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Show going with so manly a courage so fine an air. They dismounted in the gloomy court yard, and Maurice, sllpp&ff quickly from his saddle, caught Mar garct in hia arms as she dropped, nervously from the saddle. She clung -to him closely, knowing that It might Tte&tfdcy&do be for the last time. (Copyright, lvl. ltoo, by 8. R. CroikciU Maurice, Maurice, she murmured, can you forgive me? I have brought CHAPTER XXII. neek, she is married already. I am her husband!" you to tbla! The Dropping of a Cloak. Hush, sweetheart, he answered The long blue cloak fell to the And ao. with the mounted guard of ground, and the Sparhawk, clad lu her ear; be my own dear prim- cloae-flttln- g brtT lila own Cossacks before him and squire's dress, stood be- Do not let them aee. Be my Prince Iran carried hla bride to fore tbelr astonished eyes. girL They cannot divide our lover1 church through the ctrect of her naCome, I beg of you, aald the dulA long, low murmur, gathering and voice of Prince Ivan behind them: cet tive city. the sinking, surged about square. I would not for all Courtland break The great doora of the cathedral had Prince Louis gasped. Margaret clung been thrown wide open and the leath- to her lovera arm, and for the apace in upon the billing and cooing of inch ern curtain withdrawn. The altar of a score of seconds the whole world turtledoves, were it not that their affection blinds them to the fact that In the stopped breathing. candlea and the lampa s and scullions are witchoir winked no brighter than yellow Prince Ivan twisted hla mustache the willow leavea Been through an autum- as if he would pull It out by the roots. nesses to these pretty demonstrations. nal fog. But aa the cortege dismounSo, he said, the Princess la mar- Tarry a little, sweet valentines ttoe ted the organ began to roll, and the ried, la she? And yon are her hus- and place wait for all things." The Princess commanded herself people within rose with a hush like band? Whom God hath Joined and that which follows the opening of a the rest of it. Well, we shall aee, we window at night above the Alla. shall see! The aonoroua diapason of the great He spoke gently, meditatively, alinstrument disgorged Itself through most caressingly. the doorway In wave after wave of Yes, cried the Sparhawk, defiant sound. The Princess Margaret found ly, we were married yesterday by herself again on her feet, upheld on Father Clement, the Princes chaplain, either aide by brother and lover. She In the presence of the most noble Leowas at first somewhat dazed with the pold von DesMuier, High Councillor of rush of accumulate disasters. Slowly Plassenburg!" her mind came back. And my wife the Princess Joan, Maurice where was Maurice? She where la she? gasped Prince Louis, turned about. The small, glittering so greatly bewildered that he had not eyes of Prince Ivan, black as sloes, yet begun to be angry. were looking into hers. She rememIvan of Muscovy put out bis hand. bered now. It was her own wedding. he said; 1 will Gently, friend These two, her brother and her enemy, unmask this g springald. were carrying out their threat. They This is not your wife, not the woman had brought her to the cathedral to you wedded and fought for, not the wed her, against her will, to the man Lady Joan of Hohensteln, but some She baseliorn brother, who, having her she hated. But they could not. would tell them. Already she was a face, hath played her part, to mock but then. If she told them that, and cheat and deceive us both! He turned again to Maurice von they would ride back and kill him Better that she should perjure herselt. Lynar. condemn herself to hell, than that. I think we have met before. Sir Better anything than that. But what Masquer, he said, with hla usual was she to do? Was ever a poor girl suave courtesy; "I have, therefore, a "Till death do you part." so driven? double debt to pay. Hither! He quickly. In another moment she was Margaret, you must come with us beckoned to the guards who lined the Margaret of Courtland. Into the cathedral." It was the voice approaches. I presume, sir, so true a Even the Prince of Muscovy might of her brother. It Is necessary that courtier will not brawl before ladies. a lady his Insults at such a spare the Prince should wed you now. It You recognise thst you are in our time! she said. has too long been promised, and now Ilower. Your sword, sir! The Prince bared hla head and he can delay no longer. Besides, the The Sparhawk looked all about the bowed low. Black Death Is In the city, and this is crowded square. Then he snapped Kay, he said very courteously; the only hope to escape. Come I" his sword over hla knee and threw mistake. Princess Margaret. 1 you It was on the tip of Margaret's the pieces down on the atone steps. Insult you not. I may regret your tongue to cry out with wild words, You are right, I will not light vaintaste but that Is a different matter. even as she had done at the door of ly here, he said. 1 know it la useYet even that may amend. My quarrel the river parlor. But the thought of less. But he raised his voice "be Is with this gentleman, and it la one of and torture the the death, It known to all men that my name la of some Maurice, standing, I believe." silenced her. She lifted her eyes, and Maurice, Count von Loen, and that the Is at sword air! My there, at the top of the steps, were Princess Margaret la my lawfully aald Maurice voa your service, Lynar, firmly. the dignitaries of the cathedral wait- wedded wife. She cannot then marry Again you mistake, returned the ing to lead the solemn procession. Ivan of Muscovy! Prince more suavely than ever; you I will go! she said. The Prince laughed easily and have no sword. A prisoner, and (if I She laid her hand on h6r brothers spread hla hand with gentle deprecamay say ao without offense) a apy arm and began the ascent of the long tion, aa the guards seized the Spar taken redhand cannot fight duels. The as of did even But she stairs. flight hawk and forced him a little apace thta a wave of from the clinging hands of the Prin- Prince of Courtland must settle so, behind her there bfoke matter. When his Justlcer Is satisfied" ' sound the crying of many people, cess. I shall most willingly take up my quarconfused and multitudinous, like the I am an easy man, he said gently, rel with whatever Is left of the moat 'warning which runs along a crowded as he clicked his dagger to and fro in noble Count Maurice von Lynar. thoroughfare when a wild charger It a aheath. When I like a woman, I To this Maurice did not reply, hot from bonds threshes along would aa lief escaped marry her widow aa with Margaret still beside him he folwith frantic flying harness. And lo! maid ! lowed Prince Louis np the narrow it the foot of the steps, clad from head Prince Louis, continued Ivan, ancient stairway called from Its shape e foot In a cloak, the sick Princess turning to the Prince, we are keeping The Conch, into the gloomy audience loan, she whom the Black Death had these holy men needlessly, as well as chamber of (he Castle of Courtland. itrlcken, leaped from her foamiug the good folk of Court-lan- d disappointing They reached the hall and then at teed, and drawing sword followed of their spectacle. There la no last, aa though restored to power by fiercely up the stairway after the need that we should stand here any his surroundings, Prince Louis found Marriage procession. The Cossacks of We have longer. matters to discuss his tongue. :he Muscovite guard looked at each with this gentleman and hia wife. A guard! he cried; hither, Berg-hofJther, not knowing whether to stand Have I your leave to bring them toKampenfeldt! Conduct the Prinn her way or no. In the palace? We may have cess to her privy chamber and do not "Hold, there! the pursuer shouted, gether something to say to them more at permit her to leave It without my as she set foot on the lowest step. permission. I would speak with this "Lord! Surely that Is no womans leisure." But the Prince of Courtland made fellow alone. voice! whispered the people who no answer. He moved his hand anIvan hastily- crossed over to Prince itood nearest, and their lower Jaws and to Louis and whispered in hla ear. descend grily the began stairs lropped a little further in sheer towards the waiting horses. In the meantime, ere the soldiers of Prince Ivan turned toward Maurice. the guard could approach, Margaret Up the wide steps of the Dom flew You will follow under escort of cried out in a loud, clear voice, I take die tall woman in the flowing cloak. Her face was pallid as death, but her these gentlemen of my staff, he said yon all to witness that I, Margaret of am the wife of this man, ayes were brilliant and her lips red. with smiling equality of courtesy; Courtland, At the sight of the naked sword "there is no need to discuss Intimate Maurice von Lynar, Count von Lorn. ?rince Ivan plucked the blade from family affairs before half the rabble of He is my wedded husband, and I love him with all my heart! Courtland. You have forgotten the rest, fair He bowed to Maurice aa If he had been inviting him to a feast. Maurice Princess. suggested Prince Ivan, looked about the crowded square, over subtly "till death you do part! (To he continued.) the pennons of the Cossacks. He knew there was no hope either In All the apOlneys Story About Judge Gray. flight or in resistance. Former Attorney General and Secreproaches to the square had been filled tary of State Olney tells thla story on up with armed men. I will follow!" he answered briefly. Justice Gray, who prefers riding to Hitherto we have had to do with walking, and a carriage to a street the summer palace by the river, a car: In Boston he was provided with . and built more a carriage by the United States Mao building of no as a pleasure house for the princely shal. From Boston he went, to Provifamily than as a place of permanent dence to hold rotirt. He asked the habitation. But the Castle of Court-lan- d United States Marshal there to prowas a structure of another sort. vide hint with a carriage to carry him Set on a low rock in the center of bark and forth. The Marshal said he the town, its walls rose continuous could not do so without paying for it with its foundations, equally massive out of his own porket. and Impregnable, to the height of Very well, said Judge Gray, and over seventy feet. For the first twenty-f- paid for it himself. ive The Providence Marshal wrote to neither window nor grating broke the grim uniformity of that the Boston Marshal and asked him mighty wall of rock. Above that line how he managed a carriage for Judge only a few small openings Gray. with iron bars evidenced the fact that Enslly enongli, was the response. I provided Judge Gray with a cara great prince had his dwelling within. The main entrance to the Castle riage and nty account went through was through a gateway rinsed by a without any trouhle. You see, I put. "I am her husband! trim porticullls. Then a the Item under the head of care and his side and Louis shrank a little be- short tunnel led to another and yet transiKirtation of prisoners. -hind his sister. tronger defense a deep natural fosse What Ik which surrounded the rock oh all sides When Governor Russell Was Puzzled. he faltered. Treason! this? Is it sudden madness or the and over which a drawbridge conThe late Governor Russell was makducted into the courtyard of the castle. ing a speech on the tariff In the city frenzy of the Black Death? The Princess Margaret cannot be The Sparhawk knew very well that hall in Lawrence during one of his married! cried the seeming Princess. lie was going to his death as he rode campaigns, and took occasion several I will slay the To me, Margaret! through the streets of the city of times to refer to the duty on holler man who lays a hand oil you! Courtland. but none would have dis- Iron. The Govt mur was considerably Obedient to that word. Margaret of covered from his hearing that there mystified to note that whenever he Courtland broke from between her was aught upon his nind of graver usen the term there was deafening brother and Prince Ivan and ran to eoncern than the fit of a doublet or. applause. the tall woman, layina her brow on perhaps, the favor or a pretty maid It was afterward explained to his The Prinee of Muacovy of honor. But with the Irincess Mar- excellerry that a considerable portion her breast. continued calm and Immovable. garet It was different. In these last of his audience cared very little nliont "And why?" lie askr-- In a tone full crowded hours she had quite lost her the duty on bolb-- r Iron, hut cherished of contempt. Why cannot the Prin- old gay defiance. Her whole heart undying admiration for the late John cess Margaret he married?" was fixed on Maurice, and the tears Boyle O'Reilly, to whom they thought Hence the "Because," aaid the woman In the would not lie bitten back when she bn was referring. long cloak, fingering a string at her thought of the fate to which he wta to talk with her at all until tha next morning, when he said to her, ft THE MISSING MAN - won-lerme- stn-ngili- half-close- d iron-toothe- Oh. 'twas more convenient. I should hardly think ao. Such im, by Ln Md Shapard Caprright, ' CHAPTER XV. be-hln- d. play-actin- home?, By MARY R. P. HATCH Author of wTho Bank Tragedy Bf S R; CROCKETT .Auitor of men-at-arm- quietly: 1 want to talk with you, Mrs. Fry. Why am 1 sick here Instead of at Who Fired ths Shot? site next morning at an early hour a pistol shot rang out sharp and quick on the still air surrounding the upper portion of Grovedale. It was heard by many and commented upon. One or two heard the shot with some dismay, and made their way at once ln the direction of the sound. It appeared to be, as I have aald, at the upper end of the village, and two or three men turned into the street approaching , Mr. Hamiltons boose and walked toward It together. These were the men who had followed the sound. When they reached the grounds of the house they saw a group of people standing about a figure lying on the grass. The group consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. Carter, who stood back at their approach and plainly revealed to their gaze the form of Primus Edes lying, face upward, on the ground. Who did It? asked one of the men, Mr. Green, excitedly. "Thats more than we can tell, said Mr. Carter. I heard a shot and Jumped into my clothes and came' down. Vane had got here, somehow, before I did, and my niece followed me. That's all we knew about the matter. Shot himself, most likely," said Mr. Dawes, a grocer on Main street Eades has looked for a long time. I wonder where the pistol is? It cant be a groat ways off, if he did It himself." Thats so," said the other man, looking about. But the grass as short, there was no place where a pistol could be hidden from direct gaze except behind a row of rosebushes a few feet away. Green moved toward them to look, and, to his surprise, saw a small pistol plainly in sight in front of, not behind, the rose bushes. down-hearte- d hla own hand fired the shot, unless It was done by some person who stood near him at the time. On the other hand, the river was near, and there were indication of a boat having been lately drawn up among the aldera that fringed the hank, and luter one was found a little below the village, where It had come to a natural moorage under an overhanging limb of an Immense tree. The river was much shaded; It was not Impossible for a person to have escaped that way while attention was being paid to the wounded man; and in that case he had most likely taken to the woods after leaving the boat. Theae surmises and the search kept the persons engaged in them from the great agitation of Mrs. Hamilton and her husband. They soon entered the house together, where Mra. Hamilton suddenly faced him and asked, excitedly: Do yon know how he was shot? I do not, Constance. I Assurheard tlu ...tot and jumped out of bed at once. Being quicker than Mr. Carter I reached the spot a moment earlier, hut I saw no one, and I was sure from the first that he shot himself." "But the pistol! It was not in his hand. Doubtless he threw it before he fell to the ground." But you were angry to have him come here." I waa angry, and I told the man only yesterday to keep away. But he came thla morning. It seems. Served him right. But he is different from other people, and he meant no harm, I am con-lnccd. Primus Edes did not die. Indeed, he began to mend rapidly, though hla mind wandered, the direct result of the Injury to hia brain. Constance, though she felt much anxiety, never went near hlin, nor to the house, hut Mr. Hamilton called each morning, v a short distance. Who was that maa who called to set me yesterday? Mr. llammerly, our minister. Hes a dreadful nice man. I mistook the name at first, or yon did. Any way he looks enough Ilka me to be my twin brother. Where la Constance and the chlldn-n?Constance! said Mra. Fry, star ing at him with all her might. Yes; is there anything strange about my questions?" No; oh, no, nut a mite. Constance is over home, an' the children, too, most like. You say Constance is over home. Why does she not oome to see me? She's dreadful busy. He started up In a moment and asked, keenly, Are you deceiving me? Is she dead or very alck? Has anything happened to her, or the chil" dren?" "No, they are all right, all of them. There ain't nothin' the matter with none of them." Then she must come to see me, for I am not able to go to her. He spoke with a derision new and Mrs. Fry began to grow strange. alarmed. But don't you see, Mr. Edes, It wouldn't look well, she bein a married woman ao, an' you a single man. Are you crazy, my good woman? My name Is not Edes and I am not a single man, though 1 know very veil that she Is a married woman. I'm sure you told me that your name was Kdes. and that you were never married. I never told you so. Edes! I never heard the name until now ln all my lire. "Well, then, what la your name? she asked, endeavoring to quiet him by a return to her acquiescent manner. Vane Hamilton, as you very well know. All right, and now will you have your drops? The clock la Just striking the time. Yea, if you will go over and ask my wife to come to see me. "Ill ask her." Thank you. It is only a little way, and she won't mind the walk. One . ought to see the house from that win-dow- You can aee It plain, and Mrs. Fry gave him the drops, and then went and stood Irresolutely ln the middle of her kitchen for several minutes. I promised, an tt wont do no great hurt, she aald to herself at last. It dims beat all what's got Into the man, claimin' to be Vane Hamll ton, an he with a'most black hair, lie's crazy aa a loon." Taking the sunbonnet from Its nail on the wall she closed the door carefully, and then called to her next-doo- r neighbor's to ask her to keep house a little while for her.' Don't disturb Mr. Edes unless he wants somethin', she said, and then she hurried to the house of Mrs. Hamilton, and was admitted by that lady herself, who had seen her coming. (To be continued.) -- 8LEDS IN SUMMER CLIMES. Are you my ghost? Tt Is a wonder we didn't see It the first thing," said he. "It la a wonder, said Mr. Hamilton, taking the pistol and looking it over. "There Is no mark on it "No; but If I don't mistake that pistol belongs to Dan Fry, said Mr. Green. it I sold him one like not long ago. "You dont think Dan shot him? aald Mr. Carter, aghast. "No, I don't; I think he shot him-el- f. "Well, I am sorry to hare had It :cur here," aald Mr. Hamilton, glancface. ing at hla wife's Hitherto she had not spoken, but now her tongue was unloosened. "Why dont some of you see If he Is Because a rsally dead? she cried. Sian is shot it Is no reason for thinking that he Is dead. terror-stricke- n Mr. Hamilton quietly kiu-I- t and laid his hand on his breast. "It beats feebly. He limy rally. I' is not cold here. We will not risk disturbing him until the doctor comes. Help me with the harness. Green." Working together, one of his horses waa quickly harnessed, and the quarter of a mile distance to Dr. Peeks quickly covered. The doctor was at home and returned ln the buggy, and in a few minutes was kneeling beside the recumbent figure. "The wound is a bad one. but not necessarily fatal, he said, after he had examined with great caro the hole made by the bullet in ihe temple. "He will have to be taken somewhere. He boards at Mrs. Fry's," said Mr. Carter. Very well. He must be there at once," said the doctor, then I will probe for iho bullet. and A door was taken from its hinge and four men carried the insensible wh'-rlie form to hia hoarding-placewaa tenderly cared for by Mr.-s- Frj. The bullet was cxiractcd by Dr. Peek, and the wound thoroughly attended to. Then the physician b ft the hmi-saying he would look ln at Ills patient In an hour or so. Meanwhile an excited group of men were searching the grounds and woods about the Hamilton place traces of a wcmld-bmurderer, supposing the affair not to be an attempt at suicide. Many declared , :wnst certainly wus that, the indium li r of the wound being upward proved tt. c . c. r c and questioned Mrs. Fry regarding his progress "in recovery. He seems better said Mrs. Fry, nearly three weeks after the He looks hrlghtcr and ahootlng. takes notice of things. But, somehow, he acts a little mite queer. How? Doesn't he know yon? Yes, he called me Mrs. Fry, but he asked ine why he was at my house, and I told him because he was fetched here, and then he wanted to know why he wasn't taken homo Instld. It Is but natural that his mind should wander," said Mr. Hamilton. I wish you would Just atop in and look ut him. Mr. Hamilton liexiialed for a moment and then billowed Mrs. Fry lo the conifortiibli- apartment where lay Irimiis Kdes on his bed. pallid ami etnueiuted. his dark hair cropped short anil his ys shrunken. Mr. Hamilton has culled in to see yon," said Mrs. Fry, approaching and straight! n ing the bctlrlolliCK. asln-(lie sick man, staring at his visitor, and at her. with a wild look in his eye. Mr. Huiiii!liin," sh- repeated. Are you my gluts-?asked Kdes, Am I snatching at Ihe licilcloihcs. dead, I lien, and yon my other self eiime to haunt me'.'" "No, no," said Mrs. Fry. soothingly, nolmddy slia'n t ha ul yon, not if I know it. He Just crime lo set how you was. that's all." "His name Is Hamilton, you say." It's llamitnrly. Lor', now. did I" I meant, our minisn r," said Mrs. Fry. alarmed at the growing excitement of her path-n- t and lying with a glilmess surprising to herxidf. Mr. Hamilton, meanwhile, had left the room and stood waning for Mrs. Fry at the outi-- dour. Odd what hlens sick folks take! "Hi ain't asaid. will as I i bought ho wa." No. I am afraid Ids bruin has permanently injured," said Mr. Hamilim d to !ie ini a lit t lo diston, who turbed. "I will not g in again, my presence seems to agnuic him." Mrs. Fry kop' out id In r hoarder's room for an hour, and when she entered sin- - saw that he was asleep. He slept a long time, a ml appeared drowsy for awhiv iKiti waking, hut afterwards In- - !ooi ed alion' the room, clear-eyed- , though silent, mid Mrs. that lie Fry softly vent mi', would question hi r. U.ut In- did not to-da- lir-e- si-- i - Strange Kind of Vehicle Used In the leland of Madeira. At Funchal, in the Island of Madeira the traveler finds one of the strangest kinds of vehicles that the world affords. He secs waiting quietly near the wharf a number of sleda, with oxen yoked to each. sleek, It is always high summer time ln Madeira and to set- - a conveyance which he has ever associated with snow and Ice and zero weather Is at first disThe stranger rubs his concerting. eyes and asks shut those things are for, but he soon finds that they are the puhlle hacks and that unless ha cares to walk he must step Inside, ensconce himself on tiie cushioned scat and wait for Dip driver to prod s his slow with the goad that he nl ways curries. Very soon the vehicle begins to slip, very slowly to be sure, but surely, over the smooth little wiDi which the streets are At I'uvcil. any particular difficult turn of the road nr when coming to a rise of ground Die driver places a liitlii ling of grease under the front whii-of tin- iiiiiiii-imakes It coinpur-.-iDveleasy for the sturdy steers to d sti-cd- - s y Ihe hied. long sleep hill these oxen Du-tway. In coming low a asiiin no such tedious process Is Inn. ci Ding into a wide, finely sb-with wicker sides, iipholsteri-i- l Die passencer trusts himself to the leiidt-- r lmreles of two more or less illiiinmis looking guides as steersmen. Kerb one of them holds a rope tied to the back of tlic sled, and when Hutoboggan, aa it is often called, gets to Jumping and bounding too liikirinu.-.lthe guides jump off and pul! wiDi all their might at the ropes. Kvi-i- i up a will slowly make r ui-'-- - y Then He Stopped. eeriiiiii preacher iu a small Iowa bad a reputation for his hmg nnd dry' sermons. iin Sunday in- was living well up to it is siuiiiliiril ar.-- one by one i"ii l 'he church. Unhis congn-ga- l un-idismayed. Du- pi- uclier finally all h.nl lift hut Dio faithful At last 'In- - old sexton came fnrwnrd and. putting tin- keys on tbs pulpit, said: "Say, doctor, when ynu're through lock up. will ye?" A - l - - il - Cause and Effect you angry because he kissed ou? Nell No; hut I was when he apolo glzed far it later. Bcs Were |