Evening star., 1898-12-17

is alive!" 81 4orth ehoito, "he
The Lady sybAia moved her hand t,,.
man cropping ee''uie Oh bllnd
u,iE aush; she said. "I only said that bo
va was We'll And he is well. As T am re aireoH'. ne
u, IN the place of torment [ know that ~ thara teus
Douglas diedw "ie DIS william
ing: iouo' despair
master deadr 'ani Qead-my
now ve bi buiGpped HgS the Palfrey's rein which till
~ ite hdd held His sword fell I1nbaada5
ol the turf, and he flung himself 49, -.
an agony of boysh grief. But frnn" II + III III
Whlte palfrey, sitting still whera I'm sbn .I ner
snrron' ara''oSh Gu watched the paroxysms of his
sorrow. she was dry-eyed now ana ha ,ln
lace ace was like mask cut in snow N tiet
1hen as suddenly recalling himse1f cho,
sword dpeu and rom the ground, snatched up his
mon tba ai'I 9gaIn passionately advanced
You 1t was who BETRAYED him - bo
pointlhs the blade at her breast. "a
IL 1t was not?' answer
srvdrod dr IS true true L betrayed him. she an
You whom he loyed-God l,,,o
worthiIy-" Aho"s now un-
calmly. simply and
-. You betrayed him to his daatb WIZ,
then, should not l kill youP'' 'n' " n.y.
Again she smiled upon hin, that ai,o,,
ing, hopeless. dreadful smile "is0i III
because you cannot kill me- Because Il
ca5,so mere 900 20 crowmng mercy to kill me. Be.
Iause iof tlree inches of that blade in nv,
neart would bless you through the atarni
MAINS" WIN 'hal re-
And that work is-q~
"VENGEANCEr'
ohoito was silent, trying to think H.
louhd II hard TO think. He was but a hoy.
ana experience so strange as that of the
Lady Sybilla was outside him vet yoa,,nI,, nc
re leit that her emotion was reaI-rnore
real; perhaps than his own instinct of
crude slaying-the instinct of the wasn
Wnose Srro nest has been harried to sling the
sanaotG;a sant fGnef; Ihis Woman's hatred was
soinethlng deadlier, surer, more persistant
vengeance" he said at last scarce
knowing what he said; why should Won
VINO betrayed him speak of avenging him ~
loved sfeanse. aus SAID the Lady sybilla. Il
porn of woman. Because when the tiands
or the pit tie me limb to limb, lin to lin
with Judas, who sold his master with q
kiss-When they burn me in the seventb
hell, l shall remember and rejoice becamsa
10 the last he loved me, believed in mo
gioried in his love for me. And God who
mas been cruel to me in all else, will vet do
this thing for me. He will not let WiiIiono nv
Douglas know that deceived him or that
he trusted me in vain
But the vengeance that you smoke Of
what of that?" said Sholto, dwelling unon
that which was uppermost in his own
thought. q y.
aye" said the Lady Sybilla chat a,o,e
can be compassed by me. For I am bound
by a chain. the swapping of which is nv
death. To him who in a far land deyised
all these things, to the man who plotted fhe
fall of the Douglas house. to GILES de Retz
marshal of France L am bound RutI
shall not die-even you cannot kill me fin
have brought that head that is so high to
the hempen cord and delivered the foul
| fend's body to the fires of earth and hon ;,
And the Chancellor Crichton-and the
tutor Livingstone, what of them?'' urged
Sholto, thinking like a Scot of his native
traitors.
The Lady sybilla waved a contemptuous
hand Il
"These are but lesser rascals-they had
been nothing without him. You of the
Douglas house must settle with them
And why have you returned to this CONN
try of Galloway" said Sholto. And wfv
are you thus alone?'' way
81 am alone" said the Lady SybiIIa eha-
cause none can harm me with my work nm
done. l travel alone because 1t suts NV
mood to be alone; because my master bade
me join him at your town of Kirkcudbripbt
whence he takes ship for his own country
of Brittany"
And why do you, if, as you saw. vo,
hate him so, continue to follow him 81 ''N
"Ah, you are simple she said 'I fol-
low him because it Is my fate and who
can escape his doom? Also because as I
have said, my work is not yet done"
She relapsed into her former Hstless
forthlooking, unconscious regard-Iookinp
through him as If the young man had no
existence. He dropped the rein and the