The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-06-03

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"Ha, ha! You mean me to under
stand that there's no time to waste"
mot moment
What Is the girl likeT'
Tall and slender. pink and white as
a flower, dark dashed and yellow hair
ed, like an Austrian beauty; eyes
gray or violet, it would be heard to
say which for man Of my years, but
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"
1T would quicken mine only to hear
your description If you hadn't just put a
maggot In my head that tickles me to
laughter instead of raptures," said the
prince. Tel me this-has this girl a
tiny black mole just over the left eye
brow, very fetching, and when she
smiles does her mouth point upward a
bit on the right side, like fairy sign
post showing the way to small round
scar almost as good as a dimple?'
The chancellor reflected for a 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 II
was plain that the prince had theory
as to the lady's real identity and to es-
tablish 1t as fact might be valuable.
rs 1t possible that you've already
met this dangerous young person." he
asked eagerly.
''Well, begin to believe it may be
so. III explain why later. Thereby
hangs a confession. At all events,
certain lady exactly answering the de-
scription you've given is very likely in
this neighborhood. I've heard that she
was shortly due in Kronburg, and 1t
was In my mind when deciding sud
denly to spend 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 imprudently taken her into my
confidence concerning er-some family
affairs. If it is she who is masquerade
Ing In Rhaetia as Miss Mowbray and
turning your emperor's head, it 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
about four weeks ago, and
I've lost sight Of the lady since. She
expecting probably to be
followed, but she wasn't. The only
question is, If she's playing Miss Now
bray, where did she get the mother?
I've heard there is Mowbray mother"
There's faded Dresden china shep-
herdess that answers to the name,"
said the chancellor dryly. But these
ornaments are easily man
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're
sure Of them, chancellor? Because, If |
you are
"Oh, am practically certainw
"Then the more pieces In the puzzle |
which I fit together the more likely |
does 1t 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 nameY
'If have I've forgotten It."
chancellor, you wouldn't forget II
you were a few years younger. Jenny
Brett is the prettiest II not the most
talented singer ever sent out from
Australia, the fashionable home of
singers. She is billed to sing at the
Court theater of Kronburg In fort
hight, her first engagement in Rhae-
Ia"
'You are right. 1t may well be that
'he's been having a game with us-a
yame that we can prevent now, thank
heaven, from ending In earnest"
"Oh, yes; we can prevent that"
Your royal highness met the lady
n your own countryp
mo. 1t was In Paris at first, but
I'm afraid l induced her to accept an
at home We were great
riends for awhile. and really she's a
harming creature. | can't blame my
elf Who would have guessed that
he'd turn out so ambitious? BY Jove.
can sympathize with Leopold The
'irl tried to twist me round her finger
nd, I verify believe. fancied at one
ime that would offer her marriage"
ut must be the same girl. And the
mperor has offered her marriage"
what? impossible! But-with the
eft hand. of course. though even that
would be unheard Of for a man In
u.s.
II swear to your royal highness that
he isn't stopped he win force her on
he Rhaetian people as empress"
"Gad-little Jenny Brett! I didn't
alf appreciate her brilliant qualities"