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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-01-27, Page 6BY RAFAEL,. ,$ABA.TINI. TRe Master Tiile,Tellor, Author of "Bardeles the Magnificent." Another Stirring Story o1 Adventure and Love in a New Setting— The Peninsular War. If knave in this were it not clear to ore that you have played the fool." "You dare to take that toile? began O'Moy in a voice of thunder, 1"Yourself shell be the first to Jew.fy it presently, - It is quite true that 1 was ln; lina's roma while you were killing Samoval. But I was not alone with her, as you have so rashly as„ owned. Her brother Richard was thele, and it was on his behalf that I was present. She had been hiding hien for a .fortnight. She begged me as Dick's friend and her own, to save `'J him; and I undertookto do so. The WHO'S WHO the end of a long hour of waiting, death of Samoval and niy own arrest Richard Butler, lieutenant in the Sylvia Armytage. thwarted our. plans and Prevented Irish Dragduring Wellington's "Mullins tells me that you wish ee Dick's escape. That is the truth," campaign in Portugal, commits an see me," she said. "Dick Butler?" O'Moy cried out; "1 offence during a drunken revelry, ar- "After. what has happened that don't believe a word of it! Ye're ly- ousin the resentin nt of Portuguese should not surprise you," said Tre- ing, Trenxayne, officials. lie disappears from his regi- mayne. "Why," he burst out, "why did "It ;would per baps be better," Neth, meat. you do its, said ,quietly, "if you were to send for Terence O'Moy, brother-in-law of She shrugged, "The circumstances Una. Butler, and adjutant-gencrai, is Corn were there, and they had• to be met. Its what I 'intend, said Sir Ter - pealed to promise that Dick will be I could think of no other way of meet- ence. He strode stiffly across the shot when taken. ing them." room and pulled open the door. Lady Una O'Moy, Sir Terence's young Hastily he answered her out of his O'Moy, white and tearful, was dis- wife, conceals her brother Dick. anger for ]ler sake: "It should not covered on the threshold. Capt. Ned Tremayne, O'Moy's sec- have been your affair to meet them . How much did you overhear?" he retary, promises, to help get Dick out at all." : asked her. of the country. Tremayne is in love, He saw the scarlet flush sweep over "All that you said about Dick,' she with Sylvia Armytage; but Sir Ter her face and leave it deathly white. ans;trered without hesitation. ence is jealous .f his friendship with i 1"I'm sorry to have been. interfering," Then you stood listening?" Lady O'Moy. Tremayne is found i she answered stiffly, "but, after all, it "Of course. 1 wanted to know what stooping over the body of Count Same- is nota matter that need trouble yqu," you were saying. val, who has been killed in a duel by And on the words she turned to de -1 (Since you have heard Capt. Tre- Sir ,Terei.ce, and is accused of the : art again. mayne's story of course you'll have no' killing. He cannot clear himself with-' "Ah, wait!" Be flung himself be- i difficulty in confirming it." out revealing the fact that Dick But-tween her and the door. "We must I think, Una, said Tremayne, "it ler is in hiding. understand each other, Miss Army- will spare a deal `of trouble, if you go Colquhoun Grant, Wellington's sec- tage. I am any with you for the and fetch Dick." ret agent, arrives on the score in trine great wrong you have clone yourself. « "I can't" she said plaintively; to hear Sir Terence order Tremayne I should have preferred to face :a fir- Dicks gone. under arrest for disobe;ring Welling- ing party rather than have been res- "Gone? cried Tremayne. ton's enactment against duelling. cued at the sacrifice of your good Gone? said O May, and then lie Tremayne is tried. Amongother name" began to laugh, but broke off to asic:' spectators at the trial is Sylvia Army- "I hope, she said, with 'faint but `How long is it since he .left the take, with whom Ned is in lave. The irony, "you do not intend to house?" �� point to be settled is what Tremayne offer me the reparation of marriage." "Ten minutes at most, replied her was doing in the half-hour from the "No," he answered boldly, "I do not ladyship. time he arrived at Monsanto to. the intend it." He turned and pulled the door open time he was found beside Samoval's"I cin glad that you spare me that," again. "Mullins?". he called. "Mul- body. Tremayne, to save Dick, lies, she answered him, yet her pallor lips!" and is trippedup by Sir Terence. Just seemed to deepen under his glance.Tiemayne smiled and sauntered to as the case seems lost for Ned, Sylvia "And that,he continued, "is the the window. And then at last cline " electrifies the court by declaring that source of all my anger, against you, Mullins. Ned spent that half-hour with her—in against myself, and against circum "Has any one left the house within her room!stances. If T had deemed myself re - h.' last ten minutes, Mullins?" asked mately worthy asked of ori " he continued Sir Terence - "I should have you weeks ago CHAPTER XXVI, y b ' • "Sure, there'snobody left'the house SIR TERENCE FAILED. to be my wife. You realize that I at all but Mr Butler, sit:" "It's a Ire!" Sir Terence bellowed could not; that I should have been' "How long -had he been here?" asked angrily. But he bellowed, it seemed, called a fortune-hunter. Men would i O'Moy, .after a brief pause. upon deaf ears. The court just sat say you had thrown yourself away. I Tis what I cant tell ye sir: I and stared, utterly and hopelessly at a felt that to shield you from all slights you must be my first concern. loss how to proceed. And then the Now dry voice of Wellington followed Sir have destroyed the thing that I most Terence. valued in this world—your own good "How can you know that?" he asked name; the respect that was your due the adjutant. "The matter is one upon from•ail men. • which few would be qualified to con- i let if I retain your own? tradict Miss Armytage. Ycu will ob- M "What is that worth?". he asked al- most l- s rva, Sir Harry, that even Capt. t mo Presentfully. rh ps entfull�re than all the rest." hil-et Tremayne has rot thought it worth She took a stepforward and set her while to do so. Those words pulled the captain hand upon his arm. There was no mis- from the spell of sheer horrified am_ taking her smile. It was all tender- azement in which he had stood ness, and her eyes were shining. "Ned, stricken dumb, ever since Miss Army- must cask aught her hou to ands, them tage had spoken. "1—I—am so oe-erwhelmed by the in a grip that hurt her; be bent his amazing falsehood with which -Miss head, and his eyes sought her own, Armytage has attempted to save me but sought in vain. from the predicament in which I Have you considered—" he was be - stand. For it is that, gentlemen. On ginning. when she interrupted hinm. my oath as a soldier and a gentleman, Her face flushed upward, surrender - there is net a word of truth in what ing to that questing glance of his, and Miss Arniytge has said." 'its expression was now between tears "But if there were," " said Lord Wel- . and laughter. lington, "your honoras a soldier and - "You will be for ever considering, a gentleman—and this lady's honor- Ned. You consider too much, where must still demand of you the perjury." the issues are plain and simple. Will "But, my lord, I protest—" 'you marry me?" "You are interrupting me, I think,"; He muttered incoherently .and took • Lord Wellington rebuked him coldly.. her to iris arias. And then the door "I am of opinion, gentlemen," his opened abruptly and Sir Terence cane lordship addressed the court, "that in. Nor did he discreetly withdraw as this affair has gone quite far enough. a man of feeling should have done be - Miss Army-tage's testimony has saved fore the intimate and touching spec - a deal of trouble. It has provided tacle that met his eyes. ' Capt. Tremayne with an unanswer- I "Very proper," he sneered. "Very able alibi. In my view, it but remains fit and proper that he should put right to pronounce Capt. Tremayne's ac- in the eyes of the world the repute quittal."i tion you'have damaged for his sake, They were words that. lifted an in-' Sylvia. I suppose you're- to be mar - tolerable burden from the president's ried." shoulders, In immense relief, eager They moved apart, and each stared now to make an end, he looked to right at O'Moy—Sylvia in cold anger, Tre- and left. Everywhere he met nodding mayne in chagrin. heads and murmurs of "Yes, yes." "You see, Sylvia," the captain cried, Everywhere with one exception. Sir at this voicing of the world's opinion Terence, white to the lips, gave no he feared so much on her behalf. sign of assent. "Does she " said Sir Terence, leis - And then the president made his understanding. "I wonder? Unless announcement: you've made all plain." "Capt. Tremayne, you are acquitted The captain frowned, of the charge of killing Count Samo- "Made what plain?" Sylvia asked. vat, and you are at ,liberty to - dep•art "Can it be," cried °'Moy to Tre- and to resume your usual duties." mayne, "that you are keeping some - "Ah, but, gentlemen, hear me yet a thing back, that you have secrets from moment. You, my lord-" Ned cried. the lady who has no doubt promised "The court has pronounced. The by now to become your wife?" matter is at an end," said Wellington, Tremayne was bewildered. His an- with a shrug, and immediately upon surer, apparently an irrelevance, was the words he rose, and the court rose the mere enunciation of the thoughts with him. O'Moy's announceineuts had provoked. As Ned stood there, a suffering, be- "Do you mean to say that you have wiidered man, O'i12oy came stalking known throughout that I did not kill past him. pale -faced with eyes that Sainoval?" ho cried. looked neither to right nor left. "0f course, . How could I have sup- "O'Moy!" he cried. posed you killed himwhen 1 killed him Sir. Terence checked, and stood stiff- :myself?" ly as if to attention. Then: "We will talk of this again, you and I," he said grimly, and passed on to shut himself up in his study with his mental an- guish. He perceived how men must "You killed Count Samoval?" ex- assume now, when the truth of Samo- claimed Miss Armytage. vats death became known -as become "To sure I did," was the answer, known it must -=that he tial deliber- cynically delivered. "And you didn't atlely`fastened' upon another his own know then, Sylvia, when you lied so crime. The fine edifice of vengeance glibly to the court, that your future -he' had been so skilfully erecting .had husband was innocent of that?" ,toppled about his ears in obscene ruin, "I—Was always cure of it,"sheNo.You explain *. and he 'was a man not only brolven, bet answered. p everything? and, . dishonored. Let him. ; proclaim the , Genius as c n entity like nature, and, 0 Mo laughed again. "But he had like it,must be accepted' i truth now and none : would believe itip purely ely -and. Sylvia Armytage'e mad and inexplic slot tel you so. iic preferred that able self-accusation was a final bar you should think hien guilty of blood- : to that. shed, of murder even, rather than tell you the . real truth, I wonder voila CHAPTER XXVIII. A STRICKEN MAN. never set eyes on him Intil I saw hint: coming downstairs from her lady- ship's room as it might be." "You can go, Mullins." And Sir Terence slammed the door upon the amazed servant. Sir Terence stood facingthen again. The full sense of his position suddenly overwhelmed him, as Tre- mayne had said it would. A groan broke from him as he collapsed into a chair, a stricken, broken man. (To be concluded.) Gun and Jug. "Going hunting, Bob?" "Year! Where you going? "I'm going hunting too." Perpetual Motion .Dream. The sensational claim that harness- ing tropical seas will solve the secrets of perpetual motion and revolutionize industry was made before the Academy of France by M. Claude and M. Bouche rot, two French scientists. It was stated that the surface of the sea in the neighborhood of the Equator, is an inexhaustible reservoir of mo tive forces, because its surfe;ce, Ampere- tune averages 25 degrees Centigrade while a thousand yards down it falls to four degrees. Commercial adapta- tion of this difference in temperature would produce Sufficient , power to drive a turbine. This discovery, it is claimed, will en- able France's tropical colonies to be independent of coal and oil power, and will turn the Sahara into irrigated fer- tile plains,. It is also -claimed that after the in- itial operation necessary to start the 2movement. the apparatus used would 'Work automatically. Members of the French Aoademy were shown an ex- periinentai plant which turned a dyne No and lighted a series of electric bulbs,. Minard's Liniment tor chapped hands. • Hu o's Notion o �yy f %emus G7 4 What! no critics? No.. No censure? CHAPTER . XXVII. . ' THE TROTH. To Capp. Tremayne, fretted with im- patience in the dining room, crone at NR. The Toronto li'espital for Incurables, In affiliation with Oollavuo' and Allied hospitals, WW York City, ottcta :a throe yai(ra' Conran ot''Training to young Walton, flowing the roqutrad education. snit desirous of benefiting mynas. 'this Hospital has adopted the eight., hoer system. The pupils' receive uniforms of the Soilcot, a monthly allowanoo and travaling' 0,00e0, to and from War, York. Per forthor infer,satloa write trio Sutiehilenrlbtif, yew have been so ready to make a shield of your honor could you have once[ n what you' were really shield- ing?" "Ned!" she cried. "Why don't you speak? If you were not evitarSainoval that night, wholewere you?" "Ina lady's room, asybu'correctly informedthe court," came O'Moy's bit- ter mockery. "My wife was the lady who entertained this gallant in her room that night" "My God, O'Moy !" It was a stran- gled s wr/VI? caR F�'7i ELS C.qi� CCJG cry from Tremayne. At last he MALLA A e GO tW1g?, saw light; he understood, and, under- Standin there entered his mart a . '0f6 ✓'rO Sam, INN/PC:a great compassion for'01May. "O'Moy," 47,5a SIIVWIN/1 .a',ti C('M8.r.P/.1710.J, ahe continued more slowly, "I shoud . ug N 4--' 7. isso, ate)] you that you haves ir%ay'ed; the simply. A inonintainis a. thing to take or to leave.. 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