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THE ADVERTISER. Subscription Prire-1 2 Months, $1.00 Payable In Advance. Unit's for Advertising.?Ordinary Ad vertisement-, per square, ouo inser tion, $1.00; each subsequent Insert ion, 60 cents Liberal reduction made for largo Advertisements. w. w. Ball, Proprietor. LAU BENS? S. f., June 17, 1003. Ilaiso The Salary. Some time ago THE ADVERTISER ex pressed tbo opinion that the salary of the mayor should b>j raised. An elec tion loo! lug to tbo amendment of tbo chartor and to provide the increase is soon to be bold. There ought to be but oue side to this question Laurons can not expect always to command good sorvico from a competent man at the head of the city administration for $250 At tbo latter figure tho oflice is one of honor with littlo profit. Sometimes we have efficient mayors u*.nl wo might have them if no salary were paid but tho oflice requires time and labor and ability. A lit man as a rule is unwill ing to work solely for tho honor of an oflice. Few cau afford honors of that kind. I,aureus is a olty of 5,000 peo ple and should ne* rudgo its chief ex ecutive olli -er $t year, The ques tion should be dot lined without re gard to the incumb*. t mayor, I HE 4 D< VBRTISER fully believes that ho shoul.l have tho bonctlt of the Increaso but that is not the pertinent question. Our mayors should ba paid more and the city should not bo niggardly. We hope that no serious opposition to the pro posed Increase will appear. * ? * Cau a President Lie} A sin IT correspo* r, of the Now York Bun writing wii Charlvston about the Crum appointment declares lnferontially th"t a president of th<? United stii'cs cannot lie and immedUl ate'y demonstrates that Theodore Roosevelt possibly did lie. Tl i' Yali kee correppondont of n R publican newspaper handles tbo eubjeot deli cately but he engraves cv? the mind of the average rentier tbo Imprest-ion that prevarication may b> o*e of iho many accomplishments of the most | Btrenous of American president*. In short th.* corn spondent makes it clear and sure thtt if the pre-idee, did not lie.his intimate frier..) who is the editor of a Northern mjgaz'ne lied for him, leaving to the president but one escape and that by pronouncing hi? friend a liar out of the whole cloth. * * * For The storm Sufferers. Laurens tent promptly a reasonably liberal sum to the Oil ton and Paoolot ?ulYerers?as m.ich as might have b en expect: d when the actual nei d is con sidered, it developed that not so large a fund was needed as was first believed. Nevertheless, it Is a fact that Laurcns did not subscribe as liberally f.s did Newberry, Greenwood, Sura tor and a numbci of other towns of about the same pepulhtion, Enough was enough perhaps; hut it it is well to remember next time that other communities may take a larger view of a situation than we have taken on this occasion. Lau rens, however, sent a fund to Gaines ville, and few South Carolina Iowas re membered Gainesville. * * A Cotton Year, this is r?no year In which The AD VERTISER believes In cotton. It is not likely that the price of cotton will drop below ten cents early In the fall. In o.?r opinion the wise, farmer will raise all tho cotton he em and have it ready for markot quick. The price of cotton may not drop during iho coming Season but whether or not to hold, each producer must decide for himself. There is big money in cotton a*, ten cents?n?or than in any known crop in the world. It is bringing 13 cents now. ? Col. Evans lleelcctetl, Col. Frank Evans has been reoleoted Superintendent of tho Spartanburg City Schools for the ensuing year He is regarded as one of tho beit school men in the South. ? * * Recent events prove that the cottoi mill worker has some distinct adVan tages over most, people who work wltl their hands. Tho loss of tho homes tr Clifton falls on iho company, not oi the operatives. Four thousand peeph were thrown out of employment am found immediate emphn ment else where waiting for them. The cotlor mill operative is after all a more inde pendent citizen than most of his fei lows. When a merchant Ikis his stor. burned ho loses his job fo>- months a< leastand, as a rule, so do his employ ees. * * ? Had the Facolet river disaster ar rived ten years earlier, tho building o cotton mills in the South would hav< boon seriously checked. The success o Pacolct und Clifton has had an ImpOr tant influence in promoting mill con atruction generally. * Notwithstanding that tho Nortl preaches at the South continually, tlr average South Carolinian would b? ashamed of a community in which di vorcas aro as common n.s they are ii New York city, ?.* When the fanners are careful abou employing "stray negroes" tho nui sauce of contract breaking on the par of farm laborers will disappear. For pimp!es, blotches, bad complex iou, Hood's Sjrsaparllla Is tho med: oino to take?it has ostablhbcd thli fact-_ Final SetUement. TAKE notice that on the 10 h day o June, 1003, 1 will rendor a Tina' accoun' of inv acts and doings us Executoi of the estato of J. H. Sholl, de ceased, In tho Oflice of Juoge of Pro bato for Lao runs County, a?. 11 o'clock a. rn., and on the same day will apply for a dual discharge trout my trust at Executor. AH persons having demands againEt eald ostale will please prenent them or or beforo that <!ay, proven and S?then tiuated or be torover barred. E. T. SHALL, Executor. l.;il>, luo:t I di. May 1 ENOREE WATERS HIGHER THAN EVER. Oldest Inhabitants Never Saw Such Flood and Crops on Bottom Lands Were Destroyed. H unTino ton, June 12. ? Ralnl Rain" Rain"! It came at last In pro fusion. All crops ou bo.torn laud are destroyed, mid lands genorallv badly washed. The river has been higher than tho oldest inhabitants remember seeing it. At Us close, Miss Phtlson gave bor school a plonlo at Musgrove's Mill, which was enjoyed by all, notwith standing the excessive heat of the day. The Woman's Missionary Society met on Thursday afternoon atth ; ro^dence of Mrs. Dr. Saxon. Th-e samo officers were retained for the onsulng quarter. It wtis decided wo should have a Cor responding Secrotary and Mrs. Saxon wus elected to fill the ofllce. Miss An nio Lou Little was chosen <o represent us at I.aurens at the District meeting and Miss Carrio Ray to represent us at Greenwood on tho 18th inst. at tho State meeting. Wo aro assured of the R. F. D. which ("thoy pay") is coining July 1st. Our citizens are highly pleased with the prospeo'.. A littlo graud-daughter of Mr. Wil llam MeRhoi was buried at Bethany oem -tery on Thursday afternoon. Miss Gena Byrd is visiting relatives in Greenwood. Mrd. T. T. Little and daughter, Miss Amro Lou, visited tho family of Mrs. Ray last week. Mr. B. M. Anderson contluuos his business (?) visits to our community. Misses Francis Patton and Manda (il< nn have been visiting at Mr. Downs Glenn's. Annik Laurie. WORST OF ALL EXPERIENCES. C.?n anything be worse than to feel that every minute will be your last? Such was *?he exp-rleneo of Mrs. S. H. Newson, DtOitur, Ala. "For three <?ears" she wrP.es, "I endured Ir.suf f >va Ae pain from indigestion, stomach and bowel trouble. Death feetuod in evitable when doctors and all ;one die- failed. At length 1 was induced to try Electric Fitters and the rostilt was miraculous. 1 improved at once and now I'm completely recovered. For Liver, Kidney. Stomach and Bowel troubles it is tho only medicine. Only 60 cents. It's guaranteed by Lauruns Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co, Elsin ife STATE SOUTH CAROLINA, LAUREN'S COUNTY, THE CITY OF LAU RENS. To The City Council or Laukens: "WHEREAS, certain citizens of the City of Lau ens desire the Charter of said Oity amended by striking out the first sentence of See. 20. of said Charter, tvhiuh sentence is as follows: "That the Major of siid City shall re ceive as a salary the sum of Two Hun dred and Fifty Dollars," and inserting in lieu thereof the following : "That the said Aldermen, or a major ity of them, shall have power and uro hereby authorized to tlx the Mayor's salaiy. which shall not be less than Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars per an nu e." "Now, therefore, we tin undersigned freeholders of said City hereby nray that an election to ordured and the question submitted to the qualified e'ec tors of 8 lid City to ascertain whether such amendment ought to be made or not." Whereas, a petition of which the fore g< ing is a copy, baa been filed with the City Council of the City of Laurons, Mirllud by a majority of the freiholdeis >f sild City, antl now, In obedience to the provisions of said Charter and the law governing Puch elections, an e'ec tton is hereby ordered to be held in the Oi,ty of Laurens, on Tuesday the 80th day of June, A. D 1003, to determine whether or not it is the desire of a ma jority of tho qualified voters of said City th:it the amendment specified in tho pe tition aforesaid be made as therein set forth. Said election shall ho held in th City Council chamber, nnd the polls fhall open at 0 o'cloek a. m. and close at 4 oVock p. in. Those favoring the am 'ndment t?hall vote a ballot with the X WHEN KNIGHTHOOD i iWAS IN FLOWER S Or, Tho Lot? Story o? Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor, the King's Sister, and Happening In the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighlh t>V Rewritten tviut Rendered Into Modern English From Sir Edwin ' J CeLikoden's Memoir :^v* By EDWIN CASKODEN [CHAftLCS MAJOR] # Copyright, I80e and 1301, l?y the Bowen'SlertHU Company CHAPTER XI. LOUIS XII. A SUITOn. |S soon as I could lcavo Bran don I had intended to go down to Windsor nnd glvo vent to my indlgnntiou to ward the girls, but the more 1 thought about it the surer I felt there had somehow been a mistake. I could not bring myself to believe that Mary hud deliberately permitted matters to go to such an extreme when It was In her power to prevent It. She might huvo neglected her duty for a day or two, but sooner or later her good Impulses always came to her rescue, and with Jano by her side to urge her on I was almost sure she would have liberated Brandon long ago, barring a blunder of somo sort. So I did not go to Windsor until a week after Brandon's release, when the king asked ino to go down with him, Wolsey and De LongUOVUle, tho French ambassador special, for the purpose of officially offering to Mary the hand of I.ouls XII. and tho honor of becoming queen of France. The princess bad known of tho pro jected arrangement for many weeks, but hud no thought of the present for ward condition of affairs or she would have brought her energies to bear upon Henry long before. She could not bring herself to believe that her broth er would really force her Into such wretchedness, and possibly he would never have done so, much as be de sired it from the standpoint of persounl ambition, had it not been for the petty excuse of that fatal trip to Grouche's. All the circumstances of the caso wore such as to make Mary's marriage a veritable virgin sacrifice. Louis was an old man, and an old Frenchman at that, full of French notions of morali ty and immorality, and, besides, there were objections that cannot be writ ten, but of which Henry and Mary had been fully Informed. She might as well marry a leper. Do you wonder she was full of dread and fear and resisted with the desperation of death? So Mary, tho person most interested, was about the last to learn that the treaty had been signed. Windsor was nearly eight leagues from London and dt that time was oc cupied only by the girls and a few old ladies and servants, so that news did not travel fast In that direction from the city. It Is also probable that, even if the report of tho treaty nnd Bran don's release had reached Windsor, tho persons hearing It would have hesitat ed to repeat it to Mary. However that may be, she bad no knowledge of either until she was Informed of the fact that the king and the French ambassador would be at Windsor on a certain day to make the formal request for her hand and to offer the gifts of King Louis. I had no doubt Mary was In troublo nnd felt sure she had been making af fairs lively about her. I knew her suf fering was keen, but w as glad of it In view of her treatment of Brandon. A day or two after Brandon's libera tion I had begun to speak to him of tho girls, but he Interrupted me with a frightful oath: "Caskoden, you are my friend, but if you ever mention their names again In my hearing you are my friend no longer. I will eurse you!" 1 was frightened, so much stronger did his nature show than mine, and I took good care to remain silent on that subject until?but 1 mu going too fast again. I will tell you of that here after. Upon tho morning appointed tho king, Wolsey, Do Longuevllle nnd my self, with a small retinue, rode over to Windsor, where we found that .Mary. anticipating us, had barricaded herself In her bedroom and refused to receive tho announcement. The king went up stairs to coax the fair young besieged through two inches of oak door and to Induce her if possible to come down. We below could plainly hear tho king pleading In the voice of a Bastian bull, and It afforded us some amusement behind our bauds. Then his majesty grow angry and threatened to break down the door, but the fair besieged maintained u most persistent and pro voking silence throughout it all and allowed him to carry out his threat without so much as a whimper. Ho wus thoroughly angry nnd called to us to come up to see him "compel obedi ence from tho self willed hussy," a tOBk the magnitude of which be under rated. The door was soon broken down, and the king walked in first, with Do Longue vllle nnd Wolsey next, and the rest of us following In close procession. But we marched over broken walls to the most laughable defeat over suffered by besieging army. Our foe, though small, was altogether too fertile In expedients for US. There seemed no way to con quer this girl. Her resources were so lucxhaustlble that In the momont of your expected victory success was turned Into defeat; nny, more, ridic ulous disaster. We found Jane crouching on the floor lu a corner half dead with fright from tho noise and tumult, and where do you think wo found her mistress? Frightened? Not at all. She was ly ing In bed with her face to the wull as cool ns a January morning, hor cloth ing in a little heap in tho middle of tho room. Without turning her head, she ex claimed: "Come in, brother. You oro quite welcome. Bring In your friends. I am ready to receive them, though not in court attire, ns you BOO." And sho thrust her bare arm straight up from tho bed to provo her words. You should have seen tho Frenchman's lit tle block eyes gloat on Its beauty. Mary went on, Htlll looking toward the wall, "I will arise and receive you all Informally If you will but wait." This disconcerted the imperturbable Henry, who was nbout ot bis wits* end. "Cover that arm, you hussy!" he cried in a flaming rage. "Be not impntlcnt, brother mine! I will jump out in just a moment." A little scream from Jane startled ev erybody, and sho quickly ran up to the k!ng, saying: "1 beg your majesty to go. Sho will do as she says so sure as you remain. You don't know her. Sho Is very angry. PleeBo go. I will bring her downstairs somehow." "Ah, Indeed 1 Jane Bollngbroke,"came from tho bed. "I will receive my guests myself when they are kind enough to come to my room." The cov erlid began to move, and whether or not sho was really going to carry out her threat I cannot sny, but Henry, knowing her too weil to rlskjt, hurried i 1 us nil out "of tho room nud marched downstairs nt tho head of his defeated cohorts. Ho was swearing in a way to wake n prlent's llesh ererp and pro testing by everything holy that Mary should bo the wife of Louis or die. He WOUt back to Mary's room at intervals, but there Was enough persistence in that one girl to stop the wheels of time, if she but set herself to do it, and the klug cnino away from each visit the victim of another rout. Finally his anger cooled, nud he be came amused. From the last visit he came down laughing. "I shall have to give up tho light or else put my armor on with visor dowu," said he. "it is not safe to go near her without it. She is a very vixen, and but now tried to scratch my eyes out." Wolsoy, who had a wouderful knack for iinding the easiest means to a dlf llcult end, tool; Henry off to n window, where they held a whispered conversa tion. It Avas pathetic to see n mighty king and his great lull er of state consult ing and planning ..gainst one poor girl, and, as angry as I felt toward Mary, I could not help pitying her and admired beyond the power of pen to write tho valiant and so far Impregnable defense aho had put up against an array of strength that would have made a king tremble on bis tbroue. Presently Henry gave oue of his loud laughs and slapped his thigh as If highly satislled with some proposi tion of Wolsey's. "Make ready at once," he said. "We will go back to London." In a short time we were all at the main stairway seady to mount for tho return trip. The Lady Mary's window was just above, and I saw Jane watching us as w e rode away. After we wero well out of Mary's sight the king called me to him, and he, together with De Lougueville, Wolsey and myself, turned our horses' heads, rode rapidly by a circuitous path back to another door of the castle and re entered without the knowledge of auy of the inmates. We four remained In silence, en joined by the king, and In the course of an hour the princess, supposing ev ery one had gone, came downstairs and walked Into the room where we were waiting. It was a scurvy trick, and I felt a contempt for the men who bad planned lt. I could see that Mary's first Im pulse was to beat a hasty retreat back Into her citadel, the bed, but in truth She had in her makeup very little dis position to retreat. She was clear grit. What a man she would have made! Hut what a crime it would have been in nature to have spoiled so perfect a woman. How beautiful she was! She threw one quick, surprised glance at her brother and his companions and, lifting up her exquisite head, careless ly hummed n little tune under her breath as she marched to the other end of the room will) a gait that Juno her self could not have improved upon. I saw the king smile, half In pride of her and half in amusement, and the Frenchman's little eyes feasted upon Ihm- beauty with a relish that could not be mistaken, Henry and the ambassador spoke a word in whispers when the latter took a box from a huge side pocket and started across the room toward Mary wit'.i the king at his heela. Her side was toward them when they came up, but sin* kept her nttitude as If she bad been of bronze. She had taken up a book that was lying on the table and was examining It as they Approached. Do Lougueville held the box in his hand, and. bowing and scraping, said In br?d;en English, "Permit to nie. most gracious princess, that I may have the honor to offer on behalf of my august master this little testament of his high admiration and love." With, this ho bowed again, smiled like n crack In a piece of old parchment and held his box toward Mary. It was open, prob ably in the hope of enticing her with a si^ht of its contents?a beautiful dia mond necklace. She turned her face ever so little and took It all In with one contemptuous, sneering glance out of the corners of her eyes. Then, quietly reaching out her hand, she grasped the necklace and deliberately dashed It in poor old Do Longuovllle's face. "There Is my answer, sir! Go homo and tell your imbecile old master I scorn his suit and hate him?hate him ?hate html" Then, with the tears fall ing unheeded down her cheoks: "Mas ter Wolsey, you butcher's cur, this trick was of your conception. Tho oth ers had not brains enough to think of it. Are you not proud to have out willed one poor heartbroken girl? Hut beware, sir! I tell you now I will bo quits with you yet or my name is not Mary!" There la a limit to tho best of femi nlne nerve, and nt that limit should always bo found a flood of healthful tears.' Mary had reached It when she threw the neeklaco and shot her bolt at Wolsey, so she broke down and has tily left the room. The king of course was beside him self with rage. "Hy God's soul," be sworo, "she shad murry Loula of Franco or I will have her whipped to death on the Hmlth fleld pillory!" And In his wicked heart ?so impervious to a single lasting good Impulse - he really meant it. Immediately after this, the king, Do Lougueville and Wolsey set out for London. I remained behind hoping to see tho girls, and after a short time a pago plucked me by tho sleeve, saying the princess wished to see me. Tho page conducted mo to the same room In which had been fought the bat tle -with Mary in bed. The door had been placed on its hinges again, but the bed was tumbled as Mary had left it, and the room was In great disorder. "Oh, Sir Edwin," began Mary, who was weeping, "wns ever woman In Stich frightful trouble? My brother Is killing mo. ('nn ho not see that I could net live through a woek of this mar riage? And I have been deserted by all my friends, too, excepting Jane. She, poor thing, cannot loave." "You know I would not go," said Jane pnrenthettcally. Mary continued, "You, too, have been home an entire week nud have not been near me." I began to soften at the sight of her grief and concluded with Brandon that, after all, her beauty could well cover A multitude of sins, perhaps even this, her great transgression against him. Tin? princess was trying to check her weeping nnd In a moment took up tho thread of her unfinished sentence: "And Master Brandon, too, left with out so milch as sending me ono little word- not a Ufte nor a syllable. lie did not como near me, but went off as if I did not euro?or he did not. Of course he did not care or he would not have behaved so, knowlug I was In so much trouble. I did not see him at all after-one afternoon In tho king's? about a week before that awful night in London, except that night, when I was so frightened I could not speak one win.I of all the things 1 wished to say." This sounded strange enough, and I began more than ever to suspect some thing wrong. I, howover, kept ns Arm u grasp ns possible upon the stock of iudlguatlon I had brought with mo. "How did you expect to see or bear from him," asked I, "when he was ly ing In a loathsome dungeon without one ray of light, condemned to be banged, drawn and quartered because of your selfish neglect to save him who at the cost of half his blood and al most his life had saved so much for you?" Her eyes grew big, and the tears were checked by genuine surprise. I continued: "Lady Mary, no one could have made me believe that you would stand back and let the niuu to whom you owed so great a debt lie so long in such misery and be condemned to such a death for the act that Haved you. I could never have believed it I" "Imp of hell!" screaked Mary. "What tale Is this you bring to torture me? Have 1 not enough already? Tell me It Is a lie or l will have your miserable little tongue torn out by the root!" "It Is no He, princess, but nn nwful truth and a frightful shame to you." I was determined to tell her all and let her see herself as she was. She gave a hysterical laugh and, throwing up her hands with her accus tomed little gesture, fell upon the bed In utter abandonment, shaking as with a spasm. She did not weep; she could not; she was past that now. Jane went over to the bed and tried to soothe her. In a moment Mary sprang to her feet, exclaiming: "Master Itraiulon con demned to death, and you and I here talking and moaning and weeping! Come, come; we will go to the king ut once. We Will start to walk, Edwin?1 must be doing something ? and Jane can follow with the horses and over take us. No; I will not dress; Just as I am; this will do. Bring me a hat, Jane-any one, any one." While put ting on hat and gloves hIic continued: "I will see the king at once nnd tell him all all! I will do anything. I will marry that old king of Franco or fo''ty kings or forty devils! It'b oil one to me. Anything, anything, to save htm! Oh, to think that he has been In that dungeon all this time!" And the tears came unheeded In a del uge. She was under such headway nnd spoke and moved so rapidly that I could not stop her until sho wns nearly ready to go: then I held her by the arm while I said: "It is not necessary now. You uro too late." A look of horror came Into her face, and i continued slowly: "I procured Brandon's rclcnso nearly a week ago. I did what you should have done, and he is now at our rooms in Greenwich." Mary looked at me a moment and, turning pale, pressed her hands *o her heart and leaned against the door frame. After a short silence she said: "Ed win Caskoden fool! Why could you not have told mo that at first 7 I thought my brain would burn nnd my henrt burst." "I should have told you had you giv en me time. As to the pain it gave you"?this wos the last charge to my large maga/.Ine of indignation?"I care very little about that. You deserve it. I do not know what explanation you have to offer, but nothing can excuse you. An explanation, however good, would hnve been little comfort to you hnd Hraudon failed you in Billingsgate thnt night." She had fallen into n chair by this time and sat In reverie, staring nt noth ing. Then the tears came again, but more softly. "You aro right; nothing can excuso me. I am the most selfish, ungrateful, guilty creature ever born. A whole month in that dungeon!" And she covered her drooping face with her hands. ns? "Go oway for awhile, Edwin, and then return. We Bhull want to seo you again," said Jane. Upon my return Mary was more composed. Jane bad dressed her hair, nnd she wns sitting on the bed In her rldlug habit, hat in hand. Her fingers were nervously toyiug nt the ribbons nnd her eyes cast down. "You nre surely right, Sir Edwin. I have no excuse. I can hnve none, but I will tell you how it was. You re member the day you left mo In the Waiting reeir: of the king's council, when they were discussing my mar riage without ono thought of me, ns if I were but a slavo or a dumb brute that could not feel?" She began to weep n little, but boou recovered her self. "While waiting for you to re turn the Duke of Buckingham came in. I knew Henry was trying to soil me to tho French king, and my heart was full of'trouble? from more causes thun you can know. All tho council, espe cially that butcher's son, were urging him on, and Henry himself was anx ious that tho marrlugo should be brought about. He thought It would strengthen him for the Imperial crown. He wants everything and is ambitious to be emperor. Hmperor! Ho would cut a pretty figure! I hoped, though, I should he nble to Induce him not to sacrifice mo to his selfish interests, as I have done before, but I know only too well It would tax my powors to the utmost this time. I knew that If I did anything to anger or to antngoniKo him it would he nil nt an end with mo. You know he Is so exacting with other peo ple's conduct for ono who Is so careless of his own so virtuous by proxy. You remember how cruelly ho disgraced and crushed poor Lady Chesterfield, who was In Bitch troublo about her hus band und who went to Groucho's only to learn If ho were true to her. Henry seems to be particularly sensitive in that direction. One would think It was In tho commandments, 'Thou shalt not go to Grouehe's.' "Well, I knew I could do nothing with Henry If ho once learned of that visit, especially ns It resulted so fa tally. Oh, why did I go? Why did I go? That wns why I hesitated to tell Henry at once. I was hoping somo oth er way would open whereby I might save Charles?Master Brandon. Whllo I was waiting olong came tho Duke of Buckingham, and as I knew he was popular in London and had almost as much Influence there as the king a thought came to me that he might help us. "I knew that ho and Master Brandon had psRsed a few angry words at one time In my ballroom- you remember but i also ktfew thnt the duke was in in love with me, you know, or pretend felt Hin?? i could by n little flattery ln duoe iitm to do auythlng. IIo was ai ways protesting thai ho w<>uM give You arc too lute." half his blouil to Borve mo. As if any. body wanted a drop of Ids wretched blood. Poor Master Brandon. His blood" and tears came, choking her words for the moment. "So i told tbo duke I bad promised you und Jane to procure Master Brandon's liberty, and asked bin? to do It for me. He gladly consented and gave me bis knightly word that it should be attended to without an hour's delay. He said it might have to be done seerelly in the way of an escape not officially?tt8 the Londoners were very Jealous of their rights and much aroused on account of the killing. Especially, he said, that at that time great caution must be used, as the king was anxious to conciliate the city In order to procure a loan for some purpose- my dower, I suppose. "The duke said It should be as I wished; that Master Brandon should escape and remain away from London for a few weeks until the king pro cured his loan and then be freed by royal proclamation. "I saw Buckingham the next day, for I was very anxious, you may be sure, and he said the keeper of Newgate bad told him it had been arranged the night before as desired. I had come to Windsor because it was more quiet, and my heart was full. It Is quite a distance from London, and 1 thought it might afford a better opportunity to ? to see I thought, perhaps Master Brandon might come- might want to - to?see Jane and me. In fact. I wrote him before I left Greenwich that I should be here. Then I beard be had gone to New Spain. Now you see how all my troubles have como upon me at once, and this the greatest of them, because it is my fault. I can nsk no forgiveness from any one, for I cannot forgive myself." She then Inquired about Brandon's health and spirits, and I left out no distressing detail, you may be sure. During my recital she sat with down east oyos and tear stained face playing With the rjphnns of her hat. When I1 was ready to go, she said. "Please say to Master Brandon I should like to- see him if he cares to come, if only that I may tell him bow It hap pened." "I greatly fear, In fact, I know he will not come," said I. "The crudest blow of all, worse even than the dun geon or the sentence of death, was your failure to save him. He trusted you so Implicitly. At tho time of bis arrest he refused to allow me to tell tin; king, saying he knew you would Ree to It that you were pure gold." "Ah, did he say that?" she asked, as a sad little smile lighted her face. "His faith was so entirely without doubt that his recoil from you Is cor respondingly great. He goes to New Spain as soon as bis health is recovered sufficiently for him to travel." This sent the last Heel; of color from her face, and with the words almost choking her throat, "Then tell him What I have said to you and perhaps he will not feel so"? "1 cannot do that either, Lady Mary. When I mentioned your name the other day, he said he would curse me If 1 ev er spoke it again in his hearing." "Is It so bad as that?" Then, medita tively: "And at his trial he did not tell tho reason for the killing? Would not compromise mo, who had served him so 111, even to save his own life? Noble, noble!" And her Hps went together as she rose to her feet. No tears now; nothing but glowing, determined wo manhood. "Then I will go to him wherever ho may be. Ho shall forgive me, no mat ter what my fault." Soon after this we were o:, our way to Txnidon at a brisk gallop. We were all very silent, but at ono time Mary spoke up from the midst of a reverie: "During the moment when I thought Master Brandon had been exe cuted when you said It was too late It aeemed that I waft born again and all made over; that I was changed In the very texture of my nature by tho shock, as they say the grain of the Iron cannon is sometimes changed by too violent an explosion." And this proved to be true In some respects. Wo rode on rapidly and did not stop in London except to give the horses drink. After crossing the bridge Mary said, half to Jane and half to herself, "I will uevof marry tho French k'ng never." Mary was but a girl pitied against a body of brutal men, two of thein rulers of the two greatest nations on earth? rather heavy odds for one woman. We rode down to Greenwich and en tered the palace without exciting com ment, as the princess w;$ in the habit of coming and going at will. The king and queen and most of the courtlera were In London at Bridewell House and Bay mini's castle, whero Henry was vigorously pushing the loan of oOO.OOO crowns for Mary's dow ei, the only business of state In which at that time he took any active Inter est. Subsequently, as you know, he be came Interested In the divorce laws 0' ' tho various methods whereby a man, especially a king, might rid him self of a distasteful wife, and after he saw the truth In Anne Boleyn's eyes ho adopted a combined policy of church and state craft that has brought us a deal of senseless trouble ever since and is like to keep It up. As to Mary's dower, Henry was to pay i.oiiin only 400,000 crowns, but he made the marriage an excuse for an extra 100,000 to bo devoted to his own private use. When we arrived nt the palace the girls went to their apartments and 1 to mine, where I found Brandon read ing. There was only one window to our common room?a dormer window set into tho roof and reached by a lit tle passage as broad as the window it self and perhaps a yard and n half long. In the alcove thus formed was h bench along the wall, cushioned by Brandon's great campaign cloak. In this window we often sat and read, and here was Brandon with his book. I had Intended to tell him the girls were cotu i *S?jl ??X .wbeu Mary asked tf I thought lie Would come to tier at the palace, aud when I hnil again said no, she reiterated her Intention of golug to htm .a ?ncej but my courage fulled me and I did not ?peak of It. I knew that Mary ought not to come to our room, and that If news of It should reach the king's ears thero would he more ?ml worse trouble than ever, und ns usual Brandon would pay the pennlty for nil. Then again, If it were discovered it might seriously com promise both Mary and .lane, as the world is full of people who would rath er say and believe an evil thing of an other than to say their prayers or to believe the holy creed. I bad suld ns much to the Lady Mary when she expressed her determination to go to Brandon. She had been In the wrong so much of late that she was humbled, and I was brave enough to say whatever I felt, but she said she bad thought It all over, and as every one was away from Greenwich It would not be found out if done se cretly. She told Jane she need not go; that she, Mary, did not want to take nny risk of compromising her. June would have gone, though, had she known that all her fair name would go with her. She was right, you see, when she told me while riding over to Windsor that should Mary's love blos som into a full blown passion she would wreck everything and every body. Including herself perhaps, to at tain the object of so great a desire. 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