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WONDER whenin the 'Maria
you're going to do anything,
gea Rudolf?" said my, brother'S
wife.
"My dear Rose," I answered, laying
'down my egg spoon, "wily in the' world
;Should I do anything? My position is
'it comfortable one. I have an ncome
:nearly sufficient for my Wants (no
one's income is ever quite sufficient,
iyou know). I enjoy an enviable social
position: I am brother to Lord Buries -
pion and brother4o4aw to that most
charming lady, his countess. Behold, It
is enough!"
"You are nine and twenty," she tab-
s__ _ ....._
served, "and you've done nothing
but"—
"Knock about? It is true. Our fami-
ly doesn't need to do things."
This remark of mine rather annoyed
t, Rose, for everybody knows—and there -
.fore there can be no harm In referring
to the fact—that, pretty and accom-
,plIshed as she herself is, her bunny Is
'hardly of the same standing as the
Rassendylls. Besides her attractions,
she ,possessed a large fortune, and my
brother Robert was wise enough net to
'mind about her ancestry. Ancestry Is,
In fact, a matter concerning which the
next observation of Rose's has some
truth.
"Good families are generally worse
than any others," she said.
i Upon this I stroked my hair. I knew,
.fluite well what she meant.
h "I'm so glad Robert's is blackr' she
cried.
) At this moment Robert, who rises at
7 and. works before breakfast, came in.
//le glanced at his wife. Her cheek was
!slightly flushed; ho patted it caress-
rhigly.
1 "What's the matter, my dearT' he
ked.
Is. "She objects to my doing nothing and
:having red hair," said I in an injured
One.
"Oh, of course he can't help his hatrl"
admitted Rose.
"It generally crops out once In a gen-
3eration," said my brother. "So does the
Mose. Rudolf has got them both."
I "I wish they didn't crop out," said
plose, still flushed.
"I rather like them mytelf," said I,
and, rising, I bowed to the portrait of
iCountess Amelia.
It My brother's wife uttered an ex-
.1Clamation of impatience.
I "I wish you'd take 'that picture
laway, Robert," said she.
"My dear!" he cried.
i"Good heavens!" I added. •
"Then it might be forgotten," she
itsmtinued. i
i "Hardly, with. Rudolf about," said
'Robert, shaking his head.
L"ed.Why should it be forgotten?" X
"Rudolf!" exclaimed my brother's
wife, blushing very prettily.
x laughed and went on with my egg.
'At least I had shelved the question of
*what, if anything, I ought to do. And
,by way of closing the discussion—and
Wise, I must admit, of exasperating my
'strict little sister-in-law. a trifle m‘re—
I observed:
"I rather like being an Elphberg my -
When I read a story, X skip the ex-
planations, yet the moment I begin to
;write one I find that I must have an
e.tplanation. For it is manifest that I
:must explain why my sister-in-lays:was
iseexed with my nose and hair and why
II ventured to call myself an Elphberg.
For, eminent as, I must protest, the
inassendylls have been for many gen-
'1,e-rations, yet participation in their
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g..reify the boast a connection with
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the grander stock of the Elphbergs or
a. 'claim to be one of that royal house.
For what relationship is there between
Ruritania and Burlesdon, between the
palace at Strelsau or the castle of
Zenda and 805 Park lane,. W.?
Well, then—and I must premise that
I am going perforce to rake up the
Very scandal which my dear Lady
Burlesdon wishes forgotten —in the
year 1733 George II., sitting then on
the throne, peace reigning for the mo-
ment and the king and the Prince of
Wales being not yet at loggerheads,
there came on a visit to the English
court a certain prince, who Was after-
ward known to history as Rudolf
III. of Ruritania. The prince was a
tall, handsome young fellow, marked
(maybe marred; it is not for me to sayY
by a somewhat unusually long, sharp
and straight nose and a mass of dark
red hair—in fact, the nose and the hair
which have stamped the Elphbergs
time out of mind. He stayed some
months in England, where he was
most courteously received; yet in the
end he left rather under a cloud, for he
fought a duel (it was considered highly
well bred of him to waive all question
of his rank) with a nobleman well
known in the society of the day not
only for his own merits, but as the
husband of a very beautiful wife. In
that duel Prince Rudolf received a se-
vere wound and, recovering therefrom,
was adroitly smuggled off by the Ruri-
tauten ambassador, who had found
him a pretty handful. The nobleman
was not wounded in the duel; but, the
morning being raw and damp on the
occasion of the meeting, he contracted
a severe chill, and, failing to throw it
off, he died some six months after tfie
departure of Prince Rudolf, without
having found leisure to adjust his rela-
tions with his wife, who after another
two months bore an heir to the title
and estates of the family of Burlesdon.
This lady was the Countess Amelia,
whose picture my sister-in-law wished
to remove from the drawing room in
Park lane, and her husband was
Names, fifth earl of Burlesdon and
twenty-second Baron Itassendyll, both
in the peerages of England, and a
Knight of the Garter. As for Rudolf,
he went back to Ruritania, married a
wife and ascended the throne, whereon
his progeny in the direct line have sat
from then till this very hour—with one
short interval. And, finally, if you
walk through the picture galleries at
Burlesdon, among the fifty portraits or
so of the last century and a half yott
will find five or six, including that of
the sixth. earl, °distinguished by long,
sharp, straight noses and a quantity,
of dark red hair; these five or six have
also blue eyes; whereas among the
Itassendylls dark eyes are the com-
moner.
That is the explanation, and I am
glad to have finished it. The blemishes
on honorable lineage are a delicate sub-
ject, and certainly this heredity we
hear so much about is the finest scan-
dalmonger in the world; it laughs at
discretion and. writes strange entries
between the lines of the "peerages."
It will be observed that my sister-in-
law, ;with a want 2If logic that must
have been peculiar to herself (since we
are no longer allowed to lay it to the
charge of her sex), treated. my com-
plexion almost as an offense for which
I was. responsible, hastening to assume
from that external siga inward qual-
ities of whicli I protest my entire in-
nocence, and this unjust inference she
sought to buttress by poinding to the
uselessness of the life I had led. Well,
be that as it may, I had picked up a
good deal of pleasure and a good deal
of knowledge. I had been to a Ger-
man school and a German university,
and spoke German as readily and per-
fectly,,as English; I was thoroughly at
home In French; I had a smattering -of
Italian and enough Spanish to swetu:
by. I was, I believe, a strong, though
hardly a fine, swordsman and a good
shot. I could ride anything that had
a back to sit on, and my head was as
cool a one as you could find, for all ith.
flaming cover. If you say that I ought
to have spent my time in useful labor,
Dam out of court and ha.-ve nothing to
say, MVO that my parents had. no busi-
ness to leave me £2,000 a. year and a
roving disposition.
"The difference ,between you and
Robert," said my sister -In-law, who of-
ten (bless her!) speaks on a platform
and oftener still as if she were on one,
"is that he recognizes the duties of his
position and you only see the opportun-
ities of yours."
"To a man of spirit, my clear Rose,"
I answered, "opperturdties are duties."
"Nonsense!" said she, tossing her
head. And aftet a moment she went
on, "Now here's Sir Jacob Borrodaile
offering you exactly What you might
be equal. to."
"A thousand thanker" I murmured.
"He's to have an embassy in sit
Months, and Itobert says he is sure
that he'll take you as an attache. bp
take it, Rudolf, to please me."
Now, when my sister-in-law Tarts the
matter, in that we, wrinkling her
pretty brows, twisting her little hands
and growing wistful in the eyes, an on
!recount of an idle scamp Mot 'Myself,
f� wheaa she has no natural respond.
batty, 1 am Visited with compunetkel.
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gested with some tolerable =WO.
meat. Therefore I eald:
"My dear sister, if in six months'
time no =foreseen obstacle bas arisen
and Sir Jacob invites me, hang mo If
I don't go with Sir Iacobl"
"Oh, Rudolf, how good of you! I
am gladr
"Where's he gialpg to?"
"Ile doesn't know yet, but it's sure
to be a good embassy."
"Madam," said I, "for your sake I'll
go If it's no more than a beggarly lega-
tion. When I do a thing, I don't do it
by halves."
My promise, then, was given, but six
months are six months and seem an
eternity, and inasmuch as they stretch-
ed between me and my prospective in-
dustry (I suppose attaches are indus-
trious; but 1 know not, for I never be-
came attache to Sir Jacob or to any-
body else) I cast about for some de-
sirable mode of spending them. And
it occurred to me suddenly that X
would visit Ituritania. It may seem
strange that I had never visited that
country yet, but my father (In spite of
a sneaking fondness for the Elph-
bergs, which led him to give me, his
second son, the famous Elphberg
name of Rudolf) had always been
averse to my going, and since his death
my brother, prompted by Rose, had ac-
cepted the family tradition which
taught that a wide berth was to be
given to that country.
But the moment Ruritania had come
intci my head I was eaten up with cu-
riosity to see it After all, red hair and
long noses are not confined to the
house of Elphberg, and the old story
seemed a preposterously insufficient
reason for debarring myself from ac-
quaintance with a highly interesting
and important kingdom, one which had
played no small siert in European his-
tory and might do the like again. un-
der the sway of a young and vigorous
ruler, such as the new king was ru-
mored to be. My determination was
clinched by reading in the Times that
Rudolf V. was to be crowned at Strel-
sau in the course of the next three
weeks and that great magnificence
was to mark the occasion. At once I
made up my mind to be present and
began my preparations. But inasmuch
as it has never been my practice to
furnish my relatives with an itinerary
of my journeys, and in this case I 'an-
ticipated opposition to my wishes, I
, gave out that I was ;going for a ramble
in the Tyrol—an old haunt of mine—
and propitiated Rose's wrath by de-
claring that I intended to study the
political and social problems of the
interesting community which dwells in
that neighborhood.
"Perhaps," I hinted darkly, "there
may be an outcome of the expedition."
"What do you mean?she asked.
"Well," said I carelessly,. "there
seems a gap that might be filled by an
exhaustive work on"—
"Oh, will you write a book.?" she
cried, clapping her bands. "That would
be splendid, wouldn't it, Robert?"
"It's the best of introductions to po-
litical life nowadays," observed my
brother, Who has, by the way, intro-
duced himself in this manner several
times , over. Burlesdon on "Ancient
Theories and Modern Facts" and "The
'Ultimate Outcome," by a political stu-
dent, are both works of recognized em-
inence.
"I believe you are right, Bob, niy
boy," said I.
"NoW, promise you'll do it," said
Rose earnestly.
"No; I won't promise, but if I find
enough material I will."
"That's fair enough," said Robert.
"Oh, material doesn't matter!" she
said, pouting.
But this time she could get no more
than a qualified promise out of me.
To tell the truth, I would have wager-
ed a handSOme sum that the story of
my expedition that summer would
stain no paper and spoil not a single
pen. And that shows how little we
know what the future holds, for here
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write, a book, though it will hardly,
serve as an introduction to political
life and has not a jot to do with the
Tyrol.
Neither would it, I fear, please LadY
Burlesdon if I were to submit it to her
critical eye—a step which I have no
teation of taking.
CHAPTER II.
T was a maxim of my Uncle
William's that no man should
pass through Paris without
spending four - and - twenty
hours there. My uncle spoke out of a
ripe experience of the world, and I
honored his advice by putting up for
day and a night at the Continental on
my way to—the Tyrol. I called on
George Featherly at the embassy, and
we had a bit of dinner together at
Durand's and afterward dropped in to
the Opera, and after that we had a lit,
tie supper, and after that we called on
Bertram Bertrand, a versifier of some
repute and Paris correspondent to the
Critic. He had a very comfortable lit-
tle snit of rooms, and we found. some
pleasant fellows smoking and taIrdng.
It struck me, however, that Bertram
himself was absent and in low spirits,
and when everybody except ourselves
had, gone I rallied him on his moping
preoccupation. Ile fenced. with.me for
awhile, but at last, flinging himself on
a sofa, he exclaimed:
"Very well, have it your own way.
1 am in love—infernally in love!"
"Oh, you'll write the better poetry,"
said I by way of consolation.
He ruffled his hair with his hand and
smoked furiously. George Featherly,
I saw her glance at me.
standing with his back to the man-
telpiece, smiled unkindly.
"If it's the old affair," said he, "you
May as well throw it up, Bert. She's
leaving Paris tomorrow."
"I know that," snapped Bertram.
'Not that it would make any differ-
ence if she stayed," pursued the relent-
less George. "She files higher than the
paper trade, my boy!"
ersong her!" said Bertram.
"It *would make It more interesting
for me," X ventured. to observe, "if I
knew who you were talking about!'
"Antoinette Manban," said George.
"De Mauban," growled Bertram.
I`Ohoi" said I, passing by the ques-
tioi of the de. "Von don't mean to
-say, Bert"—
"Can't you let me alone," • i ,m.; •
"Where'S she going to? I asked, tor
the lady was something of a celebrity.
George jingled his money, smiled
cruelly at poor Bertram and answered
pleasantly:
"Nobody knows. By the way, Bert,
met a great man at her house the
other night—at least about a month
ago. Did you ever meet hint—the Duke
of Strelsau?"
"Yes, I did," grovried 13ertram.
"Au sztremely accomplished man,
thought him:"
It was not hard to see that Geoteselet
ratareatea to the duke Were Intended
to aggravate poor Bertram's tsufferInge,
so that I drew the inference that the
duke had distinguished Mum de Mau -
ban by his. attention. She was a wid-
ow, rich, handsome and, according to
repute, ambitious. It was quite yes,
bible that she, as George put it 'svaS
flying as high as a personage who was
everything lie could be short of enjoy-
ing a., strictly royal rank, for the dello
was the son of the late king of Burl-
tania by a second and morganatic mar-
riage and half brother to the new king.
He had been his father's favorite, and
It had occasioned some unfavorable
comment when he had been created a
duke with a title derived from no
less a city than the capital itself. His
mother had. been of good, but not ex-
alted, birth.
"Ile's not ia Paris now, is he?" I
asked.
"Oh, no! He's gone back to be pres-
ent at the king's coronation; a cere-
mony which, eI should say, he'll not
enjoy much. But, Bert, old. man, don't
despair! He won't marry the fair An-
toinette—at least not unless another
plan comes to nothing. Still, perhaps,
she"— He paused and added, with a
laugh, "Royal attentions are hard to
resist. You know that, don't you, Ru-
dolf?"
"Confound. your' said 1, and, rising,
Ieft the hapless Bertram in George's
hands and went home to bed.
The next day George Featherly went
with me to the station, where I took
a ticket for Dresden.
"Going to see the pictures?" asked
George, with a grin.
George is an inveterate gossip, and
had I told him that I was off to Ruri-
tania the news would have been in
London in three days and in Park lane
in a week. I was therefore about to re-
turn an evasive answer when he saved
my conscience by leaving me suddenly
and darting across the platform. Fol-
lowing him with my eyes, I saw him
lift his hat and accost a graceful, fash-
ionably dressed woman who had just
appeared from the booking office. She
was perhaps a year or two over thirty,
tall, dark and of rather full figure. As
George talked I saw her glance at me,
and my vanity was hurt by the thought
that, muffled in a fur coat and a neck
wrapper (for it was a chilly April day)
and wearing a soft traveling bat pulled
down to my eyes, I must be looking
very far from my best. .A. moment
later George rejoined me.
"You've got a charming traveling
companion," he said. "That's poor Bert
Bertram's goddess, Antoinette de Man -
ban, and, like you, she's going to Dres-
den—also, no doubt, to see the pictures.
It's very queer, though, that she doesn't
at present desire the honor of your ac-
quaintance."
"I didn't ask to bedntroduced," I ob-
served, a little annoyed.
"Well, I offered to bring you to her,
but she said, 'Another time.' Never
mind, old fellow, perhaps there'll be a
smash, and you'll have a chance of res-
cuing her and cutting out the Duke of
Strelsau."
No smash, however, happened, either
to me or to Mme. de Mauban. I can
speak for her as confidently as for my-
self, for when, after a night's rest in
Dresden, I continued my journey she
got into the same train. Understand-
ing that she wished to bo let alone, I
avoided. her carefully, but I saw that
she went the same way as I did to the
very end of my journey, and I took op-
portunities of having a good look at
her when I could do so unobserved.
As soon as we reached the Rurita-
nian frontier (where the old officer -who
presided over the custom house favor-
ed me with such a stare that I felt
surer than before of my Elphberg
physiognomy) I bought the papers and
found in them news which' affected ray
movements. For some reason which
was not clearly explained and seemed
to be something of a mystery the date
of the coronation had beeix suddenly
advanced, and the ceremony was to
take place on the next day but one.
The whole country seemed in a stir
about it, and it was evident that Strel-
san was thronged. Rooms were all let
and hotels overflowing. There would
be very little chance of my obtaining
a lodging, and 1 should certainly have
to pay an exorbitant charge for it. I
made up my mind to stop at Zenda, a
small town fifty miles short of the cap-
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in a wander over the hills, which were
said to be very fine, and in taking a
glance at the famous castle And go
over by train to Strelsau on the
Wednesday morning, returning at
night to sleep at Zenda.
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as the train passed where I stood on
the platform I sew my friend, Mme.
de Mauban, in her place. Clearly she
was going through to Strelsau, hav-
ing, with more providence than I could
boast, secured apartments there. X
smiled to think how surprised George
Featherly would have been to know
that she and I had been fellow travel-
ers for so long.
I was very kindly received at the
hotel—it was really 110 more than an
inn—kept by a fat old lady and her
two daughters. They were good, quiet
people and seemed very little interest-
ed in the great doings at Strelsau. The
old lady's hero was the duke, for he
was now under the late king's ;will
master of the Zenda estates and of the
castle, which rose grandly on its steep
hill at the end of the valley, a mile or
so from the inn. The old lady, indeed,
did not hesitate to express tegret that
the duke was not on the throne instead
of his brother.
"We know Duke Michael!' said she.
"He has always lived among us. Ev-
ery Ruritanian knows Duke AlichaeL
But the king is almost a stranger; he
has been so much abroad not one in
ten knows him even by. sight."
"And now," chimed in one of the
yotmg women, "they say he has shav-
ed off his beard, so that no one at all
knows him."
"Shaved his beard!" exclaimed her
mother. "Who says so?"
"Johene, the duke's keeper. He has
seen the king."
"Ab, yes. The king, sir, is now at the
duke's shooting lodge in the forest
"Pray, sir, do you know our king ?"
here; from bare he goes to Strelsau to
be crowned on Wednesday morning."
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the direction of the lodge on the chance
of coming across the king. The old
lady ran on garrulously:
"Ale and I wish he would stay at
his shooting—that and wine (and one
thing more) are all he loves, they say—
and suffer our duke to be crowned on.
Wednesday. That I wish, and I don't
care who knows it."
"Hush, mother!" urged the daugh-
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"Oh, there's many folks to think as
dor cried the old woman stubbornly.
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"For my part," said the younger and
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Michael! Aired Elphberg for me, moth-
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fox or as"—
And she laughtel miseleevously eis
she east a glance at me and tossed her
head at her sister's reproving face.
( continued.)
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