Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-16


SO many odd equipages, fine horses
prettily dressed women, magnificent
soldiers, that his interest was per
petually unclaimed and he uttered
many EXPLANATIONS of surprised de-
light very foreign to mis- unsual man
ner.
| 81 cannot believe that this Is the
city we saw yesterday" he declared
as the Count called a drosky and babe
the driver make a tour of the avenues
! and the gardens--"you would think
the people we're the happiest in the
world. have never seen so many
smiling faces BEFORE"
The Count understood the situation
| better
Life is sweet to them because of its
uncertainty. They live while they can
/ When used to fish in your English
waters, they sent me to river where
the Mayfly was out-ah, that beauti-
full, fluttering creature which may live
one minute or may live five. He
struggles up from the bottom of the
river, you remember, and then just
as he has extended his splendid wings,
up comes a great trout and swallows
him-the poor thing of ten or twenty
or hundred SECONDS. Here we strug-
!, gle up through the social ranks, and
Just when the waters of intrigue
1ascinate us and we go to play Mar
| clssus to them, up comes the Official
trout and down his throat we go. Some
day will be so many OF us that the
trout will be gorged and unable to
move. Then he will go to the cook
ing pot-but not in our time,
think
Alban remained silent. That mot
In our time'' seemed so strange a say
ing when he called the threats ami
the promises of the fanatics OF Union
street. Was this fine fellow deceiving
himself, or was he like the Russian
bureaucracy, simply ignorant, The
lad Of twenty could not say, but he
made a shrewder guess at the truth
than the diplomatist by his side.
They visited the Lazienki Park,
passing many of Warsaw's famous
people as they went ,aS1 SO afford.
ing the Count many OF. -stunities for
delightful little histories In which such
men excel. No pretty woman escap-
ed his observation, few the rigors OF
his tongue. He could tell you precise.
ly when Madame Latienski began to
receive young Prince Nicolas at her
house and the exact terms in which
old Latienski objected to. the visits
Priests, Jockeys, politicians, actors
for these he had distinguished
gesture Of contempt or pity or graci
GUS admiration. The actresses invari
ably recognized him with allurins
smiles, which he received condescend
| ~ oh
were fortunate When they arrived
Of officers quickly surrounded them
champagne corks might pop and
cigarettes be lighted. This was but
the beginning of round of visits
which Alban found tiresome to the
last degree How many glasses OF
wine he slipped, how many cigarettes
he lighted, he could not have told yor
for fortune. 1t was nearly five
o'clock when they returned to the
hotel and the Count proposed ar
hours repose "de travail
There is no message from you
friend" he said candidly, "no doub
your telegram has troubled him. Per
haps we shall get 1t by dinner time
You must be very tired and perhap'
you would like to lie down."
Alban did not demur and he wen
to his own room, and taking off hi!
boots he lay upon his bed and quickl,
fell fast asleep. Count Sergius, how
ever, had no intention of doing an,
such thing. He was closeted with thu
Chief of Police ten minutes after the!
had returned, and IN twenty he ha,
come to resolution
This young Englishman will NEE
the girl Lois Boriskoff tomorrow morn
Ing" he said. ARREST the pair of Their
and let me know when it Is done. Blu
mind you-treat him as thought III
were your own son. have m.
, reasons"
The Chief merely bowed. He quit
understood that such man as Sergiu
zamoyski would have very goo
reasons indeed.