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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-11-18, Page 6Pack' TSP As free from dust as tea can be. E SN BY RAFAEL SABATINI. F The Master Tale -Teller, Author of "Bardelys the Magnificent." Another Stirring Story of Adventure and Love in a New Setting --- The Peninsular War. point'.," l'l4Toy admitted; NO doubt it Was Comer/40d with, intexeste .common alike to. the British and the Portugu- ese nation," "That is a charitable assumption, Sir Terence." "Perhaps you will inform file Donn Miguel of the uncharitable :assump.. tion which the Principal Souza preµ fere," enapp'd O'Moy, whose temper begat) to simmer. 'I speak, sir, not with the voice of Principal Souza, but with that of the entire council of regency, which has fanned the opinion that Lord WeIlling-• ton is skilled in finding excuses for the misdemeanors of the troops under his command." "'Fat," said Willey, who would never have kept his temper in control but for the pleasant eo'nsciousness that he held a hand of trumps, "that is an opinion for which the council may presently like to apologize, admitting its entire :falsehood," Senhor Forjas started as if he had been stung. He uncrossed • his black silk legs and made as if to rise. '"Falsehood, sir?" he cried in a scan- dalized voice. "It is es well that we should be plain, .so as to be avoiding all miscon ceptionst" said O'Moy, "You must know, sir, that we c.aim our laws against plv.nder and outrage are as strict as they well can be and that where these things take place punish- ment inevitably follows." "True, certainly, where the offend- WHO'S Fi;HO.enare men from the ranks. But in pulled his brother-in-law out of many this case, where the offender is an offl- Lt. Richard Butler of the Irish Bran; a difficulty. He took his head in his . ser, it does not transpire that justice' goons, on a foraging expedition during hands olid groaned. has been administered with the same Wellington's campaign against the! 1 he groan attracted the attention irniiparti al hand." French in Portugal, hears of a rare' of his military secretary, Capt. Tre- "t . " , i g , , 7 brat, sir answered O'Moy wine possessed by some monks. Drunk, : nlayne, of Fletcher's engineers, at, "is because fie is missing," he starts out to get some of it. He i work at a littered writing table. mistakes a nunnery for the monastery! "Whatever is the matter, sir?" he seeks. When admittance is refused, i "It's that damned fool Richard," believing the place is a "hotbed al growled O'Moy. "He's broken out treason," he forces his way inShock-! again. Violat'on of a nunnery, no ed and sobered when he realizes his :less, this time. With a detachment of sacrilege, he turns to go, but strikes dragoons he broke into the convent of his head on a pillar and fall uncon- the Dominican nuns at Tavora one scious. t night a week ago. The village turned Serge, Flanagan, who with a few; out to avenge the outrage. Conse- troops accor_rpanied him, meanwhile is' quences: Three troopers lined, five the grounds which yourself you have "Precisely;he said. For answer O'Moy, red in the face thrust forward a dispatch, which said that diliigent search was being made... "That is very good,;" Forjas said, "and the council will be glad to hear of it. It will enable us to appease the popular sentiment to some degree. But it does not say here that when taken this officer will not be excused upon attacked by peasants enraged at what I peasants sabred to death and seven ! urged to me." they supposed was a deliberate viola- i other casualties, Dick himself under- J "It does not. But considering, that tion of the convent. Outnumbered ten .stood to remain in hiding—so that he he has since been guilty of desertion, there can be no doubt—all else apart— that the finding of a court martial will result in his being shot" "Very well," said Forjas. "I will accept your assurance, and the. co"uucil will be relieved to hear of it" Ile rose "The provost's' men are beating the to take his leave. "I am desired by country for the blackguard. When the council to express to Lord Welling - they find him, it's a firing party he'll ton the hope that he will take meas - have to face," Sir Terence concluded. ures to preserve better order among "What are you going to do, sir?" his troops and to avoid the recurrence to one, he manages to escape when the adds desertion to the other crime." abbess appeals to the peasants. 1 O'Moy told of the misapprehension Sir Robert Cranford, commander of . tinder which Butler had acted. Re re - the light division, hears Flanagan's called the situation of the country and report that Butler was left for dead.; Wellington's probable temper about "It is just as well," he says, "for Lord the escapade. Wellington would have had him shot." CHAPTER III. THE BROTHER-IN-LAw. News of the affair at Tavora reach- ed Sir Terence O'Moy, the adjutant - general at Lisbon, about a week later. In the course of the apology and ex- planation offered by the colonel of the 8th dragoons in person to the mother - abbess, it had transpired that Lt. But- ler had left the convent, alive, but that nevertheless he continued absent from Lary discipline" is far from eatisfled with Lerd We11� I remayne inquired. "And what the devil can I do?" he rap ed. 14 of such extremely painful incidents." "A moment," said O'Moy. Under a p more or less calm exterior he was a Lord Wellington is fond of you, seething caldron of passion. "The - suggested Capt. Tremayne, matter is not quite at an epd, as; your O'Moy 'waked at him, and looked excellency supposes. From your _last away. "Yes," he agreed. "But he's observation,. and from ' a variety 'of still fonder of law and order and mi:i- -other evidence, I infer that the council his regiment. 1 "Butler is your brother-in-law," ington's conduct- of the campaign." "That is an inference which I can, not venture to contradict," replied Dom Miguel. "It is felt that' it' would O'Moy was quick to perceive what a Tremayne reminded ham. semblance of justification the occur- { "Bad luck to you, Tremayne, don't 1 acne must give to the hostility of the - know it? Besides, what is there I can intriguers on the council of regency, ? do?" he asked again, and ended test• be more commendable if Lord Welling - what a formidable weapon it must ily: "Faith, man, I -:don't know what ton were to measure himself- in battle place in the hands of Principal Souza' you're thinking of." with the French. making a definite at - and his partizens. This was 'enough' "I'm thinking of Una," said Capt. tempt to stem the tide of invasion on to trouble a man in O'Moy's position. t Tremayne. the frontiers."' But there was more. Lt. Butler . The man who can receive with pa- "Quite so," said O'Moy,: his hand happened to be his brother-in-law, tience a reproach, implicit or explicit, clenching and unclenching. "Quite so. own brother to O'Moy's lively, frivol- of being wanting in consideration to- And because the council disapproves ous wife. Irresponsibility ran strongly , ward _his wife is comparatively rare, of the very measures which at .Lord. in that branch of the Butler family. land never a man of• Malay's tempera- ° Well'ington's •instigation it has publicly For the sake of the young wife. hent end circumstances. recommended, it does not scruple to whom be loved with a passionate and Tremayne's reminder stung him I mark its disapproval . by passively fearful jealousy such as is not uncore- sharply, and the more sharply because i hindering him at every turn. • And bee, mon in a man of O'Moy's temperament Cf the strong friendship that existed cause Portuguese valor is so devilish When at his aegeeehe was approachiryg between Tremayne and Lady O'Moy, ; set on battle, the militia acts calling his 46th birthday—he marries a girl who were remotely related. In the all men to the colors are forgotten as of half his years, the adjutant had days of his courtship he had known a i soon as published." He smiled—a fierro_jealousy of Tremayne. But when ' thought viciously, be it confessed—and O'Moy had been accepted by Una But- then played his trump. card. "Since Iet, • there had been an end to the 'the views of your council are in such' jealoua'y, and old relations of cordial utter opposition to the views of the friendship between the hien hn,d brain commander-in-chief, you will no doubt remised. I welcome Lord Wellington's proposal to O'.+loy conceived that jealousy to withdraw from this country and to ad - have been slain. Then Una herself vise the British government to with - had revived his doubts three months , drew the assistance which it is afford- ago, when she had suggested- that Nec. I ingayou." Tremayne was the very man to fill the' Dom Miguel's mouth fell open. He vacant pace of military secretary to :was consternation incarnate. the adjutant. In the reaction of self-! Bewildered and undecided, he vainly contempt, O'Moy had adopted her'st"g-sought words. Finally: gestion, and thereafter—in the past! "My God! Is this really Lord Wel - i three months, that is to say—the un- ' lington's last word?" he asked in tones reasor ab:•e devil of O'Moy's jealousy' of profoundest consternation. had slept, almost forgotten. Now, by! "There is one alternative,"„ said t a chance remark .. iemayne had sud-, O'11Ioy slowly. denly prodded that devil into 'wake -t "And that?" Instantly Forjas was fulness. - • I all eagerness. - :;.When I married Una," said the ad-; O'Moy considered hint. "Faith I' I jutant sharply, "I did not marry the • hesitate to state it." . ,entire Butler family. It's sick to death; • "No, no. Please, please." I am of Master Richard and his-esca-; "Very well." O'Moy shrugged. 1 pades. He can get himself out of this; "Lord Wel.ington has come to the con - Si dissolve mess, or he can stay in it" !elusion that all the resistance which p Y "You mean that you'll not lift a • he has encountered results from the Rinso (25 seconds), hand to help him." • - 1 Prinef al Souza's influence upon the - "Devil a finger," said O'Moy-, council." Forjas TOnt�einbe fartut r Clot bhi Put into the wash water–, . Put in the clothes. Soak two hours, a or more. • Rinse ---- And that's all. b spread his hands. • "You. will CHAPTER IV. r•, general," he said„"that the THE ULTIMATUM. ;Principal Souza ; z.epresents a class Just then anorderlilli -; upon whom Lord' Wellington's meas- -guel Forjas, the Portuguese secretary ures bear in a. manner .peculiarly •hard.”f state, a slight, dapper genteman.f „Yo u mean hat he represents the"Your excellencies," Forjas began n English. "Your excellencies, this Portuguese nobilty, who, putting their s a terrible affair! " , own interests above those of the,,,state, "To what affair will your excellency> have determined to. oppose and resist e alluding?" wondered O'Moy' 1 the devastation of the country which "Have Lord Wellington recommends."• you not received n•�ws of «you put it very bluntly," Forjas what has, happened at Tavola?" "Oh, and is that all?" said O'Moy. 11 admitted. "You find Lord Wellington's iFor a moment I imagined your ex- i e'Iency referred to otter matters. I own words even more blunt," said 0'- cave news of more terrible affairs Moy. Let me it you.csact=y what he writes han the convent business with which =r `As for Principal Souza, I beg you o entertain you this mornin "That, if you will pardon me, Sir' to tell flim from me that as I have hacl erence, is quite impossible," ! no satisfaction in transacting the "You may think•so. You shall judge, business of this country since he has edad. 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