Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-01

thought out afterward.
 The widow of the hereditary Grand
 Duke of Baumenburg-D -Drippe was re
 ported in the journals of various coun
 tries to be travelling with the Princess Virginia and small suit through Can
 ada and the United States. and. fortu:
 nately for the success of the innocent plot, the grand duchess had spent SC many years of seclusion in England and had even in her youth met so few Rhaetians that there was little fear of detection. Her objections to Virginia s scheme for winning lover instead of thanking heaven quietly for mere husband were based on other grounds, but Virginia had overcome them. and eventually the grand duchess had prov ed not only docile. but positively fertile in expedient.
 The choosing of the borrowed flag under which to sail had at first been difficulty. It was pointed out by a friend taken into their confidence, a lady whose husband had been ambas- sador to Rhaetia. that a real name and a name of some dignity must be adopted if proper introductionS were to be given. And it was the grand duchess who suggested the name of Mowbray on the plea that she had in way the right to annex it.
 The mother of the late Duke of Northumberland had been a Miss Now bray. and there were still several emi- nently respectable. inconSpicuous Mow. bray cousins. Among these cousins was certain Lady Mowbray. widow of baron of that ilk and possessing d daughter some years older and in numerable degrees plainer than the Princess Virginia.
 To this Lady Mowbray the grand duchess had gone out of her way to be kind in Germany long years ago, when she was very grand parsonage in deed and Lady Mowbray comparative ly a nobody. The humble connection had expressed herself as unSpeakably grateful. and the two had kept up friendship ever since. Therefore when the difficulty of realism in a name pre- scented itself the grand duchess thought of Lady Mowbray and Miss Helen Mowbray. They were about to leave England for India, but had not yet left, and the widow of the baron was flattered as we'll as amused by the TO- mantle confidence reposed in her by the widow of the grand duke. She was delighted to lend her name and her daughters name, and who could blame the lady if her mind rushed forward to the time when she should have earned gratitude from the young empress of Rhaetia? For of course she had no doubt of the way in which the adven. ture would end.
 As for the wife of the late British ambassador to the Rhaetian court, she was not sentimental and therefore was not quite as comfortably sure of the sequel. AS far as concerned her Owu part in the plot, however, she felt safe enough, for, though she was after fashion deceiving her old acquaint- ances at Kronburg. she was not fOist ing adventuresses upon them. On the contrary. she was giving them a chance of entertaining angels un- awares by sending them letters to ladies who were in reality the Grand Duchess of Baumenburg- Drippe and the Princess Virginia.
 The four mysterious gentlemen left Alleheiigen tho day after Nirginia's encounter with the chamois hunter But the Mowbrays fingered on. The adventure had begun so gloriously that next step. Though she longed for the second meeting. she dreaded it as well and put of the chance of it from day to day. The stay of the Mowbrays at Alleheiligen heightened into a week. and when they left at last 1t was only just in time for the great festivities at Kronburg which were to cele brate the emperOr's thirty-first birth day. an event enhanced in national importance by the fact that the eighth anniversary of his coronation would fall on the same date.
 On the morning of the journey the grand duchess had neuralgia and was frankly cross.
 'I don't sec. after all. what you've accomplished so far by this mad freak which has dragged us across Europe" she said fretfully in the train which they had taken al a town twenty miles from Aleheiligen. We've perched on a mountain top. like the ark on Ara rat, for week. freezing. The adven- ture you had there is only a compIica- tion. What have we to show for our trouble unless incipient rheumatisms7
 Virginia had nothing to show for if, st least nothing that she meant to show. even to her mother. but in q little scented bag Of silk which lay next her heart was folded a bit of plotting paper If you looked st it's in a mirror you saw written fwice over in a firm individual hand he name Helen Mowbrsy~ The princess had found it on a table ! b the best sitting room after Frau Yorvan had made that room ready for Is new occupants. Therefore she loved ! Allebeiligen: therefore she thought . with redoubled satisfaction of her visit here. To learn her full name he must have bought it worth while to make in- luiries. II had fingered in his thoughts r he would not have scrawIed it twice n some bit of paper-sinee destroyed.