Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-15

The business of the Japat company ferred by agreement to syndicate. ! Never before was there such stu pendous deal !n futures. The grandchildren of the testators were ready to accept the best settle ment that could be obtained Theirs was rather forlorn hope to begin with When it was proposed that Agnes Deppingham and Robert Browne should accept f250,000 apiece in lieu of all claims. moral or legal. against the estate, they ieaped at the chance.
 1 They had seen but little of each oth- 1 CT since landing in England. except as | they were thrown together at the con | ferences. Iady Agues went In for every diversion imaginable, For a wonder, she dragged Deppingham with l her on all occasions. Ii was q most unexpected transformation. Their l friends were pHzzled The rumor went ! about town that she was in love with her husband.
 As for Bobby Browne, be was devo- ton itself to Drusilla. They sailed for ! New York within three days after the settlement was effected. ignoring the | enticements of London season. The Brownes were rich He could now be- come fashionable specialist. They were worth nearly million and a l quarter in American dollars. They | now had nothing in common with Tas- well Skaggs Skaggs is not pretty name
 Mir. Britt aftcrward spent three weeks of incessaut travel on the con tinent and m additional seven days at sea. In Baden Baden he happened upon Lord and Lady Depplngham. It will be recalled that in Japat they | had always professed an unholy aver sion for MT Britt. Is 1t cause for wonder. then. thar they declined his invitation to dine in Baden Baden? He wen proposed to invite tneir entire | tarty, which Included few dukes and Guchesses who were leisurely on their way to attend the long talked of nup- tials in Thorberg at the end of June. | In Vienna the Deppinghams were joined by the Duchess of N.. the | Marchioness of E. and other fash l ionables In a week all of them would | be in the castle at TlIorberg for the | ceremony that now occupied the at- tention of socinl and royal Europe.
 And to think" said the duchess, ''she might have died happily on that miserable island | am sure we did all we could to bring il about by steaming away from the place with the plague chasing us. Dear me. how diaUolicaily those wretches lied to the marquis They said that every one In the cha teau was dead. Lady Depplngham. and buried. If l am not mistaken. It would be much better for poor Gencvra if she were to be buried lnstend of mar ! ried next week" lamentcd the duch- ess.
 "Other women have married princes and got on ver.- we'll" said Prince Licbtensteln.
 ''Oh. come now. prince" put in Lord Deppingham; you know the sort of chap Brabctz is. There are princes and princes by love"
 Hes positively vller exclaimed the duchess. who would not .mince words
 She's entering upon hell of al mean life of he'll" exploded the duke. hanging the table with his fist That fellow Brabetz Is the rottenest thing in Europe. He's gone from bad to worse so swiftly that public opln- ion is still months behind him"
 Mice way to talk of the groom" said the host genillly. "l quite agree with you. however cannot under stand the grand duke permitting 1t to go on unless. of course, it's too late to interfere"
 Poor dear! She'll never know what 1t is to be loved and cherished" said the marchioness dolefully.
 Lord and Lady Deppingham glanced at each other. They were thinking of the man who stood on the dock at Arafat when the Kings own sailed away.
 "The grand duke is probably saying the very thing to himself that Bra betz's associates are saying in public" ventured young Austrian count
 What is that. pray?'
 "That the prince won't live more than six months. He's physical wreck today and a nervous one too. Take my word for it. he will be creeping, imbecle thing inside of half a year-locomotor ataxia and all that. It's coming positively with sharp crash"
 I've heard he has tried to kill that woman in Paris half a dozen times" remarked one of the women. taking 1t as matter of course that every one knew who she meant by that wo- man."
 "She was really responsible for the postponement of the wedding in De- cember, I'm told. Of course don't