The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

have heard that your countryman, Ma
Jor Counsellor, has come to pay us !
! little visit in Nassau
He is here. / have just seen him, y
replied Hollywood.
Selpdorf's round eyes glanced once
more at his companion. The simple
! directness of the reply was admirable
| but battling.
"Ah, he is invaluable. the good maio.
quite invaluable, England may well
be proud of him. He is one of the
ablest men in Europe, besides"-here
/ he smiled. showing a row of strong.
even teeth-"besides being one of the
most honest. For a diplomatist-what
praise"
Hollywood met his glance impertur-
baby.
For diplomatist, your excellency -
I he repeated.
But assuredly." replied the chancel-
lor, warmly; figure to yourself. my
friend, the condition of politics if all
statesmen were like him-honestl An
invaluable mani
He paused for a reply, but Hollywood
merely bowed. He felt that so much,
at least. was expected of him on the
part of England.
But now, monsieur. with regard to
your own affair. You have been five
And your commando"
AT present fifty troopers at the
block-houses above Kofn Ford and
along the river. In the winter, during
the long, dark nights, when there are
many attempts to run Illicit goods
across the frontier. ] shall have, per-
haps, score or so mere
And you are not tired of it?'' NJ.
Selpdorf raised his hands.
80 tired. your excellency, that / am
half inclined to let a better man step
into nv Shoes
But come. come. that is impossible,"
returned his excellency, agreeably. Are
YOU also tired of our capital of Re
von6e?"
Il have had very little opportunity
of growing tired of Revonde. [ know
nothing of it,
But you would prefer Revonde, be-
lieve me-"
At this moment an attendant APP
peared with card upon a salver Selp-
dorf read the name with the faintesr
contraction of his brows.
You will excuse me. NJ. Rallywood,"
he said, Il must ask you to wait in the
anteroom for few minutes
The ante-room was a long, pillared
corridor, in which Hollywood found
himself quite alone. He fell at once
into SpecuiauonS as to the meaning and
aim OF Selpdorf's late awakened inter-
est in himself. Also the illusions to
Counsellor had probably been made
with calculated intention
Hollywood understood that each of
these two men had the same end in
view: each desired to dissemble his own
character And each of them succeeded
with the many, but failed as be-
tween themselves. Se3pdorf posed as
the suave. sympathetic. good-natured
friend of those with whom he cane in
contact: Counsellor as a man of no
account, rugged soldier. honest.
strong, outspoken. good agent to act
under the direction of more astute
brains, but. If left to has OWE resources.
somewhat blunt and laundering.
To do Hollywood justice. he was far
more occupied with this last thought
than with the things which bore more
directly on his own prospects and fu-
ture. At this period his life was com
paratively tasteless and void of inter-
est; there was nothing to look forward
to, and the recent past meant extremes
of heat and cold, long, solitary rounds
ridden by night. and days rendered so
far alike by iron-handed rule and meth
DDS that one was driven to mark the
lapse of time by the seasons, not by
the ordinary divisions os weeks and
as he lounged ms chair. full of these
thoughts. slight rustic. soft and
silken, like the rustic % woman's
dress, .eaYght his ear. He turned his