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Her name is no more Guggenslocker than mine is. She and the uncle used that name as a blind. Mark my words, she's quality over here; that's all there is about it. Now, we must find out just who she really is. Here comes a smart-looking soldier chap. Let's ask him, providing we can make him understand." A young soldier approached, leisurely twirling a cane, for he was without his side arms.
In a daze, stunned by the name, Guggenslocker, mystified over their acquaintance with his own when he had been foiled at every fair attempt to learn theirs, Lorry could only mumble his acknowledgments. In all his life he had never lost command of himself as at this moment. Guggenslocker! He could feel the dank sweat of disappointment starting on his brow.
Then the young girl at the side of the woman whose beauty had drawn a man half around the world saw the tall strangers, and called her companion's attention to them. Once more Grenfall Lorry and Miss Guggenslocker were looking into each other's eyes.
"I take it for granted, then, that you'd like to. Well, I'm glad that I've got something definite on which to base operations. The one object of our endeavors, from now on, is to exchange Guggenslocker for Lorry certainly no robbery. A charity, I should say. Good-night! See you in the morning."
He was off for Edelweiss to the strange Miss Guggenslocker who had thrown him a kiss from the deck that sailing-day. Two weeks later Grenfall Lorry was landed and enjoying the sensations, the delights of that wonderful world called by the name of Paris. The second day after his arrival he met a Harvard man of his time on the street. Harry Anguish had been a pseudo art student for two years.
"I leave the answer to your tender imagination." There was a long pause. "May I ask when you expect to leave Graustark?" she asked, somewhat timidly. "Why do you wish to know?" he asked in turn. "Because I know how hopeless your quest has been. You have found Miss Guggenslocker, but she is held behind a wall so strong and impregnable that you cannot reach her with the question you came to ask.
"If you do not remind me occasionally that I am hurt, Miss Guggenslocker, I am liable to forget it." To himself he added: "I'll never learn how to say it in one breath." "If I were not so soon to part from you I should be your physician, and, like all physicians, prolong your ailment interminably," she said, prettily. "To my deepest satisfaction," he said, warmly, not lightly.
"I'm all kinds of a fool," he muttered, as he raced around the baggage-room and then back to where he had left the two ladies. Mr. Guggenslocker had joined them and they were preparing to depart. Miss Guggenslocker's face expressed pleasure at seeing him. "We thought you would never return, so long were you gone," she cried, gaily. He had been gone just two minutes by the watch!
Is there not a difference between your hereditary 'Long live the Prince' and our wild, enthusiastic, spontaneous 'Hurrah for Cleveland! Miss Guggenslocker? All men are equal at the beginning in our land. The man who wins the highest gift that can be bestowed by seventy millions of people is the man who had brains and not title as a birthright." He was a bit exasperated. "There!
Motioning for the man to remain, he hastened to his room, pulled out some stationery, and feverishly wrote: "My Dear Miss Guggenslocker: "I shall be delighted to accompany your messenger to-morrow, and my friend, Mr, Harry Anguish, will be with me. I have come half way across the continent to see you, and I shall be repaid if I am with you but for a moment.
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