Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1901, Page 24

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE The Firebrand. By S. R CROCKETT. Sy ¥ belt and struck at the cutfoner of Salamanca. Synopsis of Preceding Chap throat of the exe- 1, known as El Sarria, hav- | to believe that his wite S0 vehement was her anger and so potent ful, stabs a village fop, he finds presutnably " her {nfiuence that the girl fek Dorrus homtigh the window. His |ceeded in arresting more than bait the § hre confiscated and he becomes 8 | neoing gypsics. Some, however, evaded man. AL Uk A ITC comes Lo | her and she would stay her headlong course }during’ an Inn quacrel is aided | a moment to send a flerce curse after them Mortimer, an Englishman " | " “She s crazed,” thought Rollo, ‘her e ) paitasar, aboot 78 | wrongs have driven her mad.” the | But the elght of that glimmering array actually suc Epain, a by Johy two start the moy Mortimer the be whose it blac a A i « band of gy castle, and Rol royal party ning t 10 the 1 has fourd protection at the monastery. are could stand. Upon approaching the her- camp of Cabre fieral, they vilest rames at them, mounted the steps Luis' home and the won to whom 1 she screamed. “I, excies his ohild and takes it rexcues his child and takes § and alone, Rollo Blalr and e o) ine and rescues B X one | Within this very house. behind these de- With the Carliet fals at_the con- 4 not sbed her black, Bourbon blood! arrives from (e e ir at Nan 1i tered bos | easily have been discovered from below party barricade palace, st th The girl spurned pthlanch, Blalr are entertained lavishiy by @bbot and _meet Etienne 8t Jerre. & 1ot plague-stricken sentinels waiting for ich gallant who 18 studylng for holy pla 3 Srder ARant nree, with Bl Barr them, stiil and silent fn the red dawn, wa more than the fortitude of the rallied forcee eommissioned by the abb to capt the queen regent and her little daughter in the | interests of the church oute for the | mitage gypsles showed again symp- & the home ral Uik [ toms of reneweda fight Seloten Waa h Yim and that his | Whereupon the girl, shrilly screaming the downt Wi Luls Fernandez Dolores ta imprisoned in Luls’ home 4% i | herselt with the utmost boldness and con- About to bs burled allve by Luls’ brother, | fidence Tomas, when El Sarrin falls upon RIM. | oy onch The Convent ot the Holy Tuhocentn, where | @ girl WL show you what Conchy s staving. Then, aided | sacks of etraw ye are frightened of. Do ye B s hin companions, he not know that the great prize is here? o8 Fernandez' | Blalr and his comrades, captured by Gens | eral Cabreru, cnnnot prove their sympathy | fenceless windows and cardboard doors, the cause bl Ir Was | queen of Spain ransom Is worth R S L ine, cane | twice 10,000 duros coward hear gentenced to be \vbreak. Concna With credentials, | Behola!” L g LAY the | It was only by craning far out over the @dventurers lear aueen Fegell s | parapet (#0 far, indeed, that he might attered bes | nojter. | had there been any to look) that Rollo was N- | able to see what followed. But every eye hustent | was fixed on the girl gypsles, who succeed, however, in Kldnap- | with her bare foot ping the Prince Isabel. Rollo rescues abel and starts with her for the hermit- 150 1o a the fallen face cloth ar and, catching the body of the dead man in her arms, she dragged it out of its niche and cast it down the steps upon which it lay all abroad, halt revealed and hideous in the morning light. This done, rushing back as swiftly and with the same volcanfc energy to the oc- cupant of the other niche, she hurled him by main force after his companion. The panting and wan, her single tattered gar- | ment halt rent from her flat ill-nourished body, she lifted one arm aloft in triumph and cried: “There, you dogs, that is what you were afraid of!" But even as she stood thus revealed in the morning light a low murmur of terror noise, signalling and crying through the | and nstonishment ran around all who saw aisles of the forest | ber. For in the struggle the girl had un “They are telling ecch other to spread out | covered her shoulder and breast, and there on the wings and encircle the house on the [ upen her young and girlish skin appeared north!” whispcred Rollo (who understood | the dread irregular blotches which betray their dialect) In a low volce to the Basaue | the worst and most deadly form of the dis- friar by his sido. case. The monk laughed a low, chuckling laugh “The black They willl find the holy hermitage | shricked the throng of besiegers, surging equally well guarded on that side.” he said. | this way and that like a flock of sheep And as they stood silent the rose of dawn | which strange dogs drive, as with wild and began slowly to unfold itself over the tree | hrill cries they turned and fled headlong tops with that awful stillness and decornm | toward the mountains. which characterizo the daybreaks of the | The girl, speechless with wrath and per- south. The glades of the woods were filled | hupg also with the death sickness far ad- with a glimmering filmy Hght, fo which it | yanced within her, took a step forward as was ensy to Imagine the spirits of the dead | ¢ (o follow them. But forgetful of where hovering over their earthly tenements. she stood, she missed her footing, fell head- The gypsies came on as usual, freely and | long and lay across the dead sentinel easily, land pirates on their own ground, | whom she had first dragged from his post none able to make them afraid. The Basque looked over Rollo's shoulder Somo of them still carried botas of wine | ang pointed downward with a certain dread (the true “leather bottlo”) in their hands | golemnity. or swung across their shoulders. aed ever | uyohar’ 4ia T tell you™ he sald, “the and anon took a swig to keep the courake | gnger of God! The finger of God hath up as they came near. Some sang and fioyched her! Let us go down. The sun shouted, for were they not koing to rout [ \i™he gyove e “horizon . in twenty the lazy monks, always rich in money and |y At ! plate, out of their lurking places? | “Had we not better wait?" urged Rollo, To the knives' point with them. then!'' | u(hoy may return. Think of our responsi- they shouted. “They who prate 8o much | pines orour feable defenses, of—' of paradise—let them go thither and that [ % 2 BOF STEHE (EERRI BEEE with speed!” This would be a rare fest t0 | .} ookeq nimselt and added quietly, “of the tell for forty years by many a swinging | FertC O kettle and while footing It over many a The monk Tonely and dispeople heath. S Thus with laughter and shouting they | SR L e camo: on and to Rollo, peoring eagerly | ThOY WFL MOt felura, Bo sald, Rt over the battloments, the white-wrapped | oo ot o Eo e e htection. to corpses along the walls seemed to turn|pe®pot A P T er suntise. slowly blood-red before his eves, the flaunt-1 “wpyt the girl, the daughter of Munoz ing rimson of the aky above. sald Rollo, “did not she take the disease First of all strode the man from’ the dead called himself the executioner of Sala-| “Nay,” sald the Basque, “I have often manea, Ezquerra, ho who had saved the|beheld the smitten of the plague, like that. life of Jose Marla upon the scaffold. He| It works so upon very many. For a time came forward boldly, intending to thunder | they are, as it were, possessed with seven with his knife handle upon the great door.|devils and the strepgth of man is vain But at the foot of the steps he stopped. | agalust them. They snap strong cords Looking to either hand he saw, almost|even as Samson did the Philistine withes erect within thelr niches a strange pair of | Then—puff! Comes a breath of morning figures, apparently wrapped in bloody rai- | @i chill from the Slerra, and they are ment from hend to foot. He staggered |E0ne. They were—and they are not! The B 2k rveless ant Thalin: finger of God hath touched them. So it “What are these faceless things?" he| W1 %ih this gl cried. “Surely the evil spirits are heret| |t WAl follO%, YOU And In dendly fear he put his hands before wyis ] am to qotv his eyes lost his vislon should be blasted by a portent. And from the other side of the hermitage came an answering cry of foar. “Be brave, Ezquerra,” called one behind Bim. “Its ncthing-only monk's tric Ezquerra, over his shoulder, cast a fierce glance at the speaker. “Brother!™ he cried, “you who are 8o full of courage that you can supply others, Ko up these steps and find out the yours Nevertheless ns their (Copyright, 191, by 8. 8 McClu CHAPTER XXXUIL Concha Says Amen Looking down from their station on the feof, Rollo and the friar could see what appeared to be the main force of the gyp wies drawing near through the alleys of the wood. They approached in no order or milit formation, which, indeed, it was never thelr nature to adopt. But they camé with a sufficlency of confused plague! The black plague!" crossed himself with infinite who had sald Rollo, himself. “Tell me covered with an armor of freshly tarred cloth, which was considered In Spain at that time to be a complete against plague infection. The monk Teo- dcro was proceeding to array himself in like manner, when Concha appeared beside them and held out her hands for the gauntlets “The little princess Is asleep,” she sald, eagerly. “I am strong. 1 lave as good trick [ right to serve God as either of you—and as great a need!” through very pride of place| The Basque gazed at her curlously. temporary leader, Ezquerra set|the oye she appeared a mere boy In her his feet once more on the steps and|PaEe's dress, but thers was at all times mounted. The shrouded figures Jess | Something irresistibly attractive about San REs isoantan Concha's face. Now her lips quivered sen- “Atter all, It ‘s some trick!" he shouted | $itively, but her eyes were steady. She angrily, “we will make the fools pay for | cOntinued to hold out her hands this! Did thev think to practice the black| "I demand that you permit me to serve art upon those whose fathers have used|G04!" she cried to Brother Teodoro. all magic, black and white, for 10,000| 'Mae monk shrugged his shoulders with a yoars?’ pitylng gesture and looked from one to the So saying, he set | other. cloth of the nearest figure and plucked| '~ YOU are youns 1t awey. Then was rovealed to his|the Basqus. “There iy gr aftrightened and revolted gaze the features, | 2t (Rt matd thero and swollen and bloated, of one who had died | PFOUSht on herself.” of the black plague, | A" sad Concha, AU the rame moment and before his|3°¢% a3 to be alomst folowers could sct their hands | titarance. ls. tha) /she thelr | mouths or retreat a step, round both cor. | PALCWhile—I—I-— ners of the bullding there came a double | 5 S1d:nok ABUR v anpionaa, bt ERlas swarm of gypsies, running at random | N5 heF eves, wet with the scldom-coming through the tangle tears, to those of the stern-fuced brother of the woods and “a oo o ger Mg o By | she sald instead: “Give me the dress and t us be gene. The sun s rising!” The executioner of Sulmanca also turne “It you are, indeed, determined you shall and ran down the steps M . Touch the thing, who have that of Brother Domingo,” sald Teo- He was of little than your “I have done with it e i e And th eutire Attacking party, with| ol ".‘"‘“n\"h"h"”" (’ “‘.“ PIARYS, but sim» their knives agd sledgo hammers would fn | 7Lyt Hoto8 1 duty el 11ke manner have fled but for a strange and | concha putting 1t on ce hanoiie ae tal unlooked for event which happened at that | orher maiden might dress for v pall "“l\';"l':'l“ TR S s U These three went out their terrible peered over t parapet he | (agk and as they were harnessing the bul- saw a eilght form rush suddenly across the | jock cart ence more and spreading a cloan front of the flecing & houting at and | cloth over it Rollo, moved In his heart of etriking the And even at that|nenrts, came near. Never did two such Atstance he suro hat 1t must be ine | lovers as they meet more strangely ar daughter of Munoz, whom ho had left cap- | rayed. Yot he lald his black gauntlet across tive In La Granja. She had been safely whispered a word which enough locked In the castle—how then had | Brother Teodoro did not hear, being, as he she cscaped k Bood care to be, busied about the But all theorlzing was stop ps and harnessings. of the vehement anger of the girl and of| “I do aot think that love will let us die the evident power she had over these wild | —yet,” he said and savage men. She did not even hesi- That is a prayer. tate to strike a fugitive with her clenchod | in a whisper, st 1 he attempted to evade her. In her| It fury she diew @ kulfe from Ezquerra's|said aome his hand to the face- L pray vou think,"” urged danger! Look what she hath softly—so softly, in- inaudible—"but the = did this thing for | 1¢ 1] will!" he cried. | | doro. more to sles, fugitives. was 23 ra her own Amen!" sald Concha lfting her eyes to his. a strange betrothing and little But when at last be put the ox goad was awe- | In silence Rollo permitted himself to be | protection | To | in her hande, Concha knew that the night bad {ndeed passed away and that the morn- 1ug was come xx, ot Roses, CHAPTER A Man Pattently and softly went the oxen about the little pottage garden of the friars, till where the soil was sandiest and the ground most open under a south-looking wall on which the roses were still clustering (for they grow late at La Granfa, lo! a trench was dug. It was not =0 deep as a rich man's grave {n countrics, but in Spaln, or elsewhere, a little earth covers & multitude of sorrows. Brother Teodoro did his best, but in spite of his endeavors the bulk of the work fell to Rollo and Concha Yet under she page's dress and the rude outer slough of tarred canvas the girl's heart sang. was nothing terrible in death when he and she together lifted the stuff of mortality and lald it in its last resting place., With- | out a shudder she a fallen face =‘mn With Rollo opposite to her she took the feet of the dead that had guarded them 5o well in the red morning light, and { when all were lald a-row in the rest which | tasts till the judgment day, and before the first spadeful of carth had fallen, Concha with a sudden (mpulse took a kerchiof from her neck and plucked a double hand- ful of the ros that clustered along the wall. They were white small, but of a sweet perfu: ., having grown in that high mountain alr. Then without a word and while the monk was still busy with | bis prayers for the dead, she sprang down repla roses, to where at the corner opposite to Brother Domingo the daughter of Munoz had been laid, the pinched flerceness of her coun- | tenance relaxed into a far-away smile Concha spread her kerchief tenderly over the face of the girl, dropping tears the while. Then she crosse¢ che little hands which pain and madness had driven to deeds of darkness and blood upon the breast, in which the angry heart had beaten 0 hotly, and scattered the white roses over all, Then while the Basque Teodoro did his office over his head brother, Concha kneeled At the foot of the trench, a little crucifix in her hand. Her lips moved as he held the rude image of the crucified over that flerce little head and sorely tortured body. He who had cast out 8o many devils would surely pardon and understand. So at least she thought. Rollo watched her, and though brought up to be a good Presby terian by his father, he knew that this lit- tle foollsh Concha might yet teach him how to pray Then Rollo made the girl, whom the scene bud somewhat overwrought, go off to u secluded part of the garden and wash in the clean, cool water of a fountain while b remained to shovel in the sofl and pack it well down upon the bodies of the dead, who | haa served his purpose so faithfully. Last of all he unyoked and fed the oxen, leaving | them eolemnly munching their fodder, | blinking their meek eyes and ruminating | upon the eternal sameness of things in their | serene bovine world. He came out, stripped himselt to the skin and washed in one of the | deserted kitchens from which brother Do | mingo. eome time almoner and cook to the [ Ermita of San Ildefonso, had forever de parted This being completed to his satistactton, | he went out to find Concha, who, her face radiant with the water of the Guadarrama (and other things which the young morning had brought her), met him as he came to | her through the wood | She held up her face to be kissed as sim | ply and naturally as a child. Death was | a1l about them, but of a truth these two | tivea | || . It was now Rollo's chiet desire to back to the palace and find out what happened there durlng his abse | had heard the rattle of musketry fir and ak during the night and he feared, as much from the ensuing silence as from the escape of the daughter of Munoz, that disaster must kave occurred. H would have started at once to reconnoit but Brother Teodoro, hearing of his inten tions, volunteered to fnd out whether the gypsies had wholly evacuated the nelghb tocd Phere was a private path from ground of the hermitage which led those of the palace. By this he has off and it was no lorg time before the Basque returned, carrying the news that not only was the town free from maraud ers, but that Rollo's people were still in full possession of La Granja. He had even been able to speak with one of the roval servants for an instant, a man with whom he had some acqualntan But this con ference, the Basque added, had been hastily interrupted by a certain old woman of a flerce aspect, who had ordered the young man off. Nevertheless had gained enough information to assure him that there would now be no danger in the whole party returning openly to the palace of La Granja Accordingly Rollo set out, with Concha get had He agaln some a the into enod [ | 1 have \ the cloak which covered Rollo would gladly have but Isabel had a fancy to Concha induced to quit her Indeed, she declared her Intention of leaving her moth A Dona Susana and returning to Aranjuez with Concha as soon as her message should be delivered The sergeant received them at the garden door, which he had so carefully watched all night. There was a kindlier look than usual upon his leathern and saturnine features 1 judge, senor,” he eaid, as he saluted Rollo, “that you have more to tell me than to tell you." let stlil wrapped in her page's dress carried the iitie taken o overwhelming tkat she could not be side for a moment, In any first,” said “In brief, began the cellency, case me hear your Rollo, “mine can keep! then, having your authority sergeant, “I permitted his ex the duke of Rianzares to have an interview with his daughter, at which for safety's sake, I was pr , and gair a great deal of information that ma exceedingly useful to us iIn the futu But in one thing I confess that I was not sufficiently careful. The girl, belng left herselt moment, escaped—by what means 1 know not. Nor (this with a quaint glance at Concha) he the lady who left the palace night without asking my leave! But without answering the cloaked passed him rapidly, and still clinging hand she passed stairs. The sergeant looked after hor her young charge. “You are sure of that lady's discretion story was that only pa to her up L he sala, SHE LIFTED ONE ARM ALOFT IN TRIUMPH AM “I have proved it to the death,” answerel the young man briefly and a little haughtily. The sergeant shrugged his shoulders as I ke would have said with the Basque friar, “It i3 none of my business.” But instead he took up his report to his superior and said: “We buried the body of the poor woman Dona Susana within the precincts of the Colegiata And an hour ago I burfed the body of her | slayer,” sald Rollo, calmly. For an instant the sergeant astonished, as indeed well he might, but he restrained whatever curlosity Le felt and only sald, “You will let me hear what hap- pened in your own time, and also how you discovered and regalned the little prin- cess?" Rollo nodded. “And speaking of the princess, if she asks queations,” continued Cardono, “had she not better be told that Dona Susana has gone to visit her relations, which, as she was the last of her family, is, 1 believe, strictly true.” “But the queen looked regent and the duke— Senor noz, I mean?' queried Rollo “What of them?”" For the young man had even yet no high opinion of ikat nobleman or his vocation in life “Oh, as to the duke,” answered the ser- geant, “1 do not think that we shall have much trouble with him. The queen is our Badajoz. She set on returning (o Madrid that she will not move a step toward Aragon, and we have not enough force to carry her thither agaivst her will with au possibility ot secrecy. “We might take the little princes mused Rollo, “she would go with aywhere. Of that I am certain."" The sergeant shook his head “The queen regent, and she alone, is the fountain of authority. If you kidnap sequester her within the Carlist line will certainly paralyze the government at Madrid. Especially you may prevent the ping away of the monasteries—which, 1 take it, is at the though for the life of me I ¢ concern the matter is of you had spoke thus frecly to wmuse and the eergeant watch him. The latter bad a great opinion of this young man's practicability “Well," said Rollo at last, “let fand talk a little to my fv El arvia. I think I sce a way of inducing her royal higness to accompany us. But 1t will require somo firmnces and a certain amount of severity The sergeant nodded clation ‘It is a pity with women,” sophically, “but sometimer, 1 the only way."” “The eeverity 1 Rollo, not regardin fall to the lot of the may chance to work on through him." The sergeant in which wa ness of oy is 80 alone, Concha and you Ewee not kce what After he continued with grim appre philo- 1 he sald know, it speek of," continued his words Senor Muna the nostly But ady's feelings will glance, n aler 1 not Rianzare ip the Isabel gave Rollo a qulck discernible a cort The sergeant also his grandeeship, tha duke of 8o these two went abre staircase and found the Prince - ready playing joyously with Etienne, John Mortimer joining clumsily in best b could. Concha had vanished and La Giralda was nowhere to be seen. love st eat as “The vogue I8 in no haste to visit her mother after her night adventu sald the sergeant 1o a low toe, as Rollo and be with the princess | bottom of all this pother, | Rallo | us g0 up S, Fle Most Rellable Specls enscs of Men, treatment. detention from business, URINARY ! dney and Blad Weak Back, Frequency of Urinating, Urine bred or with milky sediment on standing. 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Yet fn spite of the unpleasant interview which lay before him, Rollo could not help smiling at the game that was going forward in the upper hall. “Sur le pont d’Avignon.” Tout le monde y passe,' tenne. “Tout la monde y passe! little princess, holding out kier hands. John Morti made a confused in his throat and presently was compelled to join the circle and dance slowly round, his countenance meantime suggestive of the mental reserve that such undignified | procecdings could only be extused as being remotely connected with the safe shipment of a hundred hogsheads of Priorato. The little queen's merry laugh rang out as his awkwardness, and then, seeing Rollo, she ran impetuously to him “Come, you, and play,” she cried, red foreigner plays like a wooden And where s that darling little from Aranjuez “That I cannot tell,” quoth Eere comes his sister.” A moment after Concha entered the room, talking confidently to La Giralda. She was dressed in her own girlish costume of belied blo black basquin; pleated small after tho Andalusian manner, and the quaint and preity reboze thrown coquettishly back from the finest and bewlitching hair in Spaln. The 1ittle | chanted chorused the “tha puppeat pege boy Rollo, “‘but most bel went up to Concha her by the hand, perused her from head to foot, and then remarked with deen 11, senorita, but— took feeling: “You are very well 1 liked your brother better!" | cHaprTER | ( | XL, All Dandies Are Not Cowards, It was not, however, so simple | as Rollo supposed to obtain an audiens | with the queen regent of Spain. Her daughter, willing but by no means eager to seo her mother, had been taken to men, wh had been s declared matter at lnst her room by ane of the falthfulness during the nigh greatly ulated by La Girald intention of shooting either of them who should fall from his post for an instant To the same gold-laced functionary upon Lis return Rollo made bis reauest Tell her majesty that those gentlemen who last night defended the palace wish to be aamiticd Into her presence in order that they may represent to her th gor of remaining longer in a house exposed alike to the attacks of bloodthirsty villains and to the ravages of the plague “Her majesty, being gaged able to rece men!” was the civil b answer brought back Rollo stood a thumbnall, as when a otherwise the gentle- unsatistactory en- 18 moment he had deeply fuming, a fa Then biting his fon of doing thinking ho nsked a sudden questlon Where is El Sarr “Without, on the t sentry duty on his ¢ sergeant. 1 told boing ers in | for at twelve was no nighttall loing a Il nt id the gy had gone and that vigilanoe ill-fortune [ houlde ndalusian or a xcellent Don af men. om here oft thero tin that ness 1 lar W e should ther orge ur any it ight n e an this p very slightl " br has not st and that he for more than one idea at a time And Sergeaut Cardono tapped bis brow vest door- noise | with his forefinger, “I do not know," za “It the one fdea Is a goc man far! But that matter Let these two friends of miue, and M. do 8§ rre, take his the terrace, - We have a difficult play upstairs and want only your nation or mine—men neither excited n t overser ! He added the W No great talke time, and now Rolio informed help. Then he thing but talk to the death, (and risk even her) that will of his chief. El Sarria was no: good at fine cthical distinctions, but he under stood obedience, prompt and unquestior through and through and Rollo did not dircet tlons to his followe Concha into his con even spoken another glance had passed betweern cha vas fed. It had —that he loved her, that her the best beloved thing on—that there were dangers and « ties before them, but that whatever pened neither would look back nor take their hands from the plough. Yes, oh, wi he geant open Don Juan place part men f the thirty seconds of which notice, nd had not the ser- dashed the chamber door Scot's foot would certainly hed to a Jelly, for the excel- f Rianzares was disclceed in the ng 1 ponderous marble grandfather upon the 1 Rollo. smiling, may carry hat given lenly your the nothing now lent bust u we il young man's After tha there v ceremony with Senor Munoz Vi) | diately relieved of his we wanted his | the further side of the possible avenues of to do every- Lot rid's end, fight | Kuarde the ser ! and thre might do the 1) of covrse, no more He was {mme- ordered to room away from all ape, and further who bent upon ning brow to develop his faten- For if, as he chanced to be save an explana- should hear at first about to communt- his breath last was B 1 ! nott why read g0 to the give up all o, he to say ) him he a stern Then gan loud clear Marfa Cristina it might 1to if she tions in ‘ uspected, th [ voice. n n duplf 1 what he to her consort 1 either side of the young iids, the sergeant and first gaunt, tough and between 30 and courage and in- vineible determination written plainly on | his brow, and in his eyes when he was angered, the Angel of Death himself siand- ing like a threat. On the other side stood Don Ramon ( glgantic in stature, deep-chested and solemn, driven by fate to LR UL ] L comprehensive | o iong of lood, but all the same with the glance, vet it passed as swiftly as whe v|; e il M ¢ : i 154 placid 1ake'n swallow dipe’ e wings | 0B0cent heart of a iittlerchlid“within n: ght and fs off again with the drops 2 ":li‘,“}i:,l:,.','.l {,,‘,‘h. 7o : | “Semor Munoz," eald Rollo, speaking D vou to. follow me, gentlemen, | FBATD and sudden, “let me introduco theso it it has cnemen e | kentlemen to your notice. They are two B ety e queen Tegont of Spain will | Of the most famous men fn all Spaln_and m(;( s:-o ;.Z, perhaps we may fare better witl worthy of your acquaintance. This on my the queen consort! I, for one, intend that | Jeft is Senor Don Jose Marla, late of the we shall.” town of Ronda, and this on my right is Without offering any further explanation, | Don Ramon Garcla, better known ns Tl Rollo turned and marched steadily, but | Sarria of Aragon not hastily, to the chamber door of Senor | For the first time the color slowly Munoz, duke of nzares The livericd the handsome but somewhat servant who was approaching with a jug | countenance of the duke of Rlanzares. He of hot wator (the younger of La Gualda's | Was ,as his valet had truly said, engaged charges of the pr night), called out | in his toilet and it is certainly dificult to to them that th At thatimomant | 100K in a flowered dressing | see his excelle was, It appeared, | Bown niards and, therefore, | in the act of dr With the coming of rrin and the sergeant | the morning 1ligh two gentlemen of at Rollo's introduction and the bed chamber had resumed the entire Rollo, no ways loth, con- tiquette of the Spanish court, or al lenst his speech ; such modified fo of it as, a little dis sllency | aware of the | arranged by altituds and the portent of an | Names of two of those whom you may thank Informal and (as yet) unauthorized prince | for your I myself, to whom the consort, prevailed at La Granja queen ¢ the recovery of her But Rollo would have nothing of all this, | d8ughter, am a Scottish genteman of T\‘l Enough time had been wasted. He merely -””";‘:“r“\fm-l gl By his head a hair's breadth to the “ "'[ ‘ I\‘ X Dan Tid side and the young man in gold a most i of anclent family, and Don Juan deserving v Iil“ de-chambre, foun himself English merchant of unchal- looking “down at ¢ curved ed L B v ta b e S i anms apole 1n & suggentive | defended the queen regent with their lives Sonaea BIn ¢ i l‘{“ - o b silver and who now judge it to be necessary for mauNer, He promptly (repped. the I TRF her and the princess that they put them- pipkin on the floor, whence th shaving 1 s o iud tact 1 water of the duke slowly decanted itsclf aejyes in ”I“t“ 1y under our protec ““" an b bhie marausterie’ oo A portion his place of instant and terrible scalded the valet's finely shaped leg, v he dared not complain, being in fear of the sword bayonet Rollo knocked on the { toud, confident knuckles | gentleman with the sh bave performed that f l Whereupon, Inclining his hasty footsteps crossing th pecting that if he stood cer he might find the s BT barred In his face, Roilo turned g)e| YR8 A and quietly intruded a good holf of a bewu- | oo tifully designed military riding boot within | the apartment of the duk So corre ad he Judged the occupant's | pushed before Don Fernando dlscovered B is 8aat wauld'aot clase, awing to'an | v ed obstruction upon t floor, Your excellency,” eried Rollo, in a stern vole e with you on a | question which the llves of all within this castle. Being unable to obtaia intervi her majesty the S Sak va cuakn Hild tohiacyuet 1 am aressing you ried a volce from within enor, 15t and 1o, firml minute il 8 earshot, now s he tako | cate had not | ¢ but a wem and Con- told_her much his heart held the sun shone nor an were hls Ramea Garc athletle, of word two the an n haps breast to me, for- florid 800k viou ould not He tmpressive Jeing Sy slightly bowed men tinued “Your waiting exc now am a the moved nobler Mortimer lenged probity an o edge danger “The queen will not be dictated to by any combiuation of men wha " the duke answered; “sh olved to remain at WIth o Granga and therefore nothing can move the | nert Rollo has re s door at all as water woul duke g at bowed gracefully, but there was glitter In his eye which might his opponent lency, went on with great \dently for your is matter, You will Eoodness to introl us inte the of the You are at lberty to announce our intentions and pre- e her majosty for a visit A quick 11ght flashed over the and dogged The hope of escape plainly as If printed in his bro But provision that door,” he erlod to Bl and the glant moved swiftly to his motiontng the gentlemen in s ono might Aisplace a dog from Then Rollo stepped briskly rridor, set | and to his mouth + single word 1 o v da and car, ard floor, n any have Y ence queen rege tly Indifferent of Senor Munoz. written there as Roman characters this also Rollo countenance was wor acToEsS w. had desire to speak inner concerns Sarria post away an w with queen | walting ol you to con ton 1 cannot ke it at| and called half a 50 that you h “in AT, it conference in Apartme v of all the peo- ok to Methodism n and Christian shall ent due " Wateh in hand Rollo s tice of our intention absorbed A Favorite Remedy This reliable medicine has for ifty vears been the favorite with thousands of people, sud it will always be found in thelr medicine chest. 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