Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-07
CHAPTER 7.

"a King md Two Empcrors."
$50 history repeats itself. The war OF
1870 is to be fought again and again, and, l
fear, with the same issue"
as there no hope Of a peaceful settle
ment?'
How can there be peace between a robber
and his victim? Germany is resolved that
France must be crushed. Crushed she will
be to the utmost bounds of humiliation,
unless
UNLESS you go back again %guv'nor, and
take a hand in the game
The interruption came from Arizona Jim.
who was sitting with Vansittart and Evelyn
in a canoe, which lay motionless on a silvery
lake In the heart of the Adirondacks.
For a moment no one spoke. 1t would
seem that this privileged adherent had
blurted out the millionaire's secret thought,
and the possibility alarmed Evelyn. In
sharper tone than was her wont she cried.
after a quick glance at her husband: Don't
say such foolish things, Bates. Your master
has given enough to France without adding
his life to the score. Twenty years hence
you will suggest that Henry should follow
in the same cause. The sole object of your
existence Is to seek danger and trouble"
The allusion to her 3-year-old son softened
her voice to breaking point. Her eyes
glistened with tears as she looked wistfully
from one to the other of her hearers.
Arizona Jim was astounded at this out
burst. The use of his surname conveyed
far more reproach than mere words. He
worshiped Evelyn with dog-like fidelity, and
now, in mute pain, he sought encouragement
with a look at Vansittart. But jerome
steadily watched a spiral of smoke from
his cigar curling into shapelessness in the
still air. So Jim essayed to defend him
self.
"Well, mum, there was a time when l
used ter fool round lookin' for trouble. But
] kinder thought that bad ole time had
passed. The biggest trouble l didn't allow
for, an that Is for you to be vexed with me.
AS for danger, I'm sorter fixed in the notion
as how it amt in our hands. Kings an
sparrows run under the same rules
20, Jim, I'm not angry with you. But
you don't understand-you don't under
stand" and Evelyn's repressed tears forth
with became downright sobs.
If her hayward mood amazed Bates it
was quite COMPREHENSIVE to Jerome, who
now silently admonished the other to leave
matters where they were.
In very truth the impulsive Texan had
placed in words the thought which for days
past had thrown a shadow upon Evelyn's
bright existence.
Bismarck's policy still prevailed in Ber-
lin, though his domineering presence was
removed from the council chamber. "A
strong France Is a menace to Teutonic as
pirations." "In European disputes the
bayonet Is the court of appeal blessed
are those who possess" These were his
aphorisms, and the hot-headed ruler Of the
German nation considered them to be still
as vital to the longevity of his empire as
in the troublous period when the First
Chancellor proclaimed the reign, Of blood
and iron.
France had thriven amazingly since Van
sittart converted the arid Sahara into a
panorama of cornlands and vineyards. The
commercial prosperity Of the people brought
with it expansion In the trade marts Of the
world. Germany. soured by the uselessness
of its own colonial efforts, experienced the
novel sensation of being heedlessly elbowed
to one side by its mercurlal nelghbor.
Frenchmen were taught reason by con-
tentment. The Russian alliance was no
longer coveted; chickering's against England
became spasmodic and feeble, while the
last man that Henry V regarded as an an
tagonist was the German emperor.
France, in it's dream of peace, was even
forgetting the lost provinces!
But the king and his advisers should have
read the open DOCK Supplleu ny ne ieCoIueu
utterances Of their geatest enemy.
Every state" said Bismarck, must
recognize that it's security rests on its owr
sword" Henri did well to enrich his people
but i'll to neglect the safeguards Of French
Independence
The New cork press explained the situa.
tion with point and fippancy. Germany
must fight or bust" wrote one paper. "Tht
kaiser must either throttle France or bt
drummed out Of power by an impoverished
people, furnishing and mutinous. The nation
is sinking beneath ever-increasing militar!
burdens which must be met out Of a falling
revenue. The alternative, to the German
emperor's thinking, is simple. The rest o
the world desires peace; he must have war
and every other interest but that Of tn
house OF Hohenzollern may go hang"
No wonder then that Evelyn Vansittar
was sad at heart in the midst of pleasan
surroundings, or that her emotions were no
in harmony with the joyous springtide i
the hills. She knew full we'll that France
sore pressed, would in the hour of ex