The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01

by heaven! to palm himself off upon IN
unsuspicious woman asher husband, win
the. greatest, tpurest. love that was ever
in the. world, and then go back when his
days work was done. back to hts--den
and laugh. laugh and sneer at what he'd
done! All. fine sport 1t must have been
for you! Royal times you must have had.
those evenings, gloating over what you'd
won! ,f..... 49,.
II only wonder that God whom were
taught is all wise, suffers such things as
you to wander about the earth poisoning
Whomever you touch! Do you think I
shall ever be clean from you? DO you
think I shall ever pass a day without
| shuddering to think that I've sat here
with you. poured out my heart and soul
ing, kissed you? Oh-h-you've made 1.-THE
remainder of my life hideous-I only wish
might die here and now before live to
hate myself the more!" -. So.
| Mallory raised a white and quivering
| face His voice shook when he spoke. i,
And you-you thought-you think that
| 1 was-playing the lover as well as the
husband? You thought I went back to
my rooms daily to laugh and sneer?-
Eleanor,l you scar my very Soul! - YOU
ah!-as God lives and loves His world, I've
loved you and love you now with all the
heart and soul and body thatfis mine. If
| ever l have tried to stammer my love in
poor words / could have beaten my tongue
Tor It's pitiful halting, stopped my breath
1or It's Wretched effort. Words have gone
so limping behind my love that they have
shamed 1t, belittled 1t. All despise me as
you wll-as you must, princess, but you
cannot kill my love for you. You've called
me the lowest Of crawling things. You've
said that my presence soiled you, left you
| unclean--Oh, madame, l. am not your
husband and I've no right to anv kind
WORD, any good will from you, but no love
so great as mine has. ever ,soiled any
woman, and no such worship has ever de-
graded her"
.Would you carry your infamy further,
| s1r?', she cried. Have YOU not done?
Would you insult me again with your pre-
tense tense OF love? Love! AS if you knew
what the word means!',
! L tell you the truth, Madame" said
penis Mallory patiently IT would not
nave you, for your own sake,
believe me worse than am. I ask moth
ing or fyou, not forgiveness not pity I've
Wronged you past all that-though L did
IT, as did we all, for what believed to be
a good end. But lie to you in the matter
Of love 4 did not, nor could have done 81
haf wished. Can you not see that /
must be telling You the truth? that 7
should gain nothing by lying to you now?'
Inc princess shook her head and turned
lmpatiently away from him.
II can see nothing" said she, "believing
|
human being again. You see what YOU
nave done for me with your love- - -
l Yes, said he very low. Yes, I. see.
MY only hope is that time and reflection
may In part at least, undo it, Time is
ene greatest OF healers, madame, the kind
est and most merciful Of friends"
And time, SIR said the princess coIdlv.
.ne greatest Of healers, will, no doubt,
Quickly efface all traces of this wonder
1u1 love You so stubbornly profess
But Denis looked at her wide-eyed.
Time efface my love, madame?" he
asked IN wondering tone. "Tirae efface
my love? NATURALIZATION little YOU
know OF love after all. princess Shall love
, ole Tor lack Of feeding, like a neglected
child? Shall love live only when it's
loved? II ~e efface it. Eternity won't
SRI said ie,>r as I've~reasona enough to
know - ~ % - -
Why did you come out in the garden
To-Day: madame?" he demanded sudden
~, looking into her eyes. why did YOU
? come to sit upon the old stone bench2';.
The princess flushed from neck to burn
S ished hair. e. = ...~ - ,.t- -:
"Why-why- I-came because the day
was hne, SIR she murmured because
the house tired me. I came-what is it, tc
TO you, sir. why sit in my garden? How
care you demand my reasons for doing as
please? Your insolence is In keepine
with your. .other-qualities!" is,.% -s9.S
, AS you like, madame said he bow:
lns' ana now, before I co. will you lei
me make an appeal to you?-No, but wait
Inc appeal is not for myself. I ask fol
nothing nothing. beg only that you per.
r ,nlt mn tna5 greatest OF healers, time, of which
we, spoke, to teach you that there are
good and true men still in the world an6
that not every one is ALTAR and black.
guard: Madame, Prince Karl of Novodnis
IS an honest gentlemen who loves you well
= nay, too we'll for he has left his realm If
, qlrest peru TO come to you-alas too late
beg that when you have little re-
- recovered from this-this shock: you will
: listen to him. 1t is evident that at one
y tlme You were willing to give your life
to him. even If no great measure o1
!ove'' Listen to him. princess. anc
e .ahe .a the nigh place in ssss sNovodnia
that waits for YOU You, who. are a, queen
among women n1ustsbe a princess before
the world. There will never have been so
- y regal or 50 kind a. princess!.'s =.
u The Princess Eleanor looked at him
S still frowntng under puzzled brows, as ii
o. she could not make him out : ~ : !.
i has Prlnce Carl sent you to make this
q plea?' she asked. rs this part of you1
/, task? You perform it but i'll, sir. Te
2 profess great and lasting love for me
3 one, moment, and urge me toward an
other man the next, is but poor logic, as
h l understand it? Are you being paid fol
: this new trick as no doubt you were TO,
n the old?" = - -
l., Denis flushed crimson = - 80 =.
n prince Karl, madame said he, ''has al
e no time asked me or sent me to speak fo,
: him, and you pay love a sorry compIimen,
/. to think that it may never be unselfsh.
r should love you but III should not wish
for you all the ppiness--at: whatever
cost to me-Sthats sfortune can offer. S Ever
We're you not another mans wife know
r that you could never feel again for frnf
anything but loathing and despite. an
not to be, considered at all. But thu
i prince. rnadame.-is a.. eentlernar n q nd b.