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LOVE IN JEOPARDY
CHAPTER NINE
A
As the door of her bedchamber opened, Juliet hastily dried her tears. She somehow managed smile
of greeting to her mother, Lady Capulet eyed her anxiously. Was the child still weeping for her cousin Tybalt? Then the time had come indeed to force her Lord's plan into action.
"Why, now," she said kindly. "Evermere weeping for your cousin's death?"
Juliet's tears fell afresh. "Will thou wash him from his with tears?" she continued
WILLIAM
| SHAKESPEARE'S
Romer Juliet
NOVELIZED 4KOM
BYTE PROTURA ·
•The Mara Pohle
GERTRUDE GELDIN
world-held only joy for them. Why had they not boli died with their marriage kiss?
She throbbed in a confusion of pain and misery as she stumblingly made her way to Friar Laurence's cell. With her last bit of strength she reached his door and entered.
"Weep with me," she cried and robbingly related this new, misery which had beset her.
girl's forehead. "Get then to bed and rest," she said, "for thou hast need, and motioned the nutso follow her out of the room.
to
Jullet watched them oa they bustled down the corridor.
"Farewell," she murmured. God knows when we shall meet again."
Solwly she walked to the table and from the jewel casket took forth the vial. She looked at it lang, new doubts forming within her, "What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?"
"Ah, Jullet,” answered the Friar with compassion, "I know thy grief." She lifted her streaming eyes to his. "Tell me not that thou know's of it, unless you tell me how I may prevent it. If in thy wisdom thou thou but call canst give no help-do my resolution wise." She drew her forbid she cried, "This shall from inside her cloak. "With She seized the dagger and placed
Her eyes fell upon the dagger lying inside the casket.
Have done, child, I come to tell dogger Till help it presently. Godfi, together with the vial, on the
thee joyful tidings."
this xnile
label
"And joy comes well in such a joined my heart and Romeo's. Thou taboret beside her bed. "Lle thou needy time" ved Juliet,
our hands. And, e'er this hand, by there," she whispered. "My child,"
Lady Capulet, thee to Romeo sealed, shall be the Oh, that the contents of the vial to another deed, this shall might do all hat Friar Laurence "early to-morrow morn the gallant and noble gentleman, the Count slay them both!" Her griet over- promised! Oh, that she might con- Paris, at Saint Peter's Church, shall powered her. "Give me counsel," jure up the strength to test it.
a joyful she implored.
Failing, yet might the dagger serve
er purpose. she cried, when at last she found Juliot fell back, stunned. "No, no,
her
her voice. "By Saint Peter's Church, and by Peter too, he shall not make me there a joyful bride."
happy make thee there
last
Denth
Tears sprang to her eyes as her thoughts and fears and doubts car- ried her now to this mind, now to that, leaving her helpless as a tiny craft upon some great and stormy sen.
awaiting her. That he knew. But, by, all laws of God and man, tale aw was easier than the cursed such counsel was not his to give le paced up and down his cell. At a thought broke through his conselousness. A wild plan formu-
ated in his mind.
what if it be a poison which the "It, rather for
than to marry
Friar subtly bath ministered to have Paris, thou hast the strength of me dead. lest in this new marriage will to slay thyself, then it is likely ne should be dishonoured because he hou will undertake a thing like married me before to Romeo?" She Jeath," he said slowly,
"I will do it without fear or Joubt," she answered.
Lady Capulet gasped with amaze- ment and indignation.
Juliet knew a sudden fear the consequence of her rash oul- burst. "I wonder at this hosle that I must wed e'er he that should be husband comes to woo," she tered.
fal-
Count
shuddered "I fear it is," she wept,
"and yet, should not be, for he hath all been tried a holy mou."
A great weariness descended upon her and she fell upon her bed. She reached for the vini, but a new fear slayed her hand. “How if, when I am Isid into the tomb, I wake before
me?"
asked tovially. "Have you delivered Paris. Ta-night,consent to marry the time that Romeo come to redeem
And
"Aye, sir; but she with none. she gives you thanks."
Lord Capulet swung about an- grily, "Doth she not count her blest that we have wrought so worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?"
"She pressed her fingers to her eyes os if to shut out this tortuous imagery, but she could not. "Shall not then be stified in the vault to whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in?" she cried.
But-what if she awoke too soon
not stifled Might and were the horrors of death and night to
with the terror of the place Rether
not
drive her mad? from thy bed-there are thou dead." "For those many hundred years
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Her mother's face grew stem. "I will not marry, wept Jullet.
lic searched her face and found "Here comes your father," replied in it the courage of despair. He Lady Capulet with asperly. "Tell walked silently to a shelf from which he took a vial which he pressed into him so yourself."
Capulet entered the room wreath-her hand. "Do a
Bay
Go home. ed in smiles. "How, now, wife," he be merry. Give
look that thou lle alone. Let not thy nurse into thy our decree?
chamber. Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off. Presently through all ny veins shall run a cold and drowsy humour. No pulse, no warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest. And, can never be proud of what I in this burrowed likeness of death,
thou shalt continue two and forty hate," cried Juliet.
New, when the bridegroom Her father's face flushed with hours. rage. "Proud me no prouds," he in the morning come to rouse thee shouted. "You
go with Paris to He paused and saw the ray of hope the bones of all my burled ancestors Saint Peter's Church-or I will drag dawn in her eyes. "Then, shalt there are packed. Bloody Tybalt yet thee there
She fell to her knees. "Good thou be born to that same ancient but green in earth lies festering in voult where all the kindred of the his shroud she sprang to her feet father," she pleaded, "I beseech you. Capulets lie. In the meantime, Ro- in terror. Heaven spare her wou Hear me."
Her distress momentarily unman-meo, by my letlers, shall know. vile fantasies! Yet, the image
be vanquished. It grew ned him. "Hang thee, young bag- dither shall he come. He and I will not
lie Rage,"
exclaimed.
"Disobedient watch thy waking. And that very strengthened in her tortured mind. wretch" Her tears infuriated him. night, shall Romeo bear thee hence Did not spirits resort at some hour in the night. What loathesome "Get thee to church,"
to Mantua.' shouted, he
"Give me. Give inet" she cried in smells and shricks might greet her "or never look me in the face,"
Juliet's nurse ran to her side and exultation as she clasped the vial there should she awake before the
hour? supported the half-falating girl in to her. "Lord give me strength!"
sho cried from out the depths of her agony. "If I wake, 311611
I not be distraught?" She buried her face in her hands
This
to ward off this waking nightmare, "Silence! you mumbling fool!" he
But through her fingers it persisted, roared. "God's bread it makes me
bringing wild visions that now be mad to have
mad- play a wretched, pulling
"Be strong!" he urged, and sent her trayed her mind. Did
with fool
forcheat bonaf to
wed, I can on her way with his blessing and his not love. I
he mi- too young!" am
not pluck the mangled proyer.
from his micked wrathfully
shroud? Would "Look to When she had gone, he hastily sat Tybalt Juliet. I do
not jest. If you be:
be himself down at his table to pen the in this rage, dash out her desperate mine, I'll give you to a friend. I promised note to Romeo.
She stifled a His quill
stified a shrick, brains? not his voice filled with ominous moved rapidly over the paper. There eyes rivetted themselves on the vial. "Look," she whispered. "Methinks warning "Then hang. Beg. Starve must be no slip-up! Tirne was: of Dle in the streets. By my soul, I'll the essencel Romeo must arrive see my cousin's ghost seeking out Her hand closed swiftly ne'er acknowledge thee." He storm- from Mantua at the tomb of the ed from the room.
Capulets upon the hour, lest Juliet on the vial and she raised it to her Stay!" she awoken from the sleeping potion and ps "Stay, Tybalti by some mischance, be found alive by led and fell back upon her bed. drew her curtains closed and her swiftly drained the vial. "Romeo," Friar she murmured. "I come."
"God her.orms. her," she murmured.
blcss in heaven.
She glared up at Lord Capulet. You are to biome,
my Lord, to rate her so."
was
answer.
the da
not
Insolence!
14
JULIET'S JEST
CHAPTER TEN
Friar Laurence gazed into Juliet's shining face.
Juliet turned to her mother. "I there no pity sitting in the clouds that sees into the bottom of my other9. And grief?. Oh, sweet mother! Cast me
ict made Juliet. even as
not away! Delay this marriage for homeward way, his messen Mantua,
a month. A week. Or, if you do John, was galloping toward not, make the bridal bed in that dim the letter to Romeo safely hidden an monument where Tybalt lles."
his person,
unloosed her cling-
Juliet burried along the path ar-
ly ght ahe Might
some
Rameo."
Her
And all that Friar Laurenco promised came to pass. Soon, soon, she crossed the gulf from conscious→ to sleep. Like icy death the nes warmth, no breath betokened that
Lady Talk not to me," ane riving soon at the street that led to potlon froze her veins. No pulse, no
ing hands answered coldly.
"Do
I have done with the thou wilt her house.
and follow-
ed in her husband's wake.
Juliet fell to the floor. "O, God!" she sobbed. "Nurse! How shall this be prevented? Comfort, nurse," she begged.
So lay she through the night. So carly day found her.
The sounds of the fevored activit-she lived. ty within greeted her. Her father's voice boomed above the clamour.
She entered the garden and forced herself to smile as he turned to her,
"How now, my headstrong," he
Outside her window the noisy morning sounds proclaimed the wed- ding preparations.
Inside the great hall Lady Capulet "Nurse!" she called, "Fetch more.
"Where I have learned to repent the sin of disobedient opposition to spices you and your behests," she answer-
Lord Capulet, hastening into the
ed softly. "I am enjoined by holy house, interrupted her. "Nursel Go Laurence to fall prostrate here and waken Jullet. Make haste-make beg your pardon." She kneeled haste" ha gestured frantically to- humbly before him.
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Even if there's a man in the moon, there's nobody in a no moon,
Her nurse raised her gently from called. "Where have you been gad-rounded up the serving men. the floor. "Romeo is banished," she ding?" answered us she led Julial to n chair. "He dares not come back to challenge you." She paused as if to let her words sink in. "I think it best you married, the Count." Jullet sprang to her feet.
ward the garden. The bridegroom 10 which, of course, is rubbish. "Speakest thou from thy heart?" her voice was strangely quiet.
"Fm glad," he answered indly is already comel
They looked out into the garden
gaudy. And from my soul, too," nodded and helped her to her feet. "This
win. Quarrelling about a is as it should be." He caressed her and perceived Paris and his musi- the nurse.
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**** | clana" station. Their lutes and
themselves beneath 15 Crack anglers, by the sound of Thou hast comforted me
them. velous much," Jullet answered and She made her slow and quiet way Jullet's
voices "wero. already sounding the 16 Irish centre for wintering.
17 Ranged as a peril In breathless
11. Not 13
waved her away, "Go in and tell toward the house, her nurse follow ristal serenade.ste the nurse/21 To ask for it. (two words, 5,
to make confession; and to be ab- straight for her bedchamber. There mounted the stairs and ran to Julle 23m afraid you'll have to look
"Mistress,
again for this
27 Slipped along with the lid only sald
bedchamber.
Kally.
&
she called "Juliet" cold slience answered her. "How sound she sleeps," the curtains.
"sho
partly over..
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29 Children do not catch this bird.
with the frequency that they used to
do. 32. This
Is not popular for coat
for 33 Bay With a Scottish river, but
party wear. Comics, rom further Lorit, und
my lady I am gone, having dising at her heels. She ascended the ellence and made pleased my father, to Laurence's cell wide stoles in
displayed; were her wedding clothes. solved."
The purse flew to the door. "I The nurse fingered each garment, will," she cried. "And this is wisely lost in admiration. Jullet seized the done."
moment to slip the vial: Corence and rushed to the bed, drawing aside 28 Batile about a degree-holder: In Juliet
t watched her go and then the sleeping potion Friar rushed forward as if to follow and bad given her into her jewel casket
She stared for one horrified instant strike her. Ancient damnation!" She then turned to her nurse and She wept. "Wicked flend." Anguish made pretence of sharing the other's before her piercing shriek rent the
air "My lordl. My lady!! paralysed her thoughts. She looked pleasure.
Lord and "Ay," she observed, "Those attires about the room) wildly. Her cloak |},
Capulet ran into the room. What noise 15 here?" caught her eye seized both and ther-leave me to myself to-night." They looked into her frightened eyes, and the small knife upon her table are best. But, gentle nurse, I
Lady Capulet looked in upon within the curtains of the bed.
then followed the anger she polated ran from the house. Friar Lau- tako minutang rencel; He must know some
m: "Need -means
you. help?" she
"My child!' 'cried Lady Cap of cacape from this new tragedy."
upon her knees. She sped through her garden with a smile crossed to where her
"No, madam," "Jullet replied, and and fell
dead. She's dead. She's dead.” blinded with tears. As sho passed the sundial
"Her Lord is come" whispered. mother stood. "Please," she begged with pain her cort contracted wistfully, let me be left alone."
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Scotland: A
35 Would this be a suitable venue for a naval beanfeast in London? (two words, 5, 0)..
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distant point in his journey had suited her purpose most excellently."Death lies upon her like an untime a It it's wrong it's right,STA V
Romeo advanced between
parting at dawn and the present
not to Unger; moreover she herself hour? Nind o'clock. Only yesterday had need of the nurse. A thousand at this time her nurse had sought detalls of the wedding awalked their
attention
him out and trought back this blessed
message. Yesterday, the
Indy Capulet bent to kiss
the
rose sweetly the soft musle, of the And through the open window. bridal serenade,
(To be Continued.)
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6 Describes certain forties.
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12 In the direction of
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22 Masculine name (rev.).-
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