New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-12
CHAPTER XVI.
A Secret of the Kings

call. conscientious, and these farm ward
-na---rs accomplished their task without
q q an; while the Gloria crept up close
beh.-l on her OWN power. / thanked the
patron saint OF cow creation when the
stral---E brutes got to the top. The sum-
nit q The pass was crowned by lion on
gran celestial; lion with a cold air Of
pride his mission OF marking the limit
hetn old Castle and New For me
also Ire uarlled something for which |
owed him altitude: my deeper advance
-lt.-re heart Of my own land
Close .a .gr resting place at the top OF
tne pass re was q rude hut. and one or
Two wagons which had strained up from
the other r we're hating their smoking
teams Here, seated in the car again, as
We Wa.-.- -0 see the oxen unyOked and
the har -.-i q girl came out from the
little house Eitn q large volume in which
she asked MS 70 sign our names. The
Cheru. ~a,ci something; and as Dick
was s.~ -E. tarmona strolled across,
70 See whether / Entrusted my name TO the
book ] lad meant not 70 do So but now
| should re changed nay mind had not
ColoneI o. Jaunel stopped me. 81 wrote
Your ua-.. Irlstoval. said he in his am
broslal and the situation was saved.
Cannon -.aie some commonplace re
mark 10 account for his approach, and
walked away as Pillars glance and Moni-
Cas crosse rae distance between the two
autOmobI-- and met -nlschicVOuslV.
The gra. car took the lead again, and
a. turn a- he road it seemed that the
whole Wor'l ay al our feet. Yet it was
not even II # Old CASTLE, 50 vast a coun-
Try Is my .tu Far as the eye could
travel sped lie lair land, green with the
tender green If spring, yellow with
patches OF g. len sand, darkly tufted with
woods, stT-.s a!th flying shafts Of light,
Tnged IN SSH. ethereal blue.
Nothing could steal from me this illu-
minated If memories; and were |
70 be ban al te-luorrow, / should have
Spain To keep f. nay heart, | said, as We
rushed & The steep, winding way
along The u-aan slope Of the Guadar-
lama 4 .r.a aeg road il was, but nObly
englneered ~ back upon itself in
many coil letting us fly with the speed Of
bird 70 lower levels. and il seemed that
scarcely had sunk over the brink Of
NE mount - 4l SO we're al the turn on
ne nghl would lead us 10 the
Escoral
Straight ..-e u.s. rising out Of the bare
.Iyaii'a'nsfas and seeming part Of II,
.g"eTed and '-e'chcd a building vaster
man any ..l4 seen even in the limitlcss
spaces d dr.a.aud ii not for its cold
.egularlty ] Should have thought myself
approaching aarher desert Of giants who
made toys u uauoliths and obelisks; but
Iiese appall.ug dOmes and towers could
oc NE work VI man alone There was ~
e%9ying here,-a,l was forbidding and
sp'ny,-tor ibis was the Escorial-im-
,.-ehe' slnlster. as if fashioned from the
e-.ln Poduct If those iron mines which
gave It lis name.
d. We iunched IN extremely Spanish food
- Inn opposite the Escorial: and when
=, .e liae came i9r ightseeing-a time for
=, but not for The public-the Duke
Ian by mar lalng as all, except the
tLy Duchee and the lazy Chcrub,
II4ioagh The great door guarded by Saint
,-1"iehce once within, We saw the
ir@1aTes a bird IN flight sees the
I -, u Z tp"n over which he swoops;
&c ail see taem, and once ! had three
!, ~ and ono look from Monica, before
49, ,DeufIed ~ Lady Vale Avon 10 link an
En-. an ~ ner daughters. IN q sudden over
r :" fnaternal affection.
Al, e@IiA9na had made a point # the IN
tbs. ''e which could open doors for us
h. .-', ~; l2T other you'd remain shut; and