Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11

from his arms and made a prisoner by that
Van Wassenaar. ] should be
recreant to everything good and noble did
submit tamely 10 this, without an effort to
crush the mean foes who have conspired
against us. Not" he confined, "that care
for the dominion which has been wrested
from us for myself, but it is right that the
wishes of the dead should be respected, and
that this usurper should thus pursue his
own brothers child aud deprive her Of her
inheritance, is CALLING indeed. But even
this is nothing when compared TO the sepa-
ration"
A hustle in the hall betokened visitors,
and the bishop rose and entered the mag.
nifcent reception-room in time to greet the
Duke Of Lienberg and the Bishop of Utrecht.
They were followed by Philip, margrave Of
Namur. A long consultation succeeded,
and was ended by the promise of paying
over TO the Bishop of Utrecht two thousand
pounds Flemish for his services.
The plot thickened speedily from this
time. Philip of Namur promised his aid,
and there was every reason to hope that Ada
and Louis would be restored. The Holland
mobiles deserted William, and stung by their
double treachery he retired TO Zealand.
Holland submitted TO Louis.
CHAPTER ILL.,
On the seashore at Zealand Law large
fishing boat ready for launching. Evidently
she was not in good trim, however, for a
quantity of wet nets lay thrown together in
shapeless mass, emitting a mouldy smell
But her sails were about TO be set, and the
fishermen's Dutch wives were hocking down
to the beach to take leave of their husbands,
and stood calling TO each other in merry
tones.
One woman, more familiar in her manners
than the others, jumped into the boat, tramp
ling unceremoniously upon the wet nets that
lay all over the deck of the little vessel.
"Step away from that, my woman" said
the captain, kindly cor you will get into
mischief. There may be sharp tools be-
| meath them"
The woman uttered little shrek and
stepped back to the shore. struggling
soldier or two came down also, and looked
about as if to discover some person and
perhaps unwilling to soil their trim regi-
| ments by treading on the wet mass, they
went away without entering the boat. Had
they but searched, they would have found
Count William suugly ensconced beneath
the musty nets, which were scarcely venti-
lated enough for him to breathe with
freedom.
The conclave which met that evening at
the bishops palace had been so far success
| Iul lUdI IL Hdu DdlllSUtu lut WOTSJ tHet0y Ol
Louis; but his wife still remained at the
court of King John. How to get away from
thence was now his sole anxiety. A little
finesse, great sacrifice, and much toll and
trouble, might bring him somewhere near
, the end proposed but how to manage it, or
whom to trust with so important mission,
was more than Louis, tortured as he had
been with apprehension, could at once de-
eide upon.
Walter Bertrand, gentleman whose birth,
manners and high sense of honor fitted him
peculiarly for so delicate mission as this,
. was the first person who occurred to his
! mind, and he lost no time in requesting him
: to undertake it, To England, therefore,
: Bertrand was dispatched, with carte blanche
5 as to the terms, and instructions to escort
the youthful Ada to Holland as soon as
: possible
Unwilling to give up his fair prisoner the
:. king threw III every obstacle that could pos
sibly exist against her release; but the
:, treachery of her uncle and his ignomnious
!, flight, as related by Bertrand, had its weight
= with John, and he at last consented, upon
u condition that Louis should render service
!, to the crown of England. Knowing the de
!, termination of Louis to regain his lost bride
= at all hazards, Bertrand accepted the con-
4 dition, and the young and loved Ada fear
, |
!; whom her husband saw fit to entrust her,
J, travelled day and night with Walter Ber-
. . trand, until she was welcomed back by her
devoted Louis
In all her schemes of ambition, Countess
y Adelaide of Cleves had been mortified and
! disappointed Louis, whom she had thought
= of only as a tool OF her own, had proved him
: self capable of governing the dominion over
n n which she had intended to hold full control.
o She had counted, too upon the filial affec-
tion of Ada, little as she had right to ex-
:, pect it; and here too, she was at fault-for
:, = Ada had learned the motives that governed
- - her mother, and appreciated them accord
: ing to their full value. She felt that now
). she could only shine in the reflected light of
=. others, and the proud, ambitious woman,
: who was yet in the full zenith of her beauty
= u turned her whole soul to the project of cap.
= turing some foreign prince, and remunerat-
g ing herself for past disappointment by fu-
- ture glory.
. Even William, in the brief moment of his
! power had been au object of her ambition.
u That he was the prosecutor of her child did
70 not hinder her hard aud selfish nature from
~ scheming to become the sharer of his power ;
!; and Ada in a foreign prison, awoke fewer
- regrets in her selfish mind, than Ada pos.
- sessed of power which she, as her mother,
sr :. ments when the guilty woman remembered
a her artifce at her husbands death-bed,
~ ~ she strove now to believe that Ada's power
u was at its height, as securely as though she
9, had not deceived the dying Theodore.
" " What then was her frame of mind when
~ ~ she heard that Ada's new season of power
:! had again given way to the machina-
IL tions of her uncle, and that popular favor
+. had again drifted round to him? Either
u way the ambitious woman had her schemes,
u and in both she was doomed to have them
of ,S frustrated. William was too well aware
., ., of her intriguing disposition to allow her
- =, beauty to be a snare to him; and skilful
m manenverer as she was, she was obliged to
~ ~ retire to private life, where her talents had
u full sway over those who were dazzled by
ei the attentions of born countess"
% Sensitive to fault, Ada, at the early age
of twenty-eight began to droop. The loss of
a. her inheritance, her perception of her moth
~ er's treachery, the profound melancholy of
e- Louis after his last defeat, and the unnatural
ne conduct of William, to whom she ought TO
a. a. have looked to for support and protection
" in her rights-all conspred to weigh heavily
e' upon her health and spirits
?, " She had no children, and the succession,
&c had it been lawfully sustained, must have
y died with herself. Her misfortunes bowed
~ u her to the dust. Young lovely, and the
y, "a rightful heir to noble inheritance-beloved
IL by husband whom she adored and the
l., idol of society for her many virtues and ac-
y, complshments, she was yet doomed to expe-
ei rience trials under which her sensitive
lr- spirit could not bear up; and at the sunset
e oe OF an August day in l2lS, just fifteen years
% % to the hour in which her fathers spirit had
ie taken flight, Ada placed her hand in that OF
y, Louis, aud closed her eyes upon earthly dig
~ ~ mites and earthly vanities.
% She whose inheritance had been thus
u u basely wrested from her received, however
:. :. princely burial. She lay in state for a
~ week, in which thousands visited the mourn.
full apartments to look once more upon the
broken flower Of Holland.-Selected.
as "WHAT does your husband do 7" asked
il. the census man. He amt doin' nothing
as at this time of the year." replied the young