The Rice belt journal., 1907-11-29

copyright, 1906, Bobbs. Merrill Coz
SYNOPSIS.

FU y SINSFOISs
II arthur Warrington, American cons,
40 Barscheit, tells how reigning Gran
Duke attempts to force his neiCe, Prir
kgses hIldesarde, to marry Prince DOpple
AIM an old widower Warrington doe
M w. SNOW the princess even by sigh
- nIie horseback riding in the Countr
sfsllsnt oVertakes him and he seeks accom-
quotations in dilapdated castle. Her
zglle hndS two women and an old ma
4 tEeryaht. One woman is Princess Hide
PaIue ana the other a friend, Hon. Bett,
tHoore, OF England. They detain him /,
pL,.hess mock marriage between tn,
SIlncesS and diSgraced army officer
2lelnpock, done for the purpose of foilins
ne grand duke. Steinbock attempts t
kSS the princess and she is rescued by
arlington. Steinbock disappears for
5000. Max ScharfenStein, an old Ameri.
an friend of Warrtngton's reaches Bar
HI CHAPTER w.
81 he came straight to the consulate
S ma was so glad to see him that |
sIat him down in front of the sideboard
IND left orders that l was at home to
no one. We had been classmates and
dominates at college, and two better
glends never lived. We spent the
Ehole night in recounting the good
~ days, sighed a little over the de.
larted ones, and praised or criticized
ne living. Hadn't they been times,
ihough? The nights we had stolen up
ZIP Philadelphia to see the shows, the
areat Thanksgiving games in New
Iork, the commencements, and all
bat!
MAX mad come out of the far west.
Fe was foundling who had been
1opted by wealthy German ranch.
an named Scharfenstein, which name
lax assumed as his own, it being as
pod as any. Nobody knew ANYTHING
pout Max's antecedents, but he was
Dig and handsome and jolly that no
aPe cared hang. For all that he did
Pc know his parentage, he was a gen
oman, something that has to be bred
the bone. Once or twice | remem-
y seeing him angry; in anger he was
rogant, deadly, but calm. He was 2
% IN track-linen, for he was what
Nv big men are, quick and agile. The |
3 fellow who is catlike in his move
ehts Is the most formidable of ath-
yes. One thing that invariably
lused me was his inordinate love of
siIOrms. He would always stop when
saw a soldier or the picture of one
IL his love of arms was little short
mania. He was an expert fencer
d a dead shot besides. pardon the
fenthesis, but l feel it my dutv tc
ern you that nobody fights a duel in
Is little history, and nobody gets
ded)
1n leaving college he went In for
fdfcine, and his appearance in the
pital city of Barscheit was due oh.
Pusiy to the great medical college
Aous the world over for its nerve
eclal.sts. This was Max's first ad.
Etofe in the land of gutturals. ex.
lned to him, and partly unrayeled
tangle of laws; as to the language
spoke that, not like a native hut
pne. {
Tax was very fond of the society of
men, and at college We used to twit
ABOUT it, for he was always eager
meet new face, trusting that the
might be the ideal for which
searching. c
you old Dutchman." said .
you ever found that ideal WON. !
3f yours?" Will
san lighting a pipe. "She will ), =
Oe found A horse and trustv :,
Tor me; those two you NAV event y
grow to understand OF course u
ent say, If the woman came alono
ae right one--I mightn't 60 under r'
philosopher enough to admir- Tho, 81
slDliity' | want her tall, hair llk, Y
esilK' eyes like the Corn-aower o y
liant intellect, reserved, and dion,
and patient. l want a woman 81
humorous, but who understand
aor, and have never heard of orc IL
you see, it's all smoke; and I move. i
woman these times unless Tn !"
King, with a gesture which o~
ped that he had given up the ide,
gether. "A doctor sees so mnc'
omen that he finally sees notbin, Id
oman"
%, II you resort to epigrams. !.
see that it's all over" :, y
~ over. I'm so used to holm. u,
e that ! shouldn't know what ye
9TH a wife" He puffed seriously %
i the futility of our desires ,la
sastles, of our dreams! The com :.
'ncy with which we jog along in
we deem to be our own particula y,
ges recall girl friend of m, o,
who was going to be celibate 70
af reformer, and toward that en6 4"
sttidying for the pulpit. She i. as
me mother of several children al,
lost peaceful and unorative won A
knoW. You see, humanity goe .ier
ing over various sidetrack his
Iag them to be the main line, til q
luts Its peculiar but happy han Ike
switch. scbarfenstein had been sine