Paar 6.
THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT,
BELLEFONTE,
PA., AUGUST 31,
1905.
The Borgia
Bronze
By ROBERT C. V. MEYERS
Copyright, 1904, by Robert C. V, Meyers
for his
Hart
HE week before starting
usual Mediterranean
ley took from the little gold in
laid desk In his wife's boudoir
the letter of instructions. There
been a look of haunting sorrow In
Else's face the day she him the
letter, and, as though reproaching her
self for something urged his head
down to her pillow and let his cheek
rest close to hers for a moment before
dismissing him,
When he left the room,
followed him,
“Elise has such strong Individuality,”
said Mrs, Dale. “Her wishing to re
turn to the original donors the prety
things she has had given her from time
to time Is just like her; it {8 the same
as telling her friends that their gifts
were precious to her and that it would
peem almost sacrilegious for an
else to enjoy them after she Is go
Hartley that lady
him to that his
tentional slight
away from hiu
But he had }
ever since the day Elise accepted
and he came upon her an hour
her word had been given him wit!
old bronze jar and Caldwell's letter in
her lap. She white
handed him the sheet 1ereon
the aspiring words of his
gave her back
her eyes, and she
her, laughing
out to her
ments
the day when she should have pro:
to be his wife, for he had
ed that she uld be his. A month
she married him
He looked
tructions sprea
had
gave
9 she
her mother
knew the
think
ng
prized possessions
» truth all along,
was
he 1
rival
looking
the letter,
threw
which been collect
never Jd
desk.
“The je
he read, “are to revert
He smiled. Yeste
the b
fusively
“So lke
thanked
wish Marguerite
know how |
them and how
wish t
were too valuable
les, she loved you so.
instructions went on
after article, each
presenter of her
otherwise Hes vil
The letter of
mentioning article
to go back
wedding gifts an 1,
to him but the jew
day she ! !
to the
nothing to
Was not ar
she had guar
speaking of the man
respect of his fri
pitying contemg
tried to make bellev
No, Caldws
Xomed in the
yet Cal
ent.
He left the desk and, going
inet In 1 r
squat vase
slise h
bronz
Caldwell }
It
gin
know
hou 1
H
~1 her poor secret, ev
18 he forfeited
with a
h she m
ends sort of
ust have
was gent
i's © Was
stor of Instructions, and
ven he ra pres
to a eal
WAS sn
Pal
SHE URGED HIS HEAD DOWN
ches, etched by time, had engaged
encomiums of artists whom Elise
to the house. Hoe turned It upside
and manipulated the base, lightly
his finger nafl round it a score
till it slowly revolved and dis
a Wttle compartment, the exist
of which few would suspect.
of this compartment Elise had
Caldwell's letter of love
hoe came upon her with the
jewels in his hand, an hour
0 had sald she would be his
Thi
gif
|
4
id
lace was vacant now--nething
there but a continuation of the canker
that seared the outside,
What a romantic fellow Caldwell
must have been! Quite an old time
Elizabethan lover who feared his fate
too much.
Why had Elise kept the bronze all
this tune? She had an artistic eye and
admired its coloring
Bes had not been
having no desire to revive old
ries in Caldwell by sending the
back to him?
There was one other thing she could
given back to Caldwell,
felt In his pocket and took
folded and refolded till it
an inch square, He fitted it
anpartment in the base of the
It wedged In like a part of the
He had found it locket
took from his ick when
was dead, a simple plece of
elry her father had given her as a child
and which she always wore in remem
brance of him, for she had loved him.
He had opened it and found the paper
pressed over the portrait of her father,
He the paper from the bronze
Jar. Ought it to have been buried with
her, as was done with the locket? No;
she had been his wife, and this was a
love letter from another man
Rather had she been cruel or
Caldwell or himself in
letter that time to
band, though could shé
erwise when that
chanced upon her with the
yet hidden from him? And was he
ing a loyal or kind thing to her in read-
ing It a second time? There were hard
ut his mouth his eyes scan-
ned the hastily “1 am
poor, bu ! must
wealth wer and love
80 defe man
ever loved before vork for you,
slave for you”
I » fol
wise in
memos
thing
ides, she
have
Hartley
out a p
was but
in the
bronze
per
metal in a
they
she
wife's
jew.
took
kind to
showing the
affianced hus
have done oth
accepted husband
not
do-
her
letter
lines abx
scrawie
be
nseless 7 * You as no
wha
well to
had d and scarcely
for E » had
(he would swear to tha
Ellse 8 honor
man woo
had gone
man was,
mates, debasing
ing the maddest ex
ter w! wt to fa
key
ANS Were
his
ich 1 ‘ an?
had been loved by Elise,
man had been weak enough to let
ause he thought his
i by
“procated
The
hims=e.f sh Tong
t heen rec
he gold
He
Elise’s
ar and left the
door behind h
hers
Ron
| IY ae)
Elise
sh
The
dral,
and dismi
back to the
bronze,
displayed to hin hing for its an
tiquity and showing b the ln
the base, It seemed that a great chance
opened to hin Mrs, Dale's treatment
of him In the cathedral told him that
her daughter would see him no more
alone Elise had besought him to
send her no more letters, which her
mother insisted upon opening. Hart
ley bad arrived and been welcomed by
Mrs. Dale. He bought the jar and In
the hollow wedged his letter of adora
tion, fearful, yet hopeful He sent
the bronze to Elise, was assure! that
it was placed in her hand and never
heard a word from her. The next
month she was mairied to Hartley
80 Elise would have him receive his
gift back? That told him even at this
Inte day how little she had ever eared
for him, how false she had been from
the first. She bad kept the jar, unde
sirous of holding any communication
with him by sending It back to him,
and Hartley knew of the thing and
would return It now. Curse the man!
He should have nothing that had once
been his. He would go for the bronee,
He would go at once
In half an hour he was on the way
to Elisa's former homa. Martley received
him In the brary
Caldweil's hoad was high, his bloodshot
syes like those of an animal at bay. Me
noted Hartley's lack of funereal garb and
thought how little the man had cared for
awalted ther
bad hurried
to buy the
lovingly
Ow
positively
had not been
his wife, for he looked well,
calm and easy, and she
dead a month,
There were few words between them.
“I owed it to the nature of your note"
Caldwell sald, "to answer It at once and
in this way."
He knew his speech was wenk and that
ssed the other
y nodded and pointed to the
the table At that
have struck the man down, the
marks of dissipation on him were such a
blur on Ellse's memory Call that love?
should ennoble, not debase
Elise might save this man He
to the he bore the memory
wife Caldwell should not
her f
1 is
little
moment he
love
that
rther
urs l
iting the bronge
s mind for
blame
he bhelioy he
dwell
i for
sald
was
the
aEnin
ponrcl ¢ in hi
widow
“You have,”
ed an great loss
Hartley's face reddene
common,” he sald quietly
ilekly follows Caldwell,
ver morning wore to evening but
¢ heart Cid break,’ the poet says.’
eased him to be vulgarly flippant,
ike the cold man In front of him
he sald stilted] sustain.
“loss is
“It takes a good deal to break n he
irned Hartley, and Caldwell
as he thought It
ur wife he sald, "suffered little
hope."’
“Her physician
swered Hartley
A little
seemed willing
Art,”
smiled at
tab,
well spoke
HAETLEY S HAND
shall thank X for
respon i my
Hartley's letter of Iz
sand the bronze to you?
“On second thousht'™
believe
structions
said Caldwell
wi not take It i "
and that ia
he was barteri:
the jar
son wa
and Ir
wild
N
saw t
leclarat
he sald
# hand
the men |
tiey
ayes
s lips
the br
"How
to get at the ms
He Angered the bass
‘Lose ls common,’
or morning wore fo
heart 4id break.’
And old Nicholson! He would writs
ones, declining the consular appointme
Bee, hore was the almost Imperoept
threadiike groove In the bottom of ¢
Jar! You ran your finger nall lightly
round It til you heard a faint click
Could it be possible the old dango
told the truth and that
been a poison jar?
Polson! Love was a poison
deadly
He heard a faint cllek. The base of the
bronse In his hand slowly revolved ull it
Mnoged round and showed the interfer of
the false bottom
He gasped. A paper folded and folded
tll It was an Inoh square lay there. He
dared not touch IL
He trembled from head to fool. Kise's
voloe was In his ears. He saw her face
Suddenly he reached and drew out the
paper, He oried out and tore at it and
spread It open
It was his old declaration of love
He gased at It for a moment;
orushed It to his heart
Had she never found t-never guessed
at ne
No, she had never discovered the secret
of the jar. Hartley had come with his
specious wealth, her mother was anxious
for the mateh, Elise had thought he was |
the sport of the poorer man-ahe had
treasured this little bronse, the one wife |
he had ever offered Ber. Bhs never knew; |
she had loved him, she had loved him. |
And, oh, to reclaim himself for sake of
her love and his! For she loved him, she |
loved him, she loved him!
And ha, too, murmured her name: i
Elise!"
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then
An Animal Story Por
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The Innocent Elephant
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“Is it
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“Most assuredly
“the
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other
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never he
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