The Lady Without Jewels (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1909 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI IN WHICH OCCURS THE STORMING OF THE CASTLE RAU GRITZMACHER was startled early the next morning at the sudden appearance of the "big young man," in the doorway of the room downstairs, which she was putting to rights for the day. He smiled and bowed. She bowed and smiled, and she tiptoed surreptitiously after him to the door and watched him tramp up the hill back of the inn. She sighed raucously. He was an excellent young man, and his smile--On the way back to her work she stopped for nearly a full moment before the dingy glass, and she resolved, with a sudden daring, which reddened her full, wholesome cheeks, that she would brave the count's orders that night when the "big young man" came back from the castle. She would wear the crimson blouse. Young Duncan, meanwhile, was pushing on briskly, with long, rapid strides. The wind of the morning was "brushing the cobwebs off his heart," as McNeil would have said. He threw off, bit by bit, with each step, the load of depression with which he had awakened. Soon he stopped the weary round of thinking, thinking, thinking, which had made his night restless and wakeful, and gloried in the use of his body alone, breathing deeply, head up and arms swinging, forcing his tugging muscles to their uttermost. Gradually a sense of the beauty around him crept in upon him, and with it an exultation. When he passed the upper edge of the forest and reached the point of vantage in the pass above, he turned, with the old, settled, smiling look about his mouth, the old, confident shine in his eyes. The mists were not yet off the farther range, but he could see the towers, clear and shining above the gray, filmy garment, which wrapped itself about the castle. Somewhere underneath those glittering towers was Jane Spencer, a...