West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1907-05-09

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sent Fritz TO search tho banks Of the
moot was not there fastening
back Fritz told Sopt. ana Sapt was
FOR following orders stul aud riding at
Inn speed back TO Turleuhem. while
Fritz would not hear Of abandoning
me. let me have ordered what / would.
ON This they disputed some few mlu-
utc-. then Suut persuaded by Fritz,
detached a party under Bcrnonstcin 10
gallon back 90 Tarlcnheim ana bring
up the marshal. while the rest fcll 10
on the great door Of the chateau. For
ncar Fifteen minutes il resisted them;
then just ms Autolnettc de Maubnn
fired at Rupert llcntzlu ON the bridge.
they broke I'm. eight OF them i'm all. and
the first door they came TO was the
door of Nrchucrs room. and Michael
lay dead across the threshold. with
sword thrust through his breast. Sapt
cried out at his death. as / had heard,
and they rushed on the servants. but
these I'm fear dropped their weapons,
and Antolnette flung herself weeping
at Sapts feet. And all she cried was
that ! had been ut the end of the
bridge and had leaped on what OF
the prisoner" asked Snpt, but she
shook her head Then Sapt and Fritz,
with the gentlemen behind them. cross
cd the bridge, slowly. warily and with
out noise. ana Fritz stumbled over the
body of De Gautet in the way of the
door. They felt him and found him
dead
Then they consulted. listening eager
~ for any sound from the cells below.
but there came none and they were
greatly afraid that the kings guards
had killed him and. having pushed his
body through the great pipe. had es-
capped the same way themselves. Yet
because | had been seen here they had
still some hope thus indeed. Fritz i'm
his friendship told mel. and going back
TO Michael's body, pushing aside I'm
toinette, who prayed 10y it, they found
key 10 the door which | had locked
and opened the door The staircase
was dark, and they would not use
torch at first lest they should be the
more exposed TO fire. but soon Fritz
cried: The door down there is opcn.
See. there is Light So they went on
boldly and found none TO oppose them.
And when they came to the outer room
and saw the Belgian. Bcrsonin, lying
dead they thanked God Sapt saying
AYE. he has been here" Then. rush
Ing into the king'g cell. they found
Detchard lying dead across the dead
physician and the king on his back
with his chair by him. And Fritz cried
Hes dead" and Sapt drove all out Of
the room except Fritz and knelt down
by the king, and. having learned more
Of wounds ana the signs of death than
/, he soon knew that the king was not
dead nor If properly attended would
die. And they covered his face and
carried him TO Duke Michaers room
aud laid him there. and AntOiuettc
rose from praying 10y the body of the
duke and went to battle the kings head
and dress his wounds tin a doctor
came. And Sapt, seeing / had been
there ana having heard AntOinctte's
story, sent Fritz TO search the moat
and then the forest. He dared send no
one else. And Fritz found my horse
and feared the worst. Then. as / have
told, he found me, guided by the
shout with which 1 had called on Ru-
pert 10 stop and face me. Aud / think
man has never been more glad TO
find his own brother alive than was
Fritz 10 come on me. so that in love
and anxiety for me he thought nothing
OF thing so great as would have been
the death Of Rupert Hentzau Yet had
Fritz killed him 1 should have grudged
it,
The enterprise OF the kings rescue
being thus prosperously concluded. II
lay on Colonel Sapt To secure secrecy
as TO the king ever having been I'm need
OF rescue. Antoinette de Mauban and
Johann the keeper (who. indeed. was
too much hurt 30 be wagging his
tongue just now. We're sworn to reveal
nothing. and Fritz went forth TO find
not the king, but the unnamed friend
OF the king, who had lain iu Zcnda and
flashed for moment before the dazed
eyes Of Duke Michaers servants on the
Grawbridge. The metamOrphosis had
happened and the king. wounded al
most 10 death by the attacks OF the
Jailers who guarded his friend. had nc
,ost overcome them and rested now.
wounded, but alive. In Black MichaeTs
own room in tue castle. There he had
been carried his face covered with a
cloak from the cell. and thence orders
issued that n his friend were found he
should be brought directly and prl.
vately % the king and That meanwhile.
messengers should ride sat full speed TO
Iarlenhcim 90 tell Marshal Suakcucz
20 assure the princess Of tho tfrr'4