The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-12-19
During the whole Of the night tney


remained tete-a-tete. dumb both.
In the morning. on stopping at q
German station the stranger alighted.
Then standing by tho door he said
Pardon me. madame, that break
my promise. but I have deprived you
OF your servant; 1t is only fair that !
should replace him. Is there any
thing you requirew
She replied coldly-
Go and send my maid"
He went Then disappeared. When
ever she alighted at q refreshment.
room che saw him watching her from
distance. In due course they ar
rived at Mentone.
One day, as was receiving my pa
tients In my study. saw tall man
enter. Doctor" he said. Il come to
ask news OF the Countess Marie Bara-
now"
She is beyond hope" I replied.
''She will never return to Russia"
And this man fell to sobbing; then
he arose and went out staggering like
a drunken man. That Same evening
told the Countess that stranger had
been TO me to ask alter her health.
She seemed touched, and told me the
tale have just told you. She added
This man. whom l do not know.
follows me like my shadow. meet
him every time go out. He looks at
me very strangely. but he has never
spoken 10 me-"
She reflected and then added
Look. there he is, below my win
dowl
She rose from her sofa, drew the
curtains aside and showed me the
man who had called upon me. sitting
on bench on the promenade, his
eyes raised to the hotel. He saw us,
rose and walked away without once
turning his head. So it was that
took part IN n strange and incompre-
hensible episode---in the love OF these
two beings who were quite unknown
to one another.
He loved with the devotion OF res
cued animal grateful and devoted I'M
TIL death. He came every day to ask
me, How is shep" knowing that /
had guessed. And he wept bitterly
when no had seen her pass paler and
weaker every day.
She said to me:
IL have spoken but once to this sin :
gular man, and it seems to me | have
known him for years"
And when they met sho returned his
bow with a grave and charming smile.
knew she was happy--so lonely and
dying. knew she was happy to be
loved with such constancy and respect.
with this exaggerated poesy, with this
devotion ready for all hazards And
yet faithful to her obstinate. though
high-minded. resolve, she absolutely
refused to receive him. know his name
or speak to him. She said; mo. no,
that would spoil our strange friend
ship. We must remain strangers to
one another"
AS to him. he was OF certainty a
kind OF Don Quixote for he took no
steps to approach her. He was de-
term.ned to keep to the letter tho alb
surd promise he had made to her in
the train.
| Often during the long hours OF weak
ness she rosc from the sofa to draw
back the curtains and look II he were
there below the window. And when
she had seen him. always immovably
seated on his bench. she returned TO
her couch with a smile on her lips
She died one morning about 6
o'clock. As l left the hotel he came
to me- his face distorted he had
already heard the news
Il should like to see her for q sec
ond in your presence. he said. !
took his arm and re-entered the house.
When he was by the bedside of the
dead he took her hand and kissed it
a long. long kiss. Then he fled like a
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