The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-16
CHAPTER III.
TWO RIDING TOGETHER

Joyous" she cried, "oh, most joyous
would it be to see the noble castle and
to have all the famous 1000 knights to
make love TO me at once To capture
1000 hearts at one sweep of the metz
rs no single heart sufficient to sat
isfy you, fair maid?' said the young
man in a low voice, none loyal enough
and large enough for you that you de-
sire so many?"
And what would l do with one if it
were III my hand?" she wistfully said,
that is, if it were a worthy heart and
one worth taking. Ever since l was
a child L have always broken my toys
when l tired of them"
The voices of the singing children on
the green came family to their ears,
but the words were still clear to be
understood.
OFF to prison you must go, you must go,
you must go.
Off to prison you must go.
My fair LADY,
"You hear, it is my fate!" she said.
Nay answered the earl, passionate
Iy, still looking in her eyes, mine
mine, not yourS l would go TO prison
or to death for your sake!'
MY lord, my lord she laughed, with
a tolerant protest in her voice, you
keep up the credit of your house right
nobly How goes the distich. my mother
taught it me upon the bridge of Avig-
non, where also the children dance and
sing"
First in the love of woman,
First in the field of fight,
First in the death that men must die,
Such is the Douglas right!
Here and now" he said, still look
ing at her; it's only the first crave"
u fCs
court" she shrilled into sudden, tink-
ling laughter. There be ladies there
more worthy of your ardor than a poor
Grant maiden such as l."
"a COURT" cried Earl William, scorn-
fully-'to the SeneschaPs court! Nay.
truly. Could a Stewart ever keep his
faith or pay his debts? Never since the
first of them licked his way into a
lady's favor
oh" she answered lightly, Il
meant not the court of Stirling, nor yet
the chancellor's castle at Edinburgh. l
meant the only great court, the court
of France, the court of Charles VII.
the court which already owns the sway
of its rarest ornament, your own Scot
fish Princess Margaret
'Thither l cannot so unless the king
of France grants me my fathers rights
and Estates, he said, with q certain
sternness in his tone.
Let me look at your hand" she said,
with a gentle inclination of her fair
hear, from which the lace that had
shrouded it now streamed back in the
cool wind of evening.
Stopping Darnaway the young earl
gave the girl his hand, and the while
palfrey came to rest close beneath the
shoulder of the black war charger.
Tomorrow" she said, looking at his
palm, tomorrow you will be duke Of
Touraine. 1 promise it to you by my
power of divination. Does that satisfy
you?"
Il fear you are a witch or else a be-
ing compound of higher elements than
flesh and Blood said the earl.
rs that a spirit hand?" she said,
laughing lightly, and giving her own
rosy fingers into his, .or could even the
justicer of Galloway find it in his heart
to burn these as part of the body of a
witch?"
She shuddered and pretended to gaze
piteously up at him from under the
long lashes which lay upon her cheek
Spirit slender, spirit White, they are
indeed" he replied, land as for being
the finger of witch-doubtless you are
a witch indeed. But l Will not burn so
fair things as these, save as it might
be with the feIvor of my kisses"