Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-08-10
Art and Prince In a Romance.
From the New York World.
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CHAPTER /.
At q round table, before a cafe IL
Florence, sat a party of young artists,
drinking, smoking and talking.
DO YOU see that tall young German
at that table owe there?' said n of
Il like his face. / am going to sketch
it,"
Rapidly the young artist drew the
face, his companions turning from the
sketch to the model and back again as
they watched with interest the fea-
lures grow upon the paper.
This attention attracted the notice of
the youth who was being drawn, and he
glanced up to see what was happening.
When he saw a man sketching him he
| deliberately turned yer a wine card,
drew a pencil from his pocket and,
| without a smile, began to sketch the
artist. The artist laughed and hurried
ly finished his picture. The model
laughed pack and finished his. Then he
rose, walked over to the group of art
lists and asked to see the sketch for
offering the artist the one he had
drawn.
Not bad" said the artist.
I like that" said the ylung German.
What is your name?"
The artist drew forth a card which
read:
S. GUANCI, Scultore.
"I am a sculptor he said briefly.
Thu German opened his cardcase and
handed his card to the artist, at the
same time directing the waiter to bring
another fiasco OF wine. The sculptor
started as he read:
FREDERICK WILHELM.
Deutscher Kronprintz n Won Preus-
sen.
The young men presented their com.
panions mutually and spent an hour
talking about art and beauty. The ltal.
ianS congratulated the crown prime
on his coming wedding and they al
became good friends. Before they part
ed the crown prince had commissioned
the sculptor TO make a bust of him as
a present to the charming Duchess
Cecilie. who was SO soon TO become
his bride. and had promised to give
ing home.
CHAPTER II.
Berlin was full and gayly decorated
The wedding of the crown prince and
Duchess Cecilie Of MeckIenberg was
only two days off and the big guards
at the gates of the palace looked more
important than ever as they saluteG
the imperial carriages bearing the
royal guests that were arriving by ev.
cry train.
A youth, bearing a large and well
| wrapped parcel, pushed through the
crowd to the police gates, n was
halted by the sentry.
Il want to see the crown prince" he
said.
you cannot pass" said the sentry
Signor Guanci protested in voluble
Italian that was lost upon the soldier,
but he succeeded after much argu-
ment in getting his card sent in to the
palace. After waiting a long time an
aid-de-camp came bursting out and
brought the sculptor past the sentries,
through the gates n into the splendor
of the imperial palace, where the crown
prince embraced him, took him TO a
room, assigned a valet to wait upon
him, helped him to remove the wrap
pings from the bust, praised its ex-
e%cution, and carried it himself to the
lodging place of the duchess, present.
ing 1t to her as a wedding gift.
The young artist remained in the pal
ace until after the wedding, a personal
guest of the crown prince, and was in
troduced to the bride, the kaiser, kais-
erin, and all the other royalties who had
assembled for the ceremony. This gave
him a vogue in Berlin. Reinhold Begas,
the emperor's favorite sculptor. encour-
aged him to remain n took him into
his w studio. Orders for portrait
busts poured in upon him, and he was
soon on the hig ! road to fortune.
CHAPTER III.
Judge and Mrs. o. f. LIE Fevre are
among the leaders of society in Denver.
They have a daughter by name Fred
erica, whose fame for beauty has
spread all over the middle Rocky noun
tail region. AS a girl at Miss VOL
colts seminary and as a young woman
at Bryn Mawr, she had shone by her
musical falnntS and NV har rao1, 1,.i4
as well as by her beauty. She was fond
of riding and her fathers stables were
well stocked. At horse shows in Colo
rado h rode her own mounts and won
several blue ribbons, and when she ex-
hibited in New York and st. Louis she
returned triumphant with more.
Charles Estes of Philadelphia, son of
the rich manufacturer of musical in
struments, spent some weeks in Dem
yer last spring and paid assiduous court
to Freddie" LIE Fevre. Her trends
thought h had been won at last, es-
pecially as his attentions were evident
ly encouraged by Judge and Mrs. lie
Fevre. There was a report that they
were engaged, but those who knew the
girl intimately ridiculed ii, saying they
were very good friends and that she
had never considered young Estes SER
iously as a possible husband.
Last May the LIE Fevre family went
abroad to remain four years. Miss lie
Fevre was to study music and lang
uages, and the judge laughingly said
she need not think of matrimony until
her studies were complete. A few
months ago Judge lie Fevre paid a
flying visit to Denver, and said: Fred
de- was working eight hours a day
and getting along famously.
CHAPTER ".
At a small reception in the house of
a musically inclined woman in Berlin
Signor Guanci was presented to Miss
LIE Fevre. He heard her sing, and her
voice touched his warm Italian heart.
She and her mother visited the studio
of Reinhold Begas and admired the
work of the younger man.
Music and sculpture, sister arts,
brought the girl from the golden west
and the man from the sunny south
together. Their interests were SIM
liar. but not identical-sufficiently
alike TO unite them, and not alike
enough to overlap. In the ~conversa-
tons on their several arts Cupid in
terposed. The Italian wooed and the
American was won. Now the cables
announce their bptrOthal