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Photoplay Magazine
trig his country. Already the state department had found him a valuable agent in important foreign negotiations. All this was admitted by the Hon. Carter .Merrill, dean of the Senate, when the impetuous lovers imparted their secret immediately upon their own discovery of it. But the senator and his wife loved their daughter too dearly to permit her to stake her life's happiness so impulsively. They counseled patience — that word so detestable to lovers : but in their counsel they were kind and encouraging.
"Let time and a few months of separation be the test," urged the Senator. "Lisa and her mother shall go abroad. If your love endures through a year of the diversions of Paris, I have no more to say, and nothing could please me more than to learn that vou both still wanted each other at the end of that time."
There was reason in this, and the lovers consented.
In another week Lisa and her mother had gone, and in the months that' followed Lisa was finding the mails from America of more absorbing interest than the gaieties of the French capital, while John Huntington devoted many of his leisure
hours to the pleasant task of engraving more deeply upon his memory the features of the girl who had so suddenly come into his life, and so suddenly been removed from it for a time. He surrounded himself with her photographs and marveled at their lovely variety of expression. Her moods, ever changing, were always delightful. She was a dozen girls in one.
CUDDEN-LY his dreams were intruded upon by an important duty. A slight misunderstanding had arisen between Washington and St. Petersburg — one of those small things in the history of nations which may have grave results if not deftly cleared away. To Huntington was assigned the task of placing the American case before the Imperial advisers and smoothing awav the difficulty. Aside from the gratification over being entrusted with such a mission. he was delighted because this would take him to Europe, and it would be sheer theatricalism for him to avoid seeing Lisa. This her father admitted, and it was arranged that as soon as John had discharged his duty he should communicate with the Merrills in Paris. Lisa might meet him in Warsaw on his return, or he might join her in France, whichever they preferred. Already the senator was convinced that the attachment was deep and true.
"Everything has gone
perfectly." John wrote to Lisa from St. Petersburg several weeks later. "I have succeeded in what I came to do. and am only waiting for permission from the state department at Washington to leave Russia. Xext week I shall be in Warsaw, and will let vou know from there whether I shall wait for you or go on to Paris. In any event, sweetheart, in less than a fortnight I'll see you again. I wonder winch one of the many 'yous' I shall first see — for vou are a whole garden of girls!"
Arriving at Warsaw. John found conditions not to his liking. The city was restive. Fraternizing with the gov