Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-09-03

A'So' Jou uoD | 10 anything else.
He did not refer to the chance that
he was quite Eure to come in for a
large legacy at the death of his ma
ternal grandfather, a millionaire ranch
owner in the far west.
After leaving college he drifted
pretty much over the world. taking
pot luck with fortune and clasping the
hand of circumstance. There had
been hard roads to travel as well as
easy ones. but he never complained.
He swung on through life with the
heart of a soldier and the confidence
of a pagan. He loa4Aed business. and
he abhorred trade.
He was an orphan and bounden to
no man. No one had the right to
question his actions after his twenty
first anniversary. He went In for law
Mt Yale and then practiced restlessly,
vaguely, for two years in Baltimore
under the patronage of his fathers
oldest friend, a lawyer Of distinction.
firing of the law books and reports
in the old judges office, he suddenly
abandoned his calling and set forth to
see the world. Almost before his
friends knew that he had left he was
heard of in Turkestan. In urse of
time he served as a war correspondent
for one of the great newspapers, acted
as agent for great hemp dealers in the
Philippines, carried a rifle with the
Beers in South Africa, hunted wild
beasts in Asia and in Hottentot land,
AooI. 11a~oI.o4. &, CO Datarcl4~a ond
almost got to the north pole with n
of the expeditions. Not In a months
journey would you meet a truer thor
oughbred. a more agreeable chap, a
more polished vagabond, than Hollings-
worth Chase, first lieutenant in Dame
Fortunes army. Tall, good looking.
rawboned, cheerful, gallant, he was
the true comrade of those merry, reck.
less volunteers from all lands who find
commissions in Fortunes army and
serve her faithfully.
He was nearly thirty when the diplo-
matte service began to appeal to him
as a pleasing variation from the rigor-
GUS occupations he had followed here
tofore. One of his uncles was a con-
gresham, and another was In some
way connected with railroads. He first
sought the influence of the latter and
then the recommendation of the for
mer. In less than six weeks after his
arrival in Washington he was off for
the city of Thorberg, in the grand
duchy of Rapp-Thorberg, carrying
with him an appointment as consul
and supplied with the proper stamps
and seal of Office.
At the end Of five months he loathed
Thorberg: he hated the inhabitants;
he smarted under the sting of royal
disdain; he had no real friends, no
boon companions. and he was obliged
to be goodl What wonder. then. that
the bored. suffering. vivacious Mr..
Chase seized the first opportunity to
leap headforemost into the very thick
of a most appalling indiscretioni
When he first arrived In Thorberg to
assume his sluggish duties he was not
aware of the fact that the grand duke
had an unmarried daughter. the Prin-
cess Genevra.
She was visiting in st. Petersburg
or Berlin or some other place when he
reached his post of uuty, and it was
toward the end of his fifth month be-
fore she returned to her fathers palace
in Thorberg. He awoke to the i'm
portance of the occasion and took some
slight interest in the return of the
royal young lady. eve going so far as
to follow the crowd to the railway sta
ton OF the sunny June afternoon.
He saw the princess for the first
time that afternoon. and he was
bowled over, to use the expression of
his English friends with whom he
dined that night. She was the first
woman that he had ever looked upon
that he could describe. for she was the
only one who had impressed him to
that extent. This is how he pictured
her at the American legation In Paris
q few weeks later:
Ever see her? Well, you've some
thing to live for. gentlemen. I've seen
her but three times, and l don't seem
able to shake off the spell. You've
never seen such hair. Cad, it's as
near like the kind that Henner painted
as anything human could be, except
that it's more like old gold. If you can
understand what l mean by that. Not
bronze, mind you, nor the raw red,
butch, well, Pm not a novelist, so
/ can't halfway describe it She's
rather tall-not too tall mind you
five feet five. I'd say-whatever that is
in the metric system. Slender and
we'll d~ressed-oh, that's the strangest
thing of ALI Well dressed! Think of
a princess being well dressed! I'd say
she's twenty-five or t~wenty-three years
Of age-not a minute older. l think her
eyes are a very dark gray, almost blue.
Her skin is like a-a-oh, let me see!
What is there that's as pure and soft
as her skin? Something warm, and
pink, and white, dye see? Well, never
mind. And her smilel And her frown!
Uo,x Iynox, Two Saop both of som and