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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-11-12, Page 6PACE SIX THE SEAFORTH .NEWS. 7.''I-I1.T'RS'D}A;Y, NOVEMBER R, 12, 1 of the 13y S. 1 erockett animmiaintraplemenr stashingdf his .doublet, a 'habit 'of• w'•iti.c'h He'leoe had log striven in vain` bo care The Princess was busy, hroidering the cor:otrated c!ouble, eagle of a new 'banner, but occasionally she raised her eyes to where on the green slope bet Bath, under: the wing'of a sage' woman 01 experience, the youth- ful hope of Plassen'bui'g led his nvtnic arntiies to battle against the lilies by the orchard wall or laid lance' in rest to storm the.. too easy fortre'ss of his nurse's lap. "Boris," :whispered Jorian, ".cement- ber! ,Do not lie, Boris. 'Tis danger oils. You rentetniber the last tittle?" t "Aye," gi•orovled B%oris. "1 have good cause to remeinberl !What a .'� liar our 1--I p'o,_mus.t have .been in his timtie,so readily to suspect t'wp honest s'old'iers!" . 'Spealc out your winds, goocelad•si" said Huao,.leanii1G' a 1l,ttle further back, 'Aye,ttell us all,"aassenited• Helene, pausing to shake her' head at the an- tics of the young prince;""tell us h.ow you delivered the Sparh'ahvk, as you, call Whim,the officer of the Duchess (Continued from Last Week)' were cut, and right speedily they. Joanl' • So Ba'ri•s saluted and began. "The -tale is a long one, Ptince and Princess," he said. "Of Our many and difficult endeavours .to keep the peace. and ';prevent quarrelling I wild say nothing—" "Better so!" interjected Hugo, with a' gleam in his eye. Dorian coughed and growled to himself, "That long, fool will make a ,mess of it!" "I will pass on to our entry into Courtland. I't was like the home- coming of a long lost true prince. There was no fighting slack, !tat so much as a stroke after all that pother of shouting!" "Boris!" said the Princess warning- ly. "Give him rope!" muttered 'Prince tHu'go.. "He will tangle 'himself rare- ly or all be done!" "I mean by ate blessing of Heaven there was no bloodshed," Boris cor- rected himself. "There was, as I say, no fighting. .There was none to fight with, 'Prince Louis had not a friend in his OW IT capital city saving the Muscovite. And at that moment !Prince Ivan the Wasp was glad enough to win clear off to the frontier with his 'C'os'sacks at his tail.. Pt was a God's pity 'we could not ride them down. ;But though Johan and I did all that men could—" "Ahem!" said Johan, as if a fly had flown into his mouth and tickled his throat. "I mean, your"H'ighnesses, we did thunder.. whatever men could to keep the pop- "'Give him up to me! He is mine'" ulace within 'bounds. Bolt 'they broke cried the Princess. through .and leaped .upon us, throw- "'He is mine!' answered very ing their arms,about our horses' necks' • haughtily the lady of the Lyle Rugen— and crying out, 'Our Saviours!' 'Our '1aTho"are your 'And your they deliverers!' Cod wot, we might as cried both at once, flinging their well have tried to charge through the heads back, but never for. a moment billows of t'he ,B'al'tic when it blows letting go with their hands. The a nor'ther,right from the 'Guff of Bo- youth, being dazed, said nothing, nor thn'ial iBut it almost broke my 'heart so much as moved. • to see thein ride off with never so "'I am his mother!' said the Lady much as a spear thrust through one Theresa, speaking first. single Muscovite belly -!band!" • "'I ant his wife!' said the Princess. Here J'orian had a fit of coughing "Tlhen , the woman who had borne which caused the Princess to look se- the young man gave hint into his verely upon :hint. .Boris, recalled to st-ife's arms without a word, and the himsellf, ,proceeded more carefully,. (Princess gathered him to her bosom "It was all we could do to open up and crooned over him, that being her a way to «where the young man Mau- right, Bait Isis mother stepped back rice lay stre'tche'd on the ,Cross of among the crowd and drew the hoed Death. They had loosed the 'wild of her cloak over her head that no horses before we arrived and these man might book upon her face." had galloped off after their compels- ":Bravo!" cried Helene, clapping her ions. A pity? Oh, a great ,pity! hands, it was her ,fight!" "Then came the young man's iso- "Little one," said het- husband, titer near, she who was our hostess at pointing to the boy on the terrace be - Isle Rugen—" heath who was lashing- a toy 'horse of "Why did you not abide in Kern's- wood with all his baby 'migh't, "I berg as you were instructed?" put in wonder if you will think so when an - Hugo at this point. other woman takes him from you!" "Never mind—go on -tell the. tales" The Princess Helene caugh't her cried I•ie'lene, who was listening breath sharply. breathlessly. - ''That would Ile different!" she said, "We thought it our duty to accom- "yes, very different!" p'aily the Duchess Joan," said Boris, "Ahl" said Hugo the Prince, her deftly enough; "where the king is, husband, there is the court!" And at this point the two captains CHAPTER XLViI saluted very dutifully, , like machines moved by one sprung, "'Well said far once, thou overly Thus the climax cattle about in the long one," growled IJor'ian under his twinkling of an eye, but the universal breath, turmoil and wild jubilation in w'hic'h: "Go on!" commanded Helene. Prince Louis's power and govern'men't "The youngmans mother came were swept away way had d_real1 y been pre - near and threw a cloak across his Daring for years, though the end fell neeet) hotly, Then Joriau and i, en- sharp as the thunderclap that :breaks :bottud: hint and chafed his limbs, first 'die weather after o season of parching removing the gag from his mouth; 'heat,' but so' tightly had the cords been For all that the trouble was only bound about him that for long he deferred, not removed. The cruel coult1 not stand upright, Then, from death of Maurice von Lynar had f?een the Royal pavilion, where she .had rendered impossible by the opportune been brought for cruel sport to see arrival of Prince Conrad and the scud the death, the Princess Margaret den revolution which the sight of his came running--" noble and' beloved, fo1•nt, clad in ar- "Olt, wickedness!" cried Helene, mour, produced among tine disgusted "to make her look on at her lover's and impulsive. Courtlanders, death!" Yet the arch -foe -had only recoiled "She came ftu•iously, though a in orderat he mhhrrt dainty 'Princess, thrusting strong leap;' Thethgreat armighty ofttehe Whhetrite men .aside. 'Way there!' she cried (Czar was encamped just across the `011 your lives make way! I will go frontier, nominally 'ria the march to to hint. T am the Princess Margaret. Poland, but capable of being in a mo- tive mea dagger anal I. will prick me trent diverted upon the Princedom of •t w•ay,' „ Courtland. Here was a pretext' of in• \nd, by the great Jehosophat—if vas'ioit ripe to Prince Ivan's hand. So .the did not snatch a bodkin from the he kept Louis, the dethroned and ex- belt of a tailor in the High Street and trilled prince, close beside hiin,' He made way for themselves, the people iHithert:, the eyes of the great null- falling back and closing again so soon titude, which on three sides surround- ,as they had ed the palace of execution had been passed out across the turned inward But now with one plain with necks arched to their knees and a wild flourish of unayim'ous accord they were gazing, not on the hoofs.' terrible preparations which were eons - Then the cries began again, Sword iirg so near their 'bloody consul/1- 'and bare fists were shaken at the oration, but over the green tree- grand stand, 1N -there, white as death; studded Alla meads towards a group 'Prince Louis still kept his place. of horsemen who were approaching at 'Prince Conrad and the Lady Joan" a swift hand reallop. "Kill the Muscovite, the torturer!" 'Whereupon immediately ponPeter, the "Death to Prince Louis, the traitor lank giant, was in greater request and coward!" than ever. About the centre platform the 'What do they look at, good Peter crush grew first oppressive and then —tell us quickly? 'Wil'l the horses dangerous. not pull? Will the irons' not hold "Back there—you are killing him! Have the ropes broken Is it a mir- Back, I say!" acle Is it a rescue Thunder- Then strong men took staves and weather -man! ,Do not stand and gape, halberts out of the hands of dazed Speak—tell us what you see, or we soldiermeu, and by' force of brawny will prod you behind with our dag- arms and sharp pricking steel pressed gers!" the .people back breast high. The "Half a dozen riding fast towards smiths who hail riveted the wristlets the Princes' stand, and holding up and ankle -rings were already busy their hands—nay, there are a dozen. with their files, The lashings were The Princes are standing up to look. cast loose from the frames. iA hund- Themen have stopped casting loose red patine chafed the white swollen the wild horses. The man on t'he limbs. rA burgher back in the crowd frame is lying very still, but the slipped his cloak..11 was passed aver- chains from his ankles and arms are 'head on a thousand eager hands and not yet fastened to the traces," thrown across the young man's body. "Go on, Peter! ;How slow you are, .At last all was done, and dazed and Peter! Hurray Peter!" blinded, but unshaken in his soul, 'There is a woman among those Maurice von Lynar stood totteringly who ride—no, two of them! They upon his feet. are getting near the skirts of the "Lift him upli (Lift him up! Let crowd. (Men are shouting and throw` us see him! If he be dead, we will ing up their hands in the air. I can- slay Prince Louis and the Muscovite not tell 'What for. The soldiers have in his place!" their hats on the tops of their spikes, "Bah!" 'another would cry, "Louis They too, are shouting!" is no longer ruler! Conrad is the true As Peter paused the confused noise IPrincel'" of a multitude crying out, every man "Dow -n .with the Russ, the 'Cossack! for himself, teas born- across the (Where are they?, (Pursue ,them! •Kill crowd on the wind. lAs when a great them!" stone is cast into the little hill -set tarn So ran the fierce shouts, and as the and the wavelet runs round, swamp- rescuers raised :The S'parhawk 'high ing the margin's pebbles and swaying on their plaited. hands that all menu the reeds, so there ran a shiver, and might see, on the far skirts, of the then a mighty,tidal wave of excite- crowd Ivan of Muscovy, wit'h•,arbitter menti through all that ring which sur- smile on his face, gathered together sounded the ratan, the deadly platform his scattered horsemen. 'One by one and the tethered horses, they had struggled oat of the \fen shouted sympathetically, with- prem while alt . men's eyes were fixed up'om, out knowing why, and the noise they the vivid centrepiece of that mighty made was half a suppressed groan, so whirlpool. eager were they to take part in that "Set Prince Louis in i st tvhich should be done next. The • and ride for your lives!" he cried. your "To . "To thrust their wontetikind behind them, the frontier, where shouldering their - way into the thick bides the army of of the press that they might see the the bthal" store :Clear! i 1\With a flash of pennons and a toss - y. Instinctively every ,tug of horses' heads they obeyed, but weaponed man fingered that which 'he Priece Ivan himself paused upon the chanced to have, Yet none in all that top of a little swelling rise and looked ntiglrty assembly had the least con- back towards the Alla bank, ception of what was really about to The delivered prisoner was being happen. held high upon men's arms.The 'bu r - !By this time there was no more gher's 'cloak was wraplped about him need of Peter Altmar. The ring like a royal robe., tva, rapidly closing now all about, Prince Ivan gnashed his teeth in save upon the meadow side, where a impotent anger. lane was kept open. Through this "It is your day. Make the most of living alley came a knight and a lady it," he unuttered, 'In' three weeks I —the latter in riding habit and broad will come hack! And then', I will velvet cap, the knight with his visor murder one of yon at every street up, but Brined from head to foot, a corner and cross -road through all the dozen sciugires and men-at-arms fat- land of Conrttand'!i ,Arid that which lowing in a compact little crowd; and I would have clone to my lady's' lover' as they. Came they were greeted with shall not be earned beside that which the enthusiastic acclaim of all that I shall yet do to those who rescued' n , hty concourse: him!" n About them eddied the people aver_ And. Ise turned- "anti' rgde after his flowing and sweeping away the cos_ then, in the midst of whom was sacks, carrying the Courtland archers Prince Lotus, his head twisted in fear with them in a-ntad frenzy of frater- and appirehensiois over his shoulder, nisatiori. In the stand above Prince 'and his slack hauids scarce able to Louis could 'he seen shrilling come hold .the reins. mends, yet dumb show was a1l `he 'After this manner was the Spar - could achieve, so nnivmrsai the c!.atu_ hawk brought out from the jaws of oar beneath him, But the Princess death, and thus came Joan of the Margaret 'heard the shouting and. her Sb1'oi'd Plant' the second time to heart leaped, Courtlancl, "Prince Conrad—our own Prince Bit•t the end was not yet. Conrad, he h'as come back, our true Prince? ,Courtland forever!' Down CHAPTER XLV. with Louis of the -craven 'heart! 'Down Trutli'Speaking of Boris and Dorian. with the Muscovite( 'The young man '("his is the verbal report of .Ca - cliafi not die! 'The ,Princess shallmi'bleb th ns Boris and stria p have her sweetheart! 7 n, ey And as soon as the caualtcade had gave' in face of their sovereigns in the garden pleasaunce of the palace of come within the 'square "'the living Plassenberg. Hugo and Helene sat wave broke black over all. The rid- at opposite ends of a seat of twisted ers could not dismount, so thick the branches, 'Hugo crossed his legs and press, The halters of the wild horses whistled low with his thumbs in the. with it open up hey way ns-feat1y'as though she were handling a Cossack lance." "And what'happened when she go't Co in—w,11enshe found 'her .husband"' cried d-felene, her eyes sparkling. And she put ort a h[uicl to touch her own., just to be sure that he w''as there "Truth,a very wondrous thing hap- pened!'l said jlorian, whose fingess also had been twitch i , "a mightily wondrous thing, ' Thus it was—=" ''Hold your tongue, sausage -bee!" growled Boils, very bow; "who yells this tale, you or I?" "Get on, then," ;answ;eied in like fashion Captain Jordan, "yon areas loug,wiudecl andwheezy as a milt]"s hello w's1" `Yes, a strange thing it was. I wags standing by'Maurice. von Lynar, undoing the cord from his neck, His mother was chafing an arms ,The Lady Joan was bending to spe'a:k Softly to hiin, for she hadd'isni'otunted from her horse, when, all in the stnap- ts irg of a twig, the Princess 'Margar- et came bursting t'hroug'h the ring which 'Jor'iau led the .Kernslberger's were keeping with their lance -butts. She thrust- us aIll aside. By my faith she sent me spinning like 'the young iPrince'•s top: there!" "God save his Excellency!" quoth Dorian, not to ,be left out entirely. , "Silence!" cried Helene, with an imperious stamp of her little foot; "and do you, Boris, tali the tale with- out comparisons. What . happened then?" "Only the bay's ,mother kept .her ground! She went 1 t ton c iafirtg his arm without so much as raising her eyes." "Did the'Princess serve Joan Of the Sword Hand as .she served ty'ou?" in- terposed Hugo. '"\Tarry, worse!" cried Boris, grow- ing .excited for the first time. "She thrusther aside like a kitchen wench, and our lady took it as meekly as—' 'Go ort Did I not tell you to spare us your comparatives?" cried Helene the Princess, letting her lrroidery slip to the ground in her consuming int- erest. "Wel," said Boris, quickly sobered, "it was in truth a mighty quaint thing to see. Mie Princess 'Margaret took the young pian in her arms and caught him to her. The Lady Ther- esa kept hold, of,hiswrist. They look- ed at each ot'her a moment without speech, eye countering eye like knights at "Go on!" the Princess thundered, if :ndeed=a silvern voice can be said to ' The Fear that is in Love ,urged his father, by every tie of friendship and interest, to replace that prince upon his throne, And the Czar ,Pawl, well knowing t'itat,'.1Iso restora- tion of Louis meant nothing less than the incorporation: of Courtl'ancl With his empire, hastened to Barry out Isis son's advice Iu Courtland itself there was no confusion, A certain grits delermvina- tion took posse!ssiou of the people. They had made their choice, and .they w'oul'd albidc by it, They had chcos,e'ti •Coni -ad to be their reler, as he had long been their only hope; and they knew that now Lotus was for ever impossible, save as a cloak .for a Muscovite dominion, 15o, the country rose behind the retiring Muscovite, and' Prince Louis was conductecl across theboundary of his •princedom tinder , the bitter thunder of cannon and the 'ltis's of ICou'ntl'and arrows. And the craven trembled as Ile listened to the shouted mlalediotioms of his 0wt1 people, and begged for a common roust, lest his attdher guard should distinguish their late Prince and Wing their clothyar'd shafts et him as he cowered a little beduin'd Prince Ivan's s'h'oulder. ,.Meanwhile Joan, casting aside with an exultant leap of the heart her in- tent to make of 'herself an Obedient wife, ,rode battik'to I2ernsbe'fg in order to organise all forces there to meet the common foe. rt was to, be the Iast fight of the Teuton ;Northland for freedom, The Muscovite does not go back, PROFES'SIONA'L CARDS. Medical DR. H.,I-I'UGIII ROSS, Physicianand. Surgeon. Late of London aosw. pital, London, England,' Special. . attention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, Office and :res!:- dence behind Dominion ,Bank: Office Phone No. 5; Residence Phone ,i1e4. ' DDR, P. ' J. BIIJIRIRIOIW'S, Seaforrd's. Office and residence, Godericlt street, east of the United Church„ Coroner for the County of Htiron. TelephoneNo. 46. DR. C. AIlAOIUAY. -C. Maelmete honor graduate of Trinity University and gold medallist of Trinity Medic. College; member of ` the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Oataria. DR. F. J. R. RO'HSITEIR—,Eye, Ear Nose and. Throat. Graduate in Mede cine, University of Toronto f692. Late Alssistant New York'Ogtstlual:., uric and Aural Institute, Mooreffeld'e Eye, and Golden Square throat busts- tels,'.London, England. At CoaiMM- ercial Hotel, 'Seaforth, 3rd Monday fa each month, from 11-a.rn. to 3 pio DIA. W. C. SIT!ROA'T—,Graduate_ a Faculty of Medicine, Univereity of Western Ontario, London. XLestbec of College of Physicians, and Sur- geons of Ontario. Office in rear of ,Aberhart's drug store,' Seafurtfr. Phone 90. Hours 1.30-4 p.m., 7..3e and 1,1 Courtland .were conquered -9 p.m, Other hours by appointment. IK'ernsberg could not long`, stand. To Pl'assenburg (as we have seen rode Dental I 1 Boris and Johan to plead for help from their Prince and Princess. Des- OR. 'J' A. s, gr'N, Successor to Sauer -had already preceded them, and Dr. R. 'R. Ross, :adnate of North - the armies, disciplined and equipped western University, Chicago, 111. by Prince Karl were already 'on the centiate Royal College of Dental Sao r tuarch to defend their frontiers—'it aeons, Toronto. Office over Sate might be to go farther and fight hardware, Alain, St., Seafortle Moue shoulder to shoulder with Courtland 151. '' and ICerneberg against the common foe. DR. P. J. BECHELY, ,graduate And if all this did not happen, it Royal ,College of Dental Surgeons, v.onaa n'dtbe the fault of those hottest Toronto, Office 'over W. R. Sasit % soldiers and admirablediplont'ats, grocery, Main St„ Seaforth. Plaerrese CaptainsJ'orian , captains Boris and office 185W, 'residence mg-.c of the Palace Girard of Piassenburg, * * * *W• Auctioneer. 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