Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-08


Which course is my duty? She will
marry me, half from ambition; half
because of her mother-that vicious,
mannish, Unsuitable mother! Which
course, l say, is my duty? People talk
know! There was never a meaner word
created than that Quixotismr 1t has
been the cloak for countless acts of
to-day, would regret that his genius
ever aided in it's coming"
Eric dropped his head, and felt his
eyes fill with tears. He knew just
what great throbs of noble nature
undcrlay this splendid buster, this in
comparable vehemence.
Monsieur" he replied, when able to
school his voice so that he could speak
with self-governance, you have been
very right in saying that you require
no counselor. am Alonzo Lispenard's
friend know how he has suffered
| how he suffers yet! am your devoted
servitor and I realize the noble renun-
citation it is in your power to make
You yourself have limited that you are
capable of this fine self-effacement
But did not need your own admission
to that effect. I have already known
you too long not to grasp the height
and breadth of your generosity"
Clarimond turned on his heel like a
| flash, threw both hands behind him,
| joining them there, and then moved
| slowly away.
1--WE horribly deceived you," he shot
over his shoulder. 81 brought you
here in the hope that, although an Amer
lean, you would prove yourself good
courtier, and show me ample cause that
1 should plight troth with the woman
| love-"
Monsieur" replied Eric, following
him, 81 am far too good a courtier for
that! Sincerely as esteem your char
acter in it's entirety, there is one ele-
ment of it to which I must always pay
primal obeisance"
"You mean?" questioned the king, as
Eric now reached his side again, in the
fragrant twilight of their transient re-
treat.
''Your peerless conscience, your I'M
paralle1ed sense of right?''
AS the festivity progressed, this even
ing, nearly everyone conceded that
there had been nothing at all resem.
bling it in brilliance and buoyancy fol-
r .-Gny and many month. Indeed
some of the native guests roundly ad
mitted that Clarimond's reign had yet
seen no grand assemblGge so delight
full; for this season more foreigners
than usual had gathered at the hotels
and among these, where position anG
antecedents made it possible, the royal
invitations had been somewhat lavish
ly spread. AS pleasant result the en-
tertainment sparkled with novelty. Al
midnight the doors of the banqueting
hall were opened, and wine and viandf
furnished in profuse largeness wrought
just the needed result of quickeneG
gayety and enlivened social zest, The
haughtiest Saltravian maids ant
matrons unbent and became affable tx
fellow-mortals of different grades o.
often of different countries from thei
own. Admiration for Kathleen's bealt
ty waxed with the progress of tn,
entertainment, and after awhile many
ladies sought to know her. Mrs. Ken
naird, who had managed to get hersel
approached and talked to by some of tn,
most prominent men present, was il
an ecstacy of self-gratulation. She hao
once come face to face with Alonzo, ant
had managed to ma c it appear as i
she had not Intentionally cut him.
was so hard to treat anyone unamiabl,
tonight!
Some little time after midnight Fri
touched Alonzo on the arm. The latte
gave a kind of relieved start, and a
once said:
I'm so glad to find you. / mean t
slip away, though of course you will no
go yet"
t'YOu are tired so SOOn?"
"Yes-of seeing her, ringed roun
3 with her new idolators. It's gettin
intolerable. I shouldn't have come a
. ALL"
But, my dear Lonz, the king wishe
to speak with you. He has just sen
me to ask you if you will not join him.
Alonzo stood for a brief while irrest
Q lutte. Then he tossed his head, bit HI
| lip, and said in q voice almost irrita biz
"Of course-of course! How absur
8 of mel I'm almost forgetting that Il
d slave"
: "A slave, Lonz! You! AS if I'd Il
9 you be! Come, now, take that horribl
n sentiment back! You're as free as All
t and you know it!''
- Alonzo slipped his hand into Eric
''Im very distressed" he answere,
It "and I'm fool. Forgive mev'
sit isn't for me to forgive you"
It sob, then I'll apologize to him.
s. You needn't. He'll never know
9 Come with me, dear boy"
They quilted the ballroom and passe
n through several dim corridors. "Whel
l. on earth are you taking me?" Aloni
IS murmured more than once, but Eric,
d if the question needed no reply, ke]
pushing on. Presently, when it w;
l. for the third time repeated, he reptile
n while pushing open vague door ov
which was a lamp shaped like droo
c, ing lotus flower:
Ie you ought to know. It's that lit
chapel. You told ne, when broug1
g you here, one day, an age ago, that
g was very good. You congratulated Il
10 on it, though you pronounced it
|? plagiarism from the Sainte Chapelle
4 Paris. 1t isn't, for the simple rease
J? that it's n cOnv"