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’•“r THE LOUP CITY NORTHWESTERN
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The Lady
terrogatory extraordinary” were no
longer pressed Into service; the King
had ordered them relegated to the
shelves of the museum. The caba
nons, or black holes? Louis XI. built
them; the carceres duri and vade in
pace, however, dated from Saint Mau
ritius, fourth abbot of the Mount.
"And the Black Seigneur? How have
you accomodated him?”
"In the petit exll; Just to the left!
We are going there now.”
"I—am going back!” A hand
touched the arm of the Marquis, last
of the file of visitors, and, lifting his
candle, he held it so that the yellow
glimmer played on the face of the
Governor’s daughter. Her eyes looked
deeper; full of dread, as if the very
spirit of the subterranean abode had
seised her. He started.
“Surely you, Elise, are not afraid?”
"I prefer the sunlight," she said
hurriedly in a low tone. “It—it is not
cheerful down here! No; do not call
the guide—or let the others know. I'll
return alone, and—wait for you at the
guard-house."
He, nevertheless, inslstsd upon ac
companying her; but, indicating the
not distant door through which they
had come, she professed to make light
of objections, and when he still clung
to the point, replied with a flash of
spirit, sudden snd passionate. It com
pelled his acquiesce* ce; left him sur
prised for » sscoad ttafo tm •
little hurt, too, perhaps, for heretofore
had their intimacy be'm maintained
on a strictly ethical and charming
plane. But he had no time for analy
sis; the others were drawing away to
the left, into a side passage; and, with
a last backward glance toward the
retreating figure, the Marquis reluc
tantly followed the majority.
Despite, however, her avowed repug
nance for that under-world, my lady
showed now no haste to quit it; for
scarcely had the others vanished than
she stopped; began slowly to retrace
her way in the direction they had
taken. When the narrow route to the
petit exil connected with the main
aisle, a sudden draft of air extin
guished her light; yet still she went
on, led by the voices, and a glimmer
afar, until reaching a room, low, mas
sive, as if hewn from the solid rock,
again she paused. Drawing behind a
heavy square pillar, she gazed at the
lords and ladies assembled in the for
bidding place; listened to a voice that
ran oil, as if„discoursing about some
anomalous thing. Again was she cog
nizant of their questions; a jest from
iny lord, the Marquis; she saw that
several stole forward; peered, and
started back, half afraid.
But, at length, they asked about the
oubliettes, and, chatting gaily, left.
Their garments almost touched the
Governor’s daughter; lights played
about the gigantic pillars, and like
will-o'-the-wisps whisked away. Now,
staring straight ahead toward the
chamber they had vacated, my lady’s
attention became fixed by a single dot
of yellow—a candle placed in a niche
by the jailer’s assistant. It seemed
to fascinate; to draw her forward;
across the portals—into the room it
self!
How long she stood there in the
faint suggestion of light, she did not
realize; nor when she approached the
iron-barred aperture, and what she
first said! Something eager, solici
tous, with odd silences between the
words, until the impression of a mo
tionless form, and two steady, cynical
eyes fastened on her, brought her to
an abrupt pause. It was some time
before she continued, more-coherently,
an explanation about h&r apprehen
sion on account of her father, which
“My Father Hates You, and You—”
had entirely left her when she peered
through the window of the guard
house.
“You thought me, then, hut a com
mon assasin?’" a satirical voice inter
posed.
“My father hates you, and you—”
“My Lady has, perhaps, a standard
of her own for judging!”
Unmindful of ironical incredulity,
she related how she had been forced
to take refuge in the wheel-house;'
how, when Sanchez had seen her,
alarmed she had fled blindly down
the passage; waited, then hearing
them all coming, at a loss what else
to do, had opened the wheel-house
door; run into the store-reem! What
she had seen from there, disconnect
edly, also she referred to; his res
cue of the others; his remaining be
hind to bear the brunt—as brave an
act as she knew of! Her tone became
tremulous.
From behind the bars came a mock
ing laugh.
“You don’t believe me?" She caught
her breath.
"Believe? Of course.”
“You don’t!” she said, and clung
tighter to the iron grating. “And I
cant make yon I” __.
Huoulj your Ladyship want
to? What does it matter?”
“But it does matter!” wildly. "When
your servant accused me that day in
the cloister I did not answer nor
deny; but now—”
‘ Your Ladyship would deny?”
‘That I betrayed you at Casque?
Hers? Yes, yes!”
"Or at the wheel-house when you
called to warn the soldiers?”
"You were about to—to throw your
self over!” she faltered.
' Art! your Ladyship was apprehen
sive lest the Black Seigneur should
escape?”
“Escape?” site cried. “It was death.”
“Ard the alternative? My lady pre
ferred to see the outlaw taken—die
like a felon on the gallows!”
“No; no! It*tvas not that.”
“What then?” His eyes gleamed
brighi; her own turned; shrank from
them. A moment she strove to an
swer; cculd not. Within the black
recess a faint light from the flicker
ing candle played up and down. So
comp'ete the stillness, so dead the
very ;,:r, the throbbings of her pulses
fill' d the girl with ;t suffocating sense
of her own. vbalft.v.
"I !■;>• ke to rrv father to fry to get ;
voir ir-il charged she a* last found i
Serve If IrreWanEy saying; ‘but
cor Id do nothing."
“l thank year Lodyhlp! But your;
Ladyship’s friends will be far a way.
Your Ladyship may miss something
amusing!”
"I c .d not bring them—did not want
them to come!”
“Ac ?"
Her figure straightened.
"Perhaps, even, they are uot aware
you are here?"
“They are rot., unless—”
“Elise!” From afar a leud call in
terrupted; reverbera'ing down the
ma'n pasvg re, was caught rti here and
‘I-'re. "Elise! Elise!” The whole
.rder-worid echoed to the nr.rne.
"I promised to meet them at the
guard-house," she explained hurriedly
And hardly knowing what she did, put
out her hand, through the bars,
toward him. In the darkness a hand
seized hers; she felt herself drawn:
held against the bars. They bruised
her shoulder; hnrt her face. The chill
of the iron sent a shudder through
her; though the pain she did not feel;
she was cognisant .only of a closer
view of a figure; the chains from him
to the wall; the bare, damp floor—
then, of a voice low, tense, that now
was speaking;
“Your Ladyship, indeed, found
means to punish a presumptuous fel
low,. who dared displease her. But
ma foi! she should have confined her
punishment to the offender. Those
stripes inflicted on him, my old ser
vant! Think you I knew not it was
my Lady’s answer to the outlaw, who
had the temerity to speak words that
offended—”
“You dream that! You imagine
that!”
The warmth of his hand seemed to
burn hers; her fingers, so closely Im
prisoned, to throb with the fierce beat
ing of his pulses.
"I do not want you to think—I can’t
let you think,” she began..
“Elise!” The searchers -were draw
ing nearer.
She would have stepped back, but
the fingers tightened on her hand.
“They will be here in a moment—’•
Still he did not relinquish his hold;
the dark face was next to hers; the
piercing, relentless eyes studied the
agitated brown cne3. The latter
cleared; met his fully an instant. “Be
lieve!” that imploring wild glance
seemed to say. Did his waver for a
moment: the harshness and mockery
soften on his face?
“Elise!” From but a short dis
tance came the voice of the Marquis.
A moment the Black Seigneur’s hand
gripped my lady’s harder with a
strength he was unaware of. A slight
cry fell from her lips, and at once,
almost rcughly, he threw her hand
from him.
“Bah!” again he laughed mockingly.
“Go to your lover.”
Released thus abruptly she wavered,
straightened, but continued to stand
before the dungeon as if incapable of
further motion.
“Elise! Are you there?”
“There!” Caverns and caves called
out.
“There!” gibed voices amid a laby
rynth of pillars, and mechanically she
caught up the candle; lied.
“Kore she Is!” Coining toward her
quickly out of the darkness, the Mar
quis uttered a glad exclamation. “We
have been looking for you everywhere.
Did I not say you should not have
attempted ip return alone? Moa dim!
you most, have be:, a lost!*’
CHAPTER XXVI.
A New Arrival.
Thrice had the old nurse, Marie
assisting her mistress that night for
the banquet, sighed: a number oi
times striven to held my indy’s ey^
and attention,-but in vain. Only when
the adorning process was nearly com
pleted and the nurse k:;< It with a
white slipper, did she, by a distinct!"
detaining pressure, succeed in and
ir.g, momentarily, the other’s brisk
strained glance.
“Is anything the matter?” My lady’:
absent tone did not. invite confi'T
“My I>ady—’’ the woman he: f. ted;
yet seemed anxious to speak! “I—my
Lady,’ she began again; with sign
of encouragement from the Governor’s
daughter, would have gone Hi: but th'
latter, after waiting a moment, abrupt
!y withdrew the silken-shod foot
"The banquet: It Is past the hour!
An instant she stood, not seeing tt
other or the expression of disappoint
ment on the woman’s countenance.
lutu qu.ck./ wamtu 10 the Joor. i>oi,
as the Governor’s daughter moved
down the long corridor, with crimson
lips set hard, was she cognizant of
another face that looked out from one
of the many passages of the palace
after her—the face of a younger wom
an whose dark, spying eyes glowed
and whose hands closed at sight of
uie vanishing figure P ~
The sound of gay voices, however,
as she neared the banqueting hall, per
force recalled my lady to a sense of
her surroundings; at the same time
a figure in full court dress stepped
from the widely opened doors. An i
adequate degree of expectancy on his j
handsome countenance, my lord, the i
Marquis, who had been waiting, lover-!
fashion, for the first glimpse of his 3
mistress that evening, now gallantly]
tendered his greetings.
. Seldom, perhaps, had the ancient
banqueting hall presented a more fes
tive appearance. Fruits and flowers
made bright the tables; banners me
dieval, trophies of many victories,
trailed from the ceiling; a hundred
lights were reflected from ornaments
of crystal and dishes of gold. On ev
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