The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-08-23


feared that the Emperor spoke also of
the white. firm neck on which the neck
lace rested, for Rukavina. Eltz was apt
to blush and look magnifcently well at
such moments. Then she had great
chains of sapphires- as blue as her eyes
aud some big rubies which the Baron
had given her (the old Baron, who was
twice her age, who went down into Rau-
mania for her when see was 15), and she
had diamonds, of course-every rich
lady has diamonds-and grand box
full of engraved amethysts and antique
gems, some that Cardinal Antonelli
gave her in Rome, for he, too had admir-
ed the wild Baroness.
Indeed, If the Baroness Rukavina- Eltz
had ever written her memoirs, what
story she could have told But the end
of every woman's history is that she
finally falls in love, and such was the
beginning of the end of the story of
Rukavina- Eltz. She went to England
one summer, and there was young
Lord Ronald Somerset, or a Lord George
Levenson Montague, or a young Lord
Howard Plantagenet (they mix them up
so, these English words, they are not
half so individual as our Hungarian
names), who could ride better than she
could. This was dreadful blow to the
Baroness aud she wished herself dead.
But when at dinner the soft-voiced,
handsome, tall young Englisman, Sir
Lyster Howard Lyster that was his
name after ally, sat next to her and talk
ed so well and was so mplimentary to
her seat, cross country, and noticed the
pearl-colored pearls, and the emeralds,
with his lips, and the neck underneath
with his eyes, Rukavina- forgave
him, and began to talk of her home
near Somlyo, and it ended in large
English party coming into the Err Val
ley, under the shadow of the Er Mellek,
for long summer visit. And how they
raved about everything-th wine, the
horses, the scenery, the wild barbaric
splendor of the Baroness housekeeping,
and how they all hated Newsletter and
his big, black -browed wife who were in
vited up to the balls.
There was an English lady 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 Madame Pasteur heard her
say one day
Do you know, dear Baroness, l think
you are SO very careless-dont you
know ?-about those beautiful jeMelsi
of yours-do you know"
"But who could steal them 2" said the
Baroness laughing. "There are none
like them in all Hungary, and no one
would dare to wear them, they are so
rare ?"
of yours they might swallow your en-
eralds, those fierce Croats, the Rouma.
mans; and then you keep them in
such open closets and boxes. y
Madame Pasteur nodded her meek head,
too. She had trembled for the jewels
always.
But the Baroness and Sir Lyster be-
gan to think of other things than Jew
els; 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, Madame Pas
teur said afterwards, 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 willw
And Rukavina- Eltz turned pale and
said, " Bully, traitor, fiend," between
her shut teeth. She went off to Paris
for one of her long visits, and Neusied-
Ter 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
Madame Pasteur thought she was grow
ing devote. But she dressed in her usual
dashing colors (for she was very Rou-
manian at heartl, and she wore one of
those scarlet quilted peticoats that the
English ladies wore SO much; and very
pretty 1t looked, with her dark habit
and her dark dresses looped up over 1t.
This with scarlet feather in her hat,