The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-05-30

society In Kronburg, two adventures
es have lied"
The emperor caught his breath. "Ii
you were young man | would kill
you for that" he said
Il 81 know you would. AS it is, my
life is yours But before you take it
for Gods sake, for your fathers sake
hear me outr
i Leopold did not speak for moment
but stared at the vanishing landscape
which he saw through red haze
"Very WELL" he said at last; Il will
hear you, because fear nothing you
4 can say"
when heard of your majesty's adj
miration for certain lady" the chan
cellor began quickly lest the emperor
should change his mind, 81 looked for
her name and her mothers in Burke s
Peerage. There l found Lady Now
bray, widow Of dead baron Of that
Fix, mother of son still a child and
of one daughter, young woman with
many names and twenty eight years
This surprised me, as the Miss
Mowbray had seen at the birthday
ball looked no more than eighteen
and. | was told, confessed to twenty.
The Mowbrays. | learned by little
further research In Burke, were dis
family connected by marriage with the
family Of Baumenburg- Drippe. This
seemed an odd coincidence In the cir
cumstances. But, acting as duty babe
me act, | wired to two persons-Baron
Won Sark, your majesty's ambassador
to Great Britain, and the crown prince
of Hungaria. the brother of Princess
Virginia"
What did you telegraph asked the
emperor icily.
Nothing compromising to your mai
esty, you may well believe. inquired
of Adalbert If he had English rela-
tons, Lady Mowbray and daughter,
Helen, travelling in Rhaetia, and beg
ged that If SO he would describe their
appearance by telegram. To Won Sark
! said that particulars by wire concern
ing the widow of Lord Mowbray and
daughter, Helen, would put me under
personal obligation. Both these mes
sages | sent off night before last Yes
terday | received Adalberts answer,
this morning Won Sarks. They are
here" And the chancellor tapped the
breast Of his gray coat "Will your
majesty read them?"
IF you WISH" replied Leopold at his
haughtiest and coolest.
The old man unbuttoned his coat and
produced coroneted pocketbook,
souvenir Of friendship on his last BIRTH
day from the emperor Leopold saw 1t
and remembered, as the chancellor
hoped he would
Here are the kilograms, your mai
esty," he said "The first one is from
the crown prince Of Hungaria."
"Have no idea where Lady Mowbray
and daughter are travelling; may be
Rhaetia or north pole," Adalbert had |
written, with characteristic hippancy
Have seen neither for eight years
and scarcely know them. But Lady |
M. tall, brown old party, with nose like
hobbyhorse; Helen dark, nose like
mothers wears glasses"
With no betrayal of feeling, Leopold
laid the telegram on the red plush
seat and unfolded the other.
Pardon delay" the Rhaetian am
bassador's message began. "Have
been making inquiries. Lady Now
bray has been widow for ten years.
Not rich. During sons minority has
let her town and country houses.
Lives much abroad. Very high church,
intellectual, at present in Calcutta,
where daughter Helen, twenty-eight,
not pretty, is lately engaged to marry
middle aged judge of some distinction"
"So"-and the emperor threw aside
the second bit of paper-"it is on such
slight grounds as these that man of
the world can label two ladies 'ad-
venturesses.'
The chancellor was bitterly disap-
pointed. He had counted on the i'm
preston which these kilograms must
make, and unless Leopold were act
Ing 1t was now certain that love had
driven him out of his senses.
But If the emperor were mad he
must be treated accordingly, and the
old statesman condescended to bluff"
There is still more to TELL" he said,
If your majesty has not heard enough,
but l think when you have reflected
you will not wish for more. 1t is clear
hat the women calling themselves
Mowbrays have had the audacity to
present themselves here under false
,olors. They have either deceived
Lady Lambert. who introduced them
o Rhaetian society, or, still more like
y, they have cleverly forged their let
ers of Introduction"
why didn't you telegraph to Lady /
while your hand was INF"
'neered Leopold
Il did, your majesty, or. rather, not !
moving her present address, l wired I
friend Of mine, an acquaintance Of |
lers, begging him to make inquiries
Without using my name, but have I
lot yet received an answer to that tele-
ram" :
Until you do l should think that I
ven q cynic like yourself might give q