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THE MAID 2f MAIDEN UAINE
Sequel to The Bow of Orange Ribbon
A LOVE STORY BY AMELIA E BARR
Copyricht 1900 br Amelia E Barr
CHAPTER XIV Continued
My dear father How wise and
kind you are
It is my desire to be so George
You cannot after this unfortunate de
lay go to Doctor Moran -without the
proofs of your ability to take care of
his daughters future
How soon can this business be
accomplished
In about three weeks I should
think But -wait your full time and
do not go without the credentials of
your position This three or four
weeks is necessary to bring to per
fection the waiting of two years
I will take your advice sir 1
thank you for your generosity
All that I have is yours George
And you can write to this dear girl
every day In the interim Go now and
tell her what I say I had other
dreams for you aB you know they
are over now I have awakened
Dear Annie ejaculated George
Dear Annie replied the Earl with
a sigh She is one of tho daughters
of God I am not worthy to call her
mine but I have sat at her feet and
learned how to love and how to for
give and how to bear disappoint
ment I will tell you that when Col
Saye insulted me last year and I felt
for my sword and would have sent
him a letter on its point Annie
stepped before him Forget and go
on dear uncle she said and I did so
with a proud sore heart at first but
quite cheerfully in a week or two
and at the last Hunt dinner he came
to me with open hand and we ate and
drank together and are now firm
friends Yet but for Annie one of us
might be dead and the other flying
like Cain exiled and miserable Think
of these things George The good of
being a son is to be able to profit from
your fathers mistakes
They parted with a handclasp that
went to both hearts and as Hyde
passed his mothers room he went
in and told her all that happened to
him She listened with a smile and
a heartache She knew now that the
time had come to say farewell to
the boy who had made her life for
twenty seven years He must mar
ry like the rest of the world and go
away from her and only mothers
know what supreme self sacrifice a
pleasant acquiescence in this event
implies But she bravely put down
all the clamoring selfishness of her
long sweet care and affection and
said cheerfully
Very much to my liking is Cor
nelia Moran A loving wife and noble
mother she will make and if I must
lose thee my Joris there is no girl
in America that I like better to have
thee
Never will you lose me mother
Ah then that is what all sons
say The common lot I look for
nothing better But see now I give
thee up cheerfully If God please I
shall see thy sons and daughters and
thy father has been anxious about
the Hydes He would not have a
stranger here nor would I Our hope
is in thee and thy sweet wife and
very glad am I that thy wife is to be
Cornelia Moran
And even after Joris had left her
she smiled though the tears dropped
down upon her work She thought
of the presents she would send her
S
Visits from his London tailor
daughter and she told herself that
Cornelia was an American and that
she had made for her with her own
hands and brain a lovely home
wherein her memory must always
dwell Indeed she let her thoughts
go far forward to see and to listen
to the happy boys and girls who
might run and shout gleefully
through the fair large rooms and the
sweet shady gardens her skill and
toato hnil nrrierpri nnrl nlnntfH Thus
her generosity made her a partaker
of her children s happiness and who
ever partakes of a pleasure has his
share of it and comes into contact
not only with the happiness but
-with the other partakers of that hap
pinessa divine kind of Interest for
generous deeds which we may all
appropriate
The next morning Mary Damer
called She knew that a letter from
Cornelia was possible and she knew
also that it would really be as fate
fui to herself as to Hyde If as she
suspected it was Rem Van Ariens
who had detained the misdirected
letter there was only one conceivable
result as regarded herself She an
upright honorable English girl lov
ing truth with all her heart and des
pising whatever was underhand and
disloyal had out one course to take
she must break on her engagement
with a man so far below her standard
of simple morality
So she looked anxiously at Annie
as she entered and Annie would not
keep her in suspense There was a
letter from Miss Moran last night
she said She loves George yet She
re wrote the unfortunate letter and
this time it found Its owner I think
he has It next his heart at this very
moment
I am glad of that Annie But who
has the first letter
I think you know Mary
You mean Mr Van Ariens
Yes
Then there is no more to be said
I shall write to him as soon as pos
sible
I am sorry
No no Be content Annie The
right must always vcome right Neith
er you nor I could desire any other
end even to our own love story
But you must suffer
Not much None of us weep if we
lose what is of no value And I have
noticed that the happiness of any one
Is always conditioned by the unhappi
ness of some one else Your cousin
and Cornelia will be happy but there
are others that must suffer that they
may be so I will go now Annie be
cause until I have written to Mr
Van Ariens I shall not feel free And
also I do not wish him to come here
and In his last letter he spoke of
such an Intention
So the two letters that of Hyde
to Cornelia and that of Mary Damer
to Van Ariens left England for
America in the same packet
The tone of the Manor Mouse was
now set to a key of the highest joy
and expectation Hyde unconsciously
struck the note for he was happily
busy from morning to night about
affairs relating either to his marriage
or to his future as the head of a
great household All his old exigent
extravagant liking for rich clothing
returned to him He had constant
visits from his London tailor who
brought with him a profusion of rich
cloth silk and satin and who firmly
believed that the tailor made the
man There were also endless inter
views with the family lawyer endless
readings of law papers and endless
consultations about rights and suc
cessions which Hyde was glad and
grateful to leave very much to his
fathers wisdom and generosity
Some of the last days were occu
pied In selecting jewels for Cornelia
with webs of gold and silver tissues
and Spitalfields silks so rich and
heavy that no mortal woman might
hope to outwear them To these An
nie added from her own store of lace
many very valuable pieces and the
happy bridegroom was proud to see
that love was going to send him away
with both arms full for the beloved
The best gift however came last
and it was from the Earl It was not
gold or land though he gave gener
ously of both these but one which
Hyde felt made his way straight be
fore him and which he knew must
have cost his father much self-abnegation
It was the following letter
to Dr John Moran
My Dear Sir
It seems then that our dear
children love each other so well that
it is beyond our right even as par
ents to forbid their marriage I ask
from you for my son who is an hum
ble and ardent suitor for Miss Mo
rans hand all the favor his sincere
devotion to her deserves We have
both been young we have both loved
accept then his affection as some
atonement for any grievance or injus
tice you remember against myself
Had we known each other better we
should doubtless have loved each
other better but now that marriage
will make us kin I offer you my hand
with all it implies of regret for the
past and of respect for the future
Your servant to command
RICHARD HYDE
It is the greatest proof of my love
I can give you George said the Earl
when the letter had been read and
it is Annie you must thank for it
Have you noticed father how
small and fragile looking she is Can
she really be slowly dying
No she is not dying she is only
going a little further away a little
further away every hour Some hour
she will be called and she wTill an
swer and we shall see her no more
here But I do not call that dying
and if it be dying Annie will go as
calmly and simply as if she were ful
filling some religious rite or duty
She loves God and she will go to
Him
The next morning Hyde left his
fathers home forever It was impos
sible that such a parting should be
happy No hopes no dreams of fu
ture joy could make him forget the
wealth of love he was leaving Nor
did he wish to forget And woe to the
man or woman who would buy com
posure and contentment by forgetting
by really forfeiting a portion of their
existence by being a suicide of their
own morrl nature
The day was a black winter day
with a monotonous rain and a dark
sky troubled by a ghostly wind In
side the house the silence fell on the
heart like a weight The Earl and
Countess watched their sons carriage
turn from the door and then looked
silently into each others face The
Earls lips were firmly set and his
eyes full of tears the Countess was
weeping bitterly He went with her
to her room and with all his old clarm
and tenderness comforted her
At that moment Annie was forgot
ten yet no one was suffering more
than she was Hyde had knelt by
her sofa and taken her In his arms
and covered her face with tears and
kisses and she had not been able to
oppose a parting so heart breaking
and so final The last tears she was
ever to shed dropped from her closed
eyes as she listened to his departing
steps and the roll of the carriage
carrying him away forever seemed to
roll over her shrinking heart She
cried out feebly a pitiful little shrill
cry that she hushed with a sob still
more full of anguish Then she be
gan to cast over her suffering soul
the balm of prayer and prostrate with
closed eyes and hands feebly hang
ing down Doctor Roslyn found her
He did not need to ask a question he
had long known the brave self sacrifice
that was consecrating the child heart
suffering so sharply that day and he
said only
We are made perfect through suf
fering Annie
This is the last sorrow that can
come to me father
And my dear Annie you would
have been a loser without It Every
grief has its meaning and the web
of life could not be better woven if
only love touched it
I have been praying father
Nay but God Himself prayed in
you while your soul waited in deep
resignation God gave you both the
resignation and the answer
My heart failed me at the last
then I prayed as well as I could
And then visited by the not your
self in you your head was lifted up
Hyde had knelt by her sofa
Do not be frightened at what you
want Strive for it little by little All
that is bitter in outward things or in
interior things all that befalls you in
the course of a day is your daily bread
if you will take it from His hand
Then she was silent and quite still
and he sat and watched the gradual
lifting of the spirits cloud watched
until the pallor of her face grew lu
minous with the inner light and her
wide open eyes saw as in a vision
things invisible to mortal sight but
open to the spirit on that dazzling line
where mortal and immortal verge
And as he went home stepping slow
ly through the misty world he him
self hardly knew whether he was in
the body or out of it He felt not the
dripping rain he was not conscious
of the encompassing earthly vapors
he had passed within the veil And his
feet stumbled not nor was he aware
of anything around until the Earl
met him at the park gates and touch
ing him said reverently
Father you are close to the high
way Have you seen Annie
I have just left her
She is further from us than ever
Richard Hyde he answered she
is on her way to God and she can
rest nothing short of that
To be continued
TALES OF PRECIOUS STONES
Diamonds Were Not Known to Us
Until the Discovery of India
Not until India was discovered were
diamonds known to the Western
world The Indians called rock crys
tal an unripe diamond and up to
the eighteenth century India was sup
posed to be the only country where
that precious stone could be found
Yet as far back as 500 B C a didactic
history of precious stones was writ
ten and in Plinys time the supply
must have been plentiful as he wrote
We drink out of a mass of gems and
our drinking vessels are formed of
emeralds
It is difficult to determine whence
all the gems came as discoverers took
care to leave no record The nations
which traded in them were afraid of
their whereabouts being known and
even the most ancient merchants
would not disclose any definite locale
Diamon was the name given to a
youth who was turned into the hard
est and most brilliant of substance to
preserve him from the ills that flesh
is heir to Amethyst was a beautiful
nymph beloved by Bacchus but saved
from him by Diana who changed
Amethyst into a gem whereupon
Bacchus turned the gem into wine col
or and endowed the wearer with the
gift of preservation from intoxication
The pearl was thought to be a dew
drop the shell had opened to receive
Amber was said to be honey melted
by the sun dropped into the sea and
congealed
He Was Satisfied
Life said the parson is made up
of trials
Yes and Im glad of it replied the
lawyer
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TRAGEDY AT BELGRADE HAS
SHOCKED THE WHOLE WORLD
Murder of King Alexander and Queen Drag a With the Members of
the Cabinet Was a Deed of Unprecedented Barbarity
Details of the Crime
The conspiracy formed In Belgrade
culminated in a bloody tragedy at the
royal palace soon after midnight June
11 King Alexander I Queen Draga
and her two brothers were butchered
Two of the kings aids and two Servi
an officers lost their lives In his de
fense
In the fighting In and around the
palace Incident to the butchery of
the royal family at least 100 persons
were killed
Dynasty Is Wiped Out
In order that their plans to over
turn the dynasty might not miscarry
the conspirators at 2 oclock in the
morning assassinated Premier Marko
vitch Ministers Petrovltch and Tu
drovics Gen Pavlovitch the former
minister of war and some of the
members of the royal guard
By this bloody tragedy the Obreno
vitch dynasty was extinguished and
the Karageorgevitch family restored
to power on the anniversary of the
assassination of Prince Michael Ob
renovitch on June 10 1868
Proclaim King
Immediately after the work of as
sassination was complete the conspir
ators proclaimed Prince Peter Kara
georgevitch as king of Servia and
summoned the skupshtina Servian
parliament to assemble June 15 to
confirm the proclamation A provis
ional ministry was appointed to ad
minister the government ad interim
Milans Son May Contest
While it is believed that the proc
lamation of Prince Karageorgevitch
as king will be confirmed by the par
liament with the consent of Austria
and Russia he may not have clear
sailing as It 13 now asserted that
King Milan left a second son by a
Mme Cristies whom he legitimatized
and who will dispute Prince Kara-
throne
Army in Conspiracy
The chief conspirators 150 in num
ber were all men of high rank who
acted in concert with the army The
participation of the latter in the as
sassination which blotted out the Ob
renovitch dynasty which has ruled
Servia with a short intermission of
nearly a century is mainly due to the
attitude of King Alexander and his
consort towards the officers of the
army whom he always treated with
scant courtesy His desire to remove
the war school from Belgrade to She
batz particularly gave the officers of
fense
Dissatisfaction against King Alex
anders rule has been actuated since
his suspension of the constitution last
April and it is from that time that
the military plot dates The organi
zation of the bloody plot was carried
out with consummate skill
Prime Movers
The prime movers in the plot were
Ljubomlr Schiokovics and Jislav Veli
kovics who have entered the new
cabinet as ministers of justice and
finance respectively M Schiokovics
was condemned to twenty years penal
servitude for an attempt to assassin
ate former King Milan
The plot was carried out by the
principal officers of the army among
whom was Col Maschin whose broth
er was Dragas first husband and
Col Naumovltch the kings adjutant
Details of Scheme
The troops were held ready In tbe
barracks All leave was stopped and
detachments were told off to surround
the houses of the various ministers
The Sixth regiment of the line Col
Maschlns command was ordered to
surround the palace and other troops
were instructed to prepare to put
down any outbreak on the part of
the kings partisans
At 2 o clock in the morning the
perpetrators of the tragedy appeared
at the gates of the royal palace de
termined to seek the king in his bed
chamber and there force him to send
adrift Queen Draga and her brothers
the eldest of whom she proposed
should be the heir lo the throne
Should the king refuse they were
sworn to demand his abdication and
if all failed to place him under ar
rest In the palace
King Barricades Door
Col Naumovltch was on duty Inside
the palace as adjutant to his majesty
and it had been arranged that on a
given signal he would order the pal
ace guards to admit his friends There
upon they proposed to proceed to the
kings apartments and present to him
an ultimatum in the name of the
army of Servia
It seems however that both the
king and queen had expected spme
thlng of the sort to happen The
queens brother Capt Loungnevltza
her candidate for the throne returned
to Belgrade on Tuesday and the royal
pair had received a warning that his
appearance at the palace would cer
tainly result in a demonstration on
the part of the friends of the Kara
georgevitches Fully expectant of a
surprise visit the king had barricaded
the door of his room
Admittance Is Refused
The conspirators outside the palace
were challenged by the guards at the
gate whom Col Naumovltch had neg
lected to instruct They were ordered
to open the gates They refused and
a short parley ensued during which
Col Maschin walked away to procure
assistance from a company of the
Sixth regiment stationed close by
Capt Panajovitch in charge of the
palace guard still refused to admit
the party whereupon he was stabbed
to death by a soldier The rest of the
guard was then overpowered
The noise of the melee at the gates
brought together the palace servants
and attendants who were immediately
made prisoners
Kill Queens Brother
At every door soldiers with fixed
bayonets were placed with orders to
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shoot down any one offering the slight
est resistance A number of the pal
ace guards who sought to escape were
mercilessly bayoneted In this way
the queens youngest brother who ap
peared In his night clothes met his
death at the hands of a private
Dynamite is Used
In the meantime Col Maschen had
burst open the doors leading to the
kings apartments using dynamite to
overcome resistance of bolts and bars
Col Naumovitch Col Mischits and
Major Lazardevitsch the latter an
open enemy of the king rushed into
the room with drawn revolvers
The king attired only in his night
dress stood in the middle of the room
pale and excited In his hand he held
a revolver He demanded furiously
the reason for the intrusion
Col Naumovltch held towards him
a paper saying
We demand your majestys signa
ture to this paper It contains a prom
ise on your part to break with the
woman Draga This woman of ill-repute
has brought disgrace upon your
house and the nation Failing in this
you must abdicate
King Kills Colonel
The king drew himself up stepped
back towards the bed and aiming de
liberately fired his revolver at Col
Naumovitch who fell dead shot
through the head
At this moment Queen Draga ap
peared at the door opposite crying out
for help The king turned to her
begged her to be calm and not be
frightened Soothing her with tender
words ho requested her to return to
her apartment Queen Draga refused
to move and advancing towards Col
Mlchits begged him plteously not to
murder them Col Mlschlta had In
the meantime picked up the paper
which his dead comrade had carried
and held It up shouting
Let him sign this document and
free Servia from your miserable pres
ence
Kills His Nephew
Col Maachln rushed into the room
fresh from an encounter with Capt
Lunjevitza the queens older brother
who had offered the most heroic re
sistance In another part of the palace
Lunjevitza wounded in a dozen places
with bayonet thrusts and bullets had
torn past his enemies sword In hand
fighting his way to the door where
coming face to face with his uncle
Col Maschin he was shot dead by
that determined conspirator
Endeavor to Escape
At the sight of Maschin inflamed
with passion the king turned to the
queen and told her to fly for her life
They both ran from the room fol
lowed by the officers Behind the lat
ter came a stream of shouting sol
diery
The king and queen ran through
the royal sleeping apartments slam
ming the doors behind them and fol
lowed by the shots from the soldiers
They reached the roof In safety but
they were overtaken
King Dies Fighting
The king stood in front of his con
sort and faced the enemy unflinch
ingly He bore himself with royal
courage fearlessly to the last The
final scene was over In a moment
Maj Lazarovitch stepped up to his
majesty and discharged his revolver
full in his face The king fell but
raised himself again as if to speak A
second shot was fired and Alexander
fell back dead
Draga Is Shot and Stabbed
Queen Draga was shot by a sol
dier Another man stabbed her In the
neck with a bayonet as she fell over
her husbands body
Kings Body Buried Next Night
The body of King Alexander was
buried at night in a vault in the Kako
vich convent with but the slightest re
ligious service
There were no attendants except a
few soldiers sent to do the physical
work of carrying the plainest of wood
en coffins into the stone vault
The bodies of the other victims of
the new regime were also placed lu
wooden coffins and buried in the city
churchyard of Belgrade
The king died fighting for the wom
an whose intriguing had caused all the
trouble of his reign The story of eye
witnesses show that when attacked ho
retreated step by step through the
palace rooms slamming doors behind
him until at last standing protecting
ly in front of the queen he was shot
down and died
CIVIL WAR NOT LIKELY
New King of Servia Is Acceptable
to the People
The tragedy at the palace of Bel
grade marking the latest of the revo
lutions which have convulsed Servia
from time to time during the last cen
tury is not regarded in diplomatic
circles as likely to lead to civil war
Stress is laid on the unpopularity of
King Alexander since his marriage to
Queen Draga King Alexanders suc
cessor Peter Karageorgevitch is a
son-in-law of the prince of Monte
negro and Is regarded as being most
acceptable to the people
The universal anxiety or the gov
ernments of Europe for peace is ad
vanced as a reason why the Servian
situation is not likely to lead to com-
plications Should however these
unexpectedly arise official circles
think an Austro Hungarlan army will
immediately march into Servia and
restore order This eventually how
ever is considered improbable
It is semiofficially stated that King
Edward of England and Queen Alex
andra were informed of the Servian
tragedy at Buckingham palace but as
their majesties had no personal ac
quaintance with the unfortunate sov
ereigns their demise did not prevent
the king from carrying out hisday3
arrangements
Wha will the future bring forth
for Servia was the question heard on
every hand One morning paper
prints what is declared to be a Ser
vian prophecy running thus
After Karageorgevitch has passed
to the crown through blood a foreign
nation will come down and hold the
land driving him away There will
the foreigners stay for a year After
ward a man will come from the blood
of the old kings of the land who will
drive out the foreigners and establish
a new rule as great as in ancient
times
A Servian resident in London is
quoted as saying that Karageorge
vitchs claims to the throne are likely
to be disputed by Prince Mirako of
ontenegro who married Constanti
novitch a descendant of the old Ser
vian monarchs Mirako is in great
favor with Russia Peter Karageor
gevitch is also persona gratissima In
St Petersburg whereas he is pro
portionately disliked in Austria