| Show The Sandman Story FOR TONIGHT T THE E JEALOUS QUEEN QUEEN- EN PART IV BIda know her parents pare parents loved loved ved her and and that i they ey were ivero doing alt all this for her so s she e dried h her r ey eyes s and and Yh when she s she slept again they left her and she sometimes awoke wien when they they ey YI here F not there to greet here Beda I seldom lIght eight when r opened her eyes at ter father and mother were b i her couch If A And Andall d' d dall all this time ho Nr it t with th 1 the tho jealous Queen Sarif Sari r ti t She was She was happy bec because use ahe he thought though thought her her- herrival rival dead and though h her herf r soi sou ou spoke often of taking a q n ev r did he find one to equal the beauty beauty oi of his mother JV I i But Dut King Icing l I gr grew w r restless OHe He loved his mother and admired her her be beyond be- be yond all J he no tha Chappy py a women but was wasn so one day the queen proposed th that t he should hunt and take with film him ns Wa servants ts I W t lf S I SIt It happened It-happened th that t the went to the forest where Bida was hidden to hunt and b by and bythe king grew tired and sat down to rest Bring me mea a a cup of water from a spring he bade his servant When the servant returned with the water he king of ot a a garden he ho had seen growing ln In the heart of ot fhe he forest There is a ho house se in In the g garden the servant said but it has awall a. a wall of ot Iron around I it to a heavy loc lock 1 fastens the gate and the wall is is' too smooth to Lo climb The servant led leel the led the king and his ther servants to the place and they jailed What h ho open open- would enter But rio no no answer came md at last the king ordered his s ser servants r- r rants r- r ants to force the gate v 1 His servants would have Centered entered d with him but the king them he said rack jack I j 1 will enter alone His eyes were dazzled with the splendor of ot the place place place-eyen even though though though-he he vas as used to splendor the couch where the sleeping lay and the tho king thinking Fit it t severed Covered an entrance to another apart apart- nent pushed it aside He lIe started back partly with surprise Lt it finding someone there t out but ut more wonder vonder at the beauty of the girl him b h t He gazed at her in silence for a min min- he knelt beside her ber and took me ne little hand which layton layon the SUK sua and placed it to his Ills lips t Awake my sleeping beauty he Iet your your prince awak awaken n you King Bing was in love l vur r time in his life Ufe He had Jund found he one girl that was more beautiful han his queen queen mother th the very very girl he had 1 d worked so hard t to keep away vay rpm rom him But i-But Bida did not awake and the ing grew pale with fear Is shel she lead l ad he asked placing his hand oner on on- ter ler brow browNo No she is warm and can be ny my asleep But still he could not wake her and andis Is ils servants growing alarmed outside ailed for tor him to return r s Leaning over the sleeping girl the ing touched her brow with his lips Sleep on my my love he said I l will ome again tomorrow The n next day the king told his other lother he would go t to to Y the forest to toI I I Y h hunt again and hd she he was a gd glad He i will i think no more of marrying and 1 sri u always be queen she thought Again the king went to house and nd still she sho slept but the king saw saw that that hat the robe thrown over the chair by bylie bythe bythe the lie couch was not the one he had seen the he day be before re Some strange spell pel spells pelis is s on her he said She lives at night but ut in the daytime she lies as one dead ead I will ill stay till night again fort for fortI I cannot live without her To the queen he sent some of his servants with the message he would h hunt nt at dawn and so would sleep in inthe inthe the forest that night The rest 01 or trio THO ordered to watch outside the he wall f BIdas BIda's house When night came on she awoke to look ook into the eyes of the king At first she le but when she saw the he love light in his eyes she and nd ask asked d. d whence h he came and howe how how- he e entered her home The king told her how he happened to 0 find her ber while hunting in the forest forestad arid ad rid that he was In In love ove with herand want wanted her for his wife But why do you ou live here alone aone he asked DO your your our patents pa parents e ts not love you It Is because they do love me me I Bida Ida said that I am here And then she le told him her sad story of the Queen 1 The rhe k king ng of course knew that his mother mothe was the queen w who o had done doneaU doneall aU all II this this this' and his his' heart grew s sad d with grief But Bida was was the only woman woma woman In n 1 the world to him liim lm now and he must save ave her and save her for tor his queen no o matter jf Jt mother am ma not wish ish it it All AIl night the king sat by Bida Inthe in inie inthe the ie moonlight in the garden and when the he sleep came upon her he left leU her herand herand and nd returned to the paa palace e Continued Continues tomorrow Copyright 1918 by the McClure McCure Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News- News I paper Syndicate New York City qty |
