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• CHAPTER YID•..
The Windows of the :conte sent
lcnig l.iees across the valley, weaving
with their snarl brethren of the
palms a mesh -work that caught » d
seemed to bind the feet of the my-
ried searchers for dead and wounded
who went slowly up and down the
hollows, emerging here from the
green of len orange -_ grove with a
dt'L'tar• burden for burial, disappear-
ing there into a, farmhouse with a
saggiug stretcher, Beyond the vel-
ley, the .eastern end of Palm City
sloped to the shore, darkening with
a rhouRand x3 te
rres of tender dn
coloring. And then again, beyond
the City, lay the broad carpet of
the ocean, rich with ieefahle. depths
of ell tints from gold and glorious
blue to mauve and royal.lest. purple.
High above the water hum; the sky,
nntgnificent in its untleekod purity.
wonderful as the blue of the Virgin's
kirt1e--nay, it was the very raiment
of the divine I11:ary.
This was the background that filled
the frame of Rector's tent door. To.
coMplote the picture, makingit in-
evitable, her head clear against the
serene nears, Maddalena, stood, a
figure at once splendid and pathetic.
The mad fierce words lrad been a
blow in the Wee : all expected, they
had smitten brutally. And then as
responsive blood hurries in ,surprise
to every pinpoint of the stricken
xheek, their full mewling hastened
aggressively into every eranxay of
flea being. The pain of the strange
intelligence stung, and summoned
tears to tremble. Hector saw them
end bad the momentary fear flint
she was about to break down. lint
dignity, pride. love, and that pug-
nacity which harbors in even the
most peaceful nature, joined hands
and set a girdle of strerrgeh about
her. With an unconscious toss of
tho head, the shook the drops from
her lashes, and looked on Asunta
with undimmed gaze.
The hien were dumb at the mali-
elous vulgarity of the attack. Sud-
den. gross, offensive. it stunned
them, too, into blank amazement.
Their eyes turned first to the victim,
and in suspense they waited far
Maddalena to prove, They hid been
powerless to prevent the attack '
while the Queen was there they were
equally powerless to retaliate. ()My
;Alasdair, who knew no word of
what was passing, understood from
attitude and gesture that ill events
were tortard : be moved from his
sentinel post by the doorway, so
that at hint of eye 'he might come
between the Queen and the enraged'
Asunta,
It was Hector, then. What did
Asunta know ?' What part had Aetna
ta
et -
ta in his life ? Why dict Asunta: cry
out against her thus ? For love of
Palmetto, for love of him ? From
question and doubt to doubt and
question she swung for an eternity..
And how to deal with this mad wo-
man who, having spoken a thousand
daggers, looked a deadlier thou-
sand ? What to say --she could
meet her gaze calmly -but 0 1 what
to say ?
Her eyes took an impulse. She
looker! to Hector, It vats the un-
spoken appeal for help, for protec-
tion. She read both in bis eyes -in
the Iove he put in her hands was a
shield invulnerable. Now she was
strong. she was armed at all points.
"Doan Asunta. I am unused to
,roues of violence:. You forget what
is due to ane, you forget what is duo
io yourself. I am at a loss to un-
aerst.and this extremity of passion.
lint at least I understand that y oe
Urease me---"
"Of being his lover yes !" And a
quivering hand marked Hector,
"If by that you mean that I that
T love Senor Grant -it is my happi-
ness to love him, as it is any un-
happiness. And if so I choose to
a lo, how have you gained the right
to ask why, how ?"
"Because I love Palmetto."
"Better than ;You love me ?"
"Perhaps— yes, better than I
love you."
"Is that the only reason ?"
"No. He insulted ane with his
love -his love -the adventurer who
conies whence no one knows. Yon
must not be deceived,"
"Strange. l was his guarantee,
He bore my commission. You re-
ceived him as my representative."
"Until lux showed his true charac-
ter." •
"How did he show it ?"
"By besiegieg me, pestering me -
with his professions of love; and now
he has got you in his toils."
Maddalena smiled. on Hector.
"You hear Diana Asunta, ., senor. I
shall not ask you to -reply, to her,,'
-.He thanked her with a look that
drew the bands of trust and
canti-
cle:nee
the closer.
Ala a but let are reply,, cried
Brava, "i .have no mercy for this
lady wha conspires to draw your
Majesty into her net of revenge.,"
"Don Augustin ! Don Augustin 1"
pleaded Hector. ,
"Give me leave, your Majesty,"
went on Bravo, unheeding, "to tell
the troth of this sordid affair."
-For p, moment Maddalena hesitated
but little by little her resentment
against .Asunta had been swelling.
resentment a.galnst the woman who
had compelled her to tear aside the
veil that his her darling young sec-
ret, her darling young jay, her rare
sweet sorrow.
Why should she spare her who did
not spare ? And if Bravo knew the
truth ---
She nodded; and in' swift phrases.
Don Augustin recounted all that
Hector bad told him of his stay at
Friganeta, omitting nothing, eaten -
tutting nothing. Maddalena kept
her eyes fixed on Asunta, and strove
to read confirmation or denial in. the
waves of emotion that chased each
other over her countenance.
"It's all a lie ! it's all a lie 1"
"Her position near your Majesty's
person gave her opportunities for
spying which she did :not neglect.
She watched you, she watched Senor
Grant. Revenge on him' she would
have, revehge on you also, if it were
possible. There was no need to seek
revenge : Fate had anticipated her
alas !"
-Its all a lie!" came again hoar-
sely frarn' Asunta.
Maddalena heaved a sigh of oppres-
sion. Her endurance we's nearly
exhausted. She felt her heart sink-
ing
inking within her, the blood flowing
feebly along'' herr ..veins, her eyes
growing blind. This -unseemly brawl,
lar which she felt her inmost soul
laid bare and torn by coarse augers,
was degrading to her and her love,
and she rebelled bitterly against the
weakness it bred in her. It must
end, it must end.
"Let Don Miguel be summoned,"
sire said. "Don Augustin, see to
it !"
Your Majesty does riot know yet
that. Don Miguel is a prisoner," said
Bravo,
"A prisoner ? ' Heaven save him!
To Stampa ?" .
"No your. Majesty. He is a prison-
er in his own tent --a prisoner of
Palmetto. What the daughter said;
the -.father has repeated." And
briefly he recounted events,
"0 ! this is monstrous 1 Let him
be brought forthwith 1"
She stood still for. a• moment or
two after Bravo left the tent, and
then her strength and valorous will-
power seemed to leave her.. She
looked on the scowling Asunta, who
cast furtive glances at the open door
as if to make a dash for her liberty,
but Alasdair barred the way. She
looked at the great Highlandman.
but he had all his wits in the one
eye that fixed •Asunta, Then, as 1f
she had delayed too long, yet feared
her own eagerness, she turned to
Hector, and with a little cry that
held all love, all pity, all sorrow,
she ran to where ho lay, and taking
his hand pressed it to tlie warm sol-
icitude of her breast. His eyes an-
swered to the full the unpremediated
caress. ' Neither had thought for
Asunta; to whose raging soul every
movement, every whi:aper, was worm-
wood and gall,
"Fate takes even our ono hour
fr"om us." she whispered.
"Fate cannot," he answered.
"And you -wounded -for me:" ,
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"I am glad."
"Ah 1" The, sigh was not now of
oppression; it was charged with ex-
cess of . delight.
"If I were,not wounded, would you
be here 7"
"You might have been killed."
"X had your . crucifix
"I prayed for you."
'And your rose,."
"My heart went with both."
"So I was safe,"
"O ! Hector, hector, I love you!"
"Maddalena 1"
"Better to -night than last night
better far."
"Is that possible 9"
"Everything is possible to the wo-
man who loves."
For a little space eyes made close
speech, lest even the faintest echo
might reach thieving ears. And then
each longed forsound of the ether's
voice,
"Hector, I am, sorry for her."
"Tor Asunta ?"
"She loves you."
"She hates us both."
"She may well hate me who stole
you."
"Stole me? I gave myself to . you
long ago."
"I think I, too, must have loved,
you from long ago, I seem to have
loved you always."
"You were my, dream when i was.
a boy."
"And then not to know until yes-
terday "
es-terday."
"I have acquainted Don Miguel
with your commands, madame, and
3: have, perhaps injudiciously, further
acquainted him with what has pass-
ed to -night between your Majesty
and Dona. Amite."
I have sent for you, sir, that
you may hear my will --- .I do not
wish to listen to any explanations,
any excuses. If you see aught in
my conduct to sensure or to grieve
over, aught of prejudice to Palmetto,
aught unworthy of your Queen -come
to me and come at once. Do not
speak behindany back, sir; and do
not• believe without proof. Though I
am a woman I am strong enough
not to flinch from the criticism or
the censure of a friend; but.I resent
thoughtless interference, and I will
not brook secret discussion of my
acts. -
"I - trust I am wise in believing
that when you repeated your daugh-
ter's insinuations you were actuated
by the best motives : I am at least
content to believe that. I demand
now an apology, not only for the
utterance of the calumny, but for the
suspicion itself. . You will , also
apologize to Senor Grant."
Don Miguel,., still kneeling, looked
up, The 'sight of his Queen, achild
almost in years yet full of true dig-
nity; the vision of her unprotected
youth and beauty; the words she had
spoken, so just, so direct, so sim-
ple; all these moved him as no royal
anger could -all doubt of her and all
petty annoyance fell from him, and
hesaw that she was indeed, even in
her' outward seeming, above re-
proach. She looked truth and in-
nocence, as she was truth and inno-
cence.' There was no stop for
thought: he seized her hand and
kissed it, while his ey,es brimmed
with tears of contrition that would
not be stayed. .
"Madame -madame --I am the .bas-
est - O ! madame; do you forgit:e, do
you forgive?"
The words were
choked in him.
Glad to end a scene so painful to
her,. to Don Miguel, to Hector, Mad-
dalena bowed her head.
"7: forgive you !"
Again and again the old man kiss-
ed her bands,
"Rise, sir."
IIe•obeyed.
"it is impossible for me to retain
Dona Asunta near my person, 3: can-
not have about me one who neither.,
loves me nor serves -ane faithfully. I
desire you' to receive her at my
hands. Let aro never see her
a;gain."
"Madame ! madame !" was all the
weeping man could stammer.
"Don Augustin, you will inform
General I•lanriros of my will that
Don idiguel's sword be returned to
him. It is also my will that those
who know of this incident shall not
speak of it, now or ever,"
Bravo bowed.
"Don ' Miguel, ;you are suffering
keenly, At another time you will
make amends to Senor 'Grant. Dona
Asunta awaits you. Adios ! '
.All hut Alasdair averted their eyeS
as humbled father and still haughty
daughter .paaesed from the tent, As
Aeuadta, •silent, and scornful, swept
under the great Highlander's keen
eye, his hand closed involuntarily on
the haft of his dirk. Tho impulse
was on him fo strike to het; • black.
heart, but the steel was for another
breast; Itis fingers unclosed reit-te-
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"Your eyes used to Come between
me and my books when I was at
school,"
"O ! but I was a little girl ! How
could they, then ?"
"No, I cannot think of you as a
little girl you were always the
Queen. " Just as you will never grow
old : you will be the Queen always-
tho same, as you are now i"
"Always the sante to ,you, my
heart."
"Maddalena ! you love me too well:
I am not worthy."
"You are worthy. You who have
bled for ma, who have risked life for
me !"
"ITot worthy though I risk life
again to -morrow, and every morrow
mail the end 1"
"It is I that am not worthy, for
I can give nothing but pay love."
"And that -that makes me a king
who am content to he your meanest
slave 1"
IIector ! My ring 1"
"My Queen ! Maddalena 1"
"I love my own, name now, since
I have heard it from your lips 1"
",A Queen's, and you the only
Queen worthy of it, Maddalena !"
His eyes closed as if he. were drun-
kenwith the very melody of her
name. His hand was still '.. pressed
hard to her breast,- and through the
frail texture of her robe he could
feel .the happy pulsations of her
heart -her heart that could thus for-
got in its moment of joy the sharp.
sword -points that sought to pierce
it. Her hands covered his in, and
held it ,.with tenderness . of comfort
that only swimming warmth of her
cyos couilri equal. From the ineffable
lambent depths the peace of , love
gleamed tip, is a pearl might gleam
through shining waters the winds
never stir nor the Odes trouble. The
tooth of her cased every ache, and
feeling her look upon hint was ell
Cordials and elixirs; and when he ex
c:h:•tnged titee happiness of shut oyes
for that el' open, his gaze came to
rest. on the del ghsouneness of her
mouth, where little quivering ripples
about; the curves 011(1: spread and
spread urnt,il the ever-liesv •weeder of
her srxaile, broke inion intra,
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ARNIQM1i)
liNb MUM
- METI-IODS OF DRAINAGE.
While open ditches for land drain-
age may bo necessary and under cer-
tain conditions "the only way;" they
must be considered as decidedly ob-
jectionable where tiles can be used.
The open ditch. obstructs the various',
forms of tillage and alI farm opera-
tions. Its first cost is expensive as
compared with the tile because much.
more labor must be expended in the
digging of an open ditch. It is lia-
ble to be partially filled in by the
tramping of stock, if the land is
pastured, by the action of 'frost and
the growth of weeds, so that its use-
fulness will be impaired. An ob-
structed channel for the free pas-
sage of water is a first essential in
farm drainage and this can only be
secured as a permanent improvement
in the covered tile drain.
So while other materials may serve
a temporary purpose in drainage,
tiles are so muchsuperior in point of
cost when durability and results are
measured; as to hardly admit of de-
voting any space to the discussion of
other methods.
The problem of farm drainage is to
lower the water table (by which we
mean the body of stagnant water
found . in all soils at a greater or
less distance from the surface), so
that it will not interfere with the
growth of crops. Proper drainage
leaves the particles of soil full of
moisture but the spaces between the
particles are free and open for the
admission of air. •
The earlier advocates of -tile . drain-
age favored drains four or five feet
deep. It is a well established fact
that the deeper the drain the farther
it will drain he water, so at first
sight it would seem economical to,
DRAIN DEEP.
When, however, we stop to coesid-
er the extra cost of digging the deep
ditch we shall see that it is the most
costly. It often costs as much to
..dig the last foot in a ditelr, four feet
deep as' it did to frig the first three.
Of course in any system of drainage
there will be likely to be places where
the ditch must be deep in order to
get the proper fall; but we think the
best authorities do not advocate pia.o-
ing the average tile drain more than
two and a half to three feet deep.
Muck lands that would be likely to
settle a good deal after draining
could be an exception,
The size of tiles so: t}iat they may
have sufficient catiaeity to early off
the water quickly should be carefully
considered. . The rule is that the ca.-
pacify of tiles Is to each other es
,the squares of their diameters, That
'is a, tile two inches in diameter will
�
carry four times as enrich water as
a one -inch pipe; one three .,;inches
nine times as much: In the earlier
days of tile drainage many small
tiles were used whish worked very
well with the average rain,fall; but
were not able to carry off an extra
ordinarre rainfall (pick enough to pre-
vent injury to the growing crops. The'
thing -to provide for is the extraor-
dinary arnountt of water that must
be removed if ereps are riot to •suuffer.
Larger tile is fore, the rule. I think
most of 'the tiles laid now are not
less than three inches,
Ire locating ,Y a. eestem of crit as the
outlet demands most careful atten-
tion, It should he ample for the' die -
cheese of a full volume of water
from the drains and well protected so
that it will not be obstructed in Aar
way, If conditions permit: a mei
staantial wall of stone through whiru'd
the discharging tile passes, with ilk
opening covered with wire to pre
vent the ingress of 'small animals
will be found satisfactory.
The fall required to secure efleetiv'';\
drainage will depend largely on rix
skill employed in surveying the Tian
and laying the tiles. A very model'
ate fall will answer when the details.
are attended to '
IN THE BEST WAY.
Waring says one foot to the hundred
feet is desirable, while one half thaf' M1
amount of fall, or six inches in one
hundred feet, is quite sufficient: if the
execution of the work is carefully at-
tended to.
The distance apart of the tile skeins
will depend on the kind of soul and •
the depth of the drains.' On loony
y
clays the distance must be loss to se-
cure good' drainage than on sow of
loamy or gravelly character. No fixed
rules can be given as to distance,
that will always be safe to follow,
as soils vary' greatly in texture acid
capacity to retain moisture.
• As a rule, it is wise to employ a.
skilled man to lay out and level the.
drains. This work must be done well
or the drains will prove a failure.
The grading well done, the tiles can
be laid by anyone careful and parities•
taking.
If mistakes are made, grades wreng, '.
a poor tile, or carelessly laid, we
must remember treat if it is burled
out of sight the mistake will. be ap-
parent in the condition of the land
about the obstructed tile. Our sant,
lay will be without benefit. Bedew ,4''
good tile are well laid in. a properly..
graded ditch, it Is a waste of money
and . labor. It is very difficult to
locate an abstracted tile, and expeti•
sive to repair a poorly laid drain,
Tiles should be hard and well
burned. Sonia if exposedto the kosi
are soft and crumble and are not
worth laying. The water rides not
enter the tile through the pores to
any great extent, as many suppose,
but through . the spaces between the
tiles: Laid as carefully and closely
as may be the water will end its Way
through the joints or ends.,
If one is thinking of expending
money and labor in drainage it.:tvill
pay to look into and master all de
tails as far as practicable. Too often
such work is begun in haste, carried
on in a haphazard way, and the re-
sults
esults are not satisfactory.
I'OW TO MIX .CEMIIN'l.'.
Cement is coming generally sere
use as a substitute for, ]umber 11
the blinding of• floors' and the ere()
tion: of silos and. other 1artai T5tr3ld
ings. The value of the Cement strue
ture will depend to a large extent rep -
on the proportions in which to natria
eon -Lent, sand and gravel. 'arils
amount of cement to use will depend
upon the character of the grarrel and
satnd, ; and therefore, it is cairn:wit ie
lay delve atny hard and last rule that
will exactly serve in all cases, %Ile
following is a test or method regain.
mended by the United States elovcrn'
Meat for ascertaining 'tire right 'pro
portions to .uso. aand"rnay lie 1dttnl'
helpful to those toeeta g c nieei
struetures:
Take of gravel e certain meahtitrr
and shake it dowel to compact, itr
strike 'off the top with a straitilti
edge;,then measure water enol i)eur
into "grata, until all voids are :filled
,i,
lasEta
iuYai;or . us'ttd 'will. shtitV :t
amount of the mixture or cementitarif
sand that Will be retttireti to rimes t
proper: concrete,