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The Seaforth News, 1931-10-15, Page 6PAGE SIX .0,�•}NOpN..Vn:6lgteYYEYp . THE SEAFORTH NEWS. 'THURS'DAY, 'OCTOBER 15, 1931. of the N wor n By So lid Crockett o (Continued Irani Last Week) CHAPTER XXXIX. 'Margaret did not answer her tor- mentor's taunt. .Her arms went a- beut \laurice's neck, and her lips, salt with the overflowing of tears, sought hie in a last kiss. The officer of the Prince's guard touched her on the eheulder, She shook him haughtily off. and then, having completed her farewells. she loosened her hands and went slowly backward towards the further end of the hall with her eyes still upon the than she loved, "'Stay, Berghoff," said Prince Louis suddenly; "let the Princess remain 'sebere she is. Cross your swords in front of her. I desire that she shall bear what I have to say to this young gentleman." "And also," added Prince Ivan, "I desire the noble Princess to remember that this has been granted by the Prince upon my intercession. In the future, it may gain me more of her favour than I have had the good for- tune to enjoy in the past " •Maurice stood alone, his tall slender figure supple and erect. One hand reeted easily upon iris swordless thigh, while the other still held the plumed hat he snatched up as in frantic haste he had followed Margaret from the :Summer Palate. There ensued a long silence in whioh Prince Louis watched him from Leder the grey penthouse of his eye- brows. Then three several times the PrinOe 'essayed to speak, and as often utter- ance was choked within him. 'His feel- ings could only find vent in muttered imprecations, half smothered by a 'committing rage. Then Prince Ivan erased over andlaid his hand re- t. strainingly on his aril., •The touch seemed to calm his friend, and, after swallowing several times as there had been a knot in his throat, at last he spoke, For the second time in his life Mau- rice von Lynar stood alone among his enemies; but this time in peril far deadlier than among the roisterous p:easan'triee of Castle Kernsberg. Yet. he was as little daunted note as then. Once on a time a duchess had saved hitt. And even if she could not save hi;n, still that ryas better. "So," cried Prince Louis, in the curiously uneven voice of a coward lashing himself into a fury, "you have played out your treachery upon a reigning Prince of Courtland. Yion cheated pie at Castle Kernsberg. Now you have made me a laughing -stock throughout the Empire. You have ,haired a maiden of my house, my sister, the daughter of my father, 'What have you to say ere I order you to be flung out from the battlements of the western tower " "Ere it comes to that I shall have. something to say. Prince Louis,' in- terrupted Prince Wasp, smiling. We must not waste such dainty powers of masquerade on anything so vulgar as the hangman's rope." '.,Gentlemen and princes," ]Maurice h' I tabu "that n von Lynar answered, have done I have done for the sake of niy mistress, the Lady Joanand I am not afraid. Price Lotus, it was her will and intent never to conte to •Courtland as your wife. She would not have been taken alive. It was therefore the duty of her servants to preserve her life, and I offered thyself in her stead, My fife was hers al- ready, for she had preserved it.. She had given. at was hers to take. With the chief captains of Kernsberg I plot- ted that she should he seized and car- ried to a place of refuge wherein ,no foe conld even find her. There She abides with, chosen men to guard her. 7 took her place and was delivered up that K;Kernsherg night he cleared of its enemies, tGrladdy I came that I Wright pay a littleof my debt to my sovereign lady, and liege mistress, :Poen Duchess of Kernsberg and I•Ioh- c nstein." "Nobly peroratedl cried Prince Ivan, .clapping his hairds; ` !Right son orously ended. Faith, a paladin, a he not your heir? the -hath only se- ques'tr•alted your wife, married your sister, .There needs only your decease to set !tin" on the t.hroue of the Prince dont., CGive him time. How easily he compassed all this! He will manage the 'rest as easily. And then—li.s•ten• to the shouting in the streets. 'I can' hear it already. "He shall die—this day shall be his last.' I swear itl" he cried. "I -Ie hath mocked me, arid I will slay hint with my ]rand," He drew the dagger from his belt. B•ut in the centre of the hall the .S:t ar- hawk stood so still and quiet that Prince Louis hesitated, Ivan laic] a soft haat upon, his wrist and gently drew the dagger out of his grasp. "Nay, my Prince, we Will give hint: a worthier passing than that, So noble a knight-errant must die no cotnlnion death. \Vhat say you to the Uleraine Cross, the Cross of Steed's? I have here four horses, •all wild from the steppes. 'This squire of dames, this woman -mummer, hath, as now we. know, four several limbs. By a strange c•oifecidence I have a wild horse for each of these. Let limbs and steeds be severally attached, niy •Cossacks know how. Upon each flank let the lash be laid—and=well, the Princess 'Margar- et is welcome to her liege lord's soul. I warrant she will not desire his fair body any ,more." deliverer of distressed damsels, a very carnival masquerader! the will play you the dragon, this fellow, ar he will act Saint George with a sword of lath! He will amble you the hoblby-horse. Well, he shall play in one :more good scene ere I have done with' him. But, listen, sir in all this there is no word of the Princess iuliangaret, IHiow tomes it that you so loudly proclaim having given yourself a noble sacrifice for one fair laity, when at the same time you are secretly married to another? tAre you a deliverer of ladies wholesale? 'S'peak to this point. 'Let us have another noble period—its sub- ject my affianced ,bride. Already we have heard of your high devotion to Prince Louis' wife, Well—next!" ;But it was the Princess who spoke from where she s'toad behind the crossed swords of her guard's. "That I etill answer rI am a woman and weak in, your hands, princes both. You have set the gras'p of rude men- at-arms upon the wrist, of a Princes's of Courtland. But you can never compel her soul, Brother Louis, my father committed ire to you :as "a little chill.]—have I not been a loving and a faithful sister to you. And 1111. this Muscovite came botween, were you not good to me. Wherefore have you changed? Why has he tua'de you cruel to your little Margaret?" Prince Lours turned towards his sister, moving his hands uncertainly and even deprecatingly. Ivan Moved quickly to his side and whispered something which instantly rekindled the light of anger in the weakling's eyes. "You are no sister of Heine," he said; you have disgraced your family and yourself, Whether it be true or no that you are married to this man matters little!" "It is true; I do not lief" said Mar- garet recovering herself. "So amuch the worse, then, and he shall suffer for it. At least I can hide if I cannot prevent, your shame!" "I will never ' give him up; nothing on earth shall part our ]love!" Prince Ivan smiled delicately, turn- ing to where she stood at the end of the hall. "Sweet Princess," he said, "Ibe good enough to observe this"—he held a dagger in his hand, "It is a little blade of steel, but a span long, and narrow as one of your dainty Fingers,. yet it will part Ile best married pair in the world." "But neither dagger nor the hate of enemies can sever love," Margaret an savered proudly. "You may slay my husband, but he is mine still. You cannot twain our souls. The Prince shrugged his shoulders deprecatingly and opened his palms deprecatingly - The Princess looked at Maurice: Her eyes had dwelt defiantly on the Prince of Muscovy whilst he was speaking, but now a softer alight, gentle yet brave, crept into them.. "Fear not, my husband," she said, "If the steel divide us, the steel can also unite. They cannot watch so close, or bind so tight, but that I can find a waOr,ifiron, will i an not pierce fire burn or water drown, I have a drug that will open the door which leads to you. Fear not, dearest, I shall yet meet you unashamed, and as your 'ayal wife, without soil or stain, look into your true eyes." • "I declare you have taught your mistress the trick of words!" cried the Prince delightedly. "Count von Loen the Lady Margaret has quite your manner, She speaks to slow music," 'But even the sneers of Prinoe Ivan could not filch the greatness out of their loves, and Prince Louis was obviously wavering,. ,Ivan's quick eye noted this and• he iuslantly adminis- tered a MEI). "Are you not moved, Louis?" he said. "How shamelessly hard is your heart! 'This handeem e youth, ivhoitt any part sets like a wedding favour and tis like his own delicate skin, condescends to become your relative. Where is your welcome, your lens- manlike manners Co, fall upon his neck] Kiss him: oneither cheek. Ts wander, I `:tin yours alone. . I will think of you when the Black water shallows to the :brink: ,On the further side I will wait a 'day and then yont w`sll meet nee there. To you it may seen years. lit will .be but a clay to me, And I .shall be there. 'So, little Margaret, good ni'gh't. Do not forget that I love you. I would have made yoit very happy,' if 1 had had tine— alt, if I had had tinsel" 'Like a child after its bedside pray er- she lifted tip her face to be kissed, "Glood-night Maurice .she' said. simply. "Wait for me; I shall not be long after]" She laid her brow a,nloment on his breast. Then she lifted her head and walked slowly and proudly out of the hall. The guard fell in behind her, and Maurice von Lynar was left alone With the Prince of Muscovy. As the door dosed upon the Prin- cess a sudden devilish 'grimace of fury distorted the countenance of Prince Ivan: Hitherto he had been studiously and even caressingly courteous. But no,w he strode swiftly up to his cap- tive atud smote him across th•e• mouth with the back •of his gauhtleted hand.. "That!" he said furiously, "that for the lips w'hic'h have kissed hers! Soon, soon I shall pay the rest of my debt. Yes, by the most high God, I will pay it—with usury thereto!" A thin thread of sscarlet showed up- on the white of. Maurice von''Lener's :'loin and 'trickled s'l'owly downwards. But he uttered no word. Only he looked his enemy very straight in the. eyes and those of the Muscovite dropped before ,that fierce regard: At this Margaret tottered, her knees giving way beneath her, so that her guards stood nearer to catch her if she should fail. "Louis -try brother," ,she cried, "cto not listen to the monster. Kill my, husband if you must—because I love him. Bat do not torture 'him: By the last words of our mother, by fhe me- mory of our father, 1)y your faith, I charge you—do trot this devilry." ]Prince Ivan did not 'give Louis of Courtland time to reply to his sister's appeal. "The most .noble Princess mistakes,' he ntatrneured suavely. '"Death by the Cross of Steeds is no torture. I have witn'es•sed it often. In my coun- try it is reserved 'tor the greatest and the most distinguished. No coninton felon dies by the Cross of Steeds, but Wren whose pride it is to die greatly. Ere long we will !show you on the .plain across the river that I speak the truth. It is a noble sight, arid all Caur•tlancl shall be :there. What say you, Louis? Shall this sprin•gald seat himself in your princely chair, or— shall we try the Cross of the Uk- raine?" "IIave it your own way, Prince Ivan1" said Louis, and went out with- out another 'word. The Muscovite stood a moment looking from lMatir- ice to Margaret and back again. He was smiling his inscrutable Oriental snnfde, "The Prince has given ire discre- tion," he said at last, "I might order you both to separate dungeons, tout I ani an easy man and delight in The domestic affections. I would see the parting of two such faithful lovers. I may learn somethingthat will stand me in good stead in. the future. It is her mind' s'o that sleep fled and She lay pondering platys of escape and de- liver aric'e ieliverai:ce 'IBut of one thing she never thought -of Courtland and the husband to whose face she had but once lifted her eyes, 'The sun looked through between flee red cloud bars. These' lee soon left behind, turning alien t froth' fiery Wands to banks of fleecy wool. The shadows slholt swiftly westward and then began slowly to shorten In his chamber Prince Conrad rose and went to the. window. IA rose-coloured light lay 'along the sea horizon, d'art - Mg ]between the dark pine stents and transmuting the hare sand -dunes ineo, dreamy marvels, till they touched the heart like glitngasesof a lost Eden seen in dre'atms, 'The' black ,bird of night flapped it sway behind the belt- ing trees. 'There was not such a ;thing as a ghotstly rat to gnaw unseen the ,heart o'f man.' The blue donne of. sky overhead and ,Isle Rugen Were more to 'lie :desired .than 'any place else in the would. Yea, Joan's 'hand in his— And Conrad else lover:turn•ed Doom the window with a defiant heart. PROFESSIONAL CARDS Medical CII+APT'L'R XL. I'1 remains to tell briefly how certain great th'in'gs came to pass. We must .retort to Isel Rugeu .and to the lone- ly grange on the spit of sand which separate the Baltic from the waters of the Freshwater Haff. Many things have happened 'there since Conrad of Courtland awaked to find by his bedside the •sleeping girl Who was 'his brother's wife. On Isle 'Rugeu, where th•e pines grew dense and green, gripping and settling the thin sandy soil 'with their pr•eheoslile roots, Joan and Conrad found themselves mutat alone. Ilse lady of the grange was se'ldo'm to' be seen, save when all were gathered to- gether et meals. Werner von Orseln and the Plstasenburg captains, Jorian and Boris, played cards and flung harmless dice for white stones of a certain size picked front the 'beach. Dumb i tax 'Ulrich went about his work like a Shadow. The ten s•oidiers Mounted gseasd and looked out to sea with their elbows an their knees- in the intervals. Three times a week the solitary boat, with Max Ulrich at the oars, crossed to the landing place on the mainland and returned laden with provis'i'ons. The outer sea was empty before their eyes, generally deep blue and restless with foam caps. Behind them the Haff lay vacantnanid still as oil in a kitchen basin. But it war not div on Isle Rugeu. The osprey flashed and fell in the my ill -fortune that till 'now I have had clear waters of the 'Huff, 'presently to .little experience of the gentler emo- re-emerge vs'itha fish in 'his beak,: the tions," He raised his hand. "Let the 'Princess pass," he cried. The guards dropped their swords to their sides, They had been restrain- ing her with as much gentleness as their duty would permit. 'Instantly the Princess Margaret ran forward with eager appeal on her face. She dropped on her knees before the Muscovite Prince and cias'ped her hands in supplication. "Prince Ivan," she said, "I pray you fur the love of God to spare him,'' to letshim -go. I promise never to see him more. I will go into seclusion. I will look no more upon the farce of day." "That, above ail things,. 'I cannot aildw," said the Prince, "So fair a face must see many suns -soon, I trust, iia Moscow city, and by my side," "Margaret," said the Sparha'wk, "it is ,useless to plead. Do not abase yourself in the presence of our enemy, You cannot touch a mat's heart when his breast covers a stone. Bid me goodbye and be brave. The tine *ill not be long," ,From the place where Margaret the.. loving woman ,had kneeied Margaret', thePrincessrose to her feet at the. word of her husband. Without deign Ing even to glance at Ivan, who had stooped to assist her, she passed 'hint by and went 'to Von Lynar. Ete held out both his hands and took her little trembling ones in a strong assured clasp. The Prince watched the pair with a chill smile., "'Margaret," said .Maurice, "this will• not be for long. What matters the ford, so that we both pass over the river. Be brave, little wife. The cross- ing will not be wide, nor the water deep. 'They cannot take from us that which is ours. And He who joined" se, will uniteus.anewwhen and •where it seemelh good to Him!" "'Maurice, 1 cannot let you die—ltd by such a terrible death!" "Dearest, what does it matter • a ant yours., Wherever my spirit. may drops running like a broken string of pearls from his scales. Rough -legged buzzards screamed their harsh "mel- ancholy cry as on slanted wings they glided down inclines of sunshine or lay out motionless upon the viewless glorious 'air. Wild geese s'w•ept over- head .out of the north in V-shaped flocks. tt'he seagulls tacked and bal- anced. A'1.1 -graceful terns swung th'.waety ays t'he blue sky, or plunged headiong into the long green swells with the curve and 'speed of falling stars. It was a lace ,of forgetting, and in the autumn time it is good to forget. For winter is nigh, when there .will be time and enough to think a'll manner of sad thoughts. So in the September weather 'Joan and Conrad walked much together. And as Joan forget Kernsberg 'and her revenge, Courtland and his mis- sion receded into the bacicgroiutd of the young man's thoughts. Soon they :net undisguisedl'y without feat- or shame. This Isle 'Rugeu was a place apart —a haven of refine ndtheir t seeking. Mars had driven one there, Nepaute the other. Yetwhen Conrad woke in his little north -looking room in the lucid pearl grey dawn he 'ha•d some bad 1110311- mtg. aineats. His princedom was written in fire before his eyes. I-ris heart weigh- ed heavy as if cincturcd with lead. And. deeper, yet, a rat seemed to gnaw sharp-to.ote'hd at the springs of his life. Also, when !the falling seas, comb- ing the pebbly beaches with foamy teeth. rattled the wet shingle, Joan would nfttirnes wake from sleep and lie staring wide-eyed at the casement: Black reproach of self brooder upon her spirit, as if a foul bird of night had fluttered through the openwin- dow and settled upon her breast. The 'poor folk of Kernsberg—her father- land invaded and desolate, the Spar - hawk. the man who ought to have been the ruler she was not worthy to be, the leader in war, the lawgiver in peace—these reproachful shapes fined, DR. 1.1%. HUGiH EOS!S,,•: Physician and Surgeon. Late of London Hos- pital, London, England. Special. attention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Office and red- denee behind Dotninioit.Bank. Office Phone No. 5; Residence Phone 104. * * * At her casement, which opened to the eat, stood at,the same ntoaneitlt the young Duchess of Ho'henstein. Her' lips were parted and the mystery of the new day dwelt in her eyes like the memory of a benedic't'ion. 'Stduth- ward lay the world, striving, warring, DR. F. J, BUIRIRIO!WS,, Seaforth. Office and residence, Goderich street, east of the United Church. Coroner for the County of Huron. Telephone No. 46. 'DR C. MIAOKIAY.—C, Mackay,. honor graduate of Trinity University and gold medallist of Trinity Medical. College; member orf' the Co'l'lege o: Physicians and Surgeons of Oatarie, DIR. F. J. R. FCRSITER Eye, Eos Nose and Throat. Graduate in Medi- cine, University . of Toronto 1097. Late Assistant New York Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Moorefield% Eye, and Golden Square throat hospi- tals, London, England. At Comm- ercial Hotel,Seaforth, 3rd Monday in each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. DTR. W, C. SPIRO_AT:—Graduate of • Faculty of Medicine, University al Western Ontario, London. Member of College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. Office in rear dry Aberhart's drug store, Seaforth. Phone 90. Hours 1.30-4 p.m., 7219 sinning, repenting, edevatiirg, slaying the p.m. Other ]tours by appointuteut. the living, and burying the dead. Batl belttveett her and that world stretched a wide water not to be crossed, a fix- ed golf not to be passed over. It was the new day, and there beneath herr was the strip of silver sand where he and she had walked, yestereven, when the moon was full and the wavelets of that'sheil'tered sea crisped in silver at their feet. !An hour afterwards these two met and gave each other a hand silently. Then facing the sunrise, they walked eastward, along the shore, while from the dusk of tate garden gate Theresa vat Lyna•r watched them with a sad Mile upon her face. She is learning the lesson evert as I learned it," she murmured, uncon- sciously thinking aloud. "\Vel'l, that Which the father taught it is meet that the daughter •should learn, Let her eat the fruit, the bitter fruit of love—even as I have eaten itl" •IShe watched a little longer, stand- ing there with the pruning -knife in her hand. She saw Conrad turn to- wards Joan as they descended ap little dell among the •eastern sand hilts. And though she could not see, she knew that two hands .met, and that' they stood still for a manent, ere their feet climbed the opposite slope orf dew -drenched sand. A swift sob took her unexpectedly by the throat. "And yet, " s'he said, "were all to, do over, would not Theresa vai Ly- nar again learn, tlslt lesson from Al- pha to Ortega, eat the' Dead Sea fruit to its bitterest kernel, in order that, once more The bud' might •open and Dove's flowerbe hens?" 'Theresa von 'Lynar at the garden door spoke truth. For even' then among the sand -hills the bud was opening, though rhe year was on the wane and the winter nigh, (To Be Continued) Dental IDR. J. 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