ...
level, emotionless voice. "It was long
ago that we met.' He will have forgotten
me even as -as I have forgotten
him. I>et us ta!^"Something else,
please."
Even Popo something was
seriously ami.
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.)
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