The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-11-16
Copyright, 1897, by A. II. Hawkins.j

wife,, and seeing that Osra is TUNED 20
years of ago-why, we are all going to
be sober folk at Strclsau from this day
forward, and we arc going to play 10
more pranks. Here's a pledge of It,"
And, having said this, King Rudolf III
took II deep draft of vino.
AT this moment the ushcrs announced
that the Lord Harry Culvcrhouso had
come to take his leave of their majcstics
md Of tho princess, This gcntlcman had
accompanied the embassy that came
from England to congratulate the king
on his marriage, and he had staid some
months in Strclsuu, very eagerly acCcd-
ing to the kings invitation to prolong
his visit, for such were his folly and
hcadstrOng passion that he had fallen
most desperately in love with the fair
face Of Princess OSra and could not ell
durc to live out Of her presence. Yet
now he came to bid farewell, and when
he was ushorod in Rudolf received him
with much graciousness and made him
n present of his own miniature set in
diamonds, while tho queen gave him
her miniature set in tho lid Of a golden
caskct. In return Lord Harry prayed
the king to accept u richly mounted
bhplb wv VIZ HNNN III lNOlN liu,
painted by tho greatest artist of France
and bearing her cipher in jewels. Then
he came to Princess Osrn, and she, hav-
ing hidden him farewell, said, 81 am a
poor maid, my lord, and | can give no
great gift, but take this pin from my
hair and keep it for my sake" And sho
drew out n golden pin from her hair, a
long and sharp pin, bearing for its head
her cipher i'll b%rilliauts, and she gave it
to him, smiling.
But he, bowling low and then falling
on his knee, offered her Il box of red
morocco leather, and when she opened
it she saw Il necklace Of rubics of great
splendor. The princess flushed red see
ing that the gift was most costly. And
she would fam have refused il and held
it out again to Lord Harry. But he
turned swiftly away, and, bowling once
moro, withdrow.' Then the princess
said to her brother, 1T is too costly"
The king, seeing how splendid tho
gift was, frowned n little, but then he
said:
He must DO q man of very great
wealth. They arc rich in England. /
am sorry tho gift is SO great, but we
cannot refuse it without wounding his
honor"
So the princess set the ruby necklace
with her other jewels and thought for
n day or two that Lord Harry was no
wiser h other men and then forgot
him.
Now, Lord Harry Culverhouse, on
leaving the kings presence, had mount
ed his horse, which az u fine charger
and splondidlv equipped, and ridden
alone out OF Strelsau, for he had dis
missed all his servants and dispatched
Il, II with suitable gratuitics to their
own country. He rodo through the
afternoon, and iii the evening he reached
q village 10 miles away. Here be
stopped at a cottage, and an old man
came out Il escorted him inside. A
bundle lay on the table in the little
parlor of tho cottage.
Here are the clothes, my lord" said
the old man, laying his hand on the
bundle.
And here are mine" answered Lord
Harry. "Aud tho horse stands ready
for you" With this no began to pull
OFF the fine clothes in which he had had
audience of tho king, and he opened
the bundle and put ON the old and plain
suit which 1T contained. Then he held
out his hand to tho old man, saying,
"Give me tho 8 crowns, Solomon, and
our bargain is complete"
Then solomon the Jew gave him 8
crowns and babe him farewell, and he
placed the crowns in his purse and
walked out Of the cottage, possessing
nothing in tho world saving his old
clothes, g cT0wns and the golden pin
that had fastened the ruddy hair of
Princess Osra, for everything else that
be bad posSCsscd-his lands and houses
III England, his horses and carriages,
his money, his clothes and all that was
hiS-hc had battered with Solomon the
Jew i'll order that he might buy the
ruby necklace which he had given to
Princess Osra. Such was the strange
madness wrought in him by her face.
1t was now late evening, and he
walked to and fro all night. In the
morning he went to the shop of a bar
Der, and i'll return for one of his crowns
4 the barber cropped his long curls short
and shaved OF his mustache and gaye
him a dye with which he stained his
complexion to a darker tint, and he
made bis face dirty and soiled his hands
and %rOughoned the skin Of them by
chalng them on some fints which Law
by tho roadside. Then, changing a sec.
ond crown, he bought a loaf Of bread
II set off to trudge to Strclsau, for in
Strelsau was Osra, and he would not be
anywhere else III the world. And when
he had arrived there he went to q SER
geant OF the kings guard ano prevailed
OH INN by a present Of 8 crowns to en-
list HIM as u trooper, and this the SER
geant, having found that Lord Harry
could ride and knew how to use his
sword, agreed to do. Thus Lord Harry
became a trooper in the guard Of King
Rudolf, having for all his possessions,
save what tho kings stores afforded
him, a few pence and the golden pin
hat had fastened the hair of Princess
Osra. And nobody know him except
Solomon the jew, and he, having made
q good profit, held his peace both then
and afterward.
Many a day Lord Harry mounted guard
at the palace, and no often saw tho king
with the queen ride out and back, but
they did not notice the face of the
trooper And sometimes no saw the prin-
cess also, but she did not look at him.
although he could not restrain himself
from looking at her: but. since evarv
man looked at her, sho had grown accus-
toned to being gazed at and took no
hood DF "a ID-L