The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-02-26
CHAPTER XIX.
Loves clear Eye.

Loves Clear Eye.
sand now" cried the Princess Mar
garet, clapping her hands together inn
pulsiVely, now at last l shall hear
everything. Why you went away, and
who gave you up, and about the fight
Ing. Where is your hand-glass? DO
not tell me that you have never look
ed in 1t since you came to CORTLAND,
or that you can put up with that
squirting falsifier up there" (she
pointed to the oval framed Venetian
mirror which was hung opposite herr.
81 have never even looked in
either!" said the Sparhawk.
"Yonr voice is hoarse-somehow
you are different" she said, taking
the pin from her lips and slipping it
through the rebellious plaits with
swift, vindictive motion.
81 have caught a cold riding into the
city" quoth the Sparhawk hastily,
blushing uneasily under her eyes.
But for the time being his disguise
was safe. Already Margaret of Court
land was thinking of something else.
"Tell me-" she began, going to the
window and gazing pensively out upon
the green, white-fecked pour of the
Ala, swirling under the beams Of the
Summer Palace, "how many Of a suite
have followed you hither?"
"Only Alt Picker, my second cap
tain!" said the Sparhawk.
"And your chief captain, Won Or
seln?"
won Orseln has gone back to the
Baltic Edge to raise on my behalf the
folk of the marches!" answered the
Sparhawk warily.
"Then there was" the Princess
hesitated, and her own voice grew a
trifle lower-"the young man who
came hither as Dessauer's secretary
what of him? The Count Won Loen,
IL l mistake not-that was his name?''
"He is in the place where he most
wishes to be-with the woman he
oves!"
The light died out of the bright face
Of the Princess Margaret at the an
swer, even as a snow-cloud wipes the
sunshine off landscape.
1.-THE woman he loves?" she STAN
mered, as if she could not have heard
Alright.
cay" said the false bride, loosen
Ing her cloak and casting it behind
her. 81 swear it. He is with the
| woman he loves"
But in his heart the Sparhawk was
saying, STEADY, Master Maurice Won
Lynar-or all will be out in five min
utes.'
The Princess laid her hand upon the
sleeve of the velvet gown. A flush Of
anger crimsoned her fair face.
"Ah," she cried, 81 see it all now
madam the Princess. You love the
Count and you think to blind me
This is the reason of your riding of
with him on your wedding day. 1t was
for his sake that you left my brother
Prince Louis at the church door. Like
draws to like, they say, and your eyes
are as like as peas to those of the
Count Won Loen."
And this, indeed, could the Spar
hawk in no wise deny. The Princess
went her angry way.
"There have been many lies told,
she cried, raising the pitch of he
voice, "but l am not blind. can Sc,
through them. am a woman and cal
gauge a womans pretext. You your
self are in love with the Count vol
Loen, and yet you tell me that he il
with the woman he loves"
There came knocking at the door
''Who is there?" demanded imperi
ously the Princess Margaret.
1.-THE Prince of Muscovy, to presen
his duty to the Princess CORTLAND!
"Enter!" said the Princess Margare
haughtily.
The Prince opened the door an
stood on the threshold bowling lov
to the ladies.
'Well?" queried Margaret of Court