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CHAPTER I.
The gardens wore unusually crowded
this evening. In I:.ulenburger language
this means that there were almost as
!many full benches as empty ones, and
that the usually so desert -like appear.
+anoe of the Curgarten was relieved here
and there by an oasis of humanity.
The day had been splendid, that, is to
Say -speaking again in Eulenburger lan-
guage -that only, three showers and one
short hailstorm had occurred since morn -
Among the above-named oases of hu-
manity which presented some agreeable
t uterruptions to the above-named sandy,
or rather . dusty desert, one chief group
Shone conspicuous. This group consisted
of a company of ladies and gentlemen,
'whose chairs were placed in an irregu-
lar circle, and who obviously were trou-
bling themselves as little about the per-
formances -of the band as about their fel-
low ereaaires.
No stony wall surrounded this group,
Ino thorny hedge cut off the entrance,
ueithor double nor triple steel formed the
line of defence, and yet it was magically
closed. Not even the most reckless per-
flon. in Eulenburg, unless he bore upon
himself the indubitable social seal, would
have ventured to draw near to this for-
midable concentration of the creme de
la creme.
There could bo no doubt that a sub-
dect of unusual interest was occupying the
attention of the circle, for the gentlemen
Were whispering eagerly to each other.
and the heads of the ladies swayed from
aide to side like poppies in the wind.
It is true that in hulenburg these symp-
toms do not necessarily portend an event,
dor here people have been known to work
themselves into a fever over the appear-
ance of a new hat or a new dog; but
to -day there could be no doubt that the
root lay deeper, and so great was the
preoccupation that assuredly not one
member of the circle had the faintest
idea whether Beethoven or Strauss was
beiug played.
i have counted the boxes," said an ex-
silted
xsilted young man, who appeared to con -
islet principally of a. pair of spectacles, a
prematurely bald crown, and a smile so
dazzling that it was difficult to look at
im without being put in mind of a den-
st's advertisement, "and.I can assure you
fiat they were close upon thirty."
'And 3. oriented the sacrante,' shouted
'a -yellow-maned dragoon oaptain, who
looked like the very- embodiment of self-
aatisfaction. There was no denying that
he had to shout in order to . be heard
ever and above the music, but, there was
no denying, either, that he enjoyed the
shouting for its own sake. "Close upon
a dozen, I tell you."
"But who has couuted the members of
the family?" inquired the very ample
Countess liallaban, with a certain sever-
aty of tone; for as one of the leaders
01 society, Countess Bailaban considered
it her duty to keep a watchful eye on
the arrivals and departures of l;ulen-
bbur ii
No one had counted the members of
the newly arrived family, or even caught
it glimpse of them, but the greater the
uncertainty on this point the more num-
erous were the conjectures thrown out.
"They are Hungarians," remarked Cap -
tam Kimmel, still at, the top of his voice,
"and are said to be enormously. rich."
"Hugely rich," murmured the most ju-
venile of all the lieutenants present, try-
ing very hard to pull at his almost non-
existent moustache.
"How delicious!" giggled the fair-hair-
ed. Baroness Lebra. "A hugely rich fam-
dly is the very thing we want. Perhaps
they will entertain, --oh, it is just too de-
licious!"
Perhaps they will give a ball in Car -
nivel," suggested the dainty little Lill
Bngelsbrocht.
'Why wait till Carnival?" objeeted her
' act daintier and yet smaller sister
Let them give gouters now in summer.'
"Or, better still," pensively corrected
fat and rosy -faced lieutenant, "let them
ive dinners. At gouters you get nothing
o eat but cakes and iced coffee; that is.
.not nourishing."
"Slowly, slowly, ladies and gentle-
Men," put in Captain Kimmel, with a
smile of superior wisdom. "Matters are
not quite so far as that. The Szentmere
pro only on the way through."
"Only on the way through!"
echoed
back from all sides.
No balls!" sighed Lill,
"No gouters?" responded Mimi.
"No dinners!" murmured the fat lieu-
tenant, "only cakes and iced coffee!"
Even Baroness Lebra's giggles were
Stifled by the depressing news.
"Only ou the way through! What a
pity~"
It's a huge pity!" echoed the juvenile
lieutenant, who never made any assor-
tions of his own but was all the more
aesidious in backing up those of other
people.
Oh, I see -only on the way through;"
said Countess Bailaban, leaning back up.
on her heavily -laden and dismally creak-
ing chair with an air of indifference. She
felt herself relieved of all responsibility.
The young mac with the smile and
the spectacles, whose name was Berea.
Strobl, was the first who recovered from
the shook.
"Let us be philosophic. Perhaps the
grapes are sour, after all. Perhaps the
Szentmers wouldn't have given either
bans or dinners; perhaps they have no
daughters; perhaps-"
'•Olt, yes, they have daughters, remark-
ed a young man who up to this moment
had not opened his mouth. He spoke in
a somewhat trailing tone and stared the
while at the tree -tops, as though he found
them ever so much more interesting than
his companions. Herr von Berningen was
a young man, with a Light brown mous-
tache, eyes which might have been ei-
ther blue or grey or green, and nothing
in the least remarkable about his ap-
pearance. He was moderately tall, mod-
erately good-looking, and obviously very
much bored. He had shown no interest
in the newly -arrived family; had put no
questions, nor had Ito till now answered
any. He had not been elated at the pros-
pect of balls and dinners, and he had not
been depressed by the collapse of these
castles in the air.
"Daughters? Really?"
"How many?" inquired the ladies.
"Are they pretty?" inquired the gen-
tlemen.
I don't know how many; but X fancy
I have Beard somewhere that one of them
is considered a beauty."
'"Hugely beautiful," confirmed the ju-
venile lieutenant.
A long -drawn "A -a -ah!" composed of
interest, surprise and curiosity made the
round. "Ah?" said the ladies with a point
of interrogation. "Ah!"' repeated the gen-
tlemen with a point of exclamation.
Herr. von Berningen was bombarded
with, questions. - What style of beauty
was she? Was she tall? short? fair?
dark? pale? rosy? Was it the beauty oP a
goddess or of a flower?
'
But Herr von Berningen"s information`
was exhausted. - He knew only that she
was said to be beautiful. The frame was
there, but the picture was wanting.
"My name is not Strobl," remarked
that gentleman with an almost savage
energy, "if I don't get a glimpse of this
mysterious beauty before she has quite
done passing through Eulenburg."
"Oh, really?" retorted his brown -eyed
cousin Fanny, somewhat coldly. "You
seem to have a fine gift of curiosity, Good
heavens, what a row those wind -instru-
ments aro making!"
"Strobl is quite right," decided Captain
Kimmel, with a shake of his yellow mane.
"We are surely not going to let a cele-
brated beauty pass this way, without so
much as finding out whether her hair
is black or brown."
"The question does not interest me in.
the least," pouted Baroness Lebra, 111.
treating her unoffending fan as she spoke.
"If only one knew by what train they
are going to continue their journey,"
heavily remarked the fat lieutenant. -I
occasionally dine at the station; they
manage the halted cutlets better there
than in the town."
"And the cutlets taste better, of course,
when they- are seasoned with curiosity,"
said Lill Engclsbreoht with a touch of
Irritation, as she drew her wrap round
her shoulders. ";Mimi, I thiuk Mamma is
making signs for 1.18 to go.'
A general leave-taking ousued, not, how-
ever, without many more words being ex-
changed, and all on the satne subject.
Strangely enough, however, the ladies got
cooler in exact proportion as the gen-
tlemen got warmer, and if, in the course
of the following evening, many of the let-
ter more than once said to themselves
"What a pity that she is only on the,
way through!" The former just as often
rcflettted: ''What a good thing she is only
on the way through!
CHAPTER II.
"Waiter! Breakfast for four -boiled
eggs for two -tea with rani for one, rolls
for two, coffee for three, two, with cream
and ono without--Kngelhnpf for all. Do
you understand? Aud in double-quick
time, mind you! The Prince is not fond
of waiting.'
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"Three b1a,k . eoffess, one with oream,'
or was it, the ; other way round?" ,taiur-
mured the perseoutod waiter as he olas;t-
ed his panda above his head. "Bops for
four, rum for all!"
"Waiter, who cleans the beets in this
establishment?"
"At your service, monsieur, le valet,
immediately-"
"Waiter, mind the eggs are not too
soft;'the Princes:if never oats watery eggs.'
"At your service, mademoiselle-"
"But not tori hard either, or else the
Prince might.; neesibly throw thein at
your head
At your service -I-"
"And dont forget to order the carriagq,"
somebody caleed, out of au open door.•
"And the doetic"i'r,', and the list for the
apothecaryss, aad the ,telegram, anjl-'
But the unlra!i,y man -was already half
way down the etairoase, holding his .split-
ting head between his two hands, while
from all sides there resounded the cry:.
"Waiter! Wialracrrl'. Waiter!"
When he reappeared at length he .'wee
heavily laden, : and a liveried footman,
taking the large breakfast -tray from his
hands., carried it into an inner sanotu-
pry,
This was a large, light room, which,
'despite its handsome furniture, looked
dreary with .that peculiar dreariness
which is inseparable from hotel drawing -
rooms. Travelling -plaids, travelling -bags,
travelling boxes and red guide -books • lit-
tered the shining parquet, and earoh thing
belonged to the 'most costly class of its
kind:. Silver clasps shone here and there,
and a perfume of fine leather floated in
the air. Upon everything there stood, so
to say, written in largo letters: "On the
way through." Upon everything, not
even excepting the single occupant of 'the
apartment. This was an old gentleman'
with a snow-white but Jauntily twisted.
moustache, bushy eyebrows and well -out
nose. He wore a light travelling -suit and
high Hungarian boots. While the foot-
man was laying the cloth be drummed
impatiently upon the table.
"How it was possible any one 'ever
stumbled linen the idea of creating so
slow a people as these Germans, is 'a
mystery to me," he grumbled to himself._
"And as for those eggs, I can see from
here' they're as hard. as German skulls.
Yes, there's the tea for the Princess."
The last words were addressed to the
maid who had just made her appearance.
"How has Princess Gisela slept?" asked
the Prince.
She has slept badly, it seemed, and' the
doctor had been sent for again.
"That means that we are still stuck
fast," and he set to hacking away savage-
ly at his egg almost as though the un-
offendiug shell were one of the afore-
mentioned German skulls.
In an apartment which adjoined this,
big room an altogether different scene
was being enacted. Here the Princess,
clothed in a richly embroidered morning -
gown was sitting in an armchair and
wringing her hands with a tolerably des-
perate air. Her elder daughter, wrapped
in a cloud of muslin and lace, paced the
floor; the younger one's face was almost
as white as the pillows on which she lay.
"Oh, mon Dieu! slowly slowly!" breath-
ed the Princess in a tone of displeasure,
as the fussy maid entered with the break-
fast tray. "What sense is there in tear-
ing open the door in that way? Every
breath of air is poison for Gisela. . Ma
panvre enfant, wouldn't you like another
blanket?"
"I do believe, mamma, that you would`
like best to pack me up. in cotton -wool,"
remarked the invalid, smiling faintly.
"And why not me as well, when you.
are about it?" said the elder daughter,
with a touch of impatience, standing still
by 'the table as she spoke.
"Oh, Illona! I never noticed till this mo-
ment how lightly you are dressed, -there
is always so much to think about, and I
do believe that I haven't measured, your
waist for three whole days. Alt, spa p.au
vre tete! I implore you to put on a.
flannel jacket ,at least;: the mountain .air
is so sharp:" '
"Hoer much mountain air do you sup-
pose can get in through the double win-
dows, marnma?�, asked Illoua with a
shrug of her shoulders. "You forget
that we are not in December but July.
And Shona threw herself hack in au arm-
chair, while one small foot tapped the
floor.
"Ent what a July!" sighed the Princess,
not without reason.
On days like this it required a pretty
robust faith to believe in the existence
of the far-famed Eulenburg 'inountaine,
for not even the tiniest peak 01 thorn was
to be discovered.
"It is nothing but the mountain air that
has knocked up poor Gisela."
The eyes of the two sisters met for a
moment, and to herself IUona said, "The
mountain air, yes, or else her corsets -de -
Paris.
The Princess was still wringing her hands.
(To be continued.)
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Her pride revolted against receiving Sir
Godfrey again, on the pleasant terms of
relationship and . friendship, which had
once formed so close a tie between them,
Yet, even whilst pride fought on the one
side of her nature. some softer instinct.
prevailed upon the other.
"Ask Sir Godfrey to come upstairs," she
said, after a uattse, perceptible only to
,her own consciousness, and then, .before
site could reduce the chaos in her mind to
order, and decide what treatment should
be meted out to her husband's cousin. the
subject of her thoughts was in the room.
They had not met siuce the day Sir. God-
frey left Standon Towers, after his ill-
ness there, and the moment was an em-
harrassing one for them both.
A11 that had passed between him and
Violet, and her letter refusing his primo -
sal of marriage, had driven him away
from home, and out of England, the first
moment his doctor had allowed him to
travel; his return to his own house, The
Dale, was of quite recent date, and this
was his first visit to Lady Martindale
since the strange :mice of events which
had occurred during the past few months.
He took her hand with an air of dila-
deuce, unlike his accustomed self-reliance
-his greeting was a very' unconventional
one.
90 the are. both lonely 'people now, Ger-
trude, ' he said.
She looked at him gravely; she saw that
he had aged, and that traces of his severe
illness of the previous spring still linger-
ed in a eertatn eareworn look; in the deep
lines about his mouth; and in a shadow -
nese below the dark eyes.
"I am not going to,be slope very long,"
she answered, making an effort to speak
naturally and cheerfully. 'Roger and Joy
come home to -day, as no doubt you know.
indeed. the bells do not let ne forgot. it"
sale added with a smile, as a fresh cla-
mor of sweet sot{ods floated' up to .diem
from the Village. • ,
But -still you will be alone --when you
go to the-Dower:.I•iouse,". he persisted, "1
understood, you intended going there even-
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and tell me about your travels, and how : could be a quarter as happy as Roger and
yeti are." I are, ,Joy said naively to Gertrude that
Pride was being driven further and evening -when, at bedtime, the elder wo-
further away into the background of her man told her step -daughter of her, own
mind; the half shamed look iu Godfrey's happiness, "but you look as if the heal.,
eyes, the harassed expression on his face, ens had opened for you!"
swept aside the sensation of proud re- "I think they have," Gertrude flushed
volt. Her own gentler thoughts of a few as rosily as a girl, "there has been .so
-minutes earlier' took the place of hurt much trouble in my life -so much bitter -
pride, _ nese-that now—
"To, give, not to get. is the root of all "'The end crowns all!'" Joy quoted
love." 'lb give? Not to struggle for one's softly. "Oh, but I am glad! --gladder thau
own rights, to fight for our dues. Only i can ever say, that you and Cousin God -
to give! froy care for one another. and that he-"
"Tell me 'rill about yourself," she re- She pulled herself up sharply, but Ger-
peated, whet"We shall
was still silent, and God.- trude only smiled.
fret'. lgokin . at her, wondered over the owe our happiness in a great
suddeureofteuing of her face. measure to you," she said.
'Alt aiiout myself?" he answered, laugh- "To me?" Joy's eyes opened widely: in
ing upzttirthfuliy, 'it would be a dreary her soft,. white gown, she looked so like
tale. Is have been busy making a fool a lovely child, that Gertrude stooped Ina -
of myself. Climbing into fools' para- uetuously and ltissed her face. "What
discs' and failing out of them. You have I dens to help you? I wish I could
know what I"have been doing as well as think I had done anything."
I knoyr it myself. Picking up dross. and It fs not what you have done -but -you
throwing away gold." Hie voice dropped, have been so much!' was Gertrude's rryp-
his eyes did not meet hers; and, as the tie answer, as her hand lightly touched
full significance of his words reached her the girl's bright hair. "I believe I should
understanding, she flushed deeply. have thrown away my chance of haupi-
"I think I have no right to come and ness, but for the thought of you, and your
you the plain, unvarnished truth? -I could endless powers of loving and giving. Your
not keep away." mother could not have chosen a better
"I hope you will not try to keep away. name for you; she was very wise when
Why should you? You and I have always she called you Joy; she was very right !
been good friends.' She spoke quietly, wheu she said you would be a happy soul."
so quietly that the man opposite her had TFIE END.
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better'. if she were on her feet. "Don't for torturing,disfiguring affections
say something that you -that I -that we disfiguring
might both regret." of the skin and scalp could receive
apologize for being one, he said ince- no more striking proof than the re-
herently, rising too, and looking down markable statement made by Wil-
wistftelly upon her bent head, I came to-
day, just for the simple reason that I Liam t`; kyle, 325 Tudor road, Lei -
have told you. I could not keep away. cester, England.
I wanted to see you, Gertrude -.I wanted]
to look into your face, to hear your voice, ''A sample of C'uticura. Ointment
to toaioh .your hand. I wanted -yon! MY cured my baby's face. She had the
God, what ate intolerable fool I have
been!"
In itis silence that followed -a silence
that seemed 10 Gertrude at least half a
life -time -pride lifted its head once more,
and a passionate voice of revolt cried
within her- '•
"Shall I take the fragments he is go-
ing to offer me? The crumbs front an-
other woman's table? Shall I be coutent
with Violet's leavings -no -no -no!" Then
she looked at his haggard face turned
now a little w.ay from her; the scaling
bells clamoured ie leer caws, the bells that
were ringing for Joy -•-and With the sound
came the thought of Joy herself, and of
Joy's sweet and bounteous nature.
' To give --riot to get!
She put her arm on Godfrey s arm.
"Do you want me now?" she said. "My
-friendship-is. still waiting for you!"
' Tie turned and caught both her hands
in itis.
I daren't ask' you for wbat I want,"
he said br•okeu)y. I have no right to ask
von even for your friendship :, I have no
business to come orfngina to you at all.
How could I dare ask for more than
i
frendship?"
We are both very loxiely," ehe au ewer -
ea simply, "Godfrey, it is true What you
said--wo lire both Very lonely; and if I
can make you . happy, you shall have
friendship -and -more than friendship.
Only-afe you'sure--I can make you hap-
py~? . Aro you quite, quite sure?"
I urn sure I shall never. be happy with-
out ou," he said,'"I •think I was mad --
Ya
re. Xu myher r
befo t, Gertrude, it has_. al-
ways been you -you must believe what I
say, clear -it has always been you!"
"X didn't brink anybody in all the world D. '
"I am not such an ass as to come and
tl ri .ty on spin ,Incl scalp affections. The sheep industry cannot Noxell
perfection until ei'ery mongrel dog
in the land is exterminated.
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