in accessing the complete JSTOR document, which I can't copy here, there seem to be two possible titles: The Man who never Laughed again, and The Third Kalendar..

In the former tale a young spendthrift, who is reduced to beggary, is hired to wait on eleven old men, who live together in a grand house, dress in mourning, and weep and lament. One by one they die, and the last cautions the youth not to open a particular door... The youth opens it, and it leads him through a long passage to the shore of a sea, where a great eagle pounces upon him and carries him to an island. He is taken up and conveyed to a country inhabited only by women, where he is married to a beautiful queen, and acknowledged as king. The queen again forbids him to open a particular door, but, after seven years, he ventures to do so, thinking to behold greater treasures... but he finds only the bird within, which carries him back to the seashore. He returns to the house where he had lived with the old men, pines away with vain regrets, and dies.

-joe (variations on a theme) friday