Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1930, Page 34

The Romantic Prince By Rafae ©opyright, 1820. by North American Newsrape: SYNOPSIS. Count Anthony of Egmont, throne of Guelders, “wanders incognito through the countryside and falls in _love with Johanna, the flancee of a merchani— Philip Danveit—whom "he "has befriended. Later he is compeiled to return to the | court of the Duke of Buroundy. and Jo- henna, hearing mothing from him, con- | cludes’ that he never cared for her. I that mood she marries Philip. and is heart- Droken when she sees the count again and hears the ‘explanation of his absence. ' He throws himsel/ into affairs ‘of state to | feroet heir_to the his unhappiness. = Uprisings against , and Danvelt de Rhyn- reasonable establish _ his The governor tells her that e can sare her husband by accepting | his attentions. She finally comsents and Philip's reprieve throuh | the governor’s 3 woed de- svite the reprieve. Count Anthony. mean- while, is with the duke's armies and knows nothing of all this. The duke mames him Grand Master of Burgundy. with power second only to his own. Johanna tries to tion. He is frantic and lays it before the duke. who. since he values Rhunsault’s services highly. poes mot punish him, but | ers him to make reparation to Johanna. The governor tells the duke he will marry | Johanna and the latter approves. It is a | ‘marriage by prorv. and. when the gov- ooes to claim his bride. Count An- | taking advantage of the duke's ‘ab- . arrests Rhynsault on a_charge of treason. The charge recites that. in re- | prieving @ man convicted of treason, Rhym- | soult had himsel/ committed an act of | treason. even though the erecution was subsequently held. Johanna produces the the' governor's “hamdwriting, | s is passed. Under | against treason. such sem- tence was velid, but Count Anthony knew that it must be executed before mews of it should reach the King. | | | TWENTY-NINTH INSTALLMENT. HYNSAULT was gone, dragged | out by the men-at-arms. The | Grand Master had departed, | and Johanna returned to her | room in the Lion of Brabant. A little later a tall, cloaked figure came striding down the street and across the threshold of the inn. Pres- ently a knock fell upon her door, and, | when it opened in answer to her bid-| ding. the tall figure stood there under the lintel, the cloak now loosened, the head bare. She fell to trembling vio- lently, as with a half-stified cry she rose from her window seat. Count Anthony advanced. He stood before her, smiling gravely, sadly. “Are you content, Johanna?" | “Content?” she echoed. “He is dead, | and I am living. Am I the cleaner by | his death? Not all his blood could wash | out one spot of my defilement.” “Defilement?” quoth he, and frowned. “What else? What else do you ac- count it?” “Purity,” he added, “is of the soul; » and over your white mul.kJuhanna. Rhynsault possessed no empire.” “Yet the world . . . ” she was begin- ning. “Ah, leave the world,” he bade her, and took her hand. “Or face it under the shelter of my name.” “Your name?” “I am asking you to be my countess, Johanna. It is more than I ever hoped would be permitted me by Fate. I will make amends to you, my dear, for all the suffering you have borne.” She set a hand upon his shoulder, turned he- face upward, and frankly met the somber gaze of his dark eyes, now full of pain. “I shall thank Heaven every night of my life that you have sought me, Anthany; for in the pride you have brought me. you have restored to me all that T had lost. But we must g0 _our separate ways.” He strove to move her from this by every argument a lover knows, but she remained unshaken. “You are a great prince, and I am the daughter of & merchant. We are not matched as the world judges.” “The world! The world!” he cried impatiently. “What have we to do with the world?” “Merely to live in it.” said she. He bowed to her will when that be- | fell. “I will not pre.s you further now. But I am as certain that the destiny which has made clear at last the path will not suffer us to end our lives apart.” Abruptly he asked her: Whither do you g0, Johanna?” She told him that she would be re- | turning to her father's house in! Flushing. She suffered him to kiss her at part- ing. It was their first kiss, and her own firm resolve that it should be their last. Next morning early she departed from Brussels, her mission there so singularly accomplished. If she bore sorrow and longings with her., yet she bore more peace than she had ever| hoped to know again. to | brought him back in a towering rage. in- | of Middelburg. | wrath took pause. Swiftly he read the 1 Sabatini Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan T Service. | grounds. For at noon that day, to the amazement of all, the duke attended by a small company of men-at-arms rode into Brussels and s to the | palace. In spite of all precautions, the | news of Rhynsault's arrest had gone | after his highness, reached him as he was about to embark at Sluys, and It was fortunate, thought the Grand Master, when he beheld the furious THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1930. stir. His brother Adolph posted off to | Nimeguen with the ne:: and from the | old Duke of Guelders came strong rep- | "r!fi:r'(“zlt?:! Dmm'mn of Bunrundl!v wl of Burgundy entirely e trial followed ten days later, pre- sided over by the duke in’ person, and was attended by as much of Brussels as could pack itself into the great hall of the palace, where it was publicly held. Count Anthony had demanded trial by the chapter of the Golden Fleece, as was his right. The duke had trampled upon that right, as he was prepared at | all times to trample upon every right th;t stood in the way of his self-willed ends. But he was to make the discovery that there were certain things upon Wwhich he could not trample. One of these things was the law, however much he might boast that the law was em- bodied in himself. After all, he sat with judges, the same judges who had sat with Count Anthony. And scowl upon them, browbeat them though he ! duke come striding into his closet, that he had caused execution to follow 50| swiftly upon the heels of sentence. | “You know why I am here!” the duke | blazed at him. Count Anthony had risen. He strove | successfully for calm to meet this on- slaught. “An event of yesterday has | probably been misrepresented to you.” | “Misrepresented? _Yes, if you mean that it is untrue that Rhynsault has | been tried and executed for the affair | You have daréddl to| abuse my trust! Dared to trump up this business and to reverse the judg- ment which I myself already had pro- | nounced! ~ That is to push temerity | singularly far. It is something for which you may have {o meet a heavy reckoning.” “You have indeed been misinformed.” sald the count. “It will save time if you read the judgment, which was se: down in detail by the clerks. There you will find that the matter upon Which I judged him was not at all the matter upon which you acquitted him. He was indicted for high treason. But read the judgment for yoursclf.” And he proffered it Before so much apparent calm, argu- ing an easy conscience, the duke’s document thrust upon him. But not to theend. Two-thirds of the way through he flung it down. “Trickery!” he roared. “Sheer trick- “You cannot have observed that the judgment was pronounced not by me but by your own judges. After that I had no alternative but to sentence him to death.” “You coerced them into it. You duped them! But you do not dupe me! You knew that I valued this man, that he had served me well and that I need- ed him in Ghent. And you have de- prived me of him to satisfy an obstinacy of your own. Of what did you accuse him? Of subverting my justice to serve his own ends, was it not? That shall be your own indictment.” And he swung in his passion upon a cowering page of the count’s. “Summon me the guard, boy.” ‘The guard!™ said Count Anthony. “Charles, you cannot arrest me. I am rince of Guelders.” f you were the Pope of Rome and having accepted the office of grand master here had so misused it, I should arrest you and bring you to account.” “You will regret this when you are calm.” “As you will regret having taken off Rhynsault’s head. The audacity of you!” He advanced upon him in his fury, and suddenly putting forth his hand seized the emblem of the Golden Fleece that hung upon Count Anthony's neck. With a wrench he snapped the chain that carried it, and so tore it from him. “You wear that no longer, sir. If T am Duke of Burgundy, a hempen collar shall take its place.” Count Anthony stiffened. ~“You dis- honored that collar, Charles, when you thought to wt the filthy neck of your knave ult. My only re- gret_at bel deprived of it concerns the way in which you have taken it.” Count Anthony's arrest made some CO Do these three 1: Check fever which destroys resistance and increases danger. 2: Open bowels and free your system from the poisons of gonstipation. 3: Tone the sys- tem and build a bulwark of energy to pro- tect health. Hill's Cascara Quinine these 3 things at once ... we can safely say Hill's stops day—quick, complete xe]_icf without up- setting the stomach or griping. 3 | Behind her, however, she left little 3 in the heart of Anthony. And to - unrest on her behalf was presently be added unrest on quite other Did I “desserts?” That’s the | plaint justly to be made against the | easiest part of the meal when you’ve got might, he could not move them from the interpretation which they chose to put upon the law, which was the inter- pretation that Count Anthony, ably arguing, compelled them to put upon it. T take my stand with confidence.” he | had said in answer to the accusation ! of abuse of trust, “upon the indictment of the Sire de Rhynsault. That indict- ment was found to be justified by the fact upon which it was based. The fact was subsequently established by the confession of the accused himself. To charge me with having used this mat- ter of a reprieve to pronounce a judg- ment counter to the wishes of your highness is by implication to use vour highness of subverting the law of | which you are the sacred custodian to | private purposes of your own.” i Although his temerity in this last | may have appalled the judges, upon the | soundness of his main argument they | were not to be shaken. | “We find," said their dean and| spokesman, the same who had urged | Count Anthony's delay in the execution | of Rhynsault,” “that the utmost com- Grand Master is of having acted with unnecessary precipitancy in the execu- tion of the sentence. But that is not an offense at law, and it is not lawful to frame a law to meet an event subse- quent to that event's occurrence.” | To which Count Anthony had ven- | tured to reply that the senior judge had contradicted himself. Because, if a thing were not an offense at la: could not justly be termed of justice a ground for just complaint against any man. ‘Thus was the duke balked of his angry aims and compelled to pronounce the acquittal of the count, the more incensed against him because the neces- sity was xm&md upon him by the craftiness with which Count Anthony had gone to work in the matter of Rhynsault. But though he acquitted him, see him again he would not. On his return to his apartments in the palace, an offi- cer brought the count a brief note in ! which he was requested to depart the duke’s dominions within 24 hours. Dis- obedience of this order of exile must, of course, be attended by very serious consequences. Because of the love that had existed between them, Count Anthony begged a last audience of Charles. This was refused him. Dis- graced and banished, the count set out for Guelders on the morrow. (To be continued.) Thirty English women are peeresses in_their own ht. 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