"My son-in-law is a very determined man," he said; "he will carry
out any scheme in which he is interested. Had he consulted me
about this, I would have been glad to have aided him with money
or advice. My son-in-law is an extremely well-read, refined,
well-bred man. He does not court publicity. While he was staying
in my house he spent nearly all the time in the library translating
an Indian book on Buddhism. My daughter has no ambition to be a
queen or anything else than what she is--an American girl. But my
son-in-law means to carry on this Trinidad scheme, and--he will."

From his father-in-law, at least, Harden-Hickey could not complain
that he had met with lack of sympathy.

The rest of America was amused; and after less than nine days,
indifferent. But Harden-Hickey, though unobtrusively, none the
less earnestly continued to play the part of king. His friend De la
Boissiere he appointed his Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
established in a Chancellery at 217 West Thirty-sixth Street, New
York, and from there was issued a sort of circular, or prospectus,
written by the king, and signed by "Le Grand Chancelier,
Secretaire d'Etat pour les Affaires Etrangeres, M. le Comte de la
Boissiere."

The document, written in French, announced that the new state
would be governed by a military dictatorship, that the royal
standard was a yellow triangle on a red ground, and that the arms
of the principality were "d'Or chape de Gueules." It pointed out
naively that those who first settled on the island would be naturally
the oldest inhabitants, and hence would form the aristocracy. But