The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-25

alarmed-I could take it for nothing
but fantasy-'I saw no one
~And 1 saw her as clearly as [ see
you,' he answered. She wore the yell
low ostrich feather she wore last year,
and rode her favorite chestnut horse
with a white stocking. But 1 could
have sworn to her by her figure alone,
and she waved her hand to me-
''But, sire, out of the many ladies
riding today
There is no lady wearing a yellow
feather" he answered passionately.
And the horse. And I knew her,
man. Besides, she waved to me. And
for the others-why should they turn
from the hunt and take to the woods %
l could not answer this, but L looked
at him in fear; for, as it was impos-
sible that the Princess de Condo could
be here, 1 saw no alternative but to
think him smitten with madness. The
extravaganza of the passion which he
had entertained for her, and the wrath
into which the news of her flight with
her young husband had thrown him,
to say nothing of the depression under
which he had since suffered, rendered
the idea not SO unlikely as it now
seems. At any rate 1 was driven
for a. moment to entertain it, and gazed
at him in silence, a prey to the most
QfeaQIul apprenenSlOnS.
We stood in a narrow ride, bordered
by evergreens, with Which that part
of the forest is planted; and, but for
the songs of the birds, the stiffness
would have been absolute. On a sud-
den the king removed his eyes from
me. and, walking to his horse a pace
or two along the ride, uttered a cry of
joy.
He pointed to the ground. eve are
right" he said. There are her tracks.
Come: We will overtake her.
l looked and saw the fresh prints of
a horses noofs, and felt great weight
roll off my mind, for at least he had
seen someone. [ no longer hesitated
to fall in with his humor but, riding
after him, kept at his elbow until he
reached the end of the ride. Here a
vista opening right and left, and the
ground being hard and free from
tracks, we stood at a loss; until the
king, whose eyesight was always of the
keenest, uttered an exclamation and
started from me at a gallop.
followed more slowly, and saw him
dlsmount and pick up a glove, which.
even at that distance, he had dis
cerned lying in the middle of one of
the paths. He cried with a flushed
face, that it was Madame de Condos:
ana added: 1T has her perfume-her
perfume which no one else usesr'
I confess that this so staggered me
that L knew not what to think: but.
between sorrow at seeing my master
so infatuated and bewilderment at a
rlodle- that grew each moment more
perplexlng, [ sat gaping at Henry
IKE man without counsel However.
at the moment he needed none. but,
getting to his saddle as quickly as he
could, he began again to follow the
tracks OF the horses feet, which here
| were visible, the path running through
peech wood. The branches were still
pare, ana the shining trunks stood I'D
| IKE pillars, the ground about them he
ing soft. We followed the prints
through this wood for mile and a
malt or more, and then, with a crv.
the king darted from me. and. in an
instant, was racing through the wood
at break-neck speed.
l mad glimpse of a woman f1vino
far ahead of us; and now hidden from
US by the trunks and now disclosed
ana could even see enough to deter
E,ine that she wore a. yellow feather
' uIooplns from her hat, and was in fig
ure nor unlike the Princess. But thai
was all; for once started. the ineouaI-
ltles OF the ground drew my ewes from
the Tying form, and, losing ii. con16
not again recover it. On the contrary
1t was all 1 could do to keep IN wifi
the King; and Of the speed at which
the woman was riding, could hest
1suuee oy the fact that in less than
hVe minutes he, too, pulled un with =
gesture Of despair, and waited for me
| TO come abreast of him.
You saw her?" he said. his faro
grim, and with something of susnicion
lurking in it. ''''i'40ioii
YES. sire, I answered. at saw a
woman, and woman with a yelloU,
feather; but whether it was the pin
1T wasr' he said. eff NOT WIN,
should she flee from us?" why
10 that again. I had not vvor5 -
say, and for moment eve rode in CT
renee. observing, however. that +bis
last turn had brought US far IN ' ths
way nome, l called the Kings a++e,,
aon 10 TINS; but he had sunk into q
~ u gloomy abstraction. and rode
We proceeded thus until tba s1e,laoL
path we followed brought us into iit tba
great road that leads through tbe f [,1e
est TO the kennels and the nau, % LII roi
Here [ asked him if he wonld ''i ,n.
rem to the chase. as the dav was vas
IN, Mon Dieu nor he answered mas
| rJ.,.1~ - nave oLner work In do
t ttat, ge' M. lie Due, do you still fbink
Chae she IS in Brussels % '---iiA
swear that she was there +brao
days ago, sire" three
And you are not deceivine mo- 1e
II De So God forgive you, for I shah
swered. sife' an
Trick" he cried, with flash o. H..
eyes; "A trick, you say? No va,, tl.o
ae Saint Girls! There is no MAJ 49, i,s
france dare trick me sor' -
ala not contradict him. the ra+bo.
as we were now close to the kenna1-
ana L was anxious to allay his exni+a''
nlent; that it might not be 6etactad ~,
the. keen eyes that Law in wall 80 ~, us
and so add to the gossip to ubich 10 10,
tsa.y return must give rise. I hoped
InaI at mat hour he might enter an
perceived, by way of the Kennels ana
Sne nttie staircase; but N this was
disappointed, the beauty of the 5sT
having tempted a number of ladies
ana others who had not hunted 70 49,
terrace by the canal; whence wsilire
up and down, their fans and petticoa - 2
nuttering in the sunshine. and HI
laughter and chatter filing tha a;,.
tney were able to watch our annros az
at their leisure. pi'i zach
Unfortunately, Henry had no 1anaev
the patience and self-controI nea5f,1
Ior such a rencontre. He dismounted
with dark and peevish air ana
neeolesS OF the staring, bowling throne
strobe UP the stems J1va 81. +dSoi