The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-19

otsA ouV ASoAVd lii uOW WISu tue kI00
meaning Of man 8 love had been made
known to her and her daily prayer was
for Gavin $ safety. Not that She
doubted herself or the truth of her
love, but that she feared that some
thing in her blood which might bring
her to the counts arms and mock for
all time her faith in her own woman
hood and her spoken word that she
So greatly did this fear haunt her that
the days of waiting became almost in,
suPportable. She would rise with the
letter will come. }, The nights found
her brooding and restless and fighting
ever against the insidious advances Of
man who made love to her with
southern tongue--and when he was re-
pulsed had no shame to threaten her.
Your English friend was a fool to
go TO the mountains, = he would say;
government is helpless. The prison in
Z which my father lies, sent there by the
man who should have been his friend,
VIII not open to an Englishman s
friend, I would have done SO because he
was your friend. You say that he loves
you. / will believe it when the sun
shines IN England. Ny dear lady, your
heart is in the south with the vine and
the pomegranates. All your life has
not made an Bnglishwoman Of you.
You are like a flower that, cries for
the sun all day and withers because
there is no sun. I will take you to a
land of roses and set your feet upon
golden sands. We will visit the east
togetherthe color, the life, the music
OF it, shall enthrall US. There they will
teach you how to love. In England
your 70 hearts near, are i :; you have not
Day by day these vehement protests
would be made; day by day he whis-
pered them in her ear, following her at
home and abroad, in the galleries Of
Melbourne Hall, and to the glades and
the thickets o fthe park. And her
father abetted him, not openly by word
aequieseed in her persecution, protest
ing that George Odin IS son had claim
Of hospitality upon him, and that he
could not shut the gates of the house
in his face. In plain truth, Robert
Forester sinned not of his will but of
despair. He did not dare to tell Evelyn
that, by the English law, Dora 'Istran
might not be recognized as his wife at
all and that she, his daughter, had
therefore but a dubious claim to that
dignity which the accidents of fortune
had thrust upon him. He loved her,
understood every within Of that strange,
romantic mind, and believed, it may be,
that the young count would not be an
unworthy husband for. her. But the
fear that she would charge him with
thoughts. He would not that she
should pay the price for the follies and
the amours of his youth.
And what of Evelyn herself, mean
wh1le7 She was as one to whom the
heaven Of life has been suddenly re-
vea1ad after }opo WOO 80 of do rl1nooc ond
doubt. If she understood the meaning
Of womanhood, that Of manhood was
not hidden from her. In Gavin Ord
she had, for the first time. met and
known Intimately an Englishman; UNI
derstood the nobility Of man, the reso-
luton, the courage Of those reticent
personalities by which the nation has
out to rule the new countries of the
world. Such a knowledge uplifted
her and revealed truths which had been
hidden during her childhood. By Ga
vim s love would her soul be reborn; by
faith in him would the victory over her
eredo, sustaining her in the conflict,
and sending her to London with brave
heart and an unconquerable determine
ton to win independence and freedom.
More than this, she believed that the
great city would give her friends; and
that these IrlendS would tell her now to
find Gavin. and If need be, to save him.
No longer could she hide it from her.
self that something beyond the quest
for Georges Odin kept her English
friend in Rumania. She had received
but two letters from him, and these had
been written during the early days OF
his journey. The rest was silence and
a dreadful doubt creeping upon her as
a shadow; the doubt which said, hi
may have given his life for you; he may
never return.
We have said that Evelyn took NJ
her residence at the Savoy hotel, fear
ing no longer the disclosure Of hel
identity. Thither upon the SECOND
morning came little Dulcie Holmes ant
the melancholy Lucy Grey, enterins
her splendid room with timid steps ant
altogether abashed by the changed cir
cumstances under which they. fount
their friend. Their introduction O.
themselves was CHARACTERISTIC. Dulcie
unable to restrain her impulse, threw
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