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BeRENGARIA, RICHARDY BRIDE , AND HER LADIES-IN- WAITING HAVE SLYLY OBSERVED THAT LADY EDITH PLANTAGENET AND SIR KENNETH HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE TO AMUSE THE YOUNG QUEEN, LADY CALISTA OF MONTFALICON PLANS TO PLAY A PRANK. UPON THE LOVERS «ereereeeer RicHARY THE LION-HEAQTED ORDERS THE YOUNG SCOTTISH KNIGHT, SIR KENNETH, TOGUARY | |4 / THE- ENGLISH STANDARD ON SAINT GEORGE'S MOUNT ..., v Y \WHILE THE FRIVOLOUS QUEEN ANP HER MISCHIEVOLIS MAI? OF HONORL GIGGLE BENIND THE DIVIDING CUR- TAINS, EDITH TELLS KENNETH THAT HE HAS BEEN DUPED, THAT SOME HAS LSED HER RING TO LURE MOUNT MERELY THE KNIGHT TO THE SPLENDID? PAVILION SET APART FOR THE - . LADIES OF THE ENGUISH ROYALS FAMILY «««EDITH ROUSED FROM SLUMBER, IS SURPRISED TO SEE WHEN HIS COURT PHYSICIANS PRONOUNCED -THAT DARIUS THE GREAT OF PERSIA WOULP NEVER WALK AGAIN BECAUSE OF AN"INCURABLE- DISEASE;” _ | HE SENTENCED THEM 4 T0 DEATH s f wn A\ GREEK CAPTIVE- OF- WAR AFTER A BRIEF EXAMINATION SMILINGLY OFFEREP TO CURE THE- KING IN EXCHANGE- FOR, HIS FREGDOM AND PARDONS FOR. THE CONPEMNED DOCTORY. DARILS AGREEY, AND SOON WAS WALKING AGAIN - THE CAPTIVE WAS DEMOCEDES, FAMOUS GREEK PHYSICIAN, WHO IMME = DIATELY HAD RECOGNIZED THE KINGY ‘INCURABLE DISJEASE AS NOTHING /7 BUT A SPRAINED ANKLE YSTIFIED BUT THRILLED BY THIS ESSAGE FROM THE HIGH-BORN BEAUTY TO WHOM HE HAS SECRETLY PLEDGED HIS DEVOTION, THE YOUNG CRUSADER 1S TORN BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY, BUT FINALLY SLIPS AWAY, LEAVING HIS TRAINED STAGHOUND TO GUARD THE ENGLISH BANNER . SUDDENLY THEY HEAR THE BARKING OF THE HOUNUD KENNETH RUSHES NETHYS BREACH OF DICIPLINE AND THE DANGEROUS SUSPICIONS THE DISCOVERY OF HIS PRESENCE IN THE LADIES’ APARTMENTS WouLlD AROUSE, EDITH BEGS HER LOVER TO HASTEN BACK TO HIS POST OF DUTY. ouL>You BEL THE EARLY FRANKS, WH(TE« BARBARIANS OF WESTERN /2 EUROPE; WERE- MUCH LIKE- THE AMERICAN INDIANS coveees THEY LED AN OUT-DOOR, HUNTING LIFE~ THEIR FALLEN E*s rraane .--lv.