The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-11-11


act fos the American girl 20 ccInInii3
Mazgaretta IEennaird surveyed herself
in the dressing mirror as she doaued
her bonnet, and thought how the ma.
tronly syn1rue tries 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 motherI7 Perhaps
several centuries after her death it
would hang there. and for several cen
turtles, no doubt, they would recoIicct
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 ancestress worth having:
1 that huHiiating Dendudlow affair
would be InercifuIly hidden why not9I
by the capacious mantle OF history itself
"Queen Kathleen What delightful
sound 1t had! -'Clarimond and Kath-
leenr There was not as much real hon
eyed romauticism in even Romeo and
5uliettci'
Thrust be confessed that installations
{ OF this kind produced an Intoxicating
/ effect upon this most curious of Ameri-
/ can ''aristocrats" Her state OF mind
was almost an agitated one by the time
/ that q short stroll had brought her 70
/ the gates OF the birmingham villa. She
I felt herself on the verge OF society here
/ in SaItravia, felt that to-day might
+ prove but the quiet Threshold OF many
{ beautiful nlorro.vs- There were not
( more than twenty guests present, and
I these were nearly all her own country
/ folk. In the course of little time she
| was presented TO at least half of them,
finding that she already knew "a few,
/ that she had heard of a number more,
/ and that certain others were not by any
means of a desirable type. Then it en-
/ tered her shreyyd 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 a most prudent act
/ The Jerninghams, brother and sister,
had evidently a great grudge against
the king and his court, and it was
/ pleasant for them to feel that their
! friends were of the same rather raucor-
Gus mind They never spoke against
Clarimond, but they limited that he was
lippant and frivolous and had all tho
provefbial bad faith of princes. Brother
and sister were oddly alike, both being
tall and slim, both having sunlScu
look about the cheeks and alaty-hueu
eyes with piulz-edEcd lids. They both
talked with q slight lisp. and IN talking
used their hands with the same jerlzy
little gestures. Neither of them often
said Il, 50 it was always 1--WE" with them,
so that after awhile Won got the impress
sion that nothing happened siugly TO
this devoted brother and sister, but that
human experience treated them to its
good and its i'll IN perpetual duo, as the
rain and sun treat two apples on a single
steam.
Harriet birmingham made herself
/ notably civil 20 Mrs. Eennaird, and
after awhile they had private chat to-
| gether amid the general babble Of the
little mOllish drawing-room.
rT-.u 900.
dcrfully beautiful, Mrs Eeunaird,
[ said the sister of the deposed art super,
intendent. Pardon me, but we do
? And it grieves me greatly TO hear that
Z she Is i-disPoscd today The waters
sometimes affect people for few days
: just like shat. We can't live away from
Q them now, though at FIRST VIC thought
2 them really quite horrid. That is why
+ my dear brother hasn't departed from
e Saltravia. I mean since MIR. Fri,
r Thaxter caused the king to treat him
/ so cruelty But perhaps you haven
s heard about that. No? Oh, then,
r won't bore You with our private griev
= auces- And yet, after all, they've be
g come horribly public ever since my deu
l. brother was ousted from his position
e and that AlOnzo LisPeuard was made u
= replace him"
G ''AlonzO LisPenard!' broke in Mrs
d Keuuaird. Isis he in Saltravia2"
T 81 believe he is in Munich now
"a though tlIers is o report that he viii g.
back nest 7scc's f,r the great royal bal
p 81 the palace. Pray do You know hin2
. ''Ycs-ycs, I've met him Hes a.
d New Yorker, you know
h True. 1 suppose You have met hiT
Is in society over there-the -Four Hur
IS bred as they call it2'
/. Yes" said Airs. IEeuuaird, feeling
II little dizzy and hardly knowing jus
D. what answer left her lips. "Quito RICH
1t-er-yves in the -Four Hundred, g
IS you say"
r such a queer name, isn't it?7 babbIe
Miss birmingham 1--WE can't get used
re it, You know. There was nothing
] that sort VIXEN we were there"
ne "Oh, yes, there was her listen'
&c might mentally have zzriri5 -'r7r1iy &c
ig know nothing about it." But Mr.
r. kenuaird was in no mood for any sue
g comments, whether mute or voca
IN And so this AlOnzo Lispenard," 81
he presently faltered, holds a Positic
no here under the king"
ce "Oh, ycs-art Superintendent, SC
an know. Eric Thazter, the adored frier
of Clarimond, took it away from MS
u. that Is, mean from my brother-aE
gave it with the kings fun sanctio
TO this Mr.. Lispenard."
,r- - see, / see"
lie Pray, is it true" continued Mi
ce birmingham. that he was engaged to
of him the moment she heard he'd lost
5 a his money!
he Really, / think its quite false" INA
re INJURED Mrs. IZeuuaird she got away frl
Id the villa as soon as decent poitene
mt would permit. Tho late afternoon mo
en- the ezquisitely-tende and statued law
ell in front OF the hotel look like squaT
M and mcdsllious Of dark green plus
nv From an immense japanese pagodu til
m burned with rs many tints rs if it b
NO been buiIded ont of u fallen raiubc
d9 foated music made by one of the mc
ne perfect Orchestras in Europe. Kat
ieeu, in a plain dovc-colored gov
ch without a single ornament of any iziE
,er moved here and there amid the al
ed: besque of boz-edged paths, holding
-Iv book against one side OF her bosom,
do women are wont 90 do She seem
lie wholly unaware Of the attention, ev
for the scrutiny, which she attract,
lid though she was perhaps perfectly W
try aware OF 1t and preferred to apPC
.ial I otherwise, She had known no one
f71a hotel ON her. arrival and aFfsrvE--