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"Oh, we shall be killed!" she half shrieked "Can you not stop him? This is madness--madness!"
"Pray be cal his money, that's all It was not stipulated in the contract that he was to consider the coers" Grenfall could feel hian to trickle down his neck "Now tell me which despatch it was I read all of them"
"You did? Of what interest could they have been?"
"Curiosity does not recognize reason"
"You read every one of theuess which interested ht in puzzles, I am told"
"Now, that is unfair"
"So it is Did you read the despatch from Constantinople?" Her arm fell to her side suddenly as if she had just realized its position
"The one that told of the French a the small matter of a loan of some millions--yes Well, that was of interest to me inasmuch as the loan, if made, will affect my country"
"Will you tell me what country you are from?"
"I am from Graustark"
"Yes; but I don't remember where that is"
"Is it possible that your Araphy? Ours tell us where the United States are located"
"I confess ignorance," he admitted
"Then I shall insist that you study a map Graustark is sreat broad country that reaches froain see our dear crags and valleys, our rivers and ever-blue skies, our plains and our towns I wonder if you worship your country as I love e that you have been away fro ti of Asia, Australia, Mexico and the United States since we left Edelweiss, sixholy, so tenderly, that he envied the ho break in the conversation, both evidently wrapped in thought which could not be disturbed by the whirl of the coach He ondering how he could give her up, now that she had been tossed into his keeping so strangely She was asking herself over and over again how so thrilling an adventure would end
They were sore and fatigued with the strain on nerve and flesh It was an experience never to be forgotten, this romantic race over the wild o--strangers; now--friends at least, neither knowing the other She was ady; he was blessing the fate that had come to his rescue when hope was almost dead He could scarcely realize that he ake Could it be anything but a vivid fancy from which he was to awaken and find hi carwheels piercing his ears with sounds so unlike those that had been whispered into the, from out the darkness of a dreamland cab?