The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-08-01

SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
Arthur Warrington, American consul
20 Barscheit. tells how reigning Grand
Duke attempts TO force his .neice, Prin-
cess Hi,desards to marry Prime DoP gnss
not know the princess even by sight.
While horseback riding In the country
night overtakes him and he seeks accom-
modations in "A dilapldated castle, Here
he finds two women and an old man
servant. one woman IL Princess Hide
garde and the other friend, Hon Betty
Moore. of England. They detaln him to
witness a mock marriage between the
princess and dlsgraced army officer.
Steinbook, done for the purpose OF foillng
the grand duke. Steinbock attempts to
kiss the princess and she Is rescued by
Warrington. SteinboCk disappears for
good. Max Scharfenstein. an old Ameri-
can friend OF Warrlngton's reaches Bar
scheit.
He came straight to the consulate
and was SO glad to see him that l
sat him down In front OF the sideboard
and left orders that / was at home to
no one. We had been classmates and
roommates at college. and two better
friends never lived. We spent the
whole night In recounting the good
old days. sighed little over the de-
parted ones, and praised or criticized
the living. Hadn't they been times,
though? The nights we had stolen up
to Philadelphia to see the shows, the
great Thanksgiving games In New
York, the commencements, and all
that!
Max had come out Of the far west.
He was founding who had been
adopted by wealthy German ranch
man named Scharfenstein, which name
Max assumed as his own, II being as
good as any. Nobody knew anything
about Max's antecedents, but he was
80 big and handsome and jolly that no
one cared hang. For all that he die
not know his parentage. he was a gen.
tleman, something that has to be bred
In the bone. Once or twice | remem-
Der seeing him angry; in anger he was
arrogant, deadly, but calm. He was a
god In track.linen, for he was what
few big men are, quick and agile. The
big fellow who is catlike In his move.
ments Is the most formidable of ath,
letes. One thing that invariably
amused me was his inordinate love OF
uniforms. He would always stop when
he saw a soldier or the picture of one
and his love of arms was little short
of mania. He was an expert fencel
and dead shot besides. pardon the
f,arenthesis, but | feel II my duty Il
warn you that nobody fights duel II
this little history. and nobody get
killed)
On leaving college he went in To-
medicine. and his appearance in thu
capital city of Barscheit was due oh
viously to the great medical college
famous the world over for its nerv,
specialists. This was Max's first al
venture In the land of gutturals. ex
planned to him, and partly unraveled
the tangle of laws; as to the language
he spoke that, not like native. bu
as one.
Max was very fond Of the society o
women, and at college We used to twi
him about it, for he was always cage
10 meet new face, trusting that tn,
new one might be the ideal for whicl
he was searching.
well, you old Dutchman," said
"have you ever found that ideal won
an of yours?'
Bah!"-lighting a pipe. "She vii
dog for me; those two you may event
ually grow TO understand, OF course
I don't say, II the woman came alon
the right one-I mightn't go undel
I'm philosopher enough to admit tina
possibility. | want her tall, hair Xix
cornsilk, eyes like the corn-fower, {
brilliant intellect, reserved, and dign
fled, and patient. ! want woman
not humorous, but who understand
humor, and have never heard OF ont
So, you see, it's all smoke; and neve
talk woman these times unless IL
planned that he had given up the ide
altogether. "a doctor sees so niue
of women that he finally sees nothin
OF woman"
"oh, II you resort to opigrams.
can see that it's all over"
"All over. I'm so USED 10 Deln
alone that | shouldn't know what
do with a wife" He pulled seriously
All the futility of our desires, I
our castles, of our dreams! The cor
placency with which we jog along
what we deem TO be our own particuli
groove! | recall a girl friend of n
youth who was going to be celibat
a great reformer, and toward that Ell
was studying for the pulpit. She
now the mother OF several childre
the most peaceful and lucrative woI
an know. You see, humanity go'
whirring over various sidetrack
thinking them TO be the main line q
fate puts its peculiar but happy har
70 the switch. Scharfenstein had bee