Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
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ish to arrest him?"

Gl ought 10 Know me DetteT Indn
that, Mr.. John Armitage! OF course |
shall not arrest him. But l must get
that packet. l can't have it pedded
all over Europe, and l can't advertise
my business by having him arrested
here. If l could catch him once in
Vienna l should know what to do with
him. Te and Winkelried got hold of
our plans in that Bulgarian affair last
year and checkmated me. He carries
his wares to the best buyers-Berlin
and st. Petersburg. SO there's wo-
man, is there? I've found that there
usually is!'
There's a very charming young
American girl, to be, more exact"
The old man growled and eyed Armi-
tage sharply, while Armitage studied
the photograph.
81 hope you are not meditating a
preposterous marriage. Go back where
you belong, make a proper marriage
and watt
"Eventsw And John Armitage laugh
ed. 81 tell you, sir, that waiting is not
my forte. That's what l like about
America. They're up and at it over
there. The man who waits is lost"
"They're a lot of swinew rumbled
Won Stroebel's heavy bass.
81 still owe allegiance to the Schom-
burg crown, so don't imagine you are
hitting me. But the swine are indus
trious and energetic. Who knows but
that John Armitage might become IA
nous among them-in politics, in
finance! But for the deplorable acct
dent of foreign birth he might be-
come president of the United States.
AS it is, there are thousands of other
offices worth getting-why not?"
Il tell you not to be a fool. You are
young and fairly clever"
Armitage laughed at the reluctance
Of the counts praise.
"Thank you. with all my heart"
go back where you belong and you
will have no regrets. Something may
happen-who can tell? Events-events
if man will watch and wait and
study events. But"-he gulped down
more Of the brandy-"where and how
do you liveT
"Where? l own a cattle ranch in
Montana, and since the archduke's
death ! have lived there. He carried
about $4,000 to America with him.
He took care that | should get what
was left when he died, and l am al
most afraid to tell you that have actu-
ally augmented my inheritance. Just
i I Of I MI In ir-
ginia to be near Washington when l
got tired Of the ranch"
Washington! snorted the count
"In due course 1t will be the storm
center of the world"
you read the wrong American news.
papers," laughed Armitage.
They were silent for a moment, in
which each was busy with his own
thoughts. Then the count remarked
in as amiable tone as he ever used:
"Your French is first rate Do you
speak English as well?"
'As readily as German, think. You
may recall that l had an English tutor
and maybe l did not tell you in that
interview at Paris that / had spent O
year at Harvard university"
what the devil did you do that for?'
growled Won Stroebe.
From curiosity or ambition, as you
like. l was in Cambridge at the law
school for year before the archduke
died. That was three years ago / am
twenty eight, as you may remember
am OBTAINING you; | have no wish tc
rake over the past, but l am sorry
am very sorry--we can't meet on some
common ground"
81 ask you to abandon this democrat
ic nonsense and come back and make
a man of yourself. You might go far
very far-but this democracy has holt
Of you like a disease"
"What you ask is impossible. 1t /:
just as impossible now as it was wheI
we discussed 1t in Paris last year. IL
sit down In Vienna and learn how t,
keep that leaning tower of an empir,
from tumbling down like a stack o
bricks-it does not appeal to me-"
Don't talk to me like that. 1t is no
amusing"
''No; 1t Is not funny. To see men lik,
you fetching and carrying for dull
king. who would drop through tn
gallows or go to planting turnips with
out your brains-it does not appeal t.
my sense of humor or to my magma
ton. If l were going to furnish thu
brains for an empire should ride il
the state carriage myself and not b.
merely the driver on the box. VIII
keeps the middle of the road and look
out for sharp corners. Here is a plal
ready to my hand. Let me find tina
lost document appear in Vienna an,
announce myself Frederick Augustus
the son of the Archduke KARL knew
both men Intimately. You may remem
Der that Frederick and l were born II
the same month. l, too. am Fredericl
] Augustus! We passed commonly II