Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-08
By c. N. and A. NJ. WILLIAMSON,

shook her diamond starred head doubt
fully.
virginia's plan sounded poetical and
40 easy to carry out as to turn a
Kaleidoscope and form charming new
combination Of color, or SO 1t had
seemed while the young voice plead
ed, but when the happy face and
radiant eyes no longer illumined the
path the way ahead seemed dark.
To be sure, the princess had SO FAR
walked triumphantly along the high |
road to success, but 1t was not always |
! a good beginning which led to a good !
| end, and the grand duchess felt as she
rang for Ernestine that her nerves
would be strained to the breaking point
until matters were definitely settled
for better or for worse.
Virginia had never been lovelier than
she was that night at dinner, and Egon
Won Breitsteip's admiration for her
beauty had in 1t fascinating new In
| eredient. Until yesterday he had said
| to himself, "If she be not fair to me,
what care l how fair she be-" But
now there was vague idea that she
might, after ALL be for him. and he took
|
| he was falling in love with girl who
had captured the emperor's heart.
Egon glanced very often at Leopold,
contrasting his sovereign's appearance
unfavorably with his own. The en-
peror was thin and dark. with grave
cast Of feature. while Egon's face kept
the color and youthfulness of the early
twenties. He was older than Leopold.
but he looked boy. Alma-Tadema
would have wreathed him with vine
leaves, draped him with tiger skins
and set him down on a marble bench
{ against burning sapphire sky, where
he would have appeared more suitably
clad than in the stiff blue and silver
uniform Of crack Rhaetian regiment.
i Leopold. on the contrary. would new
er be painted except as soldier and
1t seemed to Egon that no normal girl
could help thinking him far hand
somer fellow than the emperor. For
the moment. of course. Miss Mowbray
did not notice him because his impe-
rial majesty loomed large in the fore
ground of her imagination. but the
chancellor had evidently a plan in his
head for removing that stately obsta-
Gle into the dim perspective.
Egon had not heard Miss Mowbray
spoken Of as an heiress. Therefore,
even had there been no emperor in the
way, he would not have worshiped at
the shrine. But now behold the shrine
attractive before. newly and alluring.
~ decked! Egon wondered much over
his half brothers apparently impulsive
offer and the contradictory command,
which had little later enjoined wait.
ing.
He was delighted. however, that ht
had not been forbidden to make him
self agreeable, and his idea was al
soon as dinner should be over to find
a place at Miss M0wbray's side before
any other man should have time t.
take 1t. But unluckily for this plan
Baron Won Lyndal detained him for Z
: few moments with praise Of a new
remedy which might cure the chan
cellor's govt. and when he ESCAPED
from hts host to look for Miss Now
bray In the white drawing room sh,
.. was not there.
From the music room adjoining. how
ever, came sounds which drew hin
: toward the door. He knew Miss Now
. bray's soft, coaxing touch on the pi
ano. She was there playing In
whisper" as he had heard her cal
It. Perhaps she was going to sing. a
!; She had done once or twice before an
would need some one to turn the page
OF her music. Egon thought that b
would much like to be the some on
and was in the act of parting the whit
velvet portieres that covered the door
y way when his hostess smilingly beck
= oned him away
y 1.-THE emperor has just asked Mis-
:. Mowbray to teach him some old fash
" toned Scotch or English air Q'm afrai
| don't quite know the difference) cal
ne ed Annie LAURIE" the baronese ez
!! planned. "He was charmed with
when she sang the other evening. an
y I've been assuring him that the son
Ill would exactly suit his voice. w
OF mustn't disturb them while the lesso
OF Is going on. Tell me-I've hardly ha
pm a moment to ask you-how did 70
ne find the chancellor"
TO Chained to a forced a legiance, Ego
Id mechanically answered the question
vn of the baroness without making absur
Is mistakes. the while his ea~' burned
on Gear what was going on behind a
on white curtains.
ISL Everybody knew Of the music lei
er- son now and chatted In tones Of tao
lis ful moDot0ny, never speaking to
loudly to disturb the singers, never to
IRE cautiously. lest they should seem
cy listen. Once and then again. til
ne creamy mezzo soprano and the ric
~. tenor that was almost barton
'ar sang conscientiously through tn
no verses Of "Annie Laurie" from hegll
! ming to end. Then few desultor
chords were struck on the piano. an
led at last there was silence behind tt