The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-11-14
TALES or THE BaR9ERs
~ soHx xAcrAr WILSON.
THE FAA's REvENcE.
TALE or TEE aososs OrPslEs.
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Words would sail to paint the tender in-
terview-the Aother's joy-the daughssr's
vonder-tae long, the passionate embrace
the te4rs OF an-the looks--the words-the
rlsmepts Of unutterable feeling.
] shall next notice the confession Of Susan.
CIennel promised her forgiveness il she
would confess the whole truth and he doubt
ed not, chat from her be would also obtain
tidings Of bis son, and learn where be might
ind him. if be yet lived. shall give her
story IN her own words.
"When ] came amongst yon," she began,
Il said that was an orphan, and told We
truly, 90 far IS I knew myself have been
reared amongst the people ye call gipsies
from infancy. They fed me before could
provide for myself. | have wandered with
them through many lands. They taught
me many things; and, while young, sent
me as servant into families, that might
gather information to assist them in uphold
ing their mysteries Of fortune telling. |
dared not disebey them--they kept me a.
their slave and knew that they would
destroy my life for an act Of disobedience.
was IN London when ye cruelty burned
down the bit town between the Keyheugh
aud Olovencrae. That night would have been
your last bat Elspeth Faa vowed mere cruel
vengeaLce than death on you and yours.
After our king had carried away your son,
was ordered from London to assist In the
plot o. revenge. | at length succeeded IN get
ting into your family, and the rest ye know.
When ye were a busy wi your company,
slipped into the woods VII the BARN in my
arms, where others were ready to meet us /;
and long before ye missed US, we were miles
across the bills, and frse that day to this
your daughter has passed as mine"
"Bdt tell me all, woman" cried Clennel,
''as you hope for either pardon or protection
where is NV son, my little Hariyf Does
be live s-where shall find him ?"
As live" replied Susan, 81 cannot tell.
There are but two know concerning him
and that is the king and his wife Elspeth /;
and there il but one way Of discovering any
thing respecting him, which is BY crossing
Elspeth's loot, that she may betray be- hus-
band and she would do il for revenRe's
sake, for an iii husband has he been to her.
and in her old days he has discarded her for
another"
And where may she be found 2" inquired
Cielnel, earnestly.
That" added Susan, "Is q question |
cannot answer. She was with the people n
the glen TO day, ard was first to raise the
laugh when your cog fastened its teeth in
the fiesh Of your ain BARN. But she may be
lar 10 seek and i'll to find now-for she Is VII
those that travel fast and far, and that will
not see her hindmost."
Deep was the disspp sintment of the laird
when he found he could obtain no t,dings OF
bis 500. But, at the lntercession of bic
daughter (whose untutored mind her fond
mother had begun to instruct), Susan was
her tribe, and again admitted ~ one of the
household.
might describe the ANXIOUS care Of the
fond mother, ss, day BY day, she sat BY her
w-found and lovely daughter's side, teach
ing her, snd telling her Of hundred things
of which she had never heard before, while
her father sat gazing and listening near them,
rejoicing over both.
But the ray Of sunshine which had pene-
trated the house OF Clsnnel was not destined
to be Of long duration. At that period q
fearful cloud overhung the whcls iaad, and
the fury Of civil war seemed about to burst
forth. s A
The threasening storm did explode; q
bigoted king everstepped his prerogative, set
at noueht the rights and the liberties Of the
subject; and On indignant people stained
their hands with blood A political convul.
sion shook the empire TO its centre. Fami-
lies aud individuals became involved In the
general catastrophe; and the house of Glen
mel did not escape. ID common wlth the
majority Of the English gentry Of that period
Clennel was staunch ioyalist, and IL moi
exactly lover Of the king, or an ardent I'd.
mirer Of bis acts, ysi one who would fight
for the crown though Il should tas Il Wsl
expressed about the tims) 4hang bya bush. =
war against the king, and the name Of Croua-
well spread awe throughout the c0untry,
and wh some said that prophet and de-.
livertr had risen smo0gst them, and Others
an ambisioas hypocrite and . tyran:, Glen.
mel armed . body Of his dopesdsnts, and
FASTENED to tae sssistance Of his sovefe,gn
leaving his wife and his newly found dAogh.
Ter with tiae prosrfsc of = speedy rgsnfn.
II 10 unnecessary to describe ah that hs
did or encountered during the civil wars
he had been zsalous partixsn Of the hrsi
Charles, and be fought Tor the fortunes ol
Nl1 Bom w tuu S45t. ue W4S present ~ knl
battle Of Worcester, which Cromwell call.
his scrowning snercy,s 10 the September q
1851, where the already dispiritsd foys:sst,
were fnally routed and he fought by tn,
side OF the king until the streets we're heap.
"a with dead ind whsn Charles hed, he
with others, accompanied him 10 the borderl
VI StAGordshire,
Having Did the young prince an affection
ate farewell, ClenneI turned back, with til,
Intention ofprocaeding on his journsy. on Il,
following day. TO Northumberland, thougl
be was aware. that, from the part which 8,
had taken in the ruyal cause. sven his per
son vas In danger. III the desire arain I,
behold has wife and daughter oysrcsnne III
fears, and the. thought Of meeting them i
some degree consoled him for the fsee az 81,
| rrnce. and The resnlt of. the sfruerle. Ii
which he had been engaged. a VII;
| But he had not proeeedt / far When n
wss nss BY tvo men dressed = so,disrs :
| tbs FafiiamentarY army ths sons 3 pstersI
| with kfey hairs, and the othsr 4 yoatk. Tk
shads1 of nigdt had set n but ~ iasssr 4
linslantly rssosnizbd = ! yeune soider rhe1
as hsd tbet dAy wounded y fhs arrests :
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