A FABLE WITHOUT A MORAL

Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 9

A FABLE WITHOUT A MORAL

“The following fnble (without a moral) which I made for my own enlightenment some lime ago will hJp .you io uudoisuinQ the point of view,'’ writes E. B. Osborn, in the • Evening News.’ "Two lovers were parted by some ill chance, and nearly thirty years passed before they communicated wild ono another again. "Then, hearing he had never acquired a wife to play hostess in his old manor house in a far corner of the quiet, green countryside, and being a widow b&rself in good standing, she sent him this brief message : ‘Am I quite forgotten? If not, would you care to como and uce me?’ His reply was; Forgotten?— I have teen you every day since wo parted. You have boon my prisoner in a secret prison all the tinie, and I .sometimes laugh to myself to think that you can never, never escape. I have the only key, and nobody could steal it from me. “‘You are not a year older since you were first locked in, and your health has not been affected at all by your long imprisonment —your eyes are as -glad and clear, your brow as smooth and white, your hair as much like ripe corn, and your limbs as deftly wrought of -pcarl-and-stecl as they wero nearly thirty years ago.’ the lady received this curious letter she smiled, then would have wept (only iv tear wouldn’t come), next looked at her face in the glass and frowned, gave her toy dog a biscuit and her parrot a lump of sugar, and hurried off to a Scriabin recital A tier which she decided to let the matter drop.”