Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1930, Page 21

k2 THE . EVENING WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22, 1930, - LANSBURGH & BRO 7th, 8th and E Sts.—FAMOUS FOR QUALITY SINCE 1860—National 9800 STAR.” WASTIINGTON. D. C. The Romantic Prince By Rafael Sabatini Copyright, 1920, by North American. Newspaper Alllance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. Count Anthony of E of Lancaster; an am to the Throne of Gueigere ‘mont, Reir 10 | mingle this with the blood of York! of Charles, Duke of Burgundy, when he | Yet this, tco, must I do to make my finds that nis flancee, Lady Catharin | dominions safe against King Louis, and does not care for him. During his wan- | 1 cOnsolidate against him this House of derings, .he .befriends. a .merchant— | BUrEUNdy, of which I am no more than Philip Danvelt—who takes him to the | the life tenant.” This last he spoke in home of his prospective father-in-law. |® tone almost of awe, the man of Des- There Count ‘Anthony mocts onamas: | tiny alluding to the burden of his mis- Philip's flancee. They are immediately | $100- Then he flung himself down in attracted with each other, and although | NS, 8reat chair before the table, and Count Anthony goes away, he soon rr. | looked across it at the grave-faced turns. Meanwhile the duke has offer~d | COUnt Anthony, who remained silent. @ reward for the count’s arrest. Al-| ~YOU perceive my meed of you my The Jewelry Smart Women though he is traveling incognito a wan- | dering friar sees him and guesses his se- | council. The lances you may bring me cret. The man goes immediately to the governor of the province. Count Anthony is seized, and taken to the duke, who réproaches him for his flight and asks | Jor his loyalty, SIXTH INSTALLMENT. | he appealed | to Count Anthony’s loyalty, was unusually gentle and wistful | and his expression was en- tirely stripped of its habitual arrogance. Count Anthony, who loved him. was touched by his manner and melted from any lingering indignation. He has been accounted weak by the undiscerning because he was always weak in his resentments and ever ready to discard them. And now, to| complete a reconciliation for which he | had shown the need to be on his own | side, Charles afforded him a mollifying | if not quite accurate explanation | My fool of a Governor of Zealand | acted too straitly upon orders I issued at the time of your disappearance. Bear him no ill-will, Anthony. He" & faithful, loyal dog who obeys orders to the letter if without discretion, and apparently he is served by men of the same stamp. I blame not him, but myself, for what has happened to you: and I blame myself sorely. I would not have had you used as you have been used, and yet, by Saint George. I was never more glad to see any living man. Sit you there, my friend, while I recite my woes; and in the end | you'll pity me.” | He pushed Count Anthony forcibly into & chair and thereafter for an hour and more, while soldier, prince and prelate cooled their heels in the antechamber, he poured ' into his cousin's sympathetic ears, the tale of his_distractions. “I was angry with you last month,” he began. “when I held in Bruges my first Chapter of the Knights of the Golden Fleece. You were absent from your place, a thing I do not nightly | overlook in any man. Moreover, I needed you then; needed you as I need you now.” | He strode on his short, powerful legs to the window and back, his brows darkened by his thoughts. “Taking full advantage of the privileges con- | ferred upon them by the rules of the | order, the brethren very plainly ex- pressed hostile opinions on my general conduct of affairs.” Anthony was startled. He knew the existence of the privilege in that ex- alted knightly brotherhood, but had mever dreamed of its being exercised | against the sacred person of the Duke || himself, the order's natural head, the wvery fount of honor. “They censured me with harshness especially to the nobles, alleging that my rigor in punishing faults is out of all proportion to my measures in re- warding virtue and services. They taxed me with parsimony. I hoard the revenues, they say, instead of scattering them in emulation of the princely lav- ishness of my father.” “Scattering them on themselves, they meant,” quoth . Anthony. “And you? ‘What did you answer them?” “What cculd I answer? I think an- ger made me dumb. That and the re- membrance that who excuses himsell mccuses himself. Could I condescend to explain myself? I submitted in sil- | ence 10 their reproaches. I needed there | an independent advocate to whip them | dnto shame of their own words. That | s what you would have done had you been there. That is where you failed me by your absence.” this Count Anthony said noth- beyond gran Duke Philip when their exalted. order was founded; and yet they were pre- sumptuous in that they pronounced | upon insufficient knowledge. i g “If I hoard my revenues, T do so | against the fearful need that will soan | be forced upon me, a need for which all imy hoarding is inadequate, as will pres- ently appear. Already last April in the States-General summoned for the pur- pose by the King of France, it was de- | jelared that Normandy must be retained by Louis. That was a fair g *To shcw me whither he was drifting, it wes not necessary for him to add, as is yeported to me, that the Treaty of Conflans was wrested from him by un- due influence. He began to tear 1t up | when the States-General made that | declaration touching Normandy. I tell you, Anthony, there is no faith in that foxy little knave. No treaty ind him, once he thinks it safe to I have word that he is levy- ing troops and organizing forces. He ainis, I suppose, at the cities of the Somme. You see what is coming?” “War, I suppose,” said Count An- thony. | “War,” Charles agreed. He st erect, his jutting chin held high. welcome it. Since he wants shall have it. I was made for war, think, and this time, by St. George, h= | {ghall learn it and remember ‘the lesson. it is_in preparation for war that I| |have been making this progress through | [the frontier provinces, and be sure Il {prepare thoroughly.” He swung away to the window lgnln.‘ Looking out into the courtyard across {which the rays of the sun were now ‘aslant, he laughed grimly and pointed. | “There go the constable and De Biche. De Biche, who was once my | father's creature and is now the tool of King Louis. Saint-Pol who, for his own profit, tried to be the friend of both | sides and is faithful to neither, al- though today he holds the sword of | Prance. They were lately with me, bearers of lying pacific messages from | King Louls, messages calculated to lull my alarm while he arms to the teeth . #gainst me. He wants time.” ' The duke swung from the window ! mgain, and came striding back to the | table, his hand on the hilt of his/ fdagger. He laughed grimly, showing his strong teeth. “So do 1. Therefore, I pretend to ‘believe them. To the revenues with | ‘whose hoarding I am reproached by the | | Xnights of the Golden Fleece, I shall imdd levies 1o be made upon the Nether- Jands; gold to be transmuted into steel. ¢/ The foxy Louis shall admire by al- ichemy. In the Rhine Provinces, | throughout the Empire, in the Cantons, | in Italy, wherever men are to be hired, | TNl hire them, and I'll put such an | ‘army in the field that my rascally brother-in-law of France shall pray to | patch up the Conflans Treaty again so | that he may shelter himself behind it. | Il give him time, so that I may have time, myself, for this; for this and my My marriage! My marriage the Princess Margaret of York!”| He laughed harshly, ruefully. “Men say,” quoth Count Anthony, by ;:z_ot felicitation, “that she is very “To the devil with her fairness! roared the Duke, who had wrought him. self by now into & passion. He crashed | his fist upon the table. “Anthony, if she were humped like a camel and tusked lke & boar, I still must marry her, for the sake of the alliance with jEngiand. To this has Louts of Prance reduced me. Through my mother, who i R N urgent need of every friend in camp and out of Guelders shall be paid handsome- ly from these hoarded revenues. I'll need every man and every pike that you can muster. But more than those I shall need you, Anthony. You have the calm deliberateness I can trust you where I ca: other of these greedy self-seexers, who will stand by me just so long as they perceive no greater profit to be made elsewhere. Your judgment I trust im- plicitly. Yeur advice I know to be honest and sprung from love of me. You'll stay by me now, Anthony?” | He leaned forward, and flung an arm ; across the table, the powerful short- fingered hand supine and open. The appeal was not one that Count | Anthony could resist. Guelders must stand by Burgundy to the end that Burgundy should stand by Guelders in | her need. So much policy demanded. And his personal affection for Charl of Burgundy demanded no less. I this had he returned; for this been dragged from his dreams to face real- ities, he who had sought realities afar and in vain. Sc assured himself. But there was a sense of choking in his throat and a mist before his eyes, and in the heart of it the fair, delicate face of Johanna. Then the mist cleared. He fetched 2 sigh and took the proffered hand, “Charles, I am yours for your need of me.” (To be continued tomorrow.) CHARLOTTE, N. C, January 22 (#).—The plant of the Southern Cotton Oil Co. here was destroyed by fire yes- terday, with a liss of $200,000. The build- ing contained tons of cottonseed meal, hulls, seeds and bags, which fed the! flames. Five companies responded to the alarm. “My Skin Nearly Drove. Me Mad” | “I had pimples and blackheads so | badly, and used to squeeze them so| | much’ that my face looked red and |raw. On the advice of a nurse friend I got & jar of Rowles Mentho Sulphur and used it faithfully for ten days. In 3 days’ time there was big difference in my skin and to- day it is as soft and clear as my ten- | year-old sister’s. 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