Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-09

AaPSty! 1t hemmed me in on every
side. The reverence of il filled the lula
bies that were sung in my baby cars. "
| every turn was implore to remember
it. 1t made me a thing apart.
For twenty years | was stranger TO
everything that means life! e
And then | awoke in spite of them:
in spite of my kinsship! !
awCke' My Cod, the awaken
ing, \ ray of sunlight orept into my
poor. starved, ignorant soul
The king was a thing apart no longer
was i'll, so i'll that they grew fright
ened and sent me into the apple gardens
of Brittany TO recover. And | met her
there! She was not a princess of the
eiocd; not lady of quality. She was
just a little girl. with wealth of love
in her eyes. and a golden youthfulness
that bewildered me, and that made the
Garden OF Eden real to me. For one
brief summer | was allowed my birth
right. and dreamed my dream, as other
men. heard whispered words of love.
amazing love. bewildered love .
| kissed the eyes that never knew my
royalty and never guessed the gull be
tween us. The mummy had been torn
from its wrappings, and the man
breathed Gods air, and realized Gods
earth!
She was all the world to me, all tl.is
and the next. and my kingship was
obitcrated | flung custom to the winds
ii heaven. She made NE realize that
love can hurst the hearts of empires and
| level majesty in the dust. | loved her!
Fer flash of time | was left in peace.
alone with love. Memory was
a dead vampire.
Then they came for me. /
cried for mercy: but the vampire was
alive and had lost my dream. ] re-
turned to captivity. a helpless fugitive
from fate
In time, they told me that / had set
tied down again with wonderful ease
Eut ! knew better. The man in me. tho
awakened man in me, refused tc be
snothered out of existence again and
rlatie the court a pllrgatory.
Al day, all night | thirsted for her
Love was ail-poweriul. ! could not beat
it out of my aching heart | starved it.,
bal il thrived apace | tried to murder
It, Int it sprang to life again and AGAR
AID stronger each time.
And at last it drove me back to her
saw her again. * She had
changed. She prayed to me to
Justify her and / had to tell
Ecr that | was king.
She stared at me like Il diving wom-
am, Later / heard the awful thing the
Villagers whispered about her
and the name they called it by! 81
She came to me again. before they parted
H. bn h. I
had cone from her hair. But mystic
love remained like fairy wreath about
her. She kept staring at me. imploring
we to be impossible. with an agony of
longing for the king to abdcate and the
n'an Ia live in her eyes. But the king
was a devil and as hard as stone. The
maui was pitiful coward and cried for
mercy. But the king strangled him with
a hntal force and urged that whole
ct;piro blocked the way. She
WAS unable to realize the barrier. the inn
ntensC barrier,
was dragged back to my kingdom TO
play the king again. This time il was
forever. though the old longing, the same
love. swept INTO my empty soul and
fought tor mastery a. it had done before
But the king. God bless him! con
QHeied again ana AGAIN. Ana the man.
God pity him! was heap of despair and
love. like Il broken bauble-was a phan-
tom that was half sweet, all bitter to
remember And | | have
nothing left of that summer +
nothing but the memory Of her eyes blaz-
ing with hope tlullmg with despair black
things wrapped HOLLOWAY in mi,ts of
paencsS. leading me away from lfe and
majesty and duty, drawing me step by
step into those fathomless deeps the
world calls graves. where men lie and
worms eat them: where ! must lie when
at last the man conquers the king and
death in his turn takes the conqueror
captive.
All. then tot Muriel j..
polleNfcn in London Free Lance