The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-29

plnmed hat was almost the image OF
Philip. her husband. save that this
man was course and brutal and that
he was years older than the man she
had married.
She gripped her partners hands.
II am tired she told him; will
You find ME quiet seat? And you
shall amuse me by relating the story
this mans face recalled"
There is not much to tell" said
Mephisto, as he found secluded
nook and settled the girl with a cush.
ion to her back, an ice close to hand
on the handicapped table. "but
suppose there is no harm In telling
1t, since 1t is so long ago that it all
happened. 1t was when / was quite
a boy and had gone abroad to study.
l won't name the country or the
town, for several reasons, but while
there l made friends with another
student whom we will call only by
his first name, Guy.
"As the days wore on 7 discovered
first that Guy. my fellow-Englishman
was in love. Secondly, that he was
i'll love with a lady OF high station
and Of the country In which we both
were students; and thirdly, he was
accustomed to meet her In the castle
grounds In the evenings. Sometimes
these meetings took place In the
light summer evenings, and some.
times under the enchantment OF the
glorious moonlight nights. Guy was
at that timo a perfect specimen OF
athletic English manhood, undebased
az yet by his vices. Do you wonder,
then. that beautiful foreign woman
found in his impassioned love-making
her hearts ideal? You see, she had
been always surrounded by the in.
triguos OF the court in which she
lived: this delicious, clandestlne no.
nance was what she had dreamed
about In her girlhood. She adored
Guy, she lived for him and for his
love only.
Then came tho terrible news; she
was forced to tell her lover that she
was not only high-born, but, In fact,
of the blood royal. That the time
had come when she was to wed a
cousin who was prince In little
kingdom across the southern from.
tier. That 1t was tho hour of their
being wrenched apart. know how
hardly 1t hit old Guy, who had been
dreaming Heaven knows what on.
sense, but she was obdurate. Duty
called, and she was too brave, too
splendid not to obey. with head held
high though her heart froze. He
came back to the room which he
shared with his brother and myself,
and he broke down and rayed and
wept. 1t was terrible.
THAT evening his brother went
with him to keep guard while he had
his last interview with Eulalia. He
stayed in the shadow Of a dropping
tree while the lovers wept In each
others arms. He told me afterward
that she was the most wonderfully
beautiful woman. that she was a
white marble where the moonlight
rested upon her. He could hear
nearly all they said, and he heard
Guy swear to write to her once In
every three months during the rest
OF his life. She eXacted that as an
honorable promise from him, that
so long as his love held, she would
be able to endure the misery of her
unhappy existence. The knowledge
that he was somewhere in the world
and thinking about her would be as
prop to her. to aid her in her life
long Punishment from all the realms
of love. Guy swore all oath that
never would the appointed day go by
but he would write that promised
letter.
"a clock struck; the lovers drew
apart-she to return to her waiting
woman, the brothers to creep out
stealthily through a door IN the wall.
Guy was moody, and his brother
greatly touched by what he had seen
and heard. Three months. went by.
On the night when the letter should
have been written. Guy was hope.
lessly drunk. AS he lay sprawled
hoggishly across one end of the
table, his younger brother drew the
pen and paper toward him and wrote
an impassioned avowal of affection,