SIGNA.
CHAPTER I.
The spring went by and the summer, and the tidings that came to the Lastra were always good.
The boy wrote now from here, now from there—now from a mountain town, where his music was playing in a summer theatre; now from a lake palace, where some great prince had summoned him; now from the cities, where foreign directors were seeing him; now from the seashore, where great ladies were wooing him. He said so little; he was hidden from them in a golden cloud; they could scarcely follow him even in fancy. But he was well, he was happy,
