| Show JOAN W KA y 5 PC CRO 01 ae Por night 1898 1800 1000 by 8 6 IL crockett CHAPTER continued so go good a fortune from so BO wise a soothsayer tool haayer deserves and she hissed the chancellor flank dank ly on the mouth 1 I care for nothing now I 1 have got tea my will said bald the princes mar garet earet nodding her head to the rather OA he went out for the golden lamp was itself out and without in the dok the he alia said eald dushl like a aofter who wattles her children to sleep CHAPTER A perilous Honey honeymoon never kever was as day so ao largely and aad gloriously blue since mace courtland was a city lie ag tile first morning ot of the marriel afe site of maurice and margaret argaret I yon von lynar count and countess von loen the summer floods had subsided and the tawny dye had clein gono gone out of the alla alia which vas mas now as clar as aquamarine and laved caved lather than fretted the daik green piles of t the summer palace the princesses so they hey said with out were more than ever inseparable ille were mere constantly talking conti dent denti lally ally together for all the world like schoolgirls with a secief thele the la is something aowad today said a decent widow 4 adow woman who lived in tho to her neigh bor I 1 my aly son who as you know Is a Is one to practice the wedding hymn blymn at the cathedral lam I 1 am going thither hither to get a good place I 1 1 will 1 ll 11 1 not miss it whatever it Is perhaps h a p 9 they are going to make the Pil joan do penance for her fault in a white sheer with a candle in her hand a ard ord long tuut would be rare I 1 would not miss it for so eo much as foul farthings far things and the mother hobbled bobbled off telling everybody eho met the same story and so in half balf an hour the news had all over the city and there began to be makings of quite a resper respectable table crowd in the dom platz of Court courtland lond it was aas half past eleven when the archers of the guard appealed at tile the entrance of the square which leads front from the palace behind alum lank upon rank could be seen the lanes lances of the Y ild cossacks cassne of prince ivan s es cs cort ulio had remained behind when vilian the muscovite army went ment back to the ru russian alaa plains their dusky goats hair tents which had long coveted the binks binka of the alla alia had now been struck and mere laded upon baggage horses and su sumpter mules in the river balor of the summer palace the two were talking emenas the people had bad said the margaret sat eat on a low stool leaning her elbow on her companions knee and though she ahe sometimes looked imay away it was nas not foi long and maurice meeting her ber ever recurrent recur nent tent gaze found that a new thing had come into her eyes presently a low tapping was heard beard at the linnea door from which a pass age communicated with the rooms of the princess margadet Marga iet the spar hawk would have risen tor for the mo ment forgetful of his disguise but with a slight pressure of her arm up on his linee knee the princess restrained him En entell terl sno fine callad aloud in her clear imperious voice thora entered and closing the door behind her she sl e stood with alv latch in her hand band my princess she said in a mice that hat was il little ittle more than a whisper bt sper 1 I have heard ill III news they are making tho the cathedral ready for a wedding the cos sacks have struck their tents I 1 think a plot is on foot to mat ami ry i 5 ou this day what shall we do I 1 had counted on this one day to prince ivan anti and to carry you off falth ith mill him to VO KOVS the Spar haAk sprang to his big feet and laid his hind on tho the place heie his bis should havo hava been never I 1 he cried I 1 it ai h impossible the princess ts la 1 I 1 lie ile was about to add she la Is married already but with a quick gulck gesture of warning margaret stopped stop peI him who told you athla aishe he quer quor ltd turning again to aboa 1 johannes pode ofa W the prince s suard told mea rucj ft aso ago she answered tho 19 1 lie hasi has ius returned ficia calp P s HM P 11 t hant bank 5 ou a I 1 h a it no r for soa ajjia thial rai I 1 a s t MJ 1 now you have m my leave lealie to got go the th princea spoke calmly and to the oar even a little coldly the tha door closed upon the swedish maiden margait and maurice turned to each other with one pregnant in watt and took hands Alrea dyC dyll 1 amid margaret faintly going back into tile the woman I 1 the they y might have left us alone a little long er row how shall we meet this what shall we do I 1 bati counted on this one day margaret answered tho the Spar haik impulsively this shall not daunt us we would have told your brother louis one on day we li will III tell him now duchess Duclie sn joan Is safe out of his big reach Kern la is the muscovite army returned theta Is no need to keep up tip the masquerade any longer whatever may come ot of it let us go to our brother that will end it at all events the princess put away his restraining clasp and came closer to him bin no no she cried you must i ot you do not cot know my brother lie ile la Is wholly under the influence of ivan or of louls louis would slay you for having cheated him of his bride ivan for having forestalled him with me but you cannot marry ivan ivaa that were an outrage the laws of god and man I 1 marry ivan she cried to the full as impulsively as n her lover over not though they y set act lavena to pirk pick the live flesh off my bones but et the thought of torture and death for you that I 1 cannot abide we must con dinue to deceive them let me think let me think hastily Ilas tily she barred the door which led IQ out upon the then tak ing maurices hand once mole moie she led him over ever to the window from which ah she could see tile the cicen alla aha cutting its way through the city bounds and presently escaping into the et gilen er corn made lands on its way to the sea it is for this one days delay that wo mut must plan qc lo we will ill cei ce I 1 escape I 1 can certain of f dioso 40 of my household I 1 have tried trie d them belbie I 1 have it maurice ou must be taken ill lie down doun on this couch away from the light thele Is it a rumor of the black death in the city we must build on that they BB an astrakhan trader Is s lead dead of if it aheady por for ahat one day we nay inay stave off with mith this ibis it Is the poor joor best we eau can lo ilo lie clown aown I 1 will call thora she Is staunch and fully to be trusted the princess margaret went to 0 o the annei door and clappi tier her hands sharply I 1 ille he sweetish maiden tamo came running to her she had been ft haltug Nal tug on such a signal thaia thoi a said her mistress Mi strOss in a quick whisper we me must put off this mar ilage I 1 would sooner die than marry ivan you have that drug you spoke of that which gives the appearance of sickness unto death without the reality the I 1 lady ady joan must be ill very ill you understand tand we must deceive even the princes physicians the girl nodded with quick under tinder standing and turning she ehe sped away up tip the inner stairs to hei bpi own sleep ing chamber the key hey of which as was the custom in courtland she carried in her pocket this will also keep you from being suspect edas as in public places you would have been whispered margaret to her young husband what thora thinks or knows does doeg not matter I 1 can trust thora with alth my life nay with what Is far more with yours A light tap and the girl re entered it a tall phial in her hand with a swift look at her mistress to obtain bermis slon she bhe went to the couch upon x nian aich the me had lain down then with aith left deft hand she opened the bottle and pouring a little of the color less leas liquid into a cup she gave it him to rink in a few minutes a sickly pallor avei spread maui main ice fee von I 1 lynar a 8 brow ilia hla eyes appeared injected the libb paled to a grey white beads of stood on the forehead and his whole countenance took on the hue and expression of mortal sick ness nott noa said I 1 hora N when hen she had finished will the noble lady deign to shallow one or of these pellicles cles and in ten mint minutes tea not a leech in the country will be able to pron pronounce pronouns ouno that she Is not suffering flout torn a dangerous die eafe I 1 you are sure thora said the princess Mirga gatet iet almost fl fiercely emely laang tier her land hand on the N vi i ast 1st that there Is no harm in all this remember on aur sur life be it I 1 the placid flaxen hatred woman turned with the little silver box in her hand danger there Is 1 dear she wild softly I 1 but not I 1 think so ao cicat danger as we are already in hut but I 1 will prove my honesty she took first a little of the liquid and immediately after swallowed one of the white ibs she had given to maurice it will be as well site she said when the princes prince a theatre v physicians come that they should find another sicken ins of the same sailie disease thom of bornholm Dorn hulm passed about the boich wad took up a so aa way any behind all Is reads read she sud said softly we wll forestall J em answered thi 1188 thota send and bid t I 1 botill oua co corea te b ither hither quickly and iball J T alet ask him to a end litt lier his hia alo mat dodo it or cf heal tem t t f t c i 0 a ing added the airl lri 1 T I win will despatch johannes rods rode lie will go quickly and answer aar as a I 1 bid him A ith discretion and without asking ques t tlona long and ana with the tha noiseless tread becu liar har to most blonde women of laigo laig physique thora disappeared the private door by which she had in ca the princess margaret kneeled down by the couch and looked into the face of the even she abe who had seen the condei vi was as amazed and almost frightened by the ghastly effect the drug had wrought in such short space you are sure that ou do not mot feel any III effects you are perfectly well she said with tremulous acx icay in her joice the smiled and nodded reassuringly up aelier at her never helter better he said my nerves are iron my muscles steel I 1 feel as if for my margarets margaret a sake I 1 could vanquish an army single hand edl ed the princess rose from place and unlocked the main door we will be ready for them she sald said all must appear as though we had no motive for concealment 1 I and having dra drawn an the curtains somewhat closer she kneeled down x Z 4 t you are sure thora said the prin cess margaret almost fiercely that there is no harm in this again by the bed head there was no sound in the room as the youthful mouthful husland husband and wife thus waited their late fate land hand in bend save only the soft con inious sibilance bllance sl of their whispered con convulse velse and from without the deep er r note of the alia aila sapping the palace vall vails I 1 the princes of courtland and inseparable as the princesses were here on the pleasant creeper shaded terrace which looks over the rose garden of the palace of courtland Courtia nd down upon the blue sea plain of the baltic now bt retching blue black from verge to verge under the imminent sun of noon I 1 you would desert me ivan prince louis vis i as saying in a tone at once appealing and childishly aggressive I 1 you would loave leave me in the hour of need you would take away from me my sister bister margaret who alone has in fluence with the princess my wife but you do not try to court the lady with ith any proper fervor object ed ivan halt half humoring and halt half irritating his companion you observe none of the rules speak her soft praise her eyelashes surely they are of all praise give her a pet lamb for a playmate feed her with conserves of honey boney and spice surely such comfits coffits would mollify even joan of the avord hand I 1 I 1 dushl hyou you flout me ivan even 3 iou ou everyone despises me dincol since she flouted me the woman Is a tigress I 1 tell you every time she looks at me lier her eyes fallk across me lilio like a ft hip lash to be continued |
