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GUIDOTHE GIMLET

OF GHENT

(Continued from Page 9.)

THE CHINA MAIL.

But Isolde the Slender was heed- less of the court thus paid to her.

In vain her stepmother, Agatha the Angular, urged her to marry. amla vain her father, the Margrave of

Buggensberg, commanded her to choose the one or the other of the enitors.

Her heart remained anewervingly true to the Gimlet.

From time to time leve tokens From between the lovers. passed

Then, after years of wandering, Guido had determined to crown his love with a Anal uchievement for Isolde's sake.

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Jerusalem Guidu had sent to her a stick with a notch in it to signify ha undying constancy. From Pan- noia he sent piece of board, and of from Venetia about two feet Scantling. All these Isolde treasur ed. At night they lay beneath her pillow.

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return It was his design to Ghent, to scale by night the castle cliff and to prove his love for Isolde

by killing her father for her, east-

Cuban Stormy Petrél

lonel Juan Blas Bernandez. fa mous Cuban rebel, pictured in Ba Fans after his release from prison. He dodged the Machado Govern ment for two years, but surren dered to the now regime. Be in nov reported going to bat for Calone Mendieta, who is looming a the likely surrent to President Son Minatim.

ing her stepmother from the battle- castle. and ments, burning the carrying her away.

This design he was now hasten- Attended ing to put into execution. by 50 trustly followers under the lead of Carls the Corkscrew and Bawolf the Bradawl. he had made. This way to Ghent, Under enver of night they had reached the foot of the castle cliff; and now, on their hands and knees in single file, they were crawling round and round the forward and seized from the girdle spiral path that led up to the gate of the Margave the key of the lof the fortress. At six of the great door that dangled at hia [clock they had reappeared at the waist.

second round, and us the feast in Then, casting aside the jester's (the hill reached 11 height, they cloak and cap. he rose to his full

reappeared on the fourth lap.

height, standing in his cuat of mail. Guido the Gimlet was in the lead.in one

brandished hand be His coat of mail was hidden beneath double-headed

mace

of

the the

a parti-coloured cloak, and he bore Crusader, and in the other a horn. In his hand a horn.

The guests sprang to their feet, By arrangement he was to pene their hands upon their daggers. trate into the castle by the postern Rate

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"Guido the Gimlet!" they cried. in disguise, steal from the

"Hold." said Guide, "I have you Margrave by artifice the key of the in my power!" great door, and then by a blast of Then placing the horn to his lipa his horn summon his followers to and drawing a deep breath, he blew the assault. Alas! there was need with his atmost force. for haste, for at this very Yuletide, And then again he on this very night. the Margrave, anything. wearied of laoide's resistance, had Not a sound came. determined to bestow her hand

The horn wouldn't blow. upon Tunered the Tenapot.

"Selze him!" cried the Baron. "Stop." said Guide. "I claim the Margrave, seated inws of chivalry. I am here to seek

Weed,.

Mon..

3rd Jan. 6th Feb.

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all in the great

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ur before the 20th December, 1933, or they will not be recognised.

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at the head of the board, drained Lady Isolde, betrothed by you to must have a Revenue Officer in attend- flagon of wine, and pledged deep Tancred. Let me fight Tunered inance when damaged dutiable the health of Tanered the Ten spot, single combat, man to man." who sat plamed and armoured be- A shout of approbation gave con- fride him.

sent.

Great was the mertiment of thel The combat Margrave, for beside him, crouched terrific.

that followed

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at was 5th December, 1933,

10 a.m. by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

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Inace

od.

upon the four. was new jester, First Guido, raising his whom the seneschal had just admit-high in the air with both hands. ted by the postern gate, and the brought it down with terrible forcoed by,

Then mailed head. novelty of whose jeats made the art Tancred's

Margrave shake Guido stood still, and Tanered, rata. ng his mace in the air, brought it Then Guido's head. "Od's budikins!" he roared, "but down upon

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the Lale is as rare as it is new; and, Tancred stood still and turned a so the wagoner said to the Pilgrim back, and Guido, swinging his mace that sith he had asked him to put sideways, gave him a terrific blow him off the wagon at that town, put from behind, midway, right centre. him off he must, albeit it was but Tancred returned the blow. They

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The jar bears the following in- sounding shriek.

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the sound of the blows, precipitat-John Ambulance, Merewether, herself into the room.

N. S. W. 6-8-'00," For a moment the lovers looked Dr. Clarke, it was ascertained, into each other's faces.

has been dead for many years, he' Then, with their countenances and Mrs. Clarke were passengers distraught with agony, they fell on the Thermopylae, but were: swooning in different directions. rescued.

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or his next-of-kin.-Reuter.

Isolda thought of the unhappy Tancred, hammered out as flat an. a picture-card and hopelessly spoilt;

of Conrad the Cocoanut head first and herein is the medieval allegory in the mud, and Siegfried the of this tale, Busceptible colled up with agonies The hearts of the two lovers

broke together. of sulphuric acid.

Guido thought of the

They expired. Saracens and

the slaughtered Turks.

dead

And all for nothing.../ The guerdon of their love had proved viin. Each of them was not what the other had thought. So It fr ever with the loves of this world,.

Meantime Carlo the Corkscrew and Beowulf the Bradaw) and their [forty followers were hustling down the spirals as fast as they could crawl, hind end uppermost

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