The Red Cloud chief., 1881-07-14

be,Yt circles last night, and Is
Amin this morning. perhaps
EmbelfiebmentA Il relates to the
nan outburst Of emotion BY the
pfincess Stephanie at the critical mo-
Pfnent of her marriage yesterday. and
gives - the explanation Of that sensa-
tional incident . story which sounds
like romance, but which, its REALTORS
affirm. is correct ia every essential par
ticular. Briefly told, It IL this: The
Princess had been carefully. perhaps
too carefully, brought up in s~eclusion
BY her parents. and she was constantly
watched over with great solicitude.
She very rarely saw anything Of the
world outside her own home; and her
visit to Paris with her father at the
time of the late exposition was the first
and only occasion on which she had
visited any capital saw Brussels. But
while at Paris. by an accident or
through the momentary ~inadyertence
of her father, she met an American
gentleman. She and her father were
in Paris incognito, and were living in q
quiet n at a not ovcr-pretentious
hotel. The American, ignorant OF the
tCdi Aidiho ohu iouA III ~ youbA bShys
but charmed with her beauty. grace
and simplicity. fell quickly in love with
her. Selling an opportunity one after
noon when the Princess was for
a moment separated from her
father. who was busily engaged
in examining some machinery a
she was standing in an adjoining
alcove. the American told her who he
was, explained in q very few words that
he possessed wealth in abundance and
an unsullied name; told her that he adj
mired and loved her and asked her per-
mission to speak to her father, whom
he presumed to be only a well-tOrGo
manufacturer or merchant, and solicit
from him the privilege Of paying TO her
his addresses, in the hope Of winning
her affections and making her his wife.
The Princess to whom ali this was like
a dream, knew not what 10 reply; and
seeing her hesitation, the American re-
newed his protestatiOns and pressed his
suit with such passion that the Princess,
becoming alarmed, and catching a
glimpse Of her father in the distance,
hastily fled to him. A few inquiries on
the part of the American Don after
ward disclosed to him who was the
young lady; and this disclosure put an
end to what hopes he might have enter
tanned. Upon the return OF the King
and Princess to Belgium, however, he
followed them. not with any intention
of thrusting himself upon the young
lady. but that he might occasionally
have the qualification OF seeing her at
a distance when she appeared in pub-
lie. This qualification he did receive
more frequently than he had hoped,
and his passion dccpened. The
Princess was not unaware OF his
and something like a roman
tic, although wholly hopeless affection
sprang up between the two. After the
announcement of the betrothal of the
Princess to Prince Rodolph, the Ameri-
can disappeared from Brussels, not
however without first seeing Stephanie
once more as she was driving with her
mother through the park in Brussels.
But on her journey to Vienna she saw
his face at different stages of the
journey, and, according to the story as
told by one of the ladies-in-waiting,
the melancholy and despair manifested
by the handsome American afflicted
her. She saw HIM at Schonberg, and
then imagined that she should never
again see him. But it appears he found
his way into the church of the
Augustines. and occupied a place e a
the left side of the altar. 1t was when
happening to raise her eyes in that
direction the Princess met his gaze that
she broke out into that fit of hysterical
weeping which for some moments inter-
rupted the ceremony. When, somewhat
recovered she looked again towards
the place he had occupied. he had dis
appeared. Nothing that happens in
court circles in Vienna is long con.
cealed. and long before midnight last
night this story was being told in the
salons of the Palace. The American is
SAID 10 have left Vienna for Paris early
last evening.