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^TTTV O .©* o* *o c* *o o# #o o* 1 o# **o 'O* o* *o o* *o o* *o o* #0 0*0*0*0*0 3*0* Oii^ lEtf-V •w.5 111 Dim *w S25SSSJtSt2S259f9f0*0#0*0*0*0*°*®**o*o*o*o*o*o#o*o*cHi #o ®*o*o*pto*o*o*o*o*o*o#o#o*o*o*c#o*o THE HOUSE OF I56TEN6. Bff Sir VArtagan Mens, Cadet of a Great Rouse, Knight of the Royal Order of Jlassmarfr and One Time Embassador to the Court of Charles I of EnyUmd. ,.sV,- MADE INTO A ROMANCE BY THEODORE ROBERTS When I returned and found Tom waiting patiently before the pier glass, I thonght me of the court gnwn. "Where is Itt" he asked. Then the grand quadrille ended. Wa leaned over the ladies' handB, and the mane ceased with a clash. Copyright, 1899, by American Press Association, '"-f "Wo are glad of yonr retnrn," «he said. ..., And now my fln» _..arg. I thongbt of my good bI ....&£ away in Wassmark, and I laughed a little. "Sir," whlnpered the princess. "Madame," I replied—"little prln flBse, my heart presumes far." I slipped ofl to c^kkneo, holding both herhands, and MilPPrinoesa Barbara lehned and kissed me lightly on my lips. I shook my head. "Ho, ho, fastenst So yon are no lon ger a pet," he jibbed, "even unable to barrow a little apparel." 1 did not speak, but tnrned to the wardrobe and smiled. So poor Tom was forced to appear In Ma court suit of pale green silk, his old Flemish lace and his English sword. He led off tb^queen and I the Prin cess Barbara in the opening quadrille. My partner's hand trembled in mine. Oar eyes met and held. We seemed to be gliding there alone. And at one time. In crossing, I sighed into her powdered hair, "Now I will dream of another— nntil I get It." I saw little of the princess during the mnalnder of the evening, but the other ladiea of the court were very kind and pretended not to recognize any of the other gentlemen. They were good enough to say that not wy arm, bat my manner of dancing, made plain my identity. There was little rest for me when I returned. I watched the bright sun come in at the curtains and the shadows slide along the floor. Thus I lay until high noon. In the clear light of day how my freedom of the night appalled met The fumes of the wine, the scent of her hair, bad left my brain now but, curse it, the memory of all this was (till deep in my heart I Oh, princess, princess! Looking over at the corner of my chamber, where the tapestry took only a little of the light and the shadow of a glass fell, I could see her slight standing—the red brown hair all powdered as It had been in the dance, tin gray eyes questioning, the pate face kind and queenlike. "II is worth a king's game," I mut tered, "and the king may hang me for it, but love a princess I do, so God heipmel" Then I cursed myself for a fool. I might have lain all day, picturing the lady'a face and figure and building toppling air castles, had not Tom bnrst into my room, looking for his sword. After the barber bad done with me I ordered Hagart and rode out in the autumn forests. The little wild flowerg, the odorous ferns and the red and yel low leaves fluttering from the trees alj laughed at the song in my heart And so staid to'the :greenwood until •onset, listening to the scurrying of partridges, the whispering of the brown oaks and the occasional and faroff bugle calls in the city. At the end of it I untied Hagart's bridle from a sapling, and, mounting, vowed that I would forget the princess and leave Cloburg for Flanders or any place where one might die fighting. This I had vowed when leaving Marion. The thought came to me, and I laughed. "Hagart," 1 said to my black horse, "I will stay, for the princess is so far above me, and 1 am ber very humble cavalier." And I should have been woefully cast down at the hopelessness of it, but instead 1 went whistling up the avfjrae that runs through the park. FflgrVlqt Is there that a man feels far and his tried sword swings pis leg Manhat I became so good a conrt onr embassador in Cloburg io to become his eecretary. So my fingers with ink, drew ,y and wrote two letters a day ldly. The receptions at court Jldom without- me, and, though icess and 1 spoke little. )nr eyes Vpy things. nlJSeverley was high in favor, and wjesty decorated him with the of the Order of the Boyal One night, when Tom J" For half tba nigbt he rambled on in his narrative of old things while I sat, ontwardly attentive, grunting ever and anon, but in reality thinking only of a little, amber haired princess. The big clock in my chamber ohimed 9. He ceased talking of England and looked at me with his old smile. "What color is ber hairf" he asked, "fled brown—that is, whose hair do you meant" "The hair of the lady you used to dream about," he said. "Oh, yellow I" I answered. I remem bered the time I had called it golden. Then Tom wandered off to his bed, taking bis pipe and his tobaoco vith him and leaving me to dream thai. in the window seat till sunrise. Wb I looked out at early dawn, a white li'ost lay over the grass and walls and glis tened on tbe roofs. I blew out the flar ing candles, threw aside 'my clothing and got to trad before 6. When I awoke, to my amazement I beheld old Bed Harding grinning at me Between tne curtains or xne oeu. How heartily we embraced, and laughed and glared at one another, as if we had been parted for years.. I did not appear, pen in hand, before the embassador o* •o o* •o o* *0 o* *0 o* *0 o* #0 o* *0 o* *0 o* *0 o* *0 o* *0 o* '^*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o#oSS *o*o*o#o*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0* One of them had a sotia tn memory of the sUtyimi of WIUU Howard. paae wnn -rom ceveney, UUA U« WA» upon the subject at groat length, be seeohing mo, for the love they bore me in the house of Isstens, to take care of my neck. Tears filled my eyes when I read my mother's note, and the little message from Marion, which was won drous humble. The captain sent me a poem, most heroio, of his own compos ing, and they all prayed me to apne back before Christmas. Tom took Bed Harding out with him, while I wrote many pages in re ply to all these. I think my letters must have been like the works of the poor poet who for money, wrote on hpsbandry. tbe church and state, mili tary matters and Latin prose and waa former verging on his one dear subject, poetry, but nowhere mentioned it So did I write of this and that, ever think ing of the princess and tingeing my sen tences with her yet nowhere wrote her name. When I finished, it was time for oandles. Tom and Bed Harding had not returned, so I put on my cloak and hat and went down into the gardens. Some of tbe flowers were frozen in their beds and the air was cbilly. I looked at the royal wing of the palace, where it fronts along the crest of the terrace. The windows gleamed ont, one by one, as the servants lit the candles. One casement glowed as a red rose before my eyes. I stood until all twilight failed—until the stars glinted and tbe moon swung up above the great woods where I had dreamed. Then I turned to go, and in my first step my foot sent something singing along the gravel. I stooped and peered low to discover it. Then I dropped on my knees and felt about with careful fingers. After searching for some time I found, on the frozen mold at the edge of the path, a silver buckle set with rubies. And the same I had so often seen in the hunting hat of a certain great lady that I held it fondly and went on toward my apartments in the palaae. Fumes of the Virginian leaf greeted me at the door, and, upon entering, I found our old retainer and Tom Beverley comfortably seated. "What think you?" cried Tom. "This cavalier from Isstens has been making love to the princess." "Truly," said B«d Harding. "We met the lady in the garden and walked up and down and around, like priests after mass, many times together. And ber highness showed much interest in me and all my friends. A great soldier ever alms high." Tom winked at me and usked what I held so closely in my fingers. The old 'lieutenant's eyes protruded. "By heavens, it is the bnckle I saw in the princess' but I" he exclaimed. "My dear friend, were there never two buckles mude alike?" I answered. It lis reach when his best horse is waB waB bver the wine with me, he said: IT yon ever notice, Isstens, how siijthing lies between the deed for ne man is hung and another bad become since entering on ^ietaryBhip something of a philos opher I nodded assent and replied, "Truly, and sometimes tbey would hang a man and afterward see reason to crown him." "Which nearly happened in my poor case," aaidTotn. He tilled the bowlof along pipe with tobacco and lighted it at the Hume of a candle. Smoking had become fashion able in Cloburg—almost as much so at thlB time as in London itself. With the fragrant clouds flouting about his head he talked of bis old home in Devon. There was a girl there high in rank and vary young whom be had loved. He Was very careful to avoid all name* aave that of the Englishman whom be bad so valiantly killed in the Unicorn'a Head. Red Harding's intention to start tbe following morning on his re turn journey to Blatenburg, and as he had not seen enough of the taverns of Cloburg during the day Tom and I took him along after tea. Outside we found the moon obscured and thqpir turned mild. The lieutenant swore roundly, thinking of muddy roads for tne morrow. The first tavern we came to swung the sign of the Blue Bull. It was a little snug place, and. aping foreign fashions, was much fre quented by poets und actors, who would come here and scribble their rhymes or voice their parts as the whim took them. Some of these gentry were pres ent when we entered, and they made such merry company that we tarried long and drank deep. One of them had a song in memoryof the slaying of Sir Willis Howard, in which he wag pleated to call Tom "a valiant,- skillful gentle man, the pride of all the town," and Howard "so vile a dog, it did us good to see him tumbled down." We pledged many more glasses io this astonishing poet, and he promiied to immortalize ns all. CHAPTER XIII. THE TRYST WITH THE PRINCESS. As we were about to leave the place a fellow of the swashbuckler stamp came in with great clashing of his scabbard. He reeled against me, and on the in stant I felt something pluoked from the inside of the open breast of my cloak. "This is a pretty bauble," he grin ned, holding Princess Barbara's buckle in his hand, and even as I clutched at him he discovered the great priae of the stones and dashed paBt toward tbe door. With shouts of rage and many threats we all sped after him, tbe poets dropping their verses and running lus tily. The street was empty save for the fiying figure of the thief. With a fair running ground before ns, Tom and I kept our wind for the chase, but tbe rhyme writers and Red Harding con tinued bellowing out and waving their swords, much to the danger of each other's head. Soon we saw that the man with tbe bnckle, by tbe manner of his running, was mnch farther in wine than any of onr party. He stopped frequently to take breath. He fell over twice, and at last, with Tom at his heels, daBbed aside in the doorway of a tall house. In we went after bim like a pack of honnds. Then began an awfnl tripping across each other's legs and overturning of tables, for the ball was pitch dark. The door slammed abut after tbe last yell ing poet bad scrambled in. For awbile we had a devil of a time, and when by some nnseen agency tbe candles were lit we had a mnch worse one, for we found ourselves in a trap of robber* and cutthroats, all garbed and armed lik* soldiers and gentlemen. And the There, in the narrow, richly appoint ed hall, occurred a woeful fight. The in mates were two to our one, but hap pily, owing to broken furniture and limited space, this gave them little ad vantage. At the very first of it I lunged at the thief, who still held Barbara's buckle, and spitted him clean through the side. It was but the. work of a moment to snatch the trinket from his twitching fingers and fasten it on my own breast. While engaging a burley, thick leg ged rascal across a bench I saw with the corner of my eye one of the poets Bhouting and stabbing at a man of twice his size. They spun about and leaped back and on like crazy men and were both very drunk. But presently the scribe changed his rapier to his left hand and brought down a cracking broadsword cnt on bis antagonist'* head which ended that little passage of arms. Red Harding, after sorely wounding his man, went back and kicked tbe door until it fell out into the street Dragging one of the wounded with us we retreated, and the enemy forbore following. After helping our wounded friend to the nearest inn we then returned to the palace, thanking the saints for taking us out of so merry a scrape alive. I awoke early on the morrow, and in getting out of bed felt a severe pain in my left knee. I put my foot to the floor and the agony brought an impa tient oath to my lips. Dropping back on to the bed I examined the painful joint, and, to my disgust, found it puffed and blue. This is what came of fighting in the dark. After the doctor had looked at it and punched the swelling with his lean finger, he shook his head till the wig settled over one ear. "You must go on crutches for a week or two, my good sir, and no more rid ing nor fencing till the inflammation has gone," he said. The gentlemen of the guard, who were clustered about, drew down their mouths in sorrow, all feeling that crutches were second only to tbe coffin. The doctor stamped toward the door, but turned on the threshold and deliv ered a last remark: "Wine or malt liquors in tbe system will add to tbe inflammation. Cavalier laatens.'' He left amid a thunder of groans. Ten ininntea after I sat with my foot on a chair and played a game of chance with Beverley and two of his fellows, and the decanters stood on the table. In the evening the big poet-guards man came in and found me alone. After exchanging commonplaces he began to fidget in bis chair and look at me nneasily. "Pray part with it, my friend," I said gayly. "By the Bword of St. Peter, how did yon know I had anything to say?" he asked. For answer I passed him a tobacco pipe, knowing that the fashionable habit was strong upon him. After blowing out a few wreatbs of white smoke be said: "Have yon beard abont tbe letter your king wrote to Princess Barbara?" I shook my head. "Some one told me that a few days ago he sent her a letter accusing her of faithlessness." "How did the countess come to hear of it?" I interrupted. The big guardsman blushed and clap ped his heels together. "The person who told me heard it from the princess, who does not seem concerned at all," he replied. I looked out of tbe window and bit my lip. "She has written buck a missive that will not mend mutters, and his majesty Rufford is wrathy- as the devil," he continued.' "Which is all passing strange," I Hid at last. "But of what interest to me?" The poet grinned and poured a glass of wine. "A health to you, you sly dog be cried, and drained the glass. "On second thoughts, Isstens, I 'ad vise you topnt away that buckle before the king comes to inquire utter your knee," be said. Then he clattered out, singing one of his own songs. In the shadows I was glad to sit alone and think. Could it be that the prin cess was really out of love with ber sovereign lover! Could it be that she loved some one without a crown and a kingdom—loved him beyond a paesing fancy! "Poor fool, cadet," I whispered, "yon area fitting yonth to enliven the dull days with, but"— And I laughed cynically. At that moment a servant entered with a note and candles. I held the note unopened until the man left tbe room, for the little seal was familiar. Then I broke tbe seal and read: "Bring me my-silver buckle to the gar den tomorrow niornlng. Near the dog fountain at fO. I will await you in the company of my ladiea I think you have been thoughtless in the wearing of it" Upon finishing which my oourage and hope fled, and I cursed many things. Ten minutes before the appointed honr I reached tbe dog fountain in the palace garden, having hobbled there on my crutches. During the night alight covering of snow, tbe first of the win ter, had fullen. The clipped shrubs, the statuary and the roofs of the buildings were Bhrouded in it, but overhead the sun crawled up the blnest of skies. But my fool heart was heavy. I was lost In meditations not pleasant when there came a soft rnBtling down the arbored path. Turning, I beheld the princess, in a cloak of red cloth and gray fur, nearing me unattended. As well as I could, with my crutches under my shoulders, I bowed, and upon her reach ing my side, I very humbly kiBsed ber hand. Then, without speaking, I gave her back the silver hat buckle set with rubies. But instead of bending ber head and looking at tbe returned trinket, she lift ed her face and surveyed me with ber gray eyes. Her glance was kind, and I immediately forgot all the brave vows I had made to dreum no more of the love of one so far above me. I know that my voice came huskily and that my eyes pleaded that morn ing I laid bare my heart to the Prin cess Barbara. And yet she listened with no tinge of anger nor surprise in ber clear eyes, only love—and pity. Upon saying my last word I turned to hobble away, but her voice softly recalled me. "D'Artagan," she said—than, with her face bowed iu ber bands, *he sat upon the steps of the fountain and wept. Tbe little threads of sunlight through the cedar brunches drevr a halo about her hair, itari my heart waB real with in mo, so tbut my voice detiertai me in tbe ungnirii of it. But pi'Sgentiy, going closer, I aid: "Prinea^, it is eomejhin# M|y to have lov«d like this, and, befctM Ood, I would mpK* have retnrnod to trouble you bad 1 tavown tbe fulL *wcat atory of it" UMM who bad led us here was not a* tim W bad at a* ... Then ah* arose and with tNBbling fingers faulted the silver "^Aua now," she aaid. trying brave ly to flmile, Mwill you promise never to try to see me a^ain and to loavo tbe town if I tell you two things?" For answer I bowed my head and drove the tears back on to my sool. "First," she said, 4tI will never marry king nor prince, nor, God pity me, any man, and, second, yon, Sir Cadet, I love with my trne heart I" For a bright, bright second her lips pressed mine, her hair waa over my eyes, and then she sped away down the arbored path and left me leaning on my heedless crotches. I staid in the garden for several hours, limping up and down the paths or staring away at the trees of the park liko one dazed by a blow. When Deverley came to have a dish of tea with me in my room, I asked him to get a leave of absence from the king and to come with me to Blaten burg. At first he looked at me in piteous amazement then, leaning closer over the table, he put out his hand on my shoulder- and said that he would come. With many excuses, hinting at state trouble and a message from tbe king, I bade farewell to the court of Cloburg, and. though tbe ladies in waiting made great ado, Rufford seemed only too pleased at my departure. I started on the journey at midday, a week after our tryst at the dog foun tain. Tom rode in tbe coach with me (xriy knee forbade the saddle) and a serv ant rode alongside on Hagart. Poor enough company I made all the first day, and Tom respected my si lence and spent his time between read ing a book and staring from the win dow. But on the second day, toward evening, we heard a great rumpuB ahead, and the coach came to a stand still. Tom got out to see what the mat ter was, and immediately *two pistol shot* rang on the frosty air and past the window went a man in a red cloak reeling in his saddle. Tom returned, relating bow our former acquaintance of the mountains had tried to bold us up and bow a pistol ball somewhere in the leg had been his only satisfaction. After telling which he coolly returned to bis reading of tbe book, the snow still melting on his boots. We reached Blatenburg in safety without further adveuture. Instead of riding up to the palace we took rooms and stabling for Hagart at the Cava lier's Pride, and next morning sent the coach back to Cloburg. On the night of tbe second day, when I was sitting alone with Barbara's hat buckle in my hand, a low knocking came on my door. My knee bwing greatly improved, I srossed the room and admitted a man with his cloak wrapped close ffboutbim. H^face was covered, but something in the width of his shoulders and the tallness of bis figure reminded me of a former acquaintance. After closing the door behind him he dropped the cloak from his shoulders and doffed his hat, disclosing to my startled gaze my sov ereign, king of Wassmark. "I have called," be said, smiling, "to speak to you bn a matter of private interest to both of us, and to another whom it is not necessary to name." I stared at the king with challenging eyes, my heart fluttering and uncer tain, my mind made up to a just pun ishment for my impudence in loving her. His smile took on its old broadness, and he sat himself down on the edge of the bed and motioned me back to my chair. "You have been a good servant, sir, and a true fighter," he continued, "and have many times saved your king and your country much blood without know ing it. You will kindly pass me your sword. Mine I have forgotten." I brought my sword from tbe corner of the room. He bared the blade and looked at the war dents. "It is aright fitting sword to knight a man with," be said, and, requesting me to knee], which I did as gracefully as possible under the circumstances. stared at the king with challenging eyes, he smote me eharply on tbe shoulder and cried, "In the name of Qod and by the touch of proved steel I proclaim yon a knight of the Royal Order of Waas-. mark." "And so honor comes when she is least wanted," thought I, and raised bis royal band to my lips without fervor. "You are not surprised!" he said, drawing up his red eyebrows. "Yes, sire, I am surprised and hon ored beyond measure," I answered. He pinned the cross of the order on my breast and then handed me a letter. But before I could open the sheet he snatched it back, saying, "It is from the princess, Sir Wbat's-your-name." I flushed crimson and replied: "Very good, your majesty. I have no desire to see your private correspondence." "Come, come, my good Isstens, I crave pardon, but my pride is stil) somewhat sore at being crossed in love by my embassador's secretary." I said nothing to this. "But remember, sir," he continued, "it touches nothing beyond my pride." "And yet tbe thing remains hopeless, sire. I am but tbe cadet And how does a poor Bword weigh against a crown?" "You forget." be said, "that you were but now made knight of a great ordft." He got ready to go against Bever ley's return, and, with his bat on, ask ed if I was still of tbe old, adventurous spirit. I answered that my sword was al ways at his service. "Then postpone ycur visit to Isstens and stand ready for further word from me," be said and bade me a friendly good night. When Beverley came in a little past midnight, I told bim of tbe change in my plans and something of what the king bad mentioned, and, last, of my new honor. "Your king is a true gentleman," he exclaimed, "and, by heaven, I see into it a little." 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Sent post-paid on receipt of 2 cent postage stamp and 10 signatures cut from wrappers of Ar buckles' Roasted Coffee. turea cut from wig||W of Arbuckles' Roasted CoOse. No. 98 Hair Pin Cabinet A metal box lithographed in colors, containing One Hundred Huir Pins, as sorted stzrs and styles straight, crimpled and ln« visible. The different styles are In separate com partments. Sent post paid on rocolpt of cent postage Htamp and lOHitfnnturcH cut from wrappers of Ar bucklus' Roustud Coflet. Addrm ell communlotHont to ARBUCKLE BROS.. NOTION DEPT., NBW YORK CITY, N.V, jAu Jib Rulers, Compasses, Penholders, Proti acton, 7A11 ri"' Legal cap paper Bill papers, Note books, Fpol's cap paper yVV Call in and let us supply you or send your Children. dik. Jifc. -it gfr jW tfH, |WfH, rffHfrirtHrr I'ffftri*ln*fc.Jltfc. JilfcJ*-- jfj, jfj, jftk, *1, fW, tffj, www9w9w9ww^WwwW99W9www ANDERS & PHILIPP, Central Pharmacy. Manchester, Iowa. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF AOMINIS TKATOK. STATE OF IOWA, Delaware County,—ks. \y- NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILIj. STATE OF IOWA, Delaware County,—KS. To Notice Is hereby Riven, that tbo nnderslKUod has been duly appointed wd quail'•)«* a® Ad ministrator of the Estate of ANSA B. KOBIN SON late of Delaware County, deceased. AU persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those navtuR claiin9 aealnst the same will present them, duly authenticated, to the undersigned forallowance. AI.lv WHOM IT SIAY OONOKltN: You are hereby notified that the last will of ANNA CHRISTINA (JODKEN, (GOEDKKN deceased, has been flled, openothand roan, aud Monday, tho 9th day of October, A. D. 18U9 fixed as the time, and tho Court Uouse in Manchester tho place for hearing and proving tho same. Witness iny baud and seal of said Court this 12th day of August 1899. F. II. PAUL, Clerk District Court. 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Address, g' fi.JlflfliRS.Pfcttwt Liwytf, Washington, b, C. No. 78 An Album of Illustrated Natural History. Fifty colored pictures ol Animals selected for their beauty and rarity. Seat pest-paid on receipt of 9 eent postage stamp and 10 sig nature* cut from wrappers of Arbucklts' Rossrvl Coflfce. No. 79. Pepper and Salt Holders. ttnl8fc Enclosed in embo8a ednickel cover no larger than an ordi nary watch when Me ac «i, when 1 No. 09 Three BeautMll Flower Pictures. Each measuring tlfff inches. The tltlaa g|g Summer FragnHM/* A Vase of Llllsa," "Fresh and Sweet," These three pictures 111 po together, and wiUfce sent post-paM celpt ot 3 cent paet* age stamp aaiftilf* natures cut fiomwiip pers of Arbaeklgc' Roasted Coffee. The most complete s**00' Successors to F. J. ATWATER. Special *. its articles which have Columbia colleges. This highest educators in the lan •w Will weigh from ons ounce to pounds. 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Sent poet-paid on reeelpt of 3 cost postage •lamp and 15 slgnatnrss cut from WVftppsre of Arbucklss' Roasted Ooflss. No. IOO Safety Pin Book Contains twenty .four nickel plated Ssfsty-Plns three slsee which enter tbe shields from either side, requiring no gnldlng when being assured or re leased. Beat poet-paid ea receipt ef 3 eeat postage Stamp and 8 slgnatnres eut from wrappers of Arbucklea' Boastsd Coflfes. This represent# tat pin of a List whioh is round In eaoh pound package of Arbucklea' (toasted Coffee, and with each package in which toe List 1b found tbe purchaser baa bought definite part of some article to be selected by him or her Llet, subject only to the condition the? the elcnature t^^ ANT A,,# as a voucher, in aeoordance with the directions printed In oonnection with eaeh item Ulualrated and deecribedln the I lift. This List will be kept gaod only till Mar 31,1900. 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