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Little Sister" should arrive, and that she was expected in two or 

 three weeks. 



One night on his return from a two days' tramp he entered 

 the dining-hall of his hotel and found that most of the guests 

 were greatly interested by the presence of a new face, that of a 

 charming, vivacious little golden-haired woman. It was "The 

 Little Sister." The Duke was introduced, they became fast 

 friends, and eventually they fell in love. 



But the Duke was married, and he was a Catholic. Italy was 

 Catholic, and there were no divorce laws even in such obvious 

 cases as his. And so the lovers lived on, puzzling their brains 

 for some solution to their difficulties. And this lasted for seven 

 years. 



Then the Duke, through an old relative, made a discovery. 

 He learned that his father, who, as we have seen, was an ardent 

 Italian patriot, did not wish his son (he expected a son, of 

 course) to be born a subject of Austria. And so, when he found 

 that his wife was about to give birth to their first child, he 

 carried her off to Paris, and there the baby was born. 



I don't see what difference that made, but it seemed to 

 straighten out the legal difficulties, and the Duke got a French 

 divorce and then married "The Little Sister." 



After a time they went back to Italy and to the old castle, and 

 the peasants organized a great fete, with a triumphal arch. It 

 is an interesting story, isn't it.? 



To get back to silk culture. Quite as I expected, although I 

 tried hard for success, the silk culture work under Secretary 

 Wilson turned out to be an economic failure. We distributed 

 quantities of certified eggs to many people in many parts of the 

 country. Some of them who were Europeans with a thorough 

 knowledge of silk culture, and others who were aided by our 



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