The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-03-18
The car swung north.

the newspaper Since she and tbs
princess had once been children in
the same household, perhaps she
could tell him something of Rosa
lind Arloff now There was still SO
much that he did not understand.
At the Biltmore. he received the
information that the Hon Mrs. Lam
caster had gone TO her permanent
home which had been redecorated
and made ready for her some months
ago. The address was that of the
house Noel knew so well, on Madison
avenue
The taxicab turned south again.
1t was strange to come again to
that house; strange to climb those
brownstone steps. The goldfish were
no longer in the window Instead,
nude statue cleaned whitley between
the curtains. A servant received his
card, and left Noel in small re-
ception room.
Mrs. Lancaster would see him in
fact, she came to him. Noel guessed
from the sound of voices that guests
were assembled for dinner, in the
drawing room.
Constance Lancaster was a robust
and handsome young woman, wear
ing black dinner gown that could
be scarcely called suggestive of grief
Or mourning. She greeted Noel with
practised ease and correctness, CIV
ing him his South American military
title, which few North Americans
knew or used outside Of diplomatic
circles. The faint odor OF the before
dinner cocktail invested her with the
final touch Of difference from the
poor little princess of the meager
bread and milk supper. She was so
different as to confuse Noel's first
reply to her.
81 am glad to see that you are back
again, quite recovered from your ac-
cident General Noel" she remarked.
81 heard it much spoken of at Wash
ington at the time; as / heard you
much spoken Of now!"
Thank you" he said recovering
himself. THE accident occurred
when was leaving the house of Mr..
Yasil Arloff. I was obliged to re-
turn to South America, and when l
called again today, found the family
gone. Would you be so good as to
tell me where l can find them? My
need of doing SO is my excuse for
disturbing you at this hour
She looked him through kneely.
you fanc;ed would know?"
81 hoped that"
II have not seen my cousin Rosa
lind since she was H."
"She is your cousin?'
"Yes. You are interested in find
ing her, General Noel?"
II hope to make her my wife," he
bluntly answered.
MI .. lLditSdSlSl was Dolh Sill WI
and good natured. The famous
South American millionaire was a
family connection worth securing.
She leaned hack in her chair
81 have 16 minutes before dinner.
What can tell you?"
Everything pleased"
1t was not very long history The
father OF Constance and Rosallnd's
mother had been brother and sister.
When Vasili Arloff dazzled the eyes
Of New York like bright meteor,
young Rosa Bruce met him and
loved him, or rather, he loved her.
The nattered and vainly sought
Vasili, the petted and Indifferent Ia
vorite. CELL as humbly and passion
ately In love as schoolboy
The girls family was Mortified as
at q disgrace -What-a Bruce marry
a foreign dancer7 They hurried the
young girl out OF, the city as from a
plague.
vasili followed her, and married
her a month after their first meet
ing. In two years Rosalind was born.
and the young mother died.
There had been a reconciliation
between Rosa Arloff and her fam
lily. The young wife made It her
last demand Of Yasili that their
daughter should be given TO her
grandmother to be reared as q Bruce
and not an Arloff. BY an irony Of
life. It was the man Of the stage who
had been faithful and the daughter
Of Puritans who had repented her
marriage. and looked backward In
discomfort.
However sharply wounded, Vasili
had kept the bond, only exaeting
his right to visit his baby daughter
every day.
What Rosa. had denied, Rosalind
gave. AS soon as the u tile FIJI
iii har cIiiIdish
devotion was spent upon her father.
She loved everyone but adored him.
When she was II years old. however,
his visits ceased without warning or