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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-10-29, Page 6PAGE SIX THE SEAFORTH NEWS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1931. (Continued from Last 'Week) "Nay;" returned Theresa von Lyn- ar. "Once 031 a time I would have. given my right hand that for half a day, for one hour, men might have said of me that 1 was 1-Ienry the Lion`s wife, and nay son his soul !It w Mild have been right sweet. Ah God, hots sweet it would have been!" She paused a moment as if consulting some unseen presence. "No, f hay.e vowed my Crow. Here was I bidden to stay and here will I abide. For me there was no sorrow in any hard con dition, so loam as he laid it upon me For have 1 not tasted with him the glory of life, and with him ,p'lu'cked out the heart of the Mystery? That for which I ,paid. I received. My lips have tasted both of the Tree of Knowledge and of the Tree of Life— for these two grew very close togeth- er, the one to the other, upon the banks of the River of Death. IB -et for my son, this thing is harder to give up. 'For on him lies the stain, though the joy and the sin were mine alone." "Maurice of Hohenstein shall sit in his ,father's seat," said Joan firmly. "I 'have sworn it. If I live I will see him settled there with nay captains about him, Werner von Orseln is an honest man. IHe will do hint justice. Von Deseauer shall get him recognis- ed, and Hugo of Plassenburg shall stand his sponsor before the Diet of the Empire." "I Weald it could be so," said Ther- esa wistfully. 'If my death could cause this thing righteously to come to pass, how giadly would 1 end niy life! But I am bound by an oath, and any son is hound' because I am bound. The tribunal is not the Diet of Ratis- bon, but the faithfulness df a woman's heart. :Have I been loyal to my prince these many years,so that now shame itself sits on my brow as gladly as a crown of bay, that I should fail him now 'Lo'w he lies, and I may never stand beside his sepulchre. No son of mine shall sit in his high chair. iBut if any sphere of sinful or imper- fect spirits, be it hell or purgatory, he; and I shall encounter, think you, that !for an empire I would meet ham shamed. 'And when he says, 'Woman of my love, hast thou kept thy troth?' shalt I be compelled to answer 'No?' • "Brit," urged Joan, "this thing is your son's birthright, !My father, for. purposes of state, bound my happiness. to a man I loathe, I have cast that band to the winds. The fathers can- not bind the children, no more can you disinherit your son,' Theresa von Lomita smiled a sad wise smile, infinitely patient, infinitely remote, "Ah," she said, "you think 50? You are young. You have never loved. You are his daughter, not his wife. 'One day you shall know, if God' is good to yowl" At this Joan smiled in her turn. 'She knew what she knew, "You may think you know," re- turned Theresa, her cairn eyes on the girl's face, "but what I mean by lov- ing is another natter. The band you broke you did not make. II keep the vol v I made. With clear eye, e uncial- led nduiled brain, willing hand I made it—be- cease he willed it. Let my son Maur- ice break it, if he can, 11 Ise will—as you have broken yours. (Only let him nevver mare call Theresa von Lynar mother!" Joan roseto depart. Her intent. had not been shaken, though eh.e was impressed by the noble heart oif the woman who had been her father's wife. 'But she also had vowed a row, and that vow she would keep. The Sparliawk s•hotild yet be the Eagle of Kerneberg, and she, Joan, a home - keeping 'housewife ome-keepin'g'housewi'fe nested in quietness, a barn -door fowl about the orchards of Isle Rugen, ".Madam," she said, "your word is your word. IBtit so is that of Joan of Kernsberg. It ntay he that out of the 'unseen there may leap a chance which shall bring all to pass, - the things which we both deIre—without break- , lag 0E vows or loosing of the baids of obligation. IFor pre; being no more than a daughter, I 'will' keep Duke erry's will only in that which is just!" "And I, said Theresa von Lynar, will keep it, pest 04' unjust!" Yet Joan smiled as She went out. For she had been countered' and checkmated in sacrifice. She 'had met a nature greater than her own, and that with the truly noble is e+he pleas- ure of pleasures. IIn such things ,only the small are small, only the worms of the earth delight to crawl upon the earth. All the while Conrad sat very stil'1, listening with full heart to that which it did not concern him to interrupt, But within his heart he said, "Woman. tv'hen she is true woman, is greater, worthier, fuller than any man." ,But 'Theres'a von Lynar sat silent, and watched the girl as she went down the long path, the 'leafy branch- es spattering alternate right and shad- ow upon her slender figure. Then she turned sharply upon Conrad. "And now, nay ,prince," she said, what have you been saying to my husband's daughter?" "I have been telling her that I Love her!" answenecl Conrad simply, He felt what he had listened to gave this woman a right to be answered. "And what, I pray you, have prip- ce's brothers to do with love?" "I know," said Conrad humbly, and without taking the least offence. "I know it well." 'Then ant I to understand that you wholly forgot the little circunestance that once an a time she was married to your brother?' "I did' indeed forget," said Conrad', with sincere penitence; 'yet you must not blame the too sorely. 11 was carried out off myself—" "The Duchess, then, rejected your suit with contumely?" Conrad 'was silent. "How should a great 'lady listen to, her huyband'e brother?" 'Theresa went on remorseless". What said the Lady Joan when you told her that you loved 'her?" "The words she spoke I canttot re- peat, but when she ended I set my lips to her garment's hem." The slow smile came again over the face of Theresa von Lynar, the smile of a warworn veteran who watches the children et their drill. "You do not need to tell me what site anawened, my lord," she said, "I know!" Conrad stared at the woman. "She told you that she laved you from the first, "1-Inw know you that?" he tattered. "None must know that secret—none must guess itl" !Theresa von Lynar laughed a able mellow laugh, in which a keen' ear might have detected how richly an01 pleasantly her ,laugh must once have sounded to her lover when her pulse's heat to the tune of gladness and the unbounded heart, "Do you ;think to deceive me, Ther- esa, whom Henry the Lion loved? Have I been these many weeks with you two in, the house and not seen this? tPnin:ee 'Conrad, I knew if that night of the storm when she bent her overt e h couch onfc'h wit you lay. 'T love' you say boldly, and you think great things of your love, But she love'] fist as she will love most, and your boasted love w311 never overtake hers—no, not though you love her all your 131e..:.fWehl, 'what do you pro- pose to do?" 'Conrad stood' a moment mutely wrestling oath Minstar. T•I•e irad never felt Joan's first instinctive aver- sion to this woman, .a dislike, even yct scarcely overcome --far -women dis- trust women till they have proven themselves innocent, and often them' "1'Iy lady," , hess aid, "the Duchess Joan has showed inc the better way. Like a man, I knew not what I 'asked, por dared to express all that I de- sired. I1ut .1 have learned haw souls can be united, though bodies are sep- aratett. • :I will not touch her hand; I will not hiss her lips. 'Once a year only will 1 see her in the flesh. I' 'shall carry out nay duty, made at least less unworthy by her example—" "And thiels you," said Theresa; 'that in the, night -watches you will keep this charge?" .Will not her face come before you and will not her inn-' age be with you always?" '3 lusoty it--sf know it too'welll"' said Conrad, -sinking his head on 'h'is breast, "I am not worthy." "'What thee, will you do?" persisted the inquisitor. A larger self, s'eeme'd to flame and oblate tvithin the young matt. 'One, thing. I.' can do," : he mice— "Pike you I can obey. She bade :me go back and d'o' niy duty. I cannot biu'tl, my thought; I. 'cannot change 111y heart; I cannot cast nay love out. I have heard .thta whidh I have heard, and I cannot forget; bet at least with' the body 1' can obey." •Theresa von Lynar did not serine any more. She held out her hand bo 'Conr'ad of Courtland, prince. "Yes,," she sand, ";on d'o know' what +love is. In so far as I can I will help you to your hea'rt's desire." ,And in 'her ttirn she rose and passed dawn, throti'gh the leafy avenues of the orchard, over which the westering sun was already casting rood -long shadows. 0IILAPTIEIR XL:II The Wordless AI an Takes a Prisoner. Maki waS distinctly heard in the wide chimney -top. INow and then in a' lull, broad seelashes of rains deli solidly Into tate red embers with a sound ,tike mus- ket balls "spatting" on a wail, Then Theresa' von Lynar :looked 1511 "Where is Max Uhr'i'cb?" she said; "why (toes he' delay?"' "My lads3'," said one o1 the men of 'Kern'sberg, "he is gone across the Huff in the b'oat and has not yet re-. Waned." "I 0111l go and look •for him—nay, do not rise, my .Pond. IT would go 'fortis allon a t" So, snatching' a cloak from the prong of an antler in the hale '3 iter esa went out iatto the irregular hoot- ing of the storm. It was not yet the deepest gloaming, but dull grey eland's' like hunted :cattle scoured 'across the sky, and' the, rising thunder of the Waves : on thsihiin,slle prophesied a night of storm. Therese stood a tong time ,bare-heeded,''enjoy'ing the thresh of the broad drops as they struck against her face and coolest her throb- bing eyes, Then she pulled the hood of the cloak over her 'bead. The dead was conquering the quick within her., "1; have known' a matt!" she said; "what need I 111'ore with life ncive? The mail I loved is dead. I thank God that .I served him—aye, as his dog served him. And shall d' grow disobeedient naw? No, not that my son might sit on: the throne of the IKa'iser!" Theresa stood upon the inner inner curve of the ,half at the place where Max 'Ulriatt was wont to pull his boat ashore. The wind was be- hind her, and though the weaves in- oreased as the distance widened from the pebbly hank on which she stood, the water at her feet was only ruffled and pitted with 'little dimples under• the shocks 'of tite wind. 'Theresa look- ed •lou'g southward under her hand,. but for the moment could see moth- ing, !'Thep she settled herself to keep watch. with the storm riding slack - rein overhead. Towards the main- land the .whoop and roar with which it assaulted the pine forests deafened 'her ears, 'But her face was younger than we have ever seen it, for Wern- er's story had moved her strongly, Once more she was by a great man's side. She moved her hand swiftly, first out of the shelter of the cloak as if seeking furtively to nestle in an- other's, and then, as the raindrops plashed cold upon 11, she drew- it slowly hack to her again. And though Theresa von Lynar was yet in the prime of her glorious beau- ty, one could see what she must have been in the days of her girlhood. And as memory caused her eyes to grow misty, and the smile of love and trust eternal came upon her lips, twenty years wore 'shorn away; and the wo- man's face which had looked attxious- lyacross the darkeiing'H'aff changed to that of the girl 'Who from the gate of 'Castle Lynar had watched for the coming of Duke .Henry, She was gazing steadfastly south- ward, but it was not for Max the 'Word'les's that she waited, Towards Kernstberg, where he wvhose.sleep she. had so often watched, rested all alone, she looked and kissed a hand, "Dear," she murmured, "you have not forgotten Theresa! You know she keeps troth! Aye, and will keep it ti11 God grows kind, and your true wife can follow—to tell you how well she hath kept her charge!", 'Awhile she was agent, and theii she went on in the low even vaioe of self - COM 11201/ing, elf-contnvmting, "What to me is it to become a prin- cess? Did not he, for whose words alone I cared, call me his queen? And I was his queen. In the black blank' day of 111y uttermost need he made me his wife. And I ani . his 'wife, What want I more with dignities?" Theresa von Lynar was silent awhile and then she added- "And yet the ycnn'g Duchess, his daughter, means well. She has her father's spirit. And my son—why Should niy vo.w bind 111111? Let hint be duke, 1.5 so the Fates direct and .Providence allow. . But for me, I will not stir finger or :,utter word' to help him. There shell be neither anger sadness a s d ss in my husband's y eye's 'when,' tell hint hotv I have observed the bond!" Again. 511e kissed, a hand towards the dead elan who lay so deep under the ponderou's marble at •ICernsberg. Then with a gracious gesture, lingcr- inigly and with the misty eyes of lov- ing womanhood, she said her lonely farewells. "TO you, beloved," she murmured aid her voice was l'o'w and' very "rich, "to you, beloved, where 'far off you lief Sleep sound, nor timi1ek the time long till The'redii scenes to yowl" She turned and walked hack facing the storm, Her hood had long ago been blown from her head by the fir-' 1055 gusts of wind. But she heeded not, She had forgotten poor Max Ul- rich and Joah, and even herself. She had forgotten her son. ITer hand was out in the storm now. She did not draw it 'back, though the water ran !from her fingertips, For it was clasp- ed in an tiatseen grads and in an ear at was the hour of the evening meal at Isle Rugen. The September day piped on to its melancholy close; and the .wild geese overhead called down unseen from the tapper air a warning that the storm foliaw•ed hard upon their backs. At the table -head, sat Theresa 1-011 Lynar, her largely moulded and be'autiful face showing n0 sign of emotion, 'Only great quiet dwelt upon it, with knowledge and the synnpathy of the proven for the untried. On either side of her were Joan and'- Prince Conrad—not sad, neither avoiding nor seeking the con- tingence of eye and eye, but yet, in spite of all, so strange a thing is love canoe declared, consciously happy within their heart of hearts. 'Then, after a space dutifully left unoccupied, came Captains Boris and Jorlan; while at the fable -foot, op- posite to their hostess, towered Wer- ner von Orseln, whose grey beard had wagged at the more riotous board of Henry the Lion of Hohenstein, 'Werner' was telling an interminable story of the old wars, with many a "Thus said, 1" and "So did lie," end- ing thus: "There lays I on my bade, with thirty pagan Wends ready to slit my hats as soon as they could get their knives between my gorget and headipfece. Gott! but T said every prayer that I knew—thee were not many in those days—all in two min- utes' space, as I lay looking' at the sky through- my visor bars and wait- ing for the first prick of the Wend- ish knife -points, "But even as I looked"up,, lo! some one bestrode me, and the voice I Pew ed heat in all t'he world—no, not a woman's voice, God send him rest" (':4nienl" interjected the Lady Joan) —"cried 'To me, H'ohenstehl1 To pie, Kernsbergl' And though my head was ringing with the shock of falling, and my body weak from many wounds, I' strove to answer that call, as I saw nay toaster's sword flicker this way and that over my bead, I rose half front the ground, any hilt still in my hand, -I had no mono left after the fight I had fought, But Henry''the Lion gave me a stamp down with his foot. Lie still, pian,' .he said; do not interfere in e little -business of this kind!' And with his of%e point, he kept a score at bay, crying all the time, 'To ole, Holten's'tein1 To me, Kernstberg-' ere all!' "And when the •enemy fled, diel he wait till the bearers came 3Vel1 I wot hardly! Instead, •he caught me over his shoulder :like an empty sack, when one goes a -foraging --me, Werner von Orseln, that am built like a donljon' tower. And with his sword still red, 11 his night hand he bore me in, only turning aside to' threaten a• -fiendish archer who would have sent an arrow through me on the way. By the knights who sit rowed Karl's table, 110 was a man!" 'And then to their feet sprang Boris and Jonian, who were judges of men.. "Ti Prince nee Henry the Lion— hada!" they octal, "Drink it deep to his memory." And with tankard and wreathed wine -cup they gaffed td the great dead. Standing up they drank—his daughter also—all save Theresa von Lynar. She sat unmoved, as if the toast had been her own and in a mo- ment more she must rise to give them' thanks, Fox the look on her face said, "=liter all, What is there so strange in that? Was he not Henry the Lion -.- and ranine?" For there 15 no joy like that which you may sec on "a woman's face when a ,great deed' is told of the man sit loves, 'The Kernelberg soldiers wato had been trained to wait on table, had etooped• and sf0oi!filed, their duties in complete oblivion' during' the tale, het now they resumed theist and the sint'pie feast continued. '14eanwhile it hacl been .growing wilder and wilder without, 'and the shrill lament of the that surely heard she was whispering her heart's troth. "God give it to me to do one deed—one only before - 1 die—that, a:outliy and .usnash,amud, I may meet my Ring." When 'Theresa.' re-entered' the',hall of the grange the cp'ntpany still sal as site 'load left:tliem. Only at the. lower end of the board the theta cap- tains conferred together in low voices, while at the upper Joan, and Prince'Oonrad sat gazing full at each other as ,if souls could .be drunk in through the eyes, With a certain reluctance which yet had iso'nhanne in it, they plucked glance from glance as she entered, as it were with (1113icu•ity detaching s'pir- its: Whieh had been. joinead. At which T heres.a, recalled to herself, • smiled, "In all bleat touches not my 'vow I will help you two! she: thought; as she looked at them. For true love. came closer to her than anything else fns the world. "There is no sign of Max," she said aloud, to break the first sile;n'ce of, con- straint; "perhaps he has waited at; the Paneling place on the mainland; till fie storm- should abate—though that were scarce like him, either:" IShe sat down, with one large move- ment of her arm casting herwet cloak over t'he back of a wooden ;settle, which fronted a 'fireplace where green pine knots crackled and explosive jets of s'tea'm rushed spite'fu'lly •out'wardls into the hall with'a hissing sound. "You have been down at the:hold- ing place—an welt a night?" s -d!11 joan, with 5011W remains of that -cur- ious awkwardness 'which marks the mtenruption of a more interesting 0011- versation, "Yes," said Theresa, smiling indul- gently (for she had been in like case --such a great While ago, when her brothers used to intrude). "Yes, I have been at the landing place. But as yet the storm is nothing, though the waves will be fierce enough if Max Ulrich is coming home with a laden boat to pull in the wind's eye." IR mattered little what she said. She had helped them to pass the bar, and the conversation condi now proceed over smooth waters. Yet there is no 'need to report it. Joan and Conrad remained and spoke they scarce knew what, all for the pleasure of eye answering eye, and the subtle flattery of voices that alt- ered by the millionth of a tone each time they answered each other. Ther- esa spoke vaguely but sufficiently, and allowed 'herself to dream, till to her yearning gaze honest, sturdy Werner grew misty and his bluff figure re- solved itself iteto that one -nobler and more kingly w'h'ich for years had fronted her at the table's end where now the chief captain sat. (TO Be Continued) TORONTO STAR RAI'S'ES PRICE 'The Toronto Star after November I .a�ili increase' its subscription rates to $6.00 ,per year and $3,00 for six mouths. 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