there, why was not her name in the list? But that problem
tortured the sanguine searcher himself.

At last, in despair, after a fruitless search of two days, Lorry
was willing to submit. With the perverseness common to
half-defeated fighters, Anguish at once protested, forgetting that
he had sought to dissuade his friend the day before.

"We'll go to the library of Paris and take a look through the
books and maps," he said. "Or, better still, let us go to the
post office. There! Why have we not thought of that? What
there is of Graustark they'll know in the postal service."

Together they visited the chief post office, where, after being
directed to various deputies and clerks, they at length found the
department in which the information was obtainable. Inside of
five minutes they were in possession of facts that vindicated
Miss Guggenslocker, lifted Lorry to the seventh heaven, and put
Mr. Anguish into an agony of impatience. Graustark was a small
principality away off to the east, and Edelweiss was a city of
some seventy-five thousand inhabitants, according to the postal
guide-book.

The Americans could learn no more there, so they went to
Baedecker's office. Here they found a great map, and, after a
diligent and almost microscopic search, succeeded in discovering
the principality of Graustark. Then they looked at each other in
dismay.

"It's a devil of a distance to that little red blot on the map,"