Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1930, Page 29

NING The Romantic Prince By Rafae Copyright, 1920, by North American Newszape SYNOPSIS. Count Anthony of Egmont. heir to the | throne of Guelders, ‘wandeérs incognito | through the countryside and. falls in love | with Johanna. the flancee of 'a merchant, | Philip’ Danvelt, whom he has bejriended Later he is compellea o return to. the court of the Duke of Burgundv, and Jo- hanna, hearing nothing from him. concludes trat he mever cared for her. 'In thal mood she marries Philip and is heari-broken | whien she sees the count again and hears | the aeplanations of his absence. He throws | himself into aflaits of state and succeeds in @verting a disastrous clash between France. U Dant The governor een_nanged for dis- e, Philip says he is really innocent, | Johanna for his life. The governor | tells her that only by accepting his atten tions can she save her husband. NL\'ETEENTli i!\TSTALLMENT. ITHIN his snug closet, whith- er he conducted her, the governor considerately de- sired Mistress Danvelt to sit and would have relieved her of hex cloak, but that she clung to the garment, urging that her business was brief. Abruptly she came to it. They had brought her word of tha sentence passed that day upon her husband. “Your distress moves me profoundly, he said slowly. “I did not think that it could mean so much to you.” “You did not think——" She was en surprise and indignation. ‘What cause did you give me to think it? I placed Danvelt's life in your hands. Did I not offer to set him free at a little word from you? Be- fore the trial, ‘it would have been so easy. Now!” He hunched his shoulde: paused, and then re-| sumed: “And since you haven't chossn speak, what was I to suppcse? Why. that, many wives, you would count yourself well rid of an importu- nate husband.” She looked up into that handsomely florid countenance. | . “This is noble,” she said. “It is gen- | erous to mock an unfortunate woman in the hour of her affliction.” “I do not mock,” he assured her in words which his very glance belied. | “If it is not as I have supposed, why | did you not come before?” | “Because, knowing him innocent, I| did not believe it possible you could | find him guilty. I waited confidently for his trial; for I believed that in the duke’s judgment seat you dealt in jus- | tice: that you would not dare to deal | in anything else.” “You were right. nothing else.” “Close upon 20 witnesses waited to testify. They were brought here in| answer to my appeal and you were in- formed of it. They cculd have proved beyond question that my husband did not write- the letter upon which you arraigned him. Yet those witnesses were denied a hearing.” “To have heard them would but have wasted time. The evidence of your hus- band’s guilt was complete! He con-| fessed his treason; and he set his sig- nature to the confession, which was written down in a measure as he ut- tered it.” This was & blow bstween the eyes to her. Her anger was shouldered out by dismay and growing terror. “Confessed?” she echoed. *“He con- fessed, you say? What did he confess?” “That he had written the letter upon which I impeached him; that he had supplied arms and money to equip the rebels.” “But that is not true!” “It's not true! confess it?” “‘He should know the truth of it bet- ter than you, mistress.” Rhynsault now affected a tone of regret. “All that you can say is that he never took you into his confidence in the matter. It is not likely that he would have done so. Shrewd men do not tell secrets to their womenfolk—especially secrets that will put a rope about their necks.” “But I was not alone in my belief, in my knowledge,” she answered, bat- tling desperately against the odds that were suddenly heaped against her. “The letter was not in his hand. Twenty of the witnesses could have sworn to that. If he confessed——" She broke off. Suddenly she saw the explanation, and cried out in horror, “You tortured him” Still half-sitting on the table's edge, he watched her with those smoldering eyes, the ghost of a smile about his lips. Then he reached forth, and set a hand upon her shoulder. He spoke I have dealt in| she wailed. How, then, could he very softly, in a tone of gentle remon- | f strance. “It was in your power to save him,’ he reminded her; and added, after a moment's pause: ~“For that matter, it still is. The hand that signed the death warrant can sign the reprieve. 1t you have come to speak the little word I begged of you, you have not come in vain.” Is there no pity in you?” she cried. “Is there no fear either of man or God in your dark soul? What do you look to gain by sending my husband to his death? Nothing, nothing, nothing! ‘What shall it profit you to leave me widowed? What satisfaction shall you 1 Sabatini Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan T Service, have from that? Is that a man's worthy vengeance upon a woman whose only offense against him is her virtue? You do not fear the justice of your duke, you say. My husband's confession is your buckler. But you have no fear of the justice of God? What shield will avail you against that when your hour comes? Will you imperil your immortal soul for this empty satisfac- tion you are contemplating?” Rhynsault moved from the edge of the table, swung round to confront her, squarely planted upon his feet. “Look you, madam, I have listened long enough. If you are come to deafen me with words, to weary me with & sermon upon Heaven and hell, you dis- tress yourself in vain. Heaven and hell ave nothing to do with us at present. We are upon earth, we two, and alive. Talk to me of this, and I will listen. For the rest, I do not want your hus- band’s life. It is the law that claims it.” “You are the law in Middleburg.” Tts minister only. If I were to check it now, and set your husband free, I should be false to my duty as the duke'’s licutenant here. Yet, for your sake, I would do even that”” He paused & moment to add: “But I have my price. And you &know it, mistress.” With lowered eyes and in a half- strangled voice she answered him. “Yes, Iknow And I know that, if I paid that price, y husband would curse and abominate the life I had so purchased for him." “Arc you so sure?” said Rhynsault softly, and with that provoked a revival of her earlier indignation. She looked up at him in scornful wonder. “I am sure that my husband is a good, honest man, reverencing pu “Yet life is very sweet,” the governor reminded her. “Honor is sweeter to honorable men.” Rhynsault leaned down a little from his fine height. He spoke persuasively. “What need he know, since you are so tender of his feelings? A thing done in secret is & thing not done at all.” That brought her to her feet in rage. You infamous villain!” He flushed but kept his temper. “If I am that, it is love has made me so0.” “Love?” She flung the word at him in deepest scorn. “Aye, love,” he insisted. . as you have never known.” “And never shall, please God,” she answered him. For a long moment he stood meeting the defiance of her glance, pondering the lissom grace of her figure so stiffly erect, the proud poise of her golden “You pitiful knave! “Love such | head, the distracting, maddening beau- ty of her delicate face. The wolf was aroused in him, yet dominated by the perception that to prevail he must here play the fox. He commanded himself, clenching his hands until the nails bit into his palms. He smiled- a little, very wistfully, and fetched a sigh that was pure artifice. You are resolved, then, to let “I have prayed to our Father in heaven to purge the evil from your heart, to let the light of grace fall upon lyour soul before it is too late, be- fore . , " Abruptly he strode to the door, flung it wide and called the officer of the ®uard by name. “Cassaignac!” A voice answered from the distance. Approaching steps rang hollow in the vast hall outside. Turning where he stood, Rhynsault spoke to her in dis- missal, harshly. “You had best return home, madam.” Confronting this finality, her panic momentarily returned. “Ah, no, no! Wait! Wait!” His white face sneered at her. “Wait!” he echoed. “I have waited already a week. What am I to wait for now? Another sermon?” She staggered where she stood, one hand clutching her heart. Then, real- izing indeed that all was lost, she gathered up her cloak and drew it about her shoulders. Leaden-footed she moved toward the door and the walting officer. Midway sheYhnl']f% X “You'll give me leave to see hus- band before . . . fore . n?y." “Why should I deny you that? But time grows short. If you would ses gflm"you had best see him now—at nce.” Without awaiting her reply, he or- dered Cassaignac to bring Danvelt from his prison and allow him to have speech alone with his wife in the hall. Then he held the door for her while she passed out to await the coming of her s} (To be continued.) AT ALL DRUG AND GROCERY STORES 20¢BOTTLES &> QUININE stops a cold without discomfort Why take chances with a cold? Grove’s Bromo Quinine Tablets make it easy to prevent or get rid of a cold. The minute you feel one coming on take Grove’s Bromo Quinine for quick relief. The tonic and laxative effect fortifies the system against colds and more serious ills which often begin with a slight cold. SP i GrovetsiBionip easy way to stop colds. Quinine Tablets is the Price 30c. 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