Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-08-29

was a serene highness, and when his
father died, he, being the eldest son,
would become a grand transparency,
reigning monarch and an elector of
the German Empire. But the Prince
OF Roxanbloxanfels was a brute-ani ILL
hammered boorish oaf who, ii he had
ever had any mind at all, had had
it drilled out of him. He was a big
mana sort of tailor's lay figure
OF man. He was perfectly miserable
in the society OF respectable women,
| and he was engaged to be married to
the only daughter of the Prince OF
Roulettenburg. He was a fair man,
with cold blue eyes and a retreating
| chin, and If anybody in Partisan so
ciety at that time had been asked to
name the most dissipated man in the
French capital he would undoubtedly
have selected Conrad, Prince OF RoN.
anbloXanfels.
"The way that fellow prosecuted
ed poor little Sylvia Seyton was mon
| strous. He sent her bouquets, he sent
her diamonds, but his diamonds
came back, and every night he use
| to turn up at the Odeon to glare like
a hungry tiger at the charming little
! English ingenue. Sylvia Seyton
wouldn't have anything TO do with
the prince. Then he tried to abduct
| her, and of course the matter was
hushed up-equally OF course it got in
to all the papers, and everybody knew
l perfectly well who Prince Y. was, and
how Mile H., as they called poor little
Sylvia, had boxed his ears in indigna
ton.
"That would have been enough to
have choked OFT any ordinary man, but
it didn't choke OFF Prince Conrad, and
one day, to our intense astonishment,
we heard that he had married her;
and the pair appeared everywhere,
and none OF us were surprised to see
that she looked very miserable indeed,
But everybody said that she had
PLAYED her cards wonderfully we'll;
and the women all envied her dia-
mouds, and the men all envied the
Prince OF Roxanbloxanfels. For my
own part, being young and romantic
Mt the time, l pitied the poor little
English girl, for | knew that her nus
band was a drunken brute, a cruel,
heartless rufiian, who would besure to
treat her badly sooner or later.
"'They'll probably have to buy you
of in the end, mademoiselle?'
"'Perhaps | have failed to make
myself understo God, Mr.. Pugsley,' said
the lady. You are speaking, sir, TO
the wife OF Prince Conrad OF Roxan-
bloxanfels'.
"'Quite so, said Pugsley, angry at
being snubbed by the lady whose hus-
band is about to be united to the
) Princess of Rouettenburg. Even
! princes, he went on, don't as a rule
q commit bigamy in this nineteenth cen
fury, Mime. la Princesse.
, II could have kicked that brutt
! Pugsley. But she never noticed the
: insult.
| "Mr. Protocol she said, will yor
; take me to my carriage And as she
said the words, whether she was a Sc
rene highness or only little Englisl
5 player-girl, she looked very queen
E not queen OF the footlights, minC
you but the genuine article.
: Then she favored Pugsley, who
looked very foolish, with con
descending bow, and gave her my
: arm and took her out to her carriage
!: which was common hack cab Sh
: evidently believed she was married t
! that triple brute, the Prince Conrad
: Have you any further commands
Princess?' | asked 'All of us here
: with the exception of Pugsley-wh,
: between ourselves, is an ass-are you
devoted slaves. There's nothing w
wouldn't do for you, and if you ar
in any difficulty or trouble we hop
= you will make use OF us, for, Princess
: we all love you for your talent, 10
: your beauty, and for your pluck, ant
: above all things, madarIs, becaus
- you are our countrywoman.'
: "Within three months the Prince
% her husband, left her, and he left he
q without a penny in the world. Sh
didn't go back to the stage. She wait
, ed on in obscurity, living with he
H mother, and she made no sign unit
: the approaching marriage of Prime
"a Conrad, her husband, with Amelia {
h Roulettenburg was formally amour
q ced. And then she came to ask TO
.e advice at the legation. She told Pug
& ley, our chancellor, that Catholi
q priest had married them in he
ii mothers lodgings, she didn't know tn
4 name OF the priest; she had no cert
N ficate OF marriage. Pugsley gave he
q good advice.
# "'My dear young lady, said Pugsle!
If ''you are either legally married t
is Prince Conrad, or your marriage wit
ne his serene highness was mere shan
O. in which case, as am strongly ii
az clined to suspect, the Prince will hay
q brought himself within the Frenc
ii criminal law. Should your marriaj
m have been a legal one Prince Coma
q, would not be so foolish as to {
k through an empty form OF marrial
he with the Princess OF Roulettenbur
he The best thing you can do is to biz
~ your time Should this marrial
err take place you can set the crimini
IT. law in motion, and as a British su
he iect you would have every assistant
at from the embassy here
a, "And then if succeed in provil
On my marriage, sir, / should ruin Il