The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-12

We give the foltoV!ng extracts from MI. w
Hepwotth Dixon's DeR work, "rhe Queens
Yower,"iD addlt,oa 10 those we have already
published:-
No Cross, No Crown.
On the day es her triumph, as she sat brood
ing IN her cioget, hsteuing 6tfully to Renarj,
Mary consented 10 give Hp her cousin, if not
her sister, to the minister OF Charles the Filth.
Jane lad been sentenced by the court and re-
prieved by time. Seven months had passed
since her nine days reign was over; the author
of her oGense had paid the penalties OF hts
crime; and in the recent stir no man had even
Srestbed her name Her youth, her iunoceace,
her beauty had won all hearts TO her; even
those OF Father Feckenham the Queens confess
soI, and Sir John Brydges the Queens lieute'
nant. But Renard called TOR blood; and Mary
vae little more than a scribe in ReDards hands.
THAT dav on the eve OF which Queen Mary sat
in her closet with her Spanish counctior, was
Ash Wednesday; and Mary, on consentlng that
her cousin should not live forty hours longer,
called 10 her presence Father Feckenham,
whom she had just made Deau OF st. Paups and
Abbot OF Westminster; aud oade nun go 10 tne
deputyis house in the Tower, with new that
Lady Jane must die and see What couid DE
done to save her soul. Father Feckennam,
though q coarse man, was not bau maO' AS
divine, he was learned and'lngenlousi one In
whose power of dealing with backslde-s the
Queen had n boundless faith. That he failed
with Lady Jane, that he got angry With her,
that his speeches to her made him hateful in
the eyes OF men, were more his msfor-
tunes than they were his faults.
good deal must be allo we'd to man who
honestly thinks he has power to bind and TO
loose, in his deallrg with those who in his
opinion are trlAing with the fate of immortal
souls. Feckenbam, who brought down his mes
sage OF death to the Tower, was startled to see
that girl receive his news with a sad and well
come smile. 1t seemed to him out of nature,
almost out of grace. He spoke to her of her
soul; of the sin OF men; OF the need for repent
,ance; but he found her calm aud happy, at
peace with the world, and at Que with God. He
talked TO her first OF faith, OF liberty, OF hoi-
ness; then of the sacraments, the Scriptures,
and the universal Church. She knew all these
things better than himself; and she held Ian
gusge about them far beyond his reach. With
a sweet patience, the put an end TO the debate
by saying that since she had only few hours
now to live she needed them all for prayer.
seldom moved. Convert this girl In a day
Worn as he was in church affairs he
knew that no skill of his would be able,
in one winter day. TO avail him against one who
combined a scholars learning with a woman's
wit. II her soul was to be saved-and the
Father was anxious to save her sonl-that order
for her execution on Friday morning must be
stayed. With the sweet voice pulsing in his
ear, he rowed back to Whitehall, and told the
vindictive Queen, with the bold energy of
priest that her orders for that execution on
Friday must be Withdrawn. With much ado,
the Queen gave way; but she feared the anger
Of Feckenham even more than that of Renard;
and the puzzled Father went back to the
Tower 10 1esume his task. Jane was kind but
in her final hour on earth. His going to court
about her sentence gave her pain. She did
not want to die; at seventeen no one wants
to die; but she did not ike the Queen
to add one day to her lite, under the hope that
she would act as Dudley and Warwick had done,
in giving up their faith. That was sacrifice
she could never make. When Feckenham told
her the warrants for Friday we're recalled, she
merely said she was willing to die, il the Queen,
her cousin, was minded to put the law in force
against her. For the rest, she only wanted to
be lett alone.
You are not to die to morrow" he persisted.
'You are much deceived" said Jane, "if you
think l have any desire Of longer hte."
When Feckenham returned to the Queen with
report of his second interview, Mary became
wild with rage. She bade her secretaries dra v
up warrants Tor her death. She sent for Grey,
who was prisoner in the country. There were
ways of adding bitterness TO DEATH aud Mary
studied and employed them all. She could
separate the husband from his wife in their last
hours on earth; she could march Gultord
under Lady James window as he went by to
execution; she could drive the cart with his
dead body past her door; she could pre-
pare a scadold on the open green,
under Lady James eyes; she could bring up
Grey to see his daughter slain; she could refuse
to let her have minister of her own faith to
pray with her; she could send her Jesuits and
confessors 10 disturb the solemnity of her final
night on earth. All these things sue could do,
and she did; and all these things must have
been of Mary's will.
Renard required that Jane should be put
conquest made by Spain; but Rendrd could
have no motive tor adding to the bitterness of
her death.
The priests sent down by Mary to the Tower
were Lady James worst tormeutors. They
would not be denied; they pushed past her
women. and when they gotsintO her chamber,
they would mol go away.
The long reports which have been printed OF
their contention with her may not be exact, but
they have that rough kind OF likeness 10 the
truth which a common rumor bears 10 actual
fact. When Fecxenham was tired out with
argument he is said to have exclaimed,
MADAM, l am sorry for you; AN assured we
shall not meet again. To which Jane Is said
to have answered, 1T is most true, sir; we snail
never meet again, unless God should turn your
heart:" not a word of which happy retort,"
we may be sure, ever passed the lips OF Lady
Jane.
The tussle on the bread aud wine was no
doubt sharp. for that was the dogma most IN
dispute. do you deny that Christ is pre-.
in the bread aud wneW "The broken bread,
said Jane, reminds me of the Saviour broken
for my sins; the wine reminds me OF the pi9oc
shed on the cross" she meant 10 say thal
Christ was minlserially, but not oodlly, pfeseIl
present IN the bread and wine. But did Ht
not say,n put In the Father, TIA ke, eat, TINS II
my body?h "Yes,r she answered, lust as Ht
said, am the vine." 1t was figure, not a fact
Feckenham at length retired, and Jane with
drew into the upper chamber to compose mel
mind, to write fare veil to her father, and Il
wait on God in prayer.
She was not aware that her father had beer
arrested, still less that he was on his way TO TN
Tower. The tender note which she addressed
to him ended IN these words:-
"Thus, good father, have opened unto yo
the state wherein stand: my death at hand
to you, perhaps, 1t may seem Woful; YET TO N
there Is nothing can oe more Weicome Una
heavenly throne with Christ my Saviour, 4
whose steadfast faith Ufit may be lawful TO