The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-05-02

the very heat of the argument In.
which she had thrown herself ha
warmed her malice and s~harpened II
weapon Of her wit. She could justif
her expressed opinion only by event
and II occurred to her that she migi
be able to shape events In such a wa
that she could say with eyes If not 1
words, Il told you so"
Her fading smile frightened. "Dea
chancellor, you do well to have fat
IN your imperial pupil" said she
You've helped to make him what b
Is, and you're ready to keep him wha
he should be. ! suppose even that II
being but a young man and having tn
hot blood OF his race, he should stta'
into a primrose path you would tax
advantage Of old friendship to-ef-
put up slgnposts and barriers"
Were there the slightest chance o.
such necessity arising" grumbled tn,
chancellor, Struggling bis shoulders.
tits like your integrity and courage
What a comfort, then, that tbs neces
sity Is so unlikely to ariser'
The old man looked at her with level
gaze, the ruthless look that brushes
away a woman's paint and powder and
coldly counts the wrinkles underneath.
Il must have misunderstood you, then,
a moment ago" he said. II thought
your argument was all the other way
round, madam"
Il told you | was amusing myself
What can one do at a ball when one
has reached the age when 1t would be
foolish to dance? Why, | believe that
Lady Mowbray and her daughter are
not remaining long In K~ronburg."
AT last she was able to judge that
she had given the chancellor a few un-
easy moments, for his eyes frightened
visibly with relief. "Ah," he returned.
then they are going out of Rhaetla?"
mot exactly that" said the baroness
slowly, pleasantly and distinctly. 81
hear that they've been asked to the
country to visit one Of his majesty's
Oldest friends"
Leopold was not supposed to care for
dancing, though he danced-as 1t was
his pride to do all things-well. Ger
tainly there was often a perfunctori.
ness about his manner In a ballroom,
a suggestion of the soldier on duty in
his unsmlling face and his readiness
to lead a partner to her seat when a
dance was over.
But tonight a new Leopold moved to
the music. A girls white arm on his
that slender arm which had been
quick and firm as a mans In his de
fense-the perfume of a girls hair
and the gold glints upon 1t. the shadow
Of a girls dark iashes and the light In
a pair of gray eyes when they were
lifted. the beating of a girls heart near
him, the springtime grace Of a girls
sweet youth In Its contrast with the
vo%luptuous summer Of Rhaetian types
OF beauty. the warm rose that spread
upward from a girls childlike dimples
to the womanly arch of her brows-all
these charms and more which rendered
one girl a hundred times adorable took
hold Of him and made him not an EN-
peror, but a man, unarmored.
When the music ceased he fancied
an instant that some accident had
befallen the musicians. Then when he
that the end OF the dance had
In Its due time he remembered
with pleasure a rule of his court estab.
Iished In the days Of those who had
been before him. After each dance an
interval Of ten minutes was allowed
the beginning of another. Ten
minutes are not much to a man who
has things to say which could hardly
oe said In ten hours. Still, they are
something. and to waste even one
would be like splitting a drop Of pre-
'ious elixir from a tiny bottle contain
ne but nine other drops.
They had scarcely spoken yet. ex.
'ept for commonplaces which any one
night have overheard, since the day
N the mountain, and In this first mo.
nent Of the ten each was wondering
whether or no that day should be liz.
between them. Leopold did not
that It should be spoken of, for II
vas possible that the girl did not recog.
lie the channels hunter In the emper
n. and Virginia did not feel that she
ould speak Of II. But. then. few
hings turn out as people feel they
hould. ]
Next to the throne room was the J
allroom, and beyond was another
nown as the waldsaal. which Leo I
had fitted up for the qualification {
{ a fancy. II was named the wald. j
aai because It represented a wood.
Walls and ceiling were masked with
iick growing creepers trained over in. o
wires, through which peeped
fars Of electric light, like the check.
Of sunshine between netted q
Trees grew up, with their q
,ots in boxes hidden beneath the q
loss covered floor. There were grot. l.
'es Of ivy draped rock In the corners. .
here and there, out from leafy u
ladows. glittered the glass eyes Of IL
rds and animals-eagles. stays, cham .
3. wolves and bears-which the en- o
.ror had shot. d
This strange room, so vast as to seem u
npty when dozens Of people wan
red beneath Its trees and among its u
Oh RrOttoQa waa fhravvp nrap 80