Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-10-30

truth you were only Misc Mowbray.
marriage between you and the emperor
would I've out OF the question. You've
never gone into the subject Of your
feelings about this quite thoroughly
with me. aud do wish knew pre-
cisely what you hope for from HIM
what you will consider the-the key
stone of the situation. y ---v--------
"Only for him to say that he loves
me-" Virginia confessed "If I'm right.
II I've brought something new into his
life. something which has shown him
that his hearts as important as his
head, then there will come moment
! when he can keep silence no l0nger
when he'll he forced to say, I love you,
dear. and because we can't belong to
each other day is turned into night for
me- Then when that moment comes
I; the tide of my fortune viii be at it's
hood. shall tell him that love him,
too, and l shall tell him all the truth"
you'll tell him who we really are?"
"Yes. and why I've been masquer-
ading-that 1t was because. ever since
! was a little girl. he'd been the one
man In the world for me; because,
when our marriage was suggeste
through official channels, I made up
my mind that must win him flrst
through love or live single all my
days.
"What IL he should be vexed at the
deception and refuse to forgive you1
You know, darling, we shall be in Z
rather curious position when every.
thing comes out, as we have made all
our friends here under the name of
Mowbray. OF course the excuse for
what we did is that our real position
is hundred times higher than the
one we assumed, and all those to
whom we've been introduced would
be delighted to know us in our own
characters at the end. But Leopold 10
man, not romantic girl, as you
ire. He has always had a reputation
for pride and austerity, for being Just
before he would let himself be gener-
Gus. and 1t may he that to one Of his
nature wild within like yours''-
'You think of him as he was before
we met, not as he is now, II you fancy
he could he hard with woman he
really loved" said Virginia eagerly.
Hell forgive me. dear. I've no fear
Of him any more. Tonight I've no
fear Of anything. He loves me-and-
I'm empress Of the world"
l H,A
with Rhaetia," was the practical re.
Spouse which jumped into the mind
of the grand duchess. but she would
throw no more cold water upon the
rose flame of her daughters exaltation.
She kissed the girl on the forehead,
breathing few words of motherly
sympathy, hut when the princess had
down off to her own room to dress she
shook her diamond starred head doubt
fully.
virginia's plan sounded poetical and
as easy to carry out as to turn q
Kaleidoscope and form charming new
combination of color, or 90 It had
seemed while the young voice plead.
ed, but when the happy face and
radiant eyes no longer illumined the
path the way ahead seemed dark.
To lie sure. the princess had % far
walked triumphantly along the high
road to success, but It was not always
good beginning which led to 4 good
end. and the grand duchess felt 90 she
rang for Ernestine that her nerves
/ would he strained to the breaking point
until matters were definitely settled
for better or for worse.
| Virginia had never been lovelier than
she was that night at dinner, and Egon
Won Breitstein's admiration for her
beauty had in It a fascinating new in
gredient. Until yesterday he had said
to himself. ''lf she be not fair to me,
what care ! how fair she ber' But
now there was a vague idea that she
might, after all. lie for him, and he took
enormous pleasure in the thought that
he was falling in love with q girl who
had captured the emperor's heart
Egon glanced very often at Leopold,
contrasting his sovereign's appearance
unfavorably with his own. The EN-.
I peror was thin and dark. with q grave
rast Of feature, while Egon's face kept
!, the color and youthfulness Of the early
twenties. He was older than Leopold,
but he looked boy. Alma-Tadema
/ would have wreathed him with vine
leaves. draped him with tiger skins
and set him down on Z marble bench
! against a burning sapphire sky. where
he would have appeared more suitably
clad than IN the stir blue and silver
uniform Of crack Rhaetian regiment.
Leopold, on the contrary, would new