The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07
Fair Margaret CaStcll
BIZ II. RIDER HAo0ARD.
copvrtonf, 1907. bv II. Rider Haeoord.
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master Peter falsel- exclaimed Betty.
staring at her open mouthed. NO, It Is
not possible. l know him; he could not
be, who will not even look at another woman
II that is what you mean"
you say 80. Then, Betty, listen and
Judge. You remember this afternoon,
wsen the Marquis took US to see the won
6ers OF this palace, and I went thinking
that perhaps l might find some path by
which afterward we could escape2'
-Of course l remember, Margaret. We
do not leave this cage 80 often that 1 am
likely to forget"
Then YOU will remember also that high
walled garden in which we walked, where
the great tower Is. and how the Marquis
and that hateful priest Farther Henriques
and I went up the tower to study the pros
pect from It's roof, I thinking that you were
following me-"
THE waiting women would not let me-"
aid Betty. $50 soon as you had passed
in shey shut the door and told me to bide
where / was till you returned. l e near
to pulling the hair out Of the head Of one
OF them over it, since l was afraid for you
alone with those two men. But she drew
her knife, the cat, inc ! had none"
You must be careful, Betty" said Mar
earet, lest some of these heather folk
should do o q mischief"
"Not they" she answered; they are
afraid OF me. Why, the other day l bum
died one Of them, whom I found listening
at the door, head first down the stairs.
She complained to the Marquis, but he only
laughed at her, and now she lies abed with
a plaster on her nose. But tell me your
tale"
I'VE climbed the tower" said Margaret.
.and from its topmost room looked out
through the windows that face south at all
the mountains and the plain over which
they dragged us from Motril.
Presently the priest, who had gone to
the north wall, in which there are no win
dows, and entered some recess there came
out with an vii smile upon his face, and
whispered something to the marquis, h
turned to me and said:
THE father tells me OF an even prettier
scene which we can view yonder. Come,
Sehora, and look
so I went, who wished TO learn all that
l could Of the building. They led me into
a little chamber cut in the thickness of the
stonework, in the wall of which we're Sits
like Ioopholes for the shooting Of arrows,
wide within, but very narrow without,
so that / think they cannot be seen from
below, hidden as they are between the rough
stones Of the tower.
"Thls is the place said the Marquis.
where in the old days the Kings Of Granada,
who we're always jealous, used to sit 10
watch their women in the secret garden.
IL 10 told that thus one Of them discovered
hls snIfan nm rnaIinn Iowa ~ nm aafroIOOnr
and drowned them both in the marble
beneath us walk n couple who do not guess
that we are the witnesses Of their vows
$50 I looked idly enough to pass the time.
and there I saw a tall mar in a Moorish
dress and with him. for their arms were
about each other, n woman. As l was
turning my head away. who did not wish
to spy upon them thus. the woman lifted
her face to kiss the man, and I knew her
for that beautiful Ihez who has visited US
here at times as a spy, / think
Presently, too, the man. after paying
her back her embrace. glanced about him
guiltily, and 7 saw his face, and knew it."
"Who was it," asked Betty. for this gossip
of lovers Interested her.
peter Bronze, no other" Margaret
ayHW eTeu calmly, DuJ WIFI ~ move OF ucbDHlE
in her voice. peter Bronze. pale with re-
cent sickness, but no other man."
THE saints a us-I did not think he
had It in him. gasped Betty with astonish-
ment.
They would not let me CO." went on
Margaret, they forced me to see It all.
The pair tarried for a while beneath some
trees by the bath and were hidden there.
.Then they came out again and sat them
down upon a marble seat, while the woman
sang songs and the man leaned against
her lovingly. so IL went on until the dark
ness fell and we went. leaving them there.
Now" she added. with a little sob. what
say your"
Il say answered Betty. that it was
not Master Peter, who has no liking for
strange ladies and secret gardens"
1T was he, and no other man. Betty
Then. cousin, he was drugged or drunk
or bewitched. not the Peter we know"
-Bewitched, ~perchance, by that bad
woman, which Is ne excuse for him."
Betty thou ht a while. She could not
doubt the evidence. but from her faoe
IL was clear that she took no severe view
OF the offence.
-Well, Mt the worst" she said, -men,
as I have known them, are men. He has
been shut up for a long while with that
mink, who is very fair and witching. and
II was scarcely right to watch him through
a slit in a tower. II he were my lover I
should say nothing about it,"
Il will say nothing about that or any
other matter again" replied Margaret
~sternly. "ihave Ion with Peter Bronze"
Again Betty thought. and spoke:
Il seem to see a trick. Cousin Mar aret,
they told you he was dead. did they not3
And then that news came 20 us that he
was not dead. only sick, and here. So the
lie failed. Now they tell you m seem
TO show you. that he Ia faithless. May
not all this have been some part played
for a purpose by the woman"l
1T takes two TO play such parts. Betty.
II you had seen
IF l had seen l should have known
whether IL was but a part OF low made
In good earnest; but you are Toe innocent
TO judge. What said the Marquis all this
while. and the p~riest?"
Little or nothing, only smiled at each