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

The man outside the door did not
move until the voice was still. He
knew well, though he could not see.
who the singer had been. 1t was i'm
possible for the plump lady at the
window or the thin lady with the
glasses to own q voice like that. 1t
was the girls. She only of the trio
could so exhale her soul in the very
perfume Of sound. for to his fancy II
was like hearing the fragrance Of
rose breathed aloud. II have heard an
angel" he said to himself, but in
reality he had heard Princess Vir-
ginia Of BaumenburgDripp showing
off her very prettiest accomplishment
In the childish hope that the man she
loved might hear.
Leopold of Rhaetia had heard many
golden voices-goiden in more senses
of the word than one-but never be-
fore, it seemed to him, a voice which
so stirred his spirit with pain that
was bittersweet, pleasure as binding
as pain and a vague yearning for
something beautiful which he had new
err known.
If he had been asked what that
something was he could not, If he
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plain that part OF himself which he
has never even tried to understand.
Before he had moved many PAGES
from the door the lovely voice, no
longer paintive, but swelling to bril-
liant triumph, broke into the national
anthem Of -warlike, inspiring
as the "Marseillaise,'' but wider, call
Ing her sons to face death singing In
the defense.
''She's an English girl, yet she sings
our Rhaetian music as no Rhaetian
woman | have ever heard can sing
It," he told himself, slowly passing
on to his own door. "She is a new
type to me. I don't think there can be
many like her. A pity that she is not
princess or else-that Leopold, the
emperor, and Leo. the chamois hunter,
are not two men. Still, the chamois
hunter Of Rhaetia would be no match
for Miss Mowbray of London, so the
weights would balance in the scales
as unevenly as now.'
He gave sigh and a smile that
lifted his eyebrows. Then he opened
| the door of his sitting room to forget
| among certain documents which urged
| the Importance Of an immediate return
] to duty the difference between Leo
| pold and Leo, the difference between
women and woman.
"Goodby to our mountains tomorrow
morning" he said to his three chosen
| companions. "Hey for work and Kron
burg!''
She was going to Kronburg in a few
days. according to Frau Yorvan. Blu,
| Kronburg was not Allehefligen. and
Leopold. the emperor. was not at his
palace in the way Of meeting tourists
or even explorers"
''Shell never know to whom shs
gave her ring" he thought. with the
i dense innocence of q man who ha,
studied all books save wODen's looks
"And I'll never know who gives her
plain gDld one for the finger on which
she once wore this"
But In the next room. divided from
him by single wall. sat Princess Vir
ginia of Baumenburg Drippe.
4 when we meet again at Kronburs
he mustn't dream that l knew all thu
tlme." she was saying to herself. "Tha
would spoil everything-just at first
Yet, oh. some day how l should low
to confess all-all! Only I couldn't pos
sibly confess except to man wht
would excuse or perhaps even approve
because he had learned to love IN,
well. And what shall do. how shall
bear my life now I've seen him, II tina
day should never conner"