Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-17

and these were immense Then too,
was she not just American enough TO
be called an American girl, and was not
this the next remarkable and stirring
act for the American girl to commit?
Margaretta Kelnaird surveyed herself
in the dressing mirror as she donned
her bonnet, and thought how the ma
ronly symmetries Of her figure would
grace a court And then to have her
portrait painted by some famous Euro
pean artist and hung IN the palace as
that OF the queens motheris' Perhaps
several centuries after her death 1T
would hang there And for several CEN
turtles, 10 doubt, they would recollect
her great accomplishment over seas in
New York, whence her stock had
sprung Everybody who could claim
the faintest relationship with her would
do so. Queen Kathleen" would rate
for them as an anceSreSS worth having:
that humiliating Dendudlow affair
would be nercifuIly hidden (yvhy not?l
by the capacious mantle OF history itself
Queen KathleenI" What delightful
sound it hadi ''Clarinond and Kath-
leenr' There was not as much real hon
eyed romanticisn in even Romeo and
Juliette!''
| OF this kind produced an Intoxicating
effect upon this most curious Of Ameri-
can 'saristocrats" Her state OF mind
was almost an agitated one by the time
that short stroll had brought her to
the gates OF the birmingham villa She
| felt herself on the verge OF society here
| in Saltravia, felt that to-day might
prove but the quiet threshold OF many
beautiful morrows- There were not
more than twenty guests present. and
these were nearly all her own country
folk In the course OF a little time she
was presented TO at least half OF them.
finding that she already knew few,
that she had heard Of number more,
and that certain others were not by any
means OF a desirable type Then it en-
tered her shrewd mind that this set into
which she had drifted was altogether
| The wrong set, and that If she kept
! Kathleen quite out of it she would be
doing most prudent act
The Jerninghams, brother and sister,
had evidently q great grudge against
the king and his court, and it was
| pleasant for them to feel that their
| friends were of the same rather rancor-
| Gus mind They never spoke against
Clarimond, but they limited that he was
| fiippant and frivolous and had all the
proverbial bad faith of princes Brother
and sister were oddly alike, both being
tall and slim, both having a sunken
look about the cheeks and slaty-hued
eyes with pink-edged lids They hGth
talked with slight lisp, and in talking
used their hands with the same jerly
little gestures Neither OF them often
said 81 it was always I'VE" with them,
- LII L.,
sion that nothing happened singly to
this devoted brother and sister, but that
human experience treated them to its
good and its Ill in perpetual duo, as the
rain and sun treat two apples on a single
steam
Harriet birmingham made herself
notably civil to Mrs Kennaird, and
after awhile they had a private chat to-
gether amid the general babble of the
little modish drawing-roon-
I'VE hear your daughter is so Won
derfully beautiful, Mrs Kennaird. -
said the sister OF the deposed art super
intendent. Pardon me, but we dol
And it grieves me- greatly to hear that
she Is indispcsed to-day The waters
sometimes affect people for 4 few days
) just like that. Wecan't live away from
them now, though at first we thought
them really quite horrid- That Is why
my dear brother hasn't departed from
Saltravia. / mean since Nh. Eric
Thaxter caused the king to treat him
so cruelty. But perhaps you haven't
J heard about that No? Oh, then, i
won't bore you with our private griev-
ances. And yet, after all, they've be
come horribly public ever since my dear
brother was ousted from his position
and that Alonzo Lispenard was made 70
replace him.
''Alonzo LispenardI'' broke in Mrs.
Kennaird. Isis he in Saltravia?'
81 believe he is in Munich row,
though there is a report that he viii be
back next week for the great royal ball
at the palace Pray, do you know hirn?'
"Yes-yes, I've met him He's "a
New Yorker, you know"
''True- 1 suppose you have met him
in society over there-the -Four Hun
dred,' as they call ity'
Yes said Mrs. Kennaird, feeling a
little dizzy and hardly knowing just
what answer left her lips ''Quite right
It-er-wes in the -Four Hundred as
you say"
''Such a queer name, isn't it??' babbled
MissJerningham- I'VE can't get used to
, it, You know. There was nothing OF
, that sort when we were there
: ''Oh, yes, there was" her Estene;
might mentally have said, ''only YOU
, know nothing about it." But Mrs
, Kennaird was in no mood for any such
! comments, whether mute or vocal
..And so this Alonzo Lispenard,'' she
presently faltered, holds a position
here under the king"
'-Oh, yes-art superintendent, yor
know Eric Thaxter, the adcred friend
Of C1arimond, took it away from US
that is, mean from my brOther-anc
gave it with the kings full sanction
to this Mr.. Lispenard-"
Il see, L see"
pray, is it true" continued his:
birmingham, that he was engaged 20 e
beautiful girl in New York, who Tilted
: him the moment she heard he'd lost al
. his money!
, Really, think it's quite false mur
INJURED Mrs Kennaird She getaway from
!. the villa as soon as decent politenes<
l would permit The late afternoon made
, the exquisitely-tend and statued lawn:
in front of the hotel look like square:
and medalliOns of dark green plush
!, From an immense japanese pagoda that