The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-18
BY ANTHONY HOPE.
Author of 1.-THE Prisoner of Zenda,"
'eThe Dolly Dialogues" Etc.

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THE Dolly Dialogues" Etc.
Copyright, 1896, by A H Hawlzins)
Seeing that my father Henry is
dead and that am king, seeing also
that 1 am 40 longer a bachelor, but a
married man (and here he bowed to
Margaret of Tuscany. his newly we'd
ded wife), and seeing that Osra is
turned 20 years of age-why, we are all
this day forward and we are going to
play nc more pranks. Here's a pledge
of it." And having said this, King
Rudolf the Third took a deep draught
of wine.
At this moment the ushers an
nounced that the Lord Harry Culver
house had come to take his leave of
their majesties and of the princess.
This gentleman had accompanied the
embassy that came from England to
congratulate the king on his marriage,
and he had staid some months in
Strelsau, very eagerly acceding to the
kings invitation to prolong his visit.
For such was his folly and headstrong
passion that he had fallen most des-
perately in love with the fair face of
Princess Osra and could not endure to
live out of her presence. Yer now he
came TO bid farewell; and when he
was ushered in, Rudolf received him
with much graciousness and made him
a. present of his own miniature set in
the lid of q golden casket. In return
Lord Harry prayed the king to accept
p richly mounted sword and the queen
an ivory fan, painted by the greatest
artlst OF France and bearing her cipher
IN Jewels. Then he came to Princess
Osra; ard she, having bilden hin, care
wen, said, Il am a poor maid, my
lor1, and can give no great gift, but
take this pin from my lair and keep
it for my sake" And she drew out
golden pin from her hair, a long and
sharp pin. bearing for its head her
cipher in brilliants, and she gave it to
him. smiling.
But he, bowling low and then falling
on his knee. offered her a box of red
morocco leather, and when she opened
1t she saw a necklace of rubies of
great splendor. The princess flushed
red seeing that the gift was most
costly. And she would fain have re-
fused it, and held it out again to Lord
Harry, but he turned swiftly away.
and, bowling once more, withdrew
Then the princess said 90 her brother,
ct is too costly"
The king, seeing how splendid the
gift was, frowned a little, but then he
said:
'.He must be a man of very great
wealth. They are rich in England I
an sorry the gift is SO great, but we
cannot refuse it without wounding his
honor"
SO the princess set the ruby necklace
with har iotvp1c
day or too that Lord Harry was no
wiser than other rpSn and then forgot
him.
Now I.orG Harry Culverhouse, on
leaving the kings presence had
mounted his hose which was a. fine
charger and splenoidly equipped. and
ridden alone out of Strelsan, for he
had dismissed all his servants and
dispatched them with suitable gratui-
ties to their own country He rode
through the afternoon, and in the
evening he reached a village fifteen
miles away; here he stopped at a cot
tage, and an old man came out and
escorted him inside. A bundle lay on
the table in the little Darlor of the
cottage.
Here are the clothes. my lord"
said the old man, laying his hand on
the bundle.
And here are mine" answered Lord
Harry, and the horse stands ready
for you" With this he began to pull
off the fine clothes in which he had
had audience of the king, and he
opened the bundle and put on the old
and plain suit which it contained.
Then he held out his hand to the old
man, saying, "Give me the Eve crowns.
Solomon, and our bargain is COM
plete."
Then Solomon, the Jew, gave him
five crowns and babe him farewell.
and he placed the crowns III his purse
and walked out of the cottage pos
sessing nothing in the world, saving
his old clothes, five crowns and the
golden pin that had fastened the ruddv
hair of Princess Osra. For everything
else that he BAD possessed-llis lands
and houses In England, his horses and
carriages, his money, his clothes and
all that was his, he had bartered with
Solomon. the Jew, in order that he
might buy the ruby necklace which
he had given to Princess Osra. Such
was the strange madness wrought in
him by her face.
I. was now late evening. and he
walked to and fro all night. Iii the
morning he went to the shop of a bar
Der and, in return for one of his
crowns. tbs Barber cropped his long
curls short and shaved off his NOUS
aache and gave him a dye with which
he stained his complexion to a darker
fint; and he made his face dirty, and
soilad his hands and roughened The
skin of them by chafing them on some
ftritS which lay by the roadside. Then,
changing q second crown, he bought
loaf of bread, and set off to trudge to