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i i When Knighthood ;;
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? Mary would often pout for day* together
and pretend illness. Upon one
occaalon abe kept the king waiting at
her door all the morning, while she,
having slipped through the window,
waa riding with some of the young people
In the forest. When she returned
?through the window ? she went to
the door and scolded the poor old king
for keeping her waiting penned up In
her WKMn all the morning. And he apologised!
She changed the dinner hour to noon
la accordance with the English custom,
and had a heavy supper at night,
when she would make the king gorge
hlmoelf with tmheaitbfnl food nud coax
him "to drink as much as Brother
Henry," which invariably resulted In
Louis de Valois finding lodgment under
the table. This amused the whole
court exqept n few ski cronies and
physicians, who, of cohrse, wert scandalised
beyond measure. She took the
khisr on* Ions rides with * her nn r?nl?1
. days, and would Jolt bhn almost to
*,. : death tfnd freeze him htitn the cold
teal* streamed down. Ws -poor pinched
none, making him feel like a half animated
Icicle and Wish that he were
eno, in fact.
At night she would have her balls
and keep him up till morning, drinking
and dancing, or trying to dance, with
hesnntil bis peor old heels, and his
ha*4t too, for that matter, were like
to fall off; then she would slip away
from him and lock herself In her room.
Pnumber, say-1, let May alone; she
certainly will kill you. Despite which
eMo* advice, I doubt not December
will go on coveting May np to the end
of the chapter, each old fellow?being
such a fine man for his nge, you understand?fondly
believing himself an oxcaption.
Age in a fool is damnable.
Mary was killing Louis as certainly
and deliberately as if she were feeding
hiai alow poison. He was very weak
and decrepit at beet, being compelled
frequently upon public occasions, such,
for example, as the coronation tournament
of which I have spoken, to lie
upon a couch.
Mary's conduct was really cruel, but
then, remember the provocation, and
that she was acting in self defense.
uin wm eitmer tor ner man you
might suppose, for the king's grasp of
power, never very strong, was beginning
to relax even what little grip It
had. Alt faces were turned toward
the ristag sun, young Francis, duke of
Angouleipe, the king's distant cousin,
who would soon be king in Louis' place.
As this young rising sun, himself vastly
smitten with Mary, openly encourage*
her In what she did, the courtiers
of Aotjtrse' followed suit, and the old
klnf found himself surrounded by a
court only too ready to be amused by
his lively young queen at his expense.
Tut condition of affairs Mary welcomed
With ber whole soul, and to accent
It and nail assurance, I fear, played
eve# so lightly and coyly upon the
heartstrings of the young duke, which
responded all too loudly to her velvet
too<(h and almost frightened her to
death with their volume of aound later
on. . ?hl* Francis dfAngouleme, the
dSuphln, had fallen desperately In love
with .Mary at first sight, something
against which the fact that he was
martrled to Claude, daughter cf Louis,
ta m .way militated. He jgas a very
distant relative of T^ouls, going away
bach to St. Louis for bis heirship to
the French crown. The king bad
daughters In ptehty, but, ss you know,
the -gnnsnt Frenchmen say, according
to thefr law sallc, "The realm of
M FraBce;Is so great un? glorious a berfLtk
i tsgmtftat It may not be takep by a
woman:" Too great and g!ork>v* to be
jp K taken by a Woman, rorxoothl France
irm^l M,vO been vastly better off had
she ?iwen governed liy a woman now
and*th#n, for n country always prosii?i
MA> *a.M II*aj -*
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tarn called Prnncia "Ce Gro? Garcon,"
' and Queen Mary called "Mm "Ifwilenr,
1 mon beau fils." in a mock motherly
j manner that was very laughable. \
mother of eighteen to a "good boy" of
! twenty-two! Dangerous relationship!
And dangerons indeed it wonld have
been for Mary had she not been ?i
pufe and true hs she was willful and
Impetuous. "Mou beau Ills" allowed .<
neither his wife nor the respect he
owed the king to .stand in the way of .
his very marked attention to the queen.
His position as heir and his long residence
at court, almost as son to Louis, <
gave him ample opportunities for pressing
his unseemly suit. He was the
first to see Mary at the meeting place
tills side of Abbeville, and was the
king's representative on all occasions. i
"Bean tils" was rather a handsome <
fellow, but thought himself vastly
handsomer than he was, and had some i
talents, which he was likewise careful
to estimate at tbelr full value, to say
the least. He was very well liked by i
women, and In turn considered himself
irresistible. He was very impressionable
to feminine charms, was at heart
a libertine, and, as be grew older, bscauie
a debauchee whose memory will
taint France for centuries to come.
Mary saw his weakness mors clearly
than bis wickedness, being blinded to <
the latter by the veil of her own Innocence.
She laughed at and with him,
and permitted herself a great deal of
his company?so much, in fact, that I
grew a little jealous for Brandon's
sake, and, if the truth must bs told, for
the first time began to have doubts of
her. I seriously feared that when
Louis Should die Rrnndnti mlrht a?u?
n much rnoro dangerous rival In the
new king, who, although married,
would probably try to keep Mary fit
his court even should he be driven to
the extreme of divorcing Claude as
Claude's father had divorced Joan.
I believed. In case Mary should voluntarily
prove false and remain In
France either as the wife or the mistress
of Francis, that Brandon would
quietly but surely contrive some means
to take her life, and I hoped he would.
1 spoke to my wife, June, about the
queen's conduct, and she finally admitted
that she did not like it, so I, unable
to remain silant any longer, determined
to put Mnry on her gunrd, and for that
purpose spoke very freely to her on the
subject.
"Oh, ydu goose!" she said laughingly,
"lie is almost as great a fool an Henry."
Then the tears came to her eyes,
and half angrily, half hysterically,
slinking pie by the arm, she continued;
"Po yog pot know? Can you not see
that I would Blvo flits hand or piy eyes,
almost my life, Just to fall upon my
face In front of Charles Brandon ait
this moment? Do you not know that
a woman with a love In her henrt such
as 1 have for film is safe from every ,
ono and everything; that it Is her sheet
anchor, sure and fast? Have you pot <
wit enough to know that?"
"Yes, 1 have," I responded, for the
time completely silenced. With her favorite
tactics she liad, as usual, put me
iii the wrong, though I soon cnnio
gain to the attack.
"Bat he la no bane that I grieve to
e? yon with him."
"I suppose he Ik pot Wf good," ?he ,
responded, "but It seeuts to |?e the way i
of these people among whom I have <
fallen, and he cannot harm me." ?
"Oh, but ho cant One docs not go
neur smallpox, and there Is a moral
contagion quite ?s dangerous, If not ee
1 perceptible, and equally to be avoid- 1
cd. It must be a wonderfully healthy
moral nature, pure and chaste to the
core, that will be entirely contagion
proof and safe from It"
She hung bcr head in thought and
then lifted her eyes nppenllngly to me.
"Am I not that, lSdwIn? Tell met Tell
me frankly; am 1 not? It Is the one
thlug of good I have always striven
for. 1 am so full of other faults that If
I have not that there la uo good in
me." Her eyes and voice were full of
tears, and I knew In my heart that I
stood before as pure a soul as ever
came from the baud of God.
"Ton are, your majesty; never
doubt," I answered. "It is pre-emlpently
the one thing In womanhood te
which all mankind kneels." And I fell
upon my knee end kissed her hand
with a wnm of mmrniM* folth bb4
trust that b?s never left me from that
day to this. As to my estimate of how i
Francis would act wjien Louis should <
die, you will see that 1 was right
Not long after this Lady Caskoden
nud 1 were given permission to return 1
to England, and Immediately prepared <
for our homeward Journey. <
I iMr **-? ? r <*<**? ?* *-v ? *??
As wo left Mary placed in my hands
a letter for Brandon, whose bulk was sc
reassuring that I knew he had never
been out of her thoughts. I looked at
the letter n moment and said, in all
seriousness. "Your majesty, had I not
better provide an extra box for it?"
She gave a nervous little laugh, and
tho tears filled her eyes as she whispered
huskily: "I fancy there is one who
will not. think It too large. Goodby,
goodby!" So we left Mary, fair, sweel
girl queen, all alone among those terrible
strangers. Alone with one little
English maiden, seven years of age,
Anne Boleyn.
CHAPTER XXI.
UTTgBS FBOM A QUEEX.
PTTlPON our retnrn to TCnelsnA 1
[ | left Jane down in Suffolk
ftfrrcH with her uncle, I<ord DolingBolVWl
broke, having determined
nerer to permit her to come within
sight of King Ilenry again if I could
prevent It. I then went up to I^ondon
with the twofold purpose of seeing
Brandon and resigning my place as
master of the dance.
When I presented myself to the king
and told him of my marriage, he flew
into a great passion because we hud
not asked his consent Ono of his
whims was that every one must ask
his permission to do anything?to eat
or sleep or say one's prayers, especially
to marry, if the lady was of n degree
entitled to be a king's ward. Jane,
fortunately, hud no estate, the king's
father having stolen it from her when
she was an Infant; so all the king could
ilo about our marriage was to grumble,
which I let him do to his heart's content.
"I wish also to thank your majesty
for the thousand kindnesses you have
Bhown me," I said, "and, although it
grieves me to the heart to separate
from you, circumstances compel me to
tender my resignation as your master
o'f dance." Upon this he was kind
enough to express regret and ask me
to reconsider, but I stood my ground
firmly, and then and there ended my
official relations with nenry Tudor forever.
Upon taking my leave of tho king I
sought Iirandon, whom I found comfortably
ensconced in our old quarters,
he preferring them to much more pretentious
apartments offered him In another
part of the palace. The king had
given him some new furnishings for
them, and, as 1 was to remain n few
days to attend to some matters of business,
he Invited me to shore his comfort
with him, and 1 gladly did so.
Those few days with Brandon were
iny farewell to Individuality. Thereafter
I was to be so mysteriously Intermingled
with Jane that I was only
a part ?and a small part at that, 1 fear
?of two. I did not, of course, regret
the change, since it was the one thing
In life I most longed for, yet the period
was tinged with n faint sentiment of
pathos at parting from the old life that
hod been so kind to me and which I
was leaving forever. 1 say I did not
regret it, and, though I was leaving
my old haunts and companions and
friends so dear to me, I was finding
them all again In Jane, who was friend
as well as wife.
Mary's letter was In one of my boxes
which had been delayed, and Jane was
to forward it to me when It should
come. When I told Brandon of it, I
dwelt with emphasis upon Its bulk,
and he, of course, was delighted and
Impatient to hare It. I had put the
letter In the box, but there was something
else which Mary had sent to hlui
that I had cnrrled with me. It was a
sum of money sufficient to puy the debt
against his father's estate and, in addition,
to buy some large tracts of laud
ndjoluing. Brandon did not hesitate
to accept the money and seemed glad
that It had come from Mary, she, doubtless,
being the only person from whom
be would have taken It.
One of Brandon's sisters bad married
a rlcli merchant at Ipswich, and
another was soon to marry a Scotch
gentleman. The brother would probably
never marry, so Brandon would
eventually have to take charge of the
estates. In fact, he afterward lived
there many years, and, as Jane and 1
had purchased a little estate near by.
which had been generously added to
by Jane's uncle, we saw a great deal
of him. But I am getting ahead of my
story again.
The D'Angonleme complication troubled
me greatly, notwithstanding my
r<h In Mary, nnd although I had resolved
to say nothing to Brandon about
It, I soon told him plainly tvhat I
thought and feared.
He replied with a low, contented little
laugh.
"I)o not fear for Mnrv. 1 iIa n??
rtmt young fellow is of different stuff,
[ know, from the old king, but I have
nil faltii In her purity and ability to
take care of herself. Before she left
she promised to be true to me, whatBver
befell, and 1 trust her entirely,
t am not so unhappy by any means as
duo would expect. Am I? And I was
compelled to admit that he certainly
waa not.
So It seems they had met, as Jane
tnd I suspected, but bow Mary managed
It I am sure I cannot tell. She beat
the very deuce for having her own
way, by hook or by crook. Then came
the bulky letter, which Brandon pounced
upon and eagerly devoured. I leave
Dlgt most of the sentimental oaaaaaes,
fMflJt1?.** * :r .< > -, > " ' * 4' *' ? " *' 4
lose fla- I
, ror quickly. S!u? ?nld, In part:
To R!a*ut r Prnndon:
Sir cr.tl Pear FrlrnjJ. Greeting?After
| I cavity: thee, long time hod I that mighty
grh f 'and dole within my heart that It
; wes Ilk to break. for my separation from
thee fc'i t Co much harder to hear even
. than I had taken thought of. and I also
' donated mo that I could live In Paris, as
1 d!.U wish. Sleep rested not upon my
l weary rye s, ami of a very deed could 1
tit. 1 titer tat r.cr drink, since food distasted
' tr.r Hke.ii nausea and wine did strangle
in tr.y tit; > at. This lasted through nty
jov:.*r.t y hith'r. which I did prolong upon
f rr.nny prett xt* nearly two months, but
when I d d at last rest mine eyes for the
' tlr.t tiint ttpon :his King l.ouis' face I
well knt.v that 1 could rule him, and
rvh :t I did arrive and had adjusted myself
In this I'ar'.s 1 found It so easy that
my turrj leopjd for very Joy. Ueauty
gOi'th sonar with tills inllarnmable people
I that easily . 'o J rule them ail. and truly
; doth a t orrl'e KV!h>;"ect rnaiirs strnrp,-eapn.
ioc.s t > > i;t. Thereby the misfortune which
kii.ii to no upon us Is of so much less evil
^ n::;l la so ilk" to be of cuch short duration
1 that l a At. alfnest happy, but for lack of
, th \ aOd rometlmcu think that after ell
it t ay verily bo a Itlesclng unseen.
Ti is row. unexpected face upon our
I ?r t.hle bath eo driven the old gnawing
I ache out of my heart that I leva to he
aior.e and dream, open eyed, of the time,
, of a surety not far off. when I shall he
' with tlv e. * It la ofttimos sore hard
for tr.e. who have never waited, to haw to
[ wait. Ilk? a patient Grlselda. which of a
iru;n i n:n noi. ror tills which I do so
want. but 1 try to make myself content
wlili the 'bought tliat full sure It will not
be for hunt, and that when this tedious
time hath s;>cnt Itself we shall look h*?k
( upon It as a very soul school, and shall
rather Joy that we did not purchase our
heaven too cheaply.
I I snl 1 1 find it easy to live here as I
[J w'slVTind did begin to tell thee how it was
when. I tan off Into telling of how I long
for thee, so I will try again. This Louis,
to btgl.i with. Is but the veriest shadow
of a man, of whom thou needst hnvc not
one jealous thought. He Is on a bed of
sickness most of the time, of his own accord,'and
If, perchance, he be but fairly"
> welLn day or so I do straightway make
hin^fll, again In oneway or another, and,
, plt-pae Cod, hope to wear him out entirely
era ItMJi, time. Of a deed. Brother Henry
1 was Mlit. Better had it been for Louis to
' have fnurried a human devil than me, for
It ftiaketh a very one out of me if mine
eyas but rest upon him, and thou knoweat
full well what kind of a devil I make.
Broth*.r Henry knowcth, nt any rate. For
all this do I grieve, but have no remedy
nor Mant one. 1 sometimes do almost
conBas?lonnte the old king, but I cannot
forbMr. fi r he turneth my very blood to
blttog gall, and muBt e'en take the consequences
of his own folly. Truly is he
wild? for love of me, this poor old man,
andfth" more I hold him nt a distance the
mow* he fondly dotes. I do verily believe
he would try to stand upon his foolish
old* head did 1 but insist. I sometimes
have a thought to make him try it I?
enough that is senseless and nbMt'l.
In i?U conscicucc, as It Is. At all of
this do fh?f courtiers smile and laugh and
put me fot.vutd to other pranks?that Is,
all hoi u few of the elders, who shake
their heads, hut dare do nothing else-for
fear of the dauphin, who will soon be
king and who stands (list in urging and
abetting me. So it Is easy for me to do
what I wish, and above all to leave undone
that which I wish not, for I do easily
rule them all, as good Sir Edwin and dear
Jane will testify. I have a ball every
night wherein I do make a deal of amusement
for every one by dancing La Volta
with hla majesty until his heels, and his
poor old head, too. nre like to fall off.
Others Importune me for those dances,
especially the dauphin, but I laugh and
Bnane my neaci nnu say tnat I will dance
with no one but the king, because he
dances so well. This pleases his majesty
mightily and maketh an opening for me
to avoid the touch of other men, for I am
jealous of myself for thy sake, and save
and garner every little touch for thee.
* * Sir Edwin will tell you I dance with
no one else and surely never will.
You remember well, I doubt not, when
thou first didst teach me this new dance.
Ah, how delightful It was, and yet how
at first It did frighten and anger me.
Thou canst not know how my heart beat
during all the time of that first dance. I
thought, of a surety, it would burst, and
then the wild thrill of frightened ecstasy
that made my blood run like liret 1 knew
It must be wrong, for It was, in truth, too
sweet a thing to be right. And then I
grew angry at thee as the cause of my
wrongdoing and scolded thee, and repented
It, as usual. Truly didst thou, conquer,
not win, me. Then afterward, withal it
so frightened me, how 1 longed to dance
again, and could in no way stay myself
from asking. At times could I hardly
wait till evening fell, and when upon occasion
thou didst not come I was so angry
I said I hated thee. What must thou have
thought of me, so forward and bold! And
thut afternoon! Ah, I think of it every
hour, and see and hear It all'and live it
o'er and o'er, as it sweeter grows with
memory's ripening touch. Some moments
thcro aro that send their glad ripple down
through life's stream to tho verge of ths
grave, and truly blest is one who cap
smile upon and kiss these memory waves
and draw from thence a bllsH that never
fails; but thou knowest full well my heart,
find I need not tense thee with its outpourings.
There is yet another mtitter of which I
wish to write in very earnestness. Sir
Edwin Spoke to me thereof and whnt H?
said hath given me serious thought. I
thank him for his words, of which ho
will tell thee in full if thou but Importune
him thereto. It Is this: Ylie dauphin.
Ftanell d'Angouleme, hath fallen desperately
fond of mo rind is quite as importunate
and almost as fjoiirh r.3 the
elder lover. This people in this strange
lond of France have. In rooih, come curious
notions. For an example thereto, no
one thinks to find anything unscennng in
the dauphin's conduct by reason cf his
having already a wifo. und mere, that
Wife the lhrincc8s Claude, daughter to Use
king. I laugh at him und lot him fry
what he will, for In truth I am powerless
to prevent it. Words cannot scar e\a.n n
roue tear and will not harm mo. Then, by
his holp and example. I am Justified In the
yea of the court In that I ro treat the
king, which otherwise It were Impossible
for me to do and live here. So. however
much I may loathe them, yet I am d Iven
to tobrate his words, wh'ch I turn ofT
with a laugh, making sure, thou may cat
know, that It co.rti to nothing ir.cre ilia a
words. And thus It Is however much I
wish it not, that I do use him to help me
treat the king as 1 like, and do then i;rc
the poor old king aa my buckler against
this duke'a too n>cat familiarity. Hut, my
friend, when the king conns to d:e, thin
ahnll I have my. fears of this ycun?.
Francia d'Angmiictrie, He la desperate
for mo, and I know nol to what length lie
micht co. Tho king cannot llvp lopg, aa >
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the thread of his life is UKe rotten nax,
and when ho dies thou must come without
delay, since I shall be In deadly peril.
I have a messenger waiting at all hours
ready to send to thee upon a moment's
notice, and when he comes waste not a
precious instant. It may mean all to thee
and inc. I could write on nn<i on
but It would bo only to toll thoe o'or and
o'or that my heart Is full of thee to overflowing.
1 thank thee that thou haat
never doubted me. and will sec that thou
hast hereafter only good cause for better
faith. MARY. Reglna.
"Reglna!" That was all. Only a
queen! Surely no one could charge
Brandon with possessing too modest
tastes. " e
It was, I think, during the second
week In December that I gave this letter
to Brandon, and about n fortnight
hiter there came to him a messenger
from Paris, bringing another from
Mary, as follows:
Master Charles Brandon:
Sir nnd Dear Friend, Greeting?I have
but time to write that the king is so 111 he
cannot but die ere moriiing. Thou knowest
that which I last wi'SIp to thee, unil In
addition thereto I would say that although
I have, as thou likewise knowest,
my brother's permission to marry whom
I wish, yet as I have his one consent It is
safer that we act upon that rather than
be so scrupulous as to ask for another.
So it were better that thou tajce me to
wlfo upon the old one rather than risk
the necessity of having to do it without
any. I say no more, but come with all
the speed thou knowest. MARY.
It is needless to say that Brandon
started in hustc for I'aris. lie left
court for the ostensible purpose of
paying men visit, nnd came to Ipswich,
whence we sailed.
The French king was dead before
Mary's message reached London, and
when we arrived at Pads Francis I. ]
reigned on the throne of Ills father-inlaw.
I had guessed only too accurately.
As soon as the restraint of the old"'
king's presence, light as it had been,
was removed, the young king opened
ids attack upon Mary in dreadful earnest.
He begged and pleaded and
swore his love, which was surely
manifest enough, and within three days
after the old king's dentil offered to
divorce Claude and make Mary his
fillo Mi Wlion t?ofnefwl <1.
ing offer, Ills surprise was genuine.
"Do you know what you refuse?" lie
asked in a temper. "I offer to make
you my wife?queen of 15,(KM),000 of the
greatest subjects on earth?and are you
sueli a fool as to refuse a gift like that,
and a man like me for a husband?"
"That I am, your majesty, and with
a good grace. 1 am queen of France
without your help and care not so much
as one penny for the honor. It Is greater
to be a princess of England. As for
this love you avow, I would make so
bold as to suggest that you have a
good, true wife, to whom you would do
well to give It all. To me it is nothing,
even were you a thousand times
the king you are. My heart is another's,
ami I have my brother's permission
to marry him."
"Another's? God's soul! Tell me
who this fellow is that I may spit liini
on my sword!"
"No, no! You would not. Even were
you as valiant and grand as you think
yourself, you would be but a child In
ids hands."
Francis was furious, and had Mary's
apartments guarded to prevent her escape,
swearing lio would have bis way.
As soon as Brandon and I arrived
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well It was that we did. I at onco
went out to reeonnoiter, and found the
widowe<l queen a prisoner In the old
Palace des Tournellos. With the help
of Queen Claude 1 secretly obtained an
interview and learned the true state
of affairs.
Had Brandon been recognized and
his mission known in Paris he would
certainly have been assassinated by
order of Francis.
When I saw the whole situation, with
Mai-j' nothing less than a prisoner In
the palace, I was ready to give np
without a struggle, but not so Mary.
Her brain was worth having, so fertile
was it in expedients, and, while I
wa3 ready to despair, she was ouly
getting herself In good lighting order.
After Mary's refusal of Francis, and
imer uu nail icirraeu iimt me sa evince
of Claude would not help him, he grew
despernto and determined to keep the
English girl In Ilia court at any price
and by any means. So lie lilt upon the
scheme of marrying her to his weak
minded cousin, the Count of Savoy.
To that end he sent a hurried embassy
to Henry VIII., offering, in case of the
Savoy marriage, to pay back Mary's
dower of 400.0CO crowns. He offered to
help Ilenry In the matter of the imperial
crown In case of Maximllinn's
death, a help much greater than guy
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King i/ouis could have given. He also
offered to conllrm Ilenry In all his
Frcucla possessions and to relinquish
nil claims of his own thereto?all as the
price <?r 0110 eighteen-year-old jrlrl. Do
you wonder she hud an exalted estimate
of her own value? .?
As to Henry, it of course need not ho
Raid that half the price offered would
have bought hint to break an oath
.made upon the true cross Itself. The
promise he had made to Maty, broken
in intent before it was given, stood not
for an instant in the way of the French
king's wishes, and Henry, with a
promptitude begotten of greed, was as
hasty in sending an embassy to accept
Vie offer as Francis had been to make
it. It mattered not to hltu what new
torture he put upon his sister. The
price, I believe, was sufficient to liavo
induced liiiu to cut off her head with
his own hands.
If Francis and Henry were quick in
their movements, Mary was quicker.
Her plan was made in the twinkling
of nu eye. Immediately upon swing
me at the palace she sent for Queen
Claude, with whom she had become
fast friends, and told her all she knew.
She did not know of the scheme for the
Savoy marriage, though Queen Claude
did and fully explained it to Mary.
Naturally enough, Claude would be
glad to get Mary as far away from
France and her husband as possible,
and was only too willing to lend a
helping hand to our purpose, or Mary's,
rather, for she was the lender.
We quickly agreed among ourselves
that Mary and Queen Claude should
within an hour go out lu Claude's new
coach for the ostensible purpose of
hearing muss. Brandon niul 1 t* re to
go to tlie snrnr Urtle ct^voi injvhieh
Jane and I had been married, Vhero
Mary said the little priest could ndi4(p.
Ister the sacrament of marriage nmV J
perform the ceremony as well as if ho V
were thrice as large.
I hurriedly found Brandon and repaired
to the little chapel, where we
waited for a very long time, we thought.
At last the two queens entered as if to
make their devotions. As soon as
He fell upon hi* knee and Hinted the
hem of her gown.
Eramlou nnd Mary caught sight of
each other Queen Claude nnd I began
to examine tlie shrines nnd decipher
the Latin inscriptions. If these two
lind not married soon, they would have
been the death of ine. I was compelled
at length to remind them tlint time
was very precious just at that Juncture,
whereupon Mary, who was half laugh*
lug. ha if crying, lifted her hands to
her hair and let it fall in all its lustrous
wealth down over her shoulders. When
Itrundon saw this, lie fell upon ld?
kuee nnd kissed tlie hem of her gown,
and she, stooping over him, raised him
to his feet and placed her hand iu hie.
Thus Mary was married to the man
to save Whose life she had four mouth*
before married the French king.
|To be continued ]
The Maethroftt,
There is conclusive evidence to show
that in one unbroken nocturnal flight
tho EuroiKenn bird known ns the northern
bluethroat passes from central Africa
to the Herman sen, a distance of
1,000 miles, making the Journey in nine
hours. From its winter home In Africa
I observations have determined thnt it
I starts after sunset, arriving at Its far
northern summer haunts before dawn
a tbe next morulng.
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