News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-11-22

The affair had three obvious results
the marriage of Prince Julian, Sir
Henry Shum's baronetcy and the COM
plete renovation of Lady Craigenoch's
town house. It's other effects. if any,
were more obscure
By accident of birth and of political
events Prince Julian was pretender,
tine 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 were financiers. Thanks to a
fall in rents and taste for speculation,
Lady CraigenOch was hard put to it for
money snd had become a good friend
and ally of Mr.. Shum. Sometimes he
allowed her to put finger in one of
his pies and draw out a little plum for
herself Byers, hearing one day of his
partners acquaintance with Lady
Craigenoch, observed "She might in
troduce us to Prince Julian. Shum
asked no questions, but obeyed. That
was the way to be comfortable and to
grow rich if you were Mr.. Byers part
ner The introduction was duly effect
ed. The prince wondered vaguely, al.
most ruefully, what these men expect
ed to get out of him Byers asked him
self quite as dolefully whether anything
could be made out of an indolent, ar
tistic, lazy young man like the prince
Pretenders such as he served only to
buttress existing governments.
Eyes" agreed Shum Besides, he's
entangled with that woman.
"Is there a woman2' asked Byers.
II should like to know her. y
So, on his second visit to Palace
Gate. Mr. Byers was introduced to the
lady who was an inmate in Prince
Julian house. but was not received in
society Lady Craigenoch, however,
opining, justly enough, that since she
had no girls she might know whom shs
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 certifcatel" 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 magnifcently
self confident-that trait reused his in
terest in moment He came to see her
more than once again, for now an idea
had 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 your money, | should dc
something with it. y
don II" he asked, half liking halt
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's country Byers listened in 81.
lence She told him much that he knew,
a few things which had escaped him
She told him also one thing which he
did not believe-that Prince Julian''
indolent airs covered a character of rare
resolution and tenacity She repeated
this twice, thereby betraying that she
was not sure her first statement haC
carried conviction Then she showed
that the existing government in thu
princes country was weak, divided, un
popular and poor, and then she ran owe
the list of rival pretenders and proved
how deficient all of them were in tn,
qualities necessary to gain or keep ;
throne. At this point she stopped ant
asked NJ Byers to take second cup o
tea He looked at her with interest ant
amusement in his shrewd eyes. She hat
all the genius, the native power, witt
none Of the training, none of the knowl
edge, of men He read her so easily, bu
there was a good deal to read In on
point, however, he read her wrongly
Almost the only mistakes he made wer
due to forgetting the possible existenc
of unselfish emotion.
Prince Julian had plenty of imagina
tom without any difficulty he imagine
himself regaining his ancestral throne
sitting on it in majesty and establish
ing it in power This vision Mrs Riy
ers called up before his receptive min
by detailing her conversation with MI
Byers. "You want nothing but none
to do it, " she said And Byers ha
money in great heaps; Shum had il
too, and Shum was for present purpose
Byers; so were a number Of other pei
sons, all with money. 81 believe th
people are devoted to me in thei
hearts, said Prince Julian; then b
caught Mrs. Rivers by both her hano
and cried, "And then you shall be m
queen.
Indeed | won't said she, and sh
added almost fercely "Why do 20
bring that up again nowH 1t woul
spoil it all For, contrary to what I'll
world thought, Prince Julian had offeI
ed several times to marry the lady WI
was not received or visited. except {
course by Lady Craigenoch. Strange
still, this marriage was the thing whic
the prince desired above all things, fC
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