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Rose of the World
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his hand he held a burning brazier, and he begged a dignified admission to the room of the mem-sahib. He would say prayers for her, he said. Reluctantly Baby admitted him, and the man intoned low chants for Rosamund's return to health. In vain Baby struggled against sleep, but just as her eyes were closing she heard a noise, and, looking up, saw the door open and Harry English enter. She thought she was dreaming, and was about to cry out, when Major Bethune beckoned to her from the doorway.
"Baby," he whispered, "Harry English is alive. I was dreaming of the garrison during a siege, when suddenly my door opened, and in glided Saif. He came to my bedside and stood looking down at me for a minute, and then he said in his old voice : 'Raymond, I am Harry/ He pulled off his turban, and I saw him, for the first time, as it seemed to me. The moment he had shaved off his beard, there was the old Harry back again."
"But why," said Baby, bewildered, "why did he do it?"
"Since his wife had never shown any affection for him, he felt it would be better to disappear. He was wounded and taken prisoner by natives, and every one thought him dead. He was too unhappy to want to come back, at first ; but, later, he could not keep away from Lady Rosamund. He said if she were happy with Sir Arthur he would never have shown himself. But to-night, lying outside her door and hearing her calling for 'Harry, Harry !' he could stand it no longer."
"Oh, I am so happy !" said Baby. And, almost unconsciously, it seemed, she cuddled up in Major Bethune's arms. He looked down at her, and suddenly he realized that she was not a child at all, but a beautiful girl, whom he loved.
"Baby?" he said softly, and again, "Baby ?" wonderingly.
From the adjoining room came the sound of excited voices. They hastened to the door, and, opening it, saw Harry English, clad still in the clothes he had worn as Saif, with only the turban and the disfiguring beard missing, holding Rosamund in his arms.
The outburst had been caused by the sudden entrance of Sir Arthur. The sight of his wife in another man's arms had been too much for him.
Cast of "Rose of the World"
Written from the Artcraft Picture Play by Agnes and Egerton Castle
Rosamund English ELSIE FERGUSON
Capt. Harry English. ..Wyndham Standing
Major Bethune.. Percy Marmont
Aspasia Cunningham June Sloane
Sir Arthur Geraldine. . .Clarence Handysides Jani, a native servant Marie Benedetta
"You — you impostor," he cried, "leave Lady Rosamund alone ! She is my wife, I tell you, my wife!" and he tried to pull Harry away from Rosamund's inert body.
"I am no impostor," replied Harry English quietly, but firmly. "You know that I am no impostor, that she is my wife, and never legally yours, since I have been alive all the time. It is you whom I must ask to leave."
Quietly every one stole away. Again the time had come for Aunt Aspasia to offer consolation to the bewildered and outraged Sir Arthur. When Ala j or Bethune rode away in the morning, Baby whispered to him that she thought Aunt Aspasia was a wonderful woman.
"She has that poor old baby dragon of a Sir Arthur sitting at the table in the library, while she feeds him from a spoon, Raymond, and she is just babying him terribly. But he seems to like