CHAPTER V.
FIVE YEARS AFTERWARDS Mr.Elias Cloudwater came up the steps of the Savoy Hotel at Carlsbad, and called to the Arab who was waiting about: "Has the Princess come in from her drive yet ?" He was informed that she had not, and he sat down in the verandah to wait.

He was both an American gentleman and an American father, therefore he was accustomed to waiting for his women folk and did not fidget.

He read the _New York Herald_, and when he had devoured the share list, he glanced at the society news and read that, among others who were expected at the Bohemian health resort that day, was Lord Fordyce, motoring, for a stay of three weeks for the cure.
He did not know this gentleman personally, and the fact would not have arrested his attention at all only that he chanced to be interested in English politics.

He wondered vaguely if he would be an agreeable acquisition to the place, and then turned to more thrilling things.
Presently a slender young woman came down the path through the woods and leisurely entered the gate.

Mr.Cloudwater watched her, and a kindly smile lit his face.