The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-28

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You did not ind Miss G~usseasloe@
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"No. / have not found her.
And are you going home disappoiLt.
ID Atr Lorry. because she is no.
ere
4 leave the answer 10 your tende.
Imagination.
There was a long pause.
May / ask when you expect 70 leave
SmuStarSt" she asked somewhat tim
Iy.
~Wty ao you wish to knowy" he
.sked in turn
Because Z Snow how hopeless you.
.uest las h.,a Yea have found Mis-
fu-r-ust~-ser. hut SNe is held benin.
wall 50 strong aud iG'pregnable thaf
.ou Glal.u; r.ea her with the question
on .s.r.n gu ask You have come to
hat wall. ami now Won must turn back
t have asked low Soou:
Not ua-l y.sr princess bids me take
Up my load and % You see. M lady.
love TO sit hcretth the shadow Of the
S-I you Ges,tloe. 1t will require .
royal edict 70 compel me TO abandon
my position.
You cannot expect the princess &c
drive you from her country. you who
have dcnp 50 much for her. You must
90. Mr.. LOrry. without her bidding"
u must:
Yes. for your presence outside that
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lie more uncomfortable for the one your
love cannot reach. DO you understand
me-
Has the 1ne behind the wall in
structed you to say this to me-" he
asked miserably.
she has not. do not know her
heart. but | am a woman and have a
woman's foresight. If you wish to be
kind and good to her. go"
u cannot he exclaimed. his pent
feelings bursting forth. II cannot CO.
You will not be so selfish and SO
cruel as to increase the horror of the
wreck that : sure to come" she said,
drawing back.
You know. countess, of the life saw.
ing crews who draw from the wrecks
of ships lives that were hopelessly lost.
There il TO be u wreck here. Is there
to be a life Sayers When the night is
darkest. the sea widest. when hope is
gone. is not that the time when rescue
is most precious: Tell me. you who
know all there is of this approaching
disaster"
Il cannot command you to leave
Edelweiss. | can only tell you that
you will have sOmsthing to answer for
If you stay said the countess.
VIII you help me if | show to you
that | can reach the wreck and save
the n who clings TO II despairingly 2"
he asked, smiling, suddenly calm and
confident.
"Willingly. for love the one who is
going down in the sea. | have spoken
TO you seriously. though. and | trus,
you will not misunderstood me. | like
you. and | like Mr.. Anguish. You coull
stay here forever so far as | am con.
cerned.'
He thought long and i~ntently over
what she had said as he smoked his eli
gar on the great balcony that night
He saw in one moment the vast chasm
between the man and the princess: in
the next he laughed at the puny space.
Down on the promenade he could see
the figures of men and women stroll
Ing in the moonlight. To his ears came
the occasional laugh of a man, the sill
very gurgle of a woman. The royal
military band was playing in the stand
near the edge of the great circle. There
were gayety, comfort. charm and secu-
rity about everything that came to his
eyes and ears. Where was she? He
had seen her in the afternoon and had
talked with her, had walked with her.
Their conversation had been bright, but
of the commonplace kind. She had
said nothing TO indicate that she re-
Eembered the hour spent beside his
couch a day or so before: he had ut
tered none of the words hat struggled
10 rush from his lips-the questions, the
pleadings, the VOWS. Where was she
now? Not in that gay crowd below,
for he had scanned every figure with
the hawks eye; closeted again, no
doubt. with her ministers, wearying
her tired brain. her brave heart into
fatigue without rest.
Her court still trembled with the ex-
element of the daring attempt of the
abductors and their swift punishment
Functionaries iocked to Edelweiss TO
inquire after the welfare OF the prin.
cess, and indignation was at the high
est pitch. There were theories innu.
merabIe as 10 the identity of the arch
couspirator. Baron Dangloss vas al
sea completely. He cursed himself
and everybody else for the hasty anG
Ill timed execution of the hirelings- II
was quite evident that the buzzing
wonder and intense feeling Of the PEG
pie had for the moment driven out al
thought of the coming day of judg
ment and its bitter atonement for al
Graustark. Today the castle was full
Of the nobility, drawn 10 its walls by
the news that had startled them be
You'd all expression. The police were