Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-31

Mowbray on the plea that she had III
a way the right to annex 1t.
The mother of the late Duke OF
had been a Miss Now
bray, and there were still several emil |
nently respectable, inconsptcuoQS Now
bray cousins. Among these cousins
was q certain Lady Mowbray. widow
of q baron of that ilk and possessing
a daughter some years older and In
Vulnerable degrees palmer than the
Princess Virginia.
To this Lady Mowbray the grand
duchess had gone out Of her way to be
kind in Germany long years ago. wnen
she was a very grand parsonage In
deed and Lady Mowbray comparative
ly a nobody. The humble connection
had expressed herself as unspeakably
grateful, and the two had kept up
friendship ever since. Therefore when
the difficulty of realism in name pre-
scented itself the grand duchess thought
of Lady Mowbray and Miss Helen
Mowbray. They were about to leave
England for India. but had not yet
left, and the widow Of the baron was
flattered as well as amused by the ro-
mantle confidence reposed IN her Dy
the widow Of the grand duke. She was
delighted to lend her name and her
daughters name and who could blame
the lady II her mind rushed forward TO
the time when she should have earned
gratitude from the young empress or
Rhaetia? For of course she had no
doubt Of the way in which the adven-
ture would end.
AS for the wife of the late British
am bassador to the Rhaetian court, she
was not sentimental and therefore was
not quite as comfortably sure of the
sequel AS far as concerned her own
part in the plot. however. she FELT safe
enough for. though she was after Il
fashion deceiving her old acqualnt-
ances at Kronburg. she was not foist
ing adventuresses upon them. On
the contrary. she was giving them a
chance of entertaining angels I'M
awares by sending them letters to
ladies who were in reality the Grand
Duchess of Baumenburg-D rippe and
the Princess Virginia.
The four mysterious gentlemen left
Alleheiligen the day after Virginia's
encounter with the chamois hunter.
But the Mowbrays fingered on. Tie
adventure had begun so goriously that
the girl feared an anticlimax for the
next STEP Though she longed for the
second meeting she dreaded it as we'll
and put off the chance Of it from day
to day. The stay Of the Mowbrays at
| Alleheiligen heightened into week,
| luGA ID lrck 1yy
just in time for the great festivities
at Kronburg which were to cele-
brate the emperor's thirty-frst birth
| day, an event enhanced in national
Importance by the fact that the eighth
anniversary Of his coronation would
| fall on the same date.
| On the morning of the journey the
grand duchess had neuralgia and was
frankly cross.
II don't see, after all. what you've
accomplished so far by this mad freak
which has dragged us across Europe,
she said fretfully in the train which
they had taken at town twenty miles
from Alleheiligen. "We've perched or
mountain top, like the ark OH Ara
| rat, for week. freezing. The adven
ture you had there is only compiled
ton. What have we to show for oul
trouble-unless incipient rheumatism
Virginia had nothing to show for 1t
at least nothing that she meant t.
show, even to her mother. but In {
little scented bag Of silk which lay
next her heart was folded bit o
blotting paper. II you looked at 1t.
reflection in mirror you saw writer
twice over in firm individual han,
the name "Helen MOwbray."
The princess had found 1t on tabl
In the best sitting room after Fra,
Yorvan had made that room ready TO
its new occupants. Therefore she lovet
Alleheiligen: therefore she though
with redoubled satisfaction of her visi
there.
To learn her full name he must hav'
thought 1t worth while to make in
quiries. 1t had fingered In his thought
or he would not have scrawled it twic,
on some bit of paper-since destroyed
no doubt-in moment Of idle dream
ing.
Through most Of her life Virgins
had known the lack of money, but sh
would not have exchanged thousan,
pounds for the contents of that littl
bag.
Hohenlangenwald Is the name Of tn
house from which the rulers of Rhae
: tia sprang. Therefore everything /
+ the beautiful city of Kronburg whic
can take the name Of HohenlangeI
: wald has taken 1t. and it was at tn
. Hohenlangenwald hotel that suit Q
) rooms had been engaged for Lad
Mowbray.
The travellers broke the long journe
, at Melinabad. and virglnia's study @
trains had timed their arrival In Kror
! burg for the morning of the birthda