<h2><SPAN name="CHAPTER_XIV" id="CHAPTER_XIV"></SPAN>CHAPTER XIV</h2>
<p>Next day, much to Galaghetti's sorrow, we
suddenly brought our stay in Venice to a conclusion,
and set off for Paris. The Queen of the
Adriatic had lost her charm for us, and for once
in our lives we were not sorry to say good-bye
to her. The train left the station, crossed the
bridge to the mainland, and was presently
speeding on her way across Europe. Ever since
the morning Miss Trevor's spirits had been
steadily improving. She seemed to have become
her old self in a few hours, and Glenbarth's
delight was beautiful to witness. He had been
through a good deal, poor fellow, and deserved
some recompense for it. We had been upwards
of an hour upon our way, when my wife made a
curious remark.</p>
<p>"Good gracious!" she said, "in our hurry to
get away we have quite forgotten to say good-bye
to Doctor Nikola!"</p>
<p>I saw Miss Trevor give a little shudder.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[Pg 314]</SPAN></span></p>
<p>"Do you know," she said, "I had such a
curious dream about him last night. I dreamt
that I saw him standing in the courtyard of
a great building on a mountain-side. He was
dressed in a strange sort of yellow gown, not
unlike that worn by the Buddhist priests, and was
worn almost to a shadow and looked very old.
He approached me, and taking my hands, said
something that, in the commonplace light of
day, doesn't seem to have much sense in it.
But I know it affected me very much at the
time."</p>
<p>"What was it?" I asked, trying to keep my
voice steady.</p>
<p>"It was this," she answered—"'<i>Remember
that I have forgiven; it is for you to forget.</i>'
What could he have meant?"</p>
<p>"Since it is only a dream, it is impossible to
say," observed my wife, and thus saved me the
danger of attempting a solution.</p>
<p>To bring my long narrative to a conclusion I
might say that the Duke and Miss Trevor were
married last May. They spent their honeymoon
yachting to the West Indies. Some one proposed
that they should visit Venice; indeed, the Earl
of Sellingbourne, who had lately purchased the
Palace Revecce, and had furnished it, by the
way, from the Tottenham Court Road, placed it
at their disposal. From what I have been told I<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[Pg 315]</SPAN></span>
gather that he was somewhat ill-pleased because
his offer was not accepted.</p>
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<p>When the wind howls round the house at
night and the world seems very lonely, I
sometimes try to picture a monastery on a
mountain-side, and then, in my fancy, I see a
yellow-robed, mysterious figure, whose dark,
searching eyes look into mine with a light that
is no longer of this world. To him I cry—</p>
<p class="center pb">"FAREWELL, NIKOLA!"</p>
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