CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-10-22

passed beyond her audience to the
world where In despair ones own soul
fees, and the Angel of the -Four Cor.
ners can show us no right Of way as
we travel.
Some girl in the crowd giggled nerv
ously. Another. she knew not why
gave quick, gasping sob. Babette,
who was next her. said. You goose.
It's only story"
This brought Marie back. She took
up the thread again. lightly. but plain
lively too:
by and by she came to a city. II
stood high on a great hill. 1t had
splendid houses. churches and palaces,
and beneath, at the foot of the noun
tain, there flowed a fine. wide river
Every stone of that city was made OF
gold and every drop Of that river was
q sweet white wine. Whenever the
girl looked at the city she knew IT
was SO: Whenever she looked at the
river she knew that II was 80, and
when she looked in the eyes Of her
prince she knew IT was 80. for they
were all gold and wine also. and she
could have lived Just ever and ever.
looking at those eyes till the Scarlet
Hunter blindfolded her and led her
out on the lonely trail Of the White
valley. from which no man returns.
Yes. she had found her prince. II
does not matter where she saw him
hrst-in a palace or house o . church
for she saw him: that was enough
-she was only a poor peasant girl
but he was 4 great man. 20 wise. SO
splendid. 80 kind. He said that she
was beautiful. and she believed him:
he said that be loved her. and she
trusted. but when she threw herself
on his breast and cried that she would
never leave him there came irto his
faee a strange. pitiful look That look
broke her heart. for It couldn't belt
couldn't be. She was only q foolish
peasant girl or she would have known
that q prince could never be her hus-
band. Yet she knew that he loved her.
Then rhe:c came q sad. terrible day.
when all the great men Of the kingdom
came together and decided that she
must go away or the prince would lose
his Kingdom as well a. lose her. What
could she do? She could not wait
about the palace gates; she could not
defy all the great men. who were 80
strong and who could make happy or
DESTROY. as they wished. What could
she DO? But she saw him once again
IL was at the altar cf great church
oh. church like none any OF you ever
saw. with n beautiful Calvary above
the altar and angels with large. fam
Ing wings and thousand candles
burning and such wonderful. sweet
music, 1t was so she saw him. and
that WAS their coodby. She looked In
to his eyes. and they had the same look
as when she first heard him tell his
love. and she got up on her feet and
called out to him, but he raised bis
hand at her al though to say. No.
never. neverr
"And that was the end. She left the
great city. and as she went she saw
that It was only built Of stone and not
Of gold and that the river was emily
cold. dark water and not wine. after
all. Her eves were not the same. and
they would never be the same, never.
never
The strange. searching pathos Of her
voice filed the room. like the eerie mu-
sic Of a violin, aud Medallion felt his
face flush and his fingers tingie. for he
was reading the story Of girFs life In
the allegory. Perhaps only he and one
other understood. and that other was
the simple Babette. She pinched An
TONES arm.
Cant YOU understand ~ she said
Antoine shifted from one leg to the
ether. ran his fingers through his hair
and said only: Its good story. very
good, Bien. she could go ON the stage.
All. once when | was in Montreal |
saw play VOLTA that was good
play, Wei. she could act in such a
play. that Marie.'
Rabette smiled. shrugged her shoul
ders. lifted her eyes and caught Medal
Ions. and e. n knew OF what the 9th.
Or was thinking.
Marie now almost breathlessly hur
ried her story:
so the poor girl came back over the
plains and over the hills 10 hSt u, e
cottage home. But she was never ~
same again. She laughed when Ok -
laughed. and she was gay, and she
danced. and everybody said that she
had good times in the W rid. hut you
do you think she hadl Because. VIII, a
she thought of the city now 1t was no
louger of gold. and when she thought
Of the river II was black and wicked,
ard when she remembered the man
she saw the great rulers OF his king.
dem frowning at her and the hand OF
her prince raised as II II said, No.
never, neverr
Ill.