"Because there isn't a word of truth in the whole disgusting—what does it say?"
I had seized the sheet from her hands and rapidly glanced over the staring headlines. Eagerly she interrupted me:—
"Oh, isn't it the worst ever? But I see how it happened. They must have sent out a leg man to get facts, and when no one would talk, they stirred this up in the office. But—not to print, now—what are you going to do with His Lordship? Honest, Princess?"
"Nothing; there's absolutely nothing between us. He's a nice fellow, and I like him, and we're good friends; that's all. I—I knew he was going; fishing."
"Well, I'm glad of that. But so must I be going."
And she whisked out of the room, leaving in my hands this astounding outrage upon truth and decency:
BY EDWARD PEPPER.
Helen Winship is the most extraordinary woman living;
The most beautiful woman in the world;
A scientist of national repute;