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The Wingham Times, 1908-01-09, Page 6THE W INCTIJAM TIKES, JANUARY 9, 108 aeleleanetielealeletaialleteetailefalarea { 11 By... ,ANTHONY HOPE Copyrighted, 1A94, 1805, by Henry Moat ee company •'i"'i"i'14't44"i4.I"i">*14+4N3•+4'1' 14.1.49.1„144. not, and that the secret must be kept, it kept It can be." "They are right, sire. Let me go, My work here is done," "Yes, it is done as no man but you • could have done it. When they see me again I shall have my beard on. I shall—yes, faith, I shall be wasted with sickness. They will not wonder that the king looks changed in face. Cousin, I shall try to let them and him changed in nothing else. You have shown me how to play the king," "Sire," said 1, "I can take no praise from you. It Is by the narrowest grace of God that I was nota worse traitor than your brother," Re turned inquiring eyes on me, but a sick man sbrinks from puzzles, and be had no strength to question me, His glance fell on • Flavia's ring, which I wore. I thought he would question me about it, but after fingering it idly he let his head fall on his pillow. "I don't know when I shall see you again," he said faintly, almost list- lessly. "If I can ever serve you again, sire," ,I answered. His eyelids closed. Fritz came with the doctor. I kissed the king's hand and let Fritz lead me away. I have never seen the king since. Outside Fritz turned, not to the right, back toward the drawbridge, but to the left, and, without speaking, led me up- stairs, through a handsome corridor in the chateau. "Wbere are we going?" I asked. Looking away from me, Fritz an- swered:. "She has sent for you. When it is over come back to the bridge. I'll wait for you there." "What does she breathing quickly. He shook his head. "Does she know everything?" "Yes, everything." He opened a door and, gently push- - ing me in, closed it behind me. I found myself in a drawing room, small and richly furnished. At first I thought that I was alone, for the light that came from a pair of sbaded candles on the mantelpiece was very dim. But presently I divan -fled a woman's figure standing by the window. I knew it was the princess, and I walked up to her, fell on one knee and carried the hand that hung by her side to my lips. She neither moved nor spoke. I rose to my feet and, piercing the gloom with my eager eyes, saw her pale face and the gleam of ber hair, and before I knew I spoke softly: "Flavin!" She trembled a little and looked round. Then she darted to me, taking bold of me. "Don't stand, don't stand. No, you mustn't! You're hurt! Sit down— here, here!" She made me sit on a sofa and put :her hand on my forehead. "How hot your head is!" she said, sinldng on her knees by me. Then she laid her head against me, and I heard ber murmur, "My darling, how hot your head is!". Somehow love gives even to a dull • man the knowledge of his lover's heart. I had come to humble myself and pray pardon for my presumption, but what I said now was: "I love .you with all my heart and Souls" For what troubled and shamed her? Not ber love for me, but the fear that I had connterfeited the lover as I had acted the king and taken her kisses with a. smothered smile. Canadian MOP tRostorer rison cr enda Of 444 want?" said I, "With ail my life and heart," said I as she clung to me. "Always, from the first moment l: saw you in the ca- thedral, There has been but one wo- man in the world to me, and there will be to other, But God forgive me the wroug I've done you!" "They made you do It!" she said quickly, and she added, raising her head and looking in my eyes; "It might have made no difference if Ina known It, It was always you, never tba king." And she raised herself and kissed me. . "I meant to tell you," said I. "I wag going to on the night of the ball In Strelsau when Sept Interrupted me. After that I couldn't—I couldn't risk losing you before—before—I must! My, darling, for you I nearly left the king to dle." "I know, I know! .What are we to do now, Rudolf?" I put my arm round her and held ber up while I said; "I am going away tonight." "Ah, no, no!" she cried. "Not to- night!" "1 must go tonight before more peo- ple have seen me. And how would you have me stay, sweetheart, ex- cept"— "If I could come with you," she whispered very low. "My God," said I roughly, "don't talk about that!" And I thrust ber a little back from me. s "Why not? I love you. •You are as good a gcutleman as the king." Then I was false to all that I should have held by, for I caught her In my arras and prayed her In words that I will not write to come with me, daring all Ruritania to take her from me. And for awhile she listened, with won- dering, dazzled eyes, but as her eyes looked on me I grew ashamed and my voice died away iu broken murmurs and stammering , and at last I was silent. She drew herself away from me and stood against the wall, while I sat on the edge of the sofa, trembling in ev- ery limb, knowing what I had done, loathing it, obstinate not to undo it. So we rested a long time. "I am mad!" I said sullenly. "I love your madness, dear,""shci .n- swered. Her face was away from me, but I caught the sparkle of a tear on ber cheek. I clutched the sofa with my hand and held myiielf there. "Is love the only thing?" she asked In low, sweet tones that seemed to bring a calm even to my wrung heart. • Don't Neglect a Cough «Cold IT CAN P1A.VE BUT ONE RESULT. IT LEAVES THE THROAT or LUNGS, OR BOTH, AFFECTED. OR. WOOD'S NORWAY PINE SYRUP IS THE MEDICINE 0" YOU NEED "If love were the only thing, I could follow you—in rags, if need be—to the world's end, for you hold my heart in the hollow of your hand. But is love the only tbing?" • I made her no answer. It gives me shame now to think that I would not help her. She Came near me andlaid her band on my shoulder. I put my hand up and held hers. "I know people write and talk as if it were. Perhaps for some, fate lets it be. Ah, if I were one of them! But if love had been the only thing you. would have let the king die in his cell." I kissed her band. "Honor binds a woman, too, Rudolf. My honor lies in being true to My country and my house. I don't know why God bas let me love you, but I know that I must stay." Still I said nothing, and she, paus- ing awhile, then went on: "Your ring will always be on my finger, your heart in my heart, the touch of your lips on mine, but you must go, and I must stay. Perhaps I must do what it kills me to think of doing." ' I knew what she meant, and a shiver ran through me, but I could not ut- terly fail beside her. I rose and tools~ her hand. "Do what you will or what you must," I said. "I think God shows his purposes to finch as you. My part is lighter; for your ring shall be on my finger and your heart in mine, and no touch save of your lips will ever be on mine. So may God comfort you, my darling!" There struck on our ears the seund of singing. The priests in the chapel were singing masses for the souls of those who lay dead. They seemed to chant a requiem over our buried joy, to pray forgiveness for our love thaa1 would not die. The soft, sweet, pi music rose and fell as we stood oppo- site one another, her hands in mine. "My queen and my" beauty!" said L "My lover and true knight!" she said. "Perhaps we Shall never see one an- other again. Kiss me, my dear, and �� " '- C �AI 4'11��5(H M F "11 was always you, never the Tttng." and on to the breaking of day and found ourselves at a little roadside sta- tion just over the border of Ruritania. The train was not quite due, and I walked with them in a meadow by a little brook while we waited for it. They promised to send me all news. They overwhelmed me with kindness. Even old Sapt was touched to gentle- ness, while Fritz was half unmanned. I listened in a kind of dream to all they said. "Rudolf! Rudolf! Rudolf!" still rang in my ears, a burden of sorrow and of love. At last they saw that I could not heed them, and we walked up and down in silence till Fritz touch- ed me on the arm, and I saw, a mile or more away, the blue smoke of the train. Then. I held out a hand to each of them. "We are all but half men this morn- ing," said I, smiling. "But we have been men, eh, Sept and Fritz, old friends? We have run a good course between us." "We have defeated traitors and set the king firm on his throne," said Sapt. Then Fritz von Tarlenbeim suddenly, before I could discern his purpose or stay him, uncovered his head and bent, as he used to do and kissed my hand, and as I snatched it away he said, try- ing to laugh: "Heaven doesn't always make the right men kings!" Old Sept twisted his mouth as he wrung nay hand. 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Doubt- less oubtless I should have thought more of it had there not echoed through the air, from the towers of Zenda that we were leaving far away, into my ears and Into my heart the cry of a wom- an's love: "Rudolf! Rudolf! Rudolf!" Hark! I hear it now! • CHAPTER KKII. HE details of my return home can have but little interest. I went straight to the Tyrol and spent a quiet fortnight; mostly on my back, for a severe chill developed itself, and I was also the victim of a nervous reaction, which made me weak as a baby. As soon as I had reached nay quarters I sent an apparently careless postcard to my brother, announcing my good health and prospective return. That would serve to satisfy the inquiries as to my whereabouts, which • were probably still vexing the prefect of the police of Strelsau. I let my mustache and imperial grow again, and, as hair comes quickly on my face, they were respectable, though not luxuriant, by the time that I land- ed myself in Paris and called on my friend George Featherly. My inter- view with him was chiefly remarkable for the number of unwilling but nec- essary falsehoods that I told, and I ral- lied him unmercifully when he told me that he had made up his mind that I had gone in the track of Mme. de iliauban to Strelsau. The lady, it ap- peared, was back in Paris, but was living in great seclusion—a fact for which gossip found no difficulty in ac- counting. scounting. Did not all the world know of the treachery and death of Duke Michael? Nevertheless George bade Bertram Bertrand be of good cheer, "for," said he flippantly, "a live poet is better than a dead duke." Then he turned on me and asked: "What have you been doing to your mustache?" "To tell the truth," I answered, as- suming a sly air, "a man now and then has reasons for wishing to alter his appearance. But it's coming on very well again." "What? Then I wasn't so far out? If not the fair Antoinette, there was a charmer." "There is always a charmer," said I sententiously. But George would not be satisfied till he had wormed out of me (he took much pride in his ingenuity) an abso- face, but we took no notice of their Iutely imaginary love affair, attended glances. I stood with my two friends with the proper soupcon of scandal, and evened till the train came up to us. '.then we shook hands again, say- ing nothing, and both this time—and, Indeed, from old Sapt it seemed strange —bared their beads and so stood still. till tbe train bore me away from their sight. So that it was thought some great man traveled privately for his pleasure from the little station that morning,• whereas, in truth, it was only T, Rudolf Rassendyll, an Euglisb gentleman, a cadet of a good house, but a man of no wealth nor position mor of much rank. They would have been disappointed to know that, Yet had they known all they would have real character was enough to root her regard for bias oat of her heart. I had one More battle left to fight -- a battle that would, I knew, be severe and was bound to end in my complete defeat. Was I not back from the Ty rot without having made. any study of its inhabitants, institutions, scenery, fauna, flora or other features? Had I not wasted my time in my usual friv- olous, good for nothing way? That was the aspect of the matter which, I was obliged to admit, would present its self to my sister-in-law, and against a verdict based on such evidence I had really n4 ndefeuse to often, It may be supposed, thea, that I presented my- self yself in, park lane in a shamefaced, sheepish fashion. On the whole, my reception was not so alarming as I had feared. It turned out that 1 bad done not what Rose wished, but—the next best thin, --what she bad propbe sled. She lead declared that I should. make no notes, record no observations, gather no materials. My brother, on the other band, had been weak enough to maintain that a really serious re wive had at length animated me. When I returned empty banded, Rose When is sweets " lose their sweetness— and " substantials,l' their charm! --there are always MOONEY'S PERFECTION CREAM SODAS to coax back the appetite. Do YOLT know how good they are? toy which had kept me all this time in the peaceful regions of the Tyrol. In return for this narrative George re- galed me with a great deal of ;what he called "inside information" (known only to diplomatists) as to the true course of events in Ruritania, the plots and counterplots. In his opinion, he told nee, with a significant nod, there was more to be said for Black Michael than the public supposed, and he hint- ed at a well founded suspicion that the mysterious prisoner of Zenda, concern- ing whom a good many paragraphs had appeared, was not a man at all, but (here I had some ado not to smile) a woman disguised as a man, and that Strife between the king and his broth- er for this imaginary lady's favor was at the bottom of their quarrel. "Perhaps it was Mme. de Mauban herself," I suggested. "No!" said George decisively. "An• toinette de Mauban was jealous of her and betrayed the duke to the king for that reason. And, to confirm what I say, it's well known that the Prin- cess Flavia is new extremely cold to the king after having been most af- fectionate" At this point I changed the subject and escaped from George's "Inspired" delusions. But if diplomatists never know anything more than they had succeeded in finding out in this ite stance they appear to me to be some what expensive luxuries. While in Paris I wrote to Antoinette, though I did not venture to call upon her. I received in return a very at fecting letter, in which she assured me that the king's generosity and kinn ness, no less than het regard for me; bound her conscience to absolute Se creey. She expressed tbe intention of settling in the eountry and withdraw- ing herself entirely from society, Whether she carried out her designs T have never heard, but as I have not met her or heard news of her sip to this time it Is probable that she did. There is no doubt that she was deeply attaebed 10 the Duke et. Strelsau, and ber eodlduet at the tune of his death proved that no knowledge of the mania ("Cu be Oone nuad ) PALMA TROPHY MATCH., King Edward Sends Congratulations to the Winners. The Governor-General received front His Majesty King Edward the follow- ing cable; "Please offer my congratulations to United States team winning Palma Trophy with such a record score." President Roosevelt, in reply to the telegram of congratulations sent by the Governor-General, telegraphed His Excellency from Oyster Bay as fol- lows: "I greatly appreciate your congratu- lations. I believe in rifle shooting as being much more than merely an at- tractive pastime, and it should be en- couraged in every possible way in all self-governing commonwealths. Therefore, international contests like these do a dual service." Canada's "Regular" Army. The strength of the Canadian per- manent corps, or the regulars, is about the same as last year. It comprises 281 officers and 4,553 non-commission- ed officers and men, total strength of 4,834. The Royal Canadian Dragoons have a strength of 389, R. C. Mounted Rifles 774, R. C. Horse Artillery, 410, Royal Canadian. Garrison Artillery 1,021, Royal Canadian Engineers 932, Royal Canadian Regiment 1,258, Cana- dian Permanent Army Service Corps 152, Permanent Army Medical Corps 154, Ordnance Stores Corps 214, Cana- dian Array Pay Corps 34, and Corps of Military Staff Clerks 35. Militia orders state that the follow- ing warrant and non-commissioned officers of the permanent force have been granted medals for long service and good conduct: Regimental Sergt. Major J. Adair, Permanent Ariny Medical Corps; Quartermaster Sergeant George Offen, Royal Canadian Regiment. THE WOMAN AT HOME. For a burn spill), a paste of floor and lard. Keep a small new scrubbing bruni to brush fringe on doilies when ironing. 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The National Sanitarium Aesooiation is doing good service in educating the pub- lic, Booklets and leaflets ars scattered over the country by the million, warning the people as to the conditions most like- ly.to lay the basis for the inroad of the plague, such as negleoted colds, dissipa,- non, overwork and worry, poor feeding, low vitality, dust and filth and carless nese in the disposal of tuberculosis Protection of Implements in Winter. matter, and, on the other hand, preach - The money lost by leaving implements ing vigorously the priceless value of out aver winter has represented in thous- abundant fresh air, judicious nourish - ands of cases the differenoe between meat, rest, hygienic living and sanitary prosperity and poverty, and 11 seams I surroundings. If the Association did strange that such should be the case, nothing bat this it is entitled to alt when it is so easy, and inexpensive to gratitude and honor, but' it is proving n from the weather, the great value of its concentrated provide protectio systematic effort in sanatorium treat- ment. Prof. Wm. Osier says that "No work has been undertaken in Canada fraught with so great possibilities." Dr. H. P. Loomis nays that"From any institutions which only reoeive patients in the very early stages of the disease 70 par cent. to 75 per pont ere discharged cured." And an ex -president of the British Medical Association declares: "It is my firm belief that iu twenty-five years, provided proper conditions are adopted, a case of consumption will be a curiosity." The degree of deterioration, which is effected by exposure, depends largely upon the character of the machine. 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