The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-02

before she could speak he turned to the
guard, saying:
"By heavens pleasure I came in time
to prevent any harm except the loss of
a necklace my sister wore, for as l rode
mp | saw a fellow STOPPING down by her
and fumbling with the clasp of her
necklace. He was n of your troop and
had ridden out behind her, and as / rode
up to him he sprang away from her,
holding her necklace in his hand, and I
leaped down from my horse and ran at
him, and he retreated in fear. Then 1
drew my sword and drove him back to
the edge of the bluff, and her l split
his skull and he fell into the river, still
holding the necklace. But, thanks to
God, the princess is not hurt. Let search
be made for the fellows body, for per-
haps the necklace will be still in his
hand"
But one cried, "How came they
here?'
"Ah, sister, " said the king, fixing
his eyes on Osra, chow came you here?'
And she, reading in the kings eyes
the answer that he would have, said:
The trooper compelled me to coine
hither with him, and he threatened to
kill me if l would not give him my
necklace, but / refused, and then he
drew a knife and menaced me with it,
and l fell into a swoon and knew no
more until Iawoke and found you here,
and now I see that my necklace is gone"
Bring her horse" the king COM
manded, land ride in front and behind.
We will return to the city at the best
speed we may"
Then he mounted the princess on her
horse and rode by her side, supporting
her with his arm, and the troopers were
some way off in front and behind. And
the princess felt the pin again in her
hair, and, putting up her hand, she
pulled it out, and she said:
HE has given me back my PIN"
"Of whom do you speak?" asked the
king.
"Of Lord Harry Culverhouse. Is he
indeed dead, Rudolf"
Are you still dreaming?" answered
the king, with a laugh. "What had that
fellow to do with Harry Cu~lverhouse?"
But the pin?' she cried.
my wife set it in your hair before
you started, for she wished to replace
the one you gave to Lord Harry"
"She did not touch my hair today"
cried the princess.
AYE, but she did," said he.
The princess suddenly fell to sobbing,
and she said:
"Tell me the truth, tell me the truth.
Surely it was in truth Lord Harry Gull
v~erhouse?"
Then Rudolf drew very close to her,
mud he said softly:
Sweet sister, the noble gentleman
whom we knew, he whom 1 loved and
who loved you in chivalrous Difference,
vent from us two months ago. Be not
,roubled about him, for now all is we'll
with him. But there was an unhappy
man with you, who was not Harry Gull
verhouse, and who had murderous and
! mad thoughts i'll his heart. Yet at the
eud he also died, as readily and as
nobly as our dear friend himself would
have died for your sake. I pray you ask
so more OF him, but be contented to
know that though he died by the sword
yet he died in peace and willingly. But
of our dear friend, as we knew him,
think as much as you will, for the love
of an honest gentleman is a good thing
to think Of"
The Princess Osra, hearing this, laid
her hand in her brothers. hand. and for
a long while she did not speak. Then
she said:
"But our friend will not come again.
Rudolf"
"No, you will never see our friend
again." answered the king.
"Then when you see him-for I think
you will see him once again-lay this
pin in his hand and bid him take it and
keep it for the sake of the love I bear
him. Perhaps he will hear you"
st may be. l cannot tell" said the
king.
"And if he has the necklace" said
she, pray him to give that to you, and
sell it, Rudolf, and give the value of il
in gifts to the poor. Yes, to all that are
unhappy and afflicted, even as the poor
man who was with me tonight"
$50 be it, Osra, " said the king, anG
he kissed her. But she burst again sud
denly into passionate weeping, calling
God to witness that her face was a curse
to her and a curse to her friends ano
praying the king to suffer her to take
the veil in a convent, that she might
trouble honest men no more, And thus
he brought her in a sad plight to the
palace and gave her into the arms of hit
wife, still sobbing bitterly. And he
himself took the pin, and when the body
of the mad trooper was found, with his
own hand he covered the face and put
the pin III the hand from which he tool
bhe ruby necklace, and he sold the neck
lace and used the proceeds of it as hi
sister had desired.
Thus the madness of Lord Harry Cul
verhouse which was bred in him by the
beauty of the Princess Osra worked i'll
way with him and brought him frs
into peril of great v~illainy and at las
to death. And his name passed no more
on the lips of any in Strelsau nor be-
tween King Rudolf and his sister, while
the story that the king had told to the
troopers was believed by all, and none
save the king knew what Lord Harry
C~ulverhouse had done in his madness
But Osra mourned for him and for {
long while she would not go abroad o.
receive any of the princes or mobiles WHIT
came to the court, but lay still, sick ant
full of grief, bewailing the harm tina
she had wrought. Yet as time passed
| she grew again happy, for she wa