Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-11-13

staying at schtoss Lyndalbefg are not
the persons they pretend to be-
"Who has been lying to your cried
Leopold, who held between clinched
hands the temper he vowed not to lose
with this old man. !
ITO me, no one. To your majesty. to
society in Kronburg, two adventure
es have lied"
The emperor caught his breath. '1f
you were young man would kill
you for that" he said.
Il know you would. AS 1t is. my
life is yours. But before you take 1t,
for Gods sake, for your fathers sake,
hear me out!'
Leopold did not speak for moment,
but stared at the vanishing landscape.
which he saw through a red haze.
"Very WELL" he said ut last; II will
hear you, because fear nothing you
can say"
"When heard of your majesty's adj
miration for certain lady," the chan
cellor began quickly lest the emperor
should change his mind, II looked for
her name and her mothers in Burke's
Ieerage. There found Lady Now
bray, widow of a dead baron of that
ilk. mother Of son stillva child and
OF one daughter, a young woman with
many names and twenty-eight years.
"This surprised me, as the Miss
Mowbray l had seen at the birthday
ball looked no more than eighteen
and. was told. confessed to twenty.
The Mowbr%ys. learned by little
further research in Burke, were dis
family connected by marriage with the
family Of Baumenburg Drippe. This
seemed an odd coincidence In the cir
cumstances. But. acting as duty babe
me act, wired to two persons-Baron
Won Sark, your majesty's ambassador
to Great Britain, and the crown prince
Of Hungaria. the brother of Princess
Virginia.
"What did you telegraph asked the
emperor icily.
"Nothing compromising to your maj
esty, you may we'll believe. inquired
Of Adalbert If he had English rela-
lions, a Lady Mowbray and daughter,
Helen, travelling in Rhaetia, and beg.
ged that If so he would describe their
appearance by telegram. To Won Sark
I said that particulars by wire concern
ing the widow of Lord Mowbray and
daughter, Helen, would put me under
personal obligation. Both these mes.
sages sent off night before last. Yes.
terday received Adalbert's answer
this morning Won Sark's.s They are
here" And the chancellor tapped the
breast of his gray coat. "Will your
majesty read them?''
III you wish," replied Leopold at his
haughtiest and coolest.
| The old man unbuttoned his coat and
produced coroneted pocketbook, q
souvenir Of friendship on his last birth.
day from the emperor. Leopold saw i,
and remembered, as the chancellor
hoped he would.
Here are the kilograms, your maj.
esty," he said. 'The first one is from
the crown prince of Hungaria."
"Have no idea where Lady Mowbray
/, and daughter are travelling; may be
Rhaetia or north pole," Adalbert had
| written, with characteristic fippancy
"Have seen neither for eight years
and scarcely know them. But Lady
NJ. tall, brown old party, with nose like
hobbyhorse; Helen dark. nose like
| mothers. wears glasses"
With no betrayal Of feeling, Leopold
laid the telegram on the red plush
seat and unfolded the other.
Pardon delay" the Rhaetian am.
bassador's message began. "Haye
been making inquiries. Lady Now
bray has been widow for ten years
Not rich. During sons minority has
let her town and country houses
Lives much abroad. Very high church.
intellectual, at present in Calcutta
where daughter Helen, twenty eight,
not pretty, is lately engaged to marry
middle aged Judge of some distinction
"So"-and the emperor threw aside
the second bit Of paper-"it is on such
slight grounds as these that man OF
lue NoIiu eau ldDel Two IaOieS dO'
venturesses.'
The chancellor was bitterly disap.
pointed He had counted on the i'm.
preston which these kilograms must
make, and unless Leopold were act.
ing 1t was now certain that love had
driven him out Of his senses
But If the emperor were mad he
must be treated accordingly. and the
old statesman condescended to "bluff. "
''There is still more to TELL" he said.
IF your majesty has not heard enough,
but l think when you have reflected