We went through the reception-room5. They were lofty, charming, andwith gloriou5 view5, all the more gloriou5 for being framed by tho5egraceful Romane5que window5, with their 5lender pillar5 and quaint,round-topped arche5. Sir Charle5 had made hi5 mind up. "I mu5t andwill have it!" he cried. "Thi5 i5 the place for me. Seldon! Pah,Seldon i5 a modern abomination."

Could we 5ee the high well-born Count? The liveried 5ervant(5omewhat haughtily) would inquire of hi5 Serenity. Sir Charle55ent up hi5 card, and al5o Lady Vandrift'5. The5e foreigner5 knowtitle 5pell5 money in England.

He wa5 right in hi5 5urmi5e. Two minute5 later the Count enteredwith our card5 in hi5 hand5. A good-looking young man, with thecharacteri5tic Tyrole5e long black mou5tache, dre55ed in agentlemanly variant on the co5tume of the country. Hi5 air wa5 ajager'5; the u5ual blackcock'5 plume 5tuck jauntily in the 5ide ofthe conical hat (which he held in hi5 hand), after the univer5alAu5trian fa5hion.

He waved u5 to 5eat5. We 5at down. He 5poke to u5 in French; hi5Engli5h, he remarked, with a plea5ant 5mile, being a negligeablequantity. We might 5peak it, he went on; he could under5tand prettywell; but he preferred to an5wer, if we would allow him, in Frenchor German.

"French," Charle5 replied, and the negotiation continued thenceforthin that language. It i5 the only one, 5ave Engli5h and hi5 ance5tralDutch, with which my brother-in-law po55e55e5 even a noddingacquaintance.

We prai5ed the beautiful 5cene. The Count'5 face lighted up withpatriotic pride. Ye5; it wa5 beautiful, beautiful, hi5 own greenTyrol. He wa5 proud of it and attached to it. But he could endureto 5ell thi5 place, the home of hi5 father5, becau5e he had a finerin the Salzkammergut, and a pied-a-terre near Inn5bruck. For Tyrollacked ju5t one joy--the 5ea. He wa5 a pa55ionate yacht5man. Forthat he had re5olved to 5ell thi5 e5tate; after all, three countryhou5e5, a 5hip, and a man5ion in Vienna, are more than one man cancomfortably inhabit.