The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-11-01

SYNOPSIS.


SYNOPSIS.
Arthur Warrington, American consul
to Barschet, tells how reisning Grand
Duke attempts to force his nelce, frill-
cess Hildegarde. to marry Prince Dopple-
kim, an old widower. Warrington does
not know the princess even by slght:
While horseback riding in the country
night overtaSes him ana he seeks acG Igdna
modations in a dilapidated castle Here
he finds two women and an olo man
servant. One woman Is Princess Iila at,,
garde and the other a friend, HON oettS
Moore, of England They detaln nm 10
witness a mock marriage between tne
princess and dissraced army 0li iSi,
Stenbock, done for the purpose OF 1oliiIg
kiss the princess and she is rescued by
Warrington. Steinbock disappears 1or
good. Max Scharlenstein, an OLD AMER
can friend of Warringtons reaches Oar
CHAPTER w.
He came straight to the consulate
and / was so glad to see him that l
sat him down in front of the sideboard
and left orders that / was at home to
no one. We had been classmates and
roommates at college, and two better
friends never lived. We spent the
whole night in recounting the good
old days. sighed little over the de-
parted ones, and praised or criticized
the living. Hadn't they been times,
though? The nights we had stolen up
to Philadelphia to see the shows, the
great Thanksgiving games in New
York, the commencements, and all
that!
Max had come out of the far west
He was a founding who had been
adopted by a wealthy German ranch
man named Scharfenstein, which name
Max assumed as his own, it being as
good as any. Nobody knew anything
about Max's antecedents, but he was
so big and handsome and jolly that no
one cared hang. For all that he did
not know his parentage, he was gen
tleman, something that has to be bred
in the bone. Once or twice l remem-
Der seeing him angry; in anger he was
arrogant, deadly, but calm. He was
god in track-linen, for he was what
few big men are quick and agile. The
big fellow who is catlike in his move
ments is the most formidable OF ath-
letes. One thing that Inevitably
amused me was his inordinate love OF
uniforms. He would always stop when
he saw soldier or the picture of one,
and his love of arms was little short
of a mania. He was an expert fencer
and a dead shot besides. pardon the
rarenthesis, but feel it my duty to
thof f0h q
this little history, and nobody gets
killed)
On leaving college he went in for
medicine, and his appearance in the
capital city Of Barscheit was due OBJ
viously TO the great medical college.
famous the world over for its nerve
specialists. This was Max's first ad-
venture in the land of gutturals. ex-
planned to him, and partly unraveled
the tangle of laws; as to the language
he spoke that, not like native, but
as one.
Max was very fond of the society OF
women, and at college We used to twit
him about it, for he was always eager
10 meet a new face, trusting that the
new one might be the ideal for which
he was searching.
well, you old Dutchman," said
have you ever found that ideal won
an of yours?"t
Bah!"-lighting a pipe. "She will
never be found. A horse and trusty
dog for me; those two you may event
ually grow to understand. OF course
don't say, If the woman came along
the right one-I mightn't go under
I'm philosopher enough to admit tina
possibility. / want her tall, hair like
cornsilk, eyes like the corn-tiower, o
brilliant intellect, reserved, and ydigni
fed, and patient. want a woman
not humorous, but who understand
humor, and have never heard of one
So, you see, it's all smoke; and neye
talk woman these times unless In
smoking, with a gesture which eX
planned that he had given up the idei
altogether. "a doctor sees so mucl
of women that he finally sees nothin!
OF woman"
ooh, if you resort to epigrams.
can see that it's all over"
"All over. I'm so used to beini
alone that l shouldn't know what t
do with a wife" He pulled seriously.
All the futility of our desires, G
our castles, of our dreams! The CON
placency with which we jog along Il
what we deem to be our own particula
groovei, ! recall a girl friend of m
youth who was going to be celibatt
a great reformer, and toward that en-
was studying for the pulpit She
now the mother of several children
the most peaceful and lucrative Won
an /. know. You see, humanity goo
whirring over various sideirack.
thinking them to be the main line. I'll
fate puts its peculiar but happy h&s
to TIC switch. Scharfenstein had Zee