Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-08

T WAS WORKING A KNIGHT" to doubt or daily, or temporize. Why. 'tis plain as the plan of fate! It was in the stars that should come to you. This face, this form. this heart, this soul-I shall see nothing else so long as live! Oh, feel my self unworthy; you have right to think me of no station. Yet some day l shall bring to you. all that wealth can buy, all that station can mean. Catharine-dear Lady Kitty-dear Kate
 T like not so fast a soothsaying in any suitor of mine, 2 replied Lady Cath afine, hotly, "and this shall go no further" Her hand restrained him.
 "Then you find me distasteful? :? You would banish me? could not learn to endure it!'
 Lady Catharine looked at him curi- ously. Actually, sir" said she, you cause me to chill. could half fear you. What is in your heart? Surely, this is a strange 1ove-making."
 And by that" cried John Law, stknow, then the better of the truth. Listen! know! And this Is what know--that shall succeed, and that shall love you always"
 s"'Tis what one hears often from men, in one form or another, said the girl, coolly, seating herself as she spoke.
 Talk not to me of other men-I'll not brook it!'' cried he, advancing toward her few rapid paces. Think you have no heart ?" His eye gleamed, :, strange wooing. Your face is here, here,'' he cried, "deep in my heart! I must always look upon it, or am a lost mani'
 The girl leaned back against the wall near which she had seated herself The young man bent forward, taking both her hands quietly in his own now, and gazing steadily into her eyes. There was no triumph in his gaze. Perhaps John Law had precedence Of the future.
 .tOh, sir, I had far liefer had never seen you,'' cried Catharine Knollys, bending head from whose eyes there dropped sudden tears.
 "Ah, dear heart, say anything but that!''
 "'Tis hard way a woman must travel at best in this world mur- mured the Lady Catharine, with wis dom all unsuited to her youth. But cannot understand. I had thought that the coming of a lover was joy ous thing, time of happiness alone '
 .Ah, now, in the hour of mist can you not foresee the time of sunsh inc ]? All life is before us, my sweet, all life. There is much for us to do. there are so many, many days of love and happiness.
 But now the Lady Catharine Knollys veered again, with some sudden change of the inner currents of the feminine soul.
 'I have gone far with you, MT. Law" '" said she, suddenly disengaging her hand. "Yet did but give you insight of things which any man coming as you have come should have well within his knowledge. Think not, sir, that I am easy to be won. I must know you equally honest with myself. And if you come to my regard, it must be step by step and stair by stair. This is to be remembered
 srI shall remember
 Go, then, and leave me for this time." she besought him. But still he could not go, and still the Lady Cath arine could not bid him moro sternl, to depart. Youth-youth, and love, ane fate were in that room; and these would have their way The beseeching gaze of an eye singu lar in it's power rested on the girl, {; gaze filled with all the strange, hal mandatory pleading of youth ant yearning. Once more there came : shift In the tidal currents of the wom. ans heart. The Lady Catharine slow ly became conscious of delicious help lessness, of sinking and yielding which she could not resist. Her head lost power to be erect. It slipped for ward on shoulder waiting as by right. Her breath came in soft meas ure, and unconsciousIy a hand was raised to touch the cheek pressed down to hers. John Law kissed her once upon the lips. Suddenly. without plan --ln spite of all plan-the seal of a strange fate was set forever on her Iifel
 For long moment they stood thus until at length she raised a face pale and sharp, and pushed back against his breast hand that trernbled.
 "Tis wondrous strange" she whis- pered.
 ASK nothing" said John Law, fear nothing. Only believe, as believe Neither John Law nor the Lady Catharine Knollys saw what was pass