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Updated: June 11, 2025
"What did he hope to gain by writing to Houdania?" asked the girl a little bitterly. "Money!" said Philip firmly. "He fancied he could frighten them and put a heavy price upon his silence. Later when his letter to Houdania was ignored he altered his plans. If he could prove that you were the daughter of Theodomir and not of Norman Westfall then the great estate of his uncle would revert to him.
It suggested that my marriage to Nanca had been childless and that we had brought a child the daughter of Theodomir and Nanca away from the Indian village and had reared her with my name. Then he showed me with a laugh where three conflicting meanings might be read from the stilted phrasing and eccentric punctuation.
He has confided to me a singular secret. The young foreigner who divorced Nanca is the crown prince of some obscure little mountain kingdom called Houdania. His name is Theodomir. He had wild revolutionary notions, hated royalty and fled at the death of his father.
White-faced, the Baron stared at the snowy beard and hair and the fine, dark eyes. "Theodomir!" he whispered brokenly. "Theodomir! It it can not be." He fell to pacing the floor in violent agitation. "The eyes are quieter," he said at length with an effort, "but the hair and heard so white! I would not have guessed I would not have guessed!" Again he stared.
The broken-hearted old man down South had carried the child of his son away, fiercely denied the Indian blood, and pledged Aunt Agatha to the keeping of the secret. And this was the net that had driven Carl to the verge of insanity and sent Themar to his death in a Florida swamp! There was no princess no child of the exiled Theodomir.
The terms were therefore drawn up and signed by the Arab general, after which the envoy took the pen and, to the astonishment of the victor, signed the name of Theodomir at the foot of the document. It was the Gothic chief himself. Pleased alike with his confidence and his cleverness, Abdul-Aziz treated the Gothic knight with the highest honor and distinction.
You mean your daughter?" "I have no child," said Theodomir. "The girl you saw to-night is my foster daughter, the child of my wife and the man for whose whim she begged me to divorce her." "No child!" exclaimed the Baron with a sickening flash of realization. "My poor Ronador!" "My kindness to her," said Mic-co, "was at first a discipline.
"Theodomir, Miss Westfall, was a lovable, willful, over-democratic young crown prince of Houdania who, many years ago, refused the responsibilities of a royal position whose pomp and pretensions he despised quoting Buddha and fled to America where in the course of time he married, divorced his wife and later died incognito.
There ruled a valiant Goth named Theodomir, who had resisted Tarik on his landing, had fought in the fatal battle in which Roderic fell, and had afterwards, with a bare remnant of his followers, sought his own territory, which after him was called the land of Tadmir.
How easily she might have been the child of Theodomir and a princess!" And sitting there by the table, Ann, he drew up an ingenious document couched in the stilted English of a foreigner. Like most of Grant's notions, it was infernally clever.
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