Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-03-21

let me stay in prison. meet death and |
SO end all? 1t would have been better |
for both OF us. l cannot live without ]
you"
1--WE can live for each other. die for
each other-apart. Distance will not
lessen my love You know that 1t ex-
lists. 1t has been betrayed to you. Can
Won not be satisfied-just a little bit
with that knowledge" she pleaded.
But want you in reality, not in my
dreams. my imagination"
Zach, we must not talk like this!
There is no alternative. You are to go;
am to stay. The future is before us.
God knows what it may bring to us.
Perhaps it may be good enough to give
| us happiness-who knows? Do not
plead with me. / cannot endure 1T. Let
me be strong again! You will not be
so cruel as to battle against me now
that | am weak. 1t would only mean
my destruction. You do not seek that"'
His soul, his honor, the greatest rev.
erence he had ever known were in the
kiss that touched her brow.
81 shall love you as you command
without hope" he said sadly.
without hope for either" she Sob
bed.
MY poor little soldier" he whisper
ed lovingly as her body wrfthed under
the storm Of tears.
Il wish-I were a-soldier" she
walled. He comforted her as best he
could. and soon she was Quiet-Oh. so
very quiet! Her head was on his Shout
der, her hands in his.
How far do we driver he asked at
last.
ITO the monastery. We are nearly
there" she answered in tones far
away.
1.-THE monastery? Why do we go
there?" he cried.
"You are to stay there"
What do you mean: I thought I
was to leave Graustark."
You are to leave-later on. Until
the excitement is over the abbey is to
be your hiding place. l have arranged
everything, and it is the only safe
place on earth for you at this time.
! No one will think of looking for you
up there"
Il would to God 1 could stay there
j forever. living above you," he said
= lrearily.
y "Your window looks down upon the
castle; mine looks up to yours. The
lights that burn in those two windows
J. will send out beams Of love and life
for one of us at least"
l For both of us, my sweetheart" he
} corrected fondly. You say l will bt
L safe there. Can you trust these mel
u who are aiding you?''
ID with my life! Quinnox carried
st message to the abbot yesterday. and h'
re grants you q temporary home there
secure and as secret as the tomb. H'
I'd promises me this. and he is my Des
" friend. Now, let me tell you why
IF am with you, masquerading so shame
'e fully
sc "Adorablyr' he protested.
! eft is because the abbot insisted tina
I bring you to him personally. He VIII
not receive you except from my hands
There was nothing else for me to dc
then. was there, Lorry? l was com
pelled to come, and l could not com
as the princess-as woman. D1scoV
|
II from which l could not have hoped t
n recover The military garments wer
my only safeguard
q "And how many people know of you
l deception"
| Three besides yourself - Dagma
Quinnox and Captain Dangloss. LII
abbot will know later on, and shlve
as / think of it. The driver and Il
man who went to your cell, Ogbo
know of the escape. but do not know
am here. Allode-yOu remember him
81 is our driver"
| "Allode? He's the fellow who sa
me-er-who was in the throneroom.
"He is the man who saw nothin
sir"
"I remember his obedience" he sal
laughing in spite of his unhappines
J cam I to have no freedom up here
.rk- no liberty at ALP
.sYou are to act as the abbot or t
kes prior instructs, and, l must not forg
rid Ouinnox will visit you occasional
you He will conduct you from the mon'
Ike. terry and to the border line at the Pre-
all er time"
ALIAS. he will be my murderer
=. 1t fear! Yetive you do not believe
are killed TorenZ | know that most
ack them do but swear to you | am
this more the perpetrator of that cowar'
5 to crime than you. God bears test1mo
to nv innocence. l want to hear
With say that you do not believe XII
him"
by II feared so at frst-no. do not
how angry-I feared you had killed MN
nave my sake, but now am sure that
rash are innocent"
es- The carriage stopped too soon'
!. Ouinnox opened the door. 1t was
was as dark as pitch, but the downpour
hest ceased except for disagreeable, MI
error drizzle. cold and penetrating.
nat I'VE have reached the stopp
Vom- place." he said.
/. 1t "And we are to walk from mere