The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03

1.-THE truth should be that while part
of the guard went to the spurs of the
mount, the rest should lie in ambush
close inside the city gates and dash
out on Antonio and his company"
1T is well if he will believe"
Then Paul laid his finger on his
brothers arm.
AS the clock in the tower of the
cathedral strikes in the morning of
the fifteenth of the month, do you,
dear brother. be in your summer house
at the corner of the garden yOnder,
and [ will come thither and tell You if
he has believed, and if he has come.
For by then~I shall have learnt from
him his mind, and we two will go
Straightway rouse the guards and
lead the men to their appointed sta
tiOn, and when he approaches the gate
we can lay hands on him
How can you come to him, for we
know not where he is hid?"
Alas! there is not d rogue of a peas
ant that cannot take a letter to him"
Yet when ! question them, ay,
though l beat them, they know moth
ing" cried Valentine, in chagrin
Truly, the sooner we lay him by the
hee-s the better for our security
Snail it be, then, as I say, sir?"
80 let it be, said the duke. L will
await you in the summer house"
PAU. perceiving that his brother had
no suspicious Of him and would await
MN III the summer house, conceived
MS task TO be already half done. For
ms plan was that he and Antonio
should come together to the summer
house, but that Antonio should lie hid
tld Paul had spoken 10 the duke; then
PAU should go out on pretext of bid
. "a
bush, and leave the duke alone with
Antonio. Antonio then, suddenly
sp1nging forth, should slay the duke.
While Paul-and when he thought on
THIS he smiled to himself-wouId so
contriYe that body of men should bar
ANTONIO escape and straightWay kill
him. Thus should he be quit both of
his brother and Antonio, and no man
would live who knew how the deed
Was contriVed. And then" said he.
! doubt whether the poor child be-
feIt OF all parental care viii long es-
cape the manifold perils of infancy"
Thus he schemed. and when he had
maze all sure and noised about the
dukes intentions. he himself set forth
alone on his horse to seek Antonio. He
rode I'LL he reached the entrance of the
pass leading to the recesses of the
hills Then he dismounted and sat
down on Jhu- ground, and this was AT
noon on the 18th day of the month.
He had not long been sitting when a
face peered from behind a wall of moss
covered rock that fronted him, and
PAU cried:
Is it a friend?'
"A friend of whom mean you. NV
lord?" came from the rock.
OF whom else than of Count An
tonic 2' cried pauI
a silence followed and a. deIav. then
two men stole cautiously from behind
the rock, and in one of them PAM
knew the man called Bena, who had
been Of the dukes guard. The men,
knowing Paul, bowed low to him and
asked him his pleasure, and he com
handed them to bring him to Antonio.
They wondered, knowing not whether
he came from the duke or despite the
duke, but he was urgent in his COM
mands, and at length they tied a scarf
over his eyes, and set him on his horse
and led the horse. Thus they went for
an hour Then they prayed him TO
dismount, saying that the horse could
go no further, and though Paul's eyes
saw nothing, he heard the whinny and
smelt the smell of horses
Here are your stables, then" said
he, and dismOunted with a laugh. Then
Bena took him by the hand and the
other guided his feet, and climbing I'D
steep paths, over -boulders and through
little water courses, they went, Til at