Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-04-16

NE RODE ROUND INTO TIE COURTYARD
AND CALLED.
son had been expelled the place by
Cromwcll's order. Inside the house
there was less change. Boon compan-
ions of the boistcrous cavaliers as his
son had been, the young mans gay
hours had been spent more away from
Enderby House than in it.
When young Enderby was driven
from his fathers house by Crom-
well, he determined to join the
Scotch army which YVES expected
soon to welcome Charles the Sec
ond from France. There he would
be in contact with Lord Ripping
dale and his majesty. When Cromwell
was driven from his place, great honors
might await him. Hearing in London,
however, that his father had returned,
and was gone on to the estate, he
turned his horse about and rode back
again, travelling by night chiefly, and
reached Enderby House four days
after his fathers arrival there.
lie found his father seated alone at
the dinner table. Swinging wide open
the door of the dining-room he strobe
| aggressively in.
The old man stood up In his place
at the table, and his eyes frightened
expectantly when he saw his son, for
his brain was quic<ened by the
thought that perhaps, after all his
wrong-dong, the boy had come back
to stand by him, a repentant prodigal.
! He was a man of warm and firm spirit
and now his breast heave6 with his
emotions. This boy had been the apple
of his eye. Since the day of his birth
he had looked for great things from
him, and had seen in him the refined
perpetuation of the sturdy race of the
Enderbys. He counted himself but q
rough sort of country gentleman, and
the refined face of his son had sug
gestcd the country gentleman cast in
a finer mould. He was about to speal
Kindly as of old, but the young man
with gathering spurs, came up to the
Of her end of the table, and with dry
,nsolence he said:
SPY whose invitation do you come
here?"
The blood fed from the old mans
heart. For moment he felt sick, and
his face turned white. lie dropped his
head little and looked at his sor
steadily and mournfully.
"Shall a man need an invitation t.
his own house, my son?" he said at last
The arrogant lips of the young MAJ
tightened he tossed up his head. 9TH,
house is mine. / am the master here
You are an outlaw!"
AN outlaw no longer" said the ole
man, "for the Protector has granted III,
again the home of which was cruelty
dispossessed."
"The Protector is a rebel" answered
The young man, and his knuckle
raped petulantly upon the table. :"
stand for the king-for King Charlie!
the Second. When you were dispos
sessed his late martyred ma esty mac
me master of this estate, and knigl
Also"
The old mans hands clnchcd in Il
effort to rule himself to Guietness.
"You are welcome to the knighthoc
which | have never accepted" said h
"but for these estates" All at once
fierce anger possessed him, and II
great shoulders hcaved up and dow
with cmotion-"but for these estate
sir, no law nor king can take them fro
me. l am John Enderby, the first sc
of first son, the owner of these estat
> since the time my mother gave II
birth. You, sir, are the first of OF
name that ever was a traitor to h
l housed"
So intent were the two that they d
not see or hear three men who Dire
., aside the curtains at the end of ii
room and stood spying upon them
three of Cromwell's men. Young T.
y derby laughed sneeringly and a
swered:
, at was a king of England that ga
Endcrby Manor to the Enderbys. IT.
king is the source of all estate al
- honor, and am loyal to the king.
: is traitor who spurns the kings hon
+, and defles it. He is traitor wi
= links his fortunes with that vi
q murderous upstart, that blethe
, ing hypocritc, Oliver Cromwell! L
o to Scotland to join King Charles, and /