The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-01-10


service Book, could scarcely look him In
the fac0. know not whether even thon
his resoluti lion to dare all might not at
sound uf word from her or at sight OF
her face havo melted like yesterdays ice,
but befor. tho word could DO spoken or
the Dyes licot another step rang on the
stone stair and Brother Ferdinand
entered.
"They % horoi" ho said in low voice.
six of them, Anthony, and sturdy fell.
lows, as all Clopton's men are II you do
not think your people will stand by you
The knight fired at this suggestion.
what" hc burst out, turning from the
window, "if Cludde men cannot meet
Clopton men, the timos arc indeed gone
mad Nal way and let me comel Though
the mass be never said again in Cotton
church, It shall be said todayl'' And he
swOro grsat oath.
He strodo down tho stairs and under the
gateway where were arranged according
to the custom of tho house ON wet days, all
tho servants, with Baldwin and Martin
Luther at their head. The knight stalked
through them with a gloomy brow. His
brother followed him, faint smile flick
ering about the corners of his mouth.
Then came Ferdinand's wife and Petro-
nilla, tho latter with her hood drawn close
about her face; Anne, with her chin In the
air and her eyes aglow ut Is not q bit
| of hustle will scare herl'' Baldwin NUT
| tered as no fell In behind her and eyed her
back with no great favor
mo, so long as 10 does not touch her"
Martin replied in cynical whisper. She
is we'll mated-well mated and Ill fatedl
Ha, hal''
"Slencc, foolr' growled his companion
angrily lis this q time for anticsS"
Aye, It isr' Martin retorted swiftly,
though with the same caution, for, when
wise men turn fools fools are put to 1t to
act up to their profession You see broth.
erf' And no deliberately cut a oaper. His
eyes were glistening, and the nerves on
one side Of his face twitched oddly. Bald
win looked at him and mutterod that Mar
tin was going to have one of his mad fits
What had grown ON the fool Of lateP
The knight reached the church porch
and passed through the crowd which
awaited him there Save for its unusual
size and some strange faces to DO seen on
its skirts, there was no indication of trou-
BILE He walked, tapping his stick on the
pavement little moro loudly than usual,
to his place in the front pew. The house
hold, the villagers, the strangers, pressed
in behind him until every seat was filed.
Even tho table monument Of Sir Piers
| Cludde which stood lengthwise In the
aisle, was seized upon, and IL the two sim
: liar monuments which stood to right and
left below the chancel steps had not been
under the knights eyes they, too, would
have been invaded. Yet all was done de-
Gently and in order, with Gathering OF
rustic boots indeed. but no scrambling Of
i'll words. The Clopton men were there
=, Baldwin had marked them well, and sc
had dozen stout fellows, cons Of Sir An
thongs tenants. But they behaved dis
creetly, and amid such silence as Father
Carey never remembered to have faced hi
began the Roman service.
The December light fell family through
the east window on the father at his min
istrations, on his small acolytes, on tn,
four Cludde brasses before the altar i
fell everywhere--on gray dusty walls but
tressed by gray tornbs which left but I
narrow space in tho middle of the chancel
Tho marble crusader to the left matched
the canopied bed Of Sir Anthony's parent
ON the right, the abbess' tomb in the mex
row faced the palmer monument of 81
Anthony's wife, vacant place by he
side awaiting his own effigy, and Their
were others. The ohancel was SO small
nay, the church, too-so small and old ant
gray and solid and the tombs were s.
massive that they elbowed one another
The very dust which rose as men stirre,
was the dust of Cluddes. Sir Anthony
brow relaxed He listened gravely AM
. sadly.
And then the interruption came. I"
protostl' a rough voice in rear Of tn
= crowd cried suddenly, ringing hurshly an
strangely above the fathers accents an
the solemn hush Il protest against thi
servicep'
A thrill of astonishmont ran throug
the crowd, and all rose. Every man In tn
church turned round, Sir Anthony anon
tho first, and looked in the direction G
the voice. Then it was seen that tn
Clopton men had massed themselves abou
tho door in the southwest corner, a stron
position, whence retreat was easy. Ell
Their Carey, after "a momentary glanc'
went on US If he had not heard, but hi
voice shook. and all still waited with thel
faces turned toward the west end.
% II protest in the name of tho queenl
ar the same man cried sharply while his fe
lows raised mumur so that tho priest
8 voice was drowned
Sir Anthony stepped into the AISLE hi
!" face inflamed with anger Nh" '"-"--''.
tion taking place there, in that plac,
lie seemed to him double proclamation.
"Who Is that brawlery" he said, h
hand trembling ON his staff, and all IL
old danes trembled too Let him stan
4, out"
The sheriff's spokesman was SO col
n cealed by his fellows that he could not |
seen, but he answered civilly enough
II am no brawler," he said. Il onl
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