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"I care not if there are but three inhabitants Graustark, all told, it is certainly worthy of a position on any map," said Lorry, gallantly; and his listeners applauded with patriotic appreciation. "By the way, Mr. Gug Guggenslocker, you say the conductor asked you for my name and you did not know it. May I ask how you learned it later on?"
So Lorry went away discouraged and with a vague fear that she might have been a prima donna whose real name was Guggenslocker but whose stage name was something more euphonious. He instantly put away the thought and the fear. She was certainly not an opera singer impossible! He drove back to his hotel, and made preparations for his return to Washington.
"But I was Miss Guggenslocker because a man was unnecessary," she said, so gravely that he smiled. "I was without a title because it was more womanly than to be a 'freak, as I should have been had every man, woman and child looked upon me as a princess. I did not travel through your land for the purpose of exhibiting myself, but to learn and unlearn."
There is one more fresh responsibility acquired. It seems to me that everything depends on the princess," she said, merrily. "Not entirely," he said, quickly. "A great deal a very great deal depends on circumstances. For instance, when you were Miss Guggenslocker it wouldn't have been necessary for the man to be a prince, you know."
Then he went over the second class, but still no Guggenslocker. "Hasn't Mr. Guggenslocker taken passage?" he demanded, unwilling to believe his eyes. "Not on the Kaiser Wilhelm, sir." "Then, by George, they'll miss the boat!" Lorry exclaimed. "Maybe they'll be here in a few minutes." "They can't get anything but steerage now, sir. Everything else is gone."
A butcher, a beer maker, a cobbler, a gardener, all synonyms of Guggenslocker. A sausage manufacturer's niece Miss Guggenslocker! He tried to glance unconcernedly at her as he took up his napkin, but his eyes wavered helplessly. She was looking serenely at him, yet he fancied he saw a shadow of mockery in her blue eyes. "If you were a novel writer, Mr.
Guggenslocker, his wife and his niece last spring in the United States. They invited me to come and see them if I ever happened to be in this part of the world. As my friend and I were near here I undertook to avail myself of their invitation." "And they said they lived in Edelweiss, Graustark?" "They did, and I'll humbly confess I did not know much of the principality of Graustark."
Acting on a sudden impulse, he again sought out the clerk in charge and made a most thorough inspection. There was no Guggenslocker among the names. As a last resort h asked: "They could not have sailed under an assumed name, could they?" "I can't say as to that. Where are they going?" "Graustark." But the young man shook his head slowly, Lorry's shaking in unconscious accord.
You don't know how persistent an American can be." "Would you have persisted had you known I was a princess?" she asked. "Well, I can hardly tell about that, but you must remember I didn't know who or what you were." "Would you have come to Graustark had you known I was its princess?" "I'll admit I came because you were Miss Guggenslocker." "A mere woman."
Glancing casually over the register he came to the name that had been haunting him Guggenslocker! There were the names, "Caspar Guggenslocker and four, Graustark." Without hesitation he began to question the clerk. "They sailed on the Kaiser Wilhelm to-day;" said that worthy. "That's all I know about them. They came yesterday and left to. day." Mr.
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