The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-04-22
EI'TERS

necessarily part of the wonderful
plan concocted In the English garden,
though they were among the details
thought out afterward.
The widow of the hereditary Grand
Duke Of Baumenburg Drippe was re-
ported In the journals Of various coun-
tries to be travelling with the Princess
Virginia and small suit through Can.
ada and the Uuited States, and. fortu-
nately for the success of the innocent
plot, the grand duchess had spent SO
many years of seclusion In England
and had even In her youth met SO few
Rhaetians that there was little fear OF
detection. Her objections to virginia's
scheme for winning lover instead of
thanking heaven quietly for q mere
husband were based on other grounds,
but Virginia had overcome them, and
eventually the grand duchess had prov
ed not only docile, but positively fertile
In expedient
The choosing of the borrowed flag
under which to sail had at first been
a difficulty. 1t was pointed out by q
friend taken into their confidence, a
lady whose husband had been ambas-
sador to Rhaetia, that a real name
and name Of some dignity must be
adopted II proper introductions were
to be given. And II was the grand
duchess who suggested the name of
Mowbray on the plea that she had In
a way the right to annex It.
The mother of the late Duke of
Northumberland had been a Miss Now.
bray, and there were still several emf.
nently respectable, inconspicuous Nov.
bray cousins. Among these cousins
was certain Lady Mowbray, widow
OF a baron Of that Xix and possessing
q daughter some years older and In.
Vulnerable degrees palmer than the
Princess Virginia
To this Lady Mowbray the grand
duchess had gone out of her way to be
kind in Germany long years ago. when
she was very grand parsonage In
deed and Lady Mowbray comparative
ly nobody. The humble connection
had expressed herself as unspeakably
grateful. and the two had kept up
friendship ever since. Therefore when
the difficulty of realism in name pre-
scented itself the grand duchess thought
of Lady Mowbray and Miss Helen
Mowbray. They were about to leave
England for India. but had not yet
left, and the widow of the baron was
dattered as well as amused by the ro-
mantle confidence reposed In her by
the widow Of the grand duke. She was
delighted to lend her name and her
name. and who could blame
the lady II her mind rushed forward to
the time when she should have earned
gratitude from the young empress OF
Rhaetia? For Of course she had no
doubt of the way In which the adven.
ture would end. !
Az for the wife of the late British
to the Rhaetian court, she
was not sentimental and therefore was
not quite as comfortably sure of the
sequel. AS far as concerned her own
part In the plot, however. she felt safe
enough, for. though she was after
fashion deceivlng her old acquaint-
snces at Kronburg. she was not foist-
Ing adventuresses upon them. On
the contrary, she was giving them
chance Of entertaining angels I'M
awares by sending them letters to
ladies' who were In reality the Grand
Duchess OF Baumenburg- Drippe and
the Princess Virginia.
The four mysterious gentlemen LETT
Alleheiligen the day after virginias
encounter with the channels hunter.
But the Mowbrays fingered on. The
adventure had begun so gloriously that
he girl feared an anticlmax for the
next step. Though she longed for the
eepsd meeting she drssdsd 1t - well