The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-08-26

beat 80 that II nearly snnocated
him. and yet--de Couedlc? 1t could
not be!
"Mademoiselle." he said, all the pas-
sion surging in his soul 1uivering ia
his voice, do not weep. BY heaven,
| do not kRow how or why II Is, Dut
to see you weep tears my very heart!
Can It be that | saw you but yester-
day and loved you, mademoiselleF
she turned and faced him. The feel
inc in His voice, the look in his eyes,
AS she stared at him, SO perfectly
matched her own she had no VIII nor
power to withstand any longer, De-
liberately she fetched light from be-
hind the curtain and set 1t down on
the table at the head OF his bed; then
she stood where the full light wouiu
fall on her face, and drawing herseH
IN threw out her arms wide before
him
Monsieur she cried. "Oh, 90 you
not know 'me?"
lis it thou, Little France" he ex-
claimed. dazed and beuildered by his
thoughts "Who could have thought
| 1t? How beautiful"
She dashed away the tears win her
hand She thought he had not yet
recognized her. as he lay speiipouho
gazing on her matehless beauty. her
4 scarlet lips quiyered moment, theh
shaped themselves for sound, and from
her full soft throat came the notes OF
1.-the little Breton cradle-song when ne
had heard her sing in the garden of
the Hesperides, "Toutouie, la, la! but
no mother ever sang it to child as she
sang it then,
"Anne.' he cried "The Lady Anne!
Fool that was, How blind! should
have known you. should have rec
ognized your footstep even had IAN
dead at your doorstep.
"Sir Philip. Sir Phillip" she ex-
claimed. Glow could you forgeS But
IL knew! Oh, my love, my love!" :
She sank on her knees at the bed
side again and leaned over him.
But you are betrothed to de Vitre?'
he cried in Jealous anguish.
"Ah, Philip, my knight she MUIR
INJURED. what matters it? 'Tis you |
love, love!"
She threw her arms around his
neck; their lips met in one long KISS
charged with dreams and Ideals or
years. The joy, the surprise. were al
most too great for him. He closed
his eyes: in his weak state he thought
he would have tainted, 1t had all come
upon him suddenly with such shock.
She had known it for two days, He
had been so desperately wounded.
She was the stronger T the two
then and she recovered herself the
sooner. Something assisted her per-
hars. Her throbbing breast as it lay
upon his own was met by the pres
sure of something round and hard
The little locket! 1t flashed into hcI
Jealous mind in an instant.
Monsieur Grafton" she said, draw
ing away from him with a sudden
change of mood, you not only forgo
me. you not only did not know me, bu
you That locket. sir?'
Eyes, mademoiselle," answered Graf
ton simply. for it was impossible fol
!, him to deceive this woman, or to evadt
) the question.
"Ah! Carrying another woman
face over your heart and speaking love
, to mel"
, 20 Anne." he cried, there may D'
another woman in the locket, there II
a only yourself in my heart
a Whose picture is there?"
II may not tell.
n Monsieur will not tell?'
Nay, can not Tis honor seals m,
1 lips"
!, He wished he had never given tn
o promise so lightly uttered in the cabil
q of the Sutherland, but, being given,
must be faithfully kept.
). 1.-THE honor of woman?" she asked
r "Of a man, mademoisele, of sol
a der. of friend.
. Explain yourself, monsieur" ~.
n "Mademoiselle Anne, | can not, bu
give YOU my word OF honor as a
n English officer, the word of an Amer
y lean gentleman, your mothers lanC
r mademoiselle, that the lady OF tn
y locket is nothing to me, that cheris
I the face of no woman except your owl
!, Ever since those days when was hel
, a prisoner in the old chateau, since tn
"a hour-do you recall it?-when | carrie
! you in my arms and kissed you frs
% have loved You. | have thought an
>, dreamed of you alone among woman
IL kind. When went away from Franc
left my heart behind. You have ha
N it-you have it now"
But the locket?" she persiste'
70 while the music of his words ran
N sweetly in the most secret chambt
"a of her heart.
Forget IT,"
"a Take it off, then"
II can not"
Can not? And yet she is nothing
" you. you say"
Even so. yet that little thing I ca
IL not do. have sworn never to pa
with it until
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