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Show ) " Sr' 5 right, mt. 1900, CHAPTER XXL Continued. At this point an officer came swiftly across the parterre and stood jvith uncovered head by the steps of the terrace, wa.t ng for permission to as- cend The Prince summoned him with a movement of his hand. What news'. lie said; "have the ladies et lr-- the Summer Palace? "No, my lord answered the offlter earnestly ; but Johannes Rode of he Princess Margaret's household nas come with a message that the plague has broken out there, and that the Lady Princess is the first stricken." Which Princess?" demanded Ivan, with an instant incision of tone. The Lady Joan, Princess of Court-lanyour Highness, replied the man, without, however, looking at the Prince of Museovy.-Th- e Lady Joan, cried the Prince Louis, she is HIT She has brought the Black Death with her? She is stricken with the plague? How fortunate 'that, so far, I He clapped his hand npon his brow and shut his eyes as if giving Vianks. I see it all now! he cried. "This is the reason the Kernsberg traitors were so willing to give her up. It is all a plot against my life. I will not go near. Let the court physicians be sent! Cause the doors of the Summer Palace to be sealed! Set double guards! Permit none to pass either way, save the doctors only! And let them change their clothes and perfume themselves with the smoke of sulphur before they come out! His voice mounted higher and higher as he spoke, and Ivan of Muscovy watched him without speaking, as with bands thrust out and distended nostrils he screamed and gesticulated. Prince Ivan had never seen a thorough coward before, and the breed interested him. But when he had let the Prince run on far enough to shame him before his officer, he rose quietly and stood in front of him. "Louis," he said in a low voice, "listen to me this is but a report. It is like enough to be false; It is certain to be exaggerated. Let us go at once and find out. Prince Louis threw out his hands with a gesture- - of despair. You may Not I not I! he cried. go If you like, if you do not value your life. But I I do not feel well even now. Yesterday I kissed her hand. Ah, would to God that I had not! That Is it I wondered what ailed me thla Go stop the court physl- morning. , Clans? Pq not let them go to the Summer palace; bring them here 'td' me first Yonr arm, office; I think I will go to my room I am not well." Prince Ivans countenance grew mottled and greyish, and his teeth showed in the sun like a thin line of dazzling white. He grasped the poltroon by the wrist with a hand of steel. no more of this; Listen, he said I will not have it! I ,111 not waste my own time and the blood ofmy fathers soldiers for naught This is but some woman's trick to delay the marriage I know it. Hearken! I fear neither Black Death nor black devil; I will have the Lady Margaret if I have to wed her on her deathbed! Now, I cannot enter your wifes chamber alone. Yet go I must If only to see what all this means, and you shall accompany me. Do you hear. Prince Louis? I swear you shall go with me to the Summer Palace, If I have to drag you step by step! His grasp lay like a tightening circle of iron about the wrist of Prince Loots; his steady glance dominated the weaker man. Louis drew in his breath with a choking noise. 1 will, . he gasped: if I must I will go. But the Death the Black to-da-y frz At ooon Ind sundown cau Tom Ojo Alma. TOt fWe had rea Vn'the Indli have to pt out fiiV fire blajr ? q I swear you shall go with me." sick truly. lvan, I am TSlatTT' am Tvery iick! am I! f c TwStfdcxxdo R: CROCKETT. (Cop ) said Prince Iran, smB-- u lig grimly. "But bring his Highness cup of wise, and send hither Alexia Deacon, my own physician." The officer Trent out cnrsing the Muscovite ears that bad listened to snch things, and also high Heaven for giving snch a Prince to his father-land- . A eU'tl At the Princess door Prince Iran tapped gently and inclined hla ear to listen. Louis fumbled with his golden crucifix, and as the Muscovite turned away his head he pressed it furtively to his lips. Ever since he set foot In tba Summer Palace he had bean mut yon my word of houor she is f danger. Call jour sLter! Even as he siHike he tupped tlr.htY turned the key in tho lock and whl1 pered, Now! to ti e Prince of Court land. "Tell the Princess Margaret I would Joui-For speak with her!" said Prince a moment onb! he added, f1 lng thst oiht raise she mlgb by 8. R. Crockett.) ei There was a stir In the sick ru-b'nd then quick steps we reheard coning lightly across the floor. The fac- - of the princess apptared at th low-voice- d doo. Well?" she said haughtily to her bro'l.er. Prince Ivan she did not te. for he had stepped back Into the dusk of the corridor. Louis beckoned his sister without. I must speak a word with you." b said. I would not have these fellows hear us! She stepped out unsuspectingly. Instantly the door was closed behind her. A dark figure slid Prince Ivan turned .the key and laid his hand upon her arm. "Help! she cried, struggling; help me! For Gods grace, let me go!" But from behind came fonr cossack of the Princes retinue who d her along .tOYrd the gates at which (lie Musccrvlt horses stood ready saddled. And as Margaret waa carried down ths Passage the alarmed servitors .stood d grey-skirte- half-carrie- balf-foree- she cried, struggling, "Help! aloof from her cries, seeing that Prince Louis himself was with her. Yet she cried out unceasingly in her anger and fear, To me, men of Court-land- ! The cossack carry me off I will not go? 0. God, that Conrad were here! I win not be silent! Mzarlce, save me!" But the people only shrugged their shoulders even when they lewd as the guards thd the the underlings and the very porters at the palace gate For they said, They are strange folk, these did geadwihett-ii-waitin- Courtland princes and princesses of ours, with their marriages and giving In marriage. They can neither wed nor bed like other people, hut must be taken by force. Well, happily it ia no business of ours! Then at the stair foot she sank down by the sundial, almost fainting with the sudden alarm and fetr, crying for the last time and yet more piercingly, Maurice! Maurice! Come to Then above them in me, Maurice! the palace there began a mighty clamor, the noise of blows stricken and the roar of many voices. But Ivan of Muscovy was neither to be hurried nor flurried. Impassive and determined, he swnng himself Jnte the saddle. Hi black charger changed his feet to take his weight and looked about to welcome him for he, too, knew hla master. "Give the princess to me. he comNow - assist Prince Louis manded. into his saddle. To the cathedral, ail of you! (To be continued ) f Mixing Theology and Poker, Few persons, except clerk behind the counter know to what extent discount fa given to the families of clergysaid men, firemen and policemen, a floor manager in an uptown store. There ia to doubt we are often imposed upon In this way, but there seems to be no way to prevent-I- t It is hard to question a woman' veracity when she tells you shs is ths wife, sister or daughter, as the case may be, of the Rev. Mr. Blank of Flat-busor that her husband is a fireman, We must take her word for it Ths oddest case of that kind I ever A young saw happened last week. woman came around to purchase some article for a camping outfit;, said shs and her mother and sisters were going to spend the summer in the Adiron-dackh, a. were six Among her purchase at torty cards of packages playing cents a pack and two boxes of poker chips. " 'And now,' she said, as she reached for her purse, please compute the They- - are at-eed now-sa- id usual dieewmt for. minister. My Prince Ivan consolingly. Call your father U the Rev. Mr. Dash of St. alster out of the chamber on a pre- Circles.' text In tea minutes we shall be at T she was imposing on ns, the cathedral gates. Ia another ted and Ithoughf Much made an investigation. the and I can be wedded according to to my speak-in- g was I she found surprise, your Roman custom. In half an hour New York Pres. the truth! we shall all he outside the walls. If yon fear the Infection yon need not Returned Home to Die. come near her. I will do all that Is Twenty-siyear ago Joseph Stscy And what more natural? necessary. disappeared from bis borne in Eliot, We'will be gone before the panic Me. His whereabouts remained a breaks yon to one of your bin castles mystery, until two weeks ago, when If you do not wish to come with ns he euddenly presented himself is the to Moscow. town. He stated frankly that b bad And the Princess Joan V faltered come home to die, and did so within the coward. a wek after his arrival. He Ld been She is in good handr?TsaId the time tinee IntheweFt vro-s- t .L-the I pledge- leaving her e prince, truthfully for once. as x - M - -a i- MINES AND MINING RAISED IS some very rich ore is being gotten out in the La Sal It is claimed that WOOL-GROWE- RS WITH -I- S f" UTAH'S i usury bill Introduced by Jensen to take more than II per cent Interest. House bill No. 1, by Jensen, make taxes upon real estate a lien upon property after January 1 of eaclt year. House bill No. 4, by Dean, authorizes boards of commissioner to emto exterminate perni-ion- s ploy agent weeds. Wesley K. Walton is the oldest member in point of service In the senate. Mr. Walton is the senator from Rich county. Robinson, of Bingham, has introduced a bill apropriatlng 97,500 to Lafayette Cidester for injuries iui discharge of his duty a an , --The makes It unlawful district of Utah. Fears of slides at Alta are being entertained, though it is not believed Prominent Sheepmen Charged With that snow has drifted enough yet the Having Been Silenced by Governto cause damage. any great ment Agents With PrOmiees The management of the Utah mine of Special Privileges. at Fish Springs is slowly but surely penetrating the workings of tne propSalt lathe City A sensation was erty, which ao recently were gutted the deiegatet, to the by a fierce lire. iprung on It is estimated that no less that) (ort third annual contention of the National Woolgrowers association in 5,085 men are employed in the minsession in this cit last week, ing industry in the Coeur dAlene disThe lowest wage officer. trict of Idaho. that may develop into the most startlI $J.60 per The senate passed the first bill of ing chargee that hate ever been made paid to any (nine employe nathe session on the 15th, it being Senday. agnjat influential members of a in this tional lit estock organization Directors of the Amalgamated Cop- ate Bill No. 1, malting an appropriation of 935,000 for the contingent expenses country. per company on the 17th declared the of the session. of of It is eharged that half a dozen 14 per The Democratic members of the regular quarterly dividend of I bouse the most influential western sheepmen cent and an extra dividend of showed their mettle by naming in per cent. This is unchanged from the a list of nominees for practically all who until recently, were bitter the offices. The Democrats of the their denunciations of forest reserve last previous dividend. 8. bouse number confederal and proposed regulations Splendid progress Is being regisFrederick Rasband Is the hold-ove- r trol of western grazing lands, have tered upon the concentrating plant senator from Summit county, and for been si Ion red government destined to handle the resources of by the tho last twenty years a resident of grazagents with promises of special the Utah Apex and the Red Wing Park City. Senator Rasband Is a naing privileges for their stock during properties, the foundations being in tive Utahn, having been born in -- Provo In 1858. the coming year. and the timbers well up. It Is exbe Senator Smith hat introduced a bill pected that the frame work will SHEEP MEN DONT LIKE IT. providing for the revision, annotation, completed within the coming and printing of the laws of Utah. weeks. President Gifford Plnchot Present and creating a compilation commission, chemist chief William Stephenson, of commissions and Roosevelt' Ultimatum Regarding. appointments of the Welmer Copper company, whose making an apropristlnn therefor, Forest Reserves. mines are near Kaufman on Birch 8peaker Joseph announced at the Salt Lake City. One thousand creek, was la conference with some opening of the house session on Tuessheep men representing the Immense of the leading citizens of Idaho Falls day of last week, that each member sheep Industry of the western states, last week on matters pertaining to would be expected to he in hla seat locked the possibility of the erection by his promptly at roil call, as promptness in convention assembled, horns with the United 8tates govern- company of a smelter at or near would be one of the rules of the house. -, ment In the person of Gifford Plnchot, Idaho Falla. fire deof recent Mr. Marks, Demothe motion that evidence an As States United Upon chief forester of the cratic members of the last house who Mine here at Is property Utah the who company! of agriculture, partment are Anembers of the present body at the head of twenty-fivgovernment in the Fish springs district Deep were allowed first choice of seats, forest reserve agents, over the propo- Creek, has not Interfered with pro- and Republican, members of the last sition advanced by President Roose- duction, the management announced house second choice, the remaining last week that it had just pulled down members to have choice by JoL velt in hia last message to congress check from the smelting company a J. F. Toiton, the Democratic leader of the national government assuming for 95,107.63, the proceeds from one of the bouse, discussing the govercontrol of the -- four hundred million carload of .ore. nors message, said be found many peracres of grazing lands In the west. On the Old Chunk property in the tinent suggestions in 1L The goverPlnMr. That message, as read by nor, he thought, had made hie message Atlanta district of Idaho, an exten- of too great length and had Immigratchot at the convention, is as follows: the which sion oi the great lead on ed In It much unnecessary matter,. , That in the judgment of the presiPetit is located, a rich strike has Nurserymen want the legislature to dent, government control of the pub- been made. This is the property that enact a. bill making it necessary for lic range is eventually coming, and Mr. was being worked by Spaulding tree growers to secure licenses before coming soon. in a they can aell their wares la the state. That it id right that it should come. when he was caught and killed The property is now bond U is believed such a bill would greatThat the president believe It is for tnowsllde. ly benefit the nursery Industry of the the best Interests of the public do- ed by V. 8. Brown. state, on especially if a clause were main. including the livestock, men, in mine Horse Idaho, The Dark and that it should come soon. making a state inspection obIs Montana line. the near the divide ligatory for all nurseries. That as government control of the IS It shows proving sensational. public range is one of the fixed policies Neither the bouse nor the senate he would be feet of bornlte that carrlea 60 per were of his administration, in session to exceed thirty minassocia cent of copper'. The stock of the com- utes on the 16th. The adoption glad to get the advice of this of the tion and of the American Livestock pany haa risen to a high price, and report of the rules of committee and association as to the form it should some ' men whp took their pay ' in the first reading of a bill establishing lake for the best Interests of all stock have been made comfortably a state Insurance department, .and providing .Aor...tlia .tDaolAUuent..cf SO. Mt,hy .Abels investments-.- . insurance ' commissioner, consumed SINKING. of the stockholders The Nlplsslng SH0RE8 OF yARBOR moat of the time of the senate. company, assembled in the east, did Wrecked The time for Introducing bills has People ef Kingston Fear Samuel Newhouse, of Salt Lake, ths been limited to the first thirty days Sea. Into Town Will Slip distinguished honor of selecting him it the session. Heretofore bills could haras tbe executive head of the company, be Introduced up to tbe last day, makNew York. The tehorea of the bor of Kingston are sinking and there and late Wednesday Mr. Newhquae re- ing the work at the close of the see The only ts terror lest the ciiy slip into the ceived official announcement of the tion exceedingly billhurried. now can be IntroIn which a a way and director is presihe fact that sea, according, to a dispatch received dent of this famous mining organi-ration- . duced after the thirty-dalimit expires is upon recommendation of a comby a large mercantile house here ' mittee. from Port Au Prince, Haytl. The circular in d is A report bed of the harbor Is said to be sink tion in Goldfield that a gigantic merSecretary of Btate Tingey has sent is to the senate a communication accomlng and the water In many placesnot the ger of mining interests, including now 100 feet deep. Every wharf panied by three reports made by ths sunk Daisy, Triangle and Qreat Bend, is In commission appointed by the last legdestroyed by fire is said to have rendered been into the sea, or to have process of formation. The interested islature to Investigate and report up on the question of the proposed merworthies. parties refuse to discuss the rumor. the ger of the Agricultural college with controls who William J. Brewer, London Protestor Says Thero Is a Triangie, admits that an eastern syn- tbe University of Utah. - Three reports and two minStats of Unrest in Earth. dicate is seeking thst property. - - were made, one majority ority report. London. That there is a general Manager Grant Snyder states thst It la said that Representative Koehstate of unrest in the earth, of which conditions are gradually' Improving ler, of Ogden, will at an early date inwas only Nevsds-Fsirviedisturbance the Jamaica company's troduce a 'measure that will require t the one Instance, is the belief of Professor property. Ores ranging all the way that when a complaint of malfeasance and from 915 to over 920 per ton In sil- or misfeasance in office, or other Belar, the famous sesimologist ver and gold have been coming from charge of a criminal nature shall bo Laibach observatory, astronomer of the 4 tunnel, and the average of brought against any official of the Hia Instrument registered the Jamai- the No. three and four feet of ore state, before it shall be considered by between other proofs but can disturbance, give In the face Is better than 950 a ton a court, shall be signed by at least In the shape of terrestlal phenomena twenty citizens. of shocks elsewhere, hailstorms and X large body of sulphide ore was For the avowed purpose of bringing rock falls. recently encountered on the 400-foof tbe tax a an about of level of tne Osborn mine at Horseshoe sessments equalization In this state and for the Lgelalature Asks for Investigation Bend. This discovery made at this purpose of compelling, the owners of Senator Bailey. which ts shout 100 feet below the great mining and smelting corporIn AustlnTTei. The Jowef house tho depth, bed of the payette river, and about ations In JUtah to bear their just bun the Texas legislature adopted the 'Ken- 1,000- - feet deeper than the deepest den of the expense of maintaining the resominesof Pearl (which are on the government of the state, a Joint revnedy substitute to the Duncan belt), speaks volumes for the enue committee will be appointed by lution looking to an investigation of same the aenate and house of the present future permanency of this camp. and Senator Bailey and his connection la f ore Strike of reported legislature. A association with the Waters-Plerc- e waa Orvll east Thompson, of miles ten Represeritatlve mine, resolution in the Moonlight The Oil company. encoun- Millard county, who has served tn two 65 to 55, and ia of Pocatello, Idaho. waa of It vole by adopted claimed as a victory by the friends of tered In the lower cross-cu- t tunnel, legislatureipriorte to this, says he will for bills to offer during made is Provision probably have Senator Bailey. a body of the best the to investigate any which has opened present session. Mr.Thompson a committee I In It this found ore yet property. was a member of the first legislature, charges that may be made against said the new ore body is a continua- but went' down Ylth ether Republicans Bailey. In the tion at depth of that opened In the Bryan landslide which swept wide opper workings, is eight feet Utah In 1896. He was-a- . ember,pt , Battl of Featherweights. of the highest grade yet found in the last house and was jp and to ' Lo Angeles. Abe Attel knocked the Moonlight the present assembly. out Harry Baker, of San Francisco Idaho countyr Idaho, Is on tbe verge A bill ts said to be la the process of In the eighth round Friday night, re- of the greatest mining exploitation in by a member of the legispreparation . champion-shipits history. The Good enough group lature providing that sheriffs who are taining the featherweight In was great The champion of mines on Bear creek, in the Mar- made defendants in civil suits rising form and outclassed his man from performance of their duty shall Lake district. Is the scene of out of theIndemnified a was fast start to finish. The fight for their attorhall be that than richer Ore excitement from the tbe state. The bill will one, but Attel was too strongFrancis- - of fees by neys la brought Nevada, being Goldfield, every standpoint for the San One chunk of ore be favored by all sheriffs In the state eo boy. Attel uMd every blow In the to the surface. the past been compelled 75 pounds Is shot through who nave in fistic categoryr hi footworkwas light- weighing wttb goldpsPfl" estimated tn pay for their defense, regardles of snd through ducking Baker's whether they win or lose the tuilS' ning fast, although him for the few to yield 82.000. and covering up saved filed against them. rounds the fight lasted. Activity in Utah Consolidated stock Tbe discovery has been made that the past few day is due to the fact the aenate is not to have a. reading Acquitted. Young Dyer that it is now earning at clerk this session. The rotund ,Toic partly BL Louis. David P. Dyer, Jr., son the rate of 813 per share. The new of Thedoslus Botkin has been removed of the United States district attorney, smelter, tunnel snd tramway are ex- to Mauritius, where It ia doing duty' for Uncle Sam In a consular position, and s teller in the local pected to coet, altogether, less than and Theodosius has . no successor a Jury by waa Friday night acquitted 81,000,000. there. ( In the United States district court on samples of ore, takFrom fifty-tw3. No. bill by Smith, is an a charge of having embezzled 861,600 en from mors than twenty openings actSenate of the prao the for regulation was of government funds. The Jury Tertngton-Msiachit- e in the snd medicine Uce Copper snrgery the of in was out five hours, and the verdict at by state of Utah, and for the appointment Yerlngton, property courtroom companys the with cheers, received an of a board of medical examiners is of the General Manager Grant Snyder, being nearly filled With friends the matter of said regulation, and prowaa employes. federal Dyer family snd average 'of 7.64 per cint copper viding for the repeal of title 62, Rebooks his Dyere defense! was that, no know- obtained. Statutes ot Utah, 1893. vised showed a shortage, he had ledge of how the shortage occurred. f . r c . 1' ) iJ t I u. well-define- high-grad- ' - e ' o -- t e r; i CRY AMONG come. tering the prayers of the Church in a rapid undertone Prince Louis to see Princess Joan! chalIvan answered the lenge from within. The door opened slightly and then more widely. Ivan pushed his friend forward and they entered, Louis dragging one foot after the other towards the shaded couch by vhich knelt the Princess Margaret. Thora of Bornholm, pallid and bluelipped, stood beside her, sway lug a little but still holding, half unconsciously, a sliver basin, into which Margaret dipped a fine linen cloth, before touching with it the lips of the sufferer. Prince Ivan remained a little back, near to where the court physicians were conferring together in Stage whispers. As he passed, a tall, lorg bearded man. girt about the middle with a silver chain, detachd himself from the official group and approached Prince Ivan. After an instinctive cringing movement of homage and salutation, he bent to the young mans ear and whispered half a dozen words. Prince Ivan nodded very slightly and the man stole away as he had come. No one In the room had noticed the incident Meanwhile Louis of Courtland, almost as pale as Thora herself, his lips blue, his teeth chattering, his fingers clammy with perspiration, stood oy the bedside clutching the crucifix. Presently a hand waa laid npon his arm. He started violently at the touch. It is true a bad case, Bald Ivan in his ear. Let ns get away; I must speak with you at once. The physicians have given their verdict They can do nothing! With a gasp of relief Prince Louis faced about, and as be turned he tottered. said Prince Steady, friend Iouis Ivan in his ear and passed hia arm about his waist. He began to fear lest he should have frightened his dupe too thoroughly. See how he loves her! murmured the doctors of healing, still conferring with their heads together. Who would have believed it possible? Nay, he is only much afraid." Said Alexis the Deacon, the Muscovite doo-toand small blame to him, new that the Black Death haa come to Courtland. In half an hour we shall hear the death rattle! Then there is no need of us staying, said more than one learned doo tor, and they moved softly towards the door. But Ivan had possessed himself of the key, and even as the bftnd of the flnrt war on the latehet bar the bolt was shot in his face. And the eyes of Alexis the Deacon glowed between hla narrow red lid like sparks in tinder as he glanced at the whitening faces of the learned men of Courtland. Without the door Ivan fixed Prince Louis with his will. he said, speaking in low, Now, trenchant tones, if this be indeed the Black Death (and it is like it), there is no safety for us here. We must get without walls. In an hour there will be such a panic In the city as has not been for centuries. I offer you a way of escape. My Cossacks stand horsed and ready without. Let us go with them. But the Princess Margaret must come also! But but but Louis still objected, the Princess Joan she may die. That will reflect upon my honor if we all desert her. My sister will continue to attend her. They are friends. I will go with you . . . Margaret can remain and nurse her! A light like a spear point glittered momentarily under the dark brows of the Muscovite. Listen, Prince Louis, he said. "Your honor Is your honor. Joan of the Sword Hand and . her Black Plagues are your own affair. She is your wife, not mine. I have helped you to get her hack no- - more. But the Princess Margaret is my business. I have bought her with a price. And look you, sir, I will not ride back to Russia empty-handethat every petty boyar and starveling serf may scoff at me saying, 'He helped the Prince of Courtland to win his wife, bat he coaid not bring hack one himself.' The whole city, the whole country from here to Moscow know for what cause I have so long sojourned in your capital. Now, Prince Lonis, will you have ins go as yonr friend or as yonr enemy? Ivan Ivan, you are my friend. Do not speak to me so! Who else is my friend if you desert me? Then give me your sister! cast up his hand with .. The prince n little gesture of despair. ' "Ah," he sighed, yon do not know She is not In my gift, or Margaret! you should have had. her long ago! Oh, these troubles, these troubles! When will they be at an end? foam-flecke- TREASON z- J |