The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-04-02

"All right, then" added the officer.
She passed ON to . door, through
he keyhole Of which . beam Of bril-
liant light was burning.
There she stood still for . few
aud listened intently.
HE is alone" she murmured at
last.
She was right. Charles the Second
was alone in his sitting-room. where
he was walking up and down. evident
y in the worst possible humor.
"Can there be any truth in II" he
said to himself, standing still fur q
The fortune-teller said to
me, You will fall by the hand of q
woman Every body says that her
predictions always are verified. What
woman should kill me ?"
He shuddered, for he was an arrant
And yet he was a descendant
of Emperor Charles w., the hero Of I'd
many hard-fought battles, So low
had the Spanish dynasty fallen in the
course Of a single century.
Suddenly the door opened. A yelled
lady stepped in. The king started
back in terror.
"Who are you?" he gasped.
She removed her veil.
"Oh, it is you. Elizabeth !" he cried
angrily. "How dare yOu--"
81 shall dare great deal more to
night. your majesty" she replied
mockingly. 81 have come to talk Il
you about your mistresses."
Eyes. have just killed one o
them"
The king uttered a cry of surprise
"Who is it ?" he gasped.
II killed your inamorata, tn,
Countess de Castro!"
The king few into a
TOWERING RAGE.
He stamped his foot, and theI
rushed toward the queen as il to strik,
her.
Beware !" she cried. 81 am pre-
pared for you. ] have come to xii
you, tool"
She said this with flashing eyes, ant
in SO menacing a tone that she frightcn
ed her cowardly husband.
She showed him her small poniard
still stained with the blood of her fai
victim, and said:
1.-The queen Of Spain should nevel
forgive an insult. Your last moment
is at hand !"
She rushed at him with the poniard
in her uplifted hand.
And now occurred q most disgusting
scene.
The king tried to run away from
her, shouting at the top of his lungs
Murder! help! murier!"
Suddenly a side door opened, and
the kings secretary, the villainou:
Herman Mallendez, rushed in.
He succeeded in disarming the in
furiated queen. While he held her
Charles the Second, with a handker
chief. tied her arms on her back.
''She threatened to murder me =
cried the king. ''She shall be tried
for this nc. of Lese Majestic at once BY
one the grandees of the kingdom.
You know whom to summon as judges,
Mallendez."
The secretary exchanged a signi6.
cant glance with the king and left the
room.
As soon as he left the room the
queen made a desperate effort to free
her hands, but the king succeeded in
holding her until Mallendez reappear.
ed. He ushered into the the room
THREE RICHLY DRESSED YOUNG MEN,
They were grandees of Spain, but
worthless debauchees and boon com
panions Of his royal majesty. The
king ordered them to judge the queen.
who. he said, had just tried to murder
him with poniard.
The queen disdainfully refused to
be judged by them.
They found her guilty, and ordered
her to be executed without delay.
death is better than dishouor !"
she exclaimed. with firmly compressed
lips.
Il commute The sentence to i'm
for life, said the king.
II refuse to be pardoned by such a
reprobate as you" replied the queen,
iisdainfnlly.
The king signed to the three gran
lees. who left the room quite uncon-
We may remark here. parenthetic-
lily, that these three grandees were
assassinated on the way back to their
homes that very night-it is easy to
by whose orders.
Mallendez had brought with him
and a gag.
While the king held her, Mallendez
sHACKLED AND GAGGED HER.
Then the two men carried her 10 o
ubterranean cell.
In that cell the queen remained un.
il her death, which took place twenty
'ears later. under the surveillance Of
cruel jailer, who had been ordered
o shoot her at sight in case she should
make an attempt at escape.
Her food was coarse and scanty, and
he was furnished with garments such
'sthe servant girls of Madrid wore.
But. Notwithstanding her sufiering.,
Ter proud spirit never forsook her.
The king caused the rumor to be
circulated that this consort was insane,
nd finally that she had died q ravin9
maniac.
He married in 1879 a Portuguese
who soon left him, however,
ONE sinister rumors concerning his
rst wife having reached her ears.
The Countess de Castro was buried
. the dead of night, in the presence Of
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