The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 30, 1905, Page 13

| vit in on ee Ferriby Grammar School; next dooryard, and gave their tribute jj : 7 } known in Barrataria and attracted some attention. | represented aS a distant relative ef the roy ay seal fal- ily on muportant wisswa, ald after bribi tue guard, was perm: ted to seuad in my card. lD’resenuy the guard returned, and bowing low entreated me to tolluw him. 1 passed through the warble hails of the palace, and was ushered into a dimily-lighted drawing-rwm. And in a few minutes entered Auelaide, my Market own, my darling, hoiding out boia boasted ‘of a rrench professor—one to another, The yines had come up bh s and swiing Ler greeting. 1 John Henry, English by compulsion,| and run to seed twice since she took her to my heart I covered her French by birth and training. Every-tpicked their blossoms. ighbors body could see that by his manner,’ said the professor and his daugliter his dress, his tall, furry French bat, left suddenly, Some one heard him his silver buckled Freuch shoes. He exclaim to some one else—“I go back was a diminutive, courtier-like gen-; to my kingly rights. 1 am a won- tleman, rather shabby on his pittance arch.” That was all. Something of a hundred pounds a year, but none clutched at my throat. -I was hardly the less proud of his ancestry. We ©‘~hteen. Do you wonder I cried a lit-| believed him to be of royal blood. tle? Yet we did not show respect, even for/ | went to Paris and studied the his attainments. Indeed, with his in-| great newspapers for | months past mindedness, he was something of @ American New York Herald, _refer-| butt for raw jokes, I remember 80 ence to the little kingdom of Barrat- well the winter. (for it led me to her! aria, an island in the nerthern seas, who has become the ht of my)}The writer told of great fyes in the life) when he strayed thoughtlessly | little town of a thousand souls over into the midst of a snow-ball fight be-| the return of its king, driven out dur-| tween classes on the school gree. ing a revolution some years before.| Both sides joimed in the attack, and)%hen my heart went sick, for there the old professor was well-nigh un-| was a picture of little Adelaide, as conscious when I rescued him, set! the king's daughter, wearing a quaint) him in a hansom, and took him to)lace headdress with gold ornaments his home, : [around the ears, The old love’ re A tiny cottage, on a-corner near the} kindled, 1 packed my grip and de outskirts of town, where the river) parted for Burratriu on the night drive swept into our little park—how | train, often I remembered it in after days.| Barrataria consisted of a city of There Adelaide and her father spent) some> four thousand souls, on a two- their quiet, happy life, The professor | }yndred-acre island, reached by long, Was absorbed in his books; the | heavy bridges from the mainland. It daughter moved quietly around the was ‘an elevated plain, built up solid house, or attended her flowers, So) with residences and warehouses, its it was when I called a few nights) people were well-to-do. Many of later to inquire as to Mr, Heury’s|them dried shiploads of herring and condition, The Christmas holidays} sole, storing their packages of fra- were on, I had ample leisure, And} grant tish under open sheds, or in what a team love and leisure make.| loosely built frame barns. Others | Grand State Ball, dear face with kisses. And when we were quieted, I toid her how 1 had found her’aud why I had come. She insisted that it was bo use—that it only made her lot harder to bear. She had beeu ordered by the king to wed ‘Trastamara, “the gambler,” though |! she loathed him. “Uh, Gregory,” suc the little cottage in Ferripy.” frequent glimpses of her dear face, the haunting fear of Trastamara’s schemes, lor two weeks 1 remained at the hotel, while the revolution smouldered, and I racked my brains for a method of reseaing Adelaide. Then my plan formed, 1 sat still and awaited the crucial moment It was the night‘of the annual With a somewhat doubtful heart, I entered the palace, in full uniform, with short Scotch ;sword. Before many minutes I was ‘summoned by Adelaide's Chamber- lain to meet her in the dancing-hall, and thither I went for a brief dance with my beloved. Near by her, guard- ing her jealously, stood 'frastamara, a a dark-browed desperado, 1 had learned—though he knew it not—that he had several hundred trusty follow- ers, in the palace and out, ready to rush to his call, He had planned to carry out his scheme that night, I knew all this, and I, alone aud aimost empty-handed, was there to baik him, For two years fmore olt Market) operaied big steamship lines, spend- Ferriby - was heaven, I think I) ing their days at business and their did myself credit in certain stud resting hours in Barrataria, Others although the professor told me bland-| were gentlemen of leisure and gam- ly that I was so well posted in certain) blers. They came from several near- others that he would not find it nec-|by provinces, And presently they essary to examine me, which esplana-| were intermarrying and rearing sons tion my parents swallowed without) with more money than brains. It is hesitation, If I failed in any I must] no wouder that the voters—the native coufess my greater interest at the lit-| born were turbulent. When I ar- tle cottage. I spent a good many] rived a new party had been organ- hours studying a pair of eyes and a] ized; some kind of an anti, or may be pretty face and the kind of voice] a liberal. Anyhow the little town was that makes you think, broken up into cliques, and they were I graduated with two precious pos-| at one another's throats, Opposite the sessions; a heart and a diploma, L['City Hall, Government troops sat on * ee * KISSED HER PASSIONATELY BEFORE THEM ALL.” knapsacks and laughed about the pos- sible end. They were a byave. rol- dents and merchants of the town. think I far out-valued the heart, for there never was another like it, and “hone ever wilt be But-atany- nal home, Charter’s Court, there was After our dance, I uad an opportu. nity to draw Adelaide into the con- servatory, L abjured her to me back to England—to place with all its bickeri tings, and be my bon sh M “But father,” she faltered; “they would tear him to pieces if they found me gone, And yet, Gregory dear, 1 believe he would go if be had a chance, He is so feeble, so sick of it all, If you could talk with him.” Suddenly Adelaide’s eyes grew big and dark with fright. My back was }to the door, and I had one hand on jher waist, smoothing her dear hair with the other, [turned heart chilled, There, peep tween the great leaves ¢ grinning hatefully, was Trastamara. He disappeared, The next moment there was a hub m 1 heard “Come wilh me quic » in anoen excited — sour only chance!” And taking me by the ar: she drew me into the ballroom and up on to the stage. The crowd ap- proached us on tiptoe with excitment, for Trast a had undoubtedly spread th ows. In the front eame the king, with brilliant robes and jew- elled crown. Low old and feeble he looked, How worn and tired, Bit he had lost none of his proud anger of old days, Raising his mace he called aloud: “That man is. an inter loper. Ile has designs on the body of the king! Put him out! Banish him! Away with him!” I turned to Adelaide, She stood there tremulous, her eyes shining like stars, an adorable creation, On sud- den impulse I threw one arm about her and kissed her passionately —be- fore them all. Then, facing the crowd:—"The princess is my athanced wife!” T cried, “Let him who dares put foot on this platform!” I drew my sword just in_ time. Brave as a lion. Trastamara leaped upon the platform and ¢ at ine snarling. He held a knife in his at hand, for opening. “Do, with my sword I fetched him a mighty stroke across the temple, and he rolled back into the crowd. There was now a babel in the hall, The possibility of defense was at an end, for I heard orders outside and knew that soldiers were approaching. - door stood open behind us. 1 took Adelaide by the shoulders and push her through it. “To the south gate.” I whispered in her ears, “For your life, darling!” my short and circled I cried. Letting out Down the stairs we ran lightly. Behind swept the king, the courtiers, land the crowd of gay danc Old John Henry had thrown side his jlong robes and his crown, and was sprinting after me in excellent style. At the bottom of a long tligh of st | steps, we opened a massive door, j found ourselves at the great south ge stood outs sobbed, “if we could only be back in} Ah! the bitter sweet of those days—/| Stratlimore had it walled up after vis- significant stature and his absent-| One morning I found in a year old | the hunger tor my sweetheart, the iu-|jting the apartment one oane to de- an} blood on the face of the moon, and a leather strap awaiting the youthful scion. So I deviated and spent a bliss- ful month in France, pending a reduc- tion ot the tempest. For I had told them of my engagement to Adelaide, and my desire to marry her immedi- ately and bring her home, “It will blow over,” I said to myself, luugh- ing at love letters from Adelaide, and writing her a stream of tender re- plies, Then I got mad. For she told me her father, old Henry, had thrown @ fit when she spoke of her contem- plated co-operative sociation. I chased duck to Ferriby | and @ropped in at the house about tea time I ate a forml supper. Old Henry's manner chilled me to my oO spurs, and I could think of nothing bat army gossip, for I had graduated into an organization of prospective army officers. Then I broke loose and told him|™ They could form instant attsehments, But they could forget as easily. Hence their present bitterness, It took a passport and an Inter- |national secret badge and password to get in at all. Then, weary to death after a three-day rail and boat voyage, I went to bed in the only hotel, Toward morning I was awakened by gun firing. I arose and dressed immediately. There was skirmishing to the south, where the island ran off in a long neck of land. Then I heard marching in the street near by, and the rumble of cannon, It was none of my business, really; but Ade- laide or no Adelaide, a British Army flicer cannot rest supinely in the midst of civil war, even though it be merely opera bouffe. So I went among them, as a citizen, discreetly leaving wy uniform in my portman- cried Adelaid. siice noon, We are sa The door of the palace closed with a secret spring, but not soon enous to keep back old John Heury. He slipped through, looking very odd i his short tunic and bare head—s! of his kingly habiliments. But slammed in the face of, the crowd, and we three were alone. Adelaide leaped into the carriage. With a smothered oath John Henry jumped after her. He had no thought but to capture his daughter, The sol- diers could take care of me, But this was exactly what I wanted. I slipped in beside Adelaide, closed the door, called to the driver to make across the southern bridge at top speed, and we were off without a sin- gle pursuer. A moment later the king came at me with knotted, blood-thirsty fingers. au, In the dark—for it was not yet what 1 wanted, while Adelaide dis-} morning—I mixed with the crowd Pi creetly withdrew. He was a ston@| caught the drift of the revolution. post to my entreaty, my demand, my|'They were tired of old John Henry— storm, So as I had put pride benea now gracefully styled Enrique XVII. my heel, and could not give her|yor g time his return to Barrataria up, I offered him a home. an annuity.| was the occasion of festivities and an indefinite leave of absence, with} priitiant ceremonials. Now they pay and expenses—any old plan that) wanted a young man. There was would give a fair exchange for his} Trastamara, Adelaide's distant cousin. sorrow. He shook his head. He)te was of royal blood and even swore at me in French, And full of tire. Why not make him king? then he called her in and made ker} And I found by questioning that dismiss me, though she did it in| 'Trastamara, the gambler and sport of the island, was laying wires along de- Tle was in a fearful rage. I met him half-way with my fist beneath his chin. He doubled up like a jack- knife and knew no more untill we were on the mainland, in a fast train for Paris, reeling off the miles between Hell and Heaven. Henry took it unkindly, but in time he became grateful to me for saving his life, For it was really planned that night to make way with him and to turn Adelaide over to Trastamara. Adelaide’s chickens have come back, singing; the vines curl up with rs, From India to Africa, from ice to equator, I moved about through Eng- lish Army Stations. We were on a tour of England’s outposts—one of the first school trips of the young officer, I attained new grades and donned mew uniforms, I added stars and bars, cords and fringe. I had be- come a real soldier. I even into some scrimmages with the blacks in —a gang of robbers who inhab- an gd eee dat A knocking abou to ‘Bgland, But wy heart was still at the little cottage, and thither I ‘went on the first train: It was empty, - Adelaide's chickens inhabited the delight: and the flowers bloom them- selves to death, all for the lady in the vious paths to accomplish just that end, forcing the abdication of John i little cottage. Old Henry is in his ent Maa ae i py Poca heaven—the library; Adelaide is in my teeth, Sooner thay fee. that sweet hers, the nursery. IT am busy and angel Trastamara’s wife 1 would wet contented. I have fought the good my sword in the villain’s blood and| Ssht: I have won my queen. carry off the prize myself. a I saw that action was necessary if Preservative For Stone. I were to accomplish anything, and the next dey, early in the afternoon, attired in full uniform, made my way to the palace. It was surrounded by the King’s guards, with instructions to ad only the annointed. My kilt and sperran, tartan ther bonnet, The Hungarian chemist, Brun, says he has discovered a liquid chemical compound which renders certain kinds of matter proof against the effects of time. He says it doubles the density of nearly every kind of stone and ren- ders it water proof. was uD- COURT NOTES. The Strange Mystery of the “ Haunt- | ed Room” Kevealed to Lord Glamis. Lord Glamis, son of the Earl Countess of S September “Haunted Reon ommunic:tec » him by his father, This has been an invariable practice on such ove: sions from time immem L W secret the “Haunted Room” contains supposed to be passed on to ey heir as he attains his majority, Thus its precise nature is in the possession of never more than two persons at the} sume time, Conjecture and tr: | suy, however, that in the | when the Lindsays and Ogilvie at feud a number of the latter cen | were imprisoned and died in that par- ticular chamber, That the room has Some uncanny peculiarities appears to be beyond a doubt, for the late Lord termine the origin of certain weird noises which, it is said, had for a long time disturbed and puzzled him. “The Earl opened the door with a key,” wrote a correspondent to a Dr. Lee, “and dropped back in a dead swoon into the arms of his companions; nor could he ever be induced to open his lips on the subject afterward.” The experiences of a lady visitor at the cas- Ue are quoted in the book, Eccniag (ee at Lee MAS, ARTUUR PAGE! Tlomes and F: y denty,so the story? ‘ stole into the lady's room, ¢ ing the light by bedside, She saw a tall, mailed figure pass — into the nediately — there- \ k from her el Ter maternal She rushed into Wis a st in an adjoining room, instinet was aroused. the dressing-room and found = the child in an agony of fear, It described what it had seen as “a giant,” who came and leaned over its fac The op ion Mrs Arthur Paget un- derwent recently at the hands of Sir Alfred Fripp novery d te and wonderful one, though tho’ sie. cessful. More than a year ago Mrs, Paget fell down an elevator shaft and fractured her thich, The bone failed to mend and in spite of an operation and a special course of treatment un- der Prof. Hata, the great Berlin: spe- ist, Sir Alfred Fripp took a photograph of the injured bones hy meuns of the Roentgen rays, which showed that the fracture w bad as e necessary to make an incision so that the fractured bones could be reached, e screwed These together with ivory, and it is contidemtly belicvec j that in a few months’ tin they will} | knit and become strong enough to bear the weight of the body, In spite of | the agony extending over thirteel months which Yrs, Deer has endured, she is able to drive out in an fopen carriage. Mrs. Pi “iSited the new ward at ¢ Hospital, built f l great charity valled the » edt iy f et cheered the hopeful cony n, appreciated even more than the of fruit and flowers she bore to each pi t. 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