The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-08-06

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might qnench his thirst Don Kodergt
had married girl very much youngel
than himself ana set her UP on a pedes
tai rs his mother lad placed Il crucliiS
on her dressing table 10 worship ~
guOra de Sandoyal while he at first
found it pleasant . be tlns adored
especially since alteration brought with
It every comfort, soon found ii tire
some Her husband devoted but bret
| time to her every day, the rest being
/ given to affairs Of state he being one
/ Of the kings cabinet The rest of the
/ time the young wife spent alone, and it
| did not occur TO the husband that the
time would hang heavy on her hands
| or that she would crave society. espe-
| clally OF the opposite sex. Did she not
! have servants nj her beck ANA call. the
finest apparel 10 wear. the most savory
dishes upon her table? What more
could any woman need?
one night when bon Roderigo was re-
turning from the palace where he had
been in conference with the king. Just
before entering the court in which he
lived he stopped short and fastened his
eyes on a Scene before him. A young
man stood at the fountain holding the
cup In his hand ana looking up 1T the
balcony projecting from the second
floor of Don Roderigos house Jusr
within window opening on to the bal
cony huttered a handkerchief while
the young man was making signs with
the cup. His back was toward De San
doval SO that he could not be recog
niZcd.
The husband watched this pantomime
in a sort Of stupOr He could not have
been more thunderstruck had he seen
an angel from heaven alight on the
fountain and pour mud upon Tie wa
tiers. That the being he had Wog>hipcd
could thus dlshonor him filled him with
agony While he looked he saw a fan
waved frantically from within the Win
dow ana the man drinking at the foun-
tain dropped the cup and walNed rap
idly away. Don Koderigo, awakening
from his stupor, followed but the
stranger had only II short distance to
20 TO turn corner, and by The time
Sandoyal reached il the man he sought
was nowhere to be seen
Don Roderigo went to his house |
kissed his wife (she noticed that his |
lips were cold as icel, and went to bed. (
He did not accuse her nor ask the I
name Of the young man who had been
making signs at her window From
that time his manner toward her was
changed, though no one except herself .
noticed it. She was allowed the same
privileges, enjoyed the same comforts,
but somehow size felt ,h4J she lived IN
the shadow of death.
A few weeks after the episode that
had such a marked effect upon Ro-
derigo he was coming home late at
night when he saw a man drinking nj
the fountain. Advancing, he knocked
the cup from the strangers hand. The
man turned, hot mt the Insult, ana see
ing one worthy Of his steel drew his
rapier and attacked the insulter. san
doval drew and defended himself. cast
ing from time 10 time an eye on his
wife's window. All was dark there.
and in time he called a halt IN the
fight, apologized for the insult, rehled
the cup aud offered it to the stranger
The latter, puzzled, drank and went
away.
After that on numerous occasions
always at the dead Of night-sOme
stranger stopping to quench his thirst
at the fountain would report IN the
morning that the cup had been knocked
rom his hand aud. sometimes after
sight, the insulter had apo.ogized AMI
)roffered a full cup. The police seemed
iingularly apathetic about the matter,
lot even taking pains 10 watch the
'ountain. Thus it became the belief
hat the person who gave these insults
vas high in favor u the government
one night a man entered the square I
and. seeing another at the fountain
Withdrew under the shadow Of "a flight
Of steps. While the man at the foun-
.ain was drinking third figure ap-
lroacbed and knocked the cup out
If the drinkers hand.
What means this iuSultf" asked the
nan attacked.
At that moment glimmer of white
appeared on the balcony Of Don 10
lerigo's house Roderigo saw IL in an
instant
1T means that / have at last found
he man / have been 50 long looking
or" said Roderigo
His rapier flashed, but before the
nan for whom it was intended had
urncd 10 draw his own weapon third
nan shot from shadow and stood.
word Ia hand. between the two.
You are mistaken. scn9r." be said.
I am the man you have been looking =
or. | was a lover Of Your wife's be-
ore you married her. Thrice ! have A.,
"a Used a few words. or rather signals
With her from this fountain. but | ,
ave never been nearer. She is pure
: marble Go and conjiuue the wo--
hip which tin you found me here you .
estowed upon her. for She is worthy I
+ IT,"
The reply to this was q lunee Oh the
art of Don Roderico aud Shrek 4,
rom the balcony. The stranger
aught the blade on his own steel and I
eplied in kind IN a few minutes /,
,on R0dcrieo dc Sandoval lay
.re.ched ur0a the pavement.
"YOu made an 500 81 vour wife 4 D
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