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I R I 1 I 4 4 FACE DORNFORD YATES SERVICE CHAPTER Continued G 20 Dont screamed Herrick How flow dare you When you apologize 1 I 1 want to kick myself and burst into inlo tears If U you must wear your sheep's skin do we all nil know it comes oil alt But for you to bleat is Indecent Oh yes I can see you laughing A but that's because you dont don't under under- stand Were We're cast in two different molds We come I see you con can conquer 1 r quer quer-I quer I cant can't put it better belter be Iter than that And I warn you my simple ser sere serpent serpent pent Im I'm not going to let you go You may take tako a Duchess Duchess' name and marry the Countess of Brief but I knew you before they did and Im I'm not going to give them place And when I change my name as os osone one day I shall shall shall-it'll It'll mean that you'll have three houses instead of ot two And there thero you have John Herrick sterling efficient adroit with a glorious glo glo- glorious glorious rious sense of humor and the tho heart of at a little child His way with all aU aUwas was wonderful Duchess steward and scullion scullion scullion-he he was at ease with the lot and they with him What Is Ismore Ismore ismore more he inspired affection It gave him pleasure to make his neighbors glad and his neighbors recognized A this and thanked God for tor such a man Upon what I owe him myself t I will not Insist for I think these pages have shown that but for his present help I could have done nothing at all and Elizabeth EUzabeth must have been broken and Percy PercI Virgil succeeded eded to her estate To three others I must pay tribute before I end this tale tale for for I shall leave It at Raven which was for forme forme forme me Journeys Journey's end Winter is still in my service but soon will leave it to marry Brenda Revoke I 1 often think that his was wasa a trying office for aU all the time ho he stood upon the edge of the tray fray No vengeance was his and three times he missed the battle for tor which l iI cd d. d He Ile U knew too much or too little from first to last and yet he never complained but kept his eyes upon his duty and did it with all his heart heartt No servant was ever evermore evermore more faithful or gave a fuller meas meas- measure measure ure than Winter did and it gives me lasting pleasure to think that to some extent he found his fortune with me for me-for for Brenda will make a afine afine afine fine wife wite and Raven is his idea of ot heaven on earth Of Elizabeth what can I say I think there is no one like her but bute e that is natural enough Still Her Her- Herrick Herrick rick is a fair critic and the llie Duchess is hard to please And both of ot them commend her Of course she has hastier hasher hasher her tier faults but I am thankful for tor these for tor otherwise she would be too good to be true Her beautiful features have lost their wistful look and a gayety long confined is now at large to leaven her dignity but buther buther her ways are as gracious as ever t her gaze is as level her shining head is as high antI and though 1 know her so well 1 I never nev r can lose the impression that she in fact tact belongs to the he ago age of chivalry tor for she has in fee the haunting fabulous beauty of ballad and story book story bock and she nev neve I er seems to notice that ever she goes she always os receives a duty duly which is not accorded to oth others ers because it is not inspired Was Vas this the face that a thou thousand sand ships I 1 sometimes think that It was Though God knows 1 I am no Paris Perhaps Menelaus was burly and could not tell judgment I from instinct and went with I scales on his eyes In any event he be beset set great store by his wife And as when a play Is over the most illustrious player stands last and alone upon the stage the latest to figure here must be Harriet Vin Vin- centia Saying Duchess of at Whelp Till the first day I stood before her lying abed I never had com com- comprehended comprehended I what personality meant that that indefinable presence which needs no help of the body to make I Itself felt And then I knew because I was immediately subject to something far greater than me Had she taken no action and never opened her mouth that sense of of subjection must nevertheless have endured because her spirit ruled mine from the moment I entered her room It was the same with us usall usall usall all High and low went down before be be- before fore tore her as os grass goes down before the scythe and I can think of ot no noone noone noone one who could today stand up and meet her on equal ground Proud and strong and fearless wit keen keen wit wit- witted ted humorous wise wise above above all full tull of ot that drive that made a Con Coo Conqueror Conqueror out cut of a tanners tanner's stock she moved upon a plane that others sometimes climb to and to and find tind the theair theair theair air too rare for their physique And so she came down for tor us The tine fine old eagle came down and showed us her royal heart I use the tl word advisably Royal is as royal does and the Duchess of ot Whelp docs does royally because I be be- believe believe lieve she knows no other way That I cannot compute what I 1 owe her is natural enough There are some debts before which arith arith- arithmetic meU pales For Fo one thing thin only I owe her Elizabeths Elizabeth's life for tor had bad she he not seen and shown bOWD me the tho deadly peril in which whilst Virgil 11 lived my darling must be I should never have gone to keep watch on the turret turret stair Then again it was she that had me into the castle and gave me the chance of doing what what- whatever whatever ever I did Unearthly shrewd shrewd and and swift to act upon her shrewdness handling men and women as a master horse handles a horse tilling filling the weaker vessel with the virtue that ran in her veins kind and end understanding and generous using us pygmies as equals yet asking far tar less of ot us than she did of herself herself from from the hour bour that we called caked upon her she was the driving force behind all we did Though now there is no more to tobe tobe tobe be done our allegiance persists Tracery is her wash pot over Brief hath she cast out her shoe The mot which is Herricks Herrick's Is Juste jus te And we are Bre as proud as content because there is only one Old Harry the Great THE ITHE END ENDI