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THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1931.
CHAPTER 1.
The Hall of the Guard.
Loud rang the laughter in the hall
of the men-at-arms at Castle Kerns-
-berg. There had come an embassy
from the Hereditary Princess of
Pieseenburg, recently established up-
on the throne, of her ancestors, to the
Duchess Joan of Hohenstein, ruler
of that cluster of hill statelets which
is collectively Masurenland, and
which includes, besides Hohenstein
the original 'Eagle's Eyrie, Kents-
berg also, and Marienfield.
Above, in the hall of audience, the
ambassador, one Leopold von Dess-
aver, a great lord and most learned
councillor of state, sat alone with the
young Duchess. They were eating
of the baked meats and drinking the
good Rhenish up there. But, after
all, it was much merrier down below
with Werner von.'Orseln, Alt Pikker,
Peter Balta and John of Thorn,
a though what they ate was mostly but
plain ox -flesh, and their drink the
strong ale native to the hill lands,
which is called Wendish mead.
"Get you down, Captains Jorian
and Boris," the young Duchess had
commanded, looking very handsome
and haughty in the pride of her twen-
ty years, her eight strong castles and
her two thousand men ready to rise
at her word; "down to the 'hall of
guard, where my officers send around
the wassail. If they do not treat you
well, e'en conte up and tell it••to me."
"Good]" responded: the two soldiers
of the Princess of Plassenburg, turn-
ing them about as if they had been
hinged on the sane stick, and start-
ing forward with precisely the same
stiff hitch from the halt, they made
for the door.
"But stay," Joan of Hohenstein had
said, ere they reached it, "here are a
couple of rings. My father left me
one or two such. Fit thein upon your
fingers, and when you return give
them to the maidens of your choice.
Is there by chance such an ,one, Cap-
tain Jorian, left behind you at Plas-
senburg?"
•s" "Aye, madam," said
Jorian, direct-
ing his left eye, as he stood at atten-
tion, a little slantwise in the direction
of his companion.
"What is her name?"
"Gretchen is her name," quoth the
soldier.
"And yours, Captain Boris?"
The second - automaton, a little
slower of tongue than his companion,
hesitated a moment,
"Speak up," said his comrade, in an
unclergrowl; "say 'Katrin."
"Katrin!" thundered Captain Boris,
with bluff apparent honesty.
"It is well," said the Duchess Joan;
"I think no less of a sturdy soldier
for being somewhat shamefaced as to
the name of his sweetheart, Here is
a ring apiece which will not "shame
your maidens in far Plassenburg, as
you walk with them under the lime -
trees, or buy ribbons for them in the
booths that cluster about the Minster
walls.
The donor looked at the rings
again. She espied the letters of a
posy upon them.
"Ha!
she cried,
"Captain
Boris,
what said you was the mine of your
betrothed?"
"Good Lord!" muttered Boris lowly
to himself, "did I not tell the woman
even now?—Gretchen!"
"Hut, you fool!" Jorian's under -
growl came to his ear, "Katrin, —not
Gretchen; Gretchen is nine."
"I mean Katrin, my lady Duchess,"
said Boris, putting a bold face on the
mistake.
Tlse young mistress of the castle.
smiled.' "Thou art a strange lover,"
she said, "thus to forget the name of
thy mistress. Blit here is a ring with.
a K writ large upon it, which will
serve Inc thy Katherina. And here,
Captain Jorian, is one with a G
scrolled inGothic, which thou wilt
doubtless place with pride upon the
finger of Mistress Gretchen among
the rose gardens of Plassenburg"
"Good!" said Jorian and Boris,
making their bows together; "we
thank your most. gracious highness."
"Rack out, you bulking brute!" the
undertone carne again from Jorian;
"she will be asking for their surnames
if we bide a .motnen,t longer. Now
then, we are safe through the door;
right about, Boris, and thank Heaveri
she had not -time for another question
or we were men undone!"
And with their rings upon their
little fingers the two burly captains
went down the narrow stair of Castle
Kernsberg, nudging each other jov-
ially in the dark places as if they had
again been -men-at-arms and no cap-
tains, as in -the old days before' the
death of Karl the Usurper and the
coming back ofthe legitimate Ptin-
cess FIelene into her rights.
Being 'arrived at the hall beneath
they soon found themselves the centre
of a hospitable circle. Gruff, bearded
Wendish ?nen were these officers of
the young Duchess; not a butterfly
youngling or a courtly carpet knight
among then, but men tanned like
shipmen of the Baltic, soldiers mostly
who had served under her father Hen-
ry, foraging upon occasion as far as
the Mark' in one direction and into
Bor=Russia in the other, men ground-
ed and compacted after the hearts of
Jorian and Boris.
It was small wonder that amid such
congenial society the ex -men-at-arms
found themselves presently very much
at home. Scarcely were they seated
when Jorian began to brag of the gift
the Duchess had given him for the
maiden of his troth.
"And Boris here, that hulking co -
bold, that Hans Klepper upon the
housetops, had well-nigh spoiled the
jest; for when her ladyship asked him
a second time in her sweet voice for
the name of his `betrothed,' he must
need's lay his tongue to 'Gretchen' in-
stead of 'I{atria;' as he had done at
the first!"
Then all suddenly the bearded, bur-
ly officers oftheDuchess Joan looked
at each otiher with a little scared ex-
pression on their faces, through which
gradually glimmered up a certain
Om amusement. Werner von Ors
-
elm the eldest . and gravest of . all,
glanced round the full circle of his
mess, Then he looked back at the
two .captains of the embassy guard
of Plassenburg with a pitying glance.
"And_. you lied about your sweet-
hearts to the Duchess Joan?" he said.
"Ha, ha! Yes! I trow yes," gnoth
Jorian jovially, "Witte may be dear,
but this ring will pay the sweets of
many a night!"
"Ha, hal It will, will it?" said
Werner, the chief captain grimly.
"Aye, truly," echoed Boris, the
mead beginning to work nuttily und-
er his steel cap, "When we melt this
—ha, hal—Katrin's jewel, well quaff
many a 'beaker, The Rhenish will
flow -ow -owl And Peg and Moll and
Elisabet shall he there -yes, and
many a good fellow -ow -ow---"
"Shut the door!" quoth Werner,
the chief captain, at this point.. "Sit
down, gentlemen!"
But Jorian and Boris were not so
easily turned aside.
"Call fit the ale-drawer—the taps -
ter, the pottier, the over-cellarer,
whatever v you call him.
Forwould
Ywe
have more of his vintage. Why, is
this not night of jewels and shall we
not melt ahem? We may chance to
get another for a second mouthful of
lies to -morrow morning. A good du-
chess as ever was—a soft princess, a
princess most gullible is this of yours,
gentlemen of the Eagle's Nest, kerns
of Kernsbergl"
"Sit down," said Werner yet more
gravely. "Captains Jorian and Boris,
you do not seem to know that you are
no longer in Plassenburg. The broom
bhsh dons not keep the cow betwixt
Kernsherg . ant! Ho'henstein. I-Iere
are no Tables .of Karl the tiller's Son
to :hamper our liege mistress. Do you
know that, you have lied to her and
made a jest of it?" s,
"Aye," cried Jorian, holding his
ring high; "a sweet easy 'maid, this
of yours, as ever was cozened. An
easy service yours must be. Lord!
I 'could feather my .nest well inside
a year= -one short year With such , a
m'is'tress would do the b rsiness, WQty,
she will believe anything!"
"So," said Werner vonOrseln grim-
ly, "you thiel.-' so, tdo you, Captains
Boris and Jorian, of the embassy
staff? Well, listen!"
Ile spoke xery, slowly, leaning to.
wards them and punctuating his
meaning upon'.the palm of his -left
hand with lite fingers of his right. "If
1, Werner of Orseln, were now to
Welk' upstairs,- and in, so many' words
tell my, lady, `tire sweet, easy prin-
cess,' as you 'name her, Joan of the
Sword. Hand, as we are proud_e
"Joan 9f the Sword Hand! Hochl"
'Tito men-at-arms at the lower table,
the bearded captains at the high
board, the very page boys lounging
and •s'cuifling in the niches, rose to
their feet at tiie name, pronounced in
a voiee of thunder -pride by Chief
Captain Werner.
"Joan of £be'",f"tvord Hand! Iloch!
Hent yourselves" up, Wends! Up
Plassenburg! Joan of the Sword
Handl Our Lady Joan l Hoch!
Hoch! And three times hochl"
The hurrahs ran round the oak -
panelled hall, Jorian and Boris look-
ed at each other with surprise, but-
they were stout fellows, and took mat-
ters, even when , most serious, pretty
much as they came.
"I thank you, gentlemen, on behalf
of my lady, in whose ,name I com-
mand here," said Werner, bow=ing
ceremoniously to all around, while the
others settled themselves to listen,
"Now, worthy soldiers ^ of Plassen-
burg," he went on, 'he it Iseown to
you that if '(t� suppose a case which
will not happen) I were to 'tell aur.
Lady Joan what .youhave confessed
to us here and boasted of—that you
lied and double lied to her -I lay my
life and the lives of these good fel-
lows that the pair of you would- be
aswinging fro -it the corner gallery of
the Liar's Tower in something under
five' minutes."
"Nye, and a good deed it were,
too 1" chorussed the round table of
the guard hall. "Heaven send it, the
jackanapes.1 To .rail at our Duch-
ess!"
Jorian rose to his feet. "Up, Boris!"
he cried; "no Bar -Russian, no kern of
Hohenstein that ever lived, shall over -
crow a captain of the armies of Plas-
senburg and a soldier of the Princess
Helene—.4-leaven bless her! Take your
ring in your hand, Boris, for ,we will
go up straightway, you and I. And we
will tell the Lady Duchess Joan that,
having no sweetheart of legal stand-
ing, and no desire for any, we choused
her into. the belief that we would be-
stow her rings upon our betrothed in
the rose -gardens of Plassenburg.
Then will we see if indeed we shall be
asw•ing in five minutes, Ready, Boris?"
"Aye, thrice ready, Jorian!"
"About, then! Quick march!"
A great noise of. clapping roses all
round the hall as the two stout sold-
iers set themselves to march up the
staircase by which they had just de-
scended.
"Stand to the doors!" cried Werner,
the chief captain; "do not Ceti there
pass. Up and drink a deep cup to
thein, rather! To Captains Jorian and
Boris of. Plassenburg, brave fellows
both! • Charge your tankards. The
mead of Wendishland shall not run
dry. Fill them to the brim. A cara-
way seed in each for heal'th's. sake,
There! Now to the honour and long
lives of our guests. Jorian and Boris
hoar!"
"Jorian and Boris--hochl"
The' toast was drunk amid multi-
tudinous shootings and handshakes.
The two men had stopped, perforce,
for the doors were in the hands of the
soldiers of the guard, and the pike
points clustered thick in their path,
They turned now in the direction of
the high table from which they had
risen,
"Deal you so with your -guests who
come on embassy?" said,J'orian, smil-
ing. First you threaten them with
hanging, and then you would make
them drunk with mead as long in the
head as the devil of Trier that de-
ceived the Archbishop,Elector and
gat the holy coatfor a foot -wanner?"
"Sit down, gentlemen, and I also
will sit. Now, hearken well," said
Werner; use th honest t
es fellows of
nine will hear nue out that I lie not.
You have done bravely and spoken up
like good men -taken in ,a fault. But
we will not permit you to go to your
deaths. For our Lady Joan -;Gad
hless :berl--would not take a false.
word from any—no, not if it were on.
Twelfth Night :or after a Christmas
merry -making, She would not far
give it 'front your 'old Longheard up-
stairs, whose business it is—that is,
if she found it out. 'To the gallows!'
she would say, and we—why then we
'should "sorrow for having to has'teifi
the stretching of two good men. But
what would you, gentlemen? We are
her servants and we should he obliged
to do her will. Keep your rings, lads,
and keen also your wits about yon.
when the Duchess questions you
again. Nay, when you, return to
Plassenburg, be wise, seek out a Gret-
chen and a Katrin and bestow the
rings upon them'—that if, if ever you
tn'ean again to stand within the .clanger
of )oar of tote Sword Hand in this her
castle' of Kerttsberg."
`Gretchens ere none 00 scarce in
Plassenburg,"' unuttered Jorian. "1
think we can satisfy a pair of then?
but at a cheaper price thatt a ring of
rubies set ito gold 1"
(To 'Be Continued.)
Modern Maidens
Md,iildred and Gay were,looking for-
ward to their 'holidays in the moun-
tains. Like the _modern girls 'they
were, they Tilade all inquiries and 'ar-
rangeme,nts 'by Long ,Distance. The
sinal -1 cost was more than out-
weighed by the satisfaction of im
mediate reply, And itno time all.
their plains were completed,
FATAL HOLD-UP BY
BANDITS IN WINNIPEG.
;Bank Manager P. 13. R. Tucker was
shat and fatally wounded by bandits
whp held up and robbed a branch oil
the Dominion Bank of: Canada of an
amount estimated at between $6,000
and $7,000 'in Winnipeg Friday, Mr.
Ticker died of his•wounds half an
hour alter the robbery occurred.
Three armed sten suddenly appear-
ed in the bank, which is situated at
the corner of Sherbrooke and Notre
Dante streets, et 10:30 a.ni. with guns
levelled, they commanded members
of the staff to throw up their hands
and therequest was . complied with
by all except Mr. Tucker who evid-
ently did not hear the order,'
One o'f the trio fired alt the manager
several times and he fell to the floor:
The bandits coolly proceeded to
gather up the money and 'rushed out
to an auto'mabile waiting at the curb
with engine running.
The robbery was witnessed by two
persons o't'her than the members of
the bank staff. A window cleaner,
working at the bank, saw the entire
scene, and a woman passing the.
batik at the time saw the hands of
the staff in the air. Sheimmediate-
ly telephoned the police ''from a neigh-
boring store.
The robbers worked swiftly, evid-
ently on a pre -arranged ip-lan. After
the hold-up they entered a car stand-
ing at the curb and drove east on
Notre Dame and south: of Furby, to
ward Portage :Avenue,
The bank had been opened only a
few minutes when the robbers enter-
ed. Ordering the entire staff to'throw
up their hands, two of the gunmen
went to th•e back of the building and
vaulted the counter while the third.
member of the gang clitnbed over the
counter at the :front.
Mr. Tucker, the man'a'ger, was walk-
ing toward his office when the rob, -
hers appeared. Rather hard o'f hear-
ing, he evidently did not -understand
the command. One of the robbers
immediately opened fire, wounding
the manager twice in the stomach. He
was taken to the Winnipeg hospital,
but died shortly after his arrival.
.No child should be allowed to su'f-
fer an hour from worms when
prompt relief can be got in a simple
but strong remedy—Mother Graves'
Worst Exterminator.
MURDER SUSPECTED,
The body of her son, George Arch-
ibald Walker, arriving at her home
in Toronto, �Irs. Julia Walker of
Montrose Avenue, made preparations
for the funeral: There were no - de-
tails as to the cause, but when the
body reached the city a letter from a
Chicago undertaker accompanied it,,
acid stated death was due to "organic
heart trouble."
The next day while his mother
stood beside the boy's casket, stroking
his hair, her finger sank into a hole
behind the left e'ar. Horrified at her
discovery, the mother called a male'
relative anti' he in turn summoned the!
coroner. Further investigation show-
ed that the hole, which is about she
size of one made by a 45 -calibre
bullet, had been filled with a white
powder.
A large bruise also was foetid on
the forehead, and a second indenta-
tion was discovered at the base of the
neck.
Another feature of the ease which
aroused suspicion was the fact that
note 4Pher son's clothing g
was return-
ed
e a n -
ed
with the body. `Only a few things
which were in his pockets came back,
said his mother. George always leael
good clothes and it makes one think
that they were afraid to send them
back for fear of marks or stains."
The coroner 'after ex=amining the
marks, agreed to make a post-mortem
exantin•ation and following the fun-
eral services at the home and grave
the body was removed to the Coron-
ers' building.
It is a coincidence that the mother
had a vivid dream about a week be-
fore in which she saw her son sho't
down by a gang of men and she :hard-
ly had recovered from that Shock
when s -he received word of his death.
A letter from Chicago stated that
he had been "ailing a few clays:" PIe
hadn't wanted to go to hospital, said,
the letter, and he had been found dead
at 4:30 on May 2nd. From informa-
tion received from friend's, the doctor
called had signed the death certificate
to •the effect "tah,t death had been due
to organic heart trouble. The letter
expressly states "there were no marks
of violet -ice on the 'body,"
The coroner upon visiting the home,
after supe'r'licia1examination of the
body, expressed the opinion that Mrs;.
Walker was entirely. justified in ask
;ing that her son's death be investi
gated. He was holt satisfied that the
indentations on the left side of the
skull had been Made by 'bullets, but to
ascertain whether the ,skull had been
fraetur-ed, and the real cause of
dearth, ordered that the body, after
being removed to the cemetery, . be
returned to the `Corotier's building.
The late George Archibald Walker,
or "Buster" as he, was known, was
?cern in Toronto and was -educated
the'r'e. He was a salesman, by occupa
tion and had gone oversews as a boy
as mascot of one of the battalliotts.
!Ile went to Chicago ab.ottt the
middle, of January, Mrs, Walker re
cefved a .valentine .frnn't hint and' re-
cently a'letter stating it was his iti-
tention to return home within a few
weeks. "He didn't have la great deal
to say but said he hadn't been well of
late' and thought that it mighf be . a
case of malaria ,lever from what he
had been told," she said.
The autopsy showed that the man
had died from some infection of the
kidney. Further examination will be
be made to, determine what caused
the infection.
The scalp injuries that caused $o
much worry on the part of the mother
were said to be quite superficial. The
two indentations behind the left' ear
were caused by folds on the scalp
hardening after death. A lar'g'e bruise
disclosed on the forehead after the
trtake,tip was removed,, proved to
have affected Only the skin. No frac-
ture was found in the skull,
CALLING CONVENTION
Conservatives will be called in con-
vention to select a leader for the
Province of Ontario on June 24th.'
Registrations will be made at the
Royal York hotel, where the conven-
tion will he ,held, commencing on the
23rd, and continue until noon of the
24th.
William Ireland, M. L. A, for West
Ilastings, president of the Ontario
Conservative Association, presided at
a meeting of .the' committee which
met and decided on the date.
'President Ireland has been author-
ized to stake a'rrangemen'ts r for the
banquet and ball that is to follow the
convention.
There will be ten delegates from
each riding in Ontario besides the
officers of the eight Ontario districts.'
In
addition there will be delegates
from the Toronto Women's Conser-
vative Ass'ociatiott and the Women's
Conservative Association frdnt West-
ern Ontario and other Conservative
organizations, The members of both
Federal and Provincial Parli'antents
will have voting powers as will two
delegates each appointed by them.
The defeated Conservative candidates
will be delegates and two delegates
whom they desire to name,
The. executive consist's of all the
-officers of the Ontario Conservative
Association, the officers of the eight
district associations and the officers,
of the Central Conservative As'socia-'
tion, with all provincial and fed-er'ai'
members of Parliament with two d l-
egates nominated by each of the said
candidates.
A meeting of the officers when call-
ed must have not less than ten neer
'bets, The executive may 'he called to
meet by the officers and "shall',' be
called when it is necessary to call a
provincial convention to the election
of a permanent Liberal -Conservative
leader for Ontario, •
Section 15 of the; constitution, re-
ferring, to the delegates at provincial
conventions, states that the "delegates
to a provincial convention shall „con-
sist of the executive and two dele-
gates from ebcry polling- sub -division
in the province." This would mean a
gathering of ebotrt 5,000 if they ,all:
wanted to have a voice in the election
of a leader.'
•.Chert are two kind's of members--
active
re-mbers—active and executive Members. The
active members include alt those n"lio
halve paid the fee of $1 and the execu-
tive members those who are noutinat-
ed or. represettt Conservative Associa-
thous, as officers,
On thedeath or retirement of the:
Ontario Liberal -Conservative leader
and before a permanent lea'de'r is sel-
ected, the Provincial Liberal -Conser-
vative convention shall be called by
the association ,find the said conven-
tion ,shall elect t'he permanent Liberal
Conservative ,leader of Ontario.
CENSUS QUESTIONS,
• These are the questions that will
be askedabout each person by a Do-
itainGove.rment tt- ta
sometiiottme durinttg the opecening'aess •weekerk
of Julie:
1,andYour name anwhere you
live:_•
2: -Whether your 'home is owned
or rented,
3.-Tlte estimated value 111 your
home, if oned; or the monthly ren-
tal, if, rented,w
4, --?How many rooms are in Your
home, and is it of stone, or brick, or
wood ?
' L' -'Is there .a radio set in your
home?
6,—Your relationship ,to the family
(whether the head of family, wife,
son, daughter, ai•. uncle, - etc.)'
7.—What is your sex?
0.—re you single, married, widow-
ed, or'Adivorced
9. -'What was your age at last
birthday?
10.—Where were you born?
ll.—Where was your father born?
1?, -'Where was your mother born?
13,—,In what year did yen immi-
grate to Canada? (For foreign -born
persons).
14.—In what year were yott natur-
aliz'ed? (For foreign -born persons).
l5. -What is your nationality?
16.—What is your racial origin;
from what overseas country 'did your
family originally come? •
17.—Are •you able to 'speak Eng-
lish? or French?
18.--IWhat is your mother tongue?
(For foreign -boat persons).
19.-�0fl•-what religious denomiina-
tion are you a member or adherent?
20.—Are you able to read and
write ?
21.4-1o'w many months at school
since Sept. 1, 1930? (For p'ersons of
school age). ))
22.--I1 you are a gainful Worker,
ttshat is your occupation
23,—In what industry are you em-
ployed ?
24.—Are you an employer, an em-
ployee, or are your working on your
own account ?
11you are an employee, you will
be asked if you were at work on
Monday, June 1st, 193-1. If you an-
swer "No," you will be asked whether
it was 'because of:—
(a) No job (b) Sickness
(c) Accident (d) On holidays
(e) Strike or lock -out
(f) -Plant closed, (g) Other .leason
You will also be asked whether you
hove been -out df work for any cause
in the last twelve months? If you an-
swer "Yes," you will be asked:
How many weeks have you been
out 'of work, and df these how many
were due 'to:—
(a) No job (b) Illness
(d) Accident (d) Strike or lockout
(e) Temporary lay-off
'(f) Other reason.
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