The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-02
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 Into the Royal Gardens a youth hur- ried preoccupfed and distraught. He followed eagerly with his eyes the de- parting figure of the Queen and hel fraln of ladies. He threw himself upon q marble seat and his lack iustre eye wearify sought the ground. He might have been a page. messenger; a gen, been anything. The audience was no' snterested in him
 An ancient stone gate was at hts left Behind him the roses bloomed full! and red. Box wood and cedar trimmed to fit into the harmonious beauty oi the Kings garden circled the lofty curved marble seat on which he sat and the stone baIustrades on the other side of the old stone gate and the carv- ed scat on which the Queen had bee1 SIEting-
 The audience bore patiently with the young man in black. with the dejected face It was a part of the play and Mnn3field was about to come on the staaa. The stately queen. young, gracc fnl and handsome in her Grecian love- Illness bad just gone. Tho black Earb- cd young man was not sufficient to win the interest of the audience froul It's memory of the patrician beauty oi the queen. with her wealth ct red golc hair.
 A priest came on and reproved the deJected young man for his ways which did not meet the approval oi the King. Through the respectful but fnstdfous reproof of the priest there ran the thread of jealousy and sus- pici0n suggested, but made so plain that 1t could not be mistaken, the sus. picion and the jealousy of Spanish Phillips court. The youth, strong and graceful, but borne down by untell- able woe, arose and walking back and forth resented the hinted wrongs and the innuendoes of a suspected act H. wore a black doublet. A black cloak lined with black was across his shoul. ders. A black bonnet was on his heaC and the very chain that held his dag. ger was black. His face was full with the fuIlness of youth, his cheeks were rounded and his eyes were large and lustrous. But every act betokened ar nntellable sorrow. The mouth dropped in a curve of grief and the rich tenor voice vibrated with suffering. He dis missed the priest with a positive wave of his hand and positive word.
 There comes to him in his melan- choiy the Marquis de Posas, his friend and his comrades. He sfezes the hand of the friend of his heart, and rocking back and forth upon his heels, witt every word, a word of grief and oi shame tells him of his love for th' young Queen, his lost love, for she fl now the wife of his tather, the King
 1t has come to the audience tha Mansfield was upon the stage and h. Is telling the story of a hopeless love telling 1t as 1t could be told 5Y n' other. That the audience knew a work Of sorrow, the very accentY foretold
 And yet. but few moments later when the young queen. wtth Ser reC gold hair. was upon the stage. he tolc it in the wild abandon of lovers gfief that far exeelled the first telling The young man in black, his unhappi- ness his surroundings of distorted na' tare and distorted humanity, strangely recalled Hamlet, was in those few brief moments such Q lover as perhaps me old stage which he trod had never before seen. It Is given to any mar t0 so portray the madness. the fearfu abandon of love, which forgets the heavens above and the waters below a: SkAt man showed it. The words came zzKusically, sorrowfuliy and meltingly The eternity of grief or of happiness 1T love. the voice alone carried, even If il had not to utter the burning words oi Schiller
 It was the voice, the gesture, tho expression that carried the great anC moving message that was tearing aside