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The Washington herald., 1921-04-03
Princiep.and True Love By Nngie E. Roe

In the midst Of which the cid trouble went
away from the slim young woman By the
pillar-went away forever. Went away and
left her staring into the warm. dark eyes a
Princiep'.
Now" he said simply. win you come
right now-to the church at the enc OF ths
town yonder!"
-Now?" said Lilith. notrf"
"Right now-this YER minute said Prtn-
ciep', how wonderfuHjoy-oh-t this great
Joy. After sorrow-when thought / had
lost you forever! Have we not waited long
enough?"
All. yes. Had she not waited long enough
for peace, not TO mention Joy!
But how could she-thus-vith no preps.
ration
-Just within the hour Princiep' was nay
ing, a. he had said. " Ride with me At DAWN
that first day-Impetuously. earnestly.
The girl plucked at her dress
Persuade her. Dick" he cried and Horlo-
way looked gravely down into the wide bius
eyes.
IL you love Princiep' Min Hope,- he sa,d
kindly as The swallow-and you viii own all
three, you know" he finished with smile.
Lilith's eyes began TO shine with a light
akin to that which made Princiep's face so
radiant. Her fingers trembled at her breast
Wait" she said slowly. until / change
my dress"
"Dios Gracious" gssped Princiep. hurry
INV dear-T wait Foreyeri"
Over the desert country q great white
moon was rising.
FL Toro and The Swallow paced slowly to
gether-toward Hermosa Rancho. The town
was its 'dobe structures. its hotel and its
daily rushing trains lay far behind 20 the
north and west
Princiep' and Lilith rode into the radiant
night like two children. holding hands
She had no clothes but what she wore, no
possessions.
1T matters not" Princiep' had declared
largely, tomorrow we shall send in and
bring the SO small trunk. There is z
Sehorita Felicita-a trine large. her gar
ments now, but who cares. Oh, my beloved!
And we have each other. Is it not good.
Miss Ho-" he checked himself and aughed
that soft happy laughter which life ever Of
fered TO Princiep'. sefora Lilith Allcrez;
is It not sweet and good. this my country"
Sweet as-as heaven. think" said Lilth
tremulously. for you people IL. Princiep'
with faith and honesty and kindness-and
love"
-Ah, yes" said Princiep'. fervently. viii
love always"
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even less than that, for he might deign
to notice the inanimate object II only
to remove 1t. whereas his pervadins
presence in her path, served to convince
her that he was equally Indifferent to
her and to the path.
Her campaign against him had failed.
She frankly admitted that. She had
meant to teach him a lesson, and she
had taught him nothing. That in itscI
was humiliating. That must account,
surely, for her unwillingness to go away
and leave him behind. untaught. Or was
she. perhaps. that most abominable of
creatures, the woman whose heart goes
out to the man who browbeats and bull
lies her? She turned sick at the thought.
Well, il she were indeed such a poor
creature. no one should ever know it
no one-no one!
She did not hear his step along the
trail, but she saw the light of his cigar
before he spoke. and confusedly scram-
bled out of her hammock. He seemed
surprised by the sudden apparition.
Don't bother to leave" he said Sc.
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She felt his lips on her face, kissing
away her tears. %, my darling" he
added. don't you think this nonsense
has lasted long enough? Don't you think
it's time we admitted the TRUTH"
She tried to draw back and look at
him, but he held her close.
Il love you" he said brokenly. I've
loved you from the time l saw you at
the Matthews ball in New York last
winter. / didn't meet you that night,
though ] tried to. You were surrounded
ten deep. and no one would take time to
fight through the lines and present me.
| had just got back from Franco. you
know. and ! didnt get my discharge till
April Then | heard that you were en-
gagged. and later that the engagement
was broken. l came up here running.
because l knew you were here. but Ca
pen told me how you felt and said there
was no chance for me. or for anybody
He wanted me to go home and wait till
next summer But of course / couldn't
do that.
Somehow. ArabelIs did not know just
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ARABEILA DART. MAN-HATER By Elizabeth Jordan

rapture. of dispsir and hope Of love and
longing. of wanting you every minute.
which I've gone through since ] hrst m"t
you last winter is all new to me. And
the farce ! had to keep up nearly Killed
me. o. ArabelIa"-it was he who gulped
now. bcyishly-"I can't stand any more.
Don't be cruel. Don't play with me.
Don't pretend you don't understand.
Please. please. try TO love me-"
Down on the pebbly beach the rising
waves kissed the shore. In the little
cedar grove the night wind kissed the
lrcclops In the hammock and for just
a moment. Arabclla struE- led with IN"
old desire to pay of that score. II h" had
bcen loss humble she might have done IL
Eut he was looking at her with the eyes
" a Iovcr-snd also with thoc Of an un-
happy. repenant small boy.
Arabella leaned forward and tendcrly
almost materially. Missed tho roPcntant
small boy.
copyright. 1919. by Elizabeth Jordan.)
Next week an original story entitled
Tho RridEe." b. Jeanette Lee. will nr-
pear In this section
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As 1t should be- She preferred to be
alone.
She remembered that there was one
spot left. q lonely one, in which she could
fittingIy spend the last mournful hour Of
her nnal evening. 1t was the hammock
under the trees near the bay trail-the
hammock she had warmly recon-
mended to Mr.. Larkin on the night of his
arrival in camp. Before two minutes
had passed she was established in It.
She closed her eyes. but she could not
doze, though above her head the night
wind was singing a soothing lullaby in
the branches of the big cedar. Her
thoughts were busy. almost morbidly so,
with irritating details of the days just
past-days pervaded with the presence
Of the woman hater." as the girl called
him. She seemed to hear again his light
almost contemptuous laugh. to see again
the impersonaI way in which his dark
eyes swept over her, as II, she hercely
told herself. she were an inanimate OBJ
tsct In his path. Indeed. she seemed
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of5cer, slain because be insisted on disci-
pline aboard one Of the three destroyer.
comprising the Esthonian navy. They
found his body with the throat cut under
the bushes outside the restaurant on the
hill where dined and watched the Rus
sian refugees s-dsncing for the pleasure of
the diners.
And so W. came TO whore they were 20
show me the beautiful old stones. the ouaipI
and unreplaceable memorials Of the past.
Against such craven images as these no pro-
hibition stands, for they carried down the
centuries the names and the graces and the
virtues Of a shining compsny Of those whose
coming blest the earth and whose going left
il poorer. we are sure.
uERALDIC emblems Of the days "whe.
II knighthood was in flower" had ben
violently pried from pillars and tablets and
hurled to the ground. The gentle faces Of
the saints looked up in wonderment from
piles Of rubble where they lay. Crosses and
keys and helmets that had been cut in stone
with infinite care were strewn about in a
confusion that would have pleased the
maddest moments Of Cromwen's Ironsides
among the English cathedrsls. A lion,
paw. an angels wing. a msiden's nose OF
a knights mailed fist peeped out of th. stone
splinters in a way to wiring with anguish
the heart Of any with the least historic in
stinct or the smallest sentimental interest.
solemnly the children, standing with their
hands clasped. eszed at the ruin, and then
looked up at me. The mother spoke. She
had not often spoken on the way. She
said, You see"-snd then she caught her
breath. and tried ssain-'You see.' the Bel-
shevists have been here"
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The mother described the steps from inc
vine clad versnda, and as she came sns
rolled her needles and gray wool In nei
work apron. With grave eyes, she ou'nSiu
her hand to me, stranger frankly welcome.
How glad they were to 60 win 'nsn
mother and with me, to look TOR tne oia
stones in the wood They knew the story OF
the stones As Il were one Of their own picture
books. For the story was part OF the family
chronicle, passing from gsrrulous lips to
listening ear By the freside Of winter nights
while the kettle hissed and the cat lay with
her pavs tucked under. The children had
been told how grandfather with a creaking
OK cart moved the stones from the mold
erinr cloister wall In The old town TO pre-
serve them, and then gave years OF MS iife
to putting them In place along woodland
avenue which he named the "Appian Way,
to picking out from moss and lichen the
archaic inscriptions-to the writing OF
book that through the text and pictures
brought alive the bygone civilization and the
culture history Of the Baltic provinces and
the ancient Bait regime.
The children were too little TO understand
some of the hard names and the long words,
but they were not too little TO understand
that grandfather had done Q isborious, Z
selhess and an honorable thing. whereof
men spoke with praise. and that these old
stones In the wood. with their saints ant
knights and cherubim. we're Q heritage mort
precious than the brill,snts that are worr
for vain sdornment on Q finger or agains
lasy's throst They we're taught tha
when they grew to. mans estate ant
woman's they. too, must cherish and con
serve these stosss that grsndfsthsr ha'
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nNE day last summer was rustling about
~ In Q great, Wild wood In Esthonis, on
the warm south side Of the gulf Of Finland.
This forest 10 on the bay Just west Of the
old city Of RevsL . city Of turrets and bat
Elements and ramparts that has stepped
breathing out Of the fairy tales, for all the
world liz q picture By Howard Pyle or
MaIneId Parrish. Long years ago a wise
cid little man Of Reval. with his spectaclss
On the end Of his nose. had pulled and tug
s.d to set up q row Of gravestones Of the
s,arteenth century somewhere in the din
seart Of that ancient wood, and was hunt
tnr for them. And that il how came
upou the children-or rather, how the chill
dren came on me.
Suddenly through the leaves deserted .
eottas. that would have satisfied the witch
ef ..Hsnsel and Gretel." and a. parted the
h.by saplings Of the white birch with my
hands for a wider vista German police
dos plunged from his kennel to the end OF
,his chain and set the very leaves aquiver
With ms indignation. The fierce. hard dark
meas of his eyes said to ne, mot in ten
years will melt into friendliness." could
not think of language or q gesture tha
would penetrate the steel proof Of his train
Ing and spuch his faithful dog heart towart
the stranger would always be. -.
! 30 stood and looked at him. and he stood
an -fours and looked at me. A small RED
spider was free to climb iaboriously acros
q thread between us-and with the spidel
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loved and guarded. They had been given
to believe that in the "Appian Way" they
must walk softly and not raise their voices,
for Il was q temple not less holy than the
Nikolai Kirche that is in Reval, where they
went on winter Sundays to dangle their legs
in the carved stall of the Blackheads before
the oaken pulpit, the seven branched
brazen candlestick and the reredos wrought
BY one Of grandfather's grandtathers nine
years before Columbus found America. The
knights whose names and escutcheons were
on the stones were good knights, friends
Song Of Roland"
HEARD n small cry from, the grass, anu
i the youngest toddler was upresching his
brown arms to me to tell me he was tired.
His lips were purple with the smear of Der.
ries and in his eyes the tear drops glis-
tened. set him like posy on my shoulder.
one Of his heels in my handkerchief pocket,
as in q stirrup, and from his height he
looked down blueberrily on me, on the red
clay path, on the other children; on the
tortoiseshell comb in his mothers hair, and
was magnanimously pleased. ..
And so, one riding and the rest afoot, ",
made our pilgrimage. The dog-the CLEAN.
ing teeth and raucous voice forgotten now
would rummaee and return, as q dog viii
The youngest felt he must join the rest,
. and he climbed down me, pocket by pocket,
to share their 'tra66cs and discoveries. -
One Of them came out of the wood with q
fungus, as big as one of our apple pies q,
home. and asked his mother if be might eat
It. Another came with pink -pleated toad
stool and met with q similar polite refusal
But there were no tears, tor there vas toc
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why, am always here. Look Up, dear frien'.
for / have brought him back to you for
always."
IAlith Hope did look up-with such fear
and despair that she seemed like lost soul
in very truth. poised on the brink.
Brought him back she sssped. "oh.
INV Godm The interested spectators looked
on with bated breath. The two Fasteners
rose quietly to their feet.
At that look on Lilith's face bewilderment
fell upon Princiep'.
DID you not want him back. sehorta7"
he asl.ed .
Nor cried the girl like a shot, reused at
last from her dropping. No! 1t was the
last did want on this earth
She caught her breath and rushed on. a.
II the fiood gates of speech were opened
-I thought / had ioA myself from him at
Iast-had found peace and sanctuary!
Thought / could live and rest with what
money had left Of my little property-but
he found me out as he always does! He
has followed me for years-and always when
I thought was safe was mott ] have been
divorced from him for three Of those years,
but he has been like a stone on my neck
always!
"I could have no friends. for he said he
would kill them-and he would do so: That
he would kill me-and he would"
She was trembling as with an asue, her
hands clutching the pillar.
Always when the interest on my small
capital came due-always at that time Of
year-always he has found me out! thought
Il thought I-had lost him now-but-
but
II see," said Princiep' Allorez gently.
but he came an went-sn' brought him
back. And you-do not want him. Ma'am-
seIle."
want him? Ny Lord? said Lilith Hope
Then" said Princiep'. smiling. you need
not have him-ever any more. You shall
have me instead, an will"
But here the two fasteners came eagerly
forward.
81 beg pardon" said the foremost, bu;
we will take the responsibility OF your hands
Mr.-Mr-
"Ailorez." said Princiep.
Mr.. AHorez. though you seem perfectly
capable OF assuming II. Mr.. Bunt Hsrlin
alias Slide Frick alias several more will 81
very peaceably back to Ohio with us-wher'
he will reside indefinitely. can assure you.
And showing a badge beneath his coat Ia pc
the plain clothes man stepped forward with
the Jingle Of bracelets suggestively apparent
Il think our coming hastened that rid
north"
There was the usual stir and commotioi
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Maamselle-I am strong lighter. 10 II
money! There are cattle on Hermosa
Rancho-thousan's OF them. Is the
Kind voice halted q perceptible space. then
went bravsly on. lis it-another mani!
yes" said Liith Hope 20 low he scarce.
Iy heard. 1T 10 q man."
Then did Princiep' touch bottom.
The lovers touch on her hand slipped into
the close clasp Of the friend.
Then I have come too hte!" he cried.
~you already love another"
And with one consent they rode for the
town in silence.
At the hotel steps he looked up at her
with . very real anguish on his handsome
face.
-Friends,- he said. -ws may stii Be-
those, Ma,amselle can We mott You will
ride with me" but the sentence was not
finished, for Lifith Hope. looking across his
shoulder At the tourists trudgins across the
sand from the incoming train that painted
nj the station, turned ghastly white and slid
down the pillar to The porch noor.
"Madre de Dios!" gasped Princiep. leap
ing to catch her in his arms. but he flashed
a glance across his shoulder as he raised
her. Several people were coming in-some
train-tired women. a man or two. some chill
dren-and ahead Of the rest man in ar
ticulate sports clothing huge figure Of
man, red of face, white Of hands, with face
that caught the attention instantly.
Him Princiep' marked as he carried the
girl inside and literally took Dick Holloway
with him with his eyes.
Anna might meet the suests-or they could
go unmet-
In her own room a few moments later
Lilith opened her blue eyes to Princiep's
gaze and II they had been lonely and weary
that FIRST enchanted night, months back.
they were literally frightened TO death now.
But she got a grip on herself and sat up
facing the two anxious men.
An right now" she said, "a-touch Of
fatigue-I thank you both"
But Princiep', on the stairs. looked at his
friend Dick and knew It was not fatigue.
Holloway also was silent.
For two days Princiep' saw no brown head
by the pillar. ..
He did see, however, the new man With
the red face. for he was in evidence every.
where, taking, posing. filing the eye
How can she love this-this pigf" b
asked himself, and was inclined to doubt
And then. on a morning, the stranger va.
gone-though II was between trains-ant
there were several men about the place
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two quiet chaps who looked Eastern being
the most noticeable among the everchansing
stream Of guests.
And At that dusk he was thrilled to see
the brown head against the pillar and
hastened to drop beside Lilith.
My frien"" he breathed In relief and
Joy, Oh. my dear dear frienT-
But the friend was In sorry case indeed.
for the blue eyes were sick with weeping
and the sweet lips drooped like q tired
chiids and Princiep' longed to take her in
his arms and comfort her.
Can help7" he begged. jus any way?"
Lilith shook her head.
That" he said tentatively, that
was-the man. Ma'amselle7" and his eyes
were 20 earnest that the girl bit her lip to
keep back the tears and answered honestly.
"That-was the man."
But il he not gomez" cried Princiep', dis
mayed that any one who was Lilith Hopes
should Be able to be gone from her adorable
presence. 81
-oh. yes she said uiserably. he IL gone"
How an where?"
Wild horses in another's hands could not
have dragged the answer from her.-but she
answered Princiep'.
North to the hills, think. Horseback
TO stay7" he sasped.
To stay. All, II she could but be sure
81 do not know" she said, and the tears
dripped unbeautifully down her little chin
Verify. the old tangled trouble was neither
Princiep' Allorez rose up-like a slim lance
in the soft dusk. His eyes flashed with all his
inherited hre. His gallant heart though
heavy with its own pain, was stirring with
large courage for another.
Keep good heart. dear frien'," he said,
good night BSenos roches," he added In
the softer tongue Then he was gone
That was q lovely night in the desert
country. soft and blue with = myriad silver
stars. and the tourists slept with open win
dows at the Holloway Hotel To Princiep
it was q lovely night. too.-full Of thoughts
Of sacrifice and some that were not so noble.
for he rode Ell Toro northward At = steady
pace and he fingered the veritable arsenal
that rode his slim person fearsomely. Two
shiny guns hung at his hips. swung low,
while In his right boot a wicked little blade
vas cunningly concealed Also there was
coil Of rope upon his saddlebov.
But he saw the beauties Of this. his
country, with the eyes of the constant lover,
he felt. too, its trasedy-for would it not
be pitilessiy large and empty when that one
sweet faee was no longer . part Of it,
And alas, 1t would not be when he should
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away one could have ima gined that glistening
thread was the hair Of 4 dryad caught a
she saw me and was shy and fitted o6
through the underwood.
The dog was still and 1 was still and the
leaves under the warm sun were ''steeped
in slentness.' How long We might have
stood, deadloeked a. to our eyes and our
intentions. I do not know. I pi.ht soon
have broken the silence BY wheedling ana
supplication he might have shouted back
at me after his kind, or he might have
torn and moaned at his chain, or he might
have remained frozen hostility there, with
a heart Of stone-bellicose, alert, taut-
hbred, interminably. But then the childres
came.
rNHE children - they called on him oy
L name. Troll, Troll, be quiet, sif'
This 10 q friend!' They ran their hands In
bis fufed and bristling hair. They laughed
and fondled him away from his militaristie
hauteur and his fierce Prussian poses into
foolish, lamhlike gentleness. He poked
wet nose in their hands, he rubbed against
their berry stained kirtles, he lowered bis
proud head against their brown bare legs
and feet, till they undid his rsttling chain
and murmured In his uplifted ears and let
Linn 20. They had vouched for me, and made
me one Of them ere q word had passed De.
tween u, and I was safe because they gave
the dog their word for me. Not otherwise.
Loosening q chain for him, they had re-
leased me too. for the dogs structure VA
my own.
"a felt q childs soft, warm hand wrigsis
into mine, and there was q purring prattle ol
the German Of the Baltic In my ears.
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have returned from this 'trip.-for he. Prin.
ciep' would see that what was breaking that
adorable heart should no longer break II
with ahsence-nor with broken vows-nor
with, snythins-and was it not likely that
she-they-would wish to return to that far
place. Cincinnati. O.?
Thus Princiep thought and reasoned. while
El Toro's mighty hoofs tolled out the miles
northward to the hills.
To Lnith Hope It was q long. long night.
dark and weary. a
But all nights must pass as all lives run
steadily toward their end, and the faint dawn
came UP to burn on tred eyes. and another
day began. That was long day too-snd
the girl felt miserably that Princiep' was
thing Of the past, that he would no more
ride Ell Toro to the porch steps in the dawn.
She would never know the Joy Of The
Swallow under her again. All, well! She
would move on again.-but where now. and
how? The pitifuliy small means that had
made rest and new health possible were
alarmingly shrunk now-were almost negii-
gible.
So she fretted through the day and crept
like a pale ghost down to sit for one more
twilight on the porch by the east pillar.
The great desert spread out before her.
majestic in its space and wondrous color.
She knew where the water holes were. the
deep arroyos. It was no longer a lonely land
but peopled and infinitely dear. She hardly
heard the murmur OF talk down the veranda.
was lost In her own miserable reverie.
And then. suddenly. there came the sound
Of horses hoofs slow hoofs that were weary
with long travel and they came from the
north. She listened idly for a while as they
came nearer-then she rose up and laid
hand to her throat. helplessly.
For around the corner Of the hotel there
came an odd cavalcade indeed nondescript
horse from the livery stable at the end Of the
street which bore in its saddle disrepu-
table scarecrow Of . man whose gay sport
clothes were torn to ribbons on his back.
whose red face was pufred and swollen as
from mortal combat, and whose evil eyes shot
nre and rage unspeakable-while behind this
apparition there rode on FL Toro that re
doubtable knight. Prnciep' AIlorez with tight
lips and decision In every. line.
Straight to that east pillar they came and
the astounded watchers saw that Princiep's
gun was In his hand-as 1t had been for
every mile Of that long ride.
Maamselle," he said clearly. 81 here i.
your man. have talk with him an thers
will be no more heartaches for one Of youi
loving nature rou shan have him always
% he pronnise--and II he-does not play fair