New-York tribune., 1907-06-23

went out of the Alcazar garden, having had my
answer. Love cannot die in an hour, and / loved
Monica still, though | said that she was not the girl
10 whom | had dedicated my soul IN worship. She
had let follow her, only 10 say at last Il never
@ T 10 10 see you again. her al am s fs 5d 10 ,+1ed beT e
self a docle daughter. She had seen what the house
Of grandee of Spain can be like. She had seen the
Blanca Laguna pearl. Poor child OF eighteen years,
brought up to know poverty and to loathe it! Was
/ 70 let my love turn to hate because she was not
angel, but a woman like others?
4 desparing pity and sense Of hopeless loss
weighed upon my spirit with such heaviness as |
had never known. Not only had lost the girl |
loved but there such girl; she was dream,
and had walked up. That was all; but 1t seemed
the end Of everything Ny errand in Spain
finished, or rather broken short. She did not want
me any more The sooner | took myself out of her
life and let her forget what must seem childish
folly, the better. | might have known-she was 50
young; and she had warned me OF disaster when
she said " Don't leave me alone.
/ went to Olvero's fiat and changed my clothes;
then to the hotel where Ropes and the car were
waiting For the first time since We had come into
Spain, drove, like a demon" Ropes surprised
face said though his tongue was discreet and
the Wild rush through the air was wine to thirsty
AT the Cortio de Santa Rufna they were all sitting
in The patio in floods of moonlight the great awning
which gave shade by day fully rolled back
" You see" exclaimed Pillar, I'VE all sat up for
YOU Well, how did it go off?
heard myself laughing 1t did not feel pleas
ant laugh, but L glad to think that it sounded
ike anv other 4" Oh, 1t went off exactly as | might
have expected" / said, knowing that 1t was useless
to hide my humiliation though | might hide my
misery. And consequently my car and VIII
also 90 off tomorrow. As for Dick, he must do
he pleases; but | advise him, now he's here, to
stay for the SeDld1la Santa"
O. What do YOU meant" asked Pillar, almost letting
fall the guitar which she had been playing.
Has-has Lady Monica promised to go with you
Not at all" said / But what she has prom
ised to another makes it better that | should
90. She IS engaged TO CarnOna.
90 ] don't believe it." cried Pillar.
Il shouldn't if anyone but herself had told
"She said IT."
In exactly those words She said too that she
didn't want to again.
"Oh-ohi" breathed Pillar. Thank Heaven for
that You frightened horribly-just for
moment"
stared And now"
90 Now / know there's some mistake-dreadful,
but not too dreadful to clear up.
laughed again, as bitterly as felt this time.
Extraordinary ideal Because she says she doesn't
want TO see me, there Is mistake"
OF course Surely you aren't so cold hearted,
SO dlsloyal, 500 stupid as to believe her? But
tel me instantly all about it-everythng; every
Easily done I said, If it won't bore you all
here we're very few Of either; but what there
let nothing TO the Imagination
Imagination, Indeed!" exclaimed Pillar. 81 But
SO l went on and she listened to the end without
interruption, did the others, who only
1Hen, and therefore had no comments to make upon
s2Ch matters.
As told the wretched story in as few and as bald
words possible Pillar sat grave eyed, tense Tipped
IS Portia IN the court Of justice before her to
plead. When / finished she silent for a mo-
Tnent-I thought because, after all, she found her
self with nothing to say But, when her father in
ms compassion would have begun muTmur of
consolation, she broke out quickly, Il suppose
that she IS engaged to the Duke, or she wouldn't
have said So"
Not much doubt of that" assented