The things we do!

Lord Kew had travelled in the East with Monsieur le Duc
and Madame la Duchesse d'Ivry--the prince being an old friend of his
lordship's family. He is the "Q" of Madame d'Ivry's book of travels,
Footprints of the Gazelles, by a daughter of the Crusaders, in which she
prays so fervently for Lord Kew's conversion. He is the "Q" who rescued
the princess from the Arabs, and performed many a feat which lives in her
glowing pages. He persists in saying that he never rescued Madame la
Princesse from any Arabs at all, except from one beggar who was bawling
out for bucksheesh, and whom Kew drove away with a stick. They made
pilgrimages to all the holy places, and a piteous sight it was, said Lord
Kew, to see the old prince in the Jerusalem processions at Easter pacing
with bare feet and a candle. Here Lord Kew separated from the prince's
party. His name does not occur in the last part of the Footprints; which,
in truth, are filled full of strange rhapsodies, adventures which nobody
was but the princess, and mystic disquisitions.


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