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Show .Mm. i .;. - ,.,n .. i a Everybody who like an hUtorlcal novel of the romantic etrlpeha read "An Enemy to the King." The majority of u have been fortunate enough to have teen Sojhern. Interpret In-terpret the character of the Sleur de la Tournalre In the dramatisation of th novel. "An Enemy to the.KIng" was a splendid story. It reminds one of Dumas Du-mas and his fighting well. Dumas wrote "Twenty Years Afterward"' as a sequel to that unequalled story, "The "Three Guardsmen." hut Stevens In "The Bright Face of Danger," bis sequel to "An Enemy to the King." has done something Dumas did not do. He has made his second story better than the first. Then, too, one must read Dumas' first story before he can read the sequel. Stevens has made his sequel a separate, complete story. ' The title of Stevens' latest wrvel Is a phrase of Robert Louis Stevenson,; but it fills the bill. The story Is an account of some adventures of Henri de Launay, son of the Sieur de la Tournalre. It Is a fighting story. Young Henri prepares to go to Paris to woo fortune. Just before he mounts his horse Blaise, the old servant of the Sleur tells the young knight that he ha written out three maxims for his guidance in life. Henri unfolda Blaise's paper pa-per an hour later and reads this good advice: , 1 "Never undertake a thing unless you can see your way to the end of It." Z. "Never sleep in a house where the master is old and the wife young." s' "Never leave a highway for a byway." Disregarding this advice, Herri kills a young nobleman In a duel ten hours later and decides to rescue a young countess who Is Imprisoned in a castle by her aged husband, one of the most dangerous men In France.' JHavtng violated maxum No. 1, Henri proceeds to Ignore No. 2 by entering theastle in disguise. After killing four men he rescues the countess by means of a rope ladder, and violating maxim No. S he Is surrounded In a forest and captured by enemies. ' e The Sleur de la Tournalre appears at this stage of the game. His sword arm has not lost Its cunning and Henri and the countess are rescued. The count having been killed In a fight with a king's detail, Henri wed the young widow. There Is plenty of sword play in the story and the hero" proves that he la a worthy -eon of the picturesque Sleur de la Tournalre. |