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The Ward of King Canute A Romance of the Danish Conquest. By OTTILIE A. UUENCBANTZ, author of The Thral! of Liet the Lucky- Copyright, 1803.. by A. C. McCLURG & CO. ®§t ||Li: I CHAPTER VIII--Continued. have brought the boy home by t<tf*son of the King's command that he be held in safety--and because it was my pleasure to succor him. I desire your love will, as is becoming, re­ ceive him kindly and charitably." / - He raised his hand as the pertest of the maids would have answered him, and there followed an uncomfortable pause. Then seven gowns swept the reed-strewn floor as seven courtesies fell, and the young master walked quietly to the door. ""Homesick and heartsick, the waif in the page's dress was left facing the Unfriendly glances. Even in her brav­ est days, she had never known what , it .was to be disliked, jjy&d now--:! Sud­ denly she limped after her friend and caught at his cloak. : >; / - "Let me go with you," she crie<t "I beseech it of you! I want not their service."ja- ^ • V v.; After a moment, the fitheling threw1 Ms arm protectingly around the boy­ ish figure. • . 1 ' "I do not blame you. poor young­ ling," he said. "Iwas wfon'g to treat jrou as a child when you were bred up as a man. You shall have a bed in. the closet-of my chamber, and' they shall not enter except as you will it. And you shall eat off my plate and drink from my cup. Come!" CHAPTER IX. The Foreign Page, It was August, when Mother Earth had nearly completed'her task of pro- fallen out of my mind to tell you, Loru I - i R i L: i • j a ! " MNRRTARH . cnntd IITV. hflctilv dom and fortune. Say that you will hold your tongue, sweet lad, and I will make boot with anything you like." He was very deliberate about it, the page, pursing his rosy mouth into any number of judicial puckers; but at last, he conceded, "If I do promise, will you make a bargain to put an end to your silly behavior toward my lord? Will you undertake to deliver his dishes into my hands, and leave it for me to pass his cup?" "Yes, in*truth; by Father In^ulph's book!" the maid cried, wringing her hands. , '• *" "j' The page made.her a magnanimous gesture., "In that case I will hot be so mean, as to refuse you," he con­ sented. And he sat smiling to him­ self in sly qgntent after she had hur­ ried away. Followed by old Morcard and the fat monk, , the Etheling descended from the, .doorway and stood on the broad step, Shading his eyes from the' glare of brilliant light while he looked about him-with evident pleasure in the fairness of the day. "M^the question inay be permitted me, whither do you betake yourself, my lord?" the old criiht asked. With the light wand he carried, the young man made a gesture • quite around the horizon. "Everywhere--and nowhere. After I have been to see what they are doing with that portion of the palisade which I bade them re­ pair as soon as they had finished the barrier, I am----" , " . "That is something that had clean viaing for her children, and the ex­ citement of a mighty work drawing to its close was in the air; when the Bun-warmed stillness was a-quiver with the pulse of growing things com­ ing to their strength, and every cloud­ s-less day held in its golden heart a •ong of exultation. A groom lounged Sebert," Morcard spoke up hastily. "Yesterday, before you had got in from hunting. Kendred of Hazi?ford came, as spokesman for the rest, to say that inasmuch as the Barn Month is well begun, it will not be possible for them to labor more upoii the build­ ing; and, by your leave, they will put I farm jm ( JW) ' / HPfcr, the dear saints' sake 1 true that you owe something to my rae^e, "lord. He had great good sense, the^vide-Fathomer, to . stretch his strips of oxhide around this dale and turn it into an odal." "Nay, nbw, it was Alfred who had sense to take it away from him," the Etheling teased. But the boy shook bacfe his ion* trusses in airy defiance. "Then will Canute be foremost in wisdom, for soon he will get it back, together with s,l! Er>a<Mnd* Rcmoinbsr w!ic sot tlis victory last ".veek at Brentford, lord." In the midst of his exulting, a cloud came over the young Englishman's smile. "I would I kne^ thjs truth con­ cerning that," he said slowly. "The man who passes to-day says ono thing; whoso comes to-morrow wils another story. Yet since Canute is once more free to beset London--:--" He did not finish, and for a while it appeared as though he did not see the sunlit fields his eyes were resting on. But suddenly the boy broke in upon him with a burst of stifled laughter. ' Look, lord! .In yonder -fiel^ behind the third haycock!" iff:' The moment that, he ha$> complied, laughter banished the Etheling's meditations. Cozily ensconced in the soft side of a haycock was Father In- gulph, a couple of jovial harvesters sprawled beside him,. a fat skin of ale in his hands ojj.4is way - to his mouth." - - _ . * , /'But I will make him squirm'"for that!" the Etheling vowed. "I will tell him that your paganism has made spells over me so that I cannot tell a holy- relique frpm an ale-skin; and a bedridden woman looks to me Hke two strapping yeomen. I will, I swear it!" Y ' But presently Sebert's remarks be­ gan to take a- new ton4^"fijr Saint Swithin, lad, I think they have more sense than we, that linger a half- hour's ride from food with a noon­ day sun standing in the sky! It is borne in upon me that I am starving." \Backing his horse out of the brush, he was putting him about in great haste, when the boy leaped in his stir­ rups and clapped his hands. "Lord, we need not be a half hour from food! Yonder, across the stub­ ble, is a farmhouse. If you would con­ sent that I might use your name, then would I ride thither and get their best, and serve it to you here in the elves' own feast-hall.". The answer was a slap' on the green shoulders that nearly tumbled their owner from the saddle. "Now, I was right to call you elf, for you have more than human cleverness!" the Etheling cried gayly. ^Do so, by all means, dear lad; and I promise in return that I will tell every puffed-up dolt at home that you are the blithest comrade who ever fitted himself to man's moods. There, if that contents you, give \?ings to your heels!" (To be continued.) no one hear you say that, good Fridjof." m: &A< i W la the shade of the wide-spreading trees as he kept a lazy eye on the croppings of two saddled horses, and an endless chain of fagot-laden serfs plodded joylessly across the open. On one side of the great entrance arch a half-dozen of the manor poor gabbled and basked in the sun while they wait­ ed to receive their daily dole of food; on the other, a lark-locked foreign page sat on the mossy step abiding the coming of his master. The page bent to pillow a cheek on the soft cushion of the dog's head, then drew back and straightened him­ self stiffly as a strapping serving-lass, flagon-laden, came out of the door be­ hind him. She saw the motion and looked down with a teasing laugh. **Aha, young Fridtjof! How do you like being sent to cool your heels on the doorstep while your master eats? -What! I think that the next time ynu thrust your, foot out to trip me up §S I hand my lord his ale, you will at- tend to keeping it under your stool." Young Fridtjof regarded her +with « kind of righteous indignation. "And ,| think that the next time you will look where you are going, even if it happen that it is Lord Sebert's ale you *re bearing. Silly jades, that cannot . come nigh him without biting your lips or sparkling your eyes! I won­ der he does not clap masks over your faces." f "And I wonder he does not <jlap rods to your back," the lass retorted with pkudden spite. She flounced past him 'down the step, on her way to the ®reat lead-roofed storehouse that Ranked the forest side of the Tower! The boy looked after her sternly. "It Is likely that you will be less pert of : tongue after I tell what I found out the corn-bins yesterday," he said. The maid whirled. "What did you 'glnd out, you mischief-full brat?" i;!' He continued to stroke the dog's ^head in dignified silence. /' "If you mean the--the brown- cloaked beggar, let me inform you that ihat is naught." ~ * ;; Busying himself "with pulling burrs jtrom the hound's ears; the page be- pan to hum softly. She came a step nearer, and her voice wheedled. "It was only that he was distressed for drink, poor fellow, j t?#ind followed me into the storehouse ' " "^wrhen he saw me go in to fill the mas­ ter's flagon. It was naught but a swallow. My lord would be the last to grudge a harmless body----" "Harmless?" the page said sternly. K *'Did I not hear him tell you the same jjg^r M that he was an EngJ)>sh spy?" ; T V The 811"1 abandonee the last shred ?pf her dignity, to come and stand be- fore him, nervously fingering her v: ,;1*.'apron. "For the; dear saints' sake, let •Jf;.'5<ino one hear you say that, good Fridt- -h WHERE THE ORATOR WAS. Witty Pes- •Hi: 'WStf.'C Jjof! Alas, how you have got it twist- «d! He is an Englishman who bent Ihis head for food in the evil days. And ' isow they that bought him will not set -him loose, so he has cast off their ' jroks and fled to the Danes to get free- * ff ^ ' . „* off this, which is not pressing, until after the time of the harvest." It was "several moments before the Etheling spoke, and then his voice was noticeably deliberate. u "Oh!" he said, "so they ask my leave, but stop at their pleasure?" "My lord!"--the old man looked at him in surprise--"they act only ac­ cording to custom. Surely you would not have them neglect the harvest, which waits no man's leisure, to put to their hands as laborers when there is represent need, now that they have completed the barriers by the stream"? What present harm because the drain off the hill has rotted the palisade?" After a moment the young noble be­ gan to laugh. "I will tell you how I am going to spend my morning, Mor­ card. l am going to ride over every acre that is under my band and see how huirh I ran spare for loanJand. And when I have found out, I will rent every furlong to boors who shall be bound to pay me service, not when it best pleases them, but whensoever I stand in need of it." Old Morcard turned and stepped up into the doorway, fron) which he looked down indulgently upon his laughing master. "It happened for­ merly, Lord Sebert, that I knew how to command your earnestness, and that speedily; but that time has long gone by. Methinks I can accomplish more among the watchmen upon the platform. By your leave, my lord!" Bowing, he disappeared in the dark tunnel of the archway, and the Ethel­ ing was left alone save for the grace­ ful figure awaiting him beside the step. The instant he move/1, if sprang forward. ' ? ; "Lord, is it your wish that I get th~e horses?" ' "Yes; go bid them fetch the Worses, and we will have another day of blithe wandering." Blithe they were, in truth, as they cantered through shaded lanes and daisied meadows, nothing too small to be of interest or too slight to give them pleasure. By grassy commons and rolling meadows sweet with clus­ tering haycocks, they came at last to the crest of the hill that guarded the eastern end of the dale. The whole rotind sw^ep of the horizon 1$ about them in $n unbroken chain of ripen­ ing vineyards and rich timberland, of grain-fields and laden orchards; not one spot that did not make glorious pledges to the harvest time. Drinking its fairness with his eyes;* the lord of the ipanor sighed in full content. "When I see how fine a thing it is to cause wealth to be where before was nothing, I cannot understand how I once thought to find my pleasure only in destroying," he said. "Next month when the barley beer is ,brewed, we will have a harvest feast plentiful enough to flesh even your bones, you b o d k i n ! " • - • The Danish page laughed as he dodged the., plaguing wacd. "It is Stenographer's Graphic cription of Position. J. S. Willison, a Canadian editor, in a recent speech told a story of the Hon. Edward Blake, now M. P. for Longford in the British House of Commons. Mr. Willison was of the press gallery force at Ottawa when the Canadian Pacific railroad con­ struction was up for" discussion. Mr. Blake .was then leader of the Liberal party in Canada, and was opposing the building of the transcontinental railway in speeches that were noto­ rious for their length. Mr. Blake waa an orator who required little notice to make a telling speech, but at this time he had fallen into the habit 7of writing out his speeches and reading them off at a tremendous rate. He had been speaking for six hour when one stenographer, in relieving his fel­ low, asked: "Where is he now?" Quick as a flash came the answer from the man who had been rushed to keep up with the orator: ,v "He's on the south bank of the Sas­ katchewan, on the down grade, and going like L"--New York Times. Made His Texts Fit. James Whitcomb Riley tells a story oi an old fellow who asked for work at the Biley farm in the poet's boy­ hood. He was set at hoeing potatoes, but did not prove to be especially in­ dustrious. When taken to task for his lack of application he only* re­ plied : "Wall, the -Good Book says 'Do aH things in moderation." '^Well, it came on dinner time at last," says the humorist, "and the old codger did his share nobly. In fact, he ate enough to kill two or three or­ dinary men. Some one gently hinted that his text dWn't seem to apply. He opened a worn little Bible and im- perturbably pointed to a passage. .It read: "'Whatsoever thy hand .findeth to do, do it with all thy might!'"--New York Times. Superstition Easily Satisfied. "Speaking of the superstition of women," said Phil Thompson at the Waldorf the other night. "I have a friend who lives in a studio building. Not long ago a man committed sui­ cide in the building. She was dis­ tressed. She was sure that two other suicides would be committed before the reign of disaster was fin­ ished and done with. , She was afraid that she would commit suicide h«rseif to move the thing along. "Later I met her. She had a more satisfied air. . " 'Well,' mid I, 'how dt6 lt~come out?' . , " " 'All right,' said she. 'Two of my goldfish died and that made the three.' "--New York Times. RAIL. ROAD AND SCENIC HIGHWAY. Th« "Biggest Little Railroad" Iri the World. It's the talk of all trans-continental travelers and Colorado tourists as "The one-day trip that bankrupts the English language." It's pronounced the feature of a Col­ orado tour. It's discussed by railway experts as a marvel of mouat&io railroad building and a remarkable engineering achieve­ ment. 3000 miles of scenery are condensed into a 45-mile ride. All this "refers to The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway, familiarly known as "The Short Line," connecting the tourist center of Colorado Springs with the world's greatest gold camp of the Cripple Creek District by the shortest practicable route. It is essentially a Colorado enterprise, because the funds for its construction . and equipment and the pluck and courage to push it to completion were furnished by capitalists of Colorado Springs and the Cripple Creek gold camp. Eastern men, with all their wealth and pro/ gressiveness, would have hesitated to expend the vast sum of four and a half millions of dollars for 70 miles of railroad, which is the total mileage of "The Short Line" including all branches. This is without doubt the most expensive piece of railroad in America, but the earnings justify th$ investment * "* The road is in its infancy as yet, having been opened for traffic on April 8th, 1901, but it has already attained prominence in this and foreign coun­ tries as a line of unparalleled scenic grandeur and marvelous construction. On the date of its opening the road, jumped into popular favor, and has en­ joyed a phenomenal passenger traffic, both on account of its unusual scenic attractions and its excellent roadway and equipment. It is a 20th century raihoad In every respect. The track is standard gauge, laid with 75-pound steel ..ails, broad ties, and solidly and uniformly bal­ lasted with disintegrated granite, mak­ ing an ideal roadbed. The equipment was built specially for this mountain railroad, and is the best obtainable, including palace observation and scenic cars, which afford the tourists every facility for viewing the incom­ parable scenery. A distinctive and unusual feature of the trip over "The Short Line" is the construction of the road around the rims and over the tops of the canons and mountains, instead of foliowibg the stream levels at the bottom, thus affording a comprehensive view of the Indescribable beauties of North and South Cheyenne Canons from the top, while Colorado Springs, Broadmoor, fertile valleys and rolling plains are !n full view from the car windows for a distance of 18 miles, presenting a panorama of fincomparable and be­ wildering magniflcance, which baffles all description. The gold camp of "the Cripple Creek District is the wonder of the age. • Dis­ covered in 1891, its production of gold ore in twelve years ending December 3iSt, 1903, amounted to four million tons, with a total valuation of ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE MIL­ LIONS of dollars--unequaled by any other gold producing district, of same area, in the world. The average pro­ duction continues at the present time about $2,000,000 a month. The district covers an area of about 6 miles square, composed of twelve towns, with, a population of about 50,000. By sending a 2-cent stamp to D. C. MacWatters, General Passenger & Ticket Agent of "The Short Line," Colorado Springs, Colo., you biay se­ cure a handsome illustrated booklet, with embossed cover, descriptive of Colorado's best scenery and the Crip­ ple Creek District Gold Camp. Pagan Rites at Funeral. An interesting feature connected with the burial of former Senator George B. Sloan of Oswego, N. Y., was the carrying out of a pagan rite at the grave by Kitawaga, for many years his valet. Mr. Sloan was an Episco­ palian, and after the service of the church the rector, Rev. L. G. Morris, went to the cemetery, where the final services were conducted at the grave. At the conclusion Kitawaga appeared- at the head of his master's grave and, after pronouncing an invocation to the gods of his countrymen he opened a cage and liberated six pure white doves. The ̂ affair was arranged with the consent of the family. Praise for Belgian Monarch. Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid, the British journalist who came Jo this country some two months ago to preside over the world's press parliament at the St. Louis fair, maintains a house in 'Brussels and for years has been on terms of close personal intimacy with Leopold, the Belgian king. Sir Hugh says that his majesty has been the victim of much slander and misrepre­ sentation, both his public "and private life having been viciously distorted by defamers. "The king," he adds, "Is % man whon^ it is impossible not tfo es­ teem, and those who know his true character judge him as one of the best of monarchs." TTIV 117 ff - , Easily Explained. "What did you say was the trouble with my ole man's stomach?" asked an old colored woman of the doctor who had been called in to prescribe, for her husband. 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Valuable Autograph Fait* A fan on which are written the rauies of all the members of the Ber- lllT congress belongs to the Baroness von Langen (nee von Prillivtz). The possessor obtained the signatures at several soirees given in honor of the congress at the English embassy And the Austrian embassy. Aids Shipwrecked Persons. . JBmile Robin, the aged vice presi dent of the French Society for the Saving of the Shipwrecked, assists similar societies in other countries. PANORAMA 1 GOES TO TEACH ROYALTY, Iowa Girl Sent Far to Instruct Youth­ ful r.|-iir!&s& Princes. Miss May Reynolds of Sibley, Iowa, who in October goes to Pekin, China, as instructor in English, to the grand- nephews of the dowager empress, graduate^ with honors, in the class of 1904 at Carleton college, Northfleld, Minn. 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Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. THE LADY WHO (RONS *noWj how important it li to use a good starch. Defiance' Starch b the best starch made. It doesn't stick to the iron. It gives a beauti­ ful soft glossy stiffness to the clothes. It will not blister' or crack the goou. It seOsj for less, goes farther, docs, more. Ask the lady who' irons. Defiance Starch at all grocers. 16 oz. for 10 cents.' Tte DEFIANCE STAfcOf CO, OMAHA - • NEB. SEAL ESTATE. Good Improvements, 7-room house, largo hay sslied; fine young; orchard; two paaturesi one itotf-uirtit Price #80.00 per acre, I IberaJ^,^ term* arranged. This Is s. bargain. Write or see, J, FROSTfiOM, IOMUBI,! Bnisiuw, iiif~7 - FOR SALE--1 ,000 acres unimproved black was#' land In black land belt of Texas. Located 30 ml lea from Dallas on Trinity River navigation, and in I lee from railroad station. Price »15,000. Small cash pay­ ment, balance time. BEN. F. WILLIAMS, 143 Hughes Circle, Dallas, Texas* FOR fill F Fine farms, wild land, old colonial r wit oni.h estates and James river plantation la Old Virginia; finest climate In the world; long sum. . men, snort mild winters; I.lthla water, grain, fruit and stock-ralMlng country, close to the world 8 best markets. Large and small farms from 10 to 5,004 acres from 13 to »10 per acre. Small cash payment, balance time. Correspondence solicited. English or German. MEYER & JEHNE. Farmville, Va. "PROVIDE FOR OLD AGE' •• Or dark dayi b y b u y i n g ' truck farm in finest all-year climate in America, Finest onions, tomatoes, cantaloupes, green corn pro­ duced In mld-wlnter by irrigation. Beady for market In December and January, when no competition. Fortunes made In Bermuda onions alone. Exceptional proposition, short time only, to tew good, responsibly *"*% truck farmers to buy best land any where for fruity and vegetable*. Small cash payments, balance oq time. Opportunity ofyour lite. Write for proposition;*' " Brownsville Land ft Tows Co., Brownsville, Texu. HANDY BLUEING BOOK. In sheets of PURE ANILINE BLUE. No bottles. No amount of blueing water each wash-day. Ask your grocer for it or send 10c for a book of 25 leaves. Till Handy Blueing Book Co«» 8T t« Lak> St.» Chicago, III, >ack I California Rate cut in two I August 15to September 10 Ride on California Limited Or go in touriat sleeper Ell Harvey meals Qpol trip through South we* Land of Enchantment See Grand Canyon of Arisoaa Aak G«Mral Passenger Office • jjntrr-- Topek* S. S*nt* *> Awm* CHICAGO