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Updated: June 12, 2025
Miss Daisy Donovan had looked at the pearl necklace two or three times, and there was a horrible possibility that she might regard it as a suitable ornament for a queen. Miss Daisy was eager to see her island kingdom as soon as possible. Donovan himself was finding London less restful than ever. He wanted to get the Salissa business settled out of hand. It was settled early in April.
Gorman dropped his pipe and sat upright suddenly. "Good Lord!" he said. "England. Germany. I say, Donovan, if this is true " Donovan motioned him to silence with a wave of his hand. "Salissa," he said, "is a neutral State." "But," said Gorman, "if there's a European war " Donovan ignored him.
"So long as he paid for it," said Gorman, "I don't see that it's anybody else's business." "You don't understand," said Sir Bartholomew. "I haven't made myself clear. The fact is " He sank his voice to an awed whisper. "The young lady is understood to claim sovereign rights over the Island of Salissa. She calls herself it's almost incredible, but she calls herself a queen."
Knowing how all members of our governing classes delight in official fussiness he threw his letter into a telegraphic form. "Things more complicated than anticipated," he wrote. "Will Government recognize Salissa as independent state? Query attitude President U. S. A. Urgent. He read over what he had written with extreme satisfaction.
"Anyway," said the Queen decisively, "the Emperor has nothing to do with me and I'm not going to sell Salissa to him or any one else." Von Moll was master of himself this time. No doubt it appeared to him that this defiance of the Emperor's wish was childish, unworthy of the attention of a serious man.
"I Stephanos, elder of Salissa and father of the dwellers on the island, bid the English lady welcome. All that we have is hers." "Oh," said the Queen, "how lovely! But of course I won't take anything from them tell him that though I would rather like a brown baby to play with, just loaned to me for a few hours every day, and of course I would pay the mother whatever she asked."
If real politics lead to trouble over places like Salissa I prefer our home-made imitation. But Real Politik or not, the thing's done; so what's the good of the Emperor talking?" "The Emperor," said the King, "says 'Buy back. Take again your island. Foot no, it is foot of a horse hoof, or boot away the American. Give him his price and let him go. And I cannot.
The start might have been made in even less than three weeks, if it had not been for the Heralds' Office. Miss Daisy wanted a banner to hoist over the royal palace in Salissa. She consulted Gorman, and gathered from what he told her that heralds are experts in designing banners.
Captain Wilson was not, indeed, a cheerful companion. He maintained the attitude of stiff disapproval with which he had all along regarded Salissa and everything connected with that island.
She picked up the box, pushed chocolates into Kalliope's mouth, filled her own with them. I find it necessary to remind myself from time to time that the Queen of Salissa is a young girl, in mind and experience little more than a child. If I think of her as a woman or allow myself to credit her with any common sense, that blight which falls on the middle-aged, her actions become unintelligible.
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