Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-01-27
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was accepted
| Il am glad to see that you have
such a good appetite, Mr.. Gibson. This
is almost as nice as at our lunch in
the train.''
Il am glad that your ladyship has
not yet forgotten that.
why should I? recall it with
pleasure. There is one thing have
been wanting to ask you for some
time, Mr.. Gibson. How is it that you
speak German as well as English? Did
you live in Germany long?''
mot in Germany, your ladyship, In
Vienna; then, too, my mother is Ger
man.
"Ah, your mother is alive?"
yes, milady, and I owe everything
to her, particularly whatever educa-
ton I have"
| "You are very fond of your mother,
Mr.. Gihson?" -s.e y
'1nexpressibly so, your ladyship!'
Il should like to meet her, some
; time
If one has the gift of appearing at
the right time once, what wonder that
one should do so again and again?
The weather was propitious for
these ':catings, remaining remarkably
fine. Frau Won Balten consequently
breaEfa ted outdoors every day, and
her trainer always happened to pass
there Just at the time, quite accident
ally, OF course. For week he was
In the seventh heaven of delight, but
at the end Of that time his happiness
suddenly ceased, for his mistress re-
NAMED invisible, nor could he catch
a glimpse OF her at any time .--:
My Dear Major: Not only thanking you
so late for your kindness in complying
with my request, must I ask for your
kind indulgence, but also for troubling
you with another one so soon again. Mr..
Gibson, whom you recommended to me SO
| warmly, has proved entirely satisfactory,
but it is on his account that I am pen
! ming you these lines to-day, for I am
sorely puzzled about him. A new English
| jockey, Sullivan by name, now belongs
| to my stables, and it is he who contided
| to me yesterday that this is not the right
! Fred Gibson, whom he says he knows
| very well, as he worked under him in
England. at Lord Rossmore's. He pro-
fesses to know all the jockeys and train
| ers Of repute. and declares positively that
| there is no other Fred Gibson except the
! one now in charge of Count Studt's sta
! bles in Vienna. Now it so happens that
| this Is the very one you recommended to
me. and hence my mystifcation. I have
| enjoined secrecy on Sullivan, as I wish
the matter kept quiet until I hear from
! you, and 1 beg of you, my dear major,
TO regard this communication as confden-
| tial and, if possible. to enlighten me at
vn1J >ltn 1,r,ff IT
you that anything that you have TO tell
me will be likewise regarded as strictly
| confidential and the utterance of
man of honor If the true Fred Gibson
| is still at Count studt's, a fact of which
you can easily convince yourself, who
| then, is my Fred Gibson? 1t seems to
me. my dear major, that you are the
gentleman who recommended him, it may
| interest you as much as it does me to
| have some light cast on the subject.
| Thanking you beforehand for any trou-
BILE you may take in the matter, believe
| me, dear sir.
| Yours very truly,
! ALEXANDRIA Won BALTEN.
Your Excellency.
My Dear and Most Esteemed Lady: In
reply to your favor of this week, hasten
to say that this whole business is exceed
! ingly disagreeable to me and that I from
the first thought it might end badly-but
YOU have appealed to me on my honor
! that alters the case for me and compels
me to speak. My dear madam, I know
nothing; but of course man may infer q
great deal! Well, then, recommended
| Fred Gibson to you, something could do
| with the best conscience in the world, for
he is a splendid trainer and a sober and
conscientious fellow besides
! But if you did not get the right Gibson,
! that is no fault of NINE I really think
YOU must have got the wrong one, for
! not only saw but spoke to the true one
This morning. But infer something else:
! namely. that Count Erwin ~Studt must
! have fallen madly in love with you-a
| very excusable thing, on my word as a
| Sentleman!-and that the rogue went In
his trainers place himself. I infer this.
as he has disappeared from among us as
completely as if the earth had swallowed
him up. not a soul knowing what has be-
come of him! My dear madam, even il
scold about Erwin, still venture to beg
for mercy for him. for he is a dear friend
II mine. a gentleman from top to toe. and
4 highly educated fellow into the bar
gain. His mother is the ideal aristocratic
woman. and II you see me a bachelor to-
day. it is for the reason that she refused
me 30 years ago. --.
Do not. beseech you. be too severe on
him. for the poor devil Is head over heels
In love with you, and that is sin which
| IS pafOOneO even IN the confessional! You
will not betray me. I know. and I re-
| main, as ever. =>
| Your most devoted
! BARSAY MIKLOs
Frau Won Balten sen. for her trainer
''Mr. Gibson, you may conside- your
self dismissed"
Your ladyship is sending me
away?"
Eyes, Mr.. Gibson, expect you to
leave my house this very day."
He bowed silently and turned to go,
when her voice recalled him. you
have nothing to say to me?"
"A great deal, your ladyship, but
am too great a coward to say it; I
might have summed up courage to
. write, however
Il have reason to be angry with
you, Mr.. Gibson
II cannot deny it,