Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-05

stauchion which had once served TO So
cure "a flagstaff, and tl'eu she began to
let it down. coil after coil, between two
great masses Of ivy. the deep shadow %
which would even IN the day time max,
il Quite invisible from below.
With all her care, it made "a rustllug
mons The leaves which sounded terri
bIv loud amid that .omb like silence.
Had any one heard it: She cliuchet hai
teeth IN desperation as she listened, firm
U.s. resolved ta.t.f detected now -la would
fling herself ucalloug from Jhe tower
rather than -ae her last hope If liberty
melt away But all was stll, and with
the slow. mechanical stepof sleep walk
er She descended the p~erilous stair.
But now that all was done. and moth
irv left for her but 70 wait, she slow
torture became all but uncomfortable.
The nearer the time of her dvlIyauce
came the more impossible 1t appeared.
The rope ladder would be discovered;
Henri would be delayed by some accI-
dent: Keretsenyi would return be-
fore the time, or would perhaps sur
prise them in the very act of escaping,
and wreak upon them both the full fury
of that hellsh vengeance Of which she
had already seen 50 many fearful proofs
Would the third evening never come:
1t came at last-chill, dreary, dark,
with coming storm, and Is the red glare
Of the angry sunset faded amid the
gathering Of clouds that blackened over
head, Madeleine, watching IL from the
summit Of the fatal tower felt as IL the
light Of her own life were going out
along with it. Over earth and sky
brooded a grim, unnatural silence,
broken only by a hurrying hoof tramp
far away among the hills, as if some b.
lated traveller were in haste 70 reach his
home ere the storm burst.
Hark. was that a faint sound Of mu-
SIC from the black shadowy thickets be
lou?
She held her breath to listen, and sod
denly it came again, and this time her
quick ear caught, too plainly 70 be mis-
taken, the notes Of her f~avUrite song.
Her rescuer was therel
But Just then, s she bent down to Sc
cure as best she could the trap door that
opened from the stair on TO the platform
Of the Pit tower before hazsrding the
fearful descent, the approaching hoof
tramp, which had been growing louder
and nearer with every moment, came
ringing and clatterlng into the court
yard below, and then Keretsnvi's terri
BILE voice was heard shouting % his @ev-
ants In tones Il thunder;
Keep below, and whatever you may
see OF hear DO not stir a foot, OF you are
al dead me-'
Now or never, Spurrel to new action
, by the imuln-uceOf her peril Madeleine
spran- t1 the clg-of the battl-meut and
prepared O. descend. But hardly had
she got one foot over the coping stone
Ehen the trlpGO1r, which she LalclUSed
behind her, was bur-t open with a tre-
mendous crash aud KeTet-enyi, with
his dark features all sblsze with fierce
excitement and his eyes flaming like
live Goals, came bounding on to the
platform.
"Traitress !" shouted he IN q voice
Of thundsr, a. he stamped furiously
upon the moldering pavement, would
you Detrsy me too? ButyOu shall not
escape 30 easily. The hour has come,
and this night one ofus Two must die
Those savage words were his last.
Before the furious stamping Of his
mighty foot the crumbling o gave
way-a black and frightful chasm
yawned suddenly beneath his very
feet with = terrific c-ash-and be was
gone,
No cry came up from the blacknes=
Of that awful gulf, but far down in it,
gloomy depths was heard q dull, muf-
fed reverberation, like the sound Of a
heavy body being dashed from ledge
to ledge OF a seemin ely bOttomless
abys-, and then all was still. The last
Of the oncient race Of Keretsenyi had
indeed gone down alive into the grave
md the gsstly prophecy was fulfilled.
What followed Madeleine could
never have told. The horror Of this
browning tragedy was so great and
overwhelming that it seemed to be-
numb every serse and thought, and
the next thing OF which she was
clearly concious was finding nerself-
she knew not hoW-outside the castle.
and standing upon a smsll patch OF
open ground about a bowshOt from it,
gate: while Henri de M~orterart, sup
porting her with one hand, held a
horse by the bride with the other.
"Mount quickly behind me, fol
heavens sake" said he through bis
clenched teeth, as he helper her up
cor we are lost!'
And away they went like an rrro~
from a bow Just ss q hustle and a glanc'
ing to and fro Of lights within the
gloomy building told that its inmates
had taken the alarm.
BY dAybreak they were many a mile
away from the terrible castle, when
was destroyed by fire only a few days
later-a fit end, indeed, for that den Of