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lover pay ior m!
villon looking up into her eyes, ones
DO you think I'm worth i. K.t.,
Us big price to pay for this Door Door
She repeated her words.
It's q little price to pay for NJ,
lover. Do you doubt me?"
neeu q man-at-arms pushed his
way through the crowd "a the sinns
dais and whispered some words IN ~
q Or Noel lie Jolys. who in turn whjso
pered In h ear Of Olivier and Olivia
hearing, grew paler than before. Vi,l me
caught Katherine by the hand.
NO, Kate. no! The world Is wide. orr
snearts are light. For a star has fallen
to me from heaven and it fills the
earth with glory"
His words fell on the kings ears like
2 yolSs 9f an oracle. Standing in his
fingers. he repeated falteringly ting
mystic words.
"A star has fallen from heaven. Nv
dream, my dream!"
Olivier plucked at his mantle. whis-
pering with twitching lips:
My hege, this story spreads like the
plague in the city and every alley vom-
its mutiny."
Louis pushed him aside.
"Rub your pale cheeks he said; "for
all is well. Destiny has Spoken
Their leaning over and stretching his
thin hand towards h crowd, he cried:
People of Paris, that man shall have
his life: this woman her lover. I have
tried a mans heart and found it pure
sgold;,a woman's soul and found it all
angel. True man and true woman, to
each other arms!'
And Katherine and yillon obeyed the
king.
EPILoGUE.
At this point In his narrative, Dom
Gregory, as those happy few who are
familiar with his manuscriptJin the
Abbey of Bonnie Adventure are aware,
DIVORCES from the full current of his
story to indulge In some philosophical
reflections upon the character of Louis
XXI.
What, Dom Gregory asks in cautious
Interrogation, were the real intentions
OF the monarch with regard to Fran
coils Villon and h Lady Katherine de
Vauceiles? His enemies no doubt as
sert tina. he played with their destinies
for a purely malignant purpose and was
only prevented from carrying his evil
intentions Into effect by the storm Of
popular indignation that threatened
him. Others, again. who pretend to a
more intimate acquaintance with the
shifty character OF the king, insist that
he did indeed purpose to send Master
Villon to the gallows. or at least and
worse, into a beggar's exile, but that
he was stayed by Master Vilon's happy
use of the phrase concerning a star
fallen from heaven, which words, harp
ing upon the superstttious wits of his
majesty, made him believe that the
dream which had puzzled him was in
terpreted n fulfilled. In this regard
Dom Gregory records with a sly gray
ity how many suggest that Master
Francois used those words of set pur-
pose with the very intention OF playing
upon the strained strings Of the kings
mind. But there be those, too, Dom
Gregory adds, n we gather from his
that he is inclined to include
himself in their number, there be those
p~artisans Of the king who maintain
that the kings cruelty was from the
start a mere mask for clemency, that
he only intended a little malicious
sport with the too outspoken lover and
the too disdainfuI lass, and that it had
never been in the scope of his thoughts
seriously to punish either the broker Of
ballads or the valiant maid of al
celles.
Starting from this point, Dom Greg
DRY INDUCES in a great many reflections
upon kings and kingshtp and the con-
sequences Of kingly acts, all of which
seemed perhaps more momentous at
the time when they We're written and
in the sleepy abbey where they lie en-
shrined, than In buster and more
bustling times. One could have wished
that Dom Gregory had let such phil
osophies go by the board and had CIV
en- us Instead some greater Knowledge
OF what happened to Francois Villon
and Katherine de Vaucel1es after they
fell upon each others necks in that
open place in Paris, with the mob huz-
zahing, the king staring and Tristan's
strange satellites busily dismantlins
the useless gibbet.,B But here Dom Greg
DRY is little less than dumb. Losses
in the manuscript account for much of
his silence; perhaps his ecclesiastical
Indifference to the welded state may
account for more. If we can gather
vaguely from other sources that the
poet n his mistress settled down on
a small n quiet estate in Poitou, lived
a peaceful country life for many years
and died a peaceful country death at
the end. It is the most we a hope to
gain with surety. We are glad to be-
lieve in their happiness, for he was q
+ lover n h was a fair woman.
Wayside Wisdom.
Atlanta Constitution: Don't ketch a
rabbit by the tall, an then go holIerin'
when he gets away from you.
When the COW kicks the milk over.
just take o u coffee straight and
thank the Lord for sweet'nin'.
Don't depend on the world to give you
an epitaph. Best way to do is to write
one while you're Twin.