| Show boffi 97 gsg 4 B W 5 R copyright im iwa 1900 by 4 it 11 C felitt fi I 1 it litt it CHAPTER XVI borne on the great wave it cha chanced 1 I that tha I 1 in the chamber from which h ince ell erna v von ol 01 I 1 orcela had come so ao swiftly fit at the cry of oe the oid leBS mm boris and torian after sleeping through the distri bances nances bolie above them and the first burst ot of thi the lorn storm 1 were waked h 1 the blow blom ins ing open of the lattice as the wind leach ibach ei ed e i its height it was as tall tail boils who aho first n made ade ilia hla way man to tile lie window the I 1 lattice attice I 1 hung by one leathean lea thein thong the other had hn torn away and indeed it was as a ondel lint the whole framework fiame work mork 11 had all not dot ben been blown blon bodi bodily ly I 1 nto into the he room pot foi tile the teal pest pressed again fet it 11 front from the north and the fetich bile bomay front from the waves which broke on the shingle drove stingingly into the eves of the roan man at arras arms as aa lie he looked lit nevertheless lie he thrust ill hit heild heart out old looked a moment through ed ds and then cried otin we me are surely lost the sea 1 Is 14 4 bi bieak eakin liin in upon us its it has bas parsed the beach of f shingle out there and coilan b the lie aim coill in made ade his way may to the door by which they had entered and undoing the ile bolts the the walled court 3 ard N hei e boa however ever they found themselves vs in vie fie open air but she from the utmost violence of the tempest but the instant doris boris ties head was above the copes fone and the lee ice cold northerly blast met him hill like a wall he fairly gasped for the furious onslaught of the seemed to blow every particle of neath el cann nn out of hla his body in another moment jolian was beside him crouching on tile the top of tile the wall to save himself from being car ried away amay and in the hieam smother of the sea bea jolted by tile blue electric flame of the lightning they saw the slant masts of a vessel tessel laboring to beat against the he wind pool souls sonis they are gonel said boris trying to shield his eyes with hla his palm as the black hull bull disappear ed and the masts seemed to lurch forward into the he milky turmoil we shall never see her again for one moment all was dark a as 5 pitch and the next a doen flashes of lightning buist every way may a many appealing to rise upwards as could be seen to fill down downward aard A blacet speck poised itself on the crest or of a wave ave it in a boat it can never live cited the two men together and dropping from the top of the he wall all ran down to the bhore going as near as they dared to the surf which arched and f fell 1 with ponde ponderous boal on the narrow ot of shingle back boris back died cited borlin suddenly as after a sti succession cession of smaller waves a arid and majestic roller arched along the whole m hole scam seaward ard front stool a moment blace blaaw arid and till im eminent aboe them and then fell like a whole mountain range in a snow ala avalanche lanche of tiou doubled bled water mater which abich blushed savagely up the he beach the two soldiers who would have faced any line of living enemies in the world fled at the onrush of that sea of milk q tt etc a ice hold northerly blast held him like a wall by this time the rooming was ad avancing va and the storm growing sonic what less continuous the thunder retreated retreat cd growling behind the horizon hoddo n the violent lightning grew less con sinuous and only occasionally rose and fell in vague distant flicker ings toward the north as if someone were lifting a lantern almost to the sea line and dropping it again before it back front from the of the doris boris saw something dark lying Tig hup on the beach arnld amid a wrack a and broken timber which where here the great wave had bad stopped something odd about the shape took his fe i A moment later he was mai leaping down again toward the shore taking hla his longest strides and bending the pebbles spraying out in front and 0 on n all sides of him ile he stooped an and found the body of a man tall well ell formel formed and of mani figure ile he was wal bareheaded and stripped pred to hl hs 4 breeches and underwear boris stooped and laid hla his hand pon his heart yes so much wag mas certain ile he was waa not dead boris took look a handful of small jtb bles blea sad a ad threw them up at a lighted indor the head h rd of werner von appeared his grizz grizold ld hair blown out like 9 misty uti aureole recile about lila ilia tt 1 unites rill ies COMO come down shouted boils mak ing a of ills his hand to tight fight the wind mind withal melbal me e him found a dion ed man on the he rile hiie the he bod into the he gital git al hall the lh duchta and the oil ol 01 t ilicin ebu they tail lai 1 him on oil H talle alle joan belaf lifted tile ilia lanstein and lidd it to ills his face A at I 1 file he tho ho heart of mf file tip duchess fluellis flu elles leadell wildly within lit i coined slip ci letl led ih hi it t word i ord anti and no croie bild nd the hie lintean fell to oil alx lx floor hom lir hir hand it ma was 1 ho 1110 white while of the lists the ll noble Ile iipp ot of UK dimmei jailor the tell ic dold iob it p pic 0 vite or of afi ili dai 11 of printe prime anti and f hut but to hel b ix 1 tile on h lie 11 0 0 0 IN hii it it conrad onial on iad cal cai lenal of tile the holi roman chali and arch arceli ol oi conigland his aeh eb it horned lo 10 him that ile he had pe asbed waning malling waters maters into the hc rc na I 1 if f the life lebond A girl biel and hut hill h ills his ie ily ibe booi riot to herh tit al ile h could lutse ills his cab tool stool a lall it amito man rial mal in ili gra from head to foot fool hir big handi clasped in front of him and ills bin chin upon his hi 1 past llie ille prince ebes ejes rented lan on the girl a 8 fae on which aih ren fell the light of a bladd siller siler larni lamp there was a 4 fl a took look in her lip it written britten nguu pon sheets ot of thin par climent bound in silver leather but she bhe did not lead eal it tuster I 1 silt ache breathed and regul regularly aily she was asleep fill her hand on the leilet oe op ilet of kohv bilk slowly the dritt drifting ing tild athwart liis ills brain 1 1110 ho victual recompose itself out of 0 the of dreams conrad found him self in a long lov lom timm room such as aa he be had seen mana man umes times in ill thi the x houses of well to todo do along the baltic shores the beani if f the rooftree roof tree above wen carnen can en all and ancient arras arms vent ment evers heio about the walla balls sll sit ier er milli crests kraven graven upon pon them stood b bi its his bed head after each survey ali eyes set sec tied on the sleep lne girl she was a ery olang and vety beautiful it ajas w as et it could not be th duchess joan I 1 whom he be himself had married to hl wa brother loul louls lit in the cathedral chinch of ills own olan city coniado of Coutt courtland land had not nol been trained a priest yet as was common at that ase age hirth and circumstance had made him a prince mince of the roman church lie ite had been thrust into he file life hiera raich ichi sok moleli 13 because of ills his name for lie had succeeded hs lit 4 uncle adalin add U in his pacts and emoluments emo lumenti as a legal heir beir succeeds ls 0 to o an lundli buted in due dile time lie ha received his red hat bat nevertheless conrad of courtland had bat all the warm life and Impe ilois Imp impulses tiNes of a oung roan man within thin his breast 1 tt lt lie was no borgia or della delia rovere cloaking sea let sing with scarlet vestments tor for with mith the high dignities of liis hn lon and the sol bol dmn aock which aich ly to ills hl iland hand in his noi thein piol nce had come collie the lesche to b rol riot less hut but more i faithful bail all those hose inal machis and con of ahorn lie he read dally in its his Brevi ai so go this finest and most ahli irous of boung knights ind laid down don the me weapons apon of his warfare to 0 o take till ii the and now ili hid sel out joyfully jo JoN fully for rome to re celliO his bis Lar bardinal ardin dinal alB a hat bat on hla his knees as a the he last anti and glea gift aft of the icar of chilst but scarce scarcely Rc arcel lN mas he be clear of the Coutt Cou illand land hoies when lien had come collie the storm the the wild mild struggle among the whit and foaming bien bie keis akeis and then won on like ithe famen ater the quiet julet or of this ihli sheltered Bhelt ered room and fill this eppink sl alil gli alib her i white hand 13 ins lax lai find and delicate on I 1 the may silk ilk I 1 I 1 the book slipped suddenly from her I 1 fingers falling 1 on I tile the polished wood i of the floii with a startling pound then from the he pillow on which his him head lay tonn loan of nf hohenstern saw raw the of the mittice conrad baing nt her dark and front from within ibe hip purplish rings of vecht becht you ate aie my lin li othera wife lie he said softly but lit yet in the kani same rich i and thrilling voice bhe had list listened ned to with alth so ginarn heart 8 in the summer palace and had last beat beaida through the cathedral chah of conti land on that day when hen her ife hall haf ended A chill came over the girl a face tit al its cords I 1 am indeed the duchess loan of khe abe answered my father lulled that I 1 should wed med pile e I 1 louis ot of courtland uell all I 1 married 11 alii if and lode awa in 0 o minh I 1 am hiir baur brothel 8 wire A ire lie he smiled matil ahe light of the lie limp seemed to waver again ill fol e his aea Os the gt k full of sleep anti and brebt and refreshment there was a a no longer need to care about any tiling ills his pi ees PR chosid alost 1 I and li it seined lemed about to sink hack back into micon be I 1 u h n egg will alun n joan abe I 1 be find and with ith a bevi of Dessa s phial which h bile kept bl b her in case of need she bhe called him back from the mahly merges of the things which itil ilch are wl tut ile he camp came to himself alth fill ft fk start M ill iou tell me how I 1 came here and to ahorn bom I 1 an am indebted for my we life lit hf sald you were mere picked up tor for dead TO tm the beach in the storm she altwer ed and aad were brought hither by two captains 1 in th tb hen serl ice lice or of the prince of 0 iburg and abee Is tills lits place and when can call I 1 leave it to plowed upon nion my journey the girl girls head wah ab turned awa aaa from him a i rifle more haughtily than bufore and slip sie ansei ed coldly you ate aie tn in a cottain forti fortified fid grange some where on the baltic shore As to m when lit n ion oil can on bour 5 our journey that depends on oil you nor on oil we me I 1 a am tit a heie an and it ho 10 1 I fear ear ion ou must am also consider our ap self 1 A pilson tr rl then lias has 1113 ni broth ti 11 I 1 ell cilto tile he 01 baart lug ing up tit on oil lit ills elbow elbom and instantly hopping back again upon the pillow with a broan roan or of mingled pain and weakness valt ness joan looked at him a moment and then compressing compi pi ebbing essing her apa walli till quick resolution vent ment to the bed side ide and with mith her hand his lead head tile llie pillow arid and laid him back in ili oil an easier posture loll 1011 must lie still she bald in a tone one oil and pt boltl boil pro ore too loo weak meak to move also aio oil must me I 1 hai line e some sl ml III in leech fidfl ia I 1 am III content to b ht our prisoner said a id tit ohp sprince bishop smiling that la Is till fill I 1 ain me well enough to lo propped 4 ev conradt she ehe cried on mi jociney to rome v thither hither the holy father pope sixtus sextus hath summoned me b bi special messenger I 1 fear nie me much a answered aam ered joni joaa that spite of the holy fataei we may beJel be tellow loll prisoners of 0 long standing those of in ID own folk folic who ho hold bold me inc here against in will ill are hardly akely to lot let the bi other birther of prince louls louis of courtland Cou rlland escape with ith news items of my hitting hiding place and the oung man seemed as if he be would atala haie started up but with a gesture smili smilingly nily imperious joan foi forbade bade him to tomorrow Tomo mot irow ro she scald perhaps it aou ou are patient I 1 will mill tell you more here comes our hostess it tit ta time that I 1 should leae you theresa von alnar came softly to the bide falde of the he led bed and stood beside join joan the soung cardinal Cai dinal thought that he had bad neer seen a more queena pair joan resplendent in her girlish strength and beamut theresa still in the alpe glory of mo manhood thele theio mas a gentled light than before in the ellei el ie comans womans vie ee arid and she bhe cast an almost deprecating eating oance jance upon joan I 1 or ni the he firm bound of ter cpr approach appi tile the gli alil I 1 had y and now nom with mith a word mord as to 0 o tho the ick fick man condition and a coll bow to lo coniado coin ad the she t he moed awai theresa lAatch kalched ed her ber a littly had hadly y HH she mile pas b et behind belian I 1 the cheep curtain 1 ihen I lien she bhe sigbe d and turning liming again to the file bedside she too 1001 ed long at he oung man mail m without ing to ile bp continued |
