Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1930, Page 35

The Romantic Prince By Rafael Sabatini Copyright, 1929, by North American Newspaper Alllance and Metropolitan Newscaper Service. SYNOPSIS. Count Anthony of Egmont, heir to €he throne of Guelders, flees the court ©f Charles, Duke of Burgundy, when he Ainds that his flancee, Lady Catharine, does not care for him. During his wan- derings he befriends a merchant—Philip Danvelt—who takes him to the home ©f his prospective jather-in-law. There Count Anthony meets Johanna, Philip’s fancee. They are immediately attracted with each other and although Count Anthony goes away, he soon returns. Meanwhile the duke has offered a re- ward for the count’s arrest. Although he is traveling incognito, a wandering Jriar sees him and guesses his secret. The man goes immediately to the gov- ernor of the province, Count Anthony s seized, and taken to the duke, who reproaches him for his flight and asks Jor his loyalty. Count Anthony pledges ¥, and the duke tells him of his ap- proaching marriage to Princess Mar- garet of York. SEVENTH INSTALLMENT. OUNT ANTHONY welcomed the distraction of the _activities now thrust upon him, and sought in them an anodyne for his heartache. ‘Three days after his interview with Charles of Burgundy,. he descended upon his father’s court at Mineguen, to the surprise of all and to the dismay of some. His brother Adolph was ab- sent, with the Burgundian Court at s, in attendance upon Mme. Catharine. who was one of the ladies in Waiting of the Dowager Duchess Isa- Anthony was thankful for this circumstance, since he found opposi- tion more than enough from the duke, his father. He submitted patiently to parental upbraidings on the score of his eccen- tricities and his reckless extravagances during his mysterious absence. His notes of hand for outrageous sums had poured in upon the treasury to the exasperation of the parsimonious duke, and now he came calmly to demand a matter of 20,000 gold florins to enable him to raise, mount, equip and main- tain a body"of 8,000 lances with which to succor the Duke of Burgundy in his need. 1If this was the only purpose for Which he had returned home, it would have been much better for Guelders if he had remained permanently absent. Guelders, his father informed him, reared no fatted calves for prodigals. Count Anthony did not argue with his sire. He knew the futility of rea- soning with prejudice. Instead, he sought the chancellor of the duchy and arranged with him for the convening of the estates. He appeared before them two days later and pointed out the dangers with which-Burgundy was confronted and the dangers which ‘would confront Guelders if Burgundy were defeated. The maintenance of the independence of Guelders was the first and most sacred duty of her rul- ers, and this independence could be insured only by stoutly supporting their one great ally and preserving him in his fullest strength to the end that in turn he might preserve them. ‘To the disgust of his father, who regarded it as so much waste—but dared not say so, lest his words should be reported to the Duke of Burgundy— the money was voted without demur, to be refunded by a special poll tax. re-establishing his household, which he had disbanded at the time of his de- parture from Brussels. He intrusted the details of raising and equipping the necessary force to the Sire Bertrand de la Roche, a gentleman of his con- fidence and a soldier of experience, and then with a guard of his own, four esquires and two pages, he left Nime- guen to rejoin the Duke of Burgundy at Bruges, whither he had meanwhile returned. It was now that he adopted, to the horror of the heralds, a fresh personal device: on a fleld gules, two tulips, or an argent, in saltire—whence he came shortly thereafter to be known, more ?I{ullle“ ironically, as the Knight of the ip. His report of what he had accom- plished insured him a warm reception from the duke. To mark his apprecia- tion, Charles desired of him a service which was in itself an honor: that with the duke’s mother, the Duchess Isabella, and his young daughter, Mary of Bur- gundy, with M. de Rumbempre and the Count and Countess of Charny, he should repair to Sluys as the Duke's Tepresentative to receive and welcome his bride, the Lady Margaret of York, on her arrival there from England. And he sought counsel of Count An- thony in other matters, as had been his custom of old, and particularly in the matter of the fresh taxes to be levied on the Netherlands toward the expenses of the coming war. Count Anthony’s advice was sound. Remem- bering how himself he had prevailed in Nimeguen, he counseled the use of similar arguments in Zealand and Fries- land. Let it be shown to the estates there how imperative to the mainte- nance of their priveleges was the main- tenance of Burgundian power which had ever respected and defended them, and the rest would follow. But the arguments must be presented by the duke in person. ' It was the personal appeal that would lead to the ready opening of the burgher coffers. Persuaded, Charles resolved to act upon this advice, so soon as his mar- riage and the subsequent festivities should have been accomplished. On the morrow, with an escort of twenty lances, every man in a white surcoat bearing the new tul device, Count Anthony set out for Sluys as the representative of the Duke of Burgunay. The Princess Margaret of York ar- rived with the state and splendor be- coming the sister of a king; but it was as moonshine to sunlight compared with the state and splendor of the Burgun- dian reception awaiting her—a recep- tion which was to mark the wealth and power of a duke who in both could outrival any living monarch, and to dazzle the world in general and the watchful King of France in particular. A fleet of 16 vessels under the com- mand of the Lord Admiral of England was employed to bring the princess and her escort to the Port of Sluys. She was in the immediate care of her royal brother, Lord Scales, and the Bishop of Salisbury, and attended by a troop of knights and gentlemen representing the flower of English nobility of the Yorkist faction and some fourscore ladies of rank, at whose head stood the Duchess -of Norfolk, then reputed the most beautiful woman in England. 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At her lodging the castle she was waited upon by the Dowager Duchess and the Lady Mary of Burgundy, by the Count and Countess of Charny, and a constantly flowing train of nobles and dignitaries, until, finally, on the evening of the day after her arrival, came the duke himself to pay his homage and formally to exchange vows of betrothal. That night from the windows of the Castle of Sluys she saw in the sky to the south tke red glow of the huge pyram- idal bonfires, each 40 feet high, which in honor of her coming were lighted in_Bruges. For a week she remained there very nobly entertained, and then a train of painted and gilded barges luxuriously equipped conveyed this fair, calm Eng- lish princess and her suite to Damme, the great fortified port of Bruges in Wwhose basin floated the argosies of all nations, attracted thither by the great commerce which made Bruges the rival of Venice and Genoa. Hither to Damme at 5 o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the third of July, came the duke for the nuptials which were celebrated by the Bishop of Salisbury and the Papal Legate. After the nuptial mass, he rode back with his private escort m' the Cour des Princes at Bruges, there to_await the state entry of his bride. She arrived some two hours later at the Gate of Holy Cross, the object and center of a pageantry the like of which neither her eyes nor those of any of her English followers had ever wit- nessed or imy ed. She came in a horse-litter covered with cloth of gold, the white horses that bore it capari- soned in cloth of gold, from which little silver bells were hung, with roses en- twined in their flowing white manes. Herself, she was dressed in cloth of silver, a crown of diamonds flashing on her fair head, above which with her own hands she placed the chaplet of roses that was offered to her by a company of nuns at the Gate of Holy Cross. 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