The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-30
By BARONESS ORGY


sex has been made fool by woman
sAh. Fortunei tickle Fortunel one
or two turns OF your relentless wheel
and a host of Illusions sthe last,
I fear mes shave been scattered 10
the winds.s sShall we go, old Har-
ry?--meseens you are the only honest
person in this poison-infecteds Court
Well not stay In IL. friend promise
yous FL am thirsting for the pure air
of our Devon moorss sCome. ncws
we must to bed. sand sleep. :
Not dream. old Harry!' whatever
else we do - for Gods sake, let
US not dream.s ."
CHATTER XVI
The Prov0cation.
When Ursula finally succeeded IN
escaping from her room. where she
had been forcibly confined---aImost q
prfsoner--in the charge OF two watt
ing women. she returned to the hall
vaguely hoping the Wessex would stu
be there. She found no one. The
closet door was open; taking one OF
the wax tapers In her hand. she peeped
into the inner room and saw that Il
was empty.
on the fur rug, on the floor, was
still the impress OF Harry Piantagenet's
body as he had curied himself up
patiently to wait and sleep.
A sudden draught extinguished the
taper. and left the small room In total
darkness: to her overweight nerves
II seemed cold and lonely, like q newly
opened grave Wessex had gone be-
cause he had heard that she had de-
ceived him. The ISLANDERS uttered
against her had found credence In his
heart Then she unused. guessing at
the truth. perhaps not even realizing
how much he had suffered.
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just yet She knew that she could not
rest. Though the room was empty.
there seemed something Of him still in
1t, even In its cold and deserted as
pect.
she fingered here. sitting in the
chair where he had sat and heard.
She could not cry, she would not give
way. for she wished to think. There
fore she fingered. ~
Thus Fate worked its will In the
strange history of that night
Wessex did not know that she had
returned. After the Cardinal had LEFT
him, he waited awhile. but he never.
guessed that she would come back.
Had he not heard that her kindest
favors had been the Spaniard's. ere his
noble Grace had come across her pathf
With that almost morbid humility.
which Is such a peculiar and inalien-
able characteristic of a great love, he
thought It quite natural that she should
love Don Miguel or any other man.
rather than him, and now was only too
willing to suppose that she had gone
to her favored gallant. leaving him
In the ridiculous and painful position
in which she had wantonly placed
him.
He waited in desuHory fashion. not
really hoping that she would come.
Theh. as silence began to fall more
and more upon the palace. and the
clock in the great tower doomed the
midnight hour, he finally turned his
steps towards, his own apartments.
To reach them he had to go along
the Cloisters. and traverse the great
Audience Chamber. which lay between
his suite of rooms and that occupied
by the Cardinal de Moreno and Don
Miguel de Suarez.
As he entered the vast room, he was
unpleasantly surprised to see the young
spaniard standing beside the distant
window.
The lights had been put out. but the
two enormous bays were open. letting
in a flood Of, brilliant moonllght- The
night was peculiarly balmy and sweet,
and though the window could be seen
the exquisite panorama OF the gar