Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-18
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4, Upward! Still upward! BY WIND
ing stairs. through passages and door
ways, vaguely she felt herself borne,
until a cold breath of air, blowing
suddenly in her face, revived her;
awoke her to a confused realization OF
the place they had at last reached
the upper platform at the head OF the
long. open stairway of granite. AND
with that consciousness, she again
sought to free herself; but, for an In
slant the arms held tighter, while
dark face bent close, scanning her
features, then abruptly he released
her.
Your Ladyship is uninjured?
Yes; yes!"
"One moment!" Turning, he left
her, and walking to the verge of that
open space, searched quickly the waste
Of darkness below, far out to sea. The
girls glance followed him; wavered;
her first apprehension awoke anew.
Her father! Where was he? She
clasped her hands despairingly as she
gazed down the Mount; then around
her. Suddenly, a bright patch OF
light-open doorway to the church
caught her eye and she started At
the picture, framed by the masonry.
which the glow revealed, low excla-
nation fell from her lips, and crossing
the platform, and descending few
steps, she ran to the entrance Of the
sacred edifice.
"Eh, your Excellency; has your Eek
cellency any orders?" sounded voice,
: There, before an altar, in the dim
flicker of candles and the variegated
cleaning from the ancient stained
glass windows, she saw at last him
she sought; in one of the chapels, near
The white marble monument to her
mother. was his Excellency; but, not
alone! Before him stood, or half
crouched, the man Sanchez, who now
= was speaking.
3 shall l ring for your Excellency's
servants and have the noise stopped!
, GrotesaueIy he bowed, the while watch
7 ing like an animal studying its prey.
/, "Beppo! Where are you-fat rascal
+ Consign these swine to the gibbets!
r What! You can't. obey because your
ears have been cut off and your throat
! slit? That's too bad!" Fiercely the
e man laughed; then waved his arm
toward the window, as if calling the
: Governors attention to the sounds OF
demolition; the abrupt breaking oil
8 glass! "Patter! Patter! Merry little
t. bullets, presents from the people, your
e Excellencyi Metayage, your High
ness!"
= Still the other said no word; fig
D IRE. so motlonless and white, II
seemed but wrath pausing at the
side of it's own narrow house"
{, louder clamor without; more viviC
e, brightness of the red, yellow ant
v purple hues, like a sudden wealth O
IS strange flowers strewn on the marble
floor, and again Sanchez laughed.
1t TOO bad! But tbs | who mus
d. bay first! Who owe so much! Ha'
II YOUR Excellency his strong box will
him? All, he leans on it! Such
10 fine one. all OF marble! Not easil.
a broken into-or out of! Eth, your Elk
10 cellency? Swinging back something
II bright. Full payment, this time
10 Not COppGTS, OF TOuuu ult5 VI iOou, w
,e steel, beautiful steel!
Held to the spot by the abrupt tel
ror and fascination of the scene, tn
\. Governors daughter had made n
sound, fearful of Fastening the inev
:. table: but at the moment the mar
!. with a last haunting word.. launche
= forward, cry, half articplate, burs
- | mo drowned nv
l., other voice, loud and commanding
:. which rang out from the entrance
Al. the church.
A. Sanchez"
~ Perhaps the call disconnected him
=. robbed the old servants eye OF its ce
- titude: his arm of its sureness, for IN
~ hlow aimed at his Excellency the la
g ter was enabled to evade. At tn
~ same time. as with singular agility b
y, moved aside to save himself, the han
n the Governor had been holding to hi
VI breast. shot out like an adder.
struck viciously; stung deep-full
~ tba side of his tormentor
a. "That for your metayage!"
- But a momentary expression OF sa
:, isfaction was, however, permitted hi
49, Excellency; the petty tragedy becam
~ oyershadowed by the greater!
-, - "The Bastile Our Bastile!"
And again a shower of bullets, d
= rected in hatred. fell upon the churc
os because It's windows were priceless
=, shone with saints Of inestimab
70, yaluel In the chapel an aum5ry an
mi n pisclna were struck; around Il
ad Governor. glass began to clatter ar
ne Tbreak into bits on the pavement. wht
,ot suddenly he wavered; his hand sougl
ma. his heart, then felt for and chung
nil the monument. as II abruptly see
wn ing support.
ewhy did you do IT, seigneur?"
OF my lady. exclalming wildly, ran to h
led father, Sanchez, from where he la