The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-02

no longer expressionless and cold. A
strange light was upon his features, the
| passing radiance Of q supreme happiness
seen in the vision of a dream. Again she
| laid her hands upon his shoulder ciaspe6
| together, as she had done at first She
| knew that her words had touched him, and
| she was confident of the result, confident as
one who loves beyond reason. Already in
| Imagination she fancied him returning to
| consciousness, not knowing that he had
/ slept, but waking with gentle word just
trembling upon his lips, the word she
| longed to hear.
| One moment more, she thought. 1t was
| good TO see that light upon his face, to fancy
| how the first word would sound, to feel
| that the struggle was past and that there
was nothing but happiness in the future,
! full, Overlooking, overwhelming, reaching
from earth TO heaven and through time to
eternity. One moment, only. before she let
, him wake-it was such glory to be loved OF
| last. Still, the light was there, still that
| exquisite smile was on his lips. And they
would be always there now, she thought.
AT last she spoke.
Then, love, since you are mine, and
am yours, wake from the dream to life it.
self-wake, not knowing that you have
slept, knowing only that you love me now
and always-wake, love, wake!''
She waved her delicate hand before his
eyes and. still resting the other upon his
shoulder, watching the returning bright
ness IN the dark pupils that had been glazed
and fixed 4 moment before. And as
she looked her own beauty grew
radiant in the spleudorof joy even greater
than she had dreamed of. As it had seemed
to him when he had lost himself in her
gaze, so now she also fancied that the grim,
gray wilderness was full Of q soft, rosy
light. The place of the dead was become
IN nal of -l,a -alI- "a
peopled as the whole world could never be
for her: the crunhling gravestones were
turned to polished pillars in the temple of
an immortal love, and the ghostly, leat1ess
trees blossOmed with the uLdying flowers of
the earthly paradise.
One moment only, and then all was gone.
The change came. sure, swift and cruel. As
she looked, it came. gradual, in that it
passed through every degree, but sudden
also, rs the fall OF u fair and mighty build
ing, which, being undermined III its founda-
ton, passes in one short minute through
the change from perfect completeness to
hopeless and utter ruin.
All the radiance, all the light. all the
glory We're gone in an instant. Her own
supremacy loving look had not vanished,
her lips still parted swcetly, as in forming
the word that.was answer his, and the calm,
Indifferent face of the waking man was al
ready before her
What is it," he asked in his kind and
passlonless voice. What were you going
to ask me, Unorna?"
IL was gone. The terribly earnest appeal
had been in vain. Not u trace of that short
vision OF love remained impressed upon his
brain.
With a smothered cry of agony Unorna
leaned against the great slab of stone behind
her and covered her eyes. The darkness Of
night descended upon her, and with it the
fire of 4 burning shame.
Then loud and cruel laugh rang through
the chilly air, such a laugh as the devils in
he'll bestow upon the shame of proud soul
that knows its own infinite bitterness.
Unorna started and uncovered her eyes her
suffering changed in a single instant to I'M
governable and destroying anger. She
made step forwards and then stopped
short, breathing hard The Wanderer, too.
had turned, more quickly than she. Be
tween two tall grayestones, not dozen
PAGES away, stood a man with haggard face
and eyes on fire, his keen, worn features
contorted by smile in which unspeakable
satisfaction struggled for expression with
profound despair.
The man was Israel Kafka.
CHAPTER XIV.
The Wanderer looked from Unorna to
kafka with profound surprise He had
never seen the man, and had no means of
what had brought him to the lon Fly place or
why he had broken into laugh. of which
the harsh. wild tones still echoed through
the wide cemetery. Totally unconscious of
all that had happened to himself during the
preceding quarter of an hour, the Wanderer
was deprived of the key to the situation
He only understood that the ranger was for |
some reason or other deeply incensed against |
Unorna, and he realized that the intruder
had, on the moment of his appearance, no |
control over himself
Israel Kaflia remained where he stood, |
between the two tall stones, one hand rest |
ing on each, his body inclined a little for |
ward, his dark, sunkeu eyes, bloodshot and |
full OF turbid, angry brightness, bent in |
emily upon Unorna's face. He looked as |
-hough he were about to move suddenly for
ward, butt was impossible to foresee that |
ie might not as suddenly retreat, as lean |
md hungry tiger crouches for a moment in
whether to fight or fly. when,
liter tracking down his man, he finds him
lot alone and defenseless as he had antici-
,ated, but well armed and in company.
The Wanderers Incidence was only
mental, and was moreover transitory and
artificial. When he saw SUnorna advance