Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1930, Page 25

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It is finished in brown ma- hogany. $2.25 Card Tables Founder’s Week $1-50 Smart card tables with moire tops. Red, green or ma- hogany finish. Strongly braced legs and top. Reinforced metal corners, Furniture, Sixth Floor Newsraper SYNOPSIS. Count Anthony of Egmont, heir to the of Guelders, wanders incognito the countryside and jalls in love , the flance of @ merchant, , whom he has befriended. Later he iz compelled to return to the court | of the Duke of Burgundy, and Johanha, | hearing mothing from him, concludes that he mever cared for her. In that mood sie marries Philip and is heartbroken when she sees the count avain and hears the expla- nation or his absence. He throws himself { into affairs of state and succeeds in avert- ing a disastrous clash between the duke and the King of France. Uprisings against the duke occur and Danvelt is implicated. H is arrested. The governor says that he has written treasonable letters to a man who had been hanged for dislovalty. Johanna tries to establish Fis innocence. The gov- ernor tells her that only by accepting his attentions can she save her husband. EIGHTEENTH INSTALLMENT. HE Governor of Middelburg dis- pensed that day an expeditious | Jjustice. Long before nightfall the four burghers impeached of seditious activities had been | sentenced by him to be hanged. And | he let it be known that Philip Danvelt, | whose trial was postponed for a further investigation of the evidence, would, no doubt, sentenced in time to mount the gallows also. But Danvelt's case was exercising | him. He had been confident ihat some evidence incriminating Danvelt would be found. But all his efforts had drawn so blank that he seriously began to| ask himself if it might not be that Philip Danveit was innocent, and that the incriminating letter which he held was from some other Danvelt than this. He came to think that, if this were not indeed the case, Johanna would never have brought him letters so that ne might compare the hands. He might have resolved the doubt by making the comparison as she had begged him. He refrained precisely because he feared that the comparison would establish Danvelt’s innocence. And he wanted no proofs of that at present. ‘To his ald in his quandary came that emissary of Satan, the Fool, enter- ing the great hall abruptly. Rhynsault took counsel with him. The Fool smiled inscrutably. the governor. “What has love to do with it?"” “If love had naught to do with it, there would be no difficulty. It's like a cough. It can't be hid. The other difficulty is that you are a man of your word. Having informed Mistress Danvelt that failing. certain amiabil- ities her husband will hang . . ."” “What's that? Was your ear to the keyhole?” “My wits are my ears, and they are ever at the keyhole of the world. It is thus that I am informed that you are perplexed because, if Danvalt were hanged and afterward proved innocent, the thing would have its awkwardness. The duke is at times unreasonable. He takes narrow views of such adven- tures as the one that is now alluring ou.” . ‘The governor raised his hand and drove a blow at the fool. Kuoni ducked to avoid it. “Hold your hand!" he cried. “Your course is simple. All you need to do is to establish Danvelt's guilt.” “But that's the difficulty.” The fool shook his head slowly. “You've rack and thumb-screws and all the other implements for the extraction of truth. Extract it from Danvelt himself.” Rhynsauit benged the table with his fist. “I should have thought of it!” he exclaimed. He summoned Diesenhofer, issued his commands, and went pre- sently below to see them executed. The fool went with him, to gratify the feral thirst that was a part of his warped nature. Into that vaulted underground chamber with its instruments of torture i they brought Danvelt to be racked. ostensibly because he was conceived | guilty of sedition, in reality because he was the husband of a beautiful and chaste woman. Not only did he persist in denial, but | he protested against the measures being taken with him, ur?inc that there was no evidence to justify it, and that such evidence as was urged could easily be proved no evidence at all. He was a man of strong thews and great physi- cal vigor, ufid he had t!‘:‘! ‘;h courage usually accompanying these physical endowments. He ted with denial until he lost consciousness. They rested him, for 48 hours, and then stretched him on the rack. His body, maimed already, turned traitor to his will. To win respite he returned at last the required affirmative to that reiterated question: “Do you confess to having written a letter to the convicted traitor, Thomas Tegel, in which you offered to supply arms and money for projected rising against the govern- ment of the duke’s highness?” The secretary took down his answer. He was removed from the rack and morrow they brought him the confes- sion in a written form that he might ratify it, as was by law required. He refused to do so, and was racked again. This time he yielded, and, when the confession was again put before him, signed it, and so signed away his life. And in those four days Mistress Johanna, to the governor's deep sur- prise and disappointment, had made no sign. Three days longer Rhynsault waited, then, on the seventh, Danvelt was put upon his public trial, con- fronted with his confession, which made the calling and examination of witnesses supererogatory, and sentenced to death, the sentence to be carried out carrled back to his prison. On the|j Service. the warrant until the evening, and when he signed it he did so almost as an act of anger. He had waited con- fidently, from the moment that the news of sentence had gone abroad, for the return of Mistress Johanna. In- deed, it was to bring her that he had proceeded to trial and sentence of her husband. He had confidently hoped, in his limited knowledge and lack of dis- e | cernment, that she would seek him in such a spirit that his signature to the warrant of execution might never be required. Because her continued ab- sence brought him a sense of defeat, he signed at last in fury, adding a note that the sentence be carried out at day- break. Upon that he went to supper without appetite. It was then that servant entered to say that Mistress Johanna Danvelt was below, and begged the governor to grant her audience, “Mistress Johanna!” The governor heaved himself up. His face lighted with an evil satisfaction. He looked across at the fool and leughed. “Bring er up.” The fool withdrew, Rhynsault poured himself more wine, and laughed again. The fool made his way to the hall where Johanna waited with her serv- ants, Jan and Peter. She stiffened as she might have done at the approach of a snake. ‘“Come. mistress,” he urged. “Take heart. Here you have nothing to fear.” He approached her by another step. “You are come, as I conceive, in the hope of averting the doom pronounced upon your husband.” He paused & moment, to add rapidly: “Why should you merely hope for that which it is within your power to govern?” That stirred her to speach at Iast. “Do you mock me?” she asked him witheringly. ‘Mock!” He raised hands and eyee. “Heaven be my witness, I would be your friend and help you in your need. Is there no one to whom you can turn for ald?” “I know of none.” she sald. “Think now! Think!"” he urged her, watching her keenly. “What of one, hands me and radiant as a prince of faerie. a noble and puissant gentl a_ mirror of chivalry, self-a) protector of the oppressed? One who once served your husband in his ex- tremity?” “Count Anthony!” she murmured. The fool chuckled. “Behold how E]_\:lck'lv he leaps to your mind, mis- 881" She stared at him, a deathly vallor in her face, yet something of a- tion in her eves. He laughed ou . “Not so austere, this Count Anthony of Guelders. as repute pretends! Not above treading a garden path on a Summer’s night with the lovely lady of a Flemish burgher. My Lord t had best go warilv with his exalted chastity for a rival.” She sat appalled. So that indiscre- tion of hers was not buried as she supposed in her own heart. This evil creature had seen enough to infer more. And as with him. so, no doubt, with others. How much had thev seen, indeed, and how much in their vileness did they surmise? Indignation surged up in her, but it was indignasion on the count's behalf. “You dare to insult one who is as noble as you are abominable and evil!” “But what self-betraying heat on the pretty gentleman's behalf!” he z?ocked' her. “O plety, thy name is slymess!” The door opened and Rhynsault came slowiv info view from the shad- ow= sbout th» doorway of his closet. “I trust. mistrees, that this malapert fool of mine has not been giving you annovance.” : “Oh, that . . . that is-mo matter, ir.” She was suddenly hesat] 3 “You are too clement. Whatever be- fall your husband. there is no ch: | sgainst you. and I will have none of- | fend you.” He let the fool go, . _“T had hoped. mistress. that you would have come before. Before we were constrained by duty to come tn extremes where vour husband is core cerned. Still. better late never, as the proverb runs.” He his voice to call. “Who waits?"* An officer clanked in by the grea: do:ls which stood open at the hall’s end. “To command. excellency.” ‘The governor waved a hand toward Johanna's servants. “Conduct thess knaves below and let them wailt there* Johanna interposed. “By your excel- Iency"; leave, I should prefer them to remain.” He scemed surprised. “Mistress, it 1a not my way to open my mind before grooms. They go hence alone or they go hence with you, at your pleasure; but they go hence at once.” There was a pause in which she fought down her loathing and her dread, a battle of which the only was the twisting and untwisting of her hands. At last she yielded. “Very well,” she said, as calmly as she might. “Go wait below for me, an.” But Jan, that old and faithful serv- ant, pervaded on her behalf with that loathing and that dread to an extent scarcely less than her own, ventured to advise her. To him Phll:g'. life was as nothing compared with the least hurt to her. “Come away, mistress,” he muttered urgently. “Go. Jan!" she said shortly. The servant made a mute gesture of des{;ir, half raising his hands and then letting them fall heavily to his sides. He shm{:ed despondently, and with Peter stalked down the long hall under 1 upon the following morning. Rhynsault postponed the signing of the officer’s escort. (To be con. nued.) DRUGGIST FINDS OUT FOR HIMSELF REM proves more effective Mr. A. R. Marotta is 8 Pharma- ceutical Chemist at Genovese's Long Laasd Gity; Y. Formaetty he used to compound a special remedy for his own use, whenever he caught cold and got a cough from it. But about two years hecou, Mnhnvymldudwx d the usual mixture failed to relieve him. 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