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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Joan of the Sword Hand - -Author: S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett - -Illustrator: Frank Richards - -Release Date: January 8, 2013 [EBook #41803] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOAN OF THE SWORD HAND *** - - - - -Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - - - - - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41803 ***</div> <p class="ft120">JOAN OF THE SWORD HAND</p> @@ -1297,7 +1253,7 @@ cried Joan. "Mine was the cleaner stroke which went so near your great muscle, but Werner's is somewhat the deeper. You can keep each other company at the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> dice-box these next days. And, as I warrant neither of -you has a Lübeck guilder to bless yourself with, you +you has a Lübeck guilder to bless yourself with, you can e'en play for love till you wear out the pips with throwing."</p> @@ -1728,7 +1684,7 @@ the thousands gathered there, they understood why the city had seemed so unwontedly deserted. The Courtlanders surrounded the great oval space of the lists in clustered myriads, and their eyes were bent inwards. -It was the crisis of the great <i>mêlée</i>. Scarcely an eye +It was the crisis of the great <i>mêlée</i>. Scarcely an eye in all that assembly was turned towards the strangers, who passed quite unobserved to their reserved places in the Prince's empty box. Only his sister Margaret, @@ -1751,7 +1707,7 @@ seated themselves and looked down upon the tide of combat over the flower-draped balustrades of their box.</p> <p>"The blacks have it!" said Dessauer after regarding -the <i>mêlée</i> with interest. "We have come in time to +the <i>mêlée</i> with interest. "We have come in time to see the end of the fray. Would that we had also seen the shock!"</p> @@ -3002,16 +2958,16 @@ least, not from your own lips."</p> love, yet a vein of Baltic practicality was hidden beneath the princess's impetuosity.</p> -<p>"My father was the Count von Löen, and I am his +<p>"My father was the Count von Löen, and I am his heir!" said the secretary carefully; "but I do not usually call myself so. There are reasons why I should not."</p> <p>Which there were, indeed—grave reasons, too.</p> -<p>"Then you are the Count von Löen?" said the +<p>"Then you are the Count von Löen?" said the Princess. "I seem to have heard that name somewhere -before. Tell me, are you the Count von Löen?"</p> +before. Tell me, are you the Count von Löen?"</p> <p>"I am certainly the heir to that title," said the secretary, grilling within and wishing himself a thousand @@ -3130,7 +3086,7 @@ wooers who had come from the south to solicit the smiles of the Princess Margaret.</p> <p>"So," he said, as he faced the secretary, now somewhat -compositely styled—Johann, Count von Löen, +compositely styled—Johann, Count von Löen, "so, young springald, you think to court a foolish princess. You play upon her with your pretty words and graceful compliments. That is an agreeable relaxation @@ -3155,7 +3111,7 @@ have informed you of my name and pretensions to the hand of the Princess Margaret, whom you have insulted. I pray you give me yours in return."</p> -<p>"I am called Johann, Count von Löen," answered +<p>"I am called Johann, Count von Löen," answered the secretary as curtly as possible.</p> <p>"Pardon the doubt which is in my mind," said the @@ -3174,7 +3130,7 @@ High State's Councillor Dessauer that the name and style are mine. Your ignorance, however, need not defer your chastisement."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p> -<p>"Follow me, Count von Löen," said the Prince; +<p>"Follow me, Count von Löen," said the Prince; "I am too anxious to deal with your insolence as it deserves to quarrel as to names or titles, legal or illegitimate. My quarrel is with your fascinating body @@ -3471,7 +3427,7 @@ to his lodgings.</p> well—in the colder fashion of Courtland this time, for the sake of the guards at the door. But remember that you are more than ever plighted to me to be my -instructor, dear Count von Löen!"</p> +instructor, dear Count von Löen!"</p> <p>She went to the door, and with her fingers on the handle she turned her about with a pretty vixenish @@ -3480,7 +3436,7 @@ love you for it!" she said.</p> <p>But after she had vanished with these words the secretary grew more and more downcast in spirit. -Even this naïve declaration of affection failed to cheer +Even this naïve declaration of affection failed to cheer him. He sat down and gave himself up to the most melancholy anticipations.</p> @@ -3554,7 +3510,7 @@ Wasp gets better and worries me too much, or my brother is unkind and insists upon marrying me to the Bear, I will take one or two of these fellows and come to seek you at Plassenburg, so make your reckoning -with that, Sir Count von Löen. As I said, what is the +with that, Sir Count von Löen. As I said, what is the use of being a princess if you cannot marry whom you will? Most, I know, marry whom they are told; but then they have not the spirit of a Baltic weevil, let @@ -3697,13 +3653,13 @@ rewarded by Johann, to carry the news of safety back to their wayward and impulsive mistress. And thence-forward the Sparhawk and the secretary rode on alone.</p> -<p>At the little châlet among the hills where the +<p>At the little châlet among the hills where the Duchess Joan had so suddenly disappeared they found<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> two of her tire-maidens and an aged nurse impatiently awaiting their mistress. To them entered that composite and puzzling youth the ex-architect and secretary of the embassy of Plassenburg, Johann, Count von -Löen. And wonder of wonders, in an hour afterwards +Löen. And wonder of wonders, in an hour afterwards Joan of the Sword Hand was riding eagerly towards her capital city with her due retinue, as if she had merely been taking a little summer breathing space at @@ -3913,7 +3869,7 @@ at the palace of the Princess Margaret.</p> survey of her chambers, which occupied one entire wing of the Palace of the Princes of Courtland, Margaret the impetuous had already commanded the -presence of the Count von Löen, one of the commanders +presence of the Count von Löen, one of the commanders of the bridal escort.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p> <p>The young officer entrusted with the message returned @@ -3924,7 +3880,7 @@ pacing up and down.</p> reception-room and looking at him.</p> <p>"Your Highness," he said, "there is no Count von -Löen among the officers of Kernsberg!"</p> +Löen among the officers of Kernsberg!"</p> <p>Margaret of Courtland stamped her foot.</p> @@ -3939,7 +3895,7 @@ eagle."</p> <p>"Does he look like the brother of the Duchess Joan?" he said.</p> -<p>"That is the man—Count von Löen or no. That +<p>"That is the man—Count von Löen or no. That is the man, I tell you. Bring him immediately to me."</p> @@ -3947,7 +3903,7 @@ me."</p> <p>"Methinks he will come readily enough. He started forward as if to follow me when first I told my message. -But when I mentioned the name of the Count von Löen +But when I mentioned the name of the Count von Löen he stood aside in manifest disappointment."</p> <p>"At all events, bring him instantly!" commanded @@ -3961,7 +3917,7 @@ the Princess.</p> said. "Well—I love secrets, and I can keep them too; but only my own, or those that are told to me. And I will make my gentleman pay for playing off his -Counts von Löen on me!"</p> +Counts von Löen on me!"</p> <p>Presently she heard heavy footsteps approaching the door.</p> @@ -4282,7 +4238,7 @@ air he stood for full five minutes, light-headed in the rush of the city traffic. The loud iteration of rejoicing sounded heartless and even impertinent in his ear. The world had changed for the young Dane -since the Count von Löen had been summoned by the +since the Count von Löen had been summoned by the Princess Margaret.</p> <p>He cast his mind back over the interview, but failed @@ -4369,7 +4325,7 @@ of her smile.</p> <p>"What said the Princess?"</p> <p>"First she would have it that my name and style -were those of the Count Von Löen. Then she reproached +were those of the Count Von Löen. Then she reproached me fiercely because I denied it. After that she spoke of certain foreign customs she had been taught, recalled walks through corridors and rose gardens with me, till @@ -4377,13 +4333,13 @@ my head swam and I knew not what to answer."</p> <p>Joan of the Sword Hand laughed a merry peal.</p> -<p>"The Count von Löen, did she say?" she meditated. -"Well, so you are the Count von Löen. I create you -the Count von Löen now. I give you the title. It is +<p>"The Count von Löen, did she say?" she meditated. +"Well, so you are the Count von Löen. I create you +the Count von Löen now. I give you the title. It is mine to give. By to-morrow I shall have done with -all these things. And since as the Count von Löen I +all these things. And since as the Count von Löen I drank the wine, it is fair that you, who have to pay the -reckoning, should be the Count von Löen also."</p> +reckoning, should be the Count von Löen also."</p> <p>"My family is noble, and I am the sole heir—that is, alive," said Maurice, a little drily. To his mind the @@ -4416,7 +4372,7 @@ has been very kind to me. She has forgiven me all."<span class="pagenum"><a name <p>"So—you are anxious to change your allegiance," said the Duchess. "It is as well that I have already -made you Count von Löen, and so in a manner bound +made you Count von Löen, and so in a manner bound you to me, or you would be going off into another's service with all my secrets in your keeping. Not that it will matter very much—after to-morrow!" she added, @@ -4435,7 +4391,7 @@ know he had lied to her.</p> was I who tangled the skein. So far you have unravelled it very well. The least I can do is to leave you to unwind it to the end, my brave Count von -Löen."</p> +Löen."</p> <p>So they parted, the Duchess to her apartment, and the young man to pace up and down the stone-flagged @@ -4471,7 +4427,7 @@ Dane—"he at the head of your first troops? He looks like your brother."</p> <p>"He has often been taken for such!" said the bride. -"He is called the Count von Löen!"</p> +"He is called the Count von Löen!"</p> <p>The Princess did not reply, and as the two fair women came out arm in arm, a sudden glint of sunlight @@ -5448,7 +5404,7 @@ from the deep edges of the ripening corn?"</p> Duchess Joan who knew no drawbacks to their joy, who rubbed palm on palm and nudged each other for pure gladness. These (it is sad to say) were the military -<i>attachés</i> of the neighbouring peaceful State of Plassenburg. +<i>attachés</i> of the neighbouring peaceful State of Plassenburg. Yet they had been specially cautioned by their Prince Hugo, in the presence of his wife Helene, the hereditary Princess, that they were most carefully to @@ -5468,7 +5424,7 @@ their master and mistress, giving an account of these momentous events.</p> <p>Instead, how is it that we find them lying on that -spur of the Jägernbergen which overlooks the passes of +spur of the Jägernbergen which overlooks the passes of Alla, watching the gathering of the great storm which in the course of days must break over the domains of the Duchess Joan—who had refused and slighted her @@ -5518,7 +5474,7 @@ generosity were worth about one sole stiver.</p> <p>So these two, being now free fighting-men, as it were, soldiers of fortune, lay waiting on the slopes of -the Jägernbergen, talking over the situation.</p> +the Jägernbergen, talking over the situation.</p> <p>"A man surely has a right to his own wife!" said Jorian, taking for the sake of argument the conventional @@ -6466,7 +6422,7 @@ of mood, "I hope he will be more ready to give up his privileges on this occasion than on that!"</p> <p>She was thinking of the Princess Margaret and the -heritage of trouble upon which, as the Count von Löen, +heritage of trouble upon which, as the Count von Löen, she had caused the Sparhawk to enter.</p> <p>Then a new thought seemed to strike her.</p> @@ -6886,7 +6842,7 @@ woman might be to those whom she really loved.</p> <p>"He keeps the Castle, indeed—in his mistress's absence and mine," said Werner. "He will make a good soldier. Our lady has already made him Count<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span> -von Löen, that he may be the equal of those who care +von Löen, that he may be the equal of those who care for such titles."</p> <p>A strange flash as of remembrance and emotion @@ -7105,7 +7061,7 @@ leather. Under the pillow, and within instant reach of her right hand, was her father's dagger. With it, they said, Henry the Lion had more than once removed an enemy who stood in his way, or more honourably -given the <i>coup de grâce</i> to a would-be assassin.</p> +given the <i>coup de grâce</i> to a would-be assassin.</p> <p>Without, the mood of the night had changed. The sky, which had hitherto been of favourable aspect, @@ -8231,7 +8187,7 @@ the veil. But, my Lady Joan, what know you of the strife of Blacks and Whites at Courtland?"</p> <p>"Your sister, the Princess Margaret, spoke of it, and -also the Count von Löen, an officer of mine," answered +also the Count von Löen, an officer of mine," answered Joan disingenuously.</p> <p>"I am indeed a soldier by training and desire," continued @@ -8432,7 +8388,7 @@ down the new channel, and the wells are not enough for half the citizens, to say nothing of the cattle and horses. This is a great fuss to make about a graceless young jackanapes of a Jutlander like you, Master -Maurice von Lynar, Count von Löen—wedded wife of +Maurice von Lynar, Count von Löen—wedded wife of his Highness Prince Louis of Courtland. Ha! ha! ha!"</p> <p>"I would have you know, sirrah," cried the Sparhawk, @@ -8995,7 +8951,7 @@ to a chair, for brain and eye were reeling.</p> <p>"God wot," she murmured; "strange things to hear, indeed! Sweet lady, you little know how strange! This is ten thousand times a straiter place -to be in than when I played the Count von Löen. +to be in than when I played the Count von Löen. Ah, women, women, what you bring a poor innocent man to!"</p> @@ -9104,7 +9060,7 @@ Sparhawk warily.</p> <p>"Then there was——" the Princess hesitated, and her own voice grew a trifle lower—"the young man who came hither as Dessauer's secretary—what of -him? The Count von Löen, if I mistake not—that +him? The Count von Löen, if I mistake not—that was his name?"</p> <p>"He is a traitor!"</p> @@ -9151,7 +9107,7 @@ sent Count Maurice to bring to you the four hundred lances of Kernsberg. It was for his sake that you left my brother Prince Louis at the church door. Like draws to like, they say, and your eyes even now are -as like as peas to those of the Count von Löen."</p> +as like as peas to those of the Count von Löen."</p> <p>And this, indeed, could the Sparhawk in no wise deny. The Princess went her angry way.</p> @@ -9160,7 +9116,7 @@ deny. The Princess went her angry way.</p> the pitch of her voice, "but I am not blind. I can see through them. I am a woman and can gauge a woman's pretext. You yourself are in love with the -Count von Löen, and yet you tell me that he is with +Count von Löen, and yet you tell me that he is with the woman he loves. Bah! he loves you—you, his mistress—next, that is, to his selfish self-seeking self. If he is with the woman he loves, as you say, tell me @@ -9277,7 +9233,7 @@ are——"</p> <p>"The man who loves you!" said the Sparhawk, who was very pale.</p> -<p>"The Count von Löen. Oh! Maurice, why did +<p>"The Count von Löen. Oh! Maurice, why did you risk it?" she gasped. "They will kill you, tear you to pieces without remorse, when they find out. And it is a thing that cannot be kept secret. Why did @@ -9573,7 +9529,7 @@ again, Lady Margaret, that I came to Courtland!"</p> <p>"Hush! you must not interrupt," she went on, putting him aside with her hand. "He is the Count -von Löen, a lord of Kernsberg. And I love him. +von Löen, a lord of Kernsberg. And I love him. We want you to marry us now, dear Father—now, without a moment's delay; for if you do not, they will kill him, and I shall have to marry Prince Wasp!"</p> @@ -9669,7 +9625,7 @@ You should have tried those beneath her windows in Kernsberg. They might have wooed her better than arbalist and mangonel."</p> -<p>The Prince glared at his <i>débonnaire</i> sister as if he +<p>The Prince glared at his <i>débonnaire</i> sister as if he could have slain her on the spot.</p> <p>"I returned," he said formally, speaking to the disguised @@ -10066,7 +10022,7 @@ the simple ceremonial.</p> <p>Presently the solemn "Let no man put asunder"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span> was said, the blessing pronounced, and Leopold von Dessauer came forward with his usual courtly grace to -salute the newly made Countess von Löen.</p> +salute the newly made Countess von Löen.</p> <p>He would have kissed her hand, but with a swift gesture she offered her cheek.</p> @@ -10280,7 +10236,7 @@ and the others proceeded to carry out to the letter the second part of the instructions of their mistress.</p> <p>"How now, sweet Thora of the Flaxen Locks?" -cried Justus of Grätz, a slender young man who carried +cried Justus of Grätz, a slender young man who carried the Prince's bannerstaff on saints' days, and practised fencing and the art of love professionally at other times; "has the Princess boxed all your ears this @@ -10289,7 +10245,7 @@ a flock of geese out of a barn when the farmer's dog is after them?"</p> <p>There were three under-officers of the guard in the -little courtyard. Slim Justus of Grätz, his friend and +little courtyard. Slim Justus of Grätz, his friend and boon companion Seydelmann, a man of fine presence and empty head, who on wet days could curl the wings of his moustaches round his ears, and, sitting a @@ -10467,7 +10423,7 @@ Bornholm had risen and stolen quietly within.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page <p>Never was day so largely and gloriously blue since Courtland was a city as the first morning of the married life of Maurice and Margaret von Lynar, -Count and Countess von Löen. The summer floods +Count and Countess von Löen. The summer floods had subsided, and the tawny dye had gone clean out of the Alla, which was now as clear as aquamarine, and laved rather than fretted the dark green piles of the @@ -10497,7 +10453,7 @@ Muscovite Ivan yearning to lay the knout across our backs!"</p> <p>"There is something toward to-day," said a decent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span> -widow woman who lived in the Königstrasse to her +widow woman who lived in the Königstrasse to her neighbour. "My son, who as you know is a chorister, is gone to practise the Wedding Hymn in the cathedral. I am going thither to get a good place. I will not miss @@ -11197,7 +11153,7 @@ of the line of Courtland seemed to blink and turn their faces to the wall away from the unaccustomed glare. The altar candles and the lamps a-swing in the choir winked no brighter than yellow willow leaves seen -through an autumnal fog. But as the <i>cortège</i> dismounted +through an autumnal fog. But as the <i>cortège</i> dismounted the organ began to roll, and the people within rose with a hush like that which follows the opening of a window at night above the Alla.</p> @@ -11383,7 +11339,7 @@ the pieces down on the stone steps.</p> <p>"You are right; I will not fight vainly here," he said. "I know well it is useless. But"—he raised his voice—"be it known to all men that my name is -Maurice, Count von Löen, and that the Princess +Maurice, Count von Löen, and that the Princess Margaret is my lawfully wedded wife. She cannot then marry Ivan of Muscovy!"</p> @@ -11678,7 +11634,7 @@ whispered in his ear.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg approach, Margaret cried out in a loud clear voice, "I take you all to witness that I, Margaret of Courtland, am the wife of this man, Maurice von Lynar, Count -von Löen. He is my wedded husband, and I love him +von Löen. He is my wedded husband, and I love him with all my heart! According to God's holy ordinance he is mine!"</p> @@ -11873,7 +11829,7 @@ your true eyes."</p> <p>"I declare you have taught your mistress the trick of words!" cried the Prince delightedly. "Count von -Löen, the Lady Margaret has quite your manner. She +Löen, the Lady Margaret has quite your manner. She speaks to slow music."</p> <p>But even the sneers of Prince Ivan could not filch @@ -14475,7 +14431,7 @@ glad of the interruption.</p> for him to speak.</p> <p>"My lady," he said, "will you bid the Count von -Löen leave his work and take some rest and sustenance. +Löen leave his work and take some rest and sustenance. He thinks of nothing but his drill."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[Pg 320]</a></span></p> <p>"Oh, yes, he does," cried the Princess Margaret; @@ -14624,7 +14580,7 @@ You find out things then—and love them all the same. But, of course, how should I expect you to help me? You have never loved; you do not understand!" And, without another word, Margaret of Courtland, who -had once been so heart-free and <i>débonnaire</i>, went out +had once been so heart-free and <i>débonnaire</i>, went out sobbing like a fretted child. Hardly had the door closed upon her when the sound of stifled laughter <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[Pg 323]</a></span>broke from the window-seat. Joan indignantly drew @@ -14903,7 +14859,7 @@ to whom so much had been committed upon the Isle Rugen.</p> <p>"Send hither instantly Werner von Orseln, Alt -Pikker, and the Count von Löen!"</p> +Pikker, and the Count von Löen!"</p> <p>She waited with the latch of the door in her hand till she heard their footsteps upon the stair. They entered @@ -14920,7 +14876,7 @@ to Kernsberg and bring back succour?"</p> <p>"Alt Pikker will go!" said Maurice instantly; "he is in charge of the levies!"</p> -<p>"The Count von Löen is young. He will ride +<p>"The Count von Löen is young. He will ride fastest!" said the chief captain.</p> <p>"Werner von Orseln, of course!" said Alt Pikker, @@ -16345,7 +16301,7 @@ guarded. The safety of the city is in our hands."</p> <p>"You are sure that you will not run into any danger!" said Anna anxiously. She remembered a certain precariousness of tenure among some of her previous—mental -reservations. There was Fritz Wünch, who +reservations. There was Fritz Wünch, who had laughed at the red beard of a Prussian baron; Wilhelm of Bautzen, who went once too often on a foray with his uncle, Fighting Max of Castelnau—<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_359" id="Page_359">[Pg 359]</a></span>—</p> @@ -18120,7 +18076,7 @@ E. P. Oppenheim."—<i>Illustrated London News.</i></p> Author of "For the Religion." Illustrated by <span class="smcap">J. Ambrose Walton</span>. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.</p> -<p class="quote">This is a tale of the Hugenôts, and is told with such dramatic +<p class="quote">This is a tale of the Hugenôts, and is told with such dramatic power and such intense personal interest that the reader identifies himself or herself with the hero or heroine throughout.</p> @@ -18206,387 +18162,6 @@ Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected. 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