The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-29
He is almost too agitated to pack his

The king Is so ignorant Of all this
new situation that he tells Lancelot to
remain. Newer mind the Grail, hs
says in substance. "Stay here and play
tennis" But Lancelot dares not trust
himself, and finally the king compels
Guinevere TO make the order for Lance
lot to remain.
The queen now goes maying in q
beautiful wood, most seductive and
bloomy place, and when she has sue
ceeded in scattering her maids among
the woods she meets Sir Lancelot, who
has escaped from his chaperon, and
there is a love scene between them
which takes one back with bounding
heart to the days Of his youth.
In this scene there is enough OF regret
to make it thrilling to a high degree.
Far, far away, while the good knights
are battling in strange lands that they
may add the holy Grail to the royal
collection, the good nights that the
queen is saying to Sir Lancelot seem far
more interesting.
Ellen Terry as Guinevere seems to mo
absolutely peerless. Every womanly
emotion which this trying and tragic
situation could call forth is shown so
well and SO sweetly and strongly that
one might be dumb and deaf, yet under
stand tse tale without missing comma
or semicolon if be could see.
Villains oversee this little episode,
and it gets into the papers. but is Of
course regarded as a sensation.
One of the great drawbacks about
going On crusades and things like that,
it seems to me, was that the ladies Of
the court had so little to occupy their
minds that it was almost like marrying
and leaving ones wife at the hotel
while one goes on the road to sell goods.
The ladies of the court had nothing to
read in those days, and Of course could
not embroider all of the time. They
yearned for society, and even queens got
tired looking out at window, waiting and
watching for the absent one, who, even
if he came. might come in an ambu
lance.
Another young lady, q sweetheart OF
Lancelot's, is first to discover the truth,
and seeing that the knight gives her no
hope, bat goes regularly to court every
morning, as though he had been sub
penaed, at last in wild despair throws
herself in the branch and gets drowned.
In her dead hand is note which prac-
tically tells the story, and all is discov-
cred. The king, of course, could not
otherwise believe it; but. coming as it
does, he sees that even Excalibur will
not help him out of this. The light Of
a whole life dies when love is done, and
SO King Arthur, who has walked
through all other great sorrows and
calamities without a faltering look,
turns pale in the presence of his desc
lated hearthstone.
Guinevere is remorseful, but the king
sees that there is already more remorse
in the house than they can possibly use,
and so he hardly knows what to do.
The queen is placed in gaol, but that
of course does not help matters. A vile
traitor usurps the throne and proposes
to Queen Guinevere while she is in gaol,
but she speaks severely to him and bids
him BECOME. He then orders that she be
executed. This order he gives in the
grand hall at Camelct, which seats 200
down stairs alone. The usurper occupies
an expensive throne, made in New York.
He tells Guinevere that unless some
knight will come forward and fight fer
her good name she will be dead queen
in a short while.
There seems no hope for her until at
last q strange knight-sort of an off