Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-21

over the sands was like the snow
flowers. Wrapped In their warm GOV.
erings. Julia and Therese de ID Maine
lay on the rugs before the door Of
their tent, and above their heads
shone the stars 90 low that It seemed
a. though their hands could snatch
them from the sky. At little dis.
lance their servants sat around the
dying fire, and there came to them the
plaintive song Of <Axrael. 40 he led
their singing:
And who can sive again the love Of yes
Can : vhiriwind replace the sand after Il
What ran heal the heart that Allah has
imitten?
Can the mirage form again when there
are no eyes to see?
Il was married." said Madame do Il
Maine. when was sixteen"
Julia drew q little nearer and smiled
I TO- herself In the shadow.
This would be real love story.
Il had Just come out Of the con.
vent. We lived in an old chateau,
older than the history OF your coun-
try, ma chere, and I had no dot. Rob
ert de fremont and used to play to-
gether in the allees Of the park, on
the terrace. When his mother brought
him over when she called ON my
grandmother, he leased me horribly
because the weeds grew between the
stones of our terrace. He was very
rude.
Throughout our childhood, until I
was sixteen, we leased each other
and fought and quarreled."
This 10 not aslove-affair, Therese,"
said Miss Redmond.
There are all kinds, ma chere. as
there are all temperaments," said
Madame de Ia Maine. AT Assump-
tion-that IL our great feast, Julia-
the Feast of Mary-it comes In Au-
gust-at Assumption, Monsieur de Ia
Maine came to talk with my grand
mother. He was forty years old, and
bald-Bob and made fun Of his few
hairs, like the children In the Holy
Bible"
Julia put out her hand and took the
hand of Madame de Ia Maine gently.
She was getting SO far from a love
affair.
II married Monsieur de Ia Maine in
six weeks" said Therese.
"Oh." breathed Miss Redmond. "hor-
rible!"
Madame de la Maine pressed Julia's
hand.
when it was decided between my
grandmother and the comte, escaped
at night, after they thought had gone
to bed. and went down to the lower
terrace where the weeds grew in
plenty, and told Robert. Somehow.
did not expect him to make fun. a.
though we always joked about every
thing until this night. 1t was after
nine o'clock"
The comtesse swept ono hand to-
ward the desert. "A moon like this
only not like this-ma chere. There
was never but that moon to mo for
many years.
Il thought ct first that Bob would
kill me-he grew 20 white and terrible.
He seemed suddenly to have aged ten
years. will never forget his cry Is it
rang out In the night You will marry
that old man when We love each 9th.
err had never known 1t until then.
I'VE were only children, but he
grew suddenly old. knew it then"
said Madame de 10 Maine intensely. Il
knew it then"
She waited for . long time. Over
the face Of the desert there seemed to
be nothing but ono veil Of light. The
silence grew 20. intense, so deep; the
Arabs had stopped singing, but the
heart fairly echoed. and Julia grew
meditative- before her eyes the cara
van she waited for seemed to come out
Of the moonlit mist, rocking, rocking
the camels and the huddled figures of
the riders, their shadows cast upon the
sand. .
And,now fremont would be forever
changed In her mind. A man who had
suffered from his youth, . warm-heart-
ed boy. defrauded Of his early love. It
seemed to her that he was . charming
figure to lead Sabron.
"Therese," she murmured, won't
you tell met" 40.
They thought had gone to bed"
said the Comtesse de Ia Maine, "and I
went back to my room by little stair
case, seldom used. and I found myself
alone. and knew what life was and
what It meant to be poor
But" interrupted Julia, Mortified,
girls are not sold in the twentieth
century"
They are sometimes in France, my
dear. Robert was only seventeen. His
father laughed ct him, threatened to
send him to South America. We were
victims"
at was the harvest moon." con-
.tinued Madame de Ia Maine gently.
and It shone on us every night until
my wedding day. Then the duke kept
his threat and sent Robert out Of
France. He continued his studies in
England and went into the army Of
Africa"
There was silence again.
u did not SEQ him until last year.
said Madame do Il Maine. after my
husband died"
So ITO Be Continually
. Proof He Wasn't Crazy.
Victor Murdoch says that one night