Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-06-03

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that advanced into the proximity with
Keppers. This arrangement was con-
venient enough, one would think, to
satisfy even two lovers; but they had
improved even upon this by system Of
signals, which could be felt, but not seen.
Whenever Keppel wanted Olympia to
turn her face toward him he pressed the
hand that has already been mentioned
as held in his, and he did this 80 fire.
quently that it might have been regard
ed as a reflection upon Olympia's profile,
only her profile was too ravishingly
beautiful to be liable to reflection ex-
cept in mirror. Ravishing though it
was, however, the full face was not
thereby prevented from being more
lovely still; not because it more nearly
approached classical perfection, but be-
cause it carried with it the glance of her
dark, deep gazing eyes, and the full
curve Of her mouth, and the faint fra
GRANGE of her breath. Either way, it
was a choice Of felicities for Keppel, who
could not have been better off unless he
had had both the full face and the profile
at the same time; and a casuist might
have called even that in question.
But" said Keppel, after a while, "do
you remember everything that happens
to you while you are in the trancer'
Nothing that my body does" she
said, "but remember what my mind
does and sees. see other minds, though
don't always know whom they belong
to. Some are beautiful, like lovely land
scapes; some are dreary and barren;
some are all darkness and horror. l saw
such one the other night-the same
night that discovered that you and the
Count de Lisle were the same person.
There was a hidden place in it, like a
cave, with branches and thistles grow
ing before tho mouth of it, and ugly
birds Tapping in and out. l knew that
there was dead body in that cave, and
I was afraid that should have to 90 in
and pull it out, but just as was at the
entrance it all faded away and seemed
to fall through deep space, where
everything was still and dim. When it
ended was in my bed here at home"
"We will have no more of this" said
he. at is not right that you should be
made liable to such experiences. And if
there even were need for it, it is passed
now. know all require to know, and
now that we have met, l don't care for
anything else-not even to punish the
guilty"
"Yes, love makes up for everything,
doesn't it,! returned she, "but the guilty
punish themselves. All tho vengeance
in the world could not bring US nearer
together"
"Thcre is only ono thing that makes
me wish that justice might be done,"
said Keppel, after pause. 81 have al
ways wished that the world should know
that was innocent. Now that am no
longer disguised from you, wish not to
be disguised at all. And / doubt If
can maintain my mask as easily as
have done hitherto. shall continually
be speaking in my old voice, and acting
in my old way. 1t has all come back to
me so strongly that no longer see my
self or think Of myself as the Count de
Lisle."
1--WE will not live here" said Olympia.
1--WE could go to New Zealand or Peru
or Asia, where no one knows MS or can
reach us. You are my country, the
only one care to live in. Let us disap-
pear. like the fairies!"
"Riches can buy most things, but the
moro riches you have the less can you
buy seclusion. We can't escape that
way. Wherever we went we should find
q newspaper correspondent
1--WE might give the money away"
Olympia suggested. "You could build
and endow your school of art, and few
things like that, and then we would go
off, like good people when they die, and
we should certainly go to heaven, so long
as we staid together. Then the news
paper people would stay behind with the
money"
"Well, perhaps we WILL" said Keppel
musingly. ITO have wealth beyond
certain point is only to undertake the
labor of living the lives of ton or thou
sand men, as well as your own. You
may, if you are wise and good enough,
produce more concentrated and visibly
beneficial effects than a promiscuous
crowd would, but in the long run private
mountains of money do more harm than
good. You can give away as much as
you like, only must keep million or
two to buy your bonnets with"
"Where did you get so much money,
Keppel7' inquired Olympia. "Where
did it come fromI 1t tseemed natural that
the Count de Lisle should have it, but
that you should have it is different; 1t is
like having it myselfT' ..
ut came from the treasure houses Of
European kings, and from the strong
boxes of misers and the breasts Of fair
women and the savings of poor peasants;
from robbery and murder and crime and
cruelty of every sort; it has been gradu-
ally accommodating for hundreds of years;
it is even said that Charlemagne began
it; certainly Francis l added to it, and
Henry OF Navarro and Louis the Great
Napoleon doubled it, suspect, but no
one knows or ever will know certainly
by whom or how it was contributed to-
The singular thing about it is that it
should have been passed along as asecret
heirloom from ruler to ruler OF France;
it was always regarded as a private
treasure, though of course it should
have belonged to the nation-if treasure
pot .s tbis yyas cou1d be said to belong