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


England to congratulate the king on his
marriage, and he had stayed 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 bad fallen most desperately in love
with the fair face of Princess Osra and
could not endure to live out of her pres
ence. Yet now he came to bid farewell;
and when he was ushered in Rudolf re-
ceived him with much graciousness and
made him a present of his own miniature
set in diamonds while the queen gave him
her miniature set in the lid of gold IN
casket. In return Lord Harry prayed the
king to accept richly mounted sword and
the queen an ivory fan, painted by the
greatest artist CT France end bearing her
cipher In jewels. Then he came to Prin-
cess Osra, and she having hidden him fare
well said: Il am a poor maid, my lord
and can give no great gift; but take this
pin frcm my hair and keep 1t for my
sake" And she drew out a golden pin,
from her hair, long and sharp pin,
bearing for its head her cipher In bril-
liants, and she gave it to him. smiling.
But he. bowling low and then falling on
his knee offered her q box of red morocco
leather; and when she opened it she saw a
necklace of rubfes of great spfendor. The
princess flushed red, seeing that the gift
was most costly. And she would fain have
Harry. But he turned swiftly away, and
bowling once more withdrew. Then the
princess said to her brother: 1T 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. 1 am sorry the
gift 10 so great, but we cannot refuse it
without woundlng his honor"
So the princess set the ruby necklace
with her other jewels, and thought for a
day or two that Lord Harry was 10 wiser
than other men, and then forgot him.
Now Lord Harry Culverhouse, on leaving
the kings presence, had mounted his horse
which was a fine charger and splendidiy
equipped, and ridden alone out of Strelsau,
for he had dismissed all his servants and
dispatched them with suitable gratuties to
their own country, He rode through the
afternoon, and in the evening he reached
at a cottage, and an old man came out and
escorted him inside. bundle lay on the
table in the little parlor Of the cottage.
Here are the clothes, my lord" said the
old man, laying his hand on the bundle.
"And here are NINE" 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
put on the old and plain suit which it con-
tained. Then he held out his hand to the
old man. saying: Give me the five crowns,
Solomon. and our bargain is complete
crowns and babe him farewell and he
placed the crowns in his purse and walked
out of the cottage, possessing nothing in
the world saving his cid clothes, five crowns
and the golden pin that had fastened the
ruddy hair of Princess Osra. For every
thing else that he had possessed-his lands
and houses in England, his horses and car
riases, 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.
1t was now late in the evening; and he
walked to and fro all night In the morn
ing he went to the shop of barber and,
In return for one of his crowns, the bar
Der cropped his long curls short and shaved
OF his mustache, and gave him dye with
which he stained his complexion to a dark
err tint; and he made his face dirty and
soiied his hands and roughened the skin of
them by chafng them on some flints which
lay by the roadside. Then, changing a
second crown, he bought loaf of bread
and set off to trudge to Stresau; for in
Strelsau was Osra, and he would not be
anywhere else in the world. And when he
had arrived there, he went to sergeant of
the kings guard and prevailed on him by
present of three crowns to enlist him as
trooper, and this the sergeant, having
found that Lord Harry could ride and
knew how to use his sword, agreed to do.