The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01

aNAL UMMER FICTION SUPPLEMENT- -sATUR.
horses name:
TELL me the story, and I will tell you the name Of
the thief"
You slept badly last night. Did hear anything?"
IL heard the clock strike the hours.
heard it strike g. but lay locked in drowsiness
that knew not the Lord was calling to me. If the
sleepers melted into one would outsleep
must have been at that hour for remember dimy some
sort Of disturbance But providence stood friend.
BY the chance might but not by chance
believe, the creature make for Broughon so
here's for Rroughon cried on the bare back Of Black
Bruce and see if good pistols would win back what
been stolen from The .Broughton road it
the pistols did saying this he whisked
from his pocket the kings commission, waving it rrn-
phany aloft Her wide drank in the amazing sight
it. slowly trimming with superstitious fear and then
of her a few hours before
Ibid you kill CROMWELL"
Cromwell! never saw him."
From whom then did you wrench that parchment
From the thief of course. He never reached crom-
we'll"
20. am going mad! Who is the thief, who is the
DE Courcy, if you must know. Why does this
trivial disturb you De Courcy followed us
from Oxford last night and lodged at inn By
means he penetrated into room stole this from
me, and never missed it until him ride for
Broughon and not then to tell the exact truth But
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inside pocket of my vest in the kings presence
then the whole plot to Before he saw Brough-
ton Bruce and were down upon him like a High
land storm on the lowlands. Ny sword! you
should have us For minute there was one whrl-
acrobats struck by a whirlwnd If had not been
angry would had the best laugh of life, and
the genial William threw back his head and made the
wood with his errrnent at the recollection But
the girl was sober enough.
This kings commission she said quickly
10 it is
1T is not Have you read it?"
mo, but that's DONE"
He united the cord and unfoded the sheepskin She
leaned eagerly forward and scanned the writing while
You see' he cried gleefully "Of course it is the
commission There are the names of Traquair, and all
just them to the secretary and there
is Charles Rex in the kings hand
1T is a duplicate. Cromwell has the original You
left De Courcy alive within mile of Broughton
castle?"
4 did that thing Not as lively as have seen
him. yet alive nevertheless"
Then ride, ride for the north We have stood too
long chattering here" -
good time, Frances. There is hurry
than there less indeed for it seems to me that
Cromwell wants to at this by fraud
by But that De courcy's name is
mentioned between us, ask you what you know against
him than II have told your ~
Against him? know everything against him.
you had killed him. He would sell his soul
if has He robbed dying father, and on the
death, when the only in London who
did know he executed DeCourcy lured me to his
apartments WHITEHALL under preense of leading me
king that might plead for fathers life There
attempted entrap snapped in hand the sword
which clutched from the wall to defend myself,
him twice in face and blinded him with
his false ablood, and escaped. Judge, then,
my fear whennI him there at Oxford
1.-THE TRUTH The truth, at last the TRUTH, shouted
Armstrong as if weight had fallen
like honest steel and cannot be mis-
taken when you hear it, He lied to me about you
in oxford and I called him liar and me you
danger should have killed the whelp this
ing but that he could not defend himself" - a@
"The truth, but only part of it, He did not rob
you night"
Nonsense. He did"
1T robbed you stole into room and robbed you
carried original document to Cromwell him
SELF it in his hands. 1t was the price Of my
brothers. life My brother set your track by
Cromwell and, being wounded took his task. Dc
you understand That was my mission to Oxford &c
delude you, rob you, and have done it.
"Girl, you distraught''
not. Every word I tell you is true"
'You saying that to shield someone"
sIook William Armstrong For two hours and more
last night you by the wrist There is the brace
let black proof of the blacl
x,uiltT to YOU" ~