What he wanted to know was this: What had become of the royalty and the nobility of Graustark?
Where were the princes, the dukes and the barons, to say nothing of the feminine concomitants to these excellent gentlemen?
What irritated him most of all was the amazing discovery that there was a Cook's tourist office in town and that no end of parties arrived and departed under his very nose, all mildly exhilarated over the fact that they had seen Graustark! The interpreter, with "Cook's" on his cap, was quite the most important, if quite the least impressive personage in town.

It is no wonder that this experienced globe-trotter was disgusted! There was a train to Vienna three times a week.

He made up his mind that he would not let the Saturday express go down without him.

He had done some emphatic sputtering because he had neglected to take the one on Thursday.
Shunning the newly discovered American club in Castle Avenue as if it were a pest house, he lugubriously wandered the streets alone, painfully conscious that the citizens, instead of staring at him with admiring eyes, were taking but little notice of him.

Tall young Americans were quite common in Edelweiss in these days.
One dingy little shop in the square interested him.