Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-10-25

Miramon LluagOr had very wonder
tully prospered at magic; he was. as
they say. now blessed with more than
any reasonable person would ask for.
and the most CLAIMANT of these super.
fiuities appeared to him to be his wife.
They tell how Miramon was one of
the Leshy, born of people that was
neither human nor immortal, telling
now his home was builded upon the
summit of the mountain called Vrai.
dex. Here in the old days dwelt Mira
mon Lluagor, at discreet remove
from the prudiShness of men and the
disreputable amours Of the High Gods.
retiredly in his Doubtful Palace
wherein, as they report also, this wiz.
ard designed the dreams for sleep.
His taste was for the richly roman
tic. But his wife Gisele had quite
other notions, whole set of notions,
and her philosophy was that of bel
ligerent individualism. And the wiz
ard. to keep peace, at least in the in.
tervals between his wife's more NOR
dainty loQuacious moments, would de-
sign such dreams as Gisele preferred.
But he knew that these dreams did
not express the small thoughts and
fancies which harbOred in the heart
of Miramon Lluagor, and which would
perish with the falling of his doom
unless he wrought the fancies into
dreams that, being f1eshless, might
evade carnivOrOuS time. And Mira
mon hungered for the lost freedom of
his bachelorhood.
His wife also was discomfort, be-
cause the ways of the Leshy appeared
to this mortal woman indecorous. The
doom that was upon the Leshy seemed
not entirely in good taste to her who
had been born of race about whom
destiny did not bother; in fact, 1t was
continual irritation to her that her
little boy DemetriOs was predestinate
to XIII his father with the charmed
sword Flamberge. This was a doom
which Madame Gisele found not at all
the sort Of thing you cared to have
imminent in your own family: and she
FELT that the sooner the gray Norns.
who weave the fate of all that live
were spoken to quite candidly, the bet
ter 1t would be for everybody con.
cerned.
She was irritated by the mere sight
Of Flamberge. So her thinking was
not Of silk and honey when. after pol.
fshing the sword as was her usage
upon Thursday morning, she came into
Miramon's ivory tower to hang the
weapon in its right place. With Mira.
mon sat that sleek person whom men
called Ninzian. 1t was not known to
all Of Ninzian's friends that he was an
evil spirit who had come out Of the
bottomless Pit to work iniquity; but
Miramon Lluagor knew this. and there.
fore he made appropriate use of the
demon, and indeed upon this very
afternoon the two were looking at that
which Ninzian had procured for the
wizard at price.
"GOod-day to you. Sir Ninzian." saws
Madame Gisele. politely enough. And
then she spoke. in different tone. to
Miramon Lluagor. "And with what
are you cluttering up the house nowp"
"Ah. wife" replies Miramon. "these
are the bees of TOupan. a treasure no.
yond word or thinking. They are not
as other bees, for theirs Is the appear.
ance OF shining ice; and they crawl
fretfully, as they have crawled since
Toupan's downfall. about this cross Of
black stone"
THAT is very likely story for Won
TO be telling me who can SEQ that the
disgusting creatures have wings to
fly away with whenever they wan. 70.
And besides. who In the world is
Toupan:"
"He Is nobody in this world wife
and il is wiser not TO speak of him
Let II suffice that he made all things
as they were. Then Koshchei took the
power from TOupan, and made all
things as they are. Yet three of TOu-
pans servitOrs endure upon earth,
where they who were once lords Of the
Vendish have now no power remaining
save to creep humbly as insects; the
use Of their wings is denied them, the
charmed stone holds them immutably.
Ohio, but wife, there Is al cantrap
which would free them, a cantrap
which nobody has as yet discovered,