Putnam patriot., 1909-12-17

as remiDiscence. nor were they con.
 cerned in the vagaries of Taswell
 skaggsf will.
 | The estate was settied-cIosedi
 Two months have passed since the
 Deppipgbams departed from 5apat,
 flor good and all" Many events ha ve
 come to pass since that memorable
 day, not the least of which was the
 excha nging Of f500.000. less attorneys
 and executors fees. Lady DeppIng-
 ham and Robert Browne divided that
 amount of money and passed Into
 legal history as the late claimants to the estate of TaswelI skaggs.s
 II WAS Sir John Brodney's enter prise. He saw the way out of the difficulty. and he acted as pathfinder to the other and less perceiving coun- selors. Ill of whom had looked for. ] ward te an endless controversy.
 dhe business Of tbe Japgt company and ali that i, entaiIed was trans | ferred by agreement to a syndicate.
 Never before Has there such stu | peBdtus deal f1 fatures
 I Ae grandchildren of tue testators | were ready ta accept the best settle. ' ment that eonld be obtained Theirs 1 was rai her foriofn hope to begin | with When Ii was proposed that Agnes Deppingham and Robert Browne should accept f250OOo apiece 1 in lieu of all aims. moral or legal, against the esfate, they Ieaped at the ! eharen
 l They had seen but little of each oth- l er since landing in England. except as | they were thrawn together at the con | ferenees. Lady Agnes went In for | every diversion imaginable. For l wonder. she dragged Deppingham with her OH aII occasions, IL was n most l unexpected transformation Their l friends were puzzled The rumor went l about town that she was in love with l her husband.
 AN for Bobby Browne. he was deyo- l Hon itself to DrusIla. They smiled for New York within three days after the settlement was effected. ignoring the rnticements of a London season. The Brownes were rich. He could now be come n fashionable specialist They | quarter In American dollars They low hnd nothing in common with Tas- well Skaggs Skaggs is not pretty | anme
 Mr Britt afterward spent three weeks of ineessant travel on the con. .incnt and an additional seven days at sea In Baden Baden he happened Hpon Lord and Lady Deppingham. It will he recalled that in Japat they had always professed an unholy aver sinn for Mir Britt. is It cause for wonder then. that they declined his invitation to dine in Baden Baden? He even proposed to invite tnelr entire party. which lut lided few dukes and ducheSses who were leisufely on their way to attend the long talked of nup tias in Thorherg al the end of June. In Vienna the Deppnghams were joined hy the Duchess of N, the Marchoness of R. and other fash ionahles In week nll of them would | be fin the castle at Thorberg for the l ceremony that now occupied the at 1 tentiop of social and royal Europe. "And to think said the duchess
 "she might have died happily on that miserable island l axn sure We did all
 we could to bring t about hy stcamIng away fragl Mrs. p. . with the plague I ehhslaAd ot the gslge how diabolicaliy | thxs to the marquis | Y'i''"s " ouc in the cha
 board will held ly nepplngham. and
 ton of officers at mistaken. It would
 tenslent n. A. Gsfol poor Gee~vsa fl ! o'clock. On iuried instead of mar Rho peltas me. hmented the o"eh
 don ot, Sehoo'
 ' moan at 2 opeen have married princes
 very we'll" said Prince The suue now. prince" put in Lord
 last ever,m; you know the sort oi
 Epworlhetx ls There are princes | ..ss es. by love"
 ,.Fpositively vile," exclaimed the E who would not mince words. $ 8 entering upon hell of al $ M1n life of he'll" exploded the n bye. banging the table with his list 7, oihat fellow Brabetx Is the rottenest
 wag In Europe He's gone from bad '' tssworse so swiftly that public opin-
 ais stiii months behind him" ,e Nice way to talk of the groom, " s. hd the host genially. 'l quite agres ,a with you. however cannot under '. stand the grand duke permitting II to
 70 on unless. of course. it's too late to T lnterfere."
 Poor dear, She'll never know whal
 lt Is to be loved and cherished" said
 the marchloness dolefully
 Lord and Lady Deppingham glanced
 st each other. They were thinking of
 the man who stood en the dock al
 Arafat when the Kings Own sailed
 away
 'sTho grand duke Is probably saving
 the very thing te himself that Rra'
 betx's associates are saying In public.'
 sentured a young Austrian count
 What is that. prayT
 That the prince won't live morv than six months. He's q physical 1 wreck today aud nervous one too
 Take my word for 1t. he will be | creeping. imheeils thing inside of haii year-iecemotor ataxis and all that
 It's coming positively with s sharr crash"
 ''I'se heard he has tried 10 kill that
 woman sn Paris half dozen times.
 remarked one of the women. taking Il
 as a matter of course that every ens
 knew who she meant by that wo'