The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-11-16
cooceii or genuine merit. She scosed
n victory.

cOnceii OF genuine merit. She scosed
. victory.
SHE sNUB, A sYCoPHANr.
On this night she left the theatre
leaning on the arm OF q fine cavalier
= one of the kind who always fawn
where it ~,ll do the must good. person.
alIv. As she passed along the alley
way. chatting gailv. flushed with her
6rst success. she came face to face. rs
usual. with the l,ve-sick bOv. There
Vas . remarkable change in her man.
ner. She MAS no logger cold and
naughty toward him. She smiled ON
him. ss"pped and spike in the old tones
and acted like the Sara B-rnhardt OF
youth. II might have been acting.
But the poor. mad bov did not think
~ His heart tbr,bbed with delight.
His fsce became radiant with pleas
ure. To the astonishmeEt If those
who foll'wed her and storp~d to gaze
curiously at the strange ssblesu. she
dismissed her escort in the most per-
~mptory tones. and invited her com.
psiri"i. the lover If her youth, to &C.
cupy u place in her carriage.
Arriving ut the door of her sump-
tuous lniginp. Sara alighted from the
carriage. aud stood On the pavement in
the shadow Of q lamp, the bow
looking wistfuIly into her fsce.
Taking his hand in hers che expa-
iiated with him on the folly of his &C
rions. assuring him that his best
c"urse Was to forget her, and 60
away to his country home. and he
stow his affections Oh some one more
worthy Of them than her. Her sd-
vice vas in tie spirit Of sister.
The foolish boy protested ardently
against this cruel decision, and urged
her To leave Paris, with its tempta-
tions b-hind. He would give her .
hume. would love her a. his life beg
yed her servently to recall the pledges
III her youth. But in vain.
Ambition stood in the way, flsnked
BY tho many Gorgiss.
SARA Ribs HER LOVER An ETERNAL
ADIEC.
Sara sternly forbade him mentioning
the sutj-ct Of love again and conn.,
manded him to leave Paris the next
dsy.
"You will not deny me the pleas
ure IF being near you!" the youth
protested, his breast heaving with
emotion"
II do not want You near me" Sara
replied, pe,ulanfly. That - just
what annoys me. lam not myself
while you are in Paris. Evervwhere
I GO I'm pursued hy those great wild
ewes of yours-on the stage they make
me forget the duties of the play. in
the street they stArtIe me in ms
dreams terrify me! Leave me. Love
between Us is hopeless. Go away. IL
you love me. indeed. Let me never
zee your face again."
"Never-see -yonr-face-spaiD?
d. YOU mean iha, ~ cried the hoy.
wildly.
II d." WA The reply.
Then. Msdemoisslls Sara. you
shall have your wish" he replied. his
manner changed from humility to def
ance. "You shall never see me
again." Aud with these words he
darted away. and was lnst in the gloom
Of the night. leaving Sara at the d.'or
gazing after him in blank amaze
ment.
"Que k bon Dism k portege" she
calculated. as she turned :hs knob Of
her door. and vent in To dream Of
stage triuSphs. fame, wesl,h-snd
perhaps Of the discarded love Of her
youth. The next night Michel was
missing from his .usual post at the
stage door. And the next and the
next. For . who:e week nothing vas
seen or heard Of him.
BERNHARpr's LOVER STAYS HIMSELF
Sara sighed, and told her friends
sadly the story Of her self-sacri6ce and
how she had cured her lover Of his in
fa,uaiion. At the end Of the week
there came . Smoking revelation in
the daily journals of Paris. In an
obscure lodging-a garnet in the
Latin quarter, the pnlice had broken
into an apartment whose occupant had
not been seen to GU in or out for sew
erxl DAYS, and the body Of Michel was
found in IN advanced state Of decom-
position. A letter dated the night ri
the interview told the story Of hi
tollv.
The eoesips Of Paris alleee that in
his tragic death the story If Phidia-
and his marble beauty became . re-
alitv instead Of . romance.
The next dav the Partisan papers
rang with the discovery aud the b.
hemisns wove fanciful stories out Of
the ira ,e,ly for DAYS after. greatly t.
the delight Of the morbid. There
wss the usual formality Of IN inquest.
sfier which the unknown boy wss t.
ken in charge by a gentleman OF
wealth, and hurried in the cem-tery Of
P-re le Chsise. His b"nes msy rec,
there uudisiurbed. Rumor saws Do
There il skeleton, in tact, among
Sara Beruhsrdt's relics. P~rhaps Oh.
keeps it from pure love Of eccentric
iiy.