The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-05-08
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hours"
"Ha, ha. You mean me to under
/ stand that there's no time to waste"
mot a moment"
What is the girl like?"
Tall and slender. pink and white as
flower dark lushed and yellow hair
ed. like an Austrian beauty; eyes
gray or violet. it would be heard to
say which for man of my years. but
even | can assure you that when the
lady looks down, then suddenly up
again under those dark lashes. it's
something to quicken the pulse Of any
man under sixty"
1T would quicken mine only to hear
year description if you hadn't just put a
maggot in my head that tickles me to
laughter instead of raptures," said the
prince. ''Tell me this-has this girl a
tiny black mole just over the left eye
brow. very fetching, and when she
smiles does her mouth point upward a
bit on the right side, like fairy sign
post showing the way to small round
scar almost as good as q dimple?"
The chancellor reflected for few
seconds ana then replied that unless
his eyesight and his memory had de-
ceived him both these marks were to
be met with on Miss Mowbray's face.
lie did not add that he had seen her
but once and ut the time had not taken
interest enough to note details. for 1t
was plain that the prince had theory
as to the ladys real identity and to es-
tablish it rs fact might be valuable.
as it possible that you've already
met this dangerous young person?" he
asked eagerly.
"Well. begin to believe it may be
so. III explain why later. Thereby
hangs confession. At all events,
certain lady exactly answering the de-
scription. you've given is very likely in
this neighborhood. I've heard that she
was shortly due in 4kronburg, and it
was in my mind when deciding sud
denly to spend few days in the woods
for the sake of seeing you that !
might see her also before l went home
again. AS matter OF fact, the lady
and | have had a misunderstanding
at rather unfortunate moment, as Ia
just imprudently taken her into my
confidence neutrality-suspicious. family
affairs. If it is she who is masquerad-
inc in Rhaetia as Miss Mowbray and
turning your emperor,s head. it may he
that she's trying to, revenge herself on
me. She's pretty enough to beGuile st.
Anthony, let alone st. Leopold. and
she's clever enough to have thought
out such scheme. Our small quarrel
happened about four weeks ago, and
Eve lost sight Of the lady since. She
disappeared, expecting probably to be
followed. but she wasn't. The only
question is. If she's playing Miss Now
bray, where did she get the mother!
I've heard there is 4 Mowbray mother
"Theres faded Dresden china shep-
herdess that answers to the name
said the chancellor dryly. But these
mantelpiece ornaments are easily man
ufactured."
The prince was amused. mo; she
wouldn't stick at mother II she
wanted one" he chuckled. "And, while
she was about it, she has apparently
annexed a whole family tree. Ihe
black mole and the scar dimple-you're
sure of them, chancellor? Because, If
you are
"Oh, l am practically celtain!
"Then the more pieces in the puzzle
which I fit together the more likely
does it seem that your Leopold's Miss
Helen Mowbray and my Miss Jenny
Brett are one and the same"
"Nliss Jenny Brett?"
"Did you never hear the name"
"If l have I've forgotten it"
"Chancellor, you wouldn't forget II
you were few years younger. Jenny
Brett is the prettiest If not the most
talented singer ever sent out from
Australia, the fashionable home OF
singers. She is billed to sing at the
Court tl.eater of Kronburs III fort
night, her first engagement III Rhae-
tia"
you are right. 1t may well be that
she's been having a game with us-a
game that we can prevent now, thank
heaven from ending in earnest