Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-20
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CHAPTER XXVII.
1t turned ou6 tDa5 was right. Mistres!
Anne had gone indeed, having staid, Sc
far rs we could learn from an examination
of the room which she had shared will
Dymphna, merely to put together the few
things which our adventures had left her
She had gone out from among us in thi;
foreign land without u word of farewell
without good wish given or received
without soul to say godspeedl The
thought made me tremble. If she had
died, it would have been different. Now,
to feel sorrow for her as for ono who had
been with us in heart as well as in body
seemed mockery. How could we grieye
for one who had moved day by day and
hour by hour among us only that with
each hour and day she might plot and
scheme and plan our Instruction. 1t was
impossible
We made inquiries indeed, but without
result and SO abruptly and terribly she
passed. for the time, out of our knowledge,
though often afterward recalled sadly
tho weary, hunted look which had some
times seen in her eyes when she sat list
less and dreamy. Poor girl! Her own acts
had placed her, as the duchess said, be-
yond love or hope, but not beyond pity.
SO it is in life The day which sees
ones trial end sees arother's begin. We,
the duchess and her child, Master BERTHE
aud /, staid with our good and faithful
friends, the Lindstroms, awhile, resting
and recruiting our strength, and during
this interval, ut the pressing instance OF
the duchess. wrote letters to Sir Anthony
and Petronilla, stating that was abroad
and was well and locked presently to re-
turn, but not disclosing my refuge or the
names of my companions. At the end OF
five days, Master BERTHE being fairly strong
again and Santon being considered unsafe
for us rs a permanent residence, we went
under guard to Vessel, where we were re-
Ceiyed AS people of quality and lodged,
there being no fitting place, In the disused
church Of St. Wiliibrod. Here the child
was christened Peregrine-a wanderer-
the governor of tho city and being god
fathers. And here we lived in peace, al.
belt with hearts that yearned for home,
for some months.
During this time two pieces OF news
came to us from England-one that the
parliament though much pressed to it,
had refused to acquiesce in the confisca-
ton of tho duchess estates; the other that
our joint prosecutor. the great bishop OF
Winchester, was dead. This last we at
first disbelieved. 1t was true nevertheless.
Stephen Gardiner, whose vast schemes had
inmeshed people SO far apart in station
and indeed in all else as the duchess and
myself, was dead at last; had died toward
the end of 1866, at the height of his power,
with England at his feet, and gone to his
Maker. | have known many worse men.
We trusted that this might open the
way for our retur' but we found, on the
contrary, that fresh clouds were rising.
The persecution of the reformers, which
Queen Mary had begun in England, was
carried on with increasing rigor, and her
husband, who was now king OF Spain and
master of the Netherlands, freed from the
prudent checks of his father, was inclined
to pleasure her in this by giving what aid
he could abroad His minister in the
Netherlands, the bishop Of Arras, brought
SO much pressure to bear upon our protect
or to induce him to give us up that 1t
was plain the Duke of Cloves must sooner
or later comply. We thought it better,
therefore, to remove ourselves and pres
entity did SO, going to the town OF VIM
helm, in the Rhine palatinate.
We found ourselves not much moro Sc
cure here, however, and all our efforts to
discover safe road into France failing,
and the stock of money which the duchess
had provided beginning to give out we
were in great straits whittier to go or
what to do.
At this time of our need, however,
Providence opened door in quarter
where we least looked forit, Letters came
from Sigismund the king of Poland, and
from the palatine of wilma in that coun
try, inviting the duchess and Master Ber
tie to take up their residence there and
Offering the latter an establishment md
honora bio employment. The overture was
unlocked for and was not accepted with
out misgiyings, wilma being SO far dis
tant and there being none of our race in
that country. However, assurance Of the
Polish kings good faith reached us-I say
us, for in all their plans was included
through John Alasco. nobleman who
had visited England. And in due time we
came safely to Wilma, where our reception
pect
do not propose to set down here our
though they We're many, in
that strange country Of frozen marshes
and endless plains, but to pass over is
months which ] spent not without profit
to myself in the Poles service. seeing
something of war in his Lithuanian cam
pnigns and learning much of men and the
world, which here, to say nothing of
wolves and bears, bore certain aspects not
visible in Warwickshire. / pass
ON to tho early autumn OF 1868, when q
letter from the duchess, who was at Will
Ma, was brought to mo at Cracovy. 1t was
to this effect:
DEAR FRIEND-Send you good speed!
Word has come to us hore of an enterprise
which promises, if it be
truly reported to us, to SO alter things at
home that thcce may be room for US at our
own Preside. Heaven SO further 1t, both
for our happiness and the good of the reli
eion. Master BERTHE has embarked on it,
and have taken upon myself to answer
for YOUR aid and counsel, which have
never been wanting to us. Wherefore,
dear friend, come, sparing neither horse
nor spurs IoT ahytninS WHiun INDY ur'hS
you sooner to Wilma, and your assured
and Lows. "A md,
KATHERINE SUFFOLK
In five days after receiving this was at
wilma, and two months later saw Eng
land again after an absence of three years.
Early In November, 1868, Master Bertie
and landed Mt Lowestoft, having made
the passage from Hamburg in trading
vessel of that place. We stopped only to
sleep one night, and then, dressed as tray-
cling merchants, we set out on the road to