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"How can you be so unfeeling?" moaned the limp lady.
"This R. Schmidt is Prince Robin of Graustark!" cried the girl
excitedly. "I am sure of it--just as sure as can be."
Mrs. Gaston's eyes were popping, not with amazement but alarm.
"Do lie down, child," she whimpered. "Marie! The sleeping powders at
once! Do--"
"Oh, I'm not mad," cried the girl. "Now listen to me and I'll tell
you why I believe--yes, actually believe him to be the--"
"Marie, do you hear me?"
Miss Guile shook her vigorously. "Wake up! It isn't a nightmare. Now
listen!"


CHAPTER XI
THE LIEUTENANT RECEIVES ORDERS

The next day brought not only an agreeable change in the weather but
a most surprising alteration in the manner of Mrs. Gaston, whose
attitude toward R. Schmidt and his friends had been anything but
amicable up to the hour of Miss Guile's discovery. The excellent
lady, recovering very quickly from her indisposition became
positively polite to the hitherto repugnant Mr. Schmidt. She melted
so abruptly and so completely that the young man was vaguely
troubled.


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