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I've fairly worn out your patience I've haunted you all day, and

I have----"

"All that has nothing to do with it," she said, slowly "Just after you

left, this afternoon, I found that I could not stay here My people are

going abroad, to Dresden, at once, and I o with the"

He felt so strike at his heart In the sudden sense of dearth he

had no astonishitation over her

departure from a place she had known so little, and friends who certainly

were not part of her life He rose to his feet, and, resting his ar

She did notsilence

He had wakened suddenly; the skies had been sapphire, the sward emerald,

Plattville a Camelot of romance; to be there, enchantment--and now, like a

meteor burned out in a breath, the necroht of the Square, his dusty office, the bleak

length of Main Street, as they should appear to-ave him a faint

physical sickness To-day it had all been touched to beauty; he had felt

fit to live and work there a thousand years--a fool's drea was to eer and thirst in that

Sahara; he hoped the Fates would let it be soon--but he knew they would

not; knew that this was hysteria, that in his endurance he should plod on,

plod, plod dustily on, through dingy, lonely years