| Show V iam 3 B 5 CIZO chen w Q wac acte i i 1 3 luu IOU by b ii ii k tl 41 CHAPTER VI theresa keeps troth but tic the had bad r I 1 orhild A tnt tn resa von I 1 i and loin came buck back filin fiant li nilma fortifies lion a R 3 tit nl roos mos I 1 bill bifid bI IId d with the of tin hu which thal N imd bud se it hell at ais li tra ir lach had bad listened to the beating ot the i heart dutli duth km v it v win beloved nothing could alti r thai tat an noi forever As ai th thy they y had gone out oui with watching tin chi in oom tile the list ol of the golden arcades tah hailds hail had alian toft ther J 13 os had coughl anam ea I 1 ug its ti at tell irh dip ot of ho he lath liny had listened fol foi tile the lineal finest shades lf ni III lining tit in one another voices and taken at 01 JOB hope bove from froin tho the droop drool or ol all eyelid oi 01 the aul or ot of a s liable arsow I 1 ow all was waa charged Ch aried d 11 I 1 lit y knew that which cipy alir y knew ant now ihei lid von I 1 anar the woman moman who had 1 lv ai n tier her beauty und and tier her life like ilke a little N a 8 gift into tile the him 1 of man ahe he loved content ili hi it lie he should take tahe or throw aw own ii as him beckt et von mci int thase who 1110 in their ir new glora of thought that ticy they hid plumbed the abysses abases ot of lop iono when hen as at they had bad taken no mole moie than a inget winding iu in the bairow teas hil hi stood looking at al atheni as aa jiey ani rani r am with u empathy that thai mah more than aban mero mere iulia tul anac you yon hao fal ahe thus she i Ltd ahm th m a the came sit bit with nn lilt lit in III h h hide ade I 1 have witt a bow lio i bete Alan itco loved to I 1 aln lit baltie lie he let lef in ili e none have bave I 1 hath antl I 1 cd it adrice it hit it to da it waa mas a mail eight sided bided lodge latt lil ilita KB its lai jai libed windows mide open and reepen glown to which milich Th chisa isa led thim thi m it had been ft aall oil kept hept and when hen join found hirsell within i Sl sudden Iddell access or of lend einess tat foi this his lonely mathei who mho ind had herack like a L bacil flee fice upon all altar tool took ol of tier her I 1 por about the la ills was mas fastened fayte ned a I 1 lead dead chills pitiful armours home dome made of lath arrows arros winged with mith the cast feat bis of the wood land cro crooked oled bows the bidlen elect iry ry of a bundled banquets ban quete I 1 these and many gioie fully kept hept in place with and lov loff ing care maurice would mould be bick agian they to sit and would tal is up tip ills hia play just ubbie be lett left it there as sli silence crice in ili the hie kaihoi for a i pace a til lence bich no one of the thice ali ice ma wai to breal break lo kot 10 l o joan thought of ile hei conrad or of joan anil and ot of her son soll it was the last ahn spoke somehow to dav it la Is home boine in upon me that heinsberg Kerns Herns berK berg has fallen and that thai ma m ion Is lit in hla his menus hands joan started to her feet and thrust tier her hands a little out in front of hei as it if to m waid ai it off a blow to can ion oil know that she died clied who no it c annot be insberg heinsberg Ke was nas tot 01 a tar ar it was filled with brave men lilen my aly captains me lite samich st tin cl lite hie thing 1 li impossible theresa von 7 ijnar 3 nor m with ith her ea aies es on the wailing colage lo 10 lage which alter nathly re revel veiled led and ec lepied the ruddy tI tillei olei of the abiles on in the liebb slowly shook her heard I 1 carmot carm ot tell you 1011 how hom I 1 know ano sit shi said bald nevertheless I 1 ano know here li Is something which tells ells me she laid her hand upon apon her heart those who N are long alone beside tile the et ei hear voices and ami sue see visions I 1 but it Is impossible meed joan I 1 oi 01 tt if it be true trite m win hi a 11 m I 1 kept hei ea I 1 will go and die with m stople it le I 1 my bona ton s m will III sald said theres i it 7 r W it 11 ak 1 I 1 kissed it humbly I 1 the will of the son of henry the tion lion liela lieis like ain father there fore will da his will ili the words orda not spoken bitterly but lis as a simpli of fact joan looked ui at this oman and understood der ders stood for the first time that she waa aas the spirit of all great ethan her father bettel bertei than herself and perhaps because or of this and sacrifice stirred emul emulous ours ly in her own broast t Ma donish said sal looking oling lo directly lion on lynar cynar ja Is t time I 1 me that 1 I 1 understood vat cah ca li h other I 1 bald ut nil seu lia tru 6 dupless of jmj 1 lin 1 in so HO ton s oni on oil livi IV my fabbii s foni and condit ton are of no if fl TK tit oh dic i of tit alu empire would frtiz ant I 1 teem in a moment I 1 wilt will lot loi al no lost until this thing mail mad aar 1 rr I 1 amai that ioui ou son on hall b duke duhe IJ autice ani an it in hi his gilb r wac ilac Is 11 is right and filling I 1 or m I 1 ail nothing but the itie ti lugh portion ti a grange such ruch as this R as und and ah peaceful a tard gant it to lo 1 ivi and a beach to wan man I 1 di d upon at n s sh h spoke poke theresa s t 3 e es stid sudden ilen ly 1 bilhl ned ed A high lo 10 loii pat bat on oil file of hr h r iiii millet grad bially faded as a some other oilier thought it she rose robe and goin sf mih to joan foi ili h first efino she be kiss ids d her on the brow sow ow 11 clo II I 1 kno hnott she lle bald id that nou ou art arp I 1 11 I 1 it nry r y the lite I 1 ton ion a dl ila ator abal lb ih 41 olcen tt as lie would have hate ken alwn it II it i is ginath f thought hough let et ait it cannot in h 11 II shall hill I 1 li ailed toan loan Imre Impe ilous ly IY nan na ri tinned von non anai chu on oil a time line I 1 have gien mv light hand that foi half a day da for one cine hour our men inight haie said of me that thai I 1 WA ma toniy the lie lion a wife and my son eon ill hi son oil it would mould have been aig ll 11 I 1 ram mst m st t an god llon how sweet it would haac havlen biot it she paused a too mo mani of ai oaf unseen pio nc no I 1 I 1 h vi vot 1 d I my ni now ow heie we was I 1 bidden to 10 sti ti and lire will I 1 abide maurice 1 I floco hall sit in n his file erh kih ial said loan joan firmin I 1 hae devoin it if I 1 ih I 1 aill ft see him fettke theae with my captains about him N vernei I 1 anel non on orsell is an honest man mail ile he will do him justic von non de mauei ahall get him rec recognize lz ed and huso hugo of shall stand eland his sponsor before the DJ diet t of the emplit I 1 would mould it if could oil be so said the iea icea wistfully fully if ff my death could cause this his thing righteously to come to pass how gidia mould I 1 end wel life but I 1 am hound bound by an oath and my rn son on Is bound bee because nitie I 1 am bound the lil til bunal Is not the diet of Rat isbon hut but the faithfulness of a woman s h it have I 1 been loyal loal to mi prince legs th these e many beara so BO that hat now shame bits on ma m blow no as gladly as n a cron croan of bay lay that I 1 fall him noi I 1 ov oin lip hp lies iles ind and I 1 may never neer stand beidle lite his sepulchre clire no son of mine shall hhall sit in ills hla high chair but it if in tiny any sphere of sinful or imperfect be it hell ur or he anil and I 1 shall encounter think ou on for an empire I 1 bonit meet inept him grained and when he says woman of nit m loie loe hast thou bent thy trothy shall I 1 be compelled to answer no t but urged louii loan this thing Is our nour sons sona al cathar for of futato blind my happl happi i ess to lo a man I 1 loathed I 1 ba haie e cast that hat bond to the winds the fathers cannot bind the children no more can sou disinherit sour our son ron I 1 Ili eresa von unar smiled a s aid ld wise smile infinitely patient infinitely remote t kh she tip HP d aou ou think soa lon e are soung you vieve loved ion ou ate aie his daughter daugh tei not his wife affe one day aon ou shall arow if god Is good to ion at this joan in het hei turn she anem what aliat she knew ion may think lu ill kanom return ed theresa esa her calm eyes on the girl a face but what I 1 mean by lov IOV ing Is 1 another li vitter the band ion broke aou ou did not make I 1 keep the ww now I 1 made with clear eye ee cd bhain milling hand I 1 made it because lie he willad it let my son con maurice bieak bueal it it if he be can it if he will as you have broken bouis only let him reier reer more ca I 1 theresa 1011 lanar mother joan lobe to derail iler her intent hid not been shaken though she was by the noble beart of uie woman moman who had bon bo n her fathers IN alfe ife dut she also imd hid owed a vow and ald that vow nom bhe th would mould keep heep the should bet ct be the eige of Kerns berg and she joan a hou housewife nested in quiet peas ess A barn barti door fowl about the orchards of isle rugen ruen madam mada in she wild our word is your nour void mold nut but FO EO Is dirt of oin of it may be thit that out of the un lintel een ther nini icae a chance which shall biang all to pass things filings bilitch we both desire with out brogling bro aling ing tows or loosing of the hands bands of obligation rot roi me being no more then than a daughter I 1 will mill I 1 leep beep duke Ilen henrys ryn 11 idill ll only in that hat aich Is III ant tt a arid and I 1 said lb leeresa eresa von on lynar III hiep app jt t just or unjust yet joan smiled as she elbe went out fur for she had been countered and in sacrifice she had bad met a nature greater than tier her own and with the truly noble that Is the pleas ure are of pleasures all the while conrad sat eat very sull suh listening with hill full heart to that which bich it did not concern him to interrupt but bat within his heart lif bo said bald woman when alien ablio ah la Is true trite woman Is greater worthier fuller than any an manay man r ay were ere it the holy father himself per haps hap becil lise they drair draw apar christ the sor SOP through mary the mother but theresa von van lynar sat ani ami watched the girl as she wot down the long path the leafy branches brancher spat spattering bering ul alternate ternate tight light and upon her slender figure then kap th ened Abi abigill rill upon con rill ral anu allu to tow nis lord ord cardinal abe ho t 1 l 71 J sald said 11 hat hal hanf rou foil in en saving to la an rn N husband s d atigbi I 1 7 I 1 haie hae been fellini hr hi r that I 1 love i her ansa I 1 ron poni 11 I 1 imply me he le leli it that wadi vr hat h b hi ba I 1 list n it to gave woman oman it a light TO I 1 h answered and liutai I 1 apra pre iou y on hill a 0 princes of 0 hoh chur church c b to do with love th they e y sek seek afi afuli I 1 III hi heinly t things ili Is do li viLlier marn maril n i I 1 ghin in n roar mar nage I 1 know I 1 icil ii I 1 ont oni id A humbly and without t tl binl tit hast offense I 1 ihnow know it 1 w 11 but I 1 have love put off the armor 1 not the burden it ih too pnat gat g at for me I 1 am a soldier 1 ab a soldier yet b cause I 1 ua ft as burn after my brother goulf I 1 must pit fore become both priest anti anil hol c rather a thousand linit evoi id I 1 be a roan man at sims aims and carri carn a plop then am I 1 to understand that as a son ov told the duchess joan that ou oil loved hi bet or that as a priest you forbade the binns banns or did you wholly foigel th that once on oa a time bu bit rn arril cl her ter to bour brother 9 I 1 did ind ed forget said conrad with sincere iet ou oil r not not blame roe me too amly I 1 mas as car tied ried out ot ilie duchess then rejected join suit alth contumely conrad haq ai allent no iio should hould a great littly lidy listen to her hubband a and a priest I 1 I 1 r P ai I 1 it shall not bel cried joan imperiously theresa went on seless what said the lady joan when A hen you told her ber that aou ou loed her the cords she spoke epo ke I 1 cannot re but athen she ended I 1 set my lips 11 pa to her garment s hem as reverently as eier eer to holy bread the slow smile came again over the face ot of theresa non on lynar lydar the smile of a war aaroen worn veteran who watches the children at their drill I 1 vou do cro not need to tell me what she answered my loid fold she said for the first time leming out the ecclesiastic title I 1 know conrad stared at the woman she told you that she loved iou fiant the first nou how know DOW son thata he faltered none must hear that secret none must guess it I 1 theresa non on alnar a little mellow laugh in which a keen ear might linie haie detected how bow richly and plea slimly her tough laugh must onee once have bounded to her lover when her hulsh beat to the turie tune of glad gladness mess and the unbound heart do you think to deceive me lite resa whom henry the lion lovedy live I 1 been these many weeks with aon ou two ini in the house honse and not afen thlu prince conrad I 1 kc kacew cm it that night of the storm when she bent her over the couch on which you ply liy I 1 love sou tay bay boldly and you think great things of your love but she loved first as sho she will love most and youl boasted loie loe will never overtake hers no not though you toy lov hor her all your life well what do you propose to do f to be continued |
