Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-03
Book III.


door would l send my sweet Dorothy?
81 struggled with that question for squares and
squares,-until l reached home. When 1 had just
about decided that | would send my dear, dear
Dorothy into-Smith--"
Dorothy here began tugging at her hand again,
which l held so tight pressed against my heart
that she could not get 1t loose.
"Be quiet, dear-and hear the end think
you'll like it. going to send you in to Smith,
because knew he loved you, and was clever fell
low, and would take you right out the back door
and put you into his sixty horsepower machine,
and speed away with you to his beautiful home
already prepared for you-relying of course upon
this sensible conclusion;-and I would creep
away, like great, strong, wounded tiger and die
of my hurt.-Listen, DEAR" Dorothy was again
pulling at my arm.
"Listen;-I was just about dying, / believe try
ing however, to fit my latch key in the door, when
it opened. Presto!-you stood before in my
own sweet little apartment, with open arms-of
fguratively speaking l Immediately
signed Smith to the tiger;-and here are
zoe taoo alone creeping to your home in the moon
light all of my good resolutions that walked
squares and squares to formulate thrown to the
winds. You will notice. dear, that both of us de-
cided to die, ourselves; no matter how it ended
with The Lady or the Tiger"
"Yes;-but you have not told me how the Prin-
decided"
"she decided she would send him to the
tiger"
"Ho1o dreadful!-She ought to have sent him to
the LADY, SUPPOSE" with little sigh.
"At any rate they were disturbed before she
finally gave him the signal, so the poor fellow had
to guess at it. Now, this is what happened:
"On the following day. having made his obesi-
ance to the king. the lover gave one last longing,
lingering look into the eyes of his beloved; saw
an almost imperceptibe movement of the scarf and
retired to the center of the arena to await the
signal from his royal master
"The signal was given. The lover advanced and
laid his hand upon" I could feel Dorothys
warm little hand trembling in mine, as it rested
upon my sleeve;-"upon the door which Gagged the
tiger which, with sudden bound, leaped forth
and felled the lover with one blow OF his strong
paw" Dorothy did not speak. '"Then," con-
tinued with a piercing scream the Princess
sprung the railing into the arena, and was
instantly crushed in the fierce embrace of the
tiger, who crouching upon the body of the lover,
sprung forth to meet her." Dorothy was shivering
by this time, yet managed to whisper:
81 can understand that. They died together"
Like Romeo and Juliet?"
eyes" Then after pause, Sweetheart, do you
think she really meant for him 70 open the tigers
cage? May he not have made mistaken"
"How could he have made a mistaken"
"Since the signal not positively agreed
upon, relying upon her love and the desire to
him, he accepted the only signal mentioned which
which led to the lady; or-or-the keeper may
have changed the apartments without her knowl-
edge.
"You think, then, she could not possibly have
given him up to the tiger?"
"No-o-o! And yet-the LADY,"
"Now do you know what think?" quickly inter-
rupting before she committed herself; 81 think
he understood the signal all right He made up
his mind that he could not live without his Prin-
cess; that he would rather die than live with that
other woman-and- So"
"Dear dear Percyr squeezing my arm into
jelly took notice of it, went right on,
An so-he onened the door leading into the