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I have to tell you this," I continued more hastily, for it was an extremely difficult thing to say, "because I'm only an ordinary kind of American chap, as bad as the worst and as good as the best, but your court in Azuria would have forty duck fits if it knew we were playing together in the woods without a chaperone.
For a long time a silvery yacht glided across a silvery sea, while in far-off Azuria a throne did totter and fall; but ten thousand loyal subjects smiled in their sleep that night at a strangely happy dream, wherein their little Princess was pressing upon the lips of an unknown beggar the seal of her eternal sovereignty.
"Why?" she asked, her face turning slightly pale. "Because the minute those people get here you won't be my Doloria of the Golden Dawn any more, but Princess Doloria of Azuria!" She caught hold of my sleeve and gasped, a little hysterically: "But, Jack, suppose I don't want to be Princess Doloria!" Our friends had covered half the distance, and I hurriedly said: "You can't help yourself!
Absolutely we must obey!" A silence fell upon Tommy and me. I saw him moisten his lips and dart the professor a quick glance. I knew how inherently strong that little fellow was in his loyalty, but had not been prepared for such an appeal as this. Conscience, humanity, justice! He was calling on my manhood to send her back to Azuria, out of my arms, out of my life.
Just be sure you don't intimate that Azuria can be less than a perfect hell to her, for that would ruin your chances forever!" And with this parting injunction, that drove terror to my heart, he walked aft to join Gates. Going to the companionway door, I peered into the cabin.
You win for the moment, so we will drink, standing together for Azuria!" "Standing for your grandmother," Tommy laughed. "No, you jolly old filbert, we stand for Jack and Sylvia, and don't you forget it! We'll use your vaunted authority, too, when the time comes to make that scoundrel surrender. Now let's get our arsenal in shape!"
"The Bank of France! who else?" Monsieur was saying. "As one of the trusted, I know! Listen: the dead man behind us, and the one called Jess, with our Azurian consul in Paris all scoundrels hatched a swindle to sell, through forged state authority and a farcical secret diplomacy, a portion of Azuria to France. This, you may remember, came near upsetting the Balkans in 1903.
Yes, Professor, I'd say that in Jefferson county seventeen seconds would be a right venerable age for you!" "That shows what small children you are," he laughed contemptuously. "The minute we touch land I order the first police to arrest her and on my authority he will not dare refuse! She is still a subject of Azuria, and not of age according to its laws!
Her face was toward the east, looking above an orange sun that still clung to the horizon. Instinctively I felt that she was thinking of Azuria, that the pictures of it which I had drawn were recrossing before her dreamy vision, forming a panorama of splendor that called more surely than in March the Canadian flats call the Southern water bird.
"It occurs to me, Monsieur," Tommy crossed and looked down at them and I saw that Doloria read in his eyes the sadness of one who must remain outside while others pass through to happiness "that you, too, can find your heart's best desire. Jack and our sweet Princess will be leaving for Azuria as soon as passports are procurable.
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