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The nextthe two friends took a cab to several railway stations and inquired about Graustark and Edelweiss

"She was stringing you, old uish, after they had turned away froly, as he really felt sorry

"No!" exclaimed Lorry "She told me the truth There is a Graustark and she lives there I'll stake my life on those eyes of hers"

"Are you sure she said it was in Europe?" asked Harry, looking up and down the street as if he would not have been surprised to see her in Paris In his heart he believed that she and her precious relatives had deceived old Gren Perhaps their home was in Paris, and nowhere else But for Lorry's positiveness he would have laughed heartily at the other's simple credulity, or branded him a dolt, the victim of some merry actress's whim Still, he was forced to admit, he was not in a position to see h to bide his ti them from place to place in the effort to find a land that they knew nothing about Lorry seemed so sure, so positive, that he was loath to see his dream dispelled, his ideal shattered There was certainly no Graustark; neither had the Guggenslockers sailed on the Wilhel Lorry had been in a deliriuined he saw her on the ship If there, as not her nauine searcher himself

At last, in despair, after a fruitless search of two days, Lorry illing to subhters, Anguish at once protested, forgetting that he had sought to dissuade his friend the day before

"We'll go to the library of Paris and take a look through the books and o to the post office There! Why have we not thought of that? What there is of Graustark they'll know in the postal service"

Together they visited the chief post office, where, after being directed to various deputies and clerks, they at length found the department in which the information was obtainable Inside of five minutes they were in possession of facts that vindicated Miss Guggenslocker, lifted Lorry to the seventh heaven, and put Mr Anguish into an agony of impatience Graustark was a small principality away off to the east, and Edelweiss was a city of so to the postal guide-book