Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28
CHAPTER VIII.
"And now 1 will unclasp a secret book"

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Now, Master Bare quilted the W mite
Tower and Bartholomew Fail was muster
mo bis uarders and Master Civil the keen
A., $50. -. ,,u,io 90. ,,,,ar
81 VI tie peasts' went hui i1s out OPo't
his business; but all quickly forgot hoy OF
Calverton and the merry hour they had
nassad with him E,ven tho constable had
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what with the going ana coming OF horse
men, the mounting of cannon and all the
hasty counterfeit, none had leisure to think
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whereby he might secure It, from MS
champer, now dlmly lshted by single
lantern ROY usteheu 10 tIie iouu cries OF
&C. Tue JaiSls eooss. oie tnui.ue.
or hoofs, the pappllng tongues: ana content
10 know that the crisis or MS DAY mad
come. none the less pregnant anxiety of 1t
renamed ana would not De quoted. ShreWd
as he was, he would not hide from himself
that ne had stahed ali upon single throw.
Inc haZara OF the night might yet petray
MN, ne said. Every hour which passed and
found him Without compact quickened the
peril and warred upon his secret. That
which he had ridden to London to tell
might already nave been told by others. He
mad come to say, Il carry secret to Lon
don, and will barter it for the freedom ye
can give me- But If this secret were first
told by another's lips, what right of ransom
remained for him? An unbridled horde
marched upon the city and might yet
march upon the palace Wit and courage.
readiness and resource were needed to save
Marys throne that night. He remembered
those he had seen at the palace and asked
himself where such wit might be looked
for such resource discovered. From Gar
dlner-that woman in petticoats who paled
at loud word and dawdled to discuss d
woman's faith when the honor of a king
dom was in peril? From Bonner, the gloomy
burning? From my Lord Howard. who
whimpered for lack of the troop he could
not raise? From all the sycophants and
faint hearts who clamored for legate and
were to be got thereby? A sorry crew, in
deed And yet not sorrier than the men
who followed them, the unwilling mercena-
ries, the hasty gotten bands which served
Mary for her army. set me in Sherwood
with a hundred of mine, and I would scat
ter them as chaffv' the outlaw said, The
c1amor from without answered the taunt.
He remembered how far he stood from
Sherwood and his home
An hour passed and upon that an hour
and still none came to him: and still he
heard the tolling of bells. the murmur of
the voices. None might charge him with
foreboding if, at such a time. he said that
the night was lost the hazard mfsthrown
All had been ventured. all staked vainlv.
that would be the end of It. You shall
Judge his mood when, in such crcumstanca
and Impotence. his brooding Thought was
turned as at an unspoken summons, and the
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open. he beheld NOT Master Rare wbonn he
had looked for, nor the lieutenant he had
commanded to come to him nov INV, ne
those who recently had kent the maso,e-
rade hut INV Iadv Rarbar ~ harsaIe 1919
ed bv two that carried torches and fni-
1oweG NV others that su,nna 1ar,t a"G LIZ. ~
gloom. So flushed She was. SO auick to to r .ne
to him ga full Of low thai in hiS narn Ne
he could but cry' "Thou?" and nressins
her close to him be1iav. indand t Reee th
new day had dawned. ' '''''' INC
."Thom,-thou in this n,aoo, Nov ao,
heart II IS not tbon for .ss,rea1Ir
drea M
He put the question all wonder,nelv but
she. though she had a tbonsand nsny5 ~ ~
love TO litter snake mona of thar, h,,t
drawing back from his embrace said. 'o'
II come dear Row but not .iona Dos.
thou NOT see whom 7 hing U,ith ,,aou os'
It was a confession Of her sreat co,.a,,+
that she should thus reward b;n, n;tb 49,
sunrise. hnt 81 hrieht Vas The Haht tha az
torches in the cbamher the eama nf tha y,
So dazz,ins To ths apes thst ha VI 'heL mem
twice hefo1e he iIscerned the oIo.iiad f aUun
of woman treadin nIose 49,, ne. iasute
stems Nor until 7ittIe wbiIe by y n 10y ,
and he had neered sea;n into ~ p ,riaS...