The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-09-22

hers-she must set at rest the troubled mind
81 the fnail who loved her not: Yet Why
should she?-why should she not let him
have his share of suffering?
Dare tell him that ]. hungsesfsedd fSs sight of
hirn7 that passed by his phase of business
Ia list svsninp's dusk and saw him in there?
that, insane as am st this moment. / en-
tered the shop just for q, parting heaf hteh
at him? that once inside realized my posi-
ton, and calling my art into requisition be-
came an old woman before him and asked for
& drug, that it was ts, me he gave the poi
son which has caused him So tfHeh anxiety?
/ might tell him, this tonight; shall Be
away before he knows it; the glamour have
thrown over him will have paled, and he will
kHeS that | am nothing to him: But he
must hot say tatised d, possible death"
She hercely rang the bell on her dressing
table. .
"HGreta," she said, 1.-THE carriage?"
at Is waiting, fraulein, to take us to the
station"
First must write a letter. You shall post
1t while put on my hat.
She sat down and wrote the note to Clark
which should relieve his mind Of all anxiety
over his mistake of the evening before. But
she did not tell him of the feeling which aetu
hted her going into his shop, she could not
teli hiffi that sha l5Sea the Man whe was on;
" infatuated with her as an artistic; the iiiat
whom she had in her tolls
She stamped the letter and gave 1t to heI
maid to post. rs,
Then Fraulein Lilli put on the gown she
hsd worn last evening when she had gone out
IN The dusk: SLIPPING her hand in the pocket
she came upon the small patksse Clark haS
given her when she asked for the bisiildth
lah
the paper looked down On the little heap o.
white dust; preparatory to throwing it into
the fame.
All! the tender days when she had thought
that she was loved as she lovedl-the days
when She deemed she had found q heart that
thtohBed responsive to hers, and looked into
mans eyes seSitie tfiofs there than fiattery
and misknowledge of the CRAVINGS Of hes
hungry soul She was called eoquette; thu
flattery Of the world forced her to assume the
character it assigned to her: But had she
coquetted with this man? No, no, thou.
sand times no. And yet his mother as much
as told her that he regarded her only as the
rest did, There arose before her possibilities
Of a future with hifi, Of o future without him,
till she felt that she grew Wild
How long she stood thus she did not know.
Suddenly she heard mans voice in the
adjoining drawing room. Almost with q
shrek she recognized 1.-THE Baron Volrath g;
he must have started to find her as soon as
he had received her letter. And-whatI An
other voice in the drawing room-a second
mans yoice-the voice of the man she lovedl
For Clark had been, overwhelmed by her
letter, telling him of her acceptance of the
baron; all that his mother had said concern.
ing her was proved true And he had seen in
her love for himself If ever woman let a man
see her love for himl 1t had all been simula-
ton, art, then.
He took the letter to his mother. "Forgive
me-" he said. "You will understand when
yon have read this"
She could say not word; she could only
carry the letter into the privacy of her own
room and have her agony beyond the sight OF
humanity.
Clark was well nigh crazed that day, he
was jeered at for the excitement he had
raised in the city, and people were doubtful
if there had been an elderly woman who
wanted small quantity of bismuth and
who, instead, received deadly poison. He
got through the day, busy with the author
tiles and the crowds around his shop. And
all the day there was but one absorbing
thought-Lilli. When the night came lie
thought of her in the theater, her last ap-
pearance q triumph. When it was about
time for the performance to be over he leftfor
the house. False as she might be; he loved
her-he must look upon her just once more
before she left him forever. But the theater
was dark when he got there; he could not see
her go to her carriage surrounded by the
youth of Munich.
Then rage seized him; he would go to her
house, upbraid her for all her falsity to him.
He tore along the street In which ives her
bijou residence. Greta was coming down the
steps.
"Herr Clark" she cried, 81 was about to
post this letter for you"
letter. He snatched it from the Cir, tore
it open and read it in the light from the hall.
Lilli had not written why she had not come
to his shop, but he was a lover, and he read
between the lines-he read all that she had
thought and had not put down insher COM
munication tc him. She loved him
He rushed up the stairs to the drawing
"LiIh, Lill," he cried, rapturously, "Lilli,
Lill"
A gentleman confronted him. "You are
speaking of my betrothed wife, sir, he said.
Clark with clenched fist looked at him.
You lie!'' he Numbered. The baron strobe
up to him. At this moment the door of the
dressing room opened and the actress with a
face like marble stood on the Threshold.
"Lilli, my loved one" said the baron, and
went to her and saluted her.
For a moment Clark gazed stupidity at the
pair, and then without having said word
to her went from the room, from the house,
reeling like drunken man.
"Comel" said Lilli eve shall be late for
the train. Comel"
"But that man?" queried the baron.
"The American druggist who has made
Munich laugh to-day" answered she. 81
have frequently met him; he came presum-
ably to bid me adieur'
II am glad" soberly returned the baron,
that public life will seon be over for you"
Come she said ->--,-.--,--
In the train she shivered as though from
cold. The baron wrapped a rug around her.
Then she was drowsy.
"Lean thy head upon my shoulder" he
said.
She would have refused to do so, but ne
drew her pretty head down to his arm.
"You have worked to hard, he said lean
ing tenderly over her. But now you will
soon be at home and at rest"
EYES," she returned and closed her eyes.
EYES,"
He drew her closely to him and
she did not resist. He held his arm
around her. After while he thought her
sleep was very peaceful and looked smi)ingly
down upon her upturned face. Then he cried
out He tried to wake her and could not.
The powder she had taken in her dressing
room had given her sleep from which she
would never awake in this world.