The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-17

fears no reproaeh. pray yo1 suffer
me to go in peace; would not fight
with you, if 1 may avoid it honorably.
For what has happened has left me
more IN the mood for thinking than
for fighting Besides, sir, you are
young, and far off in Andalusia loving
eyes, and maybe sparkling eyes, are
strained to the horizon, seeking your
race as you return
what is all that, my Iord?' asked
Coroqua, 'I am man, though a young
one, I'd [ am here to carry you to
the duke" And he touched Antonio'S
sword with his, saying, "Guard your
SELF
TT is with great pain and reluctance
to witness of it; but if l must, L
must" and the count took UP his po-
sition and they crossed swords.
Now, Coroqua was we'll taught and
shillful, but he did not know the cum
ming which Antonio had learned at the
school Of Giacomo in Padua, nor had
he the strength and endurance of the
count And Antonio would fain have
wearied him out, and then, giving him
some slight wound to cover his honor,
have left him and escaped; but the
young man came at him impetuously
and neglected to guard himself while
! he thrust at his enemy; once ana
|
did not know that he had received the
courtesy, and, taking heart from his
immunity, came at A1r1nto more
| hereby again, until at last Antonio,
breathing sigh, stttfene1 lis arm
and, waiting wariiy for the young
man again to uncover himself thrust
at his breast, and the swords point
lentered hard by the young mans
heart, and the young man staggered,
and would have fallen, dropping his
sword, but Antonio. cast away his own
sword and supported him, Stanching
the blood from the wound and crying:
! "God send I have not killed him.
And on his speech came the voice tof
iTommasfn0, saying carelessly:
| Here in truth, cousin, is a good
prayer wasted on a Spaniard"
And Antonio, looking up, saw Tom
masino and Bena. And Tommasino
said;
when you did not come back we
Iset out to seek you, fearing that you
were fallen into some snare of danger.
And behold we find you with this
IyounS spark; and how you missed his
heart, Antonio, [ know not, not what
Giaeomo Of Padua would say to <such
bungling"
I But Antonio cared not for his cou-
sins words, which We're spoken in the
banter that q man uses to hide his
true feelings; and they set themselves
10 save the young mans life, for Tom
masino and Bena had seen the better
part of the fight, and perceived that
he was a gallant youth But, as they
tended him, there came shouts xnd the
sound Of horses hoofs mounting the
hill by the winding road that led past
lAntOnio'S house. And Tommasino
touched Antonio on the shoulder, say
ing, We can do no more for him, anu
if we hnger we must fight again.
Than fhnTy 1aiI 41o
Antonio stripping off his coat and
making pillow of it, and Bena
brought the horses, for tkey had Iad
one with them for Antonio in case
there should be need for It; and they
We're but just mounted when twenty
OF the dukes guard appeared 300
yards away, ascending the crest on the
hill
Thank heaven they are so many
said Antonio, 'for now we can fly With
out shame" and they set spurs to their
horses and fed. And certain Of the
, dukes guard pursued. but only
two or three were SO well
: mounted as to be able to come
near them, and these two or three
to man, had no liking for the business
and each called out that his horse was
foundered; and thus it was that none
OF them came up with Count Antonio
! but all, after a while returned tC
{ the CITY, carrying the young Spaniarc
Coroqua, their captain. But as they
2 drew near to the gates Coroqua open,
: ed his eyes and nurnured some soft
5 Syllabled name that they could moi
hear. and having with failing fingers
Z signed the cross, turned on his side anc
died. And they brought his body tt
the great hall of the dukes palace.
There in the hall sat Duke Valen
4 tine. His face was pale and his frOWI
4 heavy, and he gazed on the dead body
Z of the young man and spoke no word
D Yet he had loved Coroqua, and out Of
> love for him had made him captain O
= his guard. And he passed his hand
q YEARLY across his brow, naurmuring
Il 'I cannot think. I cannot think" Ant
| the Lady Lucia stood by him, he
q hand resting on his shoulder and he
d eyes full of tears But at last tn
8 strange spell which lay on the sense
: of the duke passed away; his eye
S again had the light Of reason in them
e and they listened while they told hin
Z l how Antonio had himself escaped an,
I had afterward slain Cor0qua on tn
l top Of the hill where Antonio's hous
: had stood. And the duke was sorr
= for Coroqua's death; and he locke
E round on them all saying:
He made Of me a log Of wood, an
: not q man. For when ! had dram
U and looked in his eyes it seemed to m
= that my eyes We're bound to his, an
that I looked to him for command, an
e to know what 7 should do; and that h
e was my God, and without his will
a could not move. Yes, [ was then t
:; him even as he had seemed to be t
II me, as we rode from Baratesta. An
l. even now. I am not free from thi
strange affection, for he seems still t
?. be by me, and if his voice came no
q bidding me do anything, by st. Pr
II sian, l should arise and do it. Sen
n my physician to me. And let tht
= young man lie in the chapel of tn
q Blessed Virgin in the cathedral, an
e tomorrow he shall be buried And whe
|. am well, and this strange affection
. passed from me, and hangs no nor
T. like a fog over my brain, then will
N exact the price of his death from Al
- tonic, together with the reckoning
Ia all else in respect Of which he stand
a in my debt"
K But the Lady Lucia hearing this, sal
1t boldly:
r. "My lord, it is by your deed an
a through your devices that this gentl
S. man has met his death, and the blan
1t of It is yours, and not my Lord Anti
ID MOS"
1t And at her bold and angry wore
lL Duke Valentine was reused, and IL
IS last of his langour left him, and
u plared at her in wrath, crying: GO
u your house" and he rose up sudden
, from where he sat and went into h
= chamber, Lorenzo attending him. Ar
!. on the day after he walked first b
- hind the bier of Coroqua, and his fet
- was very pale, but his air compose