Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-05-09
"You are right, I will not fight vain

less. But'-he raised his voice-''be
Ii known to all men that my name is
Maurice, Count Won Loen, and that the
Princess Margaret is my lawfully
welded wife. She cannot then marry
Ivan of Muscovy!"
The Prince laughed easily and
spread his hang with gentle depreca-
ton, as the guards seized the Spar
hawk and forced him little space
from the clinging hands of the Prin-
cess.
II am an easy man." he said gently,
as he clicked his dagger to and fro in
it's sheath. when | like a woman, l
would as lief marry her widow as
maid!
Prince Louis" continued Ivan,
turning to the Prince. 1--WE are keeping
these holy men needlessly, as well as
| disappointing the good folk of Court
| land of their spectacle. There is no
need that we should stand here any
longer. We have matters to discuss
| with this gentleman and his wife.
Have | your leave to bring them to-
gether in the palace? We may have
something to say to them more at
| leisure"
But the Prince of CORTLAND made
no answer. He moved his hand an
grily and began to descend the stairs
towards the waiting horses.
Prince Ivan turned toward Maurice.
You will follow under escort of
these gentlemen Of my staff" he said
with smiling equality of courtesy;
there is no need to discuss intimate
family affairs before half the rabble of
CORTLAND.
He bowed to Maurice as if he had
been inviting him to a feast. Maurice
looked about the crowded square, over
the pennons of the Cossacks. He
knew there was no hope either In
flight or in resistance. All the ap-
proaches to the square had beer filled
up with armed men.
81 will follow!" he answered briefly
! Hitherto we have had to do with
the summer palace by the river 6
building of no strength and built more
as a pleasure house for the princely
family than as a place of permanen
habitation But the Castle of Court
land was a structure of another sort
|
the town, it's walls rose continuou,
with it's foundations, equally massive
, and impregnable, to the height o
, over seventy feet For the first TWEEN
ty-fve neither window nor grating
broke the grim uniformity of tina
mighty wall of rock. Above that lin
only a few small openings halfclose
with iron bars evidenced the fact tina
a great prince had his dwelling with
in. The main entrance to the Castl
was through a gateway closed by
grim iron-toothed porticullis. Then
short tunnel led to another and We
stronger defenSe-a deep natural Toss
which surrounded the rock on all side
and over which a drawbridge col
Quoted into the courtyard of the castle
The Sparhawk knew very well ths
he was going to his death as he rod
through the streets of the city {
CORTLAND, but none would have di
covered from his bearing that theI
was aught upon his mind Of grave
concern than the fit of a doublet o
perhaps, the favor of pretty ma
of honor. But with the Princess Ma
garet it was different. In these la
crowded hours she had quite lost h
old gay defiance. Her whole hea
was fixed on Maurice, and the tea
would not be bitten back when 81
thought of the fate to which he WI
going with SO manly courage al
so fine an air.
ok They dismounted in the gloon
court ward. and Maurice, slippil