Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-11-15

and sobbed bitterly. People are al
little children when they weep. Where
had he seen that bowed head? Heav'
ems! was 1t not upon his own should
er? Why, the picture was the same!
The moonlight was stealing through
the easement just as before. She wore
something filmy and white. It NIGH
have been that night-robe that hat
enshrouded the slender girl. His hear
beat so that it nearly suffocatet
him, and yet-de Couedic? 1t could
not be!
"Mademoiselle." he said, all the pas.
sion surging In his soul quiverlng IN
his voice, "do not weep. BY heaven,
II do not know how or why it Is, but
to see you weep tears my very heart!
Can 1t be that saw you but yester-
day and loved you, mademoiselle?"
She turned and faced him. The feel
ling in his voice, the look In his eyes,
as she stared at him, so perfectly
matched her own she had no will 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 would
fall on her face, and drawing herself
up threw out her arms wide before
him.
"Monsieur!" she cried. "oh. DO you
not know me?"
"Is It thou, Little France?" he ex-
claimed, dazed and bewildered by his
thoughts. "Who could have thought
lit? How beautiful"
She dashed away the tears with her
hand. She thought he had not yet
recognized her, as he lay spellbound
gazing on her matchless beauty. Her
scarlet lips quivered moment, then
shaped themselves for sound, and from
her full, soft throat came the notes OF
the little Breton cradle-song which he
had heard her sing In the garden OF
the Hesperides, '1routouie, la, la!" But
no mother ever sang 1t to child as she
sang 1t then.
"Anne!" he cried. 'The Lady Anne!
Fool that was! How blind! I should
have known you! I should have rec
ognized your footstep even had lain
dead at your doorstep!"
"Sir Philip! Sir Philip" she ex-
claimed. "How could you forget? But
I 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, l love!"
She threw her arms around his
neck; their lips met in one long kiss
charged with dreams and ideals of
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. It had all come
upon him suddenly with such shock.
She had known 1t for two days. He
had been so desperately wounded.
She was the stronger of the two
then and she recovered herself the
sooner. Something assisted her per-
haps. 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 her
Jealous mind in an instant.
Monsieur Grafton" she said, draw
ing away from him with a sudden
change of mood, "you not only forgot
me, you not only did not know me, but
YOU That locket. sir?"
eyes. mademoiselle," answered Graf
ton simply, for it was impossible for
him to deceive this woman, or to evade
the question.
"Ah! Carrying another woman's
face over your heart and speaking love
to mel"
20 Anne!" he cried, there may be
another woman in the locket, there Is
only yourself in my heart"
Whose picture is there?
81 may not tell"
Monsieur will not tell?"
NAY, can not. 'Tis honor seals my
lips"
He wished he had never given the
promise so lightly uttered in the n
of the Sutherland, but, being given, 1t
must be faithfully kept.
"The honor of a woman?" she asked.
"Of a man, mademoiselle, Of SOL
dier, of friend"
Explain yourself, monsieur"
"Mademoiselle Anne, can not, but
give you my word Of honor as an
English officer, the word Of an Amer
lean gentleman. your mothers land,
mademoiselle, that the lady Of the
locket is nothing to me, that I cherish
the face Of no woman except your own.
Ever since those days when l was held
a prisoner in the old chateau, since the
hour-do you recall it?-when carried
you in my arms and kissed you first,
have loved you. l have thought and
dreamed of you alone among woman
kind. When went away from France
left my heart behind. You have had
it--you have 1t now"
"But the locket?" she persisted,
while the music of his words rang
sweetly in the most secret chamber
of her heart.
Forget It,"
"Take 1t off, then"
81 can not"
Can not? And yet she is nothing to
you, you say?"
Even so, yet that little thing I can
not do. | have sworn never to part