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They'll get together all right, but what good
is it going to do us, if Maud's going to act like this? See here,
Lou, I've got things fixed so that the Prince of Groostuck can't very
well do anything but ask Maud to--"
"That's just it!" she exclaimed. "Maud sees through the whole
arrangement, Will. She said last night that she wouldn't be at all
surprised if you offered to assume Graustark's debt to Russia in
order to--"
"That's just what I've done, old girl," said he in triumph. "I'll
have 'em sewed up so tight by next week that they can't move without
asking me to loosen the strings. And you can tell Maud once more for
me that I'll get this Prince for her if--"
"But she doesn't want him!"
"She doesn't know what she wants!" he roared. "Where is she going?"
"You saw her start off on Katydid, so why--"
"I mean on the day of the ball."
"To New York."
"By gad, I'll--I'll see about _that_," he grated. "I'll see that
she doesn't leave the grounds if I have to put guards at every gate.
She's got to be reasonable.


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