Romance here holds sway: romance
in the spirit of Dumas, his dashing
guardsmen, titled adventurers, intri-
guing plots and exciting episodes, Loren
Garde, of Norse and French ancestry,
big and blond as a Viking, nimble
of movement and with the sword thrust
of D'Artagnan, is a of breath-
taki interest: He his own en-
thralling story,
It is a story of hazard
desperate chances and
Loren meets Dulce,
Spain's daughters in
world, and finds his lo)
between her and the cau
upon to serve In the
confiict votions
dangers, conspiraci
plot and count
on surprise
hero
tells
and
romantic
exploit,
pas-
fairest of
Western
divided
is ealled
sion,
of a4
wildcat In fight,
Rreatest,
no less a pet
var, “the Li
ington of Sout
The in
at will
slaughter-song su 1 i
strings of his people, fs 1 At
the annals of his
fore appeared so vividly in fiction
author has gone far beyond the n
of this per » and brought to light
the man,
1 r
ber
3 to
but hag never be-
The
ame
JLOTY
CHAPTER 1
4
Moon-Madness
I sat, one
and studied the
night, upon an iron bench
Cabildo—to me the
most imposing building In that his-
toric city which crescent-like,
within the curving sweep of the Missis-
sippl. Musing, I watched the scroll of
history unroll before me. 1 saw De
Bienville and those hardy followers of
his who had erected the first house of
the Crescent city; I saw the Spaniards
pass—moving to the west and south—
the Frenchmen come and go, and the
Spaniard again: and I heard
the thunderous shouts from a thon-
sand throats Claiborne unfurled
from the iron balcony of old
Cabildo the St and Stripes, em-
blem .of the new republic
“Ah,
well" 1 haif to
half to
the shades
tory, “the var
ana
now within the
be ruled by Kings
tiers and courtesans.”
Whereupon a sound
reverie—the lilt of a
as clear as the 1 » of
“But, your
in Spanish, if we
squares along this
the .
into the river.
“Name of 1 gasped,
to my feet, There w
that
vibrant cord in
blood flamed
stood, trembl
three figures
Cabildo
Hes,
come
as
the
ars
sald, myself
hing of his
ing fortunes of Louisl.
the past; safe
fold. ill she
cou
va .
belong to she is
NO more w
1
and queens,
broke into my
laugh,
a mocking bird,
the
woman's
said volce
majesty
walk two more
way we
passed
G leaping
ing in
hed a
soul, and the young
As 1
ns someth
musical ce that tou
Veins,
the trappir
Speechless,
vaguely if, by some
fate this cons
have been
turies: vet, yon
jousness of
rown back
lor stood
this was New Orleans, an
I felt
Ford eight
But had she
and did
of and
deep of the
Isabella
She h
certain—was the yea of our
t
hundred
not said,
look govereigns
Unheeding, [ drank
beauty of this modern
eon twenty-one,
“Your majesty,”
they not like
fent Spain?
id all the regal dignity and
poise of Spain's great queen; Titian
himself might have arranged
wavy blue-black hair. Her eyes in the
moonlight seemed to hold purple shad-
ows, her face was pale, her lips half
parted; a f
partly closed,
curve of cheek and chin,
His a sturdy man with
heavy shoulders, square full beard and
broad forehead, spoke deep In his
massive chest: but, deaf and dumb
and blind to all the world the
woman who stood before me, 1 paid
non heed,
Except for the lovely, gracious lady
who 18 my mother, woman had hardly
touched my life; yet here was I, logt
in the depths of a lady's eyes, a lady
I had never seen until this night.
Madness? Ave, a sudden and over
whelming madness, and no more to be
explained than the alchemy of love
ftaelf,
As 1 stood, dazed, faltering, his
majesty's volce, which held a rasping,
hostile note, beat into my conscious
ness: “Have the amber wines of old
Didier touched thy brain, dolt, or is
stupidity the natural heritage of Yan-
keea?™
“It may be that he cannot hear”
‘he lady said kindly, “~<cannot under
stand.” Then in swift French to me:
“Is it that you do not know the Span-
ish, Monsieur, cannot hear the volee?”
I tried to smile—g sorry effort, for
the past, as well as the spell of her
beauty, still bore upon me, “We of
New Orleans must know three lan-
guages, your majesty,” 1 faltered;
“and a volee that is like music"
“Carraca!™ The mugic of the night
and the misty vaporings of my wine
mused mind gave way to grim reall
ties of the moment, for the broad-
shouldered man who chose to ape a
king advanced upon me threateningly,
He tried to brush me aside with the
sweep of a muscular arm, but I swung
the
igile hand, Inquiring and
pressed against the
majesty,
save
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a hard and, I think, eflicient fist; for a
year of campaigning in that tatterde-
malion army under General Jackson
had given me many things, not the
least of which was the healthy Amer
fean knack of rough-and-tumble fight.
ing. Under a blow that feund his
whiskered Jaw his majesty went to his
hands and knees, then he came swift
ly to his fey, right hand seeking his
hip, and the slim blade of a small
sword gleamed in the moonlight,
“Not Adolfo,” said the
graceful face, 1 no-
ch of the high
face of the lady that
for her brother; “you
so hasty,
courtier, whose
ticed, possessed so mu
beauty of the
I knew him
must"
“A dog," Adolfo gasped. “Why
should I not run him through? Did
he not accost us; did he not stare at
Carisima : did not the stupid clod lay
violent hands upon a Fuentes?”
“But, Adolfo mio,” said her majesty,
“he is unarmed.”
Ah, sweet angel! I was unarmed-—
she had noticed it, 1 bent a worship-
ing head “Your majesty is too kind;
I was but & lonely being, who, dream.
ing on a bench in the moonlight, heard
a voice coming out of tho night, and a
vision"
“Loco!” eried Adolfo, emphasizing
the charge of madness against me
with a whistling sweep of his sword.
With a Frenzied Burst of Charges
He Built Up a Gleaming Wall of
Steel in Front of Me,
noint
’ "
ng the
and, resti
ross his left forearm
hilt to
for
that ‘
id kindled a fire o
within
extends
me, i
she had calles
gers,
1
8 134 5
in pr
mrietary “Car
f senseles
Palito's weapon
me i
anced like a feather in
blade, In
are, and
neath that blow
His
1 » He
ong Cu
my hand:
1 swung
the air
Toledo truth
a tentative
reed out
ma lesty shru
and,
point raised, advan«
said he
hissing ]
unched a cord of cowardice
in his majesty: I think he must have
realized that It was not a stupid clad
stood before him, and I'm
“Guard”
the
upon me
I think
sword to
of my
cadence
who sure
such realization added nothing to his
confidence
“Not fast, I eried: “do
you not know that the road to hell is
traveled In haste, while heaven is
reached more slowly? He swore In
his beard, and I continued: “If 1
should hazard a guess as to your mas-
querade [I would say that ypu are
Charles Fifth of Spain, 1 noble
king who lived three hundred vears
fgo: but your actions and your words
belie your regal trappings.”
“Guard, Senor!” he gasped,
Now a devil of impudence perched
upon my tongue: “And indy
will be the gracious Eleanor, yet love
lier by far than the consort of your
ancient namesake ; aye, infinitely more
beautiful than Spain's great queen
herself, the splendid Isabella, whose
charm has furnished through the cen-
turies the motif for song and story.”
“Ie is mad,” she breathed, “mad !™
And so 1 was, I think.
“Must 1 ran you through,
Adolfo cried,
80 Senor”
the
your
doit 7
HS SS I HS RR 5
A HAART. ASA HS
My moon-madness disappeared, my
brain cleared, confidence was mine,
And, as I laughed aloud from the sheer
joy of the thing, our blades came to.
gether with a rasping whisper,
I felt of his wrist, and found an
iron rigidity there: I tried a tentative
tierce, and met a swift, eflicient parry.
No mean adversary, this powerful
Spaniard In regal raiment, We
swept back and forth, our blades whip-
ping the ne in whining ares, or hissing
together in venomous slitherings, our
labored going
through set teeth, our feet tapping and
sliding along the pavement, every mus
of tensed,
alert, every g searching
his
breathing coming and
cle our bodies
lance
and every
of atts
ing for an opening,
thought building plans
parry,
AS of
silently
contended thus a circle
curious gathered gathered
from nowhere. They spoke In
whispers, as though the spell of this
we
awed
night of madness lay upon them also,
within my
circled and parried and offered riposte
I smiled at
much of the
her to
Polito came view Aas we
and swift counter-riposte,
him, for Polito had
beauty and of
any from me, I was
happy to find a friendly light in his
eyes, Now I eaught a glimpse of (he
lady, upon whose exquisite face lay
the pallor of fear, A fear, doubt,
for the sturdy Spaniard who had cs
her Carisima and she had calicd
him mio. And here was I, mad with
an inexplicable and overwhelming love
a love that was- utter
hopelessness
{OO
grace majesty
gain enmity
no
tiled
because of its
nothing of
Whereupon I laughed wild.
ly, and with rec aban-
don, beat my adversary down with a
furious attack that carried me near to
victory.
“Nearly,” 1
Majesty I”
short sheer
insanity,
charging 8%
Your
“nearly,
“Nearly,” he answered, and hix deep
in a gasping
never quite enough”
voice came almost sob
“is
Now, when | heard the labor
of his volce 1 that 1
With the realizatiom that |
master my youthful pride
jibe or two: “Cannot a lor
dream In the n hit, Your Majests
1 effort
1d
was
knew won.
his
and conjure
or look w
ut the charge o
rningt him 7"
11
of |
in front of
me,
gttark
whistle
nearly
And
iron
when a weakening
wrist of his, and noted the din
ywer of his lunges, and saw
1 .
terror tha greed
fear
h ®
the
the
nent death ha
n for when 1 thrust y
take hold, 1 heard him offer Bp
contentment :
ing from
upon
igh almost of
His
ere. cla
sword, fall nerveless
fin tered the
of
cobbles
he
then like a m
=
with & soft cry arisima” went
to his knees, and in who
is very tired he crumpled slowly to the
ement A passion
still burned within
the Fifth indeed” 1
my sword to the
“bah-—you
Charles the Last ™
I turned away her
dropped to her knees beside the fallen
man. “Ah, "Deoifo mio”
‘Adolfo !”
“Carisima.” he said again,
Polite nid a hand upon my
“We would apologize, Senor
wlio mer 1
and
“Yes, Senor
We have just lately
pay of resentment,
of disgust me
wa iad,
be
should be ealled
“harles
casting ground
side him
as majesty
she cried
arm
gasped ;
“you
my sister, the Senorita
Lamartina
from a bal masque, where adolfo has
Come
looked the
Magy
our
doubtless too often upon
bottom of an emptied wine glass
I hope that you will let
apologies?”
I laughed
unexplainable excess happiness
Then she wasn't his “I'he
Senor and his sister will find me ever
at their service,” 1 said. “One never
knows-—a time may come"
“You are kind, Senor, as well as a
gentleman of high courage.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
we offer
alond In a sudden and
of
wife!
William Dampier is one of the most
extraordinary figures in the story of
exploration, He was a great navigator
and a great explorer; but he was also
a buccaneer with a reputation for
cruelty. His name is remembered for
two reasons, First, because he was
undoubtedly the first English seaman
to set eyes on Australian and the first
explorer to do any hydrographical sur-
veys there, Secondly, while bucea-
neering, he took part in some of the
most amazing exploits of the so-called
Brethren of the Coast, crosged the
isthmus of Darien and was present at
the sacking of Santa Marta, Twice
the government sent Dampier to the
South seas, The second time he re
turned poor und lly wrote a “Vindi-
cation,” and lived to sail again on the
famous voyage that thrilled the world
by the rescue of Alexander Selkirk,
the sailor who was marooned on Juan
Fernandez island and became immor-
tal as Robinsbn Crusoe. Montreal
Family Herald.
One Saving Grace
The mistress was looking over the
new maid's references before engag-
ing her.
“Do you think you will setile down
here?” she asked, after a while, “Re
member, you've left a good many sit-
untions”
The girl smiled confidently.
“Yes, ma'am,” she replied. “Bat 1
didn’t leave any of them voluntarily.”
«London Tit-Bits.
= UTUAL
M sions by
United
France,
negolinlion,
COonces-
the
and
by
re
accept-
Hoover
plan
by
government.
States
obtained
uited in the
ance of
moratorium
the
principle
French
All other
pations
important
had
accepted, so President
already
Julius Curtius 1; ver announced
that the plan might
he in effect as of date
of July
Brefly s rized
provides debtor
shall be relieved of
1
tween July
con
the
governments
agreement
payments due be-
and July 1, 1832,
S00 mil-
in Germany re.
reparations payments to the
govern-
of
(41
figgregnting approx
Hons of
leved of
former
imately
will be
associated
400)
and
arly millions
Fr
debtors will
ance, Italy, Bel.
be re
ayments approxi
made
tes, which will fore.
i 200 mil-
willebe
by the United i
go war debt receipts totaling
Hons,
Beginning
Fo ND ENN,
mt this
back to CG
if
banks of
pean central
ord
tn
The nex a nti
satisfactory Americ
Hoover
of the
not
debts
does
international
French
becanse
statesmen
the
of
Yes
rai support
torium
Forel
Chis tie
gt Secretary
and elior Bruening of Germany,
of
gion,
COUTrSe, pleased beyond expres
and the former paid warm
nplished In
Mellon, The German
professes be dis
several
that it
trib.
ute to the work accompl Paris
hy Secretary
press, however, to
4
gusted with
influential
the compromise,
Iaring
dex
wrecks the plan entirely.
announcement of
Hoover
tion of world dis
his
President
In concluding
the sagreement,
touched on the ques
armament, which he considers the sec.
program for re
storing economic prosperity.
ond festure of his
AVING
ver's
Mr. Hoo-
effort aboul the
moratorium, the government
called a conference of the powers to
work out the details of the plan. The
premiers and foreign ministers are to
meet In London, and It is expected
Secretary Stimeon will participate as
an offical when he reaches
England.
This conference will meet from
to time for several months, It
derstood, and may continue to fune
tion. for several years. Before this
body. toward the end of the one year
Hoover moratoriom, will come the
question of the capacity of Germany
continue paying the Young plan
seconded
to bring
jritish
ably
observer
time
is un
to
reparations, the question of extending
the Hoover debt holiday another year,
and the question of revising repara-
tions and war debts downward.
VE PRESIDENT
Curtis came out in
the open in earnest
opposition to the poli
cies of the federal
farm board, and, in
company with Senn
tor Arthur Capper of
Kansas, went before
Chairman Stone and
Carl Williams of the
board to urge that it
change its stand con-
cerning its whent
holdings. The two Kansans argued for
hours that this wheat should not be
put on the market until the price
reached £5 cents, but Mr. Stone re
fused to make any such pledge. He
did state, however, that the board
would not offer any of its whent at
the present low prices. But he made
it plain that the board would abide
by its policy enunciated July 1, which
was that it would feel free to sell up
to a cumulative maximum of five mil.
lion bushels a ‘month for the nest
year,
Charles Curtis
Mr, Curtis’ activity In the contro
over the board's wheat hold
n interpreted as indicat-
on his part to avold re-
wmtion for the vice
to run for the
which he
his
“They'll
for at
presidency
Kansas sena
formerly held. When
political plans, he re-
not get anything out
least three
Senator Watson of Indiana, Repub
* of the senate, also
to influence the farm
02 which is
price pa
for
ich
tor-
plied
of me months”
Hean leader has
been trying
board, arguing
he the
ization
the figure below wh
not
Borah, insurgent
hairman
ommitliee
for
average
cents,
sald t
corporation ‘
the
Wil
Republi
of the
should sell, Senator
named the
last March,
board defer all
wheat goes to $1.25,
SECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON
AY is having a pleasanter time on his
European vacation than has fallen to
the lot of Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon, Starting too late to get mixed
up in the moratorium
Mr. Stimson arrived at
the steamship Conte Grande,
accompanied by Mrs. Stimson. He was
met by Ambassador Garrett, and, fol-
lowing a to Pomp and Hercu-
to Rome by automobile,
at
conference”
that
“progressive
has insisted
sales until
the
negotiations,
Naples Tues.
is
Gay on
Thurday ng he called on Premier
Mussolini at the Pals
1 a dinner gi
In Mr
the
rz Venez
was a cand
the
nation
dency in
nomi.
Presi.
Republican
for dhe
1002. Already |
he has started on
his
summer campaign
{ and
friends are
.J.1. France
his many
* fo 11
we extent of thelr powers
n with a public
Ars farms, the de
estate in
soon, it
doings begs
at Mount
Miniry
Maryiand
he will make a tour through t
of the West,
Assisting France in
1 under way are Jonathan
former senator from Oregon and head
of the Republican publicity bureau
during the Wilson administration, and
Lyle Ri: described as “a
nent chemist and Bi.
Et
tors of Cecil county,
Very is expected
sintes
getting his cam.
go fourne,
der. who
York
i.
promi New
ble speaker”
Doctor France says that on his trip |
in the West he will give his reasons |
for seeking the nomina-
discuss “the grave world
residential
'
tion and will
erisig and its remedy through the ap
plication of the principle of righteous.
social and interna-
ness economic,
tional
FORE
to
problems.”
BF the convention of the
Great Lakes-Hudson Waterways
association in Albany, N. Y.. Senator
Copeland and Representative Hamil
ton Fish of the Empire state and
various others attacked the proposed
St. Lawrence canal and urged
that congress begin as soon as possi
ble the construction of all-American
waterways from the Great Lakes to
the Atlantic seaboard by way of the
Mohawk valley and the Hudson, as a
means to relieve unemployment.
it was declared by the speakers
that the St. Lawrence canal was con
sidered only because the farmers of
the Middle West wanted it for an
outlet for their surplus grain, and Mr,
Fish sald the Russian wheat situa.
tion "now makes the building of a
ship canal through Canada a fantas.
tic myth”
ship
HOUGH it is un-
derstood in Rome
that Pope Plus and
Premier Mussolini
have both decided to
avoid any precipitate
action in thelr contro
versy, they continue
fo hammer at each
other with encyclicals
and newspaper arti
cles, The pope stead
ily maintains that the
church 8 suffering
persecution at the i
hands of the Fascist rulers of Italy,
but for the present at least he will
not consider the withdrawal of the
papal nuncio to Rome, Mgr. Borgon.
cini-Duca, The nuncio, for his part,
has been doing all he could to bring
about a peaceful settlement of the
quarrel,
The pope's latest encyclical dealt
severely with the Fascist position on
the education of youth, and was
Mgr. Borgon.
cini-Duca
characterized by the Italian press as
a return to the medieval conceptions
about the respecte authority of the
church and state, Copies of the docu-
ment were not only distributed in the
churches of Home, but also were sent
out of the country by special couriers
~which action drew Fascist ridicule.
N AYRE there will be another war
‘A in South America before long.
Dispatches from Asuncion, Paraguay,
said that Senor Guachalla, minister
from Bolivia, sent a note to the for-
eign office declaring he had been or-
dered by his government to suspend
diplomatic relations between the two
nations, The Paraguayan government
replied with the announcement that
it had ordered its Bolivia
to return home, 3
all at
ail a
minister to
Don't a
sk w
Witt
been
Peru has
of it
having
government v
The other ds ls
at Huaml and the
of Cuzco, their headquarters, was
The revolters filed
» Jungle, and probably little
heard of them.
NI y8 quarrel
4 with the Church
is now
y the ri
defeated i
( ity
taken, thereupon
th
to th
¢
will be
if en
of
the
of Rome
tered in
Yera Cruz and
prospects of a peace
ful are
growing and
more remote, pro-
test against re
cently enacted law of
the state limiting
number of priests.
Rafael Guizar
hop of Vera Cruz, has in-
Catholics of the state (o
the state
gettiement
more
In
the
the
it
BishopValencia »
LEV,
Valencia,
structed all ab-
stain from attending dances theaters
and until the conflict
and government
in-
other festivities
the church
is ended. The bishop
structed his priests
between
also has
na
keep tl
esented a
ges in the g
labor an
¢
eg Of
pr D. ROCKEFELLER cx
. ed h es ond 1
in Ta
of the day
Mr
FJ
re af-
¥.
fam-
Mra
mar.
N
WAS 8
and
their
etly at his home rrytown
The only event
i dinner attended
Bn D
daughter
David together w
ilo child
Rockefeller said
very
by
Rockefelle
Abbie,
Milton,
{
ana
her hus
th
To
her kefeller
occasions offer me 8 weleame
first, to express my grat-
many friends who
me but throughout
shown thelr kindly
and second,
r& and all
of health
re
to wish
ure and
ch are the basis
I LLY BURKE of
+ Greenwich, Conn,
professional golfer
whose real name Is
Jurkowski-he is a
Pole—is the new open
golf champion of the
United States, wear
ing the crown which
Bobby Jones nid
aside. In the tourna
ment on the Inverness
course at Toledo,
Jurke and Georg
von Bim of Detroit tied for first place
with cards of 202. Next day they
undertook fo play off the tie sat 36
holns, and again tied. So on Monday
the second play-off was staged and
lurke won by a margin of one stroke,
finishing the longest tourney in golf
history. Burke had a total of 05RD
strokes for the 144 holes played in
the five days of their battle, and Von
“im had 500. This was slightly over
an average of 4 for each hole,
Billy Burke
HH
HOUGH Max
many
Schmeling of Ger
wan a clean-cut victory
over Willie Stribling in their battle
in Cleveland, defending his heavy.
weight title, he is still out of favor
with the New York state boxing com-
mission. Chairman J. A. Farley of
that body is quoted as saving:
“Schmeling will never meet another
boxer in New York as long as he
refuses to meet Jack Sharkey sagain™
The New York commission gave
Schmeling the title when Sharkey
fouled him, but, according to Farley,
it does not consider him the cham-
pion, ,
OTABLE among the deaths of the
week was that of John Brishen
Walker in Brooklyn, For many years
he was often in the public eye as a
soldier, business man, writer and edi
tor and crusader for world peace.
The duke of Aosta, cousin of the
king of ltaly, also passed away, to the
great sorrow of the Italian people.
He won considerable fame in the
World war,
(@. 1921, Western Newspaper Union.)
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