Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-12

THE floor seemed unsteady for
a moment"
keeniy. lie had never seen his
young friend in quite this mood.
There was a curious deadly still
ness about him.
What is it, Lee?" he asked
when curiosity finally got the bet
ter Of him. Nothing wrong be-
tween you and Mary, | hope? OF
course you know it's al over town
that you're engaged to her. Don't
mind my saying this, do you? And
YOU know you can trust me. Moth
ing like an old gossip for keeping
a confidence sacred.
a"Well, am. But she chooses not
to announce it and that is her
right. And here is where you can
help me | want you to open your
camp in the Adiroa3acks and give
Nary a house party. | suppose
Lansing and his wife are still
there?"
Yes, but it's too early"
Spring is early this year. The
ice must have gone out And the
house is always comfortable; we've
often had fires there when people
were having sunstroke in New
York. want you to get busy. so
that we can leave tomorrow morn
ing
Tomorrow morning? You young
: dynamo. 1t can't be done"
at can. I'll call up the people
want in a few minutes - from
here Yon can telephone to the
you don't mean to tell me that
you are jealous of Hohenhauer.
Why, that was nearly twenty years
ago, and he is almost as old as
am"
I'm not jealous, but I've got
lunch" He scowled again, for he
fancied he could see that old story
Unreling itself in Dinwiddie's
mind 1t is one thing to dismiss
the past with a lordly gesture and
another to see it rise from the
dead and peer from old eyes. He
went on calmly, however. I've no
faitfT5 myself in the making of
bondrea out Of dead ashes, but all
the same scent danger and | in
tend to get her away and keep her
away until the day before she
sails and III marry her the morn
ing she does, I'll take no chances
of their travelling on the same
steamer"
81 see. Perhaps you are right.
He's a damn good-looking chap,
too. and has that princely distinc-
ton peculiar to Austrians. Some
European princes look like sue
cessful businessmen of the Middle
West, | was once stranded at Abb
bazia, Austria's Riviera, during
rainy spell. and as there were only
two other people in the vast din
ing-room ] thought I'd speak to
them. l took for granted they were
Americans. He was a big heavy
man, with one of those large,
round, fat, shrewd, weary faces
you see by the hundreds in the
Hobbies Of Chicago hotels. She
looked like a New England school
marin, and wore a red plaid waist.
.Well-he was the reigning prince
of t-Rudolfstein, one Of
those two-by-six German principal
tiles, and she was an Austrian
archduchess, She was the only
Austrian l ever saw that didn't
look like one, but her manners
were charming and, we became
great friends and they took me
home with them to their beautiful
old castle. All, those Won
derful old German castles! Prof
iteers living in them today, I sup
pose, But Hohenhauer is a per-
feet specimen Of his class and
then some. l met him once in Par
is. Intensely reserved, but opened
up one night at a small dinner. |
never met a more charming man
in my life. And unquestionably
enc of the ablest men in Europe.
/. However, he's sixty and
you're thirty-four. If he has any in
tluence over her it's political, and
in European politics one never
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III see to that also"
But can you get away your.
self"
I'd set away if I had to resign.
but shan't shall break away
Tor TWO months later anyhow. We
nave planned to marry in Austria