The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-07-28
could. This was dreadful blow to the
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handsome, tall young Engllshman, Sir
Lyster Howard Lyster THAT was his
name after ally sat next to her and
talked so well and was SO. compliment
tary to her seat, cross-country, and
noticed the pearl l-colored pearls, and
the emeralds, with his lips, and the neck
with his eyes, Rukavina Eltz forgave
him and began to talk of her home near
Somlyo, and it ended in large English
party coming to the Err valley, under
the shadow of the Err Mellek, for long
summer visit. And how they raved
about everytbing-the wine, the horses,
the scenery, the wild, barbaric splendor
of the baroness housekeeping, and
how they all hated Neusiedler, and his
big, black browed wife, who were in
vited up to the balls.
There was an English lady, one with
very long teeth, and very long nose
and very high eyebrows, and they
called her Lady Louisa. She was very
grand and lofty, and Madam Pasteur
heard her say one day:
"Do you know, dear baroness, think
you are very careless-don't you know :?
about those beautiful jewels of yours
do you know?"
"But who could steal them ?" said
the baroness, laughing. "There are
none like them in all Hungary, and no
one would dare to wear them, they are
so rare
"Ah but some of these wild people
of yours They might swallow your
emeralds, those fierce Croats, the Rou-
manians, and then you keep them in
such open closets and boxes" Madam
Pasteur nodded her meek head, too.
She had trembled for the jewels always.
But the baroness and Sir Lyster began
to think of other things than jewels;
there were moonlight rides and walks,
and there were long talks and many
reveries; Lady Louisa went home, they
all went, but Sir Lyster came back.
And then, one evening, Madam Pas
teur said afterward that she saw Neu-
siedler come in and bully the baroness,
and she heard him hiss out the words:
Remember if you marry, you lose
all. Remember the baron's will"
And Rukavina Eltz turned pale and
said, "Bully, traitor, fend," between
her shut teeth. She went off to Paris,
for one of her long visits, and Neusied-
ler squeezed the tenants, and made
every one miserable. The castle was
shut up, and black Tetenyer grew thin
in his stable.
When she came back she looked older
and more sedate. She went often to see
the nuns at the foot of Rez Gebirge
She saw the priest also very often, and
Madam Pasteur thought she was growing
devote. But she dressed in her usual
4 ior lar
mGnian at heart) and she wore one of
those scarlet quilted petticoats that the
English ladies wore so much, and very
pretty it looked, with her dark habit
md her dark dresses looped up over it.
This, with a scarlet feather in her hat,
looked as if the baroness was thinking
of England.
It was miserable day that, when
Madam Pasteur and Matilde came
screaming down the long corridor.
"The Jewels are gone! gone gone p'
The baroness had the great bell of
the castle rung, and Neusiedler was
sent for at once. She was very pale, for
she loved those pearls and emeralds.
Neusiedler was composed; every look
was made to say, 81 told you so )" he
| had always warned her about the Jewels.
"What can be done?" asked the bar
oness.
"Search, whip, imprison all who at
tempt to leave the province" said Neu-
siedler, calmly.
Except women - will have no
women whipped" said the baroness.
81 am glad to hear that" said Neu-
siedler, laughing his malicious laugh,
/" for Madam Neusiedler goes to Vienna
tomorrow"
"Ah !" said the baroness, "you know
I could not mean, at any rate, that Mad
am Neusiedler should be disturbed
send her in my little carriage with the
three ponies to Erdiozegh."
"Your excellency is very condescend-
ing" said Neusiedler, bowling to the
ground.
The local police sought everywhere
for the lost jewels, but no trace of them
could be found. The baroness sat in a
sort of stupor, and gazed out of the
window.
81 will go to England |" said she,
hastily, one day. "Neusiedler-some
money, and arrange for me to be gone
three months"
"It is WE'LL madam" said the steward.
1t was very roundabout route that
the baroness took for England! When
Matilde and Madam Pasteur reached the
station at Erdiozegh, they were aston
ished to see the baroness dash into the
ticket Office and buy tickets for Vienna,
and when they arrived, all of them at
her fine hotel at Vienna, who should
step out to meet them but Sir Lystel
Howard Lyster
Nothing but the well known eccen-
tricity of the baroness apologized to
Madam Pasteur for what followed
She commanded two dresses to be
made, and that Madam Pasteur should
go with her to masked ball at the
opera house in Vienna.
"Sir Lyster Howard Lyster will GO
with us~ said she, as shade passed
over the pale face of her companion.
Oh that the lady of sixteen quarter
ings should be seen in such low place
No, she was not seen she was masked
but that she should even go! What a
sacrifice of pride and of decency,
Madam Pasteur thought it, as she saw
the baroness take the arm of one masked
man after the other, and then go into
the supper room with party who fol
lowed tall mask in black domino.
A voice struck on Madam Pasteur's
ear-was it that of Madam Neusiedler'si
Was it-could it be?
Yes and as she threw back mask and
hood there sparkled on her neck the
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