The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-13
she passed the hours. the last long
lingering hours.


she passed the hours. the last long
lingering hours.
There was a little tavern buried in
the narrowest, Oldest street of the city.
Here the poor student had lodged;
here in the back room a man sat at
table and two others stood before
him. These two seemed gentlemen. and
their air spoke of military training.
They stroscd long moustaches and
smiled with 1 amusement that defer
ence could not hide. Both were booted
and wore SPURS. and the man sitting at
the table gave them orders.
''You will meet the embassy" he
said to one 'about 10 o'clock. Bring
it to the place I have appointed. and
wait there. Do not fail"
Thn officer addressed bowed and re-
tired. a minute later his horses hoofs
clattered through the streets. Perhaps
he also had a bag of gold, for the
gate-warden opened the western gate
for him. and he rode at a, gallop along
the r+-yer banks till he reached FAe
great woods that stretched TO within
ten miles of Strelsau.
IAN hour after we are gone. said
the man at the table to the other Of
f1cer. "g5 Varilv, find one of the kings
servants ana give him the letter. Give
no account of how you came by 1t:
and saw nothing of who YOU are. All
that is necessary is in the letter. When
you have given it, return mere and
remain in close hiding till you hear
from me again"
The second officer bowed. The man
at the table rose and went out into
the street. He took his way to where
the palace rose. and then skirted
along the wall rf its gardens. till ne
came to the little gate. Here stood
two horses and at their heads man.
az; is we'll You can GO said the
student. and he was left alone with
the horses. They were good horses for
9. student to possess. The thought
perhaps crossed their owners mind
for he laughed softly as he looked at
them. Then fe also fell to thinking
that the hours were long: and a fear
came suddenly upon him that she
would not come. 1t was in these last
hours that doubts crept in. ana she
was not there to drive them away.
WOulG the great trial fail? Would
She shrink at the last? But he would
not thirT il u her. and he was smil-
ing again when lthe clock of the ca
+hedral struck . and told him that nc
more than an hour now parted her
from him. For she would come; the
princess would come to him, the stu
dent. led by the vision of that cottage
in the dream.
Would She come? She would come
she had risen from her knees and
rn;---ad to anC fro, in cautious silence
making her last preparations. She
hsd Written word of love for the
course. Rudolf would forgive her
and she had ready all that she tool
with her. the five hundred crowns
one ring that she would give her lover
some clothes to serve till his loving Ia
nor furnished more. That night she
had went and she had laughed bu1
now she neither Wept nor laughed
Int there was a great pride In her tacf
and gait: and she opened the door %
her room and walked down the gfea
staircase under the eyes of crowned
kings who hung framed upon tnt
walls. and as she went she seemed
indeed their daughter, for her heac
vas erect and her eye set firm II
baughtv dignity Who dared to sa!
+haf she did anything that king
daughter should not do? Should not
woman love? Love should be hel
diadem. And so with this proud stel
she came through the gardens OF tn
palace. looking neither to right no
left. nor behind, but with her face Sc
straight for the little gate; and sh'
walked as she had been aceustome,
to walk when all Strelsau looked OF
her and hailed her as its glory and it
darling.
1ne, sentry slept or seemed to sleep
Iar face was not even yelled when she
ope.ad the little gate; she would not
veil her proud face; it was his to look
on now when he would; and thus she
stood for an instant in the gateway
while he sprang to her, and, kneellng,
carried her hand to his lips.
You are Gomez he cried; for 1hough
he had believed yet. he wondered.
II am come she smiled. rs not the
word of a princess sure?" All, how
could | not Gomez
.sSse. love" said he. rising, day
da,wns in royal purple for you, ano
golden love for me-"
"The purple is for my king and tbs
love for me-, she whispered, as he lee
he. TO her horse. "Your fortune" sale
She. pointing to them. But have also
brought a dowry-fancy, 500 crowns,
and her mirth and happiness burst ou
i'm q laugh. 1t was so deliciously little
She was mounted now and he stood
by her
You shall not make me angry" sale
She ''Coane, mount"
AYE, / must mount" said he. "For
if we were found here the king would
For the first time the peril of then
enterprise seemed to strike into he;
mind and turned her cheek pale.
"Ah. I forgot. In nv happinass
forgot. Mount, mount. On, if he fount
YOU.
hands: then they rode swiftly for tn
western gate.
Veil your face" he said; and sine
he bade her she obeyed, saying:
: But I can see you through th
veil"
The gate stood open, and the gate
warden was not there. They were on
of the city. the morning air blew coll
and pure from the meadows. from tn
5 river. The horses stretched into a.