San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-05

mad thoughts in his heart. Yet at tne
end he also died, as readily and as
nobly as our dear friend himself would
have died for your sake. pray you ask
no more of him, but be contented to
know that though he died by the sword
yet he died in peace and willingly. But
of our dear friend, as we knew him,
think as much as you will, for the love
of an honest gentleman is good thing
to think of. -
The Princess Osra, hearing this, laid
her hand in her brothers. hand, and for
a long while she did not speak Then
she said:
"But our friend will not come again.
Rudolf.
"No, you will never see our friend
again" answered the king
"Then when you see him-for think
you will see him once again-lay this
pin in his hand and bid him take it and
keep it for the sake of the love l bear
him. Perhaps he will hear you.
lit may be. cannot tell" said the
king
"And if he has the necklace" said
she, "pray him to give that to you, and
sell it, Rudolf, and give the value of it
in gifts to the poor. Yes, to all that are
unhappy and afflicted, even as the poor
man who was with me tonight.
$50 be it, Osra," said the king, and
he kissed her. But she burst again sud-
denly into passionate weeping, calling
Cod 10 nit, hot har Goo a
to her and a curse to her friends and
praying the king to suffer her to take
the veil in convent, that she might
trouble honest men no more. And thus
he brought her in sad plight to the
palace and gave her into the arms of his
wife, still sobbing bitterly. And he
himself took the pin, and when the body
of the mad trooper was found, with his
own hand he covered the face and put
the pin in the hand from which he took
the ruby necklace, and he sold the neck
lace and used the proceeds of it as his
sister had desired.
Thus the madness of Lord Harry Gull
verhouse which was bred in him by the
beauty of the Princess Osra worked its
way with him and brought him first
into peril of great villainy and at last
to death. And his name passed no more
on the lips of any in Strelsau nor be-
tween King Rudolf and his sister, while
the story that the king had told to the
troopers was believed by all, and none
save the king knew what Lord Harry
Culverhouse had done in his madness.
But Osra mourned for him and for q
long while she would not go abroad or
receive any Of the princes or mobiles who
came to the court, but lay still, sick and
full of grief, bewailing the harm that
she had wrought. Yet as time passed
she grew again happy. for she was
young and the world was sweet to her,
and then, as King Rudolf had hidden
her, she remembered Lord Harry Gull
verhouse as he had been before his mad
ness came upon him. Yet still more did
she remember how, even in his madness,
he had done her no harm, but had
watched beside her through the night
and had, as morning dawned, entreated
death at the hands of the king, prefer
ring to die rather than that the talk OF
single idle tongue should fall foully
upon her name. Therefore she mourned
for him with secret tears
But he, although no monument
marked his grave and although men
spoke of him only as the mad trooper
who had robbed the princess, yet slept
soundly and at peace, and his right
hand lay olinched upon his heart and
in it the golden pin that had fastened
the rudy hair of Princess Osra.
THE END.