Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-03-28
The Prince turned his head full

The Prince turned HIS head full
upon her. He saw face all suffused
with hot bushes, haughtiest pride
struggling with angry tears In eyes
that fairly blazed upon him, and 3
slender figure drawn up into an att-
tude of defiance, at sight of which
something took him instantly by the
throat.
"You mean-you mean" he STAN
mered, and for moment was silent. |
For Gods sake, tell me what you |
| meant"
Il mean nothing at ALL" said Joan, |
| stamping her foot in anger
And turning upon her heel she left
him standing fixed in wonder and
| doubt upon the margin of the sea.
Then the wife of Louis, Prince Of
| CORTLAND, walked eastward to the
house upon the Isle Rugen with her
face set as stern1y as for battle, but
her neither lip quivering, while Con-
rad, Cardinal and Prince Of Holy
Church, paced slowly to the west with
bitter and downcast look upon his
ordinarily so sunny countenance.
For Fate had been exceeding cruel
to these two.
And meanwhile right haughtily flew
the red lion upon the citadel of Kerns-
berg Never had the Lady Duchess,
| Joan of the Sword Hand, approven
herself so brave and determined. In
her foresters' dress of green velvet,
with the links of chain body-armor
glinting beneath it's frogs and taches,
, she went everywhere on foot. At all
. times of the day she was to be seen
at the half-moons wherein the cannon
| were fixed, or on horseback securing
| the defenced posts along the city wall.
i, | She seemed to know neither fear nor
8 fatigue, and the noise of cheering fol-
4 lowed her about the little hill city like
her shadow.
Three there were who knew the
truth-Peter Balta, Alt Pikker and
George the HUSTLE And when the
guards were set, the lamps lit, and
the bars drawn, a stupid HohensteineI
= set on watch at the turnpike foot with
= command to let none pass upon his
u life-then at last the 1.-the young Spar
d hawk would undo his belt with huge
. refreshful gushing Of air into his lungs
amid the scarcely subdued laughter o
- the captains or the host.
: Nevertheless, in the face of Draw
words and drawer deeds, provision
waxed scarce and dear in Castl
- Kernsberg, and in the town beloy
:, women grew gaunt and hollow
y checked. Then the children acquire
eyes that seemed to stand out of no
low purple sockets. Last OF all, tn
stout burghers grew thin. And
three began to dream OF the day
when the good farmfolk Of the blacl
ened country down below them, wher
now stood the leafy lodges of the Mu
covite and the white tents of tn
Courtlanders, used to come int
Kernsberg to market, the great SO
emn-eyed oxen drawing carts full
country sausages, and brown me;
fresh from the mill to bake the who'll
some bread-or when the stout ma
ket-women brought in the lappere
milk and the butter and curds.
the starving folk dreamed ar
dreamed and woke, and cried Of
curses on them that had walked ther
About this time the Sparhawk b
gan to take counsel with himself, al
the issue of his meditations the hi
torian must now relate.
It was in the outer chamber OF Il
Duchess Joan, which looks to Il
north that the three captains usual
sat-burly Peter Balta, stiff-haire
dry-faced, keen-eyed-Alt Picker, le