The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-27

best OF his talents, no matter to what
test they were put. He left college at
twenty-five. possessed, OF the praise
worthy design to earn his own way
without recourse to the $4,000 income
from certain trust fund. His plan
also incorporated the hope to save
every penny Of that income for the
possible rainy day He was now
thirty. In each OF several New York
banks he had something like $4,000
drawing per cent interest, while he
picked his blithe way through the
world on $500 year. more or less,
as chance ordained.
when I'm forty" Chase was won't
to remark to envious spendthrifts who
couldn't understand his philosophy,
s'I'll have over a hundred thousand
there. and II live to be ninety just
think what I'll have. Moreover,
may get married and have to maintain
a poor wife with rich relatives, which
is a terrible strain. you know. You
have to live up to your wife's rela-
tives. II you don't do anything else.~
He did not refer to the chance that
he was quite sure to come in FOR q
large legacy at the death of his ma,
ternal grandfather, millionaire ranch
owner in the fur 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 soldier and the confidence
OF pagan. He loathed 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
at 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 course 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 rife with the
Beers in South Africa, hunted wild
beasts In Asia and In Hottentot land.
took snapshots in st. Petersburg and
almost got to the north pole with one
OF the expeditions. Not in months
journey would you meet truer thor
oughbred, more agreeable chap. a
more polished vagabond, than Holdings
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 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 or 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 good! What wonder, then, that
the bored, suffering, vivacious Mr..
Chase seized the first opportunity to
leap headforemost into the very thick
of most appalling indiscretion!
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 OF some other place when he
reached his post of duty, and 1t was
toward the end of his fifth month be-
fore she n -''rned to her fathers palace
In Thorba awoke to the i'm
portance Of I'd took some
slight intel = the
royal young
to follow the
ton on the Sss