The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-16

yeIZ. God fellow for all that the Prince
The prince .miIed and shrugged his
shoulders. The Landlord, who cared
nothing for foreign -~nOblensen, nodded,
and rer1arked that the trout streasns were
already full and that he hoped the gentle
men would nave good luck. but passing
through the Kitchen u little later he said
TO Ir,nr' p ShS ss s.I r" com. h sSane s 81 Last:
Trina: Hes 1t the bar drinking with the
trary, her face turned pale. and she
clasped her hands together.
AT last" she ~rcpeated. Fat lastr' But
ried on toward the cellar after tossing his
joke to his serving maid.
The jolly fishermen caught their trout
The prince smiled and :hrug4ed his
shoulders, and foand fishing too weari-
s Sn',sc m as nre hig sScs ,o al fhs S annas .me
Trina, or when he could find her alone
beside the well or gathering i,uckleberries
Trina's holiday afternoons they disap-
pcared together; no one knew where they
went. Perhaps the Landlord and his wife
thought Trina in the village, at the
friends, where she was wont to spend her
holidays; hut In truth she war i'm the
place. AmonGt those mountains
was a cave, tho entrance no larger than
that of q bears den. But once past the
marrow passage. hchold. a great archeti
natural shaft leading to the upper air
made constant pale twilight there, and
now and then even a ray Of the sun pene-
trated the spot and lii the pendent stalac-
titles into diamond ~brilliancy.
Here the prince and the maid servant
sat together. and he uttered praises that
might have turned any wOlnan's head
and held her hands and kissed her cherry
lips. Aud she. believing him ordained To
be hers since the book of fate was writ
ten. yielded tn him and gave him all her
heart.
He was handsome, ne was great. She
ter faith in him and looked forward TO
the time when she should he his princess.
Already she began to neglect her work at
nothing, Others did. And her name was
uttered with winks and blinks in the viii
iagc. And one day a certain male gossip
to pry into his n~eighbors' at
fairs. inrksd about the tavern door, and
dressed in her best and with u smile upon
her face, that limited to the watcher of a
saw her enter. aud shortly saw the prince,
with his big eyes and his gallant air, fol-
lowing her. Finn Waters crept i'm also.
Der OF the cave. but fingered in the shad-
ows of the entrance, where he could see
and hear all that went ON within without
noted was that the prince had his arm
around Trina's waist, and that her check
reposed upon his bosom, and that their
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his hands and listened.
For a. long time he heard, nothing, but
cooling whispers and words of endear-
mcnt. But AT last the prince seated him
self ON u low rock, and drawing Trina tn
ssBeas,tifuI one, the time of my depart
ure il near at hand. must leave this
place, and ! do not wish To 20 alone. You
"Ycs my prince" answered Trina. ~
waited for you all my life; i knew you
would come. When you came l said,
1T is my prince and I loved you at first
"But how did you ever dream that "a
prince would come to this poor village ~
"A gypsy f~ortune-teller told me when !
was u little girl" said Trina. "She told
true. SO knew you would come. How
they will wonder m the village when poor
Trina marries u prince! Such ~ wedding.
Every one will be there and shall he so
"Ycs," said the prince, dryly. "But
what the village thinks does not matter
to mc. We will dispense with the. we'd
ding. You love me, You will belong to
me. Eon will put your hand In mine and
We will 20 AMY ,%sstn.r; 70. shall wear
you never saw. The dirty village and the
sordid inn will be a dream of the past,
You will he the most beautiful of 6s.auti-
full women, and ] your slave. No need to
go back to the inn. We will fit. al swat
lows ups to uTikIiteT aius
"But the wedding? ! had set my heart
on the wedding in church. and all the
people there tn stare and envy said
Trina; and I in u lovely white dress, and
you So handsome. So elcgant. All my life
l have thought of that"
The prince lii a cigar. kntlirinc drew
away from him and they sat IA little
apart.
"The people i'm the village are to me no
more than so many. frogs c%roaking i'm the
think of them: You are beautiful ana l
love you-you love me. married long
ago. and my princess dwclls i'm her palace
while I see the world. If you wanted "A
wedding in "a village church YOU should
not have waited for "a prince; you should
have taken the barber, the carpenter. ar
the shoemaker. Princes do not act az
cordinR tn these villagers ideas of prop
riety. You have plenty of sense. katll-
rinc: kiss me and come"
But Finn Waters saw that Kathrine had
the Prince di Meln. Her face was pale,
her eyes glared wildly upod him.
"How strange you look :" she said.
What alteration il there nm you! You
oh. ! am afraid of you!"
Finn Waters looked at the prince. To
this day he AYERS that as lac gazed Ina. saw
IA strange change creeping over the hand
some face. that horns arose from his fore
head. and that his feet wers. cloven; that
n was Satan that he saw standing there.
the cigar still bctwecn his teeth, the eyes
fixed upon handsome Trina. HlarinR with
a dcviiislh livht-Satan, tho prince of dark
ness!
"Afraid of your prince. for whom you