his demanded his wonder in alarm something has come about surely what is it man tell me my lord the man was not one whose brain worked his grace of quickly twas plain he lost his wits being distressed for some reason beyond measure he stepped to the door of the library and threw it open my � my lord your � your � grace and then in an uncertain and low voice he announced him in the following strange manner his � � his grace � has returned my lord he said and suddenly turning cold and pale himself and seized upon by a horror of he knew not what saw as in a dream my lord advancing towards him his face with woe tears on his cheeks his shaking hands outstretched as if in awful pity my poor he broke forth one hand grasping his one laid on his shoulder my poor lad � god help me � that i am no more fit to break to you this awful news for god s sake cried and sank into the chair my lord drew him to where he sat himself down beside him the tears rolling down his lined cheeks both � both your parents i he cried god give me words both � both at where they had stopped � a malignant fever your mother first � and within twelve hours your father praise heaven they were not parted my boy his grace of my lord leaned forward his elbow sank on his knee his forehead fell heavily upon his palm and rested there he felt as if a blow had been struck upon his head which he moved slowly seeing nothing before him both both he murmured the happiest woman in england have you been happy i would hear you say it again � before i leave you ay shaking his head that was why the poor fool said your grace chapter far au youth is no other woman like ber they were brought back in state from italy and borne to their beloved to sleep in peace there side by side and the bells in the church tower long and mournfully and in the five villages in different there was not a heart which did not ache � nor one which having faith did not know that somewhere their happy love lived again and was more full of joy than it had been before and my lord was my lord duke but for many months none beheld him but lord who came to with many great people to attend the funeral but when all the rest went away he stayed and through the first strange black weeks the two were nearly always together and often through hours walked in company from one end of the long gallery to the other over such periods of sorrow and it is well to pass gently since they must come to all and have so come through all the ages past to every human being who has lived to maturity and yet at the same time there is none can speak truly for another than himself of what the suffer i o his grace of ing has been or how it has been borne none but the one who bears it can know what hours of anguish the endurance cost and how twas reached my lord duke looked pale in his mourning garments and for many months his countenance seemed cut his eyes looking deeper set and larger having faint shadows round them but even lord knew but few of his inmost thoughts and to others he never spoke of his the taking possession of a great estate and the first assuming of the attached to it are no small events and bring upon the man left sole heir new duties therefore the new duke had many occupations to attend to � much with his legal many with and of his lands visits to one estate after another and converse with the reverend gentlemen who were the spiritual of his people such duties gave him less time for brooding than he would have had upon his hands had he been a man more thoughtless of what his implied and consequently more willing to permit them to upon those in his employ a man should himself know all things to his the new duke said to lord and all those who serve him should be aware that he knows and that he his grace of will no more allow his to cheat or slight him than he himself will stoop to carelessness or in his dealings with themselves to govern well a man must be ruler as well as friend and this he was to every man in his five villages and those who had worshipped him as their master heir loved and him as their master the great wrote a friendly letter expressing his sympathy for him in the calamity by which he had been overtaken and also his regret at the loss of his services and companionship he having at once resigned his commission in the army on the occurrence of his not only feeling desirous of remaining in england but finding it necessary to do so he spent part of the year upon his various estates in the country but quarrels of and changes in the cabinet and the bitter feeling against the march into germany and the struggles which promised to result gave him work to do in london and opportunities for the development of those abilities his grace of had marked in him the air on all sides was heavy with storm � at court the enemies of and they were many whether they confessed themselves or not were her fall from her high post of ruler of the i his grace of queen of england and her lord from his pin of fame there were high and who did not fear to speak of 