Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-10-21

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drew my sword and drove him back to
the edge Of the bluff, and then 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
hereY'
"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 come
hither with him, and he threatened to
kill me if would not give him my
necklace, but l refused, and then he
drew a knife and menaced me with it,
and l fell into swoon and knew no
more until awoke and found you here,
and now 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"
care you still dreaming?" answered
the king, with laugh. "What had that
fellow to do with Harry Culverhouse?"
"But the pin?" she cried.
my wife set it III 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 Cul.
verhouse?"
Then Rudolf drew very close to her,
ana he SAD softly:
"Sweet sister, the noble gentleman
whom we knew, he whom loved and
who loved you in chivalrous Difference,
went from us two months ago Be not
troubled about him, for now all is well
| with him But there was an unhappy
man with you, who was not Harry Gull
verhouse. and who had murderous and
I thnnnhtc ~ a. he
end he also died, as readily and as
nobly as our dear friend himself would
have died for your sake. pray you ask
no 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
q 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 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 bear
him. Perhaps he will hear you, D."
1T may be. 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 II
in gifts to the poor. Yes, to all that are
unhappy and afflicted, even rs the poor
man who was with Inc tonight"
$50 be it, Osra, said the king, anC
he kissed her But she burst again sud
denly into passionate weeping, calling
God to witness that her face was curst
to her and a curse to her friends anC
praying the king to suffer her to take
the veil in convent, that she nigh
trouble honest men no more, And thu
he brought her in sad plight to thu
palace and gave her into the arms Of hi
wife, still sobbing bitterly. And 1t
himself took the pin, and when the body
of the mad trooper was found, with his
own hand he covered the face and pu
the pin in the hand from which he tool
the 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 thu
beauty of the Princess Osra worked it
way with him and brought him frs
into peril of great villainy and at las
to death And his name passed no mor'
on the lips of any in Strelsau nor be
tween King Rudolf and his sister, Will
the story that the king had told to TIN
troopers was believed by all, and non
save the king knew what Lord Harr.
Culverhouse had done in his madness
But Osra mourned for him and for
long while she would ""t go abroad o
receive any of the p or mobiles VIII
came to the court, bu, .-y still, sick ant
full of grief, bewailing the harm tina
she had wrought Yet as time passe,
she grew again happy, for she wa
young and the world was sweet to her
and then, as King Rudolf had bidder
her, she remembered Lord Harry Cul
verhouse as he had been before his mad
ness came upon him. Yet still more di
she remember how, even in his madness
he had done her no harm, but ha
watched beside her through the nigh
and had, as morning dawned, entreate
death at the hands OF the king, prefer
ring to die rather than that the talk G