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' 1 " SYNOPSIS.
fAfter the disastrous retreat of the Arm
tf Napoleon from Mohcow, HrltfudleAJ
Jorard wns sent through German terrl-
tory, nominally friendly, but really ripe
f 1 . I .. n T.'-r. n.w. .1.1 I
for revolt, to raise troops In France. On
his way he has observed with some dis
may the Murk looks of the hostile peas
ants, who In ono place drnnk a mysterious
toast to the leter T. A little later he Is
warned of his peril by a terror-stricken
man hidden by the road side. "It means
death to me If X am Been helping you," the
man had said.
"Death! From whom?" asked the briga
dier. CHAPTER II.
"From the Tufrendhund. From I.ut
sow'a night-riders. You Frenchmen
are living on a powder magazine, and
the match haa been struck which will
fire it."
"But this la all strange to me," I
paid, still funTbling at the leathers of
my horse. "What Is this Tugendbund?"
"It In the secret society which has
planned the great rising which Is to
drive you out of Germany Just as you
have been driven out of Uussla."
"And these T'a stands for It?'
"They are the signal. . I nhauld have
told you all this in the village, b'ut I
dared not be seen speaking with you.
I galloped through the woods to cut
you off, and concealed both my horse
and myself."
"I am very much indebted to you,"
said I. "and the more so as your are
the only German that I have met today
from whom I have had common civil
ity." "All that I possess I have gained
through contracting for the French
armies," said he. "Your emperor has
been a good friend to me. Mut I beg
that you will ride on now, for we have
talked long enough. Beware only - of
I.utzok's nlght-ridersl'f
"All that is best in Germany," said
he. "But for God's sake ride forward,
for I have risked my life and exposed
my good name In order to carry you
this warning." ,
Well, If I had been heavy with
thought before, you can think how I
felt after my strange talk with the man
among the fagsrots. What came home
to me even more than his words was
his shivering broken voice his twitch
ing face, and his eyes glancing swiftly
to right and left and opening In horror
whenever a branch creaked upon a tree.
It was clear that he was in the last
extremity of tetrpr, and it, is possible
that he had cause, for not long after
I had left him I heard a distant gunshot
and a shouting; from - somewhere be
hind me. It may have been some spots
man hallooing. to his dogs, but I never
again either heard or saw the man who
had given me my warning.
I kept a good lookout after this, rid
ing swiftly where the country was open
and alowly where there might be an
ambuscade. It was serious for me,
for
1 fir a Kingdom
iy A. CONAN BOYLE.
since D00 good miles of German soil lay
in front of me; but somehow I did not
take It very much to heart, for the Gcr-
Kmans hail always seemed to me to bp
h kindly, Rentle people, whose hand
" - . ...
tt)sed more readily around a plpestem
thVn a swordhilt not out of want of
valor, you understand, but because they
are fA'niiil, open eouIs, who would rath
er len good terms with ull men. I did
not knkiv then that beneath that home
ly Hurfat here lurlts a deviltry as fierce
and far raore persistent than that of
the CastlliVn.or the Italian.
And It witf not long before I had It
shown to me thnt there was something:
more serious abroad than rough words
and hard looks. ' had Tome to a spot
where the road runs upward through
a wild track of heajherlnnd and van
ished Into arr oak-wpnri.' I may have
been half way up the hill, when look
ing forward I saw something gleam
under the shadow of the tree trunks,
and a man come out with a coat that
He filmed
was so slashed and spangled with
told
that he blazed like a fire In the sunli
fit.
he
to-
He appeared to be very drunk, fo
reeled and staggered as ho rami
wards mo. One of his hands was
held
up to his ear and clutched a great!
red
handkerchief, which was fixed to
his
neck.
I had reined, up 'the mare arid
looking at him with some disgust
Ivan
for
it seemed strange to me that one
Ivho
wore so gorgeous a uniform n
uld
show himself in such a state In 1
oad
daylight. For his part he looked
ard
in my direction and. came slowl,
on
ward, stopping from- time tlnle and
swaying about as he gaied at me.l Bud
denly, as I again advanced, he serf fimed
out his thanks to Christ, and, lurching
forward, he fell with a crash uytui the
dusty road. Hla hands flew Lpward
with tho fall, and I saw that jvhat I
had taken for a red cloth waa (a mon
strous wound, which had- left fa great
gap In his 'neck, from which a dark
bloodclot huna. like an epaulette, upon
his shoulder. v-- - . .
Like a l ire in tho SunlLht.
the K.
"My God!" I cried, as I sprang to his
aid, "and I thought you were drunk!"
"Not drunk, but dying," .said he. "But
oh! thank Heaven that I have seen a
French ofllcer while I had still strength
to speak."
I laid him among the heather and
poured some brandy down his throat.
All round us was the vast country side,
green and peaceful, with nothing liv
ing In sight save only tho mutilated
man beside me.
"Who has done this?" I asked, "and
what are you? You are French, and yet
the uniform Is strange to me."
"It Is that of the emperor's new guard
of honor. I am the marqls of Chateau
St. Arnnud, and I am the ninth of my
blood who have died In the service of
France. I have been pursued and
wounded by tho night-riders of Lut
zow, but I hid among the bushwood
yonder and waited In the hope that . a
Frenchman might pass. I could not be
sure at first If you were friend or foe,
but I felt that death was very near, and
that I must take the chance."
"Keep your heart up, comrade," said
I. "I have seen a man with n worse
wound who has lived to boast of It."
"No no," he whispered, "I am going
fast." He laid his hand upon mine as
he spoke and I raw that his finger nails
were already blue. "But I have papers
here lit my tunic which you must carry
at once to the prince of Saxe-Felsteln
at his castle of Hof. He Is still true to
us, but the princess is our deadly enemy.
She Is striving to mnke him declare
against us. If he docs so It will deter
mine all those who nre wavering, for
the king of Prussia Is his uncle, and the
king of Bavaria his cousin. These pa
pers will hold him to us if they'can only
reach him before he takes the last step.
Place them In his hnnds tonight and
perhaps you will have saved nil Ger
many for the emneror. Had my horse
pot been shot I might, wounded as I
nm " he choked and the cold hand
tightened into a grip. which left mine ns
bloodless as Itself. Then with a groan
his head fell back, and he had gone as
a brave soldier would wish to go.
Here was a fine start for my journey
home. I wns leftwlth a commission of
which I knew little, which would lead
me to delay the pressing needs of my
hussars, and which at the same time
was of such Importance that It was Im
possible for me to avoid It. I- opened
the marquis' tunic, the brilliance of
which had been dovlned by the emperor
In order to attract those young aristo
crats from whom lie hoped to raise
these new regiments of his guard. It
wns a small packet of papers which I
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drew out, tied up with silk and ad
dressed to the prince of f-f xe-Felstein.
In tho corner. In a sprawling, untidy
hand, which I knew to be the emperor's
own, was written "pressing and most
Important." It was an order to me,
those four words an order as clear as
If it had come straight from the firm
lips, with the cold gray eyes looking
Into mine. My troopers might wait
for their horses, the dead marquis might
lie where I had laid him amongst the
heather, but if the mare and her rider
had a breath left In them tne papers
should roach the prince that night.
I should not have feared to ride by
the road through the wood, for I had
learned In Spain thnt the safest time
to pass' through a guerilla country is
after an outrage, and the moment of
danger Is when all is peaceful. When
I came to look upon my mup, however,
I saw that Hof lay further to the South
of me, and that I might reach it more
Girth Deep In Hcnilicr.
directly by keeping to the moor3. Off
I set, therefore and had not gone 50
yards before two carbine chots rang
out of the brushwood and a bullet
hummed passed ine like a bee. It was
clear that the night riders were bolder
In their ways than the brigands of
Spain, and that my mission would have
ended where It had begun If I had kept
to the road. . '
It was a mad ride that, a ride with a
loose rein, girth-deep In heather and In
gorse, plunging through bushes, flying
down, hillsides, with my neck at the
mercy of my dear little Vlolette. But
she she never slipped, Bho never fal
tered, as swift and as sure-footed Us if
she knew that her rider carried the fate
of all Germany beneath tho buttons of
his pelisse. And I I hnd long borne
the name of being the best horseman
In the six brigades of light cavalry, but
I never rode an I rode then. My friend
the Bart., had told me of how they hunt
the fox In Kngland but the swiftest
fox would have been captured by me
that day. The wild pigeons which flew
overhead did not take a stralghter
course than Vlolette and I below. As
an officer I have always been ready to
sacrifice myself for my men, though
the emperor would not have thanked
me for It, for he had many men, but
only one well, cavalry-leaders of the
first-class are rare.' But hare I had an
object which was- Indeed worth a sacri
fice and I thought no mora of my Ufa
; mm
than of the clouds of earth that flew
from my darling's heels.
We struck the road onee more as the
light wan falling, and galloped Into the
Ilttlo village of Lobensteln; but we had
hardly got upon the cobblestones when
off came one of the mare's shoes, and I
had to lead her to the village smithy.
His fire was low and his day's work
done, so that It would be an hour at
lenst before I could hope to push on to
Hof. Cursing at the delay. I strode
Into the village Inn and ordered a cold
chicken and some wine to be served
for my dinner. It was but a few more
miles to Hof, and I had every hope thnt
I might deliver my papers to the prince
on that very night, and be on my way
for France next morning with dis
patches for the emperor In my bossom.
I will tell you now what befell me in
the Inn of Lobensteln.
The chicken had been served and the
wine drawn, and I had turned upon
both as a man may who has ridden such
a ride, when I was aware of a murmur
nnd a scuffling In the hall outside my
door. At first I thought it was some
brawl between some peasants In their
cups and I left them to se.ttle their own
affairs. But of a sudden there broke
from the low sullen growl of the volcea
such a sound as would send Etlcnne
Gerard leaping from his death-bed. It
was the whimpering cry of a woman
in pain. Down clattered my knife and
my fork, and In an Instant I was In tho
thick of the crowd which had gathered
outside of my door.
' ' (To be continued.)
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