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TELEGRAPH'S NEW SERIAL

LOVE IN JEOPARDY

CHAPTER NINE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S

omeo

The Mary

Juliet

NOVELIZED FROM.

•Mayer MOTORE

•GERTRUDE GELDIN

world held only-joy for them. Why had they not boli died with their marriage kirs?

of

girl's forehead. "Get theo to bed and rest," she said, "for thou hast need," and motioned the nurse to follow her out of the room,

Juliet watched them as they bustled down the corridor.

She throbbed in a confusion As the door of her

bedchamber pain and misery as she stumblingly dried her made her way to Friar Laurence's opened, Jullet hastily tears. She somehow managed a cell. With her last bit of strength

"Farewell," she murmured. "God and entered. Emile

knows when we shall meet again.” of greeting to her mother. she reached his door

Weep

with me," she cried and

Solwly she walked to the table Lady Capulet eyed her anxiously. Was the child still weeping, for her sobbingly related this new misery and from the jewel casket took forth cousin Tybalt? Then the time had which had beset her.

doubts forming within her. "What come indeed to force her Lord's plan."All, Jullet," answered the Friar the vial. She looked at it long, new

with

compassion, "I know thy griet."

If this mixture-do not work at all7 into action.

she said kindly. She lifted her streaming eyes to Shall I be married. then to-morrow "Why, now," "Evermore weeping for your cousin's his. "Tell me not that thou know'st

morning? of It, unless you tell me how I may death?"

Her eyes fell upon the dagger lying prevent it. it in thy wisdom thou inside the

the casket. "No, not" she cried. "This shall She drew her forbid it!" my resolution

She seized the dagger and placed digter from inside her cloak. "With

"Zaife I'll help it presently, Gad it, together with the vial, on joined my heart and Romeo's. Thou taboret beside her bed. "Lie thou our hands. And, c'er this hand, by there," she whispered. thee to Romeo sealed, shall be the deed, this shall label to another slay them both!" Her grief over- powered her. "Give me she implored.

Jullet's tears fell afresh.

grave

with tears?" she continued. "Have done, child.

I come to tell thee joyful tidings."

"Will thou wash him from his canst give no te ou but call

"And Joy comes well in such a needy thine," whispered Jullet.

"My child," replied Lady Capulet, "early to-morrow morn the gallant and noble gentleman, the Count Paris, al Saint Peter's Church, shall

happily make thee there a joyful

bride.'

Juliet fell back; stunned. "No, no, she cried, when at last she found her voice. "By Saint Peter's Church and by Peter too, he shall not make ine there a joyful bride.”

counsel,'

Death was easier than the cursed knew. fate awaiting her. That he But, by all laws of God and man, to give, ch counsel was not his die paced up and down his cell. At Just a thought broke through his

Lady Capulet gasped with amazed in his mind.

consciousness, A wild plan formu-

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Jullet knew a sudden fear the consequence of her rash out- burst, wonder at this haste that I must wed e'er he that should be husband comes to woo," she fal

tered.

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Oh, that the contents of the vial might do all that Friar Laurence promised! Oh, that she might con-

Jure

up the strength to test it. Failing, yet might the dagger serve her purpose.

Tears sprang to her eyes as her thoughts and fears and doubts car- ried ner now to this mind, now to that, leaving her helpless as a tiny. craft upon some great and stormy

What if it be a polson which the Count Friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead, lest in this new marriago ne should be dishonoured because ho married me before to Romeo?" She shuddered. "I tear it ta," she weph "and yet, should not be, for he bath still bes

been tried a holy mun."

"If, rather than for

Paris, thou hast the strength of will to stay thyself, then it is likely n thing like hou wilt undertake death," he said slowly.

"I will do it doubt," she answered.

without fear

or

Her mother's face grew stern. "I will not marry," wept Jullet. He searched her face and found A great weariness descended upon "Here comes your father," replied in I the courage of despair. lehet and she fell upon her bed. She Lady Capulet with asperity. "Tell walked silently to a shelf from which reached for the vial, but a new fear him so yourself."

which he pressed into stayed her hand. "How if, when, I he took

A Vial Capulet entered the room wreath-her hand. "Do as I say. Go home. I am laid into the tomb, 1 wake before ed in smites. "How, now, wife," he Bo merry. Give consent to marry the time that Romeo come to redeem asked jovially. "Have you delivered Paris. To-night, look that thou lie me?"

alone. Let not thy nurse into thy She pressed her fingers to her eyes our decree?"

tortuous And chamber, Take thou this vial, being as if to shut out this

then in bed, and this distilled liquor imagery, but she could not. "Shall drink thou off. Presently through all not then be stided in the vault to ny veins shall run a cold and drowsy humour. No pulse, no breath shall testify thou warmth, no

"Aye, sir; but she will none. she gives you thanks."

tin-

Lord Capulet swung about grily. "Dota slie not count her blest that we have wrought so worthy gentleman to be her bridegroom?"

זיי

hate," urled Jullet.

a

Her father's face flushed

"Proud rage,

mo no prouds," he Faris to shouted. "You go with Saint Peter's Church-or I will drag thee there!"

And,

whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in?" suc cried.

not

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in the morning come to rouse thee from thy bed-there are thou deud.' He paused and saw the ray of hope Then, shalt down in her eyes.

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He and I will ned him. "Hang thee, young bug-lither shall be come. gage," he exclaimed. "Disobedient watch thy waking. And that very wretch." Her tears infuriated him. night, shill Romeo bear thee hence "Get thee to church," he shouted, to Mantua.

"Give me. Give me!" she cried in she clasped the vial Juliet's nurse ran to her side and exultation as supported the half-fainting girl in to her. "Lord give me strength!"

She fell to her knees, "Good father," she pleaded, "I beseech you.

Hear me."

"ar never look me in the face."

her arms. "God in heaven bless her," she murmured: She glared up

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JULIET'S JEST

CHAPTER TEN

Friar Laurence gazed-into. Juliet's shining face.

was of

drive her mad?

"For these many hundred years the bones of all my buried ancestors there are packed. Bloody Tybalt yet but green in earth lies festering in his shroud" she sprang to her feet in terror. Heaven spare her there vile fantasies! Yet, the image, would and not be vanquished. It grew strengthened in her tortured mind. Did not spirits resort at some hour in the night. What loathesome smells and shrieks might greet her there should she awake before the

ed hour?

she cried from out the of her agony. "If I wake, chell I not be distraught?" at Lord Capulet. "You are my Lord, to rate her so."

Sho buried her face in her hands to ward off this

waking nightmare. This was the final insolence! "Silencet

you mumbling-fool!" he

But through her fingers it persisted, Uringing wild visions that now be roared. "God's bread! It makes me

Did she play mad- mad to have a wretched, pailing "Be strong!" he urged, and sent her trayed her mind.

forebear's bones? fool to answer,

I'll not wed, I can on her way with his blessing and his y with some

com- not love. am too young!" he mi- prayer.

Might she not pluck the mangled! micked wrathfully. "Look to it When she had gone, he hastily sat Tybalt from his shroud? Would Jullet. I do not jest. If you be himself down at his table to pen the in this rage, dash out her desperate shriek. Iter minc. I'll give you to a friend. If promised note to Romeo. His quill brains? She stined a warning-Then Band with ominous moved rapidly over the paper. There ever rivetted themselves on the vial, "Look," she whispered. "Methinks EMPRESS warning Then hang. Beg. Starve, must be no slip-up!

in the streets. Hy my soul, I'll the essence! Romeo must arrive sec

of the Rome cousin's ghost secking out Her hand closed swiftly ne'er acknowledge thee." He storm from Minntun at the tomb

and she raised It to her ed from the room.

Juliet turned to her mother. "Is awaken from the sleeping potion and tried and fell back upon, her bed,

Capulets upon the hour, lest Juliet on the vial

lips. Stoy, Tybalt! Stay!"

she there no pity sitting in the clouds by some mischance, be found alive by She drew her curtains closed and swiftly drained the vial. "Romeo,"

"1 come." she murmured.

And all that Friar Laurenen promised came to pass. Soon, soon, she crossed the gulf from conscious- nexs to sleep. Like icy death the pollon froze her veins. No pulke, no warmth, no breath, botokened that

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hands. answered cold thee,

"DO де thou wilt I have done

and follow- ed in her husband's wake.

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Jullet sprang to her feet,

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Inside the great hall Lady Capulet rounded up the serving men. the faor. Romeo is banished," she dingh

"Nursel

she called, "Fetch more answered as she led Juliet to a "Where I have learned to repent

spices." chair. "He dores not come back to the sin of disobedient opposition to

Lord

Capulet, hastening into the challenge you." She paused as if to you and your behests," she answer- let her words sink in. "I think It ed softly. "I am enjoined by holy house, Interrupted her. "Nurse! Go 9 Even if there's a man in the moon, there's nobody in a fine you married the Count."

Laurence to fall prostrate here and waken Juliet. Make haste-make

moon, beg your pardon." She Imeeled haste" he gestured frontically to-

"

"The bridegroom 10 which, of course, is rubbish, "Speakeat thou from thy heart?" humbly before him. her voice was strangely quiet,

'm

glad," he answered kindly la already

They looked out into the garden 11 Not goudy. and helped her to her feet. "This

13 Quarreling about a win. He caressed her and perceived Paris and his musl- as it should be.'

clans stationing themselves. beneath 15 Crack anglers, by the sound of and dismissed her..

them. She made her slow and quiet way Juliet's balcony. Their lutes and 10 trish centre for wintering.

aiready sounding the

17 Ranged as a peril. waved her away, "Go in and tell toward the house, her, nurse follow voices made you

In breathless haste the

bedchamber. "Mistress," she called

"Juliet!" A cold silence answered her. "How sound she sleeps," she said and rushed to the bed, drawing aside the curtains.

She stared for one horrified instant

"Thou hast comforted me mar- velous much," Jullet answered and

bridal

nurso

my lady I am gone, having dining at her heels. She ascended the picused my father, to Laurence's cell wide stairs in silence and made to make confession and to be ab- straight yer ber bedchamber. There mounted the stairs and ran to Juliet's solved."

diaplayed, were her wedding "The nurse fingered each

ment, fafly. The nurse flew to the door. will." done cried. "And this is wisely lost in admiration. Jullet seized the moment to slip the vial containing Jullet watched her go and then the sleeping potion Friar Laurence rushed forward as if to follow and had given her into her jewel casket strike her. "Ancient damnation!" She then turned to her nurse and

the oth She wept. "Wicked fiend. Anguish made pretence of TPACT before her, plercing shrick rent the!

her She looked "AS about the room, wildly. Her

she observed. Those attires and the small knife upon her table are best. But, gentle nurse, I pray caught her eye. She seized both and thee-leave me to myself to-night ran, from the house. Frior Lau Lady Capulet looked In Upon Tencel's He must know some means them. "Need you my help of escape from this now tragedy:

blinded with tears. As she passed

asked

bir. My lord! My lady!"."

Lord and Lady Caput ran into the room. "What noise is here?" They looked into her frightened eyes, then followed the anger abe pointed within the curtains of the bed. sho

cried Lady Capulet chlid!" and foll upon her knees. "She's Shosped through her garden, madam: Juliet replied, and

a smile crossed to where her er Ford is co

She's dead. She's dead."

me whispered the sundial hor heart contracted wistfully, let me be left alone."

mother stood, "Please" she begged Juliet's father dully looked long with pala. Nino o'clock. To what distant point. In his journey had

Her mother nodded: indeed it upon the cold, still face of his childs

"Death lica Romed advanced 2 between their suited her purpose most "excellently

upon her like an untime- parting at dawn and the present not to lingers moreover she herself ly, frost upon the sweetest Bower of hour? Nine o'clock. Only yesterday had need of the nurse. A thousand And through the open window

all the field." at this time her nurse had sought tails of the wedding awaited their rose sweetly the soft, music for the him out and brought back his attention,

Maridal serenade, blessed message. Yesterday the Lady Capulet bent to kiss the

(To-be Continued.)

21. To ask for it (two words, 5,

afraid you'll have to look. 23

again for this. 27. Slipped along with the Ild only

partly over... 28 Battle about'a

Americs, of course, 29 Children do not catch this bird--

with the frequency that they

sod ta doj

degree-holder: In

32 This cont is not popular for

party wear.

33

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4 Cheerol (anag...

B.Describes curtain-forties."

It Lanenter at the edges.

7 This is believing.

8 Dagger holes reveal that "the

agsakin and his victim had been at it.

12 In the direction of.

14 The putting back of a speech by

the rest.

15

A

fixed partnership.

18 Ent this for a change.

10 Part of a store in the forest/

20 Lays of Ancient Rome?

22 Masculine name (rev.).

24 Call out. This is really pretty

rich,

25 You can't cast one without

weapon.

20.Head of an abbey,...

27 There's a donkey in the carriago,

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