Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-08-28

~ Won Rrc..s,,!n had stol-
Is en- fr.w H.. room and
4 had cras"I ~ exist
50 far =, Leopold and
Virginia Were concerted.
IN tel yea now Why I'm here and
everything c.,e." She was saying, hut
the eupero- stopped Ter.
Ever sine can" . myself want
et 40 explanation" be said. Il want.
Ell Only you. That Is ell l want now.
l am the happ!est man 10 the universe.
Why should ask how came by my
happiness? Virginia, Virginia, Jts
more beautiful name even than
Helen"
But l!sten." she pleaded. There
are some things-just n few things
that long to tell you. Please let me.
Last night ! wished to go into con-
vent. Oh. It was because I loved you
80 much. / wanted you to seem per
feet as my Lero Of romance. just as
you were already perfect as an en-
peror. To think that l should have
been far away cut OF Rhaetia by this
time II Miss Portman hadn't been Ill!
Dear Miss portman. Maybe II we'd
gone nothing would ever have come
right. Who can say?
You know. my brother came to our
hotel this afternoon. When his card
arrived we couldn't tell whether he
knew our secret or not, but when we
had let him come up we had only TO
see his face OF surprise. He was an
cry. too. as well as surprised. for he
blurted out that there were all sorts OF
horrid suspicious against us. and moth
or explained everything to him before
/ could have stopped her even II /
wOuld-how l had not wanted to ac-
cept you unless you could learn to love
me for myself and then how l had
been disappointed. Nc, don't speak
that's all over now. You've more than
atoned. thousand times more.
Dial explained things. too. then-very
different things-abOut n plan Of the
chancellOr's to disgust you with me
and how he Dab had played into the
chancellor's hands because, you see.
he thought he was acting wisely for
his neglected sisters sake and because
he had really supposed an actress he
knows was masquerading as Miss
MOwbray. Very imprudently he'd told
her that some day there might be
something between you and his sister.
She knew quite well. too. that the real
MOwbrayS were our cousins; so. you
see, rs she and he have Quarreied. 1t
might have been an easy and clever
way for an INSCRIPTIONS woman to
take revenge. Dial would have gone
and perhaps have said dreadful things
to the chancellor, who was waiting
downstairs for news, but begged him
not. From being the saddest girl in
the world Id suddenly become the
happiest. for the chancellor had told
Dial and Dial had told me that you had
followed Helen Mowbray to ask her to
Ike the empress. That changed every
thing. for then knew you really loved
her. but just to punish you for what l
suffered through you last night l long
ed to put you to one more test. l said:
Let the chancellor carry out his plot.
Let ME go with you to your hunting
lodge At first Dal wouldn't consent,
but when l begged him he did. for
generally l can get my way with PEG.
pie. warn you.
That's all, except that hadn't real
lied how severe the test would be un.
til you came In and I saw the look in
your eyes. 1t was a dagger Of ice In
my heart l prayed heaven to make
you believe in me without word. Oh,
how l prayed through all that dread.
ful moment and how l looked at you
saying with my eyes, I love you: I am
true! II you had failed me then II
would have killed me. but
There could he NO but" the EN-
perOr broke In. ITO doubt is not to
love. When a man loves he knows
Even out Of darkness a light comes
and tells him"
Then you forgive me-for tonight
and for everything. from the begin
ning?"
Forgive your"
"And II Id been different, more like
other girls. content with q conventions
affection, you wouldn't have loved me
moreT'
He took her in his arms and held bel
IS II he would never let her so.
III you had been different wouldn't
have loved you at ALL" he said. "But
II things had been different l couldn't
have helped loving you just the same
! should have been fated to fall In
love with Princess Virginia Of Bau
menburg- Drippe at first sight, exactly
as fell In love with Helen Now
bray"
"Ah. but Mt best you'd have fallen
IN love with Virginia because It was