The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23

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Then you will give her ups" There
The count smiled. To her it was a
smile scarce less than snarl.
"Give her up? Yes, as mother
gives up her child, as a lioness her cub.
She has refused me, but nevertheless
she shall be my wife. Oh, I am well
versed in human nature. She loves her
father, and I know what sacrifices she
night!-'' But his lips suddenly closed.
"Well, tonight2 Why do you not go
on?' Mrs. Chadwick was pale. Her
gloved hands were clenched. A spasm
of some sort seemed to hold her in its
| shaking grasp.
"Nothing, nothingl In, heaven g
name, why have you stirred me soS''
he cried. -,
supposing, after all, I loved youq"
He retreated. " Madam, your sup
positions are becoming intolerable and
| impossible. -.
"Nothing is impossible. Surprising I
loved you as violently and passion
ately as you love this girls"s
~ Ia 49, hastly End with 5ah;n gentle as
cause me to blush for you; say nothing
you may regret tomorrow.
"I am a woman of circumspection.
My supDositions are merely argumenta-
tive. Do you realize, count. that I
could force you to marry me?'
Karloff's establishment could not be
equaled. "Force me to marry you9'
els the thought so distasteful.
them"
"You are mad tonightl'
"Not 50. In whatever manner you
have succeeded in this country, your
debt of gratitude is owing to me. L 40
not recall this fact as a reproach; I
make the statement to bear me on in
what I have to submit to your discern
ing intelligence. doubt II there IS
another woman, here or abroad, who
knows you so well as /: Your personal
honor is beyond impeachment, but Rus
STA is making vast efforts to speckle it..
She will succeed Yes, I could force
you to marry me. With word l could
tumble your house of cards: am q
worldly woman, and not without VII
your letters, most of all have [ treas
ured the extravagant ones. To some
you signed your name. It you
serve that my given name might
mean any one of q thousand
women who are named Grace, Shall
you marry mes Shall tumble your
house Of cardsY | could 60 to Colonel
Annesley and say to him that # he de-
livers these plans to you, l shall de-
nounce him to the secret service OIL,
! GERS, I might cause his utter financial
ruin, but his name woud descend to his
daughter untarnished.
"You would not dare!' the count
interrupted. ,,o
"What? And you know me so well
I have not given you my word to reveal
nothing. You confided IN my rare qua
, Lol
not infalible, even when he is named
Karloff. ~ She lifted from vase her
flowers, from which she shook the
water. claws have been passed or
annulled; laws have died at the execu-
tive desk. Who told you that this was
to be, or that, long before it came to
pass In all the successful intrlgues OF
Russia in this country, whom have you
to thank? Me- Ordinarily woman
does not do these things as a pastime
There must be some strong motive be-
hind. You asked me why | have stirred
YOU so. Perhaps it is because an
neither two-and-twenty nor you two
score. 1T is these little barbs that re
main in a woman's heart. Well, dc
! not love you well enough to marry you
but I love you too well to permit you te
marry Miss Annesley.'
"That has the sound Of war. l die
certain nobility.
"How easily you say that night
l Surely there was wisdom in that smilf
3 of mine. And I nearly tumbled int
,, the pitt I must have looked exceed
3 drY lXo,, ~ VOW hitter +on;obt. Hai
: you taken me at my word, l neye:
I And had aIEH ceased ceased to love You, no
e us it possible a''-ironicaily.
t cit is. I have too much pride tt
y permit woma INTO see that I hav'
!. made a. mistake.
"Then you consider in the presen
r instance that you have not made mis-
take7 You are frank
a. ni Least a,h have r not made Madn is
r let IeHe US mot" not be e enemies As you say,
@ owe you too much. What is it you de
sire ?''-with forced amiability.
"Deprive Colonel Annesley of hi
J. honor, that, as youS say, is inevitable
but love that girl asI would chill
n Of my own, and I will not Sc
her caught in net
n this sort, or welded to ma
!, whose government Tobs him j. OF hi
1t EDO not forget that I hold my coun
try first and foremost ''-proudly.
e NLove has no country, nor laws, no
CALLING chains of incertitude. Love
q magnificent only in that it gives a.
!! without question. You love this gil
S. with reservations. You shall not hav
3 her. You shall not have even me, VIII
er love you after a fashion, for I coul
'e never look upon you as a husband; /
y my eyes you would always be an al
complce.'' -,
a "War? Oh, no; we merely seve
re our diplomatic relations,'' she .purret
t. "Madam, listen to me. I shall max
a. one more attempt to win this girl hor
ID orably. For you are right: love to b
love must be magnificent. If she a.
to cepts me, for her sake I will become a
ut outcast, a man without a country.
ri she refuses me, I shall go on to the en-,
It, Speak to the colonel, madam; it is to
er late. Like myself, he has gone tc
ne far. Why did YOU open the way Il
me as you did7 I should have been sa
X isfed with a discontented clerk. Yc
es threw this girl across my path, ind
n rectly. it is true; but nevertheless tt
fault is yours
t! s'I recognize it. At that time d!
1T not realize how much you were to me.
er "You are strange woman. {
e. not understand you.''
re- "Incompatibility. Come, the ca
I'd, rage is waiting. Let us be gone"
n. You have spailt the evening Fl
ne me,o said the count, as he threw h
ny cloak across her shoulders