The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-07

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coyite belly-band!" NUS
Here Jorian had a fl of corohtnr
winch caused the Princess to look
severely upon him. Boris recalled 70
himself proceeded more carefully
1t was all we could do to omen nm n
way 10 where the young man Maurice
lay stretched on the Cross of Death
iney mad loosed the wild horses be-
lore we arrived, and these had gallon.
ca OH after their companions. A nity,
oh, a great pity!
Ihen came the young mans moth.
ct near she who was our hostess at
Isle Rugen-"
why did you not abide at Kerrs.
oerg, as you were instructed?" mt
IN Hugo at this point
Never mind-go on-tell the tale,"
sad Helene, who was listening breath.
lessly.
Inc young mans mother came
near and threw a cloak across his
naked body. Then Jorian and 7 nm.
bound him and chafed his limbs. first
removing the gag from his mouth.
nut SO tightly had the cords been
bound about him that for long he
could not stand upright. Then from
the royal pavilion, where she had
been brought for cruel sport to see
the death. the Princess Margaret
came running"
"Oh, wickedness," cried Helene.
TO make her look on her lovers
DEATH"
she came furiously, though a
dainty princess, thrusting strong men
aside. Way there!' she cried, on
your lives make way! l will go to
him. am the Princess Margaret.
Give me dagger and will prick me
way
"And, by Saint Stephen the holy
martyr! if she did not snatch bodllin
from the belt of a tailor of the High
Street and with it open her way as
featly as though she were handling a
Cossack lance"
And what happened when she got
to him-when she found her hus-
band?" cried Helene. her eyes spark.
ling. And she put out q hand to touch
her own, just to be sure that he was
there.
Well" said Boris, quickly sobered
''it was in truth a mighty quaint
thing to see. The Princess Margaret
took the young man in her arms and
caught him to her. The Lady The
resa kept his wrist. They looked at
each other a moment without speech,
eye countering eye like knights at "a"
go on" the Princess Numbered,
if indeed a silvern voice can be said
to thunder.
"'Give him up to me! He is mine'
cried the Princess.
"'He is mine! answered very
haughtily the lady of the Isle Rugen.
who are your And your cried both
at once, fiinging their heads back, but
never moment letting go with their
hands. The youth, being dazed, said
nothing, nor so much as moved.
"I am his mother said the Lady
Theresa, speaking first.
"T am his wife,! said the Princess.
"Then the woman who had borne
the young man gave him into his
wife's arms without word, and the
Princess gathered him to her bosom
and crooned over him, that being her
right. But his mother stepped back
among the crowd and drew the hood
of her cloak over her head that no
man might look upon her face"
"Bravo!" cried Helene, clapping her
hands, st was her right"
Little one" said her husband,
pointing to the boy on the terrace
beneath, who was flashing toy horse
of wood with all his might, Il wonder
if you will think so when another
woman takes him from you!"
The Princess Helene caught her
breath sharply.
THAT would be very Different" she
said, yes, very different"
"Ah!" said Hugo, the Prince, her
husband.
Thus the climax came about in the
twinkling of an eye, but the universal
turmoil and wild jubilation in which
Prince Louis's power and government
were swept away had really been pre-
pairing for years, though the end fell
sharp as the thunderclap.
For all that, the trouble was only
deferred. not removed The cruel
death of Maurice Won Lynar had been
rendered impossible by the opportune
arrival of Prince Conrad and the sud
den revolution which the sight OF his
noble and beloved form, clad in arm
or, produced among the disguised and
impulsive Courtlanders
Yet the arch-foe had only recolIed
in order that he might the further
leap. The great army of the White
Car was encamped just across the
frontier, nominally on the march to
Poland, but capable of being in a mo,
ment diverted upon the Princeton OF
CORTLAND. Here was a preteXt OF In
vasion ripe to Prince VANS hand. so
he kept Louis, the dethroned ana eN-
-.i,,o, olosa beside him. He