Angels and Women (1924)

TEBAH AND ITS INMATES 215
dren would suffer for her thoughtless deed.
I was reading this account when Japheth
entered and finding me in tears gently inquired
the cause and was relieved to find that
they were induced by an ancient sorrow.
THE CORONAL OF HESPERUS
The rain descends incessantly. A black
mist enshrouds the horizon. Yesterday the
little family assembled in our mother’s apartment
and I read from the writings of Allimades
a story of olden times: "The Love of
Endymion, a Star-spirit, for Orrobia, Princess
of the Kingdom of Nourma." We were
all much affected by the great trials and virtue
of the princess, unshaken even to her
very end, when the gate of death closed upon
her fair form and Endymion could see her no
more.
This story was a gift from my father when
I was but a child. Often had I retired to
the recesses of the forest to linger over the