The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-27

he babe the men stand aside and they
obeyed him; and he gathered Tom1r1a-
sino in his arms.
Hold my stirrup, that [ may mount, :"
said he: and still they Obeyed. But
| when they saw he mounted with Tom
masino seated in front of him, Mar
tolo cried:
'But, my lord, we are charged TO
take him back and deliver him to the
duke
"And If you do?" asked Antonio.
Martolo made a movement as of one
tying a moose.
And if you do not?" asked Antonio
selves alive to the duke"
Antonio looked down on them.
ITO whom bear you allegiance?" said
ITO his hfghness the duke" they
answered, uncovering as they spoke.
"And to whom besides?" asked An
tonic
80 none besides" they answered.
wondering.
who wills not that you should deliver to
death a lad who has done but what his
honor bade him"
Gods counsel God knows said Mar
tolo. 1--WE are dead men if we return
to the city. You had best STAY US your
SER, my lOTQs II we may LOI GARY hHS
young lord with us"
"You are honest lads, are you not?"
he asked. by your faces you are men
of the city,
$50 are we, my lord, but we serve the
duke in his guard for reward"
II love, TN. men of the eity as they
pence a day should not buy mans
soul as we'll as his body"
The two men looked at one another
IN perpIexity. The fear and the def
lerence in which they held Antonio for
babe them to fall on him; yet they
dared not let him take Tommasino.
Then, as they stood doubling, he spoke
low and softly to them:
when he that should give Naw and
uphold right, deals wrong and makes
white black and black white, it is for
gentlemen and honest men to be a law
unto themselves. Mount your horses,
then, and follow me. And so long as
am safe YOU Shall be safe, and so long
as I live you shall live; and while I eat
and drink you shall have ITO drink and
eat; and you shall be my servants. And
when the time of Gods Will-whereot
God forbid that [ should doubts come
[ Will SO back to her I love, and you
shall go back to them that love you
and men shall say that you have proved
yourselves true men and good."
Thus it was that the two men of the
Dukes guard, Martolo and ne whom
; they called Bena (thougth of his 6rut
name there is no recordD, went together
. with Count Antonio and his cousin
TommaSSino to a secret faStneSS in The
hills, and there, In the course of many
days, TommaSinO was healed of tht
! wound which the lieutenant of TIT
! guard had given him, and rode hi
horse again, and held next place to An
tonic himself in the band that gathered
; round them. For there came to then
l every man that was wrongfully op
I pressed, and some came for love of ad
l venture and because they hoped Il
= tStrille good blows; and some came WHOM
! Antonio would not receive, inasmuch a
5 they were greater rogues tthan Wer
those whose wrath they fed from.
Such is the tale of how Count Antoni
! was outlawed from the dukes peac.
I and took to the hills Faithfully haV
, the count and whose will may prais
/ him. For myself, [ thank feaven tina
, this same troublesome passion of Low
: that likens one man to a lion and an
: other to a fox has not come nigh me-
L But the Lady Lucia, Being brough
: back to the city by the lieutenant o
+ the guard, was lodged in her own nous
!, and the charge of her was commende
n by the duke in the hands of a dis
y Greet lady, and for while his highness
e for very shame, forefbore to trouble he
: with suitors For, he said, in his bite
/ humor, as he looked down on the dea
n body of Robert de Beauregard: 81 hav
It lost two good servants and four stron
:, arms through her, and r1ayhap, If [ fin
\ her another sutton she Will rob me
: yet another stalwart gentleman"
~, So she abode in peace, indeed, but j
- sore deso3ation and sorrow, longing fl
the day when Count Antonio shOul
come back to seek her. And again we
y she closely guarded by the duke.