Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

turn to the city at the bestospeed we may"
Then he mounted the princess on Der
horse and rode by her side, supporting her
with his arm, and the troopers were some
princess felt the pin again In her hair. and,
she said:
~ Me sss gi Je I'M me back ny Pin -. ling
! deed, dead, Rudoif?" I
Are you still dreaming?" answered the
to DO with Harry culvefhotser'
But the pin?' she cried
My wife set it in your hair before you
started, for she wished to replace the one
you gave to Lord Harry
"she did not touch my hair today" cried
| the princess. .
AYE. but she did," said he
The princess suddenly fell to sobbing, and
Tell me the truth; tell me the truth
Surely it was in truth Lord Harry Culver
| horse?"
Then Rudolf drew very close to her. and
| he said softly:
Sweet sister. the noble gentleman whom
we knew, he whom 1 loved and who loved
you in chivalrous difference, went from us
| two months ago. Be not troubled about
| him, for now all is well with him. But
there was an unhappy man with you, VINO
! was not Harry Culverhouse and who had
murderous and mad thoughts in ms heart
1St, at tie cru, ne also uleu IcaulS aiiC
! as nobly as our dear friend himself would
| have died for your sake. l pray you ask no
more of him, but he conteBted to know that
| though he died by the sword. yet he died IN
| peace and willingly. But of our dear frleha'
J as we knew him, think much as you Will,
| for the love of an honest gentleman Is
| good thing to think Of
The Princess Osra hearing this, laid her
| hand in her brothers hand and for long
while she did not speak. Then she sad:
But our friend will not come again, Ru-
dolf?'' =.
NO, you will never see our friend again"
| answered the king.
Then when you see him-for think you
will see him once again-lay this pin In his
hand and bill him take it and keep it for
| the sake of the 1--we bear him; perhaps he
will hear YOU"
| ut may be, cannot TELL" said the king
And If he has the necklace" said She
pray him to give that to you, and sell it,
Rudolf. and give the value of it in gifts to
the poor. Yes. to all that are unhappy and
afflicted, even, as the poor man who was
with me tonight
80 be it, Osra," said the king, and he
| kissed her. But she burst again suddenly
into passionate weeping, calling God to wit
ness that her face was curse to her and
curse to her friends, and praying the king
to suffer her to take the veil in convent
that she might trouble honest men no more.
And thus he brought her in sad plight to
the palace and gave her into the arms OF
his wife. still sobbing bitterly. And he him
the mad trooper was found, with his own
hand he covered the face and put the pin
| in the hand from which he took the ruby
necklace; and he sold the necklace and used
| the proceeds of it as his sister had desired.
Thus the madness of Lord Harry Culver
| house, which was bred in him by the beau
ty Of the Princess Osra, worked Its way
| with him and brought him first into peril
| of great villainy and at last to death And
his name passed no more on the lips of any
| in Strelsau nor between King Rudolf and
! his sister, while the story that the king had
| told to the troopers was believed by ALL and
none save the king knew what Lord Harry
| Culvernouse had done in his madness. But
! she would not go abroad nor receive any of
| the princes or mobiles who came to the
court. but lay still sick and full of grief, be-
wailing the harm that she had wrought.
Yet, time passed, she grew again happy,
| fer she was young and tie world was sweet
to her, and then, as King Rudolf had bid
den ner, she remembered Lord Harry Gull
verhouse as he had been before his madness
came upon him. Yet, stu more did she re-
| member how, even in his madness, he had
done her no harm. but Fad watched beside
her through the night and had, as morning
dawned, entreated death at the hands of
the talk of single idle tongue should fall
foully upon her name. Therefore she mourn
ed for him with secret tears
But he. although no monument marke
his grave and although men spoke of him
only as the mad trooper who had robbed
the princess, yet slept soEni1y and at peace
and mis- right hand lay 'clenched upon his
heart, and in 1t the golden PIN that had fas-
tened the rudy hair of Princess Osra.