Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-11-20


even | can assure you that when the
lady looks down, then suddenly up
again under those dark lashes, it's
something to quicken the pulse Of any
man under sixty"
-".lt- would quicken mine only to heaf-
your description II you hadn't just put q
maggot IN my head that tickles me to
laughter instead Of raptures." said the
prince. ''reIl me this-has this girl a
tiny black mole just over the left eye.
brow. very fetching aud when she
smiles does her mouth point upward 4
bit on the right side, like fairy sign
post showing the way to small round
scar almost as good as a dimpleY'
The chancellor reflected for few
seconds and then replied that unless
his eyesight and his memory had de-
ceived him both these marks were to
be met with on Miss Mowbray's face.
He did not add that he had seen her
but once and at the time had not taken
interest enough to note details, for 1t
was plain that the prince had theory
as to the lady's real identity and to es-
tablish 1t as fact might be valuable.
us 1t possible that you've already
met this dangerous young person?'' be
asked eagerly.
''Well. begin to believe 1t may be
30. Ill explain why later. Thereby
hangs confession. At al events, a
certain lady exactly answering the de-
scription you've given is very likely in
this neighborh0od. I've heard that she
was shortly due in Kronburg, and 1t
was in my mind when deciding sud
denly spend a few days In the woods
for the sake of seeing you that
might see her also before went home
again. AS matter Of fact, the lady
and | have had misunderstanding
at rather unfortunate moment, as I'd
just imprudcntly taken her into my
confidence neutrality-suspicious. family
affairs II it is she who is masquerad-
ing In Rhaetia as Miss Mowbray and
turning your emperor's head, 1t may be
that she's trying to revenge herself on
me. She's pretty enough to beguile st.
Anthony, let alone st. Leopold. and
she's clever enough to have thought
out such scheme. Our small quarrel
happened about four weeks ago, and
I've lost sight OF the lady since. She
disappeared. expecting probably to be
followed. but she wasn't. The only
question is. II she's playing Miss Now
bray. where did she get the mother?
I've heard there is a Mowbray mother"
There's faded Dresden china shep-
herdess that answers to the NAME"
said the chancellor dryly. "But these
mantelpiece ornaments are easily man.
ufactured."
The prince was amused. "No: she
wouldn't stick at a mother II she
wanted one." he chuckled. "And, while
she was about 1t, she has apparently
annexed a whole family tree. The
black mole and the scar dimple-you'ro
you are
''Oh. am practically certain!'
"Then the more pieces In the puzzle
which tit together the more likely
does it seem that your Leopold's Miss
Helen Mowbray and my Miss Jenny
Brett are one and the same"
Miss Jenny Brett?''
did you never hear the nameT'
IF have I've forgotten it."
chancellor, you wouldn't forget IL
you were few years younger. Jenny
Brett Is the prettiest IL not the most
talented singer ever sent out from
Australia. the fashionable homo OF
singers. She is billed to sing at the
Court theater of Kronburg In fort
night. her first engagement In Rhae-
tia
"You are right. 1t may well be that
she's been having a game with us-a
game that we can prevent now. thank
heaven. from ending in earnest"
"Oh. yes: we can prevent that
Your royal highness met the lady
In your own country?'
''N-o. 1t was In Paris at nrst, but
Sn afraid induced her to accept IN
engagement at home. We were great
friends for awhile. and really she's Q
charming creature. l can't blame my
self. Who would have guessed that
she'd turn out so ambitious? BY Jove,
can sympathize with Leopold. The
girl tried to twist me round her finger
and. verify believe. fancied at one
time that would offer her marriage"
1T must he the same girl. And tho
emperor has offered her marriage"
"What? Impossible! But-with the
left hand. OF course. though even that
would be unheard Of for q man In
his
II swear to your royal hiehness that
II he isn't stopped he will force her on
the Rhaetian people 40 empress"