The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10

picturesque country and loved and lived once more.
 One night as they walked alone by the banks of the stream he spoke 70 ner of iiis early hopes and tell.es, nis miseries and his now matured views and his new hopes. Violet in reply said a few words which made him the happiest of human beings. As he bent down and kissed her. the frail girl suddenly clung to him with strong
 ''VioIet, my dearest, my own" he cried, you are overcome. Speak tp me"
 She spoke not, but, still clinging to her lover with fearful strength, her head fell on his breast and ner eyes closed. He laid her down by the river side and sprinkled her face with wa ter, calling madIy upon her to speak. A great horror came over him. Her body was cold, her limbs stiff,
 She was quite dead. Vivian Grey screamed and fell senseless over her form The second period in the life or Vivian Grey had ended. like the hrst' in sorrow and disaster. though 1t was an untoward fate and not his own overweeaing self-conf1dence which had this time brought about the result.
 The summer had passed away before Vivian was sufficiently recovered rom the illness that seized him after me tragic death of Violet Fane to be aple to travel Accompanied by the faith-
 full Essper George. he made his way now toward Vienna, and after escaping from the rude hospitality Of hard- drinking German baron and his con- yivial associates he stayed for While as a guest of the Prince of Little Lllll- put a mediatized prince whose an cestraI sovereignty was now merged Tn that of the Grand Duke of Reisenburg.
 They had been equal once, Little Lll- liput and Reisenburg. but Reisenburg
 had played the game better and won the, stakes.
 Vivian had come on the prince in a
 forest where his suite had lost him and where wild boar, held him at bay. Having saved the princes life, the prince naturally took him to the castle as his guest and soon became
 so fascinated by the intelligence and bearing of the young Englishman that he not only induced him to prolong his stay, but made him a conhdant as 10
 the plots which were brewing among the mediatized princes for restora-
 tion of their former power.
 To find himself councillor of princes would once have filled Vivian with exultation; but that time was mast and he gave his advice soberly ana Wllil AttNAo the matter in hand, or as he though for anything else in this world. The question was whether the prince should be reconciled to the Grand Duke oi Reisenburg and accept an important office in his household or should per severe in hls attempt to unite the mediatized princes. After much cogi- tation and negotiation the latter course was decided upon and Vivian found himself at the court of the Grand Duke whither he had gone with the prince. It was a gay court, as German courts so fin these modern days and forma court as German courts have been tr all days. Tie Grand Duke reigned' bu h's Prime Minister ruled-one MT Breckendofff, a man of peasant ex' traction. but of astute m'nd and large conceptions of statesmanship-
 The Prime Minister lived as much o l the time as he could at his country
 house, at a distance from the city
 where one old woman sufficed for hi' interior household and single mar
 servant for h's outdoor work. Ther' he talked farming and studied ornithol | ogy,
 It was a prosperous court and th' | Crown Prince was about to be married
 to an Austrian Rrchduchess' Tor whos' arrival in the capital great prepara | tions were making. The Grown Prince
 was defC Fmed and half-wltted; bu 1 such little matters do not count II
 state marriages. Aat the grand duca | court was a young lady of preat beau ! ty rEcept arrival, whom everxoodI