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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. After all that has been, will you
still take me for your husband, unworthy
as I am?"
..I promised so to do many a year ago,
Thomas." she answered, speaking very
low and flushing like the wild rose that
bloomed upon a grave beside her, "and I
have never changed my mind. Indeed for
many years I have looked upon you as my
husband, though I thought you dead!"
"Perhaps it is more than Ideserv6,"I
said, -but if it is to be say when it shall
be, for youth has left us, and we have little
time :?> los?. "
. When yu? will, Thomas," she answer
ed, {docing !i?r hand in minc.
Within :?. week from that evening wo
were wed
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