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By S. R. erockett
HIMIONIZMIRSIXIM
(Continued frees Lest 'Week)
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Little Johannes !Rode
'But this .one day, 'beloved," the
;Sparhawk was saying. "What is one
day among bur enemies? 'Be brave,
and then we will ride away together
tinder cloud of night, Von iDessauer
will help us. For love and pity, 'Prince
Hugo of .Plassenburg will give us an
asylum. Or if he will not, by my
faith! 'Helene the ,Princess will—or
her kind heart is sure belied! 1Fear
not!"
"I am not afraid -4 have never
feared anything in my life," `answered
the Princess Margaret. "But now I
fear for you, Maurice. I would give.
all lI possess a hundred 'times over
nay, ten years of my life—if only you
were safe out of this iCourtlandl"
''It will not be long," !said the ;Spar -
hawk soothingly. "To -morrow Von
,Dessiauer goes with all his train. He
canocyt, indeed, openly give us his
protection till we are past the baun'd
aries of the State. But at the Fords of
the Alla we must await him. Then, af-
ler that, it is but a short and safe
journey. A few days will bring us to
'the bord'erllands of Plasscnburg and
the mark, where we are safe alike
from prince brother and prince wooer.
"Maurice—I would it were so, in-
deed. :De you know i think being
married make's one's soul frightened.
' The one you love grows so terrifying-
ly precious. It seems such a long
time since I was a wild and reckless
girl, flouting those 'who spoke Of 'love,.
and boasting +(oh so vainly!) that love
would'never touch rete, T used to, not
so long ago—though you would not
think it now, knowing how weak and
foelilsh I •ani."
The Sparhawk laughed a little and
glanced fond'ly at his wife. It was a
strange lock, full of the peculiar joy
Of man—and that, where the essence
o£ love dwells in him, is his sense of
unique possession.
"Do keep stili, said the Princess
widen:y, stamping her foot. "Hew
can I finish arraying of your locks, if
yen twist about this in your seat It
is fo:tudate for you, sir, that the
Duchess Joan wears her hair short,
like a Northman or a bantling trouba-
dour. Otherwise you could not have
gone ma'squeradin'g till yours had
grown to be something of_ this
length."
.And, with the innocent vanity of a
'woman preferred, she shook her own
head backward till the rich golden
tresses, each hair distinct and crisp as
a golden wire of iiifiinite thinness, •fell
over her back and hung down as tow
as the hollows of her knees,
"Joan could not do that!" she cried
triammehantly."
"You are the most beautiful wo-
man in the world," said the Spar -
hawk, with appreciative reveence, try-
ing to rise from the low stool in front
of the Venice mirror upon which he
was submitting to having his toilet
superintended—for the first time by a
thoroughly competent perlson.
The Princess Margaret bit her tip
n
vixenishly in a Pretty way she had
when making a pretext of being ang-
ry, at the same time sticking the little
curved golden comb she was using
upon his raven locks riciouoly into
his head.
."0h, you hurt!" he cued, making a
grimace and pretending in his "turn.
"And so I will, and mach worse,"
she retorted, "if you do not be .still
'and do as `I bid you. I--Inw can a self-
respecting tire-w+omal attend to her
,business under such circumstances I
warn you that you may engage a new
relaid."
'Wickedest' ,oriel" he minenured,
gazing up at 'Margaret, "there is no
0ni lie you!„
"Welt"- she 'drolled, "1 an glad of
your opinion, though sorry Inc.your
taste. For die, I prefer the • Lady
Joan,
"And why?"
".'Because she is like you, of course."
*ISO on the verge perilous, .lightly
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out of sweet 1Frauconia.1":
"Slwe-e-,et i+ranconial' mocked;
3usttils; "why then, chid 3,011 not stop'
there Of a verity no lovercairiecl.
you off to Courtland across his saddle,
•an
boat that I warrant. He had tap te d
his pains and ,killed his horse long ere
he .melt the Baltic ,brine."
"The most such louts as you 'Court -
1 nders could carry off wottid be. a
sere eching•pttllett from 0• farmyard,,
when the goodanant is from home.
There is no spirit in the Nonth—(save,
1 grant, amon'g the women. (There is
our Princes's and her new sister t
he'
Lady Joan of the.Sword Hand (Where
will you see their match?'Small won-
der they will have nothing to say to
arch men' as they ,can find hereabouts.!
'But how they lo've each other) ',Pis as
gond as a love, tale to see then.—"
"Aye, and a very miracle to boot!"
interjected T•leora.
'The Pa+pipenhei!nvs, as before, went
on antiphonally, each answering and
anticipating the other.
"The Princessesneed not any reran
to make them haplpyl Their affec-
tion for each Other is past telling,"
said Martha.
"'How their eyes shine 'waken they
look at ea:clt other!" sighed Anna,
while Thora said nothing for a little,
but watohed Johannes Rode keenly,
She saw he had something on his
mind. The Nonfh'woman was not 'of
the opinion which Anita Pappenheitn
attributed to the Princess. For the
fair -skinned d•au'gliters off the Goth,
•bein!g wise, hold that there Is hut one
kind of love, as there is but one kind
of gold. Alsothey believe that they
carry :wi•th ahem the philosopher's
stone wherewith to ,procure that fine
ore. ,After a while Thora ''poke..
"This morning it was 'The Princess
needsnot your help—:I myself will be
her tire -eco iiainl' .1 wot 'M'argaret is as
jealous of any other serving the Lady
Joan.—"
"As you would be if we made love
to 'Johannes 'Rede there!" laughed
marten Pappenheim, getting behind a
pillals and peeping roguishly round in
order that the poet might have an o'P-
portunit'y of seeing. the pretty, turn of
her ankle.
But little Johannes, 'who with a
nail was scratching a line or •twa of .a
catch on a smooth stone, hardly even
smiled. He minded maids o'fhonour.
their .ga'bb'le and their ankles, no more
Shan jackdaws crying 'in .the crevices
of the gable—that is, atl except Thera,.
tvho Fvas so large and fair and white.
that the could not get her suite out 'of
his mind, But even with Thom of
B•ernholni he did 'his best. •
"That is all very weil now," put in
vain Fritz ISeyd.elniann, stroking his
handsome 'beard and smiling vacant-
ly; "but wait tilt these sante Prin-
cesses have 'had husbands of their
own for a year. Then they will spit
at each other and scratch—like cats.
All women are cats, and maids of
•honour the worst of all!"
"How so, Sir Wiseman—•beeau se
they do not tike puppies? You have
found ate that?" Anna Pap'penlieirn
'struck back demurely.
"You ask me why maids' of honour
are, like cats," returned Seydelmanu
complacently (he had been making
^
this speeoli at) night),. "Do they
not arch their backs when they are
stroked Do they not purr? Have
you not seen them lie about the house
all day, doing nothing and looking as
saintly as anything, But at night and
on the tile's—phew•! 'tis another nian-
ter then,"
Aad having thus said vain mous-
tached Seydclmatn, who plumed nes-
self upon his Twit, dragged at his
moustache hprns and simpered bov-
inely do•,wn upon the gin+ls,
'Antra Pap'pen+hei01 turned to Thora,
who was looking steadily through the
self-satisfied 'Fritz, much is if she
could see a spider crawling on the
wall behind
"Do they let things like that run
about loose here in 'Courtland-" she
asked. with some anxiety on her face,
"\Ve have sties built for them at home
in Franconia!"
ilut'Thora was in no mood for the
rough jesting of officer,s-in-waiting
and pr'in'cesses' tire'women. She con-
tinued to watch the spider.
'Then little Johannes Rode .spoke for
the first time•
i wager," he aaid islowly. 'that the
Princesses will be less inseparable by
this time to -morrow."
"What do you mean, Johannes
Rode " said Thera, with instant chal-
lenge in her voice, turning the wide-
eyed directness of her gaze 'full upon
him.
The young man did not loolc at her.
He merely continued the carving off
his couplet upon the lower atone of
the sundial, whistling the air as he did
•who love each other do (which folly
is the only wisdom),- while the green
Alla sped swiftly'' on to the sea, and
the city in which Death waited for
'Maurice von .Lyman began to hum
about them.
As yet, however, there fell no sus-
picion. For Margaret had warned her
bo'wermaiden's that the Prin'ces's Jloan
would need 100 .assis'tan'ce from thein.
Her own waitin.gew'omen were on
tlieir way from Castle Kernslberg. In
any case, she, Margaret of Courtland,
wic'uld helm her sister in person, as
well for love ars because such service
was the guest's right.
And the Courtland maidens, access
tamed to the whims and sudden `lik-
ings of their impetuous mistress, glad
also to escape extra duty, hastened
their task of arraying Margaret. Nev-
er had she been so res'tlesis and .exact
-
Mg, Her toilet was not half finished'
ashen she nose from her ebony stool,
told her favorite Thora of Bornholm
that she was too ignorant to be frost-
ed to array so ranch as the tow -head
of a Swedish puppet, endued herself
without assistance .with a long loose
gown of velvet lined with pale blue
silk, and flashed out again to revisit
her sister-in-law.
"And do you, "Mora, and the others
wait rely pleasure in the anteroom,"
She commanded her handmaidens as
she swept through the dboeway. "Go
barter love -com'plimen'ts with the
amen -at -arms. Tt is all such 'fumibiers
are good' fort"
,Behind her back the tiring maids
shrugged shoulders and -glanced at
each other secretly with lifted eye-
brow, as they put gown]' and ,beoider-
ed slippers hack in their places, to
signify that if it began thus they were
in for a day of it. Nevertheless they
obeyed. and, finding certain' young,
gentle'nien ,of Prince Louis's guard
waiting for just such an opportunity
without, Thora and the others pro-
ceeded to carry out to the letter the
second part of the !instructions of their
mistress.
How new, sweet Tharaof the
Staten Locks?" cried Justus df 'Gratz,
a slender young mau w'ho carried the
Prin'ce's bannerstaff on special ocea-
sions, and practised fencing and the
art of love professionally at other
tithes; "has the Princess hexed all
your ears this morning, that you
come trem'bbing forth, pell-mell, like
a flock of geese out of a 'barn when
the farmer's dog is after them?"
There were three under -officers of
the guard in the little caurt'yatld. Slim
Jtllstss of Gratz, his frienld and Troon
coin anion, Seydelntann, a mean of fine
,presence and empty head, w^fro 011 wet
days could curl the wings of his mou-
staches .round his ears,, and, sitting a
little apart from these, little "Johannes
Rode, the only very brave man of the
three. a swordsman and a .poet, yet
one who passed for a ninny and a
greenhorn because he chose .mostly
to be silent. Nevertheless, Thoma of
1Bornholm pre'ferreei him to all others
in the palace. For the eyes of a wo-
man are quick todiscernmanhood-
so ioug, that is, as she is not in love.
After that, God wan, there is no eye-
less rasa f
inall the aas
o
!
• lsh so blind
the Hartz.
(With the 'Nbrt'hwamai Phora in
her teudan'ce of the Prances there
were joined Anna and Martha Pap-
penheim, two maids quicker of speech
and more restless in demeanor—
.Franconians, like all their name, of
their persons little and lithe and gay.
'The Princess had brought therm back
with her when at the fast Diet she
visited Ratishon with her brother.
":1h, Thora, fairest of maids! Ilath
an east wiu& made you sulky this
morning, that you will not answer
languished . Justus_ "Then I warrant
so are not Anna and Martha. ,My
service to you, riob'le dames!
"Noble 'dames,' indeed—anti to us P'
they answered in alternate jets of
speech. "As if we were applewotnelt
or the fat House-frow's of ,Courtland-
ish burghers, Get :away -yon have
na ntannerst You sop your wits in
sour beer. i'o'n eat frogs -meat oat of
your Baltic marshes, A dozen dozen
.and itoolis'hdy they jesttci as all those el you were not month one lively lad
THURSDAY, SEPT. 24, '193,1.
CHAPTER XXHV
A Perilous'11011eY:111aon,
Never was day so largely and tori-
ottsly blue since 'Cou bland was a: city
as the 'first morning of the married
Life of 1'fauriod and Margaret von
Lynar, Count and Countess von Loen.
The summer floods Baal subsided, and
the tawny dye had gone clean out of
the Alla, which was now as cellar as
aquamarine, and laved rather than
fretted 'the dark' green piles of the
summer 9?alaCe.
The Princesses (so they said with-
out) were more than ever inseparable
They were cons'tan'tly talking (confid-
entially .together, for all the world like
sc'h'oolgirls with a secret. Doubtless
Prince Louis' fair sister was persuad-
ing the •untruly wife to return to her
darty.. 'Doub'tless it was so -ah, yes,
doubtless!
"Better that •Piiince Louis slimed do
,his own embassage in such a matter,
in his properperson," said•the good -
wives of Thorn. 'For nae, I would not
listen to, any sister 11 my man canoe
not to my feet himself. The Lady
Joan is in th.e"right of, it—a feckless
lover, 100 true man!" -•
"Aye," said the men, agreeingfor
once, "a paper -hated princeling! God
wot, were it our Conrad we should
noon hear other of iti There would be
none of this 'Billy-shallying back -and
forth work !then! Vire would give half
a year's .income in golden gulden for
a good lusty heir to the :Principalities
—with that fouls Muscovite Ivan
yearning to lay .the knout across our
backs!"
"There is something toward today,"
said a decent widow woman .who liv-
ed.
iwed^ in the Koc ligs'tra•s'se to her neigh-
bour. "My son, who as yoti know is a
chorister, is gone to practise the W,etl-
dfaig Hynlit in the cathedral..I am go-
ing thither to get a good place. I wall
not -miss it, whatever it is."
_And with that the chorister's moth-
er hobbled off, telling everybody she
diet the same story. And so in half
an hour the news had spread all over'
the city, and there ,began to be the
makings of quite a res'pectable' crowd
in the Doan Plata of 'Caurt'sed.
It was half -past eleven when the
archers of the guard appeared at the
entrance of 'the square which leads
loom 'the palace. Behind them, rank
upon rank, could ib,e seen the lances of
the wild Cossacks of Prince Ivan's
escort who had remained behind when
the .Muscovite army welit back to the
Russian plains. ITheir dusky goat-
hair tents, which had long covered
the banks of 'the Alla, had now been
strack and were laded upon baggage -
I eases and sunitp•ter mules.
"The Prince of Muscovy delays
only for Phe' ceremony, whatever it
may bel" the people said, admiring at
their own prevision.
And the better sort added privately,
"We shall be well rid of him!" 'Butt
the b'a'ser grieved for the loss of the
largesse which he scattered abroad in
good, 3dusco.vite silver, unclipped and
un•atloye'd, with the tninitniaster's •hatn-
ner stroke clean and clear to the mar-
gin. For .with such Prince Ivan knew
how to make himself beloved, holding
man's honour and woman's love at
the price Of so 'few and so many gold
pieces, and thinking well or ill of them
according to their own valuation. The
rabble o7 Courtland, whose 'price was
only silver, he .coasted as no better
than the trodden dirt of the highway.
l+.lean'while, in the river parlour of
the Summer Palace, the two 'Prin-
cesses were talking together even as
the people had said. The 'Princess
Margaret sat on a low stool, leaning
her elbow* on her companion's knee
and gazing up at 'him, .And though
she sometimes looked away, it was
not for long, and 'Maurice, meeting
her ever -recurrent regard, found that
a new thing had come :into her eyes.
Presently a low tapping was heard
at the inner door, 'from which a pas-
sage co'mmunicaed with the rooms
of the Princess 'Mar:garet, The Spar -
hawk would have risen, for the mo-
ment forgetful. of his 'disguise, but
with a slight pressure pi her arm upon
his knee the Princess realtrained him..
"Enter!" she called aloud in, her
clear imperious voice.
Thora entered h r d um and,dos-
ing
Y,
ing the door behind bei, she stood
with the latch in her hand, "My Prin-
cess," she said in a voice that was lit-
tle more than a whisper, "I have ill
news. They are ntalcing the cathedral
ready for a wedding. The Cossacks
have struck their tents. I thhtk a plot
is on foot to marry you this day to
Prince Ivan, and to carry you off with
hint to Moscow."
The Sisal -hawk sprang to his feet
and laid his band on the plate where
his sword hitt should ave been.
"Never," he cried; "it is impossible!,
The Princess is—"
T.Ie was about to add, "She is mar-
ried already," but with a quick gesture
of warningMargaret stopped him.
,'.`Who told you this?" she queried..
turning again to Thora of Bornholm.
"Johannes .Rode of the,Prince's
guard told Inc 0 moment ago, she an-
swered., "He has just returned from
the Maiscovite. camp."
"I thank you, Thera ;T shall not
forget this faithfulness,". said Marg
-
aret, "Now you have any „leave to got„
'The Princess spoke calmly, and to the
ear even a little coldly.
The door closed upon the S'wedisti
maiden. Margaret and Maurice turn-
ed to each other
with one
prerotaat
iestin'et and took[ hands. s
"Already!" said Margaret faintly,
'going -Neck into the w,omail; "they
"Well," he answered 'slowly, "the
Muscovite guard of Prince Tvan have
packed their 'own baggage (together
with a good deai that is not their.
tan), and the niinster priests are
warned to hold themselves at ,the
+Prince's bidding all day, That means
a wedding and 'I warrant you our
noble Louis does not cretin to marry
his princess all over again. They are
seiner to marry the Russ to au,r Prin-
cess 'Margaret('
refight have 'left us alone a little long-
er, :Hon shall we Meet this? Whalt
shall we do? I, had counted on this
one day "
"Marigaret," answered the Spars
hawk impulsively, . "this shall not
your
brother
We would llaue told
bnother Loins one day. We will tell
hire now, Duchess 301111 is safe out
of 'his reach, I£ennsberg; is revictuall-
ed,, the 'M.u'scavite army re'tureed.i
There is no need to keep up the mas-
querade any longer. Whatever ; may
come of it, let us go 10 your 'brother
That will end it swiftly, ,at all events."
The Princess put away his restrain-
ing clasp and came 'cboser' to him,
"No—no," she cried: "you must
not. You do not know my brother. He
is wholly tender the influence of Ivan
of Muscovy. Louis would slay you
for having cheated him 'a'f his bride --
Ivan for having foresta'lled him with
me."'
"But you cannot marry ;Ivan. That
were an outrage against the laws of
God and man!"
-"Marry leant" she cried,.. to the full
as impulsively as her lover; "not
though they set ravens to pick the
live flesh off Tay 'bones! Rut it it the
thought of torture and death 'for you
—that 1 cannot abider We must con-
tinue to deceive them. Let me think!
-let ane thank!"
Hastily she barred the door which
led out upon the corridor. Then tak-
ing' Maurice's hand once more she led
hirer over to the window, from which
she could see the, green Alla cutting
its way through the city bounds and
presently escaping into the yet green-
er corn lands on its way to the sea.
"It is for this one day's delay that
we must plan. To -night we will cer-
tainly escape. '1 can trust certain of
those of my household. I have tried
them before .'I have it. Maur-
ice you must he taken ill—lie down
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There is a rumour of the Black Death
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They say an Astrakhan trader is dead
of it already, For one day we may
stave it off with this. It is fhe poor
best we can do, Lie down, I will call
Mora. She is 'staunch and fully to be
'trusted."
(To Be Continued)
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"No, your songs won't d,o for Inc.
I can't allow ,profanity in my th•eatr•e."
"Bot I don't use any profan'i'ty."
"No, but the audience would."
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Bill -heads.
Private Cheques
Circulars
Tags
Cards
Tickets
Sale Bills
Dodgers
Menus
Factory Forms
Society Stationery
Blotters
Booklets
Business Cards
Visiting Cards
Wedding Station-
ery
Invitations
The News has an up-to-date commercial printing : plant and we
are equipped to turn out all classes of job work. Give us a;call.
We have a new automatic press with great speed, recently
installed toproduce printing, well ,done, with speed, and at mod-
erate cost.
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