28/39 "What do you want to know for ?" The princess softly persisted, and he said: "She lives in the East. It takes five days to get down there on a cattle train, and then you have to look her up in a directory, and then trail her down. I couldn't find her." The princess took down Mary's name and sent a messenger to try to find the address of this woman who was more to the delirious man than all the rest of the world. |