Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-23


"Well, it's a fair Versailles" OBJ
served Anguish, as they walked down
the street. glancing back at the frown-
ing wall.
1T all goes to make me wonder why
In the name Of heaven we have never
heard Of this land Of Graustark." said
Lorry. still thinking Of the castles
grandeur.
my boy, there are lots Of things we
don't know. We're too busy. Don't you
remember that but one half the world
knows how the other half lives? I'll
wager there are not twenty-five people
in the United States who know there
is such country as Graustark."
~ don't believe that q single soul
over there has heard Of the place."
vouchsafed Lorry, very truthfully.
"Ill accept the amendment" said
Anguish. Then he proceeded to take
snapshot Of the castle from the middle
Of the street. He also secured num-
ber Of views Of the mountain side, OF
some odd little dwelling houses and
two or three interesting exposures OF
red robed children. Everybody, from
the children up, wore loose robes, some
red, some black, some blue, but all In
solid colors. Beneath these robes were
baggy trousers and blouses among the
men, short skirts among the women.
All wore low boots and sort Of tur-
ban. These costumes, Of ,ourse, were
confined to the native civilians. At the
hotel the garb of the aristocrats was
vastly different. The women were
gowned after the latest Viennese pat.
terms, and the men. except those of the
army, wore clothes almost as smart as
those which covered the Americans.
Miss Guggenslocker-or whatever her
name might be-and her carriage COM
panion were as eXquisitely gowned as
any women to be seen on the boule-
Yards or In Hyde park of an afternoon.
1t was late In the afternoon when
they returned to the hotel. After din.
ner, during which they were again OBJ
jects Of interest, they strolled off to-
ward the castle, smoking their cigars
and enjoying the glorious air. Being
stranger in strange land. Lorry acted
OH the romantic painters advice and
also stuck a revolver in his pocket He
laughed at the suggestion that there
might be use for the weapon in such a
quiet, model, well regulated town, but
Anguish insisted:
"l've seen lot Of these fellows
around town who look like genuine
brigands and cutthroats. and think 1t
just Us well that we be prepared" as
serted he positively, and bis friend
gratified what he called whim.
At 10 o'clock the slender moon
dropped behind the mountain. and the
valley. which had been touched with
its tender light, gradually took on the
somberness and stiffness Of starlit
night. The town slumbered at II, and
there were few lights to be seen in the
streets or In the houses. Here and
there strolled the white uniformed pO-
lice guards, occasionally soldiers hur-
ried barrackward, now and then belat-
ed citizens moved through the dense
shadows on the sidewalks, but the
Americans saw still life in it's reality.
Returning from their stroll beside the
castle walls far to the west Of where
they had entered the grounds that aft
ernoon. they paused In the middle Of
Castle avenue near the main gate and
looked down the dark. deserted street.
Far away could be seen the faint glare
from their hotel. One or two street
lamps burned In the business part Of
the city. Aside from these evidences Of
life there was nothing but darkness.
silence, peacefulness, about them ev-
erywhere.
"Think of Paris or New York at II
O'clock" said Lorry, trife .awed by
the solitude of the sleeping city.
"It's as dead as piece Of prairie
land" said his friend. "Gad. it makes
me sleepy to look down that street. It's
mile to the hotel, too. Lorry. We'd
better move along"
Lets lie down near the hedge.
smoke another cigar and wait till mid
night. 1t is too glorious night to be
lost in Sleep" urged Lorry, whose
heart was light over the joys Of the
day to come. ~ can dream just as
we'll here. looking ut that dark old cas-
tie, with it's one little tower light. rs
could if | tried to sleep in q hard
bed down at the hotel"
Anguish, who was more or less Of q
dreamer himself. consented. and after
lighting fresh cigars they threw them
selves OH the soft, dry grass near the
tall hedge that fenced the avenue as
it neared the castle grounds. For half
an hour they talked by fits and starts.
one thinking of the face he had seen.
the other picturing in his artist eye the
painting he had vowed to create from
the moonlit castle Of an hour ago.
"Some one coming" murmured the
painter, half rising to his elbow at
tentively.
Soldiers" said the other briefly.
They'll not disturb u.s."
They'll not even see US. should
say. It's as dark as Egypt under this
hedge. They'll pass if we keep quiet"
The figures of two men could be seen
approaching from the city. dim and
ghostly in the semiblackness Of the
night. Like two thieves the Ameri-
cans waited for them to pass. 10
their exceeding discontinue, however,
the pedestrians halted directly in front
of their resting place and seated them
selves leisurely upon broad. fiat
stone at the roadside. 1t was too dark
to see If they were soldiers, notwith-
standin: the fact that they were less
than fifteen feet away