The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-13
THE QUEENS MESSENGER,
Realistic Romance by Charles Lowe:
copyrighted 1892, by the Author:

copyrighted 1892, by the Author:
Captain MacCuloch was one of the mos.
careful and interchangeable messengers In
She foreign service of the queen. He had
probably crossed the channel oftener than
any other man in England as the carrier
OF dispatches from the foreign office to her
majesty 5 representatives in the various cap
ttals OF Europe, and from them again to
the foreign office. He had served In the
Eighth DrgoOn Guards, and being without
2 competency of any kind when he re-
tired from that gallant regiment, he had,
through the influence of Lord GIenartney,
q distant relative of his. succeeded in OBJ
tanning Il vacant foreign mcsscnSershp
at Il saa.ry of 1900 Il year. apart from what
he cou!aore ,. % cut Of his travelling allow
Nor i2nble niu l,,i.ct were his savings 50
very slight. So & that the captain did not,
when on the Continental lines object to
travelling second class. though he invaria,
bly,, IN Difference to Mrs. Grundy, crossed
So Calais or to Ostend as tirst-class pas
senger; and seeing also that his hotel bills
Were always very low by reason of the
fact that, being q man of charming man,
rlers and chatty disposition, he was offered
an immense amount OF hospitality III the
capitals where he CHANGED 10 be soJourn,
fng. He was a huge repository OF social
secrets. and always carried with him from
5.ondon to foreign capitals the very iatcst
gossip of the imprinted KIND, SO thab ne was
members of her majesty missions IMAM
the society Journals; and when on 4he Wing
as the Mercury of his royal mistress, ne
scarcely ever knew what 1t was 10 iuhch
or dine at his own expense. o.o,.;,,
Thus it was that. just before stt' us =,
nnce on his return journey from ~. &
frrslmrc he formed the center OF Il ieSli'e
circle at the Hotel d AnSletcrrc, ana pIfs-
entity the luncheon party was Jolhe1 y! "i,e
Hnn Mr.. Iauderdalc. or "Iawdy Jan, as
Lone preferred to call him, who had Juss
cnme over from the embassy racing mo
Ncva with most urgent and important ues-
patches from Downing street: ,.:ox
The fact was that tho Slghan iro',s ,,ta
question had again assumed a most acute
and alarming character, ana the scai'S "
war and peace between England and kus-
STA hung trembling. In the baiancf. p,,,,
Say. old man." Temarkcd MI. PUN
cI,ntr,n the correspondent of Tho Dally
neiiorranh, a Journalist who, III MS TIME,
had been on n footing of familiarity WIN an
Immense number of monarchS, anu va
sometimes even favored with an mVlG'Hoh
to social gatherings such as ule plr,, ,i;st
f..av old man." remarked the 1ournah;31
Tac.tiousIv TO Captain MacCulloch, what IL
xn,. axe ~ look ~ your dispatches De
fore you go! 4,,o .or;o,,e
onsS of tho situation, and III no mood loI iiio
;ocoSitv of his journalistic friend, VINO ha'.
y,r,Iiv enough, would have gwen MS ltol''
<antL for knowledge Of the contents OF the
messengers bag-thc captain we say, ~" -
fIej nrf 10 get ready for his departure and III
q Eew minutes more he was seated N ~; n
drcSchl,e and rafting along to the weston es t,n
station over tho cobblestoncd streets OIL the
H R~f"re the age of steam the calling OF OF
b queens or kings messenger was ONO one OF
are al Difficulty, and frequently of danger.
II VIA no light thing, for example. to nave
e. r{I. from BnlGrade - Stamboui. OF l"
49, from calais 10 Vienna, and the bearer
ggJ. i5,lp' E.espatcbcs also carried arms
- # need he. TO defcud his letter bags
s - his life. For nothing was more com
mon in the wicked old intriguing days than ina.
attempts on the part OF hostile llliiiS' t,,a
20 nnS,esS themselves of documents IN the
r 20 rise of transmission from Il government
80 its representatives abroad: OF, contrar-
wise. As witness for example, the notori-
GUS case of Captain Sinclair, Swedish
runssa-a hearer 10 the Turks, who was muir