Show COUSIN OF CZAR IS UNDER GUARD grand duke dubo gabriel Corm vich a cousin of the czar cear twenty ovo years old supplies tho the latest court 64 romance II 11 insists on marrying xe ivan ovila oTna formerly hl his sisters jov gov amess and now his mothers companion gabriel Is id an officer of 0 the house home hold troops and enjoyed life ilia liko hla his comrades up to two months aso ago then bobe he began gAti to sit elf ut at tho the foot feet of xenia whom ho he had known for years without taking particular notice ot of her xenia owns to being thirty is dark slim allm anday and by no meana a beauty people recall the emperor pauls in fatu atlon for or a middle aged maid ol of honor who had bad more influence over him than anyone else ela out but gabriels father grand duke duha constantine Is ot of course angry and insists on having the boy banished to come distant ill stant province tho the czar objects saying baying that sort ot of punishment lina bus always resulted lit in lovers layers getting riar married ried so xe X 0 has haa been sent to moscow with a handsome pension which wu will be stopped the moment she be renews association with her highborn high born lover cabriel la briel went trad with disappointment and rao rage when he be learned that his M love had left the ducal it was it a long time before he found out where she had gone then ile he determined to follow her and escaped from his bis rooms by a ropa rolia ladder but was caught at th the gates and ana ignominiously hurried back since then bon he has been under tinder a strong guard ostensibly because ho he committed some military blunder la in hla his regiment though everybody knows hla his father Is keeping him from xenia when ho he has haa been tamed by solitude one ona of tho the ducal household la is to orgies in the tha cites night haunts baunta but gabriel tells tella hla his mother that nothing will make him forget hla his dear cents and that he means to marry ler her even if he ha has to wait years those who know him say he ha is capable ol of pretending indifference and running orf on to church with xenia as scon boon as parental vigilance Is 1 relax relaxed bd ills ilia infatuation remains A nine day wonder at court all efforts parental and otherwise to chaff chad or bully him out ot it having been of no avail on an investigation into hla his sanity Is 3 beling being considered |