March 31, 1904 (4 pages)

POs ES Fe ee Poe iE eB he ay ty, fo i ° ww Hy) are ae arid "ie Ss = ablio We only or » you jours, in top ur. re AR—NO. 12,752 ; ANSCRIPT aap ; to not to exseed, fi Sve Pipes ie: ins additional line month. Pay+ want for what pata as t you w e and w 85th EN, 517 Bast ers RepGaur inge. piaaab ace vara Serene Nevada City, Cel Der 100 PFebas Cte. and Sota. ‘and For Sele. with fine harness. Al , buggies will be sold at a f applied for immediately. MaSCRIPT office. di-tf Piano For Sale. : ring Piano is offered for sale m. Enquire at the canary ; Wanted. ul person to call on retail trade and for manufacturing house; local ter¢ straight salary $20 pald weekly and » money advanced; previous experity ; position permanent; busEnclosed self-addressed ie. Chicago. 028-216 Wanted. = i ovee ols Sauipe “ot nas sate Merete taint ight. pene $18 iBeieid = ae heap for Immediate Sale. All the lachinery Ee at Gold Tunnel Mine 1 new 1000 10-stamp mill complete. 1 96-horse power motor, Stanley type ‘induction motor. 4 8 new concentrators, shafting, beltng, etc t ‘triction hoist, 1500 feet, new, 7-8 ‘inch. cable, . 11x14 Ingersoll compressor and receivers. 4 drills, complete with steel, etc, © 16-inch discharge steam pump. 850 feet 12-inch flanger. colamn. > 400 feet 38-inch casing. ~°6 ore iron cars. 1 60-horse power boiler. > 185-horse power engine. All belting, etc. * All buildings to be offered cheap for the next two weeks. Inquire of W. BR. Gillingham, NATIONAL HOTEL, Or I. C. LINDLEY.Bi The Best Meal in Town So say everybody who dines at the New York Hotel. ‘We aim to treat sli nicely and feed you well, and to @ you as comfortable as possible, so that you may feel at home . Our roome are light and siry iad the beds soft and comfortable. peu around and see, aw York Hotel JOHN .G. RICHARDS, Prop, which Wine of Cardui cures plier sed theWine eee fi uick recov me o ld use vehore and thar ¢ am enough to live through childbirth was made a May 14, 1908, baby. was born I was in great Iwas ven justable to be about but alg sich toon as 1 began to take Wine of ter tat iy ter. Infact I feel that i ie hed oF this medicine i would not ha ne a But th easy by sahing y en took i it cannot speak too com tive para: snetliclne for four months before bab: ‘Wiue of Cardui restored my health as phd Ppa afterward. ahty of Wine pire Yr. LE Bal lorse it Treasurer, Youna Matron’s Oivs. Wine. of Cardui is a powerful tonic acts on the generative organs of women, regulating meiistruation and Bi. ing tone and strength to the organs w: inflammation and weakness have affec of every twenty cases of hearing-down pai le ee ovarian omit, cyres nineteen, out the smothie hy conserving her Peron for the outiaal < hii Fed After that dui is the one medicine ©. ing and helps mothers to Hldbirth. All druggists sell $1.00 bottles Wine of Cardui. AUDITORIUM, county. here from San Francisc). an enjoyable affair. aes agg Gentleman $1; ladies 50 cents. Special Grand Masquerade Ball} Yevada County Promotion Committee Grass Valley Friday Evening, April sth, 1904. IT is the aim to make this Ball the graadest ever given in Nevada aS . Prizes of value and usefulness—more cft’ em than §& can be enumerated—will be offered for maskers Costumes will be The best music to .be obtained will be § furnished, In fact, nothing will be left. undone to make the party No objectionable characters will be admitted, 80 go and take your wife and cho i TICKETS— soaaeaienseg’* OF . care will ran = ce one, The onl Missouri River and Ohicago. Overland Limited. Vestibuled. living Chair Oars. Standard and Toarist Sleepers. R. R. RITCHIE, G. A. P. C. or S. P. COMPANY’S AGENT. lewa and On Double Track Railway Between the THREE TRAINS DAILY Via the Southern Pacific,Union Pacific and Chicago & Northwestern Rys The most Luxurious Train in the World. Electric lighted throughout. Buffet smoking cars with barber and batb, Booklovers Library, Dining Cars, Standard and Oompartment Sleeping Oars and Observation Vars. Less than three days to Obicago without change. Eastern Express. Vestibuled. Leaves San Francisco at 6:00 p. m. zhroegh Standard and Tourist Slecping Oara to Ohicago, Dining cars. Atlantic Express. Vestibuled. Leaves San Fraucisco at 9:00 8. m PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. 617 Market St. (Palace Hot21) San Francisco. Ilinois Leaves San Francisco at 10:00 a. m The best of everything. Chicago § Northwestern Ry. = Tho Ewlnont Spoctalist in Retraction The Doctor ise the siiy Specialist north of San Francisco on the Science of Fitting Glasses. The Doctor is Registered under State Law in Optometry. The Doctor has never had @ case to fail him. He has sent in his 575th vomenpes on pposite Episcopal nits Nevada Oiy. Hours—9 a. m. to 4 p. m,, every day except Monday. Grass Valley patrons allowed fare both ways. =. Fancy Drinks, Oyster Cocktails, The best of Beer, Cigars, etc Can always be found atthe favorite re“Fred Bilerman, ON BROAD OTRRDE: B.J.Bsoros, Pres. W. H. Maurin, Vice P Nevada. County Bank Paid Up Capital $50,000 A General Commercial*and Savings Banking Busines Transacted. Gold bought and advances made on ” 5 ry Office at the Bavk. Drafts drawn on any part of the world. Loans } made on Averqued Security. " Interest Paid on Deposits. Srnad Street. ..Nationsa’ Hotel Building Seed. Talk Complete and reliable. information and advice on seeds, planting, etc,, in our new, amply and beaatiMalled: free on. reqnest. ALL SEEDS FOR FARM AND GARDEN Fruit Trees and Ornamental Plante COX SEED CO: 411, 413, 415 Sansome Street _ SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. A RUNAWAY . S$. PRINCESS “It is useless, your highness, to protest against the things) that are.” The baroness smoothed down her laces with plump little nds upon which . gleamed innumerable rings. Marie Amalie Constantia Louise — “and all the rest of it,” as she said to herself, Princess of Doldrums, arose from her low chair with a most unroyal impatience. Swish, swish, went the silken skirts over the polished floor, and the Baroness von Griefenstein wisely kept silence. ‘ Marie Amalie stood at the window and drummed a. tattoo upon the pane. Below,. the little: fountain tossed its laughing waters and the cuitassiers’ band poured forth the national air. Marie Amalie was tired of fountains that played in the sunlight, tired of the national hymn, sick to the sonal of the dachy of Doldrums and all it contained—all because a few short weeks before the baroness had taken her young charge with her train to the hunting schloss and then spent a glad, never to.be forgotten day. Somehow—nobody knows, for such things have a way of managing themselves—the equerries and the princess’ ‘maids drifted two by two down the forest alleys in the languorous afternoon. The baroness nodded in her chair, and Marie Amalie found herself alone. When Marr Davent rode from the gasthaus that morning he drew long breaths of the forest freshness. [or miles beneath the arching lindens of the duke’s forest he rode at a walk, the reins hanging loose on the bay’s nek, singing snatches of college glees and thinking of the faroff country whither he would soon be going. He raised his eyes and looked down the linden reaches—looked and woke. 80 near that the bay reared in sudden fright. Then Davent slipped from the saddle and stood, hat in hand, as Marie Amalie came toward him through the green twilight. She did not attempt to excuse herself to herself, and to no one else did that imperious young woman vouchsafe rhyme or reason for her deeds. It was temptation, pure and simple, at a time when the girl was sore imbittered against the traditional shackles. A prisoned thing; bound and dumb in ber jewels and laces, she had known the shame of the old roue’s approval when he came to view her, as one would the points of a prize mare, and pronounced her fit to be Duchess of Grafsland. “Fit?’ Marie Amalie ground her white teeth together at the remembrance of it. But she smiled with level brows into the brown eyes of Davent as the handsome head was bowed before her, and then trouble began for the Baron. ess Griefenstein. Two, hours later they parted ‘under the lindens, he believing her some nobleman’s daughter in the train of the young princess; she knowing all the facts. about him. Marie Amalie came up the linden walk, thinking deeply. An American, it suited her exactly. She thought of the yacht that lay even now at Havre; thought, too, of the doddering old Duke of Grafsland. -who had buried his second wife not a year before, the pale, pretty princess out of the north, who had been sold to him, as they were selling her. Marie Amalie went softly up the marble steps, through the portico and down the hall, her footsteps making ‘po sound in the thick carpet. She @rew back the portiere that bung in straight, heavy folds. There was a smothered cry from within, a rustle of paper, but before the baroness could close the drawer a white hand closed firmly upon her wrists. “What are you doing here among the private papers of Duke Fritz?” The baroness sank down, gasping, speechless, as Marie Amalie towered over her. Then the girl made a hasty examination of the drawer. The key was in the lock. A fragment of wax that adhered to the keyhole told the se cret of the baroness’ access to the papers of the young-duke who had killcd himself in that very room years before, when the Baroness Griefenstein had been a famous court beauty and Marie Amalie but a child in the cradle. Only a bundle of yellowed letters, written in’ the delicate Italian script affected by the women of that generation. Marie held them thoughtfully; Atren, with sudden impulse, retied the faded ribbon about them, locked the drawer and placed the key in her bosom. The letters she kept.in her hand. With a slow smile around the mischievous red mouth, she passed through the portiere out into the sunlight. She held the key to the situation. ‘ The Baroness Griefeastein was a gensible woman. She knew herself at the mercy of the girl whom heretofore she had ruled relentlessly. Therefore, through the weeks that followed she temporized, telling herself that it was only for a time. [In a month the girl would be safely married. There were various expeditions to the forest, evening walks, when only the baroness ‘guarded -the pretty princess. The American still lingered at the is and rode his bay through the fuke’s forest. Meanwhile the women é¢ame and went, intent upon the preparations for he° marriage. All around the luxartRST. IN 1560 BY N. P. BROWN cee co. U. 8, .ONSULATE AT KOBE, JAPAN. The U. 8. Consulate at Kobe would be one of the principal asylums for Americans were the Russians to invade the Flowery Kingdom. ous room were scattered fhe silks ana laces, jewels strewed the tables. And m their midst Marie Amalie at the window, ber eyes upon the forest. heedless of it all. A horseman rode down the winding road and turned in the saddle for a long look at the palace. Some day he would ride from her forever to his land of “hearts content” over the sea, leaving her to the desolate pomp of the Duchess of Grafsland. She turned to the baroness, and their eyes met. The baroness shivered. The crisis that she had been dreading had come. Marie Amalie leaned down, hushing her voice to a whisper, “I will do it, and you must help me.” And the baroness knew that she would keep that word. The old duke, her father, could hardly believe his eyes and ears when Marie Amalie dutifully accepted her betrothal presents from the old Duke of Grafsland and even bent her white brow to his kiss. Through all the festivities that followed she moved, a queenly figure, but there was a wicked light in the brown eyes, a mutinous curve to the. red lips, and the days of the Baroness Griefenstein were not days of pleasure. The Princess Marie Amalie lay in her darkened room. Once the doctor would have let in the light, but she protested, and finally he left her alone with a sleeping draft. As he measured it, going to the window with his back to the bed, a white hand flashed out toward the little case that held his drugs. Only an instant, but as the door closed behind him Marie Amalie laughed low to herself. The baroness was on the point of rebellion, when Marie Amalie before her protesting eyes poured a generous dose into the chocolate and bade her swallow it. “Tam afraid, It will] mean imprisonment, banishment.” i “Take it” (the sweet voice was like steel); “take it quietly. The letters shall be yours when I am safe.” The baroness drained the chocolate with quivering lips. Davent waiting with a closed carriage at the postern gate heard the click of the sentry’s heels as the baroness came through the gateway. A long black cloak came down to her feet, but the tawny gray bair and the password were sufficient for the sentry. Without a word they entered the carriage and were driven through the night, past the gates, where the baroness gave the word, aboard the express, by grace of the promptly produced passports. When the morning broke they were well away to Havre. The princess had issued orders that on no account were her maids to enter her room until summoned. But as the morning wore away and no sound came from beyond the closed doors they braved her anger and entered to find the princess’ bed empty, unused, and in a chair by the window the Baroness Griefenstein, with an empty chocolate cup at her elbow, lost in a drugged stupor. There was much hurrying to and fro in the duchy of Doldrums, but of their Princess Marie Amalie there was never a trace. The little Lutheran minister blinked and hesitated. But in the state of New York there is no Alamancha de Gotha, and, although Marie Amalie von Halsburg awakened an old sound in his ears of the fatherland, the suspicion seemed too utterly impossible to be entertained for a moment. So he went on with the ceremony, and Marie Amalie Davent passed from the shadow of the quaint little church out into the free sunlight of a land that knowetb neither princess nor princtpalities. Blacksmith Business «For Sale. The Plaza Blacksmith mest pad doiag 3 fine business. Sh then tht for Aas right a rradia. For particulars Chicago. caverns. Rock Island System THRO’ THE HEART OF THE ROCKIES. TT" Rock Island System forms a part of the Scenic Line across the continent, thro’ Salt Lake City and Colorado Springs to Omaha, Kansas City, Peoria and Chicago. Through car service is as follows: Standard sleeper daily San ‘Francisco to Stops five hours at Salt Lake. Through tourist sleepers from San Francisco, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Regular daily train service via El Paso. The trans-continental traveler who has never seen Utah and Colorado from a car window, does not know how wonderfully beautiful the best scenery in the United States is. For hundreds of miles the line runs in full view of snow-capped peaks, rushing rivers and through frowning Take it for that reason alone, if you wish, but also because no other line crossing the continent surpasses it in excellence of service. Full information on request—call, telephone or telegraph. C. A. RUTHERFORD, istrict Passenger Agent, write, 623 Market St., San Francisco. HOTEL ANTLERS --IS THE-Leading and Best Hotel in Nevada (iy THERE’S GOOD AND BAD LIQUORS But only the best are kept by us. Sample our goods. Che Leading Brands of Cigars @2e0e0 2 CHASPION SALOON O'CONNOR & SHANNON, Proprietors. Drop in and We also keep Broad Street, Nevada Oity Noticeto Voters a 08% REGISTRATION OFFior OF THE CouNTY CueRK oF NEvaDa CounTy, CALIFORNIA. Norn IS HEREBY GIVEN That the laws of the State of Ualiforvia provide for a new and complete Registration of tbe voters of Nevada County in accordance with the provisions of Section 1094, of the Political Code of the State of Califor. nia tbat said Registration Began January Ist, 1904, and will continue to and include Wednesday, September 28th, after which it will cease, Transfers from one precinct to ane other within the county will close Thursday, Octcber 13th, 1904. Attention is-called to the provisions of Section 1048, which provides that only those who shall have been a resident of the State one year next preceding the election, and of the county in. which they claim their vote Ninety days, and in the election precinst Thirty days” are entitled to registration, Further notice is hereby given that affidavits of registration or transfers must be sworn to before the. County Olerk or his Deputies. All persons, foreign born, intending to become a citizen, should be nataralized prior to and including August oth, 1904, as those naturalized after that date cannot legally vote at the general election held on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8th, 1904, The office of the County Olerk (in the Court House at Nevada City) will It’s the best Light. > LEOLRIOITY. is the light nowadays, You ought to pat it in your house. It’s the safest light known. It’s clean. It’s certain — press a button and it’s on; press another and its off. No more explosions, no more bother with oil lamps, no more emokey chimneys, It’s cheaper in the long PUD. cece our ‘New Gas hight. Is the best for business houses. It’s far cheaper than electric lights for ge le who use it for only a fow hours s night..fovada Comty Gas & Electric, Qa Best locandescent lamps 16 cents, During the months of March and April the Southern Pacific and their connections will again place on sale reduced westbound tickets frem Ohicago and pointe west thereof: to Califoroia. Help your county by giving at least one Eastern friend or relative this information. We will wire instructions to furnish ticket at any point io the United States on deposit of money here. WwW. H. WOOD, Traveling Pass. Agent. T. R. GRAY, Div. Pass. Agent, Sacramento, Cal. be open for registration from 9a, m_ to 5 p. of. of each day. . F. L. ARBOGAST, . County Olerk. OTTS ASSAY ORRICE, Established in 1853. 44444646 I buy Gold Dust and Gold and Silver Bars. .-Nevada City, Cal. SOCIAL DANCE By Company C, N. G. C, at Armory Hall Saturday Evening . Masic by Wild’s Orchestra Admission—Gents, 50 cts; Ladies Free, iss a B. 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POs ES Fe ee Poe iE eB he ay ty, fo i ° ww Hy) are ae arid "ie Ss = ablio We only or » you jours, in top ur. re AR—NO. 12,752 ; ANSCRIPT aap ; to not to exseed, fi Sve Pipes ie: ins additional line month. Pay+ want for what pata as t you w e and w 85th EN, 517 Bast ers RepGaur inge. piaaab ace vara Serene Nevada City, Cel Der 100 PFebas Cte. and Sota. ‘and For Sele. with fine harness. Al , buggies will be sold at a f applied for immediately. MaSCRIPT office. di-tf Piano For Sale. : ring Piano is offered for sale m. Enquire at the canary ; Wanted. ul person to call on retail trade and for manufacturing house; local ter¢ straight salary $20 pald weekly and » money advanced; previous experity ; position permanent; busEnclosed self-addressed ie. Chicago. 028-216 Wanted. = i ovee ols Sauipe “ot nas sate Merete taint ight. pene $18 iBeieid = ae heap for Immediate Sale. All the lachinery Ee at Gold Tunnel Mine 1 new 1000 10-stamp mill complete. 1 96-horse power motor, Stanley type ‘induction motor. 4 8 new concentrators, shafting, beltng, etc t ‘triction hoist, 1500 feet, new, 7-8 ‘inch. cable, . 11x14 Ingersoll compressor and receivers. 4 drills, complete with steel, etc, © 16-inch discharge steam pump. 850 feet 12-inch flanger. colamn. > 400 feet 38-inch casing. ~°6 ore iron cars. 1 60-horse power boiler. > 185-horse power engine. All belting, etc. * All buildings to be offered cheap for the next two weeks. Inquire of W. BR. Gillingham, NATIONAL HOTEL, Or I. C. LINDLEY.Bi The Best Meal in Town So say everybody who dines at the New York Hotel. ‘We aim to treat sli nicely and feed you well, and to @ you as comfortable as possible, so that you may feel at home . Our roome are light and siry iad the beds soft and comfortable. peu around and see, aw York Hotel JOHN .G. RICHARDS, Prop, which Wine of Cardui cures plier sed theWine eee fi uick recov me o ld use vehore and thar ¢ am enough to live through childbirth was made a May 14, 1908, baby. was born I was in great Iwas ven justable to be about but alg sich toon as 1 began to take Wine of ter tat iy ter. Infact I feel that i ie hed oF this medicine i would not ha ne a But th easy by sahing y en took i it cannot speak too com tive para: snetliclne for four months before bab: ‘Wiue of Cardui restored my health as phd Ppa afterward. ahty of Wine pire Yr. LE Bal lorse it Treasurer, Youna Matron’s Oivs. Wine. of Cardui is a powerful tonic acts on the generative organs of women, regulating meiistruation and Bi. ing tone and strength to the organs w: inflammation and weakness have affec of every twenty cases of hearing-down pai le ee ovarian omit, cyres nineteen, out the smothie hy conserving her Peron for the outiaal < hii Fed After that dui is the one medicine ©. ing and helps mothers to Hldbirth. All druggists sell $1.00 bottles Wine of Cardui. AUDITORIUM, county. here from San Francisc). an enjoyable affair. aes agg Gentleman $1; ladies 50 cents. Special Grand Masquerade Ball} Yevada County Promotion Committee Grass Valley Friday Evening, April sth, 1904. IT is the aim to make this Ball the graadest ever given in Nevada aS . Prizes of value and usefulness—more cft’ em than §& can be enumerated—will be offered for maskers Costumes will be The best music to .be obtained will be § furnished, In fact, nothing will be left. undone to make the party No objectionable characters will be admitted, 80 go and take your wife and cho i TICKETS— soaaeaienseg’* OF . care will ran = ce one, The onl Missouri River and Ohicago. Overland Limited. Vestibuled. living Chair Oars. Standard and Toarist Sleepers. R. R. RITCHIE, G. A. P. C. or S. P. COMPANY’S AGENT. lewa and On Double Track Railway Between the THREE TRAINS DAILY Via the Southern Pacific,Union Pacific and Chicago & Northwestern Rys The most Luxurious Train in the World. Electric lighted throughout. Buffet smoking cars with barber and batb, Booklovers Library, Dining Cars, Standard and Oompartment Sleeping Oars and Observation Vars. Less than three days to Obicago without change. Eastern Express. Vestibuled. Leaves San Francisco at 6:00 p. m. zhroegh Standard and Tourist Slecping Oara to Ohicago, Dining cars. Atlantic Express. Vestibuled. Leaves San Fraucisco at 9:00 8. m PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. 617 Market St. (Palace Hot21) San Francisco. Ilinois Leaves San Francisco at 10:00 a. m The best of everything. Chicago § Northwestern Ry. = Tho Ewlnont Spoctalist in Retraction The Doctor ise the siiy Specialist north of San Francisco on the Science of Fitting Glasses. The Doctor is Registered under State Law in Optometry. The Doctor has never had @ case to fail him. He has sent in his 575th vomenpes on pposite Episcopal nits Nevada Oiy. Hours—9 a. m. to 4 p. m,, every day except Monday. Grass Valley patrons allowed fare both ways. =. Fancy Drinks, Oyster Cocktails, The best of Beer, Cigars, etc Can always be found atthe favorite re“Fred Bilerman, ON BROAD OTRRDE: B.J.Bsoros, Pres. W. H. Maurin, Vice P Nevada. County Bank Paid Up Capital $50,000 A General Commercial*and Savings Banking Busines Transacted. Gold bought and advances made on ” 5 ry Office at the Bavk. Drafts drawn on any part of the world. Loans } made on Averqued Security. " Interest Paid on Deposits. Srnad Street. ...Nationsa’ Hotel Building Seed. Talk Complete and reliable. information and advice on seeds, planting, etc,, in our new, amply and beaatiMalled: free on. reqnest. ALL SEEDS FOR FARM AND GARDEN Fruit Trees and Ornamental Plante COX SEED CO: 411, 413, 415 Sansome Street _ SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. A RUNAWAY . S$. PRINCESS “It is useless, your highness, to protest against the things) that are.” The baroness smoothed down her laces with plump little nds upon which . gleamed innumerable rings. Marie Amalie Constantia Louise — “and all the rest of it,” as she said to herself, Princess of Doldrums, arose from her low chair with a most unroyal impatience. Swish, swish, went the silken skirts over the polished floor, and the Baroness von Griefenstein wisely kept silence. ‘ Marie Amalie stood at the window and drummed a. tattoo upon the pane. Below,. the little: fountain tossed its laughing waters and the cuitassiers’ band poured forth the national air. Marie Amalie was tired of fountains that played in the sunlight, tired of the national hymn, sick to the sonal of the dachy of Doldrums and all it contained—all because a few short weeks before the baroness had taken her young charge with her train to the hunting schloss and then spent a glad, never to.be forgotten day. Somehow—nobody knows, for such things have a way of managing themselves—the equerries and the princess’ ‘maids drifted two by two down the forest alleys in the languorous afternoon. The baroness nodded in her chair, and Marie Amalie found herself alone. When Marr Davent rode from the gasthaus that morning he drew long breaths of the forest freshness. [or miles beneath the arching lindens of the duke’s forest he rode at a walk, the reins hanging loose on the bay’s nek, singing snatches of college glees and thinking of the faroff country whither he would soon be going. He raised his eyes and looked down the linden reaches—looked and woke. 80 near that the bay reared in sudden fright. Then Davent slipped from the saddle and stood, hat in hand, as Marie Amalie came toward him through the green twilight. She did not attempt to excuse herself to herself, and to no one else did that imperious young woman vouchsafe rhyme or reason for her deeds. It was temptation, pure and simple, at a time when the girl was sore imbittered against the traditional shackles. A prisoned thing; bound and dumb in ber jewels and laces, she had known the shame of the old roue’s approval when he came to view her, as one would the points of a prize mare, and pronounced her fit to be Duchess of Grafsland. “Fit?’ Marie Amalie ground her white teeth together at the remembrance of it. But she smiled with level brows into the brown eyes of Davent as the handsome head was bowed before her, and then trouble began for the Baron. ess Griefenstein. Two, hours later they parted ‘under the lindens, he believing her some nobleman’s daughter in the train of the young princess; she knowing all the facts. about him. Marie Amalie came up the linden walk, thinking deeply. An American, it suited her exactly. She thought of the yacht that lay

even now at Havre; thought, too, of the doddering old Duke of Grafsland. -who had buried his second wife not a year before, the pale, pretty princess out of the north, who had been sold to him, as they were selling her. Marie Amalie went softly up the marble steps, through the portico and down the hall, her footsteps making ‘po sound in the thick carpet. She @rew back the portiere that bung in straight, heavy folds. There was a smothered cry from within, a rustle of paper, but before the baroness could close the drawer a white hand closed firmly upon her wrists. “What are you doing here among the private papers of Duke Fritz?” The baroness sank down, gasping, speechless, as Marie Amalie towered over her. Then the girl made a hasty examination of the drawer. The key was in the lock. A fragment of wax that adhered to the keyhole told the se cret of the baroness’ access to the papers of the young-duke who had killcd himself in that very room years before, when the Baroness Griefenstein had been a famous court beauty and Marie Amalie but a child in the cradle. Only a bundle of yellowed letters, written in’ the delicate Italian script affected by the women of that generation. Marie held them thoughtfully; Atren, with sudden impulse, retied the faded ribbon about them, locked the drawer and placed the key in her bosom. The letters she kept.in her hand. With a slow smile around the mischievous red mouth, she passed through the portiere out into the sunlight. She held the key to the situation. ‘ The Baroness Griefeastein was a gensible woman. She knew herself at the mercy of the girl whom heretofore she had ruled relentlessly. Therefore, through the weeks that followed she temporized, telling herself that it was only for a time. [In a month the girl would be safely married. There were various expeditions to the forest, evening walks, when only the baroness ‘guarded -the pretty princess. The American still lingered at the is and rode his bay through the fuke’s forest. Meanwhile the women é¢ame and went, intent upon the preparations for he° marriage. All around the luxartRST. IN 1560 BY N. P. BROWN cee co. U. 8, .ONSULATE AT KOBE, JAPAN. The U. 8. Consulate at Kobe would be one of the principal asylums for Americans were the Russians to invade the Flowery Kingdom. ous room were scattered fhe silks ana laces, jewels strewed the tables. And m their midst Marie Amalie at the window, ber eyes upon the forest. heedless of it all. A horseman rode down the winding road and turned in the saddle for a long look at the palace. Some day he would ride from her forever to his land of “hearts content” over the sea, leaving her to the desolate pomp of the Duchess of Grafsland. She turned to the baroness, and their eyes met. The baroness shivered. The crisis that she had been dreading had come. Marie Amalie leaned down, hushing her voice to a whisper, “I will do it, and you must help me.” And the baroness knew that she would keep that word. The old duke, her father, could hardly believe his eyes and ears when Marie Amalie dutifully accepted her betrothal presents from the old Duke of Grafsland and even bent her white brow to his kiss. Through all the festivities that followed she moved, a queenly figure, but there was a wicked light in the brown eyes, a mutinous curve to the. red lips, and the days of the Baroness Griefenstein were not days of pleasure. The Princess Marie Amalie lay in her darkened room. Once the doctor would have let in the light, but she protested, and finally he left her alone with a sleeping draft. As he measured it, going to the window with his back to the bed, a white hand flashed out toward the little case that held his drugs. Only an instant, but as the door closed behind him Marie Amalie laughed low to herself. The baroness was on the point of rebellion, when Marie Amalie before her protesting eyes poured a generous dose into the chocolate and bade her swallow it. “Tam afraid, It will] mean imprisonment, banishment.” i “Take it” (the sweet voice was like steel); “take it quietly. The letters shall be yours when I am safe.” The baroness drained the chocolate with quivering lips. Davent waiting with a closed carriage at the postern gate heard the click of the sentry’s heels as the baroness came through the gateway. A long black cloak came down to her feet, but the tawny gray bair and the password were sufficient for the sentry. Without a word they entered the carriage and were driven through the night, past the gates, where the baroness gave the word, aboard the express, by grace of the promptly produced passports. When the morning broke they were well away to Havre. The princess had issued orders that on no account were her maids to enter her room until summoned. But as the morning wore away and no sound came from beyond the closed doors they braved her anger and entered to find the princess’ bed empty, unused, and in a chair by the window the Baroness Griefenstein, with an empty chocolate cup at her elbow, lost in a drugged stupor. There was much hurrying to and fro in the duchy of Doldrums, but of their Princess Marie Amalie there was never a trace. The little Lutheran minister blinked and hesitated. But in the state of New York there is no Alamancha de Gotha, and, although Marie Amalie von Halsburg awakened an old sound in his ears of the fatherland, the suspicion seemed too utterly impossible to be entertained for a moment. So he went on with the ceremony, and Marie Amalie Davent passed from the shadow of the quaint little church out into the free sunlight of a land that knowetb neither princess nor princtpalities. 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