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Show WE .RICH rOTTNTY REARER p ANPOLPH. UTAH The VALE OF ARAGON - By FRED McLAUGHLIN The Blade of Picardy fore her, Your Majesty THE STORY ll Copyright by (WNU Service.) . Bobbs-Merrl- In the city of New Orleans, in 1821, Loren Garde, recently an officer under General Jackson, Is surprised by the appearance of three figures, In ancient Spanish costume, two men and a woman whose beauty enchants him. Resenting the arrogance of the eld- er of the two men. Garde fights a duel with him with swords, and wounds him. He learns his opponent is Adolfo de Fuentes, cblonel in the Spanish army In Venezuela. Garde overhears a plot to overthrow Spanish rule in Venezuela. Discovered, he fights, but is overpowered. Garde finds himself a prisoner on the Santa Lucrecia, ship bearing arms and ammunition for the. Venezuelans. On board are the conspirators, the lady of his love, her brother Pollto, and De Fuentes. From the girl. Garde learns her name is Dulce Lamar-tin- a. He loves her, but does not reveal his love. The vessel is wrecked and Garde reaches the Venezuelan shore, alone. He encounters a stranger and sees Dulce with De Fuentes and Po-lit- o. Learning his history, the stranger, who is Captain Monahan of the British legion under Bolivar, urges Garde to join the Venezuelans, but his mind is set on again seeing Dulce. Monahan directs him to friends in Caracas. There Garde, supplied by Monahan with the secret sign of the patriots, le welcomed at the revolutionary headquarters. With a companion, Manuel, Garde goes to the cathedral, where the ding of Dulce and De Fuentes is in progress. Dulce recognizes him and leaves De Fuentes at the altar. She is torn from Gardes arms. He escapes. Co. for moon-wrait- half-smil- e had .saved . h. hour. I -- er you If you do not love Adolfo, it was puny an effort sent him off into a too much for you to do. paroxysm of coughing. Marriages in Spain, Senor, are not The Senor Lieutenant has an atarranged by those most interested. Our parents did this long ago. In the rocious cold, I ventured. Whereupon he smiled at me in the three years that Colonel Fuentes has I was in a spent in Venezuela vast changes have friendliest manner. come over him, and perhaps in myself he storm, explained. I am sorry, and your head ? as well. 1 do not feel so sure of myIs doing nicely, thank you ; it came self as I did some time ago. in contact with a spar." He studied Now, although I was sure this visit my face for half a. minute. Things of the Senorita Lamartina would be my death warrant for Adolfo would might be worse, Senor. A philosophic view Indeed," said I, know whither she had gone I laughed "and one in which I cannot share, for in the fullness of a great joy, for I soldiers at this moment surround my knew that De Fuentes had lost. Has the air of Venezuela, Your Majesty, place of abode. He laughed, a sorry effort, but suftarnished your tin soldier, or perhaps A temporary arrangement, ficient the moonlight of New Orleans? Can you jest so, Senor, when you I think. Perhaps they Imagine that the tall sailor, who has really offered must know they are seeking you out You should never have only the Frenchmans worship to even now? come is danger here for there a like here; beauty, might escape you." A wild surge of joy went over me. Assuredly; yet wherever the SenoPolito knew me, he wa&my friend, he rita goes was telling me that I would be free I Caracas Is filled with your enemies. I could have thrown my arms around And the guards, Seuor Lieuhim. Aye, and I have friends here, tenant ? Senorita, the' best friends that man Have been placed there by order ever had fervent patriots who are of Colonel Fuentes, and will be reworking for the freedom of a great . his order. only moved, therefore, by empire; men whom Spain will never I shall see him, however, within the conquer, soldiers who follow a man of pray, Senor Lieutenant, I said fervently, that I shall cause no further disturbance if, Indeed, I have been the cause of any. When my guards have been removed I shall take CHAPTER V the way to La Guaira, where some ; ship Now, watching his face, I saw that Adios Even as I entered the spacious home Polito did not brighten at this prosof Thomas Carrasco a file of soldiers pect, and I was glad, for, so long as Dulce remained In Venedeployed and surrounded It. Verily, the Senorita zuela, there would I remain, Morales moved swiftly and I knew Adios, then, said he. I would never win free of Caracas. I heard, in less than an hour, the I Yet, had held her in my arms again, had lost myself in the sweet depths crisp bark of orders and the sounds of her eyes, had heard her call my of shod feet on the stones of the. patio ; sounds that, fading swiftly, told name, had felt the touch of her finme that the guards had gone, and that gers. To my starved soul that was I was free again. Yet, free, I hesivery much indeed, so I laughed gaily as the good Tomas, all of a tremble, tated to leave Caracas, even If I were hurried Into my comfortable quarters, permitted. If I were free why should I go, why should I leave the Senorita, Do they seek thee, Senor these who was still the Senorita, and not soldiers? the Senora de Fuentes? I could yet Aye, Tomas; I am very valuable to not hope to disarrange another wedthem, for I have just disarranged a and if Dulce were willing to ding, wedding, and I have put a lasting hurt marry Adolfo today why should she Into the heart of Colonel. Fuentes. be unwilling tomorrow? ,Yet she did Ah, misfortune, Senor ; It will bring not love him ; of that I felt very sure. death to all of us! "then should she marry him at Not so, Tomas; this will bring Why, all? death only to a poor French sailor While I pondered thus, accomplishwho would feast his soul upon the a subtle fragrance filled ing beauty of a lady. This inn of yours the nothing, I dared not believe my room. la open to any traveler who has senses. The Senorita? It could not money to pay for accommodations. be. Dulce would not come to see me You know nothing of me; I shall asI was dreaming; my Insane here. sure them." had touched my brain, and I worship As a sergeant and five soldiers would see her, doubtless, all the rest and Lieutenant Polito marched in of my life. I had heard of such a from the patio I chose the side of thing, or read of it, and had laughed. the room farthest from the window, A slim figure stood in the that I might stand as much as pos- a figure all In lacy black, withdoorway, a heavy sible in the gloom. veil that effectually concealed the feaThe sergeant turned to Polito, who tures. One might not have known shook his head and touched his bandwhether she were dark or light, but I aged throat with caressing fingers, knew. ' addressed me: then the I said, bowing Again, Senorita, .Are you the devil, Senor, who has over a slim hand, you find me in a put a spell upon the Senorita Lamar-tina- ? prison. The visit of an angel could not have been There is too much flattery In your She touched my hair with trembling You asI said, words sergeant, It was light, was It not, fingers. sign too much power to me, "fend 1 Senor? I have dreamed of your hair think it Is the Senorita who has cast as being light! was all that just a a spell upon all of us. dream and am I dreaming now? Polita started and stared. I hardly know what has been real, What are you called, Senor? and what Timoleon Sourdez, said I, choosDid I not see you first in the mooning at random the first name that light, Senor, hatless, and with a came into my mind, a sailor raised strange light in your eyes? ' Did you in the Indies, who will work for anynot come to my aid when I called, and body, on any ship, at any time. I am did not you find me In the storm? Did a floater thats all. not your eyes draw me away from the How came you, Senor, in the altar? Are you now only the spirit cathedral? of the man who was lost in a raging sea? I sat alone, this morning, In the I tried to laugh. I am only a sort Plaza San Jacinto, while people passed into the great church. A swarthy of shadow, Your Majesty, which will sailor, doubtless having sympathy for follow you everywhere. Wherever you my loneliness, led me in so that I go there will I go, for you are the star of my hope; your voice might view the wedding of the beautiYou are mad, Senor. You you ful lady of Spain and the wise Colonel If evil has been wrought came to th cathedral, then, to ? Fuentes. I went to the cathedral to stop the in the cathedral, Sergeant, it is no work of mine. wedding. Mother Mary ! she' gasped. And Yet you The Frenchman, Senor, is ever a I went to the altar with Adolfo to save you. You should have left the lover ; and If I stared at her is it anything a thousand others were not do- city ere this. They offered to sell me your life, your freedom. Why did ing? Yet she you not go when you had the opporI to must her let tunity? fall, fainting, Ah, My life, and my freedom, belonged the carpeted aisle; would that have been the act of a Frenchman? We to me. You speak In parables. Your are a chivalrous race, Senor, and we Majesty. Now her blue eyes a haunting fear refer our arms and our hearts at In their depths searched my face. 1.11 times. May one do less? Oh, I am ashamed, she sobbed, .Polito swung his legs, a ashamed. I would save your life beon his handsome face. The sergeant shrugged his shoulders helplessly and cause you have offered so much. They turned toward his superior. If the told me you were a prisoner in the dungeon, and were awaiting execulieutenant desires to question him? tion, and that I " Not at all," said Polito. His voice Your Majesty, I said, helpless be was a hoarse, rasping whisper, yet so sub-offic- ... I feel very, very happy and very humble. It was little enough for me to do, Author of destiny. expression of sadness touched An her eyes. Yet you told me, Senor, that you did not serve Bolivar. ' did I not serve him then, Your Majesty, but since; that time I have looked upon the dead city of Tucayan, and a people who can sanction such an act of senseless brutality Senor, this nightmare of mur. . This Bolivar who has brought about all the wars, and the Would you serve this this killings. She caught the vulture, Senor? lapels of my rough jacket in trembling Senor, she said breathlessfingers. father my spent his life in the ly, service of Spain, and Polito, my brother, will doubtless do the same. Ones country is ones life. Did you come to Venezuela, Senor, to offer service to Ah, . der Bolivar? As you very well know, I followed the Senorita Lamartina to Venezuela. Did you Journey to Caracas to serve Venezuela? I saw the Senorita riding toward Caracas, and I followed her, as would always. Did you visit the cathedral today because of your love for the fervent patriots? I heard the sounds of marching men, and knew that the guards had returned. This, then, was the end. 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