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BYNOPSIB.
Senator John Calhoun is Invited to be
come secretary of state In Tyler's cab
inet He declares that If he accepts Texas
and Oregon must be added to the Union.
H*» sends his secretary, Nicholas Trlst. to
tuk the Baroness von Rltz, spy of the
British ambaeaador, Pakcnham. to call at
his apartments. While searching for the
baroness' home, a carriage drives up and
Nicholas is invited to enter. The occupant
Is the baroness, and she asks Nicholas to
ass.at In evading pursuers. Nicholas notes
that tin* baroness ban lost a slipper. She
. Rives him the remaining sllpp»*r as a
pledge that she will tell Calhoun what he
wa- is to know regarding England’s In
tentions toward Mexico. As security
Nicholas gives her a trinket he intended
for his sweetheart, Elizabeth Churchill.
Calhoun becomes secretary of state. He
orders Nicholas to Montreal on state
bus: ih'ss, and the latter plans to be mar
ried that night. The baroness says she
will try to prevent the marriage A
drunken congressman whom Nicholas
#tsks to assist In the wedding arrange
ments sends the baroness’ slipper to
Elizabeth, bv mistake, and the wedding
Is declared off Nicholas finds the baron
ep* ’n Montreal, she having succeeded,
where he failed, In discovering England’s
Intentions regarding Oregon. Hhe tells
blm that the slipper he had in his pos
session contained a note from the attache
of Texas to the British ambassador, say
ing that If the United Btat*s did not an
nex Texas within 30 days, she would lose
both Texas and Oregon. Nicholas meets
a naturalist, V’on Rittenhofen, who gives
him Information about Oregon. The
baroness and a British warship disappear
from Montreal simultaneously. Calhoun
orders Nicholas to head n party of set
tlors hound for Oregon Calhoun excites
the jealousy of Sonora Yturrlo and there
by secures the signature of the Texas at
tache to a treaty of annexation. Nicholas
starts for Oregon. He wins the race over
tho British party. A British warship ar
rives with the baroness as a passenger.
Che tells Nicholas that she placed a note
In the slipper which caused the breaking
off of his marriage, and that she intends
to return to Washington to repair the
damage she has done. Nicholas decides to
follow her. The baroness beats him to
Washington He learns Polk Is elected
Texas annexed, and that there Is to
the war with Mexico. The baroness tells
lylcholas that In return for a compromise
•of the Oregon boundary on the line of
forty-ninth degree, she has sold her-
Wrlf to Pukenham. Nicholas tears up the
•agreement.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The Story of Helena von Rltz.
Th ere 1b In every true woman's heart
• spark of heavenly fire, which beams
and blaze* In the dark hours of adver
sity -Washington Irving.
•
'■Jut madam; but madam—" 1 tried
|to Si-gin. At last, after moments
Rwhich seemed to me ages long, I
gbroke out: “Hut once, at least, you
[ promised to tell me who and what you
are. Will you do that now?"
"Yes! yos!" she said. “Now I shall
flni'h the clearing of my soul. You,
■ after all ..mill be my confessor."
% We liraT again a faltering footfall
*n she I raised an eyebrow
VAi query.
' "Tt Is my father. Yes. but let him
come. Me also must hear. He Is In
deed the! author of my story, such as
It is
“Father," she added, “come, sit you
here. I have something to say to Mr.
Trlst."
She sealed herself now on one of
the low couches, her hands clasped
across its arm, her eyes looking far
away out of the little window, beyond
which could he seen the hills across
i*he wide Hotoraac.
"We are she went on,
ik your 11ii
father dees, be-
B when 1 learned.
Hmy father, lie
. /in, of one of tho
educated In
lived there."
ißmost of that of
a student.
the university, he
Bertaln theories of his
Vns vral, mon drole?"
Hig to put her arm on
■older as he dropped
Huch beside her.
Hha. 1 wnss student.”
content with the
Pple."
nor, you will see," said
t him. "being much de
anythlng which he at
led, with five others, to
in experiment. It was
experiment, I presume,
tho interest of what is
!. It was wholly the
,nd the most cruel thing
d now. AU I could do
from one to the other,
dear old dreamer, my father,
them!" he infcrniptcd.
Karl von Goertz. A!-
Adolph zu Stern
von Stamack, nnd Rudolph
evg. We were all friends
she said softly, “all friends,
Hred all fools. Sometimes I think of
gmy mother.”
R *‘My dear, your mother!”
I must tell this as It was!
* HXsir these six, all Heidelberg
born, men of fortune, all
to science, and Interested
study of the hopelessness of the
human being in central Eu
rope—these fools, or heroes, I say not
/which—they decided to do something
*lin the interest of science. They were
of the belief that human beings wore
becoming poor in type. So they de
termined to marry—”
"Naturally,” said I, seeking to re
lieve a delicate situation—“they
Scorned the marriage of convenience
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FIGHT
BY f MERTON HOUGH
AUTHOR Or THE MlWlfflPPl BUDBIE
ULCJTRAnoIW 1y MAGNUT G.KETTNER
copymOHr 1909 cowAitv
I
"Yea; It Was My Father," She Said at Length.
—they came to our American way of
thinking, that they would marry for
love.”
“You do them too much credit!”
said she slowly. "That would have
meant, no sacrifice on either side.
They married with the deliberate in
tentiou of Improving individuals of the
human species! Father, Is it not so?*
Some speech stumbled on his
tongue; but she raised her haud.
“Listen to me. 1 will be fair to you,
father, fairer than you were either to
yourself or to my mother.
“Yes. these .six concluded to im
prove the grade of human animals!
They resolved to marry among the
peasantry because thus they could
select finer specimens of womankind,
younger, stronger, more fit to bring
children Into the world. Is not that
the truth, my father?”
“It wass the way we thought.” he
whispered. “It wass the way we
thought wass wise.”
"And perhaps It was wise. It was
selection. So now they selected. Two
of them married German working girls,
nnd those two are dead, but there is
no child of them alive. Two married
in Austria, and of these one died, and
the other is In a madhouse. One mar
ried a young Galician girl, and so
fond of her did he become that she
took him down from his station to
hers, and he was lost. The other—"
"Yes; it we., my father," she said,
at length. "There he sits, my father.
Yes, I '.ove him. I would forfeit my
life for him now —I would lay it down
gladly for him. Hotter had I done so.
Hut In my time I have hated him.
"lie, the last one, searched long for
this fitting animal to lead to the altar.
He was tall and young and handsome
and rich, do you see? He could have
chosen among his own people any
woman he liked. Instead, he searched
among the Galicians, the lower Aus
trians. the Prussians. He examined
Bavaria and Saxony. Many he found,
but still none to suit his scientific
ideas. He bethought him then of
searching among the Hungarians,
where, it is said, the most beautiful
women of the world are found. So at
last he found her, that peasant, my
mother!"
The silence in the room was broken
at last by her low, even, hopeless
voice as she went on:
"Now, the Hungarians are slaves to
Austria. They do as they are bid,
those who live on the great estates.
They have no hope. If they rebel,
they are cut down. They are not a
people. They belong to no one, not
even to themselves.”
"My God!” said I, a sigh breaking
from me In spite of myself. I raised
my hand a.s though to beseech her not
to go on. But she persisted.
"Yes, we. too, called upon our gods!
So, now, my father came among that
j people and found there a young girl,
; one much younger than himself. She
1 was the most beautiful, so they say, of
all those people, many of whom are
i very beautiful."
I "Yes- —proof of that!" said I. She
| knew I meant no Idle flattery.
"Yes, she was beautiful. But at first
i she did not fancy to marry this Aus
trian student nohleman. ohe said no
to him, even when she found who he
was and what his station -men when
she found that he meant her no dis
honor. But our ruler heard of It. and,
being displeased at this mockery of
the traditions of the court, and wish
ing In his sardonic mind tt> teach
these fanatical young nobles to rue
well their bargain, he sent word to
the girl that she must marry tills man
—my fill turn It was made an Imperial
order!
"And so now, at last, since he wan
half crazed by her beauty, ns men are
sometimes by the beauty of women,
and since at last this had Fs effect
with her, as sometimes it does with
women, and since it was perhaps
death or some severe if
she did not obey, she married him —
my father.”
"And loved me all her life!" the old
man broke out. "Nefer had man love
like hers, 1 will hat' it said I will haf
it said that she loved me, always and
always; and I loved her always, with
all my heart!"
"Yes," said Helena von Hltz, "they
two loved each other, even as they
were. So here am I, born of that
love."
Now we all sat silent for a time.
“That birth was at my father’s es
tates." resumed the same even, merci
less voice. "After some short time of
travels, they returned to the estates;
and. yes, there I was born, half noble,
half peasant; and then there began
the most cruel thing the world has
ever known,
“The nobles of the court and of the
country all around began to make ex
istence hideous for my mother. The
aristocracy, insulted by the repub
licanism of these young noblemen, ■
made life a hell for the most gentle
woman of Hungary. Ah, they found
new ways to make her suffer. They
allowed her to share in my father's
estates, allowed her to appear with
hint when he could prevail upon her
to do so. Then they twitted and
taunted her and mocked her In all the
devilish ways of their class. She was
more beautiful than any court beauty
of them all, and they hated her for
that. She had a good mind, and they
hated her for that. She had a faith
ful, loyal heart, and they hated her
for that.”
“But your father resented this?"
She nodded. "Duel after duel he
fought, man after man he killed,
thanks to his love for her and his
manhood. He would not release what
he loved. He would not allow his
class to separate him from his choice.
But the women! Ah, he could not fight
them! So I have hated women, and
made war on them all my life. My fa
ther could not placate his emperor.
So, In short, that scientific expedment
ended in misery-—and me!"
The room had grown dimmer. The
sun was sinking as she talked. There
was silence, I know, for a long time
before she spoke again.
"In lime, then, my father left 1:1s es
tates and went out to a small place in
the country; but my mother —her
heart was brc.'ien. Malice pursued
hej. Those vho were called her su
periors would not let her alone. See,
i he weeps, my father, as he thinks
of these things.
"There was cause, then, to weep.
For two years, they tell me. my moth
er wept. Then she died She gave
me, a baby, to her friend, a woman of
her village- Threlka Mazoff You have
Eeen her. She has been my mother
ever since. She has been the soie
guardian I have known all my life.
She has not been able to do with me
as she would have liked."
"You did not live at your own home
with your father?” I asked
"Fur a time I grew up. But my
father, I think, wa3 permanently
shocked by the loss of the woman he
had loved and whom he had brought
Into all this cruelty She had been so
lovable, so beautiful—she was so beau
tiful. my mother! So they sent me
away to France, to the schools. I
grew up. I presume, proof In part of
the excellence of my father’s theory
They told me that I was a beautiful
animal! ”
The contempt, the scorn, the pathos
—the whole tragedy of her voice and
bearing- were such as I cannot set
down on paper, and such as I scarce
could endure to hear. Never in my life
before have I felt such a pity for a
human being, never so much desire
to do what I might In sheer compas
sion.
But now. how clear tt all became to
me! I could understand many strange
things about the character of this
singular woman, her whims, her un
accountable moods, her seeming care
lessness, yet withal, her dignity and
sweetness and air of breeding—above
all her mysteriousness Let others
judge her for themselves There was
only longing In my heart that I might
find some word of comfort. What
could comfort her? Was not life. In
deed, for her to remain a perpeti al
tragedy?
"But, madam." said I. at lenglh,
"you must noi wrong your father and
your mother and yourself. These two
loved each other devotedly. Well,
what more? You a r e the result of a
happy marriage. You are beautiful,
you are splendid, by that reason.”
“Perhaps. Even when I was 1C 1
was beautiful," she mused. "I have
heard rumors of that. But 1 say to
you that I lieu I was only a beautiful
animal. Also, I was a vicious animal.
I had in my heart all the malico
which my mother never spoke. 1 felt
in my soul the wish to injure women,
to punish men, to torment them, to
make them pay’ To set even those
balances of torture! ah, that was
my ambition! I had not forgotten
that, when I first met you, when 1
first heard of her. the woman whom
you love, whom already in your sav
age, strong way you have wedded —
the woman whose vows I spoke with
her—l—l, Helena von Rltz, with his
tory such as mine!
“Father, father" —she turned to him
swiftly; "rise—go! 1 cannot now
speak before you. Leave us alone un
til T call!”
Obedient as though he had been tbe
child and she the parent, the old man
rose and tottered feebly from the
room.
"There are things a woman cannot
say in the presence of a parent," she
said, turning to rae. Her face
twitched. “It takes all my bravery to
talk to you.”
“Why should you? There is net
need. Do not!”
“Ah, I must, because it Is fair,” said
she "I have lost, lost! I have told
you I would pay my wager.”
After a time she turned her face
straight toward mine and went on
with her old splendid bravery.
"So, now, you see. when I was
young and beautiful I had rank and
money. I had brains. I had hatred ]
of men. I had contempt for the aris
'tocracy. My heart was peasant after
all. My principles were these of the I
republican. Revolution was in my 1
soul, I say. Thwarted, distorted, ;
wretched, unscrupulous, I did what I
could to make hell for those who had \
made hell for us. I have set dozens
of men by the ears. I have been
promised iu marriage to I know not
how many. A dozen men have fought j
to the death in duels over me. For j
each such death I had not even a
thought. The more troubles I made, j
the happier I was. Oh, yes, in time !
I became known —I had a reputation; j
there is no doubt of that.
“But still the organized aristocracy j
had its had Its will of me, j
after all. There came to me, as thera |
had to my mother, an Imperial order. ;
In punishment for my fancies and va
garies. I was condemned to marry a
certain nobleman. That was the whim I
of the new- emperor, Ferdinand, the
degenerate. He took the throne when
I was but 16 years of age. He chose
for me a degenerate mate from hi?
own tort." She choked now.
"You did marry him?"
*TO BE CONTINUED.)
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