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WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
The Other Side of an Idol.
"That's the carriage, Henry; the one
that just drove down the street. Erery
Sunday night, just at dusk, it waits on
the corner diagonally opposite our
house, for a woman who comes from
some place in the block. A man gets
out of the carriage, helps her in, and
they are driven away. I've found out
who the people are," and the invalid in
her low chair by the window raised her
pale face to her husband's habitually
listless one. With careless good-humor
he turned toward her.
Well," smilingly, "how came you to
know?"
"Felice found out all about."
"She leads a life of interrogation and
exclamation points, that pert little maid
of yours," said he. "There's no use of
closing a door on a skeleton, if she is
near. Like love, she laughs at lock
smiths." "Yes, I know she is curious, and J
often reprove her for it, but this time
the story is so interesting and pathetic
that I listened,"
"That I'm going to keep until the
last, and see if you can guess. First,
I'll tell you all that Felice told me.
"She watched and found out from
which house the woman came. Then
she invited the attentions of the butler
of the family, whose overtures she had
hitherto repulsed. He is a man who
has long been in their service and until
he met Felice, had guarded their secret
well. She frankly acknowledged that
he was tres difficile, but that, to her,
was no drawback. It only heightened
her epjoymsnt of the situation. By de
grees, she learned this sad story of the
daughter of the family.
"The young woman has been engaged
to a man of whem her father and broth
er disapprove, for, although she was
very charming, thoy felt that the wealth
of the family bad something to do with
his attentions. He was forbidden the
house. She then made arrangements to
elope with him. He was to meet her at
this very corner, at this very hour, with
a carriage. They were then to drive to
a minister's house to be married. She
felt that all would be forgiven her when
her father and brother realized her great
love fpr this man, and his great love for
her.
"She came to this appointed place,
and waited. Half the night she stood
in the shadow of a neighbor's houae,
and Btrained her ears for the souud of
carriage wheels. Then, cold, weary,
she crept back to the home she had de
sorted. She dragged herself up to the
steep marble steps leading to the front
door, and rang the bell. She gave no
thought to the surprise and consterna
tion her appearance there at that time
of the night would occasion. The but
ler opened the door, and sbo attributed
his state of apathy, if she thought at all,
to the fact of his being a well trained
servant, rather than a lack of interest.
She was about to mount the stairs
leading to her cpartments, when her
brother came out of the library. He,
too, showed no curiosity at seeing her
there in the gray dawn id her out-door
clothes. The sight of his pale, drawn
face Anally aroused her numbed senses.
Like a child, she held out her hands to
bira, while a mantle of fear fell over her.
He drew her towards him, with the ten
derness he always showed her, led her
into the library, and closed the door.
There he told her, as gently as he could,
the terrible news.
"Their father, seeing that he could no
longer ward off bankruptcy, had, that
afternoon, taken his own life.
"The poor girl fainted, and for many
weeks after that, the brother thought
that he was going to lose the only being
he had left on earth to love. The body
finally survived, but the tired brain
slept. Once a week it awakened. Every
Sunday evening, just at dusk, she stole
from the house, came to this corner and
waited for her faithless lover. At first
her brother opposed her leaving the
house, but that caused her to become
violent. Their physician recommend
ed meeting her with a carriage, just
as the arrangement was made three
years ago.
"She leaves her home at the same
time every Sunday night, followed
stealthily by the faithful butler, who
sees that she reaches the corner in safety.
Her brother is there with a carriage.
He alights, as the lover should have
done that terrible night, helps her in,
and they are driven away. That seems
to satisfy her until the next week, when
the same proceeding takes place again."
"What became of the man."
"The butler told Felice that he mar
ried a woman of great wealth, who is an
invalid. His wife adores him, but he
finds it necessary to be out of town often
on business. The butler admitted that
he was considered fascinating by women.
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GARDENS OP THE CHINESE IMPERIAL PALACE.
The city of Peking proper has little to attract the attention of loTersof the grand and
beautiful, but within the walls that enclose that part of the Chinese capital known as the
"Forbidden City" there is magnificenceand grandeur. The imperial palace and beautiful
gardens which surround it furnish a marked contrast to the rest of the city. The illustra
tion shows a corner of the imperial palace" gardens.
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