Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 14, 1928 — page 73: what you’re looking at

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His Service to Folly By MORGAN MANSFIELD Primed for high adventure, he had to act as clown for an emperor he despised, and match wits with mighty ruffians WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS I and II ASIL TRELAWNEY, son of a famous Cornish gun-making family, follows his French sweetheart, Violette de Tourraine, to Santo Domingo, when her ill- advised Royalist father takes to that island, then under the perilous rule of the b lack emperor, Henri Christophe. Basil reaches Santo Domingo on the pirate ship of the Barcti de Banana, whose enmity he incurs. a friend of Gefondo, a hunchback, powerful in Santo Domingo. However, he has Jack Butts, one of his father’s ship’s officers, with him; and makes With the eventual hope of becoming the emperor's jester, Basil has to sing and dance—for his life. CHAPTER IX (Continued). WITH CAP AND BELLS. HERE was a riotous clapping of hands and stamping of feet, led by Gefondo, when Basil swept the ground with his cloak and would have stepped from the circle. But he was not permitted to retire. At a word from Emperor Henri Christophe, the coach door was opened and he was mo- tioned to the forward seat. Basil drew back. He would not leave Violette. He fell on one knee before the emperor; he who had scoffed when De Banana prophesied such a situa- tion! “Tf I have amused your majesty,” he said, “I pray you grant me one boon—that my lady may come with me and her aged father.” He had spoken in French, but as if to show his gifts the emperor answered him in fair English. “We take no wives to Bonnet L’Evéque, Sir Fool. The lady stays at Sans Souci until I sift this matter of marriage.” Basil slowly got to his feet, his face drawn and haggard. It was of no use This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for March 31 2it COPMICLOOO©