The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29

young prince'e sake-keep the secret until
you hear from nep' My mother was 50
shocked at the ambassadors want of candor,
and SO alarmed at tho superabnndance of
thnt quality in me. that she would have prom
ised anything to get away; but said coldly,
ut is pity you should not have placed con-
fdence in us from the first, instead of doing
so only as pis-aller; but if with great dig
nifty, said il you can assure me, on the
honor of an Englishman, not of diplomat"
| said cnttingly, ''that silence will serve the
poor boy, am ready to pass my word also"
ANY other course of action will injure him,
Lady Muriel"
$50 DO it," said loftily, delighted to feel
that signorina had proved herself no nonen-
tity after ALL
We took leave of the minister and his scared
attache and returned to the hotel, and it IL
needless to say we never heard again from
his excellency; but in ten days time tho
papers informed us that his lordship had
quilted Florence for some months
The whole story seemed to have passed
away like an Uneasy dream. The Russians
had vanished, and their rooms were now &C.
cupied by common place middle class Eng
lish family, who heard conversing about the
FIFTY Pally" (nieaning, presumed, the Pitt
PalaiSl, and the padrone and his wife avoided
. mentioning the princess or any Of her suite;
indeed the subject seemed SO distateful to
them that we forhore abiding to it, and
after a short uneventful period had elapsed,
we directed our footsteps homewRrlls to Lon.
don.
Ono morning my mother put The Morning
Post into my hands. eagerly desiring me to
read paragraph aloud 1t was quotation
from st. Petersburg journal, and it ran
thus: "Great excitement has been caused
lately in st. Petersburg, in consequence of a
mysterious event, which he's taken place in
the family of the Prince Lipetska. His high
moss lost his first wife sixteen years ago, at
the birth of the Prince Michael, who. al
though delicate child, survived his mother,
and was the object of his fathers tenderest
affections. Four years ago the Prince Lipet.
ska married again, choosing the Princess
Myrza de Zeschaw, a lady of great beauty,
and for whom, it was well known, a certain
exalted parsonage avowed distinctly pater-
nal interest. The Princess Myrza bore two
sons, and was devoted mother, not only to
her own offspring, but also to her stepson.
who was much attached to her, and whose
recent uncertain health seemed the only
cloud in the princely pairs domestic horizon.
"a few months ago the young prince be-
came SO seriously i'll that the best medical
advice was sought, when change of air ard a
warm climate was suggested The Prince
Lipetska being unable Just then to lay
aside his court duties Che was one of
the cars highest fuDctionaries), the prin-
cess offered to leave her own young
family, and proceed with her stepson to
Italy, purposing lat the princes wish to visit
famous but very old doctor resident at Pisa,
who had known the young Michael from his
birth.
Accordingly the princess started, accom-
panied by priest, a dame de compagnie and
large suite; and they had not been long abb
sent before it was remarked that the Prince
Lipetskn became greatly depressed, and that
he was constantly closeted with certain
DR.. dObreskoff, who had attended the fam
lily for years, but who, in consequence Of
increasing age, and strong dislike conceived
against him by the princess, had given up his
position as family physician. The accounts
from Italy getting worse, the anxious father
would have started at once TO join his son,
but ito tho surprise of all parties he yielded
TO DR.. d'Obreskoffs entreaties, and instead
OF going himself, dispatched young English
doctor, who received instructions to travel
with the utmost speed.
"Dr. Grnnvilles arrival ut Pisa bringing
his credentials from the princel took the