Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-31

was that he bad thus spoken to no one else
And she loved him. As she raised nor
eyes they gave up all their secret to him
She had forgotten all else; She had M
memory for other ties, once dear enouyh.
no thought for her troth plighted but
month ago, almost on this spot. TO one who
was her own countrymun stalwart hon
est English youth aud on 40 adored her
She was in thrall SO perfect was her
young passion that no thought of conceal.
ment came to her. She was like youne
Naiad wooed by god. As he looked dow
on her now, his breath coming fast She
opened her fowerlike lips and smiled ont
OF her heart at him.
Then the man forgot everything, and
stopping he caught her to himself The
wide hat fell backward from her hair Uer
lovely face, in its rosy Innocence, was close
to his But even as he bent over il a iilm
appeared 10 pass between his eyes and This
vision Of all his sOrl found desirable He
hesitated. Then abruptly he passed his
hand above the girls eyes. Her lids droop-
ed, her bead sank upon her shoulder
Bhao Mira lifted her bodily in his arms
and placed her ON the bench. Her delicate
form was motionless her face locked In inn.
mobility.
The afternoon light was waning. The
fete was about to close The sounds of mu-
sic that had reached the terrace now ceased
The man stood looking down at the white
figure. He had come literally to the ends
OF the earth to lind this last terrible tenn
tation, for he loved this young girl and she
was the promised wife Of anothermnu. The
Hindoo had rapid vision OF that others
face. He had seen il once month before.
and he knew 1t was the face OF one posses :,
ing the rare nature to which death alone
could be possible il its hearts faith were
betrayed.
And was this to be the elimination OF
that long discipline Of the ascetic, of that
long pursuit Of wisdom, By tho sacrifice Of
all the impulses OF the flesh, which had
led him, Bhao Mira, to that stage where,
indeed, as the vulgar OWNED, occult
psyohical forces We're subject to him, and
where mysteries were open TO him before
which the world was blindf
Was this to be the end of ALL that he
should lose all his uscendancy, by the
double moral fall of love for a woman and
of iniustice to helpless fellow beingi
Ethelind under this new supreme influence
was MS Il bird ensnared
Who shall tell the bnttle of that mo-
ment2 He had saved himself, dashed the
cup from his lip at the moment of fruitlon.
She slept oblivious in her trance Oh,
liviousi Yes, and so she should remain
Bhao Mira bent his dark face downward.
His piercing eyes were fixed for n motion
less instant on the sleeping features Ho
raised his hand and touched her eyes and
brow. Then, without looking back, he
walked away
He left the grounds Of Wildwood Hall I'm
seen Of hostess or guests His absence had
not been noticed, Nor would Ethelind's
absence be remarked. Within few mo-
ments she would awake and return to her
friends, She would do so calmly, scarcely
remembering thut her mothers strange
| guest had walked with her that day.
For Bhao Mira had cousummated his
sacrifice to the end. As she lay before him,
he had willed that all love for him might
| depart from her breast. She would awake
/ as the Ethelind of month ago, and only
such affections as she had then known
would she know now.
And yet the sacrifice had not been con
summRted wholly No. One thing re
manned to be done. That night Bhao Mi
ira shut himself in his room. On the fol
lowing morning It was that a young maj
passing through a western town awoko t
find strip Of paper mysteriously pinnet
upon his pillow
How did you happen to come back 81
suddenlysn cried Ethelind, hanging da.
later about the neck OF him she was soon Il
marry.
~ don't know" The young man locke
grave He told his strange experience. 81
Astr tfNss, Iiy,
doc friend, Mr. Bhao Mira, to explain it
He looks as " 10, new many strange secret
OF psychical
Ethelnd laughed lightly. YES, peopl
said he was doubtless a very wise man
He's gone now, you know; gone back to In
din. He was very nice, though rather gray
and queer"
She had forgotten Rll.-Exohange.