Show iam n ay Q S copyright 1898 1900 1 ly 8 11 4 i k it CHAPTER continued madam madain saw salt 11 erner terner with dignity go to kenw g you aup the on en eniy emy la Is near to the city anti bour our high non alight fall into their hands you yau have heard what I 1 have bald yan tapped the oaken floor with mith her twit for t but fruddam let rae me beseech all u joan from her chief captain impatiently and walked toward the door of hei bet spar apartments nor ner followed his mistress with his hands bonds a little outstretched and a look of ceafer entreaty on his face if lady lie he said thirty ie cars irs I 1 was the faful servant of soui father tn t n I 1 have served ou hy by the nier cory of those thone bears it if I 1 have sar ed ou faithfully my father taught you yon little it if after epars eara ion hive have riot not learn ed to obey go to your post werner von orbein drew himself up and saluted Balut pil then ho be ulle led about and clanked out without adding a woid met moie e tor lor a moment after the doot docu closed upon the men loan find and maegaret Mai garet stood in silence pact pach other suddenly maegaret Mai garet tan lan impulsively to joan clasping her about the neck I 1 know slip she said looking up into lie face with a gi eat leap the blood flew to joan it a nick slid and bi biow oa hen ahert as slowly faded awa leaving liar paler than be fore ahat hat do sou she faltered and she readied iet et desired to hear abat you love lobe coniado coin ad said mar caiet vera ver low joan I 1 am ho bo glad so glad maegaret Mai garet I 1 am shamed tor for ever it Is sin bin jonn joan alth with her arms about her friend joan you aill yet be happy the ducass shook her head bead it were best for us its both that I 1 should die that Is what A bat I 1 pray for I 1 may heaven avert this thing you know riot not ahat w hat you say and the two women omen went ent into the attiring loom with arms still locked about each catch others other s waists and as often as thelt eyes encountered they lingered a little as aa if tasting the new knowledge which abich thes had bad in ili common commo n then those of joan of the sword iland hand wei e averted and she blushed 0 it was waa night in the citi of courtland and a time of gibat rear fear fer and anon from the he east where here AS ere the camps of the opposed foicey theta pame came a sound round heavy and like ilke distant thunder ahei eat the wives of the hie bur burghers gilers of courtland bald 1 I wonder what moth ers son eon lips lies a adding dang now Il hearken earlien to the talking of gloat peg the mar graf grata 0 cannon at the western or Bi Di andenburg gate ethcie was waa yet greater var far for the news new a had spread athwart the city that a a great body of horsemen hoi semen had paused lit in front of it and were b being ing held lit in palley by the guard on if dut it till the lady joan governor Gov einor ot of the should he be made aware the of the city loused froin aiom a lose lare slumber leaped on her hoise and went clattering with an escort through the uw unsleeping leeping streets looking out join could see a dark m mass ass ot of horsemen hoi semen while above them glinted lit in ho abe pale starlight a forest of B munce come sou strangers cried joan front from we arp are came back the ian mpr who lead ira ds aou ou doti DOIK and jorian offices offic rs ot of I 1 he pi ince s bod guard lct lat C cai at bains rot polls Is and joi jolian ian up ap and belh lc ller or their message with hom aie me e in 7 C at J 21 ar r and what of prince conrad ell cited J the he unmistakable olee olce of lona bov aoi Is with the joan of hohen feln stein of the city of court land said joan flit final rill corie cone on borla horla those Con rlland inavee will mill not aloot ua its now 1 abt I bat la Is the lolie iotte of jonn joan of the sword hand thero there can be no trea chei where she ha la Is ko ito below I 1 here ailed i led toan blinne a light ou on them chent from thi the tipper rally I 1 tot olt laiq lantern baehl out and there bolow loun loan botin tin anil loilta saluting as ot of old ita with tie arnt which watch harl had dramn n JHO 0 fatmir to her during the ibe don artas vf tal pawn allx V as s sav X et P e moved to I 1 sinal in fit spite pile of the sober neti nesia of th circumstances what iles bling ion 1011 iocim en voys toys we have bron glit the most part of the palace guard with us ua five hundred good lances and all bun grybel lied for victuals and all monstrously thirst in their throats besides which pi trice hugo raises plassenburg Plass enburg arg and tho the mark and la in ten darvs he be will be on the march for courtland god cod send him speed I 1 fear me in ten lays days it will III be over indeed said loan joan what does the press vou ou so po hard lie ile has haa tho thousands wands to our hundreds so that lie can hem us its in on every side never fear cried doris boris confident ly IY we m will ill hold him in cheek check for y yov 1 bon i till our rood good hugo ago tomes comes to take him on the lank flank then joan bade the gates be opened and the hoi horsemen semen of plassenburg Plass enburg strong men on great horses trampled in then without resting she went to the wool market which had been tinned into a soldiers hospital here she found yon von lynar going from bed to bed smoothing pillows anointing wounded mounded limbs and assist ing the surgeons in the care of those who had been brought back from the fatal battlefields of the alla alia theresa von lanar lose iose to meet joan as she entered silently the soung girl beckoned her to follow and they went ment out between long lines of pallets ballets remember when hen all Is over I 1 shall keep heep my vow low joan began as they paused andi and I 1 also algo will keep mine re spondee theresa briefly I 1 am duchess and city governor onty till the invader is driven out joan continued then isle rugen Is to be mine and your son shall sit in the seat of henry the lion and what of prince conrad asked theresa quietly joan N was as silent for a space then she answered with her ea ees es on the ground ilance pi Ill ince nce coni coniado ad shall rule this ibis land as Is bli dut auti Cai cardinal dinal archbishop prince there shall be none to deny him so soon as the power of the mus covite it Is brohen lie he will be in full alliance with hohenstein lie he will torm form a blood bond with dansenburg plassenburg Dass Plass enburg and when lie he dies all thit that Is his shall belong to the children of duke maurice and his wife alfe margaretl margaret I 1 shall never mari man I 1 I 1 god foible foi bid bald theresa looking at her that such a aaman as you should die without living |