Show DO JU novel or copyright 1926 warn r erna pictures inc don juan screen play by bess meredyth starring john barrymore Is 1 a warner bros of this novel CH VI continued and I 1 ducretia borgia also watched her mouth cr even een than it hall had ever ener been in all the dais and nights of her merciless life watched anti and planned the vengeance that was soon to be hers by B nightfall terror stalked through the narrow streets of rome and over all its seven coen hills people huddled huddle in door doornail whispering together the borgias ba have bae e attacked the 0 rim they told each cach other there b hid ad been three arrests arrest two tuo men a and nol one ne woman noman they rhey had been strangled at once in t the he grim depths of san angelo the great prison on conveniently situated on tile the tibel so that dead bodies could be thrown into it an and d carried abay away to oblivion some of those who clung to together in the doon doorways nys or went ent skulking g through the shadowy streets knew that they were fairly safe so long as then the did nothing to offend the borgias gia their own on insignificance was mas a protection and 3 vet et no one en ever er kaev how long that would be so others there were anere who nho realized that it if they remained in rome their das numb numbered red and so it hap happened opened thit that th it heavily hem it cloaked stealthily steal thil anon moving ing figures slipped from the shallow shadow of one building to that of another making the r way ay at always ay s ton toward ard the outskirts of the city intent on oil leaving it perhaps only until the borgias should fall iron from power perhaps awe forever er there were women omen chobe velvet gowns dragged heavily on the rough paving tones stones whose jewels gleamed when hen for an instant their cloaks fell back on their shoulders there were men stern faced hands ever eer on the r sword nord hilts hilt who nho scanned every step of the way before they took it and sometimes too there were nere anster figures who nho fol followed loed them and suddenly there would be fighting in the narrow narro darkened streets anti and after afen a few brief moments moment the stone paying paving would be red aith blood and one or two bodies might mark the failure or success of another noble fam ilys attempt to outwit the borgias borgia none of them suspected that this new outbreak of ruthless persecution was a cati caused ed by the fact that a slim lovely girl had bad unwittingly come between lucretia borgia and the man she loved the duke fella della knew it his household gathered behind the barred doors door of the palace in the great entrance hall baited only his command to take flight some there were ere who ullo would be safe enough in rome if they concealed the fact that they had bo boen ben en in his employ even een so small a thing as that was nas reason enough for meeting death some would make their way out of the city like moles creeping through the earth and seek seck refuge elseN elsewhere here varne e hall had laid his plans careful 1 iv long before knowing that the time would come when he and adeana would lou id no longer bo be safe in rome chev would leane leae the city on foot stealing through the streets to the the place ibi cie hordes lot c would be awaiting the tham in then ihen would berin begin the headlong I 1 flight southward sou thiard to naples but not jong ot een there would the dare to lest they would go on to france and remain there as is exile lie he looked about the lofty loft hall a place almost sacred to bill because at always as it had been the home of his family lie he did ill not fare dare to hope that he would ever see it again adriana night might come back she would could live lie to see the da ie hoped hen the bor ajas vi ii era cre no longer in power but he hns too old this night would give gie linn him his list last glimpse of his home idnani knelt weeping at lus his side her rosary clasped in her trembling hinds she wept at leaving her honn and from terror over oler the impend ng light flight but she wept nept even een more at the thought of leaving juan had it not been for her father she he would have hae chosen to remain in the cita daring death itself to be near the man she loved loed when he th thought of slipping ax ay through the darkness never neter to see him again the pain was intolerable yet she could not ask her father to stay knowing that to do so 0 o meant certain death for lum him the servants verc nere huddled close about her and her father talking wildly the women weeping ping holding their children close would it be better to go or to stay they asked each other there had been other outbreaks like this one and they had coin comp through safely pe perhaps this time too nothing would inkpen havnen ard and vet net perhaps nho could tell but what hat this time tame would be the fatal one adeana lifting frightened eyes eves to her father d one of the men rr gainers N who ho stood a little apart from ti ile HP ba hal I 1 aten in her fa tl arera ers employ but a short tim fhe ehe hid narti noticed him until now noa he vis vas imling a little a i nistor smil t it her the terror 1 I t athi ia amed med tt tc amu abue lum him irre atly abriani Al tugged ut lt her ber ta a tl le i e ve vr wantina wan i int tinB iric io fo warn wain wai n him nt t I ww irk whit to ev ile he hall hal been talking to one of jug his men giving some lost last orders order he turned to hor her at once comel come he exclaimed lifting her to her feet if me e are not out of rome home before the hour tha w wit 11 loll kill me as they killed the prince we must hurry but but oh let us inait ll 11 she cried her eye eves on the man wha nho stood smiling she dreaded haing the bars drawn dran back and the great doors swung open let us wait until tomorrow I 1 bop of ou let us aalt Varan esc c patted her shoulder consolingly solin gly do no not t be flight frightened ened lie he urged tib no more dangerous to go now than at iny any other terrp come my daug daughter lIterl reluctantly clinging to him aan ana let him lead her toward the outer doors she clenched her hands as the bars v ere drawn drai n back she wanted anted to throw herself again against t the doors and present their being opened but u her father cut short her remor of course she was na frightened at th ahr prospect of their flight but all would soon on be veil niel lie he told her and sh she with nothing but the sinister smile of a paid retainer as reason for this new fear could say nothing the great bronze doors nere cre opened letting in the warm spring night waiting in tho the courtyard their soldiers massed ma sed behind them were cesire cesare bor barp ia and his cout cousin s in donati donat and adrians adriana crying crime out in terror turned and zaw saw the man who hail bad smiled mile nodding to one of th men iho ft ho stood closest to cesare borgia 1 VII someone cone must have betrayed lum him on one of the sero servants ants perhaps although his plans had been known imon to so lev fei that that seemed hardly possible how the secret hat had leaked out mattered not at all ho however weer the end was as near at hand now noa casare borgia was mas smiling awl and in his eye was the expression et that comes into a cat as it matches the mouse on which it will bill presently spring to be continued |