New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
Ry GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON

YOU an Injustice suspected you OF keeping your para.
mour here Pray forgive my error.
1--WE DAYS later was snugly ensconced in the dpca
L suite at the Bristol overlooking the Karnerring
trsse bereft Of nv baronial possessions but NOT o.
ali sorry My romance had been short lived It is one
thing to write novels about medieval castles and quite
anotber thing TO try TO write novel in one Of them
fr,st NAV never again be guilty Of such arrant s,u
nidtv as to think that American-bom citizen can
become a feudal Baron by virtue Of his dollars and
cents any more than an American-bom girl can hone
~ he a real dved-in-thewool Counties Duchess be-
Cause someone needs the money more than She does
II would be quite as impossible, contrriW,- 20 trans
form noble Duke into a plain American citizen.
Nv plans were made. After a fortnight in Vienna
expected to go to London for the autumn, and then
back to New York. | was homesick.
As for SchosS Rothhocien, ! had II IN excellent
authority mo less person than Conrad S-lmck him
self that barely had shaken the dust NJ the place
from myself before the master put into execution
most extraordinary and incomprehensuc plan Of re.
construction In the first place, he gave al the ser.
yants two weeks notice and then began O. ze the cas-
tie from the bottom upward instead OF tle other way
round as a sensible person might have been expected
TO DO He was knocking out the walls Oh The cellars
and digging up the stone floors with splena disregard
for that orninous thing known a CataCly
The day on which left for Paris still SAG IarnowS
at work with his masons heroicay batern- down the
walls of the grim old stronghold, and chu Jed TO my.
self. It was quite evident that he hadn't ound the
hiding place up 70 that time
After a few DAYS in Paris took myself of % London
| was expecting letters at Clardges, whore / always
take rooms There were many letters waiting there for
me: but not one from Countess Alnc. bad encOur-
aged the hope that she might write 70 me- 10 was the
least she could DO in return for all had done for her
notwithstanding my wrctched behavior on Tie last day
Of our association. While had undoubtedly offended
in the most fragrant manner, still my act " not I'M
parlonable There was tribute, not outr -e, in my
behavior.
.1.g1r J. Q
suits Of my literary labors rafting the type pages in
most insulating way. He oiled his machine with
cusatory frequencc; but failed to respond was in
no mood for writing.
Before had been in London a week it became per
ectlv clear TO me that could not stretch stay out
70 anything like period OF two months. Indeed, be-
gan to think about booking my passage hon inside OF
two weeks was restless, dissatisfied, hon .k On
the ninth day sent Poopendyke to the booking Office
Of the steamship company with instructions % secure
passage for the next sailing Of the Maureta and then
lived in a state Of positive dread for fear o.. tourists
might have gobbled up all the cabins.
awoke one morning to find long letter from the
Countess Il was a very commonplace -unica-
ton, | found on the third or fourth reading DE sum
and substance Of its contents was the in'or .n that
She was going 10 Virginia Hot Springs W't. family
for a month or two, and that Lord Am5ere Nas 10
oin them there. It appeared that her father 1elng
greatly overworked, was IN need OF rest, AMI The goi
links at Hot Springs specially deslgne make 1t
easy for rich men, his doctor had ordered ' o that
delightful resort. She hoped the rest wou. put him
on his feet again. There was page or s, .. anyel
about Amberdale and what he expected o. i0 - the
New York Horse Show. a few lines concerning Rose
mary, and brief almost curt intimation t.a. glimpse
OF two Of me would not be altogether disp.e sing.
AT last took to the high seas. Poopcni oabiel
"A to the Homestead at Hot Springs for sa lie &C..
commodations.
almost forgot to mention a trifng bit 81, that
came TO me the day before sailing. Else Hoard
wrote in great perturbation and at aro. needing
length 20 tell me that Count Tanowsy h.. ..ar,hed
the supposedly mythical Rothhocfcn tr,. hests.
and was rcputcd to have found gold and pr, 'eweE
worth at least million dollars The lated
products Of a ccntury's thiovcry. The ho.- aI The
robber Barons. TarnoWsy',
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