The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-10-15

''Not today, Mr.. Smart
A most unfathomable personi
CHAPTER XII.
am Invited to Spend Money.
A NY one who has travelled in the Valley
4 Of the Donau knows the Rempf Ho
tel. It is an ancient hostelry, frequent
ed quite as much in these days as it was IN
olden times by people who are by way Of
knowing the excellence of its cuisine and ths
character of its wines. Unless one possesses
this intelligence, either through hearsay OK
experience, he will pass by the Rempf with
out so much as glance at its rather for
bidding exterior and make for the modern
hotel on the plstz thereby missing one of the
most interesting spots in this grim old town
Is it to the fashionable Bellevue that ths
nobility and the elect wend their way when
they come to townl Not by any means They
affect the Rempf, and there you may ses
them in fat, inglorious plenty smugiy ere
Grating the pleban rich Of many lands who
dismiss Rempf's with sniff, and enjoying
to their hearts content a privacy which
the aforesaid rich would not consider at any
price.
You may be quite sure that the rates sFs
low at the historic Rempf, and that they
would be much lower if the nobility had any.
thing to say about it. One can get verJ
comfortable room, without bath, at thu
Rempf for dollar day provided he gets
in ahead of the native aristocracy. If he in
sists on having a room with bath, he il
guilty of lese majeste and is sent on his
way.
But, bath or no bath, the food is the bed
in the entire valley and the cellar without !
rival.
I found Mr.. Pless at the Rempf At nine
o clock. He was in his room when entered
the quaint old place and approached the
rotund manager with considerable uneer
tainty in my manner. For whom was I to
inquired Would he be known there a.
Plessi
The manager gave me broad Q was
about to say serviceable) smile and put my
mind at rest by blandly inquiring il I Was
the gentleman who wished to see Mr. Piesa
He directed me to the top floor of the hotd
and / mounted two flights Of stairs at the
heels of porter who exercised native thrift
by carrying up large trunk, thus saving
time and steps after fashion, although il
may be hard to see wherein he really bene-
fitted when / say that after escorting me t.
room on the third floor and knocking at
the door while balancing the trunk on his
back, he descended to the second and deliv-
cred his burden in triumph to the lady who
had been calling for it since six o'clock in
the evening But even at that he displayed
considerable cunning in not forgetting what
room the luggage belonged in, thereby saving
himself trip all the way down to the Of
flee and back with the trunk.
Mr.. Pless stiffened. His face grew per
Of warmth He called me dear old fel-
low and shook hands with me with more
heartiness than l thought him capable of ex.
His dark, handsome face was aglou
with pleasure. He was quite boyish. A
smallsh old gentleman was with him. Ny
introduction to the stranger was a sort Of
afterthought, 1t seemed to me. I was in
formed that he was one Of the greatest law
yers and advocates in Vienna and Mr.. Pless'a
personal adviser in the unfortunate contro-
versy.''
I accepted cigar.
80 you knew who was all the time
was at Schloss Rothhoefen, said Mr.. Pless
smiling amably II Was trying to maintain
my incognito so that you might not be dis
tressed, Mr.. Smart, by having in your homo
such . notorious character as I am supposed
to be. / confess it was rather shabby in me,
but I hold your excellent friends responsible
fur tho trick
'It Is rather difficult to keep a secret
with women about" said evssively.
but never difficult to construct one''
said Mr.. Schymansky. winking rather too
broadly. / think Sehymansky was the
name. Ito be continued.l