The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-08-04

The affair had three obvious results
the marriage OF Prince Julian, Sir
Henry Shum's baronetcy and the COM
plete renovation of Lady Craigenoch' g
town house. Its other effects. if any.
We're more obscure.
By accident of birth and of political
events Prince Julian was a pretender,
one of several gentlemen who occupied
that position in regard to the throne of
an important European country. BY
necessity of their natures Messrs Shum
& Byers We're financiers. Thanks to n
fall in rents and a taste for speculation.
Lady Craigenoch was hard put to it for
money and had become a good friend
and ally of Mr.. Shum Sometimes he
allowed her to put finger in one of
dis ~ies and draw ont a little plum for
herself Eyprs, herring one day of his
partners acquaintance with Lady
Craigeaoch Observed "She might in
trodune us To Prince Julian. Shum
asked no n,nstions. hut obeyed. That
was the WY to be comfortable and tc
grow rich i Son were Nr Byers' part
ner 1he i;'roduetinn e;s duly effect
ed The irlaee wondered vaguely, al
most rueftl!iy What these men expect
ed to get ont of him Byers asked him
self quite asdolefully whether any thing
could be made out Of an INDECENT, ar
tistic, lazy yonng man like the prince
Pretenders such as he served only to
buttress existing governments.
"Yes, agreed Shum Besides. he's
entangled with that woman.
lis there a woman asked Byers
II should like to know her..
SO, on his second visit to Palace
Gate. Mr. Byers was introduced to the
lady who was an inmate in Prince
Julian's house. but was not received in
society Lady Craigenoch. however,
opining, Justly enough, that since she
had no girls she might know whom she
pleased. had called on the lady and was
on friendly terms with her. The lady
was named Mrs Rivers and was under
stood to be widow
And surely one needn't ask for his
death certifcate!'' pleaded Lady
Craigenoch Byers. as he took tea in
Mrs Rivers boudoir. was quite of the
same mind He nursed his square chin
in his lean hand and regarded his host
ess with marked attention She was
handsome-that fact concerned Byers
very little; she was also magnihcently
self confident that trait reused his in
terest in moment He came to see her
more than once again. for now an idea
mad begun to shape itself in his brain.
He mentioned it to nobody, least of all
to Mrs. Rivers. But one day she said to
him, with The careless contempt that he
admired
IF had all yonr money. should do
something with it
don II" he asked, half liking. half
resenting. her manner
'.Oh, you make more money with it
suppose.
She paused for moment, and then.
leaning forward. began to discuss Eu
ropean politics with especial reference
to the condition of affairs in Prince
Julian country Byers listened in ST.
lence She told him much that be knew.
a few things which had escaped him
She told him also one thing which he
did not believe-that Prince Julian g
incident airs covered a character Of rare
resolution and tenacity She repeated
this twice, thereby betraying that she
was not sure her first statement had
carried conviction Then she showed
that the existing government in the
princes country was weak, divided I'M
popular and poor. and then she ran over
the list Of rival pretenders and proved
how deficient all of them were in the
qualities necessary to gain or keep a
throne At this point she stopped and
asked Mr. Byers to take a second cup of
tea. He looked at her with interest and
amusement in his shrewd eyes. She had
all the genius. the native power. with
none of the training. none of the knowl-
edge. Of men He read her so easily. but
there was a good deal to read In one
point. however. he read her wrongly
Almost the only mistakes he made we're
dne to fo:setting the possible existence
1 OF rnsell.al emotion.
Prince .iniapk had plenty of imagina-
tion: withonr any difficulty he imagined
himself rega.ning his ancestral throne
| sitting on it III majesty and esta blish-
ing it in power This vision Mrs Riv-
srs called up before his receptive mind
by detailing her conversation with Mr.
Byers lyon want nothing but money
10 do it. she said. And Byers had
money in great heaps. Shum had it.
too. and Shum was for present purposes
Byers. SO were number of other per-
Cons. all with money 81 believe the
people are devoted to me in their
hearts. said Prince Julian; then he
caught Mrs Rivers by both her hands
and cried. And then you shall be my
J queen.
Indeed won 4, : said she, and she
added almost fercely: why do you
bring that up again nowr 1t would
spoil 1t all " For, contrary to what the
world thought Prince Julian had offer
ed several times to marry the lady who
was not received or visited. except OF
course by Lady Craigenoch. Stranger
still. this marriage was the thing which