Louis Tracy

At the Court of the Maharaja Louis Tracy

UK title: Princess Kate. London: F. V. White & Co., April 1903. US title 1: At the Court of the Maharaja: A Story of Adventure, New York: The American News Company, 1906. US Title 2: A Dangerous Situation, NY: Edward J. Clode, 1932. Excerpt: Kate pouted her ripe lips in slight annoyance. From the shelter of her silken canopy she detected a smile on the face of the spiced personage who passed. Of course he understood now that she was not in society. Were he an acquaintance, a paying guest in her mother s Bays water boarding-house, there would be no need for pre tense. But Kate knew that she impressed strangers. Then why destroy a pleasant fiction? And what did Marion mean by the birdless grove? The passer-by really smiled at hearing the sporting phrase. Kate, whose musings were always introspective, would not have believed his solemn oath to that effect. The policeman, chewing his chin-strap, with thumbs stuck in his trousers pockets and solemn strut of the force, was still in full view, but now she cared not how the sunshine tilted; it was too bad of Marion.