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"Se?ora, "Tsaid, '.lani a Spaniard who served in the Indian wars of Cortes, of which perhaps you have heard." She bowed her head, and I went on: l*In thoso wars I met a man who was named Teule, but who had another name in for mer days, so ho told mo on his deathbed 6ome two years ago." "What name?" ^he asked in alOTrvoicc. "Thomas Wingfield." Now Lily moaned aloud and t:. ?tor turn caught at the pales to save herself from falling. "I deemed him dead these IS years." sho gasped, "drowned in tho Indian seas, where his vessel foundered." "I have heard say that he was ship wrecked in thoso seas, senora, but he es caped death and fell among the Indians, who made a god of him and gave. Mai tho daughter of their king in marriage." And I paused. Sho shivered, then said In oJiaid voice: "Continue, sir. I listen to you." .?*My friend Teule took the port of tho Indians in thc wars, as being the husband of one of their princesses he n?ust do in honor, and fought bravely for them for many years. At length the town that ho defended was captured, his one remaining child was murdered, and his wife, thc princess, slew herself for sorrow, and ho himself was taken into captivity, where he languished and died." "A sad tale, sir," she said, with a littlo laugh-a mournful laugh that was half choked with tears. "A very sad tale, senora, bnt ono that is not finished. While he lay dying tay friend told me that in Iiis early life he had plighted troth with a certain English maid named' ' .'I know the name. Continue." .'He told me that though he had been wedded and loved his wife, the princess, who was a very royal woman, that many times had risked her life for h is-aye, even to lying at his upon the stone of sac rifice, and of her own free will-yet tho memory of this maiden to whom ho was once betrothed had companioned him through life and was strong upon him now at its dose. Therefore ho prayed me for our friendship's sake to seek her out when I returned to Europe, should she still live, and to give her message from him and te make a prayer to her on his behalf." '.What message and what prayer?" Lily whispered. '"This: That he loved her at tho end of his life as he had loved her at its begin ning; that he humbly prayed her forgive ness .because he had broken tho troth which they two hail swum beneath tho beech at Dirchingham." ''Sir," she cried, ''what do you know of that?" "Only what my friend told me, Benora." "Your friendship must have been close, and your memory must be good," she murmured. ''Which he had done," I went on, ''un der strange circumstances-so strange in deed that he dared to hope that his broken troth might lie renewed in some better world than this. His last prayer was that she shoidd say to me, his messenger, that she forgave him and still loved him, as to his death he loved her." ' "And how cari such forgiveness or such an avowal advantage a dead man?" Lily asked, watching me keenly through the shadows. "Have the dead then eyes to see and cars to hear?'* "How can I know, senora? I do but execute my mission." .'And how can I know that you are a true messenger? It chanced that I had sure tidings of thc drowning of Thoma" Wingfield many years ago, and this talc of Indians and princesses is wondrous strange-more like those that happen in romances than in this plain world. Have you no token of your good faith, sir?" "I have such token, senora, but tho light is too faint for you to see it." "Then follow me to tho house. There wo will get light. Stay." And, once more going to the stable gate, she called John. An old man answered her, and I knew the voice for that of one of my father's serving men. To him she spoke in low tones, then led the way by tho garden path to the front door of the house, which she opened with a key from her girdle, mo tioning to mo to puss in before her. I did so, and thinking little of such malters at the moment turned by habit into tho doorway of the sit ting room, which 1 knew 60 well, lifting my feet to avoid stumbling on its step, and passing into tho room found my way through the gloom to the wide fireplace, where I took my stand. Lily watched mc enter; then, followingmc, she lit a taper at the lire which smoldered on the hearth and placed it upon thc table in the window in such fashion that, though I was now obliged to take off my hat, my face was still in shadow. "Now, sir, your token, if it pleases you." Then I drew the posy ring from my fin ger and gave it to her, and she sat down by the table and examined it in the light of the candle, and as she sat thus I saw how beautiful sho was still and how littlo timo had touched her except for thc sad ness in her face, though now she had seen eight and thirty winters. I saw also that though she kept control of her features as she looked upon the ring her breast heaved quickly and her hand shook. "Tho token is a true one, " she said at length. "I know thc ring, tl ugh it is somewhat Ym<a since last I saw it. It was my mother'c, and many years ago I gave it as a love gage to a youth to whom I promised myself in marriage. Doubtless all your tale is true, also, sir, and I thank you for your courtesy in bringing it so far. It is a sad tale, a very sad tale. And now, sir, as I may not ask you to stay in this house, where I live alone, and thcro is no inn near, I propose to send serving men to conduct you to my brother's dwelling, that is something mort; than a mile away, if, Indeed," she added slowly, "you do not already know the path. There you will find entertainment, and there tho sister of your dead companion, Mary Bozard, will be glad to learn the sf ry of his strango adventures from your dps. " I bowed my head and answered: "First, senora, I would pray your answer to my 'riend's dying prayer and message." "It is childish tosend answers to tho death" "Still I pray for them, as I was charged to do. " "How reads the writing within this ring, sir?" "Heart to heart, Tho?Kh far apart," I said glibly, and next instant I could have bitten out my tongue, "Ah, you know that also, but doubtless you havo carried the ring for many months and learned the writing! Well, sir, though wc were far apart, and though perchance I cherished tho memory of him who wore this ring and for his sake remained un wed, it seems that his heart went a-stray ing-to thc breast indeed of some savage woman whom he married and who bore him children. That being so. my answer to tho praver of ymir dead friend is that I forgive him indeed, but 7 .r.ust needs take back thc vows which [ swore to him for this life and forever, since he has broken them, and as best I may strive to east out the love I bore him. since he rejected and dishonored it." And, standing tip. Lily made as though she tore ar her breast and threw something from he.-, ?nd at thc same time she lit fall the ring upon thc iloor. I heard, and mv heart stood stnl. bo this was the ?nd of it. Well, she bad the right of nt", though now I bogan to wish that I had !?. .1 lesa honest, n.r sometimes women can forgiven lie sooner than such frankness I saki nothing. My tongue w.-us tied, bu? '1 gm? misery nml wariness entered into mc. St.?ingdown, 1 found thc ring, and replacing ?ton ny flngor I turned to .-.'? '. the door with a last glance at the woman who refus* d me. Half way ? ( ?opYnigHT!l83a,BYTfle>WTH0^. ) ?j mimer I panscil ror one second, wonOcrmg if I should do well trt declare myself, then bethought me that if she would not abate her anger toward me dead her piry for me living would be small. Nay, I vas dead to her, and dead I would remain. Now I was at the door, and my foot was on its step, when suddenly a voice-Lily's voice-sounded in my cars, and it, was sweet and kind. "Thomas, "said thovoice. "Thomas, bc foro you go will you not take count, of tho gold and goods and land that you placed in my keeping?" Now I turned amazed, and, lo, Lily carno toward mo slowly and with outstretched anns! "Oh, foolish man," she whispered low, "did you think to deceive a woman's heart thus clumsily-you who talked of the beech in the Hall garden, you who lound your way so well to this dark chamber and spoke the writing in the ring with the very voice of one who has been dead so long! Listen. I forgive that, friend of yours his broken troth, for ho was honest in the telling of his fault, and it is hard for man to live alone so many years, and in strange countries come strange adventures. More over, I will say it, I still love him as it seems that ho loves me, though in truth I grow somewhat old for love, who have lin gered long waiting to lind it beyond my grave." Thus Lily spoke, sobbing as she spoke, then my arms closet! around her, and she said no more. And yet as our lips met I thought of Otomie, remembering her words, and remembering also that shu had died on this very day a year ago. Let us pray that tho dead havo no vision of the living! _ CHAPTER XXXVII. AM%\. And now there is little loft for mc to tell. Thc tidings of my return and of my strange adventures among the nations of the Indies were noised abroad far and wide, and peoplo came from miles round, aye, even from Norwich and Yarmouth, to see me, and I was pressed to tell my mle till I grew weary of it; also a service of thanksgiving for my wife dclivernncco from many dancers hy land and sea was held in tho Church of St. Mary's her?- in Dirchingham. When that ceremony was over and all people had gonn to their homes, I cunio back again to the empty church from the hail, where I abode awhile as the guest of my sister and her husband, till Lily ?ind I were wed. And there in the quiet light of the June evening I knelt in tho c hancel upon the rushes that strewed the grave of my ful her and my mother atal sent my spirit np to ward them in, the place of their eternal rest and to the God who guards them, great calm came upon me as I knelt (hus, and I felt how mad had lum that, oath of mine that as a lad I had sworn to bc avenged upon De (jarcio, and 1 saw how as a tree from a seed all my sorrows had grown from it. But even then T could not do other than bato De Garcia-no, nor can I tothis hour-and afterall ?twas natural that I should desire vengeance on the mur derer of my mother, though the wreaking of it had best been left in another hand. Without the little chancel door 1 met Lily, who was lingering there, knowing me to be within, and we spoke together. .Lily," I said, "I would ask you some thing. 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