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- PAGE FOUB 'f lit ViHI i4i P A 1. - THE JOTJENAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY JTJIY 10, 3941 louis Arthur cunmnGHflm J t7) mom i CHAPTER I Madame Fabre - Lusignan tem porarily finished admiring her wrinkled visage in the silver backed hand glass, straightened her fine lace cap, hitched her bed jacket up around her bony shoul ders and yelled, "Entrez!" in a voice that had often evoked ap plause in la Comedie Francaise, in the best theaters of London and New York. She tried it again in a higher key as the door was slowly opening and, finding her voice with a lovely timbre this morning, went on to curse the war, the times, all things in general; especially life here at the Chateau Philibert, now that all the servants had gone to fight or to do war work and there was left only this ancient jackass, Rudolph, and the aged Florian, the gardener, who was deaf and sullen and, she often thought, had really been dead for ten years old zany. Rudolph entered with a tray on which were coffee in a grand silver pot, Tokay grapes, crescent rolls and a fresh copy of La Presse. More war news to spoil her day. Accursed be the war that had, along with so many more precious things, taken her pretty maid Felice who used to come in, all big black eyes and olive skin and cherry-red lips, who used to say, "Ah, heaven! But Madame Mimi is fresh and lovely this morning. How little the years affect true beauty." Little liar, mused madame, grin ning, and just then remembering to pop her teeth into her mouth. Still it had been pleasant to hear those things and to have Felice smooth the bed and straighten the pillows and shyly touch her arm. Now there were no attentions like that from the staid, white-headed Ru dolph nothing at all like that. In stead "Bateche!" Madame screamed a good French-Canadian expletive as the hot coffee showered over the bed, over her legs, over the paper she had just taken from the tray. "Son of a misbegotten goat, what do you do here! Drunkard, im becile, homicide! You have de cided to scald me to death. You " "Madame!" Rudolph stared at her piteously; he looked as if he were about to cry. Rudolph, who had been her butler these last ten years, who in all that time had lived behind a wall of silent servi tude and respect. The mask of the menial was gone now. She saw only an old man, tired, broken, afraid. As soon would she have expected the sphinx to break out in a rash. "What is it then, my old one?" Madame's eyes were like black diamonds, full of fire always, full of indomitable life. She loved to tell how her dear friend . Sarah Bernhardt la divine Sarah "whose protegee she had been, had loved her eyes, had said there was a sep arate life in her grand eyes. "Do not goggle like a Gaspe codfish, Rudolph," said the old dame pet tishly. "What the devil is the mat ter with you?" "The paper, madame. The " "Oh, Lord, but the man is mad. What paper? I know the wallpaper is ugly, but my husband would have a pattern of cupids and rose wreaths. Or do you mean La Presse?" "I mean La Presse, madame. I mean" "Yes. it is stupid. But" "This this, madame " The but ler's shaking finger pointed to the picture on the first page. It was that of a smiling pretty girl and two little ones, a boy and a tiny moppet with long thick curls. The caption said: "Princess Meridel of Gratzen, with her little cousins, Pol Martin and Rosine, arrive in Que bec to seek refuge with rich uncle in Canada." Madame looked from the picture to Rudolph and her thick gray black brows wriggled like caterpil lars. "So what?" she had acquired this elegancy from the American radio. "So what?" "I, madame" Rudolph drew a deep breath and there was oh, miracle! sweat upon his forehead "I am the rich uncle in Canada." Madame pushed her teeth back with a loud click and looked quick ly at the old-fashioned, tasselcd bell-pull. No one to hear if she did yank it. Even the cook was gone and Rudolph was in charge in the kitchen. Maybe if she screamed one cf her very best screams, that of the mad witch Giselle in The Black Cauldron, say that deaf fool Florian would hear and come running with a sickle or a fork to kill this crazy man "Pi-case, madame please!" Ru dolph Morpin seemed to know what she was thinking. "Will you hear me before you cast me into the street? I I am a colossal liar." "Thct is nothing." Madame waved her hand airily. "Nothing at all." "I come from Gratzen, madame," continued Rudolph miserably. "There I was the Baron Rudi de Morpin. There I was" "Ah!" Madame forgot her coffee wet les that were cold now, jerked herself higher up on the pillow and "Son of a misbegotten goat! Drunkard, imbecile, homicide t You have decided to scald me to death. You " took an Egyptian cigarette from the ivory box on the taboret. Ru dolph lighted it for her. The glit tering black eyes studied him through the smoke. "Continue, baron." He bowed stiffly. "It was a poor little country, Gratzen. We of the ruling family had nothing. And I well, I was " "You were the what is it we say? dark mutton." Rudolph bowed his white head. "I was the black sheep madame. I was exiled. I was very young then. I vowed to them all that I would become a great man, that I would be wealthy, that I would own a chateau that would make the castle of Gratzen look like a cow-shed. So, madame " he fal tered. He bit his lip. He looked miserably out at the great green park, the wonderful gardens and vast lawns of the Chateau Phili bert, which the biscuit-made mil lions of Jean Pierre Gossec had created high up here in the loneliest part of the Laurentian Mountains. All this had come to Jean Pi erre's widow, whom in youth he had adored on the stage as Mimi Fabre. Ah, he had adored his Mi mi. had little rolypoly Jean Pierre. The memory of the way he had loved her, cherished her, watched over her, seen never a change in her in the years, made her gentle now. "Continue, my friend," she said. "I like to hear this this phan tasy." Rudolph drew himself up. He was no longer the butler no need for that self-effacing mask any more he was the Baron de Mor pin. Baron Rudi. "So, when I came to this grand place, this Cha teau PhiiibCTt, I I made them think, those in Gratzen, that it was mine. I had pictures of myself tak en as I stood in the great doorway, in the park, by the mirror lake, in the grand salon. The under chauffeur was a good man with his camera. Always I was dressed in my morning coat and striped trous ers, like a gentleman. I have let ter paper and envelopes with my name and crest and Chateau Phili bert, St. Didier des Montagnes, Quebec, on them. I never dreamed that I would be found out. No one in Gratzen ever had money enough to come to America. Now little Meridel and these children, Pol Martin and Rosine, come to me for succor, for food, for shelter. To me!" He turned away. "I shall procure you some fresh coffee, ma dame. I am sorry so sorry." "Bring some brandy," said ma dame, "along with the coffee." W7hen Rudolph had gone she hopped, muttering, out of bed, a queer, skinny old creature, in bright crimson pyjamas. Old ot face, old of body, with an unruly crown of curly white hair that gave her, with the strangely young and vivid black eyes, an elfin, gamin look as if she were a little girl made up for a play to portray an old, old lady. When Rudolph returned she was reclining on her chaise longue at the door opening onto the bal cony, wearing a morning gown of peach-colored silk and blue mules with great white pompons. "I have bathed in some strange liquids, Rudolph," she giggled, "but it is the first time I showered with coffee. I am not sure I like it." "It was unpardonable clumsi ness, madame, even under the cir cumstances. How can I tell you " "Don't try." "My successor will be one, I trust, who is not a liar, the leader of a double life, a deceiver how ever innocent of of helpless chil dren." "Yes," said madame absently. "Yes, we'll see that we don't get any more kings in disguise or grand lamas masquerading as house boys." "But you will permit me to stay until the children come? It will not be easy to " "Don't be a fool, baron! Don't be a gross imbecile! Of course you will stay. When I spoke of your successor I meant very simply a man to buttle. You, of course, will stay on." "But how" "Name of God! He asks how! It is all very simple. You stay on as the Baron de Morpin, here in your Chateau Philibert." "But you, madame " "I?" The bright eyes danced and sparkled. "Well, I have thought of that. At first I dwelt on King Carol and his friend, Ma dame Lupescu. I thought I should play Magda to your Carol." She grinned fiendishly as Rudolph crim soned and busied himself with the coffee, slowly and ultracautiously. "That is out. You are definitely not the romantic type. So I shall be your housekeeper." "But, madame " "Stop making objections. This place is like a museum and it's dull as a morgue and it is the mercy of the good God that has caused some excitement to happen. It will be good to have these little ones. There is no reason in the world that they should ever know you were the butler. We can have a new man in the morning. I'll phone to Gabriel Follet at once." "But will it not be cruel to de ceive them, to let them think" "No!" screamed mad'"" L' ing coffee into her saucer. "No! No! No! But it would be cruel to have them learn, after being bombed and torpedoed and frozen and starved, that they are very like ly to be at least frozen and starved again, my old one. "There!" She lowered her voice as she saw the hurt, the trouble, the defeat in Rudolph's pale blue eyes. After all, he had dreamed of greatness once, cf the high places, of ease and opulence. "I did not mean that you would be unable to maintain them, but three is quite a number and children need so much! Believe me, too, you will be doing a kindness to a lonely old woman. Not in years have I had the prospect of such fun or looked forward so much to anything. You must do as I tell you, Monsieur le Baron. I must begin calling you baron." Rudolph stared at Madame Fabre - Lusignan, comprehension coming like a slow dawn into his eyes. He moistened his lips with his tongue and made an involun tary move toward the wing collar that had suddenly become too tight. He blinked his eyes fast and his voice was a bit unsteady when he said, "There are no words, ma dame none that I know in any language, to express " "There may be some in Siwash," said the old lady, biting on a roll, "but skip it, Rudi. When do the young ones arrive?" "I should judge from the little I have digested of the press account that they will be here on tonight's train. They know the name of the station, St. Didier des Montagnes." "They speak French? English?" "I do not know. But I think it is likely that, apart from their own tongue, they speak Swiss, perhaps Austrian, with little French or Eng lish." "It is well then. They will travel in ignorance, even were there any to tell them you do not own the Chateau Philibert." "Some day they'll have to know, madame." "Oh, baptism! Tell them then you lost it in a poker game. Now I shall talk to that sly lawyer, Gabriel Follet, on the telephone and have him send a staff. I'll also tell him that my home is now the house of my guests, the Baton Rudi de Morpin, the young Princess of Gratzen, the royal cousins." "It sounds like a dream, ma dame." She smiled up at him over the white telephone, like an old pixy. "I begin to live again, Baron. I must also call my nephew, Roger Fabre, and tell him the same story. He would be one to come blunder ing in and spoil things. I take it, Rudolph Baron it would ruin everything if the pretty Meridel knew " (TO BE CONTINUED) Paul Bornemeier. Lieut. . Roscoe Bornemeier of Lincoln Air Base spent the week end with the family. Mrs. Orville Jullian of Chicago Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Horton. Miss Betty Clements W. A. S. P. spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gry Clements and re turned to her base in Arkansas Mon day morning. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Fox of Scotia have been visiting at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Totman. Sgt. Harry Krall is here on a fur lough to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Krall. Corp. Ronald Thimigan of Camp Leonard Wood, Mo., is home for a furlough and is spending it with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Thimigan. Corp. Thimigan spent many months in Alaska and the Alu-tians. Though the prospect of a good corn crop in this vicinity is rather discouraging, sonu; fields have shown wonderful Improvement during the past week. The wheat yield will also be below the average. A. II. Ward and son, Russell, have completed the building of a gran ary for Wm. Stock. .n his farm in South Bend piecinct. Paul Stock has pjrehased a 12 foot International combine whi;-h he will use for custom work Kspets to send it to Dakota as the harvest warrants. Kennedy and family while both Mr. Kennedy und Mr. Urga are in the sen ice. Mrs. Belle Jack of Lincoln and air. and Mrs. Frank Olson and dau ghter of Mai lam were the dinner guests of Mr. anil M.'S. Clyde West on Monday of this week. Harmon Aullifson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Kulliison recent ly passed a Very good civil service examination. Jle left on Monday of this wock for Washington, D. C. where he is a civil service employe. Mrs. Floyd Althousi. C?mh Journal Corresponded By Journal FUU Rcpraaealativ Maynard Schliefert came home Sunday morning io fpend a three-day h.ave with relatives. M.r and Mrs. Frederick Stohlman and, family and Mis. Martna Neu m.m were Sunday dinner jutsts at i he Wm. Ncumau home The Altar Society card party will t: held at the parish hall Thursday atlernoon July 13th instead of Wed nesday ihc JJ'.h. Mrs. Anna Sucll and I.jretta riamig of Omaha spent tho week incl with Mr. and Mrs. Philip Flam- 5 Father .James llcnnessy returned Thursday from Brainard, Minn., where he spent hi.s vacation fishing. He reports a good time and plenty of good fish. Hfiinan Stchlmon of Omaha visit ed with relatives over tho F urth. .Mr and Mrs. Walter Kupfce of York uco announcing the arrival of a son, July 5th. Mrs. Kunko was formerly Miss Eula Schliefert Miss LUiie Faiurs entertained i hi pinochle cluij Thursday after noon High scores wero won by tiara Peaon, fir;.'., Leona Dar veayx, seond, and Loretta Shcehan i:eivort tho traveling prize. Mrs. R. K. Bergmann and Jack spent the Fourth in Louisville at the H. A. Koop home. Mrs. Louise Stohlman of Omaha visaing her sou. Frederick, and family Wm. Neuman and family of Lou isville spent Thursday evening with his mother, Mrs. Martha Neuman. Mr. and Mrs. Goo. Vogel of South Bend were Sunday evening callers at the Philip Flaming home. M r Andrew Schliefert who has not been CA for some tir.ie,"ecame seriously ill -.Vedned&ay nmht. Medi-i-al aid was summoned ami at pres ent ho .s iti.provinjj. Tod Harms left Friday evening for Chicago, where he expects to find employment. Miss Lor:ne Dull of Omaha spent the we'k end with home folks. Elmwood By Journal Field Representatrr Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bronn attend ed the funeral of Mr. Bronn's mother, Mrs. Lucy Bornn age 94, at Rocca Thursday afternoon. Capt. and Mrs. Donald Gonzales have been guests of Mrs. .Emily, Gon zales. "Capt. Gonzales returned to Nai per Field, Dorthaa, Alabama on Wed nesday and Mrs. Gonzales and little daughter wil stay for a longer visit. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Toluurst and daughter Barbara, Mr. and Mrs. James Tolhurst and daughter Patty of Raymond and Mrs. Harry Volpe and daughter Jan were guests of the Henry Moaning family Sunday and calling on other friends. Mr. John Kuntz who is in the Bryan hospital in Lincoln is re ported recovering nicely from a re cent operation. Hoy Sterner is again busy with his usual duties after an honorable discharge from the navy. , i " Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Greene arriv ed home' Friday from a visit to Rev. ann Mrs. Andrew Janssen at Buck hannon, West Virginia, and at La- Torte, Indiana with another daugh ter, Mrs. Currin Shields and son, MURDOCK Mrs Rex Jieardon came from California and is visiting her par ents, M? and Mrs. Dil'k aehwegnan and other relatives and friends. Mrs. Emma Henrikscn and Mrs. Ilabel and Marilyn moved to Lin-c-jln mis week. Both Mrs. Hennk- Isen and Mrs. Halitl plan to work in the Goodyear plant. Mrt-. II. E. Smith und grandson, Aikkiud I'rga, left for Kansas Oity lust Saturday morning where they nui Pvt. and Mrs. Urga. They also visited Mr and Mis Lee Peters and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Duf field and family of Oasuwaioniit , Kantos Mrs. Smith and Mrs. L'iga ana son re turned to Eagle on Wednesday of this week. A S'-u, Garry Lee Earl, was born to Mr and Mrs. Carl ob.ilo Fri day, Jun iv, at tho Bryan Memor ial hospital in Lincoln. Sgt. Knith Trunule of Buckley Field, Colorado, flew to Lincoln .ast Saturday and visited until Sun day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs alley Trumble ami other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fischer and oaby of Wichita, Kansas, spent tluir vacation wuh tho tenner's paitnts, Mr. and Mis Harry Fisch er. Guests at the home of Mr. and .Mrs. G. It. i'ulmor on Tuesday were Mr. and .Mrs. Perry Rose and foii, Dnrrell of Fremont, Mr. and Mrs Raymond Palmer cf Chicago, and Cpl. and Mrs. Charlos Talmer nd children. Edward Winkler of Kearney ar rived on Saturday morning of this wtek and will spend several days with hii parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Winkler and other relatives. Mis? Caroline Kcitter arrived heme on Wednesday of this week from Alva, Okla., where she visit ed an aunt. Mrs Rockcubach and family at Alva, and a cousin at Wichita, Kansas. Mrs. Ray Wall entertained the Woman's Society of Christian Ser vice at the church on Wednesday afternoon of this week. Her daugh ter. Miss Di:ris Wall, was a guest. Miss Ruth faddy aud Mrs. Richard Sihroeder of Lincoln visited their parents. Mr. and Mrs. II. G. Caddy, on Monday of this week. Ruth, who was graduated from the St. Eliza beth School of Nnrsiug in June, is awaiting an assignment by the gov ernment, but in the meantime is supcrxising at the St. Elizabeth hoLpital. Mrs V. I.. Urga and son left for Omaha the latter part of this week uln-re they make their home with the fcrmer's sister, Mrs. Kenneth tiiruiday rany in cciel ration ot Mrs. d. r.. Al- 1( ii s 89. a birthday anniversary on July l1i, Mrs. Keith Althousc of Lincoln entertained a number of the iiionbei i of her family in h-jr honor. j 'those present wre the Lonoree, jMrs. It. B Morgan, Mrs. Frank Clements, Air. and Mis. George Alt Luiito. .Mrs Inez Munn and Mr. and is. Floyd Alt house. and also the W. C. T. U., and the Royal Neighbor LodC for remep, bvanees. These ayts of Jtindufss were all greatly appi eciar.eL Mis. Wtsiey Huston. Boys in Service Charles Bui an, son of Mr. and mi, iiarolu DoiX' , was inducted jiuu the Muy in June and sent to thi Great lokes for training. I pi. Kobei t V .iyers came from ainp swui, Texas, :he tirst of ths week and is enjaj irg his lu; lough wiiii lP3 patents, Mr. and Mrs Otto i V .ycrs. ami other relatives aud ii .endb. It hnh'iaii Coi pui al Charles 1'i.inier arrived in .N'tijraska on Mon- iuay ot this week, lie will nave un lit July lain to sp'.ii-l with his fam ily and his iiareuts, Mr. and Mrs. (.. H. Palmer. Mrt. Wcsity Huston has heard lio.n her grandson, Sgt. Melviu l.u&hes, a ho is stationed in Alaska lie is well and enjoying Itis work, lie is the sun of Mr. and Mrs. LI i.ar Hughes of Lincoln. Iwo menU'crs of this year's grad uation class are in the navy. Eldon Crandtll, .sou of Mr. and Mrs. -'Hen Crundell, is in training at the Gveat lakes, and Verle McVWiiiams. son o Sire. Ethel Mc Williams, is receiv ing h?s instruction at Doaue College, at Crete. August ltieke combined a field of wh.jat Wtdr-csday .hat yielded 20 I ashels p:-r acre and tested 58. In was the fiift new wheat delivered to the local elevator. L. W Rase was ui Lincoln Wed iicFdav for renairs to hi used in his garage Ray Garulin and family fpent last week end with his part'ins in southeast Kansas. Paul Scheme has been busy the past week, putting a new roof on his farm residence. Miss Rosiioggi? of Garland was i Burk. Mr. Shields is stationed at an over-Sunday guest of Mis3 Geral Camp Custer, Mich. Mrs. Shields and t.jne Schmidt. little son acocmpanied the Greens home for a visit. W. O. W.jddell learned a few day3 ago that anciher one of hi3 grand- Mrs. Grace Blessing returned home nephews had been killed overseas. Tuesday after spending the winter One was killed about a year ago in California. Pvt. Richard Bless ing of Bruning Air Base is home on a furlough to visit with his mother. Herbert Lorenz returned to Cali fornia after a short visit with his his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lorenz. '. . ' , and one reported a Japan. prisoner in Dick Brummer aivl family and Roy Gamlin and family were Capita Beach visitors Tuesday evening. The Jtu-.nal representative was out of town several days toe first Urs. Joe Schoeapers pC Chlcjutf of the week and may uava failed to is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I I'ick up some important news items,- Reduced Prices ON FEED! The war isn't over, but we are reducing our feed prices as follows: 26 per cent Free Choice $3.50 Mash or Pellets Breeding Mash $3.35 All Mash or Pellets.. $3.30 Busy Bird $3.15 Mash or Pellet Growing Mash $3.60 Starting Mash $3.85 PLATTSM0UTH CREAMERY THE HOME OF CASCO BUTTER That Summer Cold When a cold is not "just a cold" it is something which, needs the ad vice of a physician. If a cold lasts more than a few days, call your doc tor because it probably is not Just a cold. Such symptoms as chilliness, fol lowed uy idvtr, an acniug oacK, sors uiroat or persistent cougn, pain in the chest need professional atten tion at once. In the summer time, when many of us are away from home, eating in new places, getting into crowds, be coming overheated and cooling off quickly, these are the times we pick up infections. Try to maintain a high level of re sistance by sleeeping at least eight hours a night; wear the proper clothing for the weather; eat a good ly amount of the protective foods which are rich in vitamins, such as milk, eggs, butter, fresh vegetables and fresh fruits. Be sure tnat the milk and water are safe. Wasn your hands before preparing, serving or eating food. Try to choose clean public eating places and avoid crowds. Have a medical check-up regularly. Be sure to see a physic ian if you have trouble breathing; if colds hang on; if you have a per sistent cough; or if you need correc tion of any abnormal nose or throat condition. Give prompt attention to the first symptoms of a cold rest in bed; keep warm and dry; dring plenty of water, fruit juices and milk. If the summer cold does not clear up soon, call a physician, it may not be "just a cold.". C. A. Selby, M. D. The first oil well completed in Oklahoma was in 18S9, near Chelsea, in Indian Territory. 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