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The thought endured but a moment, for she sa little simple was the crux of her destiny The two of them had been set apart by the fates; each had salvation to work out alone; no facile union would ever join the of a man's path; for her the illu And with the thought she thought kindly of the ed her word It was but a little corner of her heart he could ever possess; but doubtless in such matters he was not ambitious

Lealked by her side down the by-path towards Glenavelin Tragedy aric with sword and cloak and steel for the enes

"The summer is over," she said "It has been a cruel su modern note which haunts us all to-day," he said "This upland country is confused with bustling politics, and pastoral has been worried to death by sickness of heart You cannot find the old peaceful life without"

"And within?" she asked

"That is for you and rant it I have found my princess, like the doh stone tower? It is a hard world for princesses"

"Hard for the knights, too, for they cannot come back and carry off their ladies In the old days it used to be so, but then sione out of life"

"And the princess waits and watches and cries herself to sleep?

"And the knight goes off to the World's End and never forgets"

They were at Glenavelin gates now, and stood silent against theShe flew to his arms, for a second his kisses were on her lips, and then ca A storm of tears was in her heart, but with dry eyes she said the words of good-bye Meanwhile fro in the pines the dirge of the dead su farewells