Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-27
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when arms closed about her.
Upwardi 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 a
dark face bent close, scanning her
features. then abruptly he released
her.
Your Ladyship is uninJured?"
Yes; yest"
"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
Hght-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 a few
steps, she ran to the entrance of the
sacred edifice
Eth, your Excellency; has your Elk
cellency any orders?" sounded a 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.
Shall 1 ring for your Excellency's
servants and have the noise stopped ?"
Grotesquely he bowed, the while watch
ing like an animal studying its prey
"Beppol Where are you-fat rascal?
Consign these swine to the gibbetsi
What! You can't obey because your
ears have been cut off and your throat
slit? That's too bad!" Fiercely the
man laughed; then waved his arm
toward the window, as if calling the
Governors attention to the sounds of
molition; the abrupt breaking of
glass; "Patteri Patter, Merry little
bullets. presents from the people, your
Excellency! Metayage, your High
nessi"
Still the other said no word; fig
ure. SO motionless and white, it
seemed but a wrath pausing at the
| side of it's own narrow house" A
louder clamor without; a more vivid
brightness of the red, yellow and
purple hues, like a sudden wealth of
| strange flowers strewn on the marble
floor, and again Sanchez laughed
| TOO bad! But it's 1 who must
pay first! Who owe SO muchI Has
your Excellency his strong box with
him? All, he leans on it! Such a
fine one. all of marble! Not easily
broken into-or out of Eth, your Elk
cellency?" Swinging back something
bright Full payment, this time
Not coppers, or round bits of lead, but
steel, beautiful STEEL"
Held to the spot by the abrupt ter
ror and fascination of the scene, the
Governors daughter had made nj
sound, fearful of fastening. the inevi
table; but at the moment the man
with a last haunting word. Launched
forward. cry, half articulate, burs
| from hSr lips 1t was drowned by an
other voice, loud and commandins
which rang out from the entrance t,
the church.
Sanchez"
Perhaps the call disconnected him
robbed the old servants eye of it's eel
titude; his arm of it's sureness, for tn
blow aimed at his Excellency the lat
4 ter was enabled to evade At tn
same time, as with singular agility b
moved aside to save himself, the han
, the Governor had been holding to hi
breast, shot out like an adder
ystruck viciously; stung deep-fun L
the side of his tormentor.
That for your metayagei
; But a momentary expression of sai
isfaction was. however, permitted hi
Excellency: the petty tragedy becam
: overshadowed by the greaterI
. The Bastilei Our Bastilei"
And again a shower of bullets, d
|, rected in hatred, fell upon the church
) because its windows were priceless
{ shone with saints OF fnestfm a bl
I valuel In the chapel. an aumbry an
. a piscina were struck: around tn
|. Governor. glass began to clatter an
. break into bits on the pavement. whe
I suddenly he wavered; his hand sougf
+ his heart, then felt for and chung
i the monument, as If abruptly seel
a ing support
Why did you do 1t. Seigneur?" a
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