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Show A t s Ei loved. A 'affle :t In PARADISE LOST By L. 1 G. er MOBERLY (Copyright, sachusetts an unwilling witness of that Idyllic of love scenes In a garden jjrt was in Itself an Idyll. from the Art murmur of voices e the enimmediately out-ldlace to the pergola, where I was was the first intimation I lounging, received that someone besides myself corner of Hi discovered this fragrant ; ilat most lovely garden. It was a mans voice that spoke jrst, In French, eager, Impetuous, and, a i imagined, youthful. Beloved, he said, Is it true? Are Will love be enough? ou sure? The answer evidently Enough? came from a girl; the tones were so fresh, so clear, but with a penetrating iweetnes In them. "If you knew how how glad I am that I am free o choose love, to follow my heart! Urve Is enough." The last words were very simply iald, but they held a depth of meanmade my foolish old heart ive a leap of sympathy. "But you give up so much, he said I take everything; the joubtfully. sacrifice is all yours." "Sacrifice! she cried, a ring of glad "Do you think I ?rlde in her voice. are for rank and all that rank brings? am glad I was born too late to have so 0 wear a crown that is so thorny she repeated almost dream-ly- , horny, I am free to give myself to you. There Sacrifice? she laughed softly. 1 no sacrifice in going Into Paradise. As she spoke those words, the two used in their walk along the path, and through the delicate wisteria and ianksla leaves I caught a glimpse of hem both. They were young, but there was no maturity or lack of purpose In ither face. he said, and his voice "Beloved, shook, "will you never regret all that on will lose If you come Into Paradisa road . 'frog the ben into gov- - at the a de- - and r SL oavt the Vto, Ex. the rnor re. has Mrs. ar of lenly leath aing. eap. itlea tynar eked e of may h! i a CaL the i I by Joseph 1906, B. Bowles.) sunshine on the steps, there came, leaning on the old kings arm, a tall form In trailing white garments, her diamonds flashing till she seemed to ffgs j j most ramshackle appearance drove up to the gate horse a mere traveling bone-yard- , harness held together with move In a blaze of light. And when I saw the face of the bride, I caught my breath and uttered a low exclamation, for the face under the bridal veil was not the face of a Btranger. I looked once again upon the face of the girl I had seen walking with her lover In the garden at sunset time the girl who had entered Into Paradise with Armand! The same, yet not the same! The exquisite contour was there still; the eyes, blue and deep as the sky overhead; the beautiful curves of mouth and chin; the gleaming hair. But the coloring, instead of making me think of apple blossoms in spring, was white, white as a statue; and the radl- ance was all gone! The face was set and still as though carved out of mar-thble, lovely beyond words, but cold with a coldness that froze my heart. She passed into the Imllding with that free, stately step I remembered, then I turned with a question to a man behind me. Yes that is the crown princess now. Her elder sisters both died. Yes It was sad, very sad. They said the young Princess Theresa had been about to resign her royal rank, to wed for love; but her sisters had died, and she had become her fathers heir and well, of course. It was easily to be seen that Bhe must wed the eon of a royal house, and so cn. and so on. I not bear to see that beautiful cold face Salt per reea- - who oe of was irado u in a strict It was a tiny churchyard on a e ictioa lm- - bill-sid- groin shot in t, II nt in ought I 1 I Plas-earg- I 1 same thrilling voice, "my son has sent table. As soon as possible Boris and mo word that till & certain great dan- - Jorlan got outside Into the long pas- ger is overpast you are to abide with Bage which led to the kitchen. ear me here on the Isle Rugen. I live Jorlan," said Boris, solemnly low- glde hlg mj8tress. The wordless, I save for one this alone, dumb his voice to a whisper, if that and man, pushed oar8 tbe erlng ok man legg I Tbe ten men jeft on the shore Max Ulrich, lopg since cruelly maimed Courtland fellow had known what we o(f set about building a fire and making at the hands of hls enemies. I can know, he would have been none so shelters of brushwood, as If they ex-- offer you no suite of attendants be- - eager to get her home to bed andi . yond those you bring with you. Our board!" pected to stay there some time. Ice will melt even Baltic ice!" safety depends on tbe secrecy of our noiselessly almost The boat passed - abode, as for many years my own life said Jorlan sentcntlously. strongman rowing stranR the along, has done. I ask you, therefore, to re-"Yes, but greybeard Lxmls of Court- ly and the boat drawing steadily away I Inour Pect as also Is not the man to do the melt- to land privacy, impose across the widest part of the still I the same I soldiers." retorted Boris, upon your Ing! coasted along thus As land sea. they I "But I know who could," sald the gloomy shores the sun went I The Duchess Joan bowed slightly, As you doubtless know, I have not Jorlan, nodding his head with an atrl down and darkness came upon them come hither of ' my own free will, of Immense sagacity. at a hound. Who?" said Boris, shortly, After a space tall treeB again shot she answered haughtily; but I thank I door of the kitchen opened up overhead, and with a quick turn you, madam, for your hospitality. I The stood ai the boat passed between walls of trem-- 1 Rest assured that the secrecy of your slightly and the tall woman In her latch band,! moment with the the shall not be dwelling endangered by bling reeds that rustled against ' ready to enter, oars like silk, emerged on a black I me! Our Sparhawk could melt the BaL, circle of water, and then, gliding I Then with a large gesture the elder Do Ice!" said Jorlan, and winked at smoothly forward, took ground in the indicated the way up the broad stair-case, and throwing her own cloak Boris with hls left eye In a sly manblank dark. I on the off she caught It across completely As the broad keel grated Whereupon Boris dropped hls knife the Wordless Man left out, and, jI her arm as It dropped and so fol-hands lowed Joan i hls out of sight, id, seizing Jorlan by the shoulders' standing on the shore, put be thrust him down upon-- a broad to his mouth and emitted a long shout Instinct was so strong that, as soon I 'i00'like a blast blown on a conch shell. It had obviously a meaning for some- - j as the women had withdrawn them-- I Then he dragged the platter of, one and to put the matter beyond a selves upstairs, the three captain; brawn before him and dumped the doubt It was answered by three shrill started towards the door to make the I mustard pot beside It upon the deal; of round of the defences. Tbe Wordless tab,e with a resounding clap, purpose of breeding pigeons, and the whistles from behind the rampart h I Man accompanied them unasked. The countless niches or nests of chalk (of trees. Tbere; she that, Jatsiaes. "n aa In where boat enclosure In which the snt found still square Joan they which material the walls are made) 1 forav6 atood a daa I ou 8X6 asked good themselves seemed Hker an old fortified had placed herself. She had are very remarkable. from you In. larded f fine Ignorance even of these farmhouse a and than strange cenno a grange to fixed The ladder shown is regular question, like this. Yoa but resolunothing her time, my castle, though the walls were thick tral beam, ami when inspecting the experiences did not alter next that my Lady b saying as of those standany when fortress, tlon. loopIs It being nests only necessary, to a Presently a light gleamed uncer- I holed for musketry, and (In those I Duchess might take fancysaid you! Ing on the ladder, to push against the 8be might do worse, jorian wall and the whole affair moves round, tainly through the trees, now lost days of bombards few and heavy) cap-as he stirred the musIt Is still the home of a very consid- behind brushwood and again break-- able of standing a siege In good ear-- I philosophically, lard with hls knife and looked about nest against a small army. erable number of pigeons. ing out I The three captains returned through 7or tb a'e tankard, A tall figure moved forward with a I be ntlnued-step quick and firm. It was that of the hall Into a long dining room vault-SOME THINGS NATURE MAKES. a woman who carried a swinging lan-- ed above with beams of solid oak. TOO MUCH TEA HARMFUL. Curtains were drawn close all about I Wooden Bowla and Glass Pipes, Cloth, In walls. recesses the were the many Ropes and Laces. Physician Classes Beverage) stands of arms of good and recent With Alcohol. and a manufacconstruction, opening a of cupboard Nature is something Is a nation of tea drinkAs freedom man a England the of with at arms, turer herself. some vigorous words on the tes saw ers, Boris and marshot cactus ramrods, powder, a certain In the case of IT. arranged In order, as neatly as though habit lately spoken by Dr. John a'. velous natural pottery is produced. have London a physician, he had dono it himself, than which Clarke, Woodpeckers excavate nests In the traded much attention. It would alno better could be said. trunk and branches, and to protect itIn a littlo while the sound of foot- most seem," says Dr. Clarke, "taat self the plunt exudes a sticky Juice, linsteps descending the nearer staircase the human animal la determine tha which hardens, forming a woody was heard.' The Wordless Man moved assert hls superiority over birds. made the the hales to by ing to the door and held It open, as Joan rest of creation by the Ingenu ty withand Eventually the ractus dies In discovering or minufao-turin- g came in with a proud, high look on ers away, but the wooden bowla replcaaunt poisons for himself. her face. Von Lynara mother enmain. The great majority of mankind ar tered Immediately after her guest, As a weaver nature also produces of one or more poison, slaves the more It needed and subtle and tree barks nothing Certain work. fine habits the tea habit Of these habits. von masculine Werner Orselns than leaves furnish excellent cloth, as, for Is one of the most subtle, Insinuating discern acumen no had word to that cloth used famous the tapa Instance, been spoken between them while they and Injurious. In the South Sea Islands. It Is a mooted pc!nt whether tea were alone. Nature Is a glnssmnker, too, accordnot do more harm In this country does moa hostess the With disqueenly gesture ing to the Indian Review. By alcohol. It oeg not make ita than tioned her guest to the place of honor, charging her lightning into beds of drunk and Incapable, but It victims soldier three the that and Indicating quarts sand she forms exqulBlte little were to take their places at the other certainly does mrke them drunk. T pipes of glass. side of the table. Werner von Orseln be saturated with tea, to be conof valuable variBhe makes ropes moved automatically to obey, but stantly tinder Its Influence, to be d ous kinds In the shape of tropical drunk. I Jorlan and Boris were met" la even Follow already at the dendent on It, s to be tea a she and vines and creepers, makand laro maker, as witness the lace trees tern In her hand, from which wheeling sideboard, dusting platters luff them ready to serve the meal. "English as She Is Japanesed." of the Went Indies. lights gleamed through a score of the Japanese Imitator proOften said Jorlan. thank "I you, madam, variously colored little plates of horn. labels that are worthy - duces lau maswe as our Were her of envoys Scared to Death by Auto. wooden on a little Standing still of English sa as of we specimens of Trlnce noting Hugo Plassenburg, Albert Jenk. an elderly farmer, Pjcr 8he held the lnntern high, so that ter, for Instance, Take, Is sho Japanccd." gladly and proudly sit at meat living near Washington, la., who has the light fell on those In the boat, would ousouthern in a bottle Japan on label a we are But and ith volunteers, counseldom been outside of Heaver aad their faces looked strangely white men at arms, when the boy brought some St. Jullon. our been lives all have auto an until saw surrounded never Illuminated recently, circle, that ty, Vfo will therefore assist this good The label on the bottle ho brought when he met one near a graveyard. a8 tt was by a pent house of tense I an It please you read: The fanner has ever been superstl- - blackness, black pines, black water, gentleman to serve, Fogron County Wines Uttle Seal In was met ho V1" the yack sky. toJer? tlmia, and when Jullon. bottled by Bordeaux." St. and for bowed the The lady slightly "Follow me!" said the woman. In a lonely road by a largo touring car, A label placed on some alleged Engwell lit up. and which honk honked deep rich voice- -a voire whoso tones first tlmo smiled. boor declared: lish n Castle son remains Mjr past him, he fell In a tit by the side drilled those who heard them to I "The efficacy of this beer Is to give an In with she ssked, upward were herg? ho remained until low and where of the road, .heir hearts, so rltfU an Indescribable softness at the health and especially the strength several hours I some of the notes. . flection, found by neighbor The flavor is so svreot lime later. He passed from one fit Into Joan of the Sword Hand rose to her th same not Injure for muck that coming Into her grey and simple another during the day, and Is now (,L Wcrk. "Worlds drink woman I what showed this hlch m a dying condition, j am the Duchess of Iloheniitsln, Captalna Boris and Jorlan to take thelr piace8 tn the bow, and havingbared h,s head he eated himself be- I or w begun ne Saa Ne lire mile. round itjiari nlef. aboldt point heO. ettlng lOffl and in rd la the )D P :b - ct!oB h4 t, ankle- - id4 urt he 8ef olo. A broke I 1 I I 1 I 1 1 ) 1 j The gentleman does not know?" he "Our princess Is to be married the crown princess, the heir to the throne, be It understood," tie went on for the further enlighten-aunof my dull fore'gn understand ng. She marries our neighbor, Prince Frederick, and we rejoice. The-sea'-s So," I reflected, "the Prlncese to was be married, sister eldest M no doubt the younger princes wrself would be at the wedding." I ken and there resolved that 1 would make at least an effort to see some-kinof the morrows ceremony. The town wsb astir betimes, and as astir with the town to take my slace as near as might be to the steps t the find cathedral In which I learned 'k wedding was to tag place. 1 found myself well amused watch' the build the guesta stream mg, listening to the comments of the ftpulace, and learning from my neigh 'or who was this grandee, and who kt. Then at last a murmur ran num.: "The royal household is com-k.with the and I craned st to watch the lords and ladles In Once Tltlng puss up the steps. tried violently, for I saw a face ,w, hut a fare grown from youth to nh(sid alnce I had seen It last the of the man called Armand. And, cl ss the youth, all the gladness N gone out of It; It was strong and as ever, but infinitely and; and 1 l- -to fro I I g V I 1 said. OC I 1 tory? led at I - 1 About I 1 - Ad-- mil e I Ad-- d destb- many-anc- 1 thoughts naturally enough flew lack to her as ! drove through the r quaint and picturesque town, and a s livid picture of her as I had last seen her arose before my eyes. As I drove, sue- l became aware that the streets were by Inlted gaily decorated with flags and flowers, doyer and that peoples faces wore an un jythe usual look of festivity and rejoicing. What Is happening? I asked of my at 1 Is this a national festival, or driver. loch the anniversary of some great vic- 4 wide-spreadin- . gainst i Crockett.) by - king. My if the I 1900. e Two years later, as I was Journey-n- g homewards from a long tour in he East, which had taken me far out if reach of all newspapers or tidings to Of the western world, I resolved stay for a night or two In a town on my route which. It so happened, was the capital of that kingdom where the Princess Theresas father reigned as being 1)0 . -- well-inow- n a i (Copyright, ISO'-- again. rose-col-ire- d JaU n 'TTicRatJiyAcvi titles. A strange flash of remembrance and 1 ?mUon passed over the face of their and I do not leave this boat till CHAPTER XIV. know (n what place I am, and who hostess. And your own title, my lord? she '' this may be that cries Follow! to the Isle Rugen, after a little pause. asked At eventide of the third day of their daughter of Henry the Lion! am "I plain Werner vou Orseln, free woman bowtall turned without The, journeying the party came to a great faithful servant of my misand ritter morass. The horses picked their way ing and looked at the girl. Duchess tress the Joan, as I was also I am the mother of Maurice von warily through this tangle, the rotten I the Lion of of her Henry father, stick yielding as readily as wet mud Lynar, and this Is the Isle Rugen! Hohensteln. beneath their hoofs. Pools of stag- JI she said simply, as If the answer were I have now no faithful servants," nant black water had to be evaded, I said the young Duchess at last, breakwoman In The the crimson clonk tested, Bands treacherous yellow I ing her cold silence; I have only traibridges constructed of the firmer logs, I waited for Joan to be assisted from tors and jailers about me." till all suddenly they came out upon I the boat, and then, without a word of With that she became once more si a fairylike little half moon of sand and I greeting, led the way up a little sand-tin- leutc A painful restraint fell upon the ed path to a gate which opened In a shells, I Here was a large flat bottomed I high stone wall. Through this she boat, drawn tip against the shore. In I admitted her guests, whereupon they the stern a strange figure was seated, found themselves In an enclosure a man, tall and angular, clad in jerkin with towers and battlements rising and trunks of brown tanned leather, dimly all round, Then came a long, grey building, cross gartered hose of grey cloth, and the with another door, low and creaking heav- hide of shoon home made I hair outside. He wore a black scull ily on unaccustomed binges, a sudden un-burst of light, and lo! the wanderers cap, and his head had the strange was found themselves within a lighted It canny look of a wild animal. not at the first glance nor yet at the I hall,, wherein were many stands of second that Boris and Jorlan found arms and armor, mingled with skins out the cause of this curious appear-- I of wild animals, tined antlers, and other records of Meanwhile, Werner von Orseln was I the chase, or The woman wfyo had been their putting into his hand some pledge now set down her lantern and carefully, scrutinized guide which he sign I allowed the hood of her cloak to slide his companions when Jorlan gripped I from her head. Werner and his two arm no male companions, the captains of ; Look, he whispered, "hes got I eenburg, fell back a little at the appa- They had expected to see Nor any tongue!" responded Boris, rltlon. staring with all his eyes at the prod-- Some hng or crone, fit companion of . e unty, r S Rj CROCKETT. Autor a 8. H. 1 ner. an rpor-- y I in a rail- - rated dier. Our lady has already made him Count von Loen, that he may be the equal of those who care for such y of a ause i rivers was a rather spry It the in Switzerland. Below it the waters of the lake shimmered in the sunshine, above its terraces arose vineyard above vineyard, till they were lost in the woods that hung upon with me? the sides of the great brooding moun- Dove-co- t at Hurley, near Mar- ent"To said quietly. tains I walaed slowly along the little ,ow-The 'Never, she is an ancient Ducks, England, Is er paradise with you, Armand, that paths among the graves reading the And she turned her beauti-ii- l names of the deud who lay In their and picturesque building, dating from enough. 1307- - The Picture shows th? face to his and let him kiss her peaceful resting place amongst the the year interior. The Jambs and lintel of the J.oge8 oftly on the lips. doorway are of more I caught my breath as they turned All at once my slow steps were ar- - pigeon-housniodern date than the walls. On the I me of in front a few feet .way. rested; 1643 with ter-ic- e saw a woman in black and alone, front of the lintel the date Standing that evening on the R. to marked. C. is follow distinctly of the hotel watching a kneeling beside a grave over which It was used by the old monks for tbe sunset behind the greit pile of was a trelliswork covered with white She Jonte Rosa, I saw the girl again. banksla roses as walking across the garden, an Yes, oh, yes, there was no mistaking Iderly lady on one side of her, the her beautiful features. Though years had gone by, they had not dimmed her oung man on the olher. Do you see that girl?" a hotel loveliness; and though her eyes shone asked eagerly. ihrough a mist of tears, their color I nodded. was still the same wonderful deep She is a great personage. In spite blue. The grave was marked only by a ( her simple dress and manners. She of simple stone. No date waa upon It; j the Princess Theresa, daughter no text; there were no wreaths upon snd he named the king of a and flourishing little kingdom). the simple grass plot Only It was But for the fate which has given wrapped about by the trailing branch- er two elder sisters, she would be eir to the throne; she has no irothers. As it Is, I fancy It looks is If she Intended to renounce all egal rights and be happy In her own vay with the young fellow beside ly of mistresss absence and mine," ew.Al Werner. "lie will make a good sol- In the days of toll bridges the keepof one over one of the western Mas- old character named Abercrombie. Is said that one day an outfit of In his, "He keeps the Castle, Indeed Ramshackle Rig Would Not Fit Any Description. Jute, iy might be to those whom she really NEED TO PAY TOLL. NO es of the rose, whose petals bad made a pure white mantle upon the grass; and the three words nKn the little stone seemed to me the most j athetlc I had ever read Arniund au revolr!" I have seen her once since then, a crowned queen and her people's Idol. She was driving along the streets of her capital, her little son by her aide; she was dressed all In white, and her loveliness was something to dream of and remember. 1 thought had never seen a stulle more Infinitely sweet; and yet the aadnesa In her eyes brought a mist before my own. For a moment the Btreet, the people about me, the swiftly rolling carriage, I saw a faded from tuy sight. gnrdeu. fragrant with the scent of psle wisteria flower snd bunkMta roses; radiant with sunshine, full of Ihe songs of birds the glory of spring. I saw the fare of a girl, glad with a wonderful new gladness; 1 heard a voice, the most soft and musical It has ever been my lot to hear before or since, say gently To enter Paradise with you, Arniund, that la enough; The vision faded, another took its 1 far-awa- place. A hillside cemetery: the deep, still ouderud. the brooding mountains "rosea, lake, Next there came a roses all the way" and a little giSM pause, then r of trumpets, a great shout from amongst them, a grave whose simple multitude, a pealing volumo of stone bear only those three bort 'und from the organ, and out of word- stulfleent state carriage, late the "Armand so revolr!" 1 1 , I I I 1 . |