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

Improve matters. You have kept your
self au courant with everything thai
has happened in the camp Of the en-
emyT
yes"
"Is anything stirringT
Say any one.' and can answer you
more easily. Who do you think has ar
rived at the hotelT
'The devil, probably, to complicate
matters"
1--WE heard him called so, but a good
looking devil and devilishly pleasant. I
met him In his motor, In which he'd
driven into town from his new toy, the
hunting lodge in'
What! You mean the Prince
"Of Darkness, you've Just named
him" Egon gave laugh at his own
repartee, but the chancellor heard mel
Their. His hard face frightened. That's
WELL" said he grimly. Here we have
just the young man to see us through
this bad pass If he's as good looking
as ever and In his usual mood for mis-
chief. II we can interest him In this
affair, he may save me great deal Of
trouble and you a misalliance."
But your wedding present to me-
began Egon blankly.
Don't distress yourself. Do what
you can to assist me, and, whatever
the end, you shall be my heir, prom
ise you. Is the prince at the hotel
now%
Eyes. He had been to call on you at
your town house, he stopped his auto
mobile to tell me, and, hearing from
me that you would be back this even
ing, he decided to stay all night at the
hotel, SO that he could have chat
with you after your return, no matter
at what hour 1t might be, believe he
has left note at your house"
II will go to him, and we can then
discuss Its contents together" said
Count Won Breitstein, and the chauf-
feur who drove his electric carriage
was told to 90 to the Hohenlangenwald
hotel.
The prince who would, the chancel-
lor hoped, become the deus ex machina
was engaged in selecting the wines for
his dinner when Count Won Breitsteins
card was sent In. He was pleased to
say that he would receive his visitor,
and, Egon having been sent about
his business, the chancellor was shown
into the purple drawing room of the
suit reserved for royalty.
As he entered a young man jumped
up from an easy chair, scattering
sheaves Of illustrated papers, and held
out both his hands, with q Welcome,
my dear old friendw
1t would have been vain to scour the
world In quest Of handsomer young
man than this one. Even Egon Won
Breitstein would have seemed mere
good looking puppet beside him, and
the chancellor rejoiced in the physical
perfection OF prince who might prove
dangerous rival for an absent en-
peror.
''This Is the best Of good fortunep'
exclaimed Count Won Breitstein. "Egon
told me you were here, and without
waiting to get the note he said you
had left for me | came to you straight
from the railway station"
'Splendid! And now you must dine
with me. 1t was that asked Of you
in my note. Dinner early, a serious
talk and an antidote for solemnity in
a visit to the Leopoldhalle to see Mile.
Felice from the Folies Bergere do her
famous fire and fountain dance. A
box, curtains half drawn, no one need
know that the chancellor helps his
young friend amuse himself"
II thank your royal highness for the
honor you suggest, and nothing could
give me greater pleasure If l had not |
a suggestion to venture, In place Of |
yours, which l believe may suit You
better. I think l know Of what you
wish to talk with me, and l desire the
same, while the business have most
at heart
"Ah, your business il my business,
them
II hope you may 80 consider It. In
any case 1t Is business which must be
carried through now or never and Is of
life and death Importance to those
whom 1t concerns. How it's to be
done or whether done at all may de-
pend on you, If you consent to interest
yourself, and it could not be In more
hands. II I'd been given
my choice Of an assistant out Of the
whole world l should have chosen your
royal highness."
'This sounds like an adventure"
ut may be an adventure and at the
yame time an act Of Justice"
Good. Although 1t was not In search
,f an adventure that | came to you,
any more than 1t was the hope Of game
which brought me on sudden impulse
10 my little hunting lodge, still I trust
have always the instinct Of q sports
man"
II am sure Of that and have the
ess hesitation in enlisting your good
will because 1t happens that your bird
md mine can be killed with one shot"
''Chancellor, you excite my curios-
IT,"
The old man smiled genially, but I'M
Ter the bristling brows glowed a fame
IN of the last embers In n diving fire |