The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-23
THE ADVERTISERS
 DAILY SHORT STORY

' GrScian mould, . ma Sque Of passion ana strength ina 1E dance. only old. and com l stant sorrow. The two sat down and watched the dancers.
 The young woman suddenly started to | rise and was following with staring eyes | Tt is my lover. my Henry" she said. 1 Tt is he. t is he. and. oh. he Is coming The poet hesitated as he approached tn, ! two ladiess He did not know the name or the young woman and how was he 1 to introduce his new friend? But hia qcandary was not for long. for the young | woman with low croon of joy threw herself Into the arms of the young man, and his astonishment at this proceeding increased, for instead of commencing to waltz. as this movement presaged. tho brace. weeping tears of joy. Gone was the despair from their conferences. the longing. the sorrow, the heartsickness. Fire dashed in the eyes of the young stinct with passion, life and hope. "Oh. Henry. how could you desert mo sog murmured the girl. but it was the happy moan of an infant who after .ssso,. season s. of weeping for an absent mother
 'HenryT' said the young man. with a surrpised note in his voice. Edward. you mean. Desert you? It was you who UcBeItSQ me.
 No. no. There stood on our wedding night. waiting. waiting. waiting until tho blossoms in my hair began to droop and midnight came and you did not and they told me you had left the town forever"
 "on our wedding night! It was when. I came back from the city with an en- gagement ring that your brother told me you were going to marry another man."
 And then when they brought me here. you came many times and always said you did not know me and 1t almost killed me every tfme."
 All at once the young man seemed aroused to realizing sense of his sur roundings Releasing the girl. he gag d wildly about him and then addressed the
 sir. have found the girl to whom I long ago plighted my troth From her story. we have been separated by dia. bolical plot. We wish to leave here and repair the misfortunes of the past by get ting married at once. I want your help. If this lady will go with us. too, it will be ., very , pleasant fer us" man." said the lady of sristocratic line age with a happy smile. The poet turned and looked at her with new meaning transfiguring her face and the reflection hers, for despite the cobwebs in her poor brain, she was after all a woman and had been and yet was fair to look upon.
 Gentle lady" said the poet. softly, teuueEty ucE why Hot po bride and groom. instead of bridesmaid and groomsman? Is there no happiness in store for us? No piece of Heaven upon earth? Come. let us, too. be united in the silken bonds of matrimony."
 The lady of aristocratic lineage blushed and cast her eyes upon the ground and then looked up at the poet, smiling with swimming eyes.
 What more could wish for than to live with YOU, even in poverty"
 All doors throughout the lower floor stood wide open and there were no guards pacing the railways. Once on the gravel quartette paused. How were they to es- cape?
 .There is the lake," said the young lov- CT. we will take a boat at the pier and cross to the city. There are boats at the pier.''
 Listen to the wind exclaimed the lady of aristocratic lineage in alarm. Ut is night. the waves arc high, and we would be drowned"
 "But listen to that" said the poet. as a bloodhound in a kennel near by. awak- ened from his sleep. disturbed the air with g. deep bay. Tn the morning we will be tracked and brought back. We heart failed him as he stood upon the pier and watched the lovers push out into the lake, their boat laboring heavily in the waves so long as sts, he Was ,sas. able to dis
 
 We will go back to the asylum to spend the night" said the poet. For the nonce I had forgotten that l am now head attendant and have charge of the calmer. we will try it again"
 When it was known in the morning that two of the patients were missing. thor ough search was instituted. It was not long before the loss of a boat was dis covered and the method of the escape of the missing ones conjectured and a few minutes later there were the missing ones themselves. lying in shoal water CTS arms. their faces illumined with glory that Is not of this earth.
 "Ah, how much better it would have been to have killed them at the start. the expense of prolonging their useless lives. Yes. the hopeless insane should be killed and I shall see that it is done
 under my administration. Tomorrow we Bodyguard." he said, addressing the squad that had pound the physicians the evening before, 'pr roceed to the asylum and chloroform the imbeciIes. all but tho duIlest We will vivisect them But whatever the bodyguard might have done under ordinary circumstances, they now turned at the sound of sudden commotion in the asyl1n and forthwith came running Rogers. Gascoigne. Mars den and a number of others. who with out ado seized Culverius and bound him hand and foot. Following tkem limped tall. pale man, carrying one arm in sling"
 Just to think" said the tall man. that this raving creature has ruled here sin ,e yesterday. I shudder to think of it. He threw us off the train while we were taking him from one car to another. and it is wonderful that we were not killed" The poet and the lady of aristocratic lineage viewed the downfall of their chief. and a terrible despair invaded their hearts. verse than the horrible melan- choly of insa l,ty that had dwelt there he- fore. Not more bravely or gallantiy turned ever a lover to protect his sweet | heart, than turned the poor domentod man upon the attendants who advanced l upon them and no keener cry of anguish ever arose from the lips of woman be- reft than rose from the lips of the poor
 lady of aristocratic lineage as they tore her from the last embrace. and if her mind had been cracked before, it was now shivered into thousand pieces.