Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-09-02
ARpman@ Of Observation-Disclosures
IHE MARSHAL.
ByMary Raymond Shipman Andrews
e@o The Perfect TZbuze. etc
CHAPTER xxx-(Continued).
Copyright. The BosssMesrm

"Ho-ho! Not at all! Far from 1t.
You'll find 1T dangerous to say that to
Miss Hampton herself. prince. She
would most likely answer something
u to convince you of her antiquity.
Sixteen she is, and our southern girls
mature young. According to my fancy
she is of a marriageable age. and l will
tell you in confidence. sir. what l would
not tell every mani have selected the
man she is to marry"
ANY" the prince Ger
tainly the inn parlor would ave been
the c%olonels air seemed to demand
something. us 1t known who Is to be
the happy man?"
The colonel pursed his lips and shook
his head slowly. WELL" he said de-
liberately. "well. it certainly is not
"a thousand pardons!" Prince Louis
fastened to say Il am far from de-
handing your family secrets. monsieur.
l simply-how do o ga it?-made
conversation. Shall we not talk of the
country. MONSIEUR"
But the colonel felt an expansion Of
b%rotherly love toward this quiet young
mar with the mighty background. who
would not lift a finger to impress him.
The deep and genuine haughtiness so
carefully hidden under his gentle man.
ner had it's effect or the sou which
spread it's wares ever before the world.
He was conscious of a desire to become
intimate with his guest. He turned
M laid a hand on the others arm.
blandly ignorant that the muscles
frightened against it.
mot at all. not at all. prince. 1 feel
1t an honor that 1 should be able to
impart to you. and 1 know that 1 am
ment of a family alliance. My daughter
Lucy, although she herself does not as
yet know 1t. is destined to become the
wife of the oldest son of my cousin,
Carter Hampton. himself my namesake,
Henry Hampton the fifth. His estate.
my cousin, Carter, his father, being
dead. adioins my own. and this mar
riage will unite the two places under
the old NAME. a most fortunate circum-
stance in these days of changing
houses and broker fortunes. you will
admit"
his own affairs. did not think of a
house. better known than his. whose
broken fortunes knew no immediate
nope of healing. but the heir of the
smiled another ghost of a smile.
The voice flowed on.
The young mar himself is in every
a deserving Of even so brilliant a
match as this. He is a man of parts
and has Travelled in foreign countries.
He IS OF an attractive personality-in
fact"-the colonel smirked-"in fact,
my flatterers say that he resembles me
s~trikingly."
"One could ask no MORE" Prince
Louis answered neatly. and the colonel
-~s satisfied.
And before them. at that moment.
o a stately picture. A large old
house. built of dark red brick brought
from ENGLAND. lowered suddenly from
out Of the bare trees of it's park like a
monument of calm hospitality. It's
steep roof was set with dormer win
dows: Its copings and its
We're white stone: a white stone terrace
stretched before it. At one front, as
they came. was the carriage entrance,
and the squares of a formal English
garden. walled with box hedges, lay
sleeping before the springtime; at the
opposite side a wide lawn fell to a
massive brick wall. spaced with stone
pillars. guarding the grounds from the
flowing of the James river. Colonel
Hampton gazed at the home of his peo-
pie and then al his guest, and he cast
the harness Of his smallnesses and
stood out in the simple and large cor
diality which Is the heritage above 9TH
ers Of southern people.
You are welcome to Roanoke,
prince" he said.