The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-12-26

gundians threaten o outside the walls
of Paris: pleased that Thibaut dAus-
signay DULLES you inside the walls of
Paris; pleased that your soldiers are
mutinous; pleased that YOU citizens are
sullen; by my faith, here are four royal
reasons for royal pleasure"
Louis shook his head playfully at his
servants grumbling. Gossip Tristan
he asked, "do o know why l have
come to this hovel tonight? I do not
walk abroad like a king-errant in mere
tdleness of mind. I have come to learn
what company my lord the grand con-
stable keeps" Tristan's shaggy eye
brows arched In surprise as the king
continued: Our good Olivier assures US
that our lear Thibaut d'Aussigny has
taken 1t into his head of late to walk
the streets by night and to haunt
strange taVerns sue as this same Fir
cone I am plagued with a womanish
curiosity. Tristan, and I thought 1
would peep over Messire Thibaut's
shoulder and have an eye on his
cards."
Tristan chuckled. 1.-THE grand con-
stable bears you a grudge since you
chose to turn a kind y on the girl Of
Vaucelles."
"she was a wise virgin to dislike Thi-
baut," unused the king. WAS she a
foolish virgin to mistrust, your ma
jesty?" questioned Tristan. Louis
shrugged his shoulders. "She is a proud
piece, gossip. When I told her that she
took my fancy she famed into a red
rage that chastened me. But if she's
not for me she's not for Thibaut either."
1.-THE grand constable is a bad enemy"
] Tristan commented. The king replied
at random.
Christian, I had a strange dream last
night. I dreamed that I was a swine
roofing in the streets Of Paris. n that
I found a pearl of great price in the
kennel. I picked 1t up II set it in
my CROWN
"A crowned pig" Tristan interrupt
ed. Ills like a tavern sign" Louis
did not seem to resent the interruption.
my good gossip, in a dream nothing
seems strange. Well. as I said, I set
this pearl in my crown n the light
Of it seemed to fill all my good city of
Paris with glory SO. that I could see ev-
cry street and alley, every tower and
pinnacle, more clearly han in q sum-
mer's noon. And then methought that
the pearl weighed so heavy upon my
forehead that I plucked it from its
place and cas- it to the ground, and
would lave trodden it under foot when
a star shot swiftly from heaven and
stayed me-"
The king looked eagerly at his COM
panion, who seemed wholly uninterest-
ed in the narrative of the royal vision.
dreams and stars, stars and Dreams"
he sneered. Leave dreams to weak
tings, sire" Louis frowned. Don't
sheer, gossip, but instruct-who are
these people?'" n the sharp, lean face
of the king thrust itself forward a lit
tie, hirdlike, from the nest of it's hood,
IN the direction of the gamblers. His
companion shrugged his shoulders.
Some Of the worst cats and rats in
all Paris" he. answered. The men be-
long. to a. fellowship thai is called the
Company of the Cockleshells, and bab-
BILE q cant of their own that battles the
~thief-takers. IF your majesty but
here a warning kick from Louis made
him vince and change his words-"if
you wished to avor rascality these are
your blades. The women are trulls.
Yonder she-thins in he mans habit
Is Huguette du Hamel, a wild wench.
whom men call the Abbess for her nun
merry Of light. O. loves There be four OF
her minions with. her now, Jehanneton
la Belle Heaulmiere as they name her,
Denise the slipper-maker, Blanche and
tes!i .s.z
King Louis pursed his thin lips III
II austere censure. They shall he re.
proved hereafter" he said. isWho are
The
worthy Adams Of such pestilen,
der fellow ii the purple ierkin is one
Rene De Montignys IF birth and
asgreat breaker az commandmanta II
with the1red hair IL CIV Mai thay
IRE brothers in bawdry and lar.
ceny2 The erret-faced- knaye Who Il
tickling the girls knee Is :Tehan 10 I,o,n
Rnllies and bawds. and nara.
sites; to enumerate their offenges would
be to say the Decalogue Backward
afYou have q pithy hunor. goss;n.,
and Ilol1is grinned. Our galIows shall
be busy anon"
Tristan was about DOPE his mouth
"a In approval Of assentiment SO nleasina
Ito his ears when his words and. n,