The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-07-08

| pIicSS iOOkeu aS innocent as an 1nQuir-
| ing child.
"The lady Is not of royal blood, and
his majesty, 1 thank heaven, is not q
| roue."
HE has heart, though you trained
him, chancellor, and he has eyes He
may never have used them to much
purpose before, yet there must he Il
first time, and the higher ana more
strongly built the tower once it begins
to .topplc the greater is the fall thereof"
"Is it the sense Of humor, which you
say | lack, that gives you pleasure in
discussing the widest improbabilities
as If they were events TO be consider
cd seriously? If it is I'm not sorry to
lack it. In any case, it's we'll that
neither Of us IS the cmperor's Keeper"
Were at least his very good friends
you rs well as | in my humber way.
chancellor, and you and | have known
each other for twenty-five years. If 1t
amuscS me TO discuss improbabilitics,
why not? Since you call them i'm.
probabilities 1t can do no harm to dwell
upon them as ingredients for romance
Not for worlds would l suggest that
his majesty isn't an example for all
men to follow nor that poor, pretty
Miss MOwbray could be tempted to in.
discretion, but yet I'd be ready to make
wager, the emperor being human and
the girl beauty, that an acquaintance
so rumantically begun won't end with
n ball ana Il call"
""hat could there possibly be more
or what YOU hint at as more, in honor?"
The chanccllor'S voice was angry at
last "a we'll as stern, for he could not
bear per, fStcncc in other people unless
it were TO further some cause of his
own. TO the delight of the woman
who had once tried in vain TO melt his
iron heart, Count Won Breitstcin began
TO look somewhat like q baitcd bull
Really, said the baroness to herself,
there was an actual resemblance in
feature, and joyously she searched for
few more little ribbon tipped ban
dcrlllos.
What fun it was to ruf1ie the tenn
per of the surly old brute who had hui
inflated her Womans vanity In days
long past, but not forgotten! She
knew the chanccllor's desire for the
emDcror's marriage as soon as a suit
able match could be found and, though
she was not in the secret Of his plans
would have felt little surprise at learn
ing that some eligible royal girl had
already been selected. Now how anus
ing it would be actually to make
the old man tremble for the success
OF his hopes, even if it should turn out
In the end TO be impossible or unde.
sirablG, TO upset them!
What could there be more in hon
orr she echoed lightly after an in
slant given to reflection. "NVhy, the
emperor ana the girl will see n great
deal OF each other unless you Danish
or imprisOn the MowDrays. Therel
he many dances together, many calls
Ill TACT, Il serial romance instead of a
short story. Why shouldn't his males
ty know the pleasure of a-platonic
friendship With beautiful and charm.
Ing young woman?"
Because plato's out of fashion. If
ever he was in, among human beings
with red blood in their veins and be-
! cause, rs | said, the emperor IS above
all else man of honor Besides, |
( doubt that any woman, no matter how
pretty or young, could WELD really
powerful influence over his life"
on doubt that? Then you don't
know the emperor and you've forgot
ten some of the traditions of his
house"
Are you trying to warn me of dis
astcr, baronessT
She laughed. "Oh, dear, no-of moth.
ing diSagrccabe! But | should be sor-
~ to think, as You seem to do, that our
emperor has no youth In his veins"
! think nothing Of the sort What
do think IS that my teachings have
not boon in vain ana that he has grown
up TO put his duty to his country and
MS own self respect above everything
Hes strong man-tOo strong to be
trapped in the meshes OF any pink and
/ white Nivicn. And If he admired n
young woman not of royal blood he
would keep his distance for her sake
You say this English miss Is with her
mother at the principal hotel of Kron-
burg, If Leopold constantly visited
lhcm there we should have n scandal.
ON the other hand, to suggest meeting
/ the girl outside or incognito would be
an Insult Either way he would be
but poorly rcwarding woman who
saved his life"
Baroness Won Lyndal's color rallied
to the support of her rouge, and her
smile dwindlcd to inanlty, for she had
insisted upon the argument, and it was
going against her.
/ In her haste TO vex the chancellor
| she had not stopped to study from ev-
cry side the question she had raised.
/ 50 far she had merely succeeded in Ir-