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CHAPTER I
I had finished breakfast nnd was
reading the Irish news in the Moan-
ing I'ost. it gave me some pleasure
to read the Irish news in the Morn-
ing I'ost in the early part of 10'Ji!.
The Republicans or the Free Staters
had burned my house in County Clare,
and I liked being told that such peo-
ple come to a bad end. The Morn-
ing I'ost told me that every day with
emphasis.
Lord Norheys walkel In and greet-
ed me.
"(iood morning," I'ncle Hill. Had a
pood nicht? Sleep sound and all that?
Chewed up a satisfactory breakfast?
What 1 always say is, If a fellow
sleeps and eats tie's lit for anything."
1 am not Norheys' uncle, ami my
name is not Hill, or even William;
Init I have known him ever since lie
was born, and I suppose he lias a
riuht to stick to the nickname which
lie lit'st gave nie when he was a child
In the nursery. His father, the eighth
marquis, was my best friend, lie nnd
1 anil Kdmond Troy to, the younger
brother, were at Winchester togeth-
er, and afterward at Oxford. I was
godfather to the present marquis.
"Thanks," I said. "I got through
the night fairly well and the coffee
wu< quite hot at breakfast."
"I thought I'd inquire," said Nor-
heys, "because what I've got to tell
you may give you a hit of a shock.
And what I always say Is this: unless
a l'eilow is pretty well braced up it's
better to let h shock stand over for
a day or two,"
"I feel us lit this morning," I said,
"as I'm ever likely to; so unless your
news Is really desperate—It's about
Miss Temple, I suppose."
Ails* Temple—Viola Temple of the
advertisement hordings and the pic-
ture papers—is a very beautiful lady
with h spotless reputation. At that
time all London was enthusiastic
about her duncing. Norheys was more
enthusiastic than any one else. I
hoped he did not mean to marry her,
but was very much afraid he did.
"Viola doesn't come In at all so
far," said Norheys. "Though of
course she may later on. No fellow
can possibly tell who'll come Into
what, can lie? You might be in it
yourself, Uncle Hill, before we're ac-
tually through It."
"That," I said, "is exlra reason for
telling me what it is,"
"It's n new stunt of rnde Ned's."
His uncle Ned—tills time a real un-
cle—Is Lord Kdmond Troyte, son of
the seventh marquis, uncle of the
ninth marquis of Norheys, one of our
ablest, quite our most sincerely pa-
triotic statesman, at present minister
for Iialknn affairs. Whatever the
"stunt" was, It must surely he safe
nnd decorous It' Lord Edmund invent-
ed It. So I thought; but I was wrong.
I might have remembered that there
Is a queer vein of adventurousness
and during In the Troyte family.
There was n Lord Alfred who made
himself a sort of Arab sheik early in
the Eighteenth century. Hefore him
there was an Elizabethan Lord Ed-
mund who came back from the Span-
lab Main with a shlpful of gold plate.
There was a Lady Elizabeth Troyte
who married I'rlnce Horls of Lystria
In 1702, aqd, after a brilliant military
career, had her head cut off by the
Turks, who were playing about In Ly-
star at that lime. There were others.
And thiit kind of thing, if it is In the
blood, Is very hard to eradicate.
"Uncl Neil," said Norheys, "wnnta
me to be a king."
Norheys was perfectly right to In-
quire about my health before he made
an announcement like (hat. A man
who bad alept badly or who bad bad
no breakfast might have fulnted
through sheer astonishment,
"A king," I said. "Good gracious!
But—he can't possibly have suggest-
ed your being a king. King of what?
Where?"
"lines seein a bit of a facer Just at
first, doesn't It, Uncle Hill? But the
way to look at all these things Is
this: Why not? Before you turn It
down you ought to say to yourself,
Why not? That's what I've been say-
ing to myself ever since Uncle Ned
sprang it on me."
"Well," I said, "when you put It
that way I can see—I dare say you'd
make u fairly good king of some very
small country. Hut 1 still find it very
dillicult to believe that your Uncle
Ned really proposed It. Did he men-
tion the inline of the country?"
"He did; but It's slipped out of my
head for the minute. It was the same
place where my greataunt Elizabeth
went with that mucker of hers one
hundred and fifty years ago."
"Lystria," I said. "Hut—well, of
course your Uncle Edmund knows bet-
ter than 1 do, but 1 lisve tin impres-
sion that Lystria Isn't an Independent
state any more."
I was right about that. I looked
the matter up after Norheys left me.
Lystria, once an Independent , king-
dom, was incorporated into the Re-
public of Megalia by the Treaty of
Trianon. Megalia is one of those new
republics which make the map of
Kurope very confusing to people like
me who knew It beforo the war. No
doubt the Lystrians deserved to lose
their independence. The late king,
W'ladlslaws VI, backed the wrong side
in the war and like all who did that,
lost Ids throne.
"Lystria is the spot Uncle Ned men-
tioned," said Norheys. "Potty little
one-horse place; but of course a fel-
m
I Had Finished Breakfast and Was
Reading the Irish News in the Morn-
ing Post.
low can't expect to Btep Into it first-
rate Job when he tirst goes luto the
king line of lite."
"But." I said, "If you really are to
be a king—"
As his godfuther I felt it my duty
to speak seriously to Norheys nhout
his future. I had thought of quite u
nice thing to say, but he interrupted
me.
"Uncle Ned wnnta me to," he said.
"It Isn't a thing I'd have thought of
going in for all on my own; hut when
Uncle Ned has set ills heart on It—
well, no fellow with any sense of de-
cency wants to start a family quar-
rel by going against bis relations, un-
less he absolutely has to. I've been
thinking things over since Uncle Ned
spoke to me. My Idea Is that a king's
duty Is to make ns' few laws as pos-
sible, and to stop other fellows mak-
ing them If he can. What I always
say Is this: Most fellows are all right
if you leave them alone and don't go
trying to make them do things they
don't want to. Of course If they take
to hatting each other on the head,
then you've got to send a policeman
to stop them. But otherwise—Well,
my Idea of kings nnd presidents and
people like that It) that they've far too
good an opinion of themselves. They
always think they know what's best
and wnnt the other fellow to do it.
Whereas the other fellow knows reul-
ly Just as well as they do. And my
Idea Is: Let him. So long as It
doesn't annoy anybody else much, let
him.''
Norheys' political principles struck
me as sound. I felt that, if ever he
became king of Lystria, I should like
to go and live there. Taxes ought to
be light; for the greater part of our
national tncome seems to go in pay-
ing officials to compel people to do
things they don't want to. There
would be no expenditure of that sort
in Lystria under Norheys.
"There's another Mlow In this
stunt," he said, "besides Uncle Ned.
Ever hear of any one called Cable?"
"I've heard of Procoplua Cable," 1
said. "Everybody haa."
"I haven't," suld Norheya. "At
least I hadn't until yesterday. What
sort of a bird Is he?"
I found It a little difficult to gl*e
a clear account of I'rocoplus Cable.
Nobody knows where he came from.
His Christian name sounds Greek, and
I have heard It said that he was orig-
inally a Levantine Jew. I could not
call him a captain of Industry, for he
does not manufacture, nor drive other
people to manufacture, anything. I
suppose he might be described as a
financier. I said so to Norheys.
"Anything to do with oil?" he
asked.
"Not that I know of," I said, "but
he may. It wouldn't surprise me to
hear that Cable had something to do
with anything In the world If there's
money to be made out of It."
"I mentioned it," said Norheys, "be-
cause Uncle Ned said something about
oil In Lystria. I can't say I much like
the Idea of living in u plnce that
stinks of pnratlin, nasty stuff, always
getting into your food and dripping
about. However, Uncle Ned says the
good old Itrltlsh empire wants oil, and
if It does J'm nil for Its having us
much as it can get. That's what I
always say to a fellow who starts
talking about the empire; The prop-
er tiling Is to let the British empire
get what it wants with the least pos-
sible fuss, whether It's oil, or rubber,
or whatever the thing may be. Un-
cle Ned seemed to think that In this
case it was oil."
"Is there oil in Lystria? I never
heard of it."
"That fellow Cable seems to have
snid so," said Norheys, "and I rather
gather—mind you, I'm not saying tills
as a certain, sure tiling. My general
Impression is that If I was king of
Lystria, Uncle Ned and the Jolly old
empire would collar the oil? See?"
1 began to see.
Famous Forts in
U. S. History
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
CHAPTER II
% ——
I took the first chance I got of
having a chat with Kdmond Troyte.
He was perfectly frank with me and
told me all about the scheme for
making his nephew king of Lystria.
lie began with the political part of
the plan. The Lystrians are, so lie
suld, an intensely patriotic people,
and they very much dislike being
merged in the Republic of Megalia.
In fact, Edmund admitted this to me,
tlie frumers of the Treaty of Trlunon
made a mistake, a bail mistake, in
depriving Lystria of Its independence.
"They are a people," said Troyte,
"with a strong feeling in favor of
monarchy. They don't like the re-
publican form of government. The
aristocracy doesn't like it. The Church
doesn't like it, and in Lystria the
Church counts for a lot. Whatever
the patriarch says the people say uft-
er him. The patriarch's name Is
Menelous."
Il<? went on to tell me that the Lys-
trians would like to have their old
king hack.
"Hut that's Impossible. The En-
tente powers wouldn't stand it. He-
sides, that fellow Wladlsluws Is tt bad
one. He treated his wife badly, she
was an Englishwoman. As u matter
of fact, she was u distant cousin of
my own."
Any king who treats a relative of
Troyte's badly deserves to lose Ills
throne. I saw at once that Wladls-
luws hud Irretrievably lost his.
'The Patriarch Menelaus and the
Lystrlan aristocracy," said Troyte,
"know perfectly well that tliey can't
have Wladlsluws back. So, some time
ago, they asked for an Englishman.
The only condition they made was
that he should marry the ex-king's
daughter. Of course we turned the
proposal down at once and no more
was heard of It."
"You seem to have turned it up
again," I suld. "Now, wh,v?7
That, It appeared, Is where I'roco-
plus Cable cutne In. lie had found
out that the Lystrlan mountains were
full of oil. He tried to get a conces-
sion for the development of the oil
fields. The Megollan government hes-
itated and wrangled and procrastinat-
ed until Cable got tired of trying to
deal with them. They had not money
enough to develop the plnce them-
selves. They had not the knowledge
or enterprise or energy to do It even
If they had the money. And they
would not let Cable do it. So he
started working up patriotic feeling
In Lyatrln, or rather financing If, for
It did not need working up. He got
Into touch with the patriarch and he
got into touch with the aristocracy
through a certain Count Istvan Cas-
Imlr. He gave them all the money
they wanted. According to Cable's
account everything was ready for a
revolution. All that was wanted was
a king whom the Entente powers
would recognize. The Megallan re-
public would he unite helpless if Eng-
land or any other great power recog-
nized the new king of Lystria.
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.. Frontier
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passing upon the lunds set uside for
the Choctaw Indians In the present
state of Oklahoma a hundred yeara
ago, the government determined to
establish military posts in that region
to protect Its red wards. Accordingly
Col. Matthew Arbuckle, commandant
at Fort Smith, Ark., was ordered to
select sites for two new forts, one
near the mouth of the Verdigris river
In the valley of the Arkunsus and the
other near the mouth of the Klumltia
in the Red river country.
Arbuckle asked Col. Auguste P.
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181M, Chouteau and Cupt. Nuthunlel
Pryor, unotlier well-known frontiers-
man of that day, hud chosen the
place. Within a few weeks Arbuckle
had established there a stockaded fort
und It was occupied by u force of iUK)
men. This was the beginning of Fort
Gibson, named in honor of Col. George
Gibson, then commissary generul.
The first few years of Fort Gib-
son's existence were uneventful. It
was a lonely outpost with canoe
travel on the Grand river as the only
meuns of communication with the out-
side world until 181!8, when the first
steamboat arrived. In 1832 Washing-
ton Irving visited the post, and in his
book "A Tour of the Prairies" we are
given some Interesting glimpses of
life at this fur western military
post.
In 1844 there was organized at Fort
Grihsnn an expedition to return to
their peop'e some captive Kiowa and
Wichita Indian children, who had been
ransomed from the Osages, and Gen.
Henry Leavenworth cutue to the fort
to take command. This was the tirst
appearance of the newly organized
First dragoons which numbered among
Its officers such celebrities us Henry
Dodge, Stephen W. Keurney, Edwin
V. Sumner, Philip St. George Cooke
and Jefferson Duvis. George Cat I In,
the fumous Indian painter, also ac-
companied the expedition.
From that time on Fort Gibson wus
an Important post in the southwest
and with the exception of three or
four years Just before the Civil war
it was continuously garrisoned by
regulars until 18IK). During the Civil
war it was the. center of operations
for the armies which were contesting
for control of Indian Territory but
ufter the war the frontier had been
pushed so far beyond It that it gave
place in Importance to several other
Okluhoyiu forts, notably Fort Sill.
My werdl What next? With
suoh clever and Influential
schemers at work, anything It
possible.
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A Citadel of the Plaina
"Whenever the history of the South-
west shall he written, more than one
long ami Interesting chapter must be
devoted to the tirst permanent set-
tlement on Its plains and the first
permanent settler there," writes
George Bird Grinneil, the eminent
historian of the west, and lie is re-
ferring to Bent's Fort on the Ar-
kansas and Col. William Bent, Colo-
rado's first settlement und tirst settler.
What Fort Laramie was to the Ore-
gon Trail country, Bent's Fort (which,
like Luramie, was also first called Fort
William) was to the land through
which ran the Santa Fe historic
trail.
It was lu 18'JS that William Bent,
his brother Charles and Ceran St.
Vraln began this post, 15 miles above
the mouth of the Purgutolre' river,
Bud when I hey bud finished it in lS.'lii
It wus u veritable citadel < f the plains.
More than 150 Mexicans bad iahoted
on It, building it of adobe, 18(1 feet
long, 185 feet wide, 15 feet high and
with walls four feet thick, Imper-
vious alike to Indian arrow or torch.
Two high loop-holed towers stood at
opposite corners and over the main
gate was a watchtov *r in which was
mounted a telescope which swept the
whole surrounding landscape.
Bent's Fort Is rich in history for It
stood on a great highway along which
swept the whole colorful procession
of western conquest. It saw tue Doni-
phan and Kearney expeditions march
past on the wiyr to Mexu-o In 1840, It
suw the long wagon trains of the
Santa Ke trade winding along that
historic trail and It wus visited by
many famous travelers und explorers.
After I he decline of the fur trade
Colonel Bent tried In the early 'fid's
to sell his fort to the government us
a military post but fulled. So-In 1S.12
he laid charges of gunpowder under
It and blew its massive walls Into the
sir. By this time the settlers were
arriving ami near here grew the pres-
ent city of Pueblo.
In 1S5.'1 Bent begun a new fort of
stone on the no.tli side of the Ar-
kur.sas river about IIS milq* below the
site of the old one. ItK'IMOfi the gov-
ernment leased this f<Jn and named
It Fort Fuunileroy, 'li|( mutinied it
Fort Wise, in honor of the governor
of Virginia. But Nviieg he Joined the
Confederacy at the outbreak of the
Civil war it was renamed Fort 'Lyon
in memory of the Union fantral who
fell tit the battle of Wilaon's Creek,
Missouri. Although the site of the
I Hist has changed several times, the
Fort Lyon, Colo,, of lod^g claims aa
Ita progenitor the bistdtfc "Hent'a
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