The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-03-20

10 vsis her =, lossr's eomins' Through the wear,
An outcast. Homeless. orphaned. weeping.
overcome with fright"
Enough. enough replied the knight, .'de-
part, ere at my call
The servants quickly seize upon and force
thee from the hAll.'
..They dare notr' said Diana. ''they are strick,
en- all with fear."
''Then alone wiz do t!'said the angry chew
alier.
And now. advancing to her, growing angry
more and more.
He grasped her by the arm, and tiled to force
But she in turn seized en- his hand. and thrust
between her own.
ConvuIsive clany rs though her rage had
turned her into stone.
A moment thus, then ere the knight her angry
hold could break,
She suddenly released his hand, and to him
pleading spake:
"Yes ! win go. but yet one little favor grant,
For ali the the evil thou hast caused me since that
But once again let me behold thine own af-
nanced bride,
While on my soul swear tothee to linger by
thy SIDE"
They moved twarl Rassalinde fair, who trem-
bling still with fear,
Upheld by Lady Lille Jourlain. shrank back
And looked With terror while her Jean. as if in
trance, obeyed,
With hand in hand now intertwined, each
movement of the maid,
As If some horror DER them hung, In silence
most profound,
Awhile each ON the other gazed. nor uttered
Until Diana. pushing jean with hand uplifted.
cried:
''See! Rassalinde de la Baume. behold him at
Thy loved one, whom Diana. scorned Diana,
takes from thee,
To show how one Merrichi can her own aven-
ger bef'
Had lightning bolt among them struck. the
shock had been the same.
That foul suspicion should arise to mar the
knights fair name.
pleading gazed,
Yet not one word he answered there, dumb
founded and amazed.
But soon the spell was broken, and D!ana's
While haunting, she exulted now, as DER a
viper slain.
"Ha! Jean de Lille Jourdain. sir knight,
where now thy Wanted sword.
Thy ramparts and thy towers bold against
woman's word?
Iswore to be revengcd on thee; that oath
now fulfill
Thou earliest in thee germs Of death-the
plague, so sure to kid!
Look not amazed upon me. for It's holy truth
tell,
For i. too. am infected, and must die with
thee as well!
Look now on thy afianced! See how beauti-
full and bright!
tancing sight.
Feast, feast. thine eyes upon her. for thy time
Thine hours now are numberei ere thou Hest
down to dfe!"
She ceased: and Rassalinde, wild with terror,
quickly sprang
Beside her lover. while her screams through
out the chateau rang.
But stunning her, he shouted: Touch me
not-I am not thine!
TIE seal OF death Is on me and his fingers In
tertwine
So coon about my heartstrings and my blood
is coursing fast,
Like rushing mountain torrents when the flu
rious storm IL past!"
HE is mine, my. own aaiancei." said Diana,
Take care Of Rassalinde, for / love her as mine
But Jean and are welded in the holy bonds
No %,Is s shan we .s be parted tn We draw our
huQ SUcs uct 0kU19 0utWuA IOutIQ us otcR
with grasp his s:ronEest efforts found impos-
-s;bie % break,
While mother nor the maiden could their
dreadful struggle stay.
The Wallets hastened to the room, but stopped
At tnreshold when their eyes bcheld the ter
None Approached the wretched man, bat,
struggling there alone,
He saw an those about him stand transflxed in
Tin, forced ID selfLdeferse, he drove his poig-
And poor. 1 avenged Diana lifeless fell, pierced
through the heart.
In terror. Lady Lille Jourdain solemn vow
silver sd I: .'S to give St Just, If he her son
And vineyards given to the church this lamp
TO keep aname
Would seem to prove that Jean was saved
But still he lost his strong left hand-so run
the records true
which Diana In. her bitter rage had bitten
And this no doubt Obtained for him the name,
or .sire s Of the Dead Hand" tina. he for eve.
In legends Of the Preside. or in The fearful
shock
or wars between the English and the men OF
Lnngue doc.
The good monk ceased his story, just ~
through the quiet air
The yesper bells were calling all the faithful
He silently 8 then left me. while I hunbly
bowed my head,
blessed memories Of Diana lyins
dead:
More sinncd against than SHINING; father
lover, hOme-all lost,
ID Il strange che should avenge her wrongs,
although her life IL cost!
Henry r. King. IN the Continent.
They Dissolved.
Tweutv wears ao,n two Detro;t aftor.