Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-09-25


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Iss Rhasfian court swers
lsnecessarily y part "a tho wonderful
Iplan concOcted III the Eng fish garden,
Though they were among the details
lthoughtout al terMatd Isl
The widow OF tho hereditary Grand
Duke Of Baumenburg-D ripps was ~
ported In the journAls of various coun.
tries to lie travelling With the Princess
iVirglniasand q small suit through Can
| ada and the United States, and, fortn-
inately for the success Of the innocent
Iplot, the grand duchess had spent so
many years Of seclusion In England
i and had even III her youth met 90 few
FRhaetians that there was little fear Of
detection. Her objections to Vireinia's
scheme for winning i lover instead Of
thanking heaven quietly for Z mere
husband We've based On other grounds,
i but Virginia had overcome them, and
Eventually the grand duchess had prov
led not only doctle.s hut positively fertile
In expedient.
The choosing Of the borrowed dag
under which to sail had at flrst been
IEa difficulty. It was pointed out by q
friend taken into their confidence, 4
LADY whose husband had been ambas-
sador to Rhaetia. that real name
and q name OF some dignity must be
l:adopted II proper introductions were
to be given. And. II was the grand
4 duchess who suggested the name Of
Mowbray on the plea that she had In
q way the right to annex= Il.
The mother of the late Duke Of
Northumberland had been a Miss Now
4 bray, and there were still several emil
nently respectable, inconspicuoas Now.
bray cousins. Among these cousins
was q certain Lady Mowbray. widow
4 of q baron Of that ilk and possessing
/ q daughter some years older and In
Vulnerable degrees palmer than the
Il Princess Virginia.
To this Lady Mowbray the grand
duchess had gone out OF her way to be
n kind In Germany long years ago. when
she was q very grand parsonage In.
deed and Lady Mowbray comparative.
G Ily q nobody The humble connection
had expressed herself 90 unspeakably
I. grateful, and the two had kept up {
8 friendship ever since. Therefore when
the difnculty Of realism In name pre-.
scented itself the grand duchess thought
! OF Lady Nowbray and Miss Helen
/ Mowbray. They were about to leave
|. England for. India, but had not YET
left, and the widow Of the baron waa
dattered 40 well AZ amused by the 10
mantle confidence reposed In her by
the widow Of the grand duke. She wal
delighted to lend her: name and hel
daughters name. and who could blame
!. the lady II her mind rushed forward t
the time when she should have earned
] gratitude from the young empress Of
& Rhaetia? For OF course she had NJ
3; doubt Of the way in which the adven
ture would end.
Al for the wife Of the late British
!, ambassador to the Rhaetian court, sht
was not sentimental and therefore wal
not quite az comfortably sure Of thu
sequel. AZ far as concerned her owl
], part In the plot. however. she felt SAT.
enough, for. though she was after .
!, fashion deceiving her old acquaint
Iances at Kronburg. she was not folst
ling adventuresses upon them. Oh
L the contrary. she was giving Thorn .
! chance Of entertaining angels I'm
awares by sending; them letters K
ladies who were In reality the Gram
u Duchess Of Baumenburg-D rippe ant
the Princess Virginia.
The four mysterious gentlemen LET
.Alleheiligen the day after Virginia.
. encounter with the chamois hunter
I3at the Mowbrays. fingered on: Th,