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

terday we had a picnic at the Seebach-
fall to see Thorwaldsen's Undine. Leo
pold and Miss Mowbray, being splendid
climbers, reached the statue on the
height over the fall long before the
rest Of us. At starting, however, ! was
close behind with the baroness and
overheard some joke between the two
about mountain and COW. The en-
peror spoke Of milking as fine art
and said he'd lately been taking les
sons. They laughed q great deal at
this. and it was plain that they were
on terms Of comradeship. When
young man and girl have secret
understanding, even the most limo
cent one, it puts them apart from
others.
last night there were fireworks on
the lake. The emperor and Miss Now
bray watched them together, for every
thing was conducted most informally.
Afterward we had an impromptu CO.
tillon, with three or four pretty new
figures invented by the baroness. The
emperor gave Miss Mowbray several
favors, aud one was a buckle of en-
ameled forgetmenots. This morning
there was tennis. The emperor and
Miss Mowbray played together. They
were both SO skillful it was pleasure
to watch them. At luncheon they ate
a double almond out Of one shell, had
a game over 1t, and Leopold caught
Miss ~AIowbray mapping. That brings
us to the moment Of my coming to
you. For the afternoon l fancy the
baroness was getting up riding party,
and this evening, unless they're too
tired, she'll perhaps get up an anna
teur concert at which Miss Mowbray
will sing The girl has delicious
voice."
'"The creature must be fool or an
lor IF she has kept her senses she
ought to know that nothing can come
Of this folly-except sorrow or scan
dali"
Egon shrugged his stimy padded mil
itary shoulders. II have always found
that woman in love doesn't stop to
count the cost"
$50! You fancy her in love- with the
EMPEROR
with the man rather than the EN-.
peror, If I'm judge Of character"
(Which you're not!' Iron Heart
brusquely disposed Of that suggestion.
''The merest schoolgirl could pull the
wool over your eyes II she cared to
take the trouble"
''This one doesn't care 4 rap. She
hardly knows that exist"
"Humph!" The chancellor's eyes
appraised his young brothers features.
THAT'S pity. You might have tried
cutting the emperor out. Her affair
with him can have no happy ending,
while you, in spite Of all your faults,
With your good looks, our position and
my money. wouldn't be bad match
for an ambitious girl"
Your money"
II mean should I choose to make
| you my heir, and I would choose IL
you married to please me. Who are
| these Mowbraysy"
| II haven't had the curiosity to in
quire into their antecedents," said
Egon. II only know that they're la
dies. that they must be Of some conse-
Quence in their own country or they
i couldn't have got the letters Of intro.
,duction they have and that the girl is
/ the prettiest on earth"
/ "Mechtilde talked to me, remem.
Der, good deal about those letters of
Introduction" the chancellor rejected
| R,yk e.
from England, and letters might be
forged. I've known such things to be
done. Fetch me a big red volume
you'll find on the third shelf from the
floor at the left of the south window.
You can't miss it. It's Burke's Peer
age"
Egon rose with alacrity to obey. He
was rather thoughtful, for his brother
had put an entirely new and exciting
idea into his head.
Presently the red volume was dis
covered and laid on the desk before
the chancellor. who turned the leaves
over until he found the page desired.
AS his eye fell upon the long line Of
Mowbrays his face changed, and the
bristling brows came together in q
sgrizzled line. Apparently the women
were not adventuresses, at least In
the ordinary acceptation Of the term.
There they were. His square tipped
finger pressed down upon tho printed
names with dig that might have sig
nified his disposition toward their rep
resentatives.
''The girls mother Is the widow Of
Reginald, sixth Baron Mowbray," the
old man muttered half aloud; ason,
Reginald Edward, fifteen years Of age: