Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-01-03


stereoscopic lenses, and at the side q
little handle to turn the views. Scat
tered here and there were few early Wis
itors already trying their eyes at the
lenses amongst them Mr.. Zeno, who
bowed with great politeness on the ar
rival OF the party from the Hotel des
Postes. Master Austin went off on
stealthy tiptoe to join the delightful for
eigner, who took him by the hand and
| called his attention in laboriously chosen
single words to various curiosities of the
show.
Mountain. Eth? High. oh, SO high.
Not? Vite. Snow. Ware fine. Eth?
Look. Van uzzer"
After some five minutes of this amuse-
ment Mr.. Zeno appeared to tire of it,
and leading the little fellow across the
chamber, raised his hat to the mother,
surrendered his charge, bowed all around,
and left the chamber.
1t was a very simple entertainment,
and yet 1t entertained and the visitors
went solemnly round from one little box
to another for the space of half an hour,
by which time all had stif necks and
aching eyes.
| my dear" said Austin, II feel as II
had travelled far enough for . single
journey"
| And l, too" returned Lucy.
Really" said the major, they're re-
markably pretty, but one gets tired"
I'VE must come back for another even
ing" said Angela. 1.-THE Swiss views
are really charming"
This was to Maskelyne, who said, ''Yes
very" in an absent manner.
Suddenly from the far end Of the room
arose a cry. "Oh, mamma, mamma,
mamma Look here!' 4
Hush !" said mamma, crossing over TO
him. Little gentlemen never shout in
that way. What is it, darling"
"Mr. Zeno," said the boy, clappihg his
hands and laughing. "Mr. Zenor
Lucy took the seat and looked through
the sterescopic lenses. and there was Mr.
Zeno, sure enough. Mr.. ZenO was talk
ing to, somebody else, and he and his
companion we're curiously out Of proper
tom with the rest of the picture. The
photograph represented a court in the
Vienna Exhibition, and 1t seemed proba-
BILE that at the instant of time at which
thel artist had lifted his little shutter to
catch the moving crowd Mr.. Zeno and his
friend had stepped into the field Of view.
yyhe expression of both countenances was
Z I'clearly defined and animated, and the
| figures were so large that they only came
into the picture to the waist. The two
were arm in arm, and Zeno had turned
with a stretched fore6nger toward the
. other, as II to impress him with a sense of
. Importance in what he was saying.
a YES" said Lucy. 1T is Mr.. Zeno,
1 certainly, AUSTIN" she said to her hus-
I band, who had followed half across the
|, room, this is curious. Here is an &C.
i tual portrait of Mr.. Zeno."
"Who is Mr.. Zeno2" asked Angela
. crossing over, whilst Farley stopped to
: look at the picture. "Is he friend Of
a yours?"
d mo" answered Lucyl "a stranger
i But he is staying at our hotel. Mr.
Farley thought at one time that he wa,
- spy, and he is not a nice person at all
a He seems very fond of Austin, though
l. and it is certainly curious to find hi
portrait here"
t, Here's an odd thing, Lucy" said Aus
N tin. There's fctional use in that, /
|. could only see my way to it,"
s Crash went something close at hand
with sound of breaking glass. Angeli
=, had somehow overturned the box, an
had broken the lamp behind it. She wa
W on her feet and her face, dimly seen Il
II the mi-obscurity of the chamber, wor
10 look of more alarm and amazemen
a, than than so simple a disaster seemed t
ID warrant She lifted the box from tn
h table, and Farley instantly put out tn
light of the broken lamp, and extinguist
)" ed with his handkerchief and foot a dc
d. tached stream Of burning oil which ha
d. already begun to trickle from the tabl
lie to the floor.
is While this was doing, Angela with tn
box in both hands, had walked across tn
n room, and at the door had encounters
1t the woman who had charge of the exh
bition.
~ Madame" she said, rapidly in Frencl
u ~ have by accident broken a lamp. Ii
me pay you for it. Have you a privat
room here? Show me to it, If you please
Her breathing was SO quick and di
n turbed that these simple phrases wei
s. painted rather than spoken.
e- Certainly, madame" said the woman
al and led the way into a side room illun
w mated by brace of tall candles, Ange
. set the DON SneA ChFTleu upon the uhp
"A between the candles. and turned it rapi
ly this way and that
N "How do you open this box, madame
~ 49," said the woman, in surprise. pr
&c ng a small key, and suiting the a
o. tioI to the word.
~ %Take out the photographs, if "
~ please" The woman obeyed, wonderil
more and more, and Angela, taking the
no from her hand, selected that which DO
,So the portrait of Mr.. Zeno. 81 wish
buy this" she said, drawing forth h
,ss purse and laying a gold coin upon t
,ig. table. win that pay you for the brok
,er lamp and the photograph
Of "Assuredly," the woman answered. T
dor whole thing was curious, and she won
IN. have been we'll content to have 1t {
MID planned, but her visitor chose to offer
,ple explanation.
she Angela thrust the photograph into
the pNsom, and, having rearranged her DIRE
{ he rejOined her friends.
ut II have paid for the broken LAM
,est she said to the major.
Half an hour later Butler demand