The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-06-17
CHAPTER Six, )
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IFAsaa1sauHI sons attached to the
Rhactian court were
necessarily part Of the wonderful
plan concoctcd in the English garden,
though they were among the details
thought out afterward.
The widow OF the hereditary Grand
Duke of Bnumenburg-D -Drippc was re-
ported In the Journals OF various coun-
tries to be travelling with the Princess
Virginia and II small suit through Can.
ada and the United States, and. fortu.
natcly for the success Of the innocent
plot, the grand duchess had spent 80
many years OF scClusion In England
and had even in her youth met 80 few
ihnctinns that there was little fear OF
detection. Her objections to VirgInia's
scheme for winning n lover instead OF
thanking heaven quietly for n mere
husband were based on other grounds,
but Virginia had overcome them. and
eventually the grand duchess had prov
cd not only docile, but positively fertile
In eXpedlcnt.
The choosing OF the borrowed flag
under which to sail had at first been
difficulty. 1t was pointed out by n
friend taken into their confidence. n
lady whose husband had been ambas.
Sador to Rhaetia, that real name
and name of some dignity must be
adopted If proper introductIons were
to be given And 1t 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 Miss Now
bray, and there were still several emil
ncntly respectable, inconspicuous Now
bray cousins. Among these cousins
was certain Lady Mowbray, widow
OF baron OF that ilk and possessing
daughter some years older and In
Vulnerable degrees palmer 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
decd and Lady Mowbray comparative
ly n nobody The humble connection
had expressed herself as unspeakaDly
grateful, and the two had kept up n
friendship ever since. Therefore when
the difficulty OF realism in q name pre-
Scntcd itself the grand duchess thought
of Lady MOWDray and Miss Helen
MoWDray. They were about to leave
England for India, but had not yet
left ana the widow OF the baron was
hattcrcd as we'll as amused by the ro-
mantle confidence rcposcd in her by
the widow of the grand duke She was
delighted to lend her name and her
the lady If her mind rushed forward to
the time when she should have earned
gratitude from the young empress OF
Rhacua? For Of course she had no
doubt OF the way In which the advcn-
turc would end.
AS for the wife of the late British
ambassador to the Rhactian court she
was not sentimental and therefore was
not quite as comfortably sure OF the
sequel AS far rs concerned her own
part In the plot, however, she felt safe
enough, for though she was after n
fashion dcceivng her old acquaint.
ances at kronburg, she was not foist.
ing adNcnturesseS upon them. On
the contrary, she was giving them n
chance OF entertaining angels un-
awarcs by sending them letters to
ladies who were IN reality the Grand
Duchess OF Baumenburg- Drlppe and
the Princess Virginia
The four mysterious gentlemen left
AIIcheiligcn the day after Yirglnia's
encounter with the chamoIs hunter.
But the Mowbrays fingered on. The
adventure had begun so gloriousy that
the girl feared an antclimax for the
next step. Though she longed for the
second meeting, she dreaded 1t as well
and put Off the chance Of 1t from day
to day. The stay of the Mowbrays at
Allehciligcn heightened into n week,
and when they left at last it was only
just in time for the great festivities
at Nronburg which were to ceIe-
Dratc the cmperor's thlrty-flrst birth
DAY, an event enhanced I'm 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.
Il don't see, after all, what you've
accomplished SO far by this mad freak
which has dragged us across Europe"
she said fSetfully In the train which
they had taken at town twenty miles
from Alleheiligen. "We've perched on
a mountain top, like the ark on Ara
rat. for a week, freezing The adven-
ture you had there is only compllca-
tion. What have we to show for our
trouble-unless incipient rheumatism" 2"
Virginia had nothing to show for It,
ut least nothing that she meant to