xclaimed, with a start of
jealousy.

"No. I have seen her that I mean these three days in the Square, on
her way to music lesson. She has dark brown eyes and wears yellow
ribbons. I love her."

"You don't say so! She has never come to our performance, I hope."

"It has been foggy ever since we came to this town."

"Ah, to be sure. Then there's a chance: for, you see, she would
never look at you if she knew of--of that other. Take my advice--go
into society, always at night, when there is no danger; get
introduced; dance with her; sing serenades under her window; then
marry her. Afterwards--well, that's your affair."

So the youth went into society and met the girl he loved, and danced
with her so vivaciously and sang serenades with such feeling beneath
her window, that at last she felt he was all in all to her. Then the
youth asked to be allowed to see her father, who was a Retired
Colonel; and professed himself a man of Substance. He said nothing
of the Shadow: but it is true he had saved a certain amount.
"Then to all intents and purposes you are a gentleman," said the
Retired Colonel; and the wedding-day was fixed.

They were married in dull weather, and spent a delightful honeymoon.
But when spring came and brighter days, the young wife began to feel
lonely; for her husband locked himself, all the day long, in his
study--to work, as he said. He seemed to be always at work; and
whenever he consented to a holiday, it was sure to fall on the
bleakest and dismallest day in the week.

"You are never so gay now as you were last Autumn. I am jealous of
that work of yours. At least," she pleaded, "let me sit with you and
share your affection with it."

But he laughed and denied her: and next day she peered in through the
keyhole of his study.

That same evening she ran away from him: having seen the shadow of
another woman by his side.

Then the poor man--for he had loved his wife--cursed the day of his
birth and led an evil life. This lasted for ten years, and his wife
died in her father's house, unforgiving.

On the day of her funeral, the man said to his shadow--"I see it all.
We were made for each other, so let us marry. You have wrecked my
life and now must save it. Only it is rather hard to marry a wife
whom one can only see by sunlight and moonlight."

So they were married; and spent all their life in the open air,
looking on the naked world and learning its secrets. And his shadow