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r- s The Merry Widow By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE CQPYRIGHT, 1908. BY CHAPTER III. The Garden Fete. mllE gardens of Mme. 8on!t Sa dowo's villa, Just outside l'nrte. were trayly decorated fur a lawn fete. The grounds were dotted with laughing groups of bright ly dressed men and women, for Simla bad particularly requested that all bur Marsurlan guests wear their pictur esque native costume, and the eesult veaa a veritable kulcHoscoplu carnival of color, a perfect riot of gorgeous hues and striking figures. Ambassador. Popoff. bis long, lean figure draped in rlvld greon, was pac ing the alleys of the garden near thd entrance gate, pausing nervously now and agalu to scan late arrivals in e.-.i'ch of some one. At length be de scried the man he sought Nish was Just bustling Into the grounds, and tun ambassador at once beckoned to him. "Now, then. Mr. N'lsh," cried Popoff as soon as the little clerk bad sham bled within earshot, "I told you to AIL HEX MARSOVIAN bring Prince Danllo here and not to leave him for an instant until" "He wouldn't let mo stay." explained Nish. "He says be won't come. He's giving a party if 1 may say so, a very gay" "And for the sake of a lot of pleas ure seeking Idlers- the prince refuses to obey my orders and come to Mme. Sonla's?" "Yes, your excellency. He positively refuses to come. And when I say positively' refuses 1 Here he Is now!" Danllo, resplendent In the uniform of a Marsovlan captain of hussars, stroll ed nonchalantly forward, with a care less nod that quite Ignored the ambas sador's glare of reproof at bis late ness. "I understand, prince," began Popofl coldly, "that you positively refused tc' obey my" j "So I did, so I did," assented Danilo cheerfully. "Out at the last moment 1 changed my mind and my clothes, and here I am. I've postponed my party for an hour or so. You see, I remem! tiered my promise to help yon scare; away from the widow any Frenchmas Who seemed inclined to make love tc her. That's why I came." J "Good!" approved PopolT, rubbing his hands gleefully. "'Very good! An! where do ji.a expect to begin?'' " ' "With the most dangerous suitor. ho is he?" i "Well," replied Popoff confidentially, i Tve had my eye on hor, and it seems ?o me that Do Jolidon" HENRY W. SAVAGE "Impossible:" "Why impossible, pray? I think I have as good eyes as any man. I think, sir. I can detect love when 1 see It And from the way De Jolidon looks at the widow why, man. I don't know a single thing that doesn't point toward his being In love with bar. ir- "If I may sny so. yonr excellency, put In Nish, shuffling nervously, "I think I could tell you of a 'single" thing, or. rather," he addud. chuckling, "wban I say "single' 1 mean "married." "Mr. Nish," Interrupted Popoff. If you can stop wriggling around like an Inebriated centlped long enough to talk plainly, will you do me the honor to put your blitlierings Into pJai words?" "Well, your excellency," stammered Klsh, "I happen to know M. de Joli don Is nlrea.ly head over bools In love with a lady who has a husband. He" "Mr. Nish." thundered Popoff. "you are dem wining yourself to the con temptible act of talking senndul! Are you uware of that. Mr. Nish? If so. go on talking it and tell me who shs ts." "You fool:" whispered Danllo In Nish' ear. "Everybody but the am bassador himself knows, it is Mme. Popoff wSioii) De Jolidon loves. Be careful:" GUESTS WOUE 1HLIJ1 PICTURESQUE NATIVE COSTUMES. "Well, Mr. Nish," repeated Popoff i majestically as be eyed the squirming ' clerk with lofty majesty, "I'm wait-1 ing to hear the name of the lady that ! De Jolidon Is In love with." "He he neglected to tell me, your . excellency," sputtered Nish. "Then," decided the ambassador, "I ! shall discover her by diplomatic means, and when I And who she is she shall use her influence to lure De Jolidon away from the widow. Prince, will you help me In this?" "Leave It all to me," suggested Da nllo, with startling willingness. "Don't try to learn her Identity yourself. Let me attend to the whole matter." "All right," consented Popoff. "It will be a good lesson in diplomacy for you. Perhaps I can put you ou the right track." Thp ambassador drew an Ivory fan from his pocket "Last night at the embassy ball," said he, "Nova Kovitch, who used to be one of my attaches, brought me this. He was crazy with Jealousy. He'd Just picked up the fan; said it was his wife's and that some man had Written 'I love you on one of the ticks. He was going home to beat his wife and make her confess who the villain was when I persuaded my wife to save poor Mine. Nova Kovitch by preti-udiiig the fan was her own. Ab. tut my wife Is a born diplomatist! Nova Kovitch was convince 1. and I pocSeti'd tlu! fun for fntv.ro reference." 1 ianilo tool. th- trinl.et fmr.i PopofTs ha htls r.uu read the pciitiloJ lLL-cri-tiou. "Why," he said on Impulse, "this Is Da Jolldon's handwriting! Bow does It happen that he" "Then," squealed Popoff la tnJnmph, ")t Is Mme. Nova Kovitch he loves Tho whole thing Is absurdly simple when a brain like ml Lie la brov.ght to boar on It!" Delighted with his own astuteness, the ambassador pattered off to Join the ther guests, leaving Danllo. fan Id hand, blankly facing the astounded lit tie clerk. "Nish," observed the prince, "do yon suppose lfs possible De Jolidon can be In love with Mme. Nova Kovitch as well aa with Mme. Popoff ?' "I'd I'd like to think so." murmured Nlsii as be started faithfully off In the wake of bis chief. "I'd like to think so. It it would make tt less exclusive, less of a monopoly. And to think bis excellency never recognized his own wife's fan! Where Ignorance is bliss why read np on divorce laws?" Laying the fan on a nearby table, Danllo was turning away when a voice behind him called mockingly: 't-till la retreat? So you are afraid et me!" Whirllsg about the prince faced Soula She was bewltchlngly pretty In the black and gold Marsovlan dress that snowed to fullest advautage every willowy line of her figure. ' I'm not retreating," be contradicted, "only skirmishing In light cavalry fashion." "And you are going away like that? Oh. yon stupid man!" "I can't tail whnt you mean." he an swered, puxzled. "And I shan't tell what I mean," she rejoined. "Hy the way," she added, "how do you happen to be here? You declined my invitation." ' I'm here." he replied bluntly, "be cause I'm making It my business to get rid of every frenchman who shows sijjus of . proposing to you." "Kut why':" she asked In wonder. "For my own umusement; that's all." "You you don't happen to bo In love 11 with me yourself?" she asked, a tinge of wistfulness In the light mockery of her tone. "Certainly not!" he retorted, with suspicious promptitude. "You're very, very rude!" she re proved. "But sine you don't love me you ought to be able to give me good advice about accepting a man I really want to marry." "Oh!" growled Danilo, chagrined. "Then there is some one you want to marry?" She nodded. "Whoever the man is, he's after your money," be sneered. "No," she contradicted. "He is not not this one." "You said all men were alike." "This man is different. He loves me." "Then marry him! What is it to me': Marry any one you want to. I don't care. And I'll dance at your wedding. I'll dance till I wear holes through both .my shoes." "You silly boy!" she scoffed. '.'You're jealous!" ' "Jealous?" he raged. "Jealous? I jealous? That's a good one!" Words failed him, and be stalked away to a ' nearby summer house, where he paused, lost in seeming con templation of the little building's archi tecture. The neglected fan lying on the table caught Simla' eye. She picked it up Idly and p,-vd It. The words' ''I love yiti" met l.er ac. (?, !,'y ho f'aiviV ;,t i -.vy: ; :.. -: " 'u . i v l.i--. : "!': '' i " i -' -voi it Noting that Danllo's back was tn- wara her, she furtively lifted the fan to her Um and kissed the written words. Then as she restored it to the table she whispered: "Just the same, I'll mute him say It lis shall!" She orossed to where he stood. "nave you nothing to say te ma, prince?" she asked "Only one thing goodby!" "Goodby!" she echoed. "You're you're not going J" "f leave Paris tomorrow morning by the first train forever!" "Then you won't be here, after all, to dance at my wedding?" "No!" "Rut yon promised. And now, I sup pose, I shall never see you again, for when I'm married t shall live In Paris." "I thought you were more patriotic," he sighed. "It seems hard that you should turn your back on your native land, marry a Frenchman and settle here." "Yet ft Is what I have decided," she answered. "This Is probably tho last time I shall wear our native costume or dance our wild national dances. To day's feta k a sort of farewell to old times." "No; onr dances and costumes would not appeal to a Frenchman. Who Is It you are going to marry?" "The engagement isn't announced yet," she evaded. "Then." he returned, with a shrug, "I suppose I shall never know, tor 1 leave early tomorrow." "And you won't dance at my wed ding?" "I've fold you I would not" "If you won't." she cried, a sudden Inspiration flashing through her mind and lighting her pale face to dazzling beauty, "dance with me now!" She stretched out her slender white arms with an allurement that no mor tal man could resist 3jg An Easy One. Ex-Senator Spooner tells of a case tried In a Wisconsin court In which, during the course of tho cross examina tion of an exceptionally youtiifail look ing physician, the opposing counsel was led to utter some rather sarcastic re marks as to the probability that so young a doctor should thoroughly un derstand his business. "Are you," asked counsel, "acquaint ed with the symptoms of concussion of the brain?" "I am." "Then let us take a concrete case. If my learned friend, counsel for the defense, and myself were to bang our heads together, should we get concus sion of the brain?" 'The probabilities are that counsel for the defense would!" They Were Quits. A city fellow while hunting went out Into the country one day and lost his way, and as he was standing by a crossroad he saw a farmer a little way off. He walked over to the farm er and said. "Say, Pat which road leads to the station?" "How do tmi know my name is Tat?" asked the rarmer. "I guessed It" said the fel low. 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