The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-04-28


what it was
We'll, now. I'll tell you" reioined
MI van Torp, to save Margaret the
trouble of answering the futile little
speech her husband didn't treat her
very we'll There's not a purer wom
an In the six continents. Mrs. Rush.
more, but he tried to divorce her. be-
cause he'd lost his money. il he ever
mad any, and she had none. and he
wanted to marry an heiress. How.
ever they automoblized him, or some
Thing in St Petersburg last June"
Auto-what did you say?" inquired
Mrs Rushmore.
Killed by an automobile" ex.
planned Mr. Van Torp gravely. "But
now | come to think, it wasn't that
he got blown up by bomb meant for
better man. 1t was quite instantan-
eous, | recollect. His head disap.
peared suddenly, and the greater part
OF him was scattered around. hut
they found his pocket-book with his
cards and things, so they knew who
IL was. 1t was driven through some
body else's hat on the other side of
the street, wasn't it, Miss Dome?
ihings must have been quite lively
Just then, where it happened. I SUP.
posed you knew"
Mrs Rushmore explained that she
mad never heard any details.
Besides" said Mr. Van Torp. in an
swer, though not quite relevantlv.
everybody always calls her Lady
Maud instead of Countess Leven,'
which she has on her cards"
She would naturally use the higher
title" observed Mrs Rushmore rev.
| erently.
We'll. now, about that" objected
Mr. Van Torp, I'm bound to say I
think the daughter of an English earl
as good as Russian count, anywhere
west of Siberia. | don't know how
they figure those things out at courts
when they have to balance 'em up for
seats at dinner party, of course.
It's just my impression, that's all. as
a business man. He's dead, anyway,
and one needn't make personal re-
marks about dead men. All the same.
1t was happy release for Lady Maud,
and | doubt if she sits up all night
mourning for him. Have you been
out this afternoon, Miss Donne?"
He changed the subject with ex-
IRENE directness, and Mrs. Rushmore,
who was used to the dictatoral ways
of lions, took the hint submissively
enough, though she would have been
glad to discuss the relative and in.
trinsic values of the designations
Lady Maud and Countess Leven."
But it was much more important that
the lion should be left alone with
Margaret as much as possible, and the
excellent lady therefore remembered
that she had something to do and left
, them
Il had little talk with Kralinsky
, before he left" said Van Torp, when
/ she was gone. He says he'll meet
us in Venice any time in the next few
days. He's just going to run over to
{ Vienna in his suddendeath-cart for
, "a hours; then he'll go south, he says
3 He ran me up to the hotel and
5 dropped me. | dare say you heard
t the toots. l thought saw Lady Maud
= looking out of the window of your
room as | got out"
/ Yes" Margaret said But how dc
t you know that Is my Window"
g in the first place, I've counted the
+ windows. | felt sort of interest il
i knowing which was yours. And then
often see your maid opening the
!, shutters in the morning"
a ooh" Margaret smiled. Did you
: notice anything unusual about Lady
Maud when you saw herr" she asked
Il for she knew that he had good eyes.
n Since you mention it. | thought SHE
;. looked as if she didn't feel quite up t.
4 the mark-pale, thought she was"
q Yes" Margaret said She fell
I i'll for a moment, and ! thought sht
was going to faint. But it passed al
most directly and she insisted on go
+ ing for a walk
"Oh." unused Mr. Van Torp, lis tina
so? Well, | dare say it was the hes
thing she could do | was telling yo
Q about Kralinsky He's not Levi Long
=, legs after all, and I'm not sure he wa
= ever in the west
81 thought it sounded unlikely,
=, Margaret said,
= 81 asked him, just like that in
- friendly way. and he thought me
y ment and made an effort to recollec
= = and then he seemed quite pleased I
~ remember that I'd been Fanny an
he'd been Levi Longlegs, and that h
u u, used to whistle things out OF 'ParSiia
II by the fire of an evening
~ "Well-but in that case Mars'
. ret stopped with an inQuirng look
~ Just so" continued Van Torp' noe
% ding. Did you ever attend a trl'
20 and hear witness being crosse.
., ., amined by lawyer who wants him
~ RENE mber something, and he wants
"a remember it himself but can | D
" cause he never heard OF ii before
o. his life? It's quite funny Inc 'a'
~ YER makes steps for him and puts Il
:. feet in them so that he gets alor
~ nicely. unless the judge happens
~ wake up and kick, and then the nv
game stops right there, ana soHleOo,