Princess Zara

Had she done so, her statement would have been something like this: "There is no room in my heart for a lover, for the reason that the

cause I have espoused fills it completely. The people whose wrongs I

seek to redress, the victims whose wandering souls cry out for

vengeance, and the women exiles in frozen Siberia whose fates are too

terrible to relate, fill my whole heart and being so completely as to

leave no room for personal love."

She would have said that, and much more, but she restrained herself;

and he rose to take his departure.

She gave him both her hands, and in a low tone that was full of

suppressed feeling, she said to him, at parting: "Do not think, my friend, that I have failed to appreciate all the

goodness of your motives in coming to me to-day. From my heart I thank

you, and if it should be as you say, that we may never meet again,

although I see no reason for such a thing, I wish you to know that in

parting, Zara de Echeveria admired and esteemed you above all other men

of her acquaintance. Good-bye."