Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-09-23
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made upon the true cross itself. The
promise he had made to Mary, broken
In intent before it was given, stood not
for an instant in the way of the Frenchf
kings wishes, and Henry, with q |
promptitude begotten Of greed, was as
hasty in sending an embassy to accept
the offer as Francis had been to makeI
It. It mattered not to him what newt
torture he put upon his sister. The
price, believe, was sufficient to havel
induced him to cut OF her head With
his own hands. 4
II Francis and Henry were quick inf
their movements, Mary was quicker.
Her plan was made in the twinkline
of an eye. Immediately upon seeing
me at the palace she sent for Queen
Claude, with whom she had become
fast friends, and told her all she knew.
She did not know of the scheme for the
Savoy marriage, though Queen Claude
did and fully explained it to Mary. !
Naturally enough, Claude would be
glad to get Mary as far away from
France and her husband as possible,
and was only too willing to lend al
helping hand to our purpose, or Mary's:.
rather, for she was the leader.
We quickly agreed among ourselves
that Mary and Queen Claude should
within an hour go out in Claude's new
coach for the ostensible purpose of
hearing mass. Brandon and were to 1
go to the same little chapel in which
Jane and I had been married, where
Mary said the little priest could admin:
lister the sacrament Of marriage and1
perform the ceremony as Well as If he
were thrice as large.
l hurr1edly found Brandon and re-
paired to the little chapel, where we
waited for very long time, we thought.
At last the two queens entered as If to
make their devotions. AS soon as
Brandon and Mary caught sight OF
each other Queen Claude and I began
to examine the shrines and decipherI
the Latin inscriptions II these twc]
had not married soon, they would have
been the death Of me. l was compelled
at length to remind them that time
was very precious just at that juncturesd
whereupon Mary, who was half laugh.
ing. half crying, lifted her hands tc
her hair and let it fall in all it's lustrous
wealth down over her shoulders. Wheu1
Brandon saw this, he fell upon his
knee and kissed the hem Of her gown
and she, STOPPING over him, raised him.
to his feet and placed her hand in his.
Thus Mary was married to the man
to save whose life she had four months
before married the French king.
She and Queen Claude had forgotten !
nothing, and all arrangements were
completed for the flight. A messenger
had been dispatched two hours before
with an order from Queen Claude that
a ship should be waiting at Dieppe
ready to sail Immediately upon our
arrival.
After the ceremony Claude quickly
bound up Mary's hair, and the queens
departed from the chapel in their
coach. We soon followed. meeting
them again at st. Denis gate, where
we found the best of horses and four
sturdy men awaiting US. The messen-
ger to Dieppe who had preceded us
would arrange for relays, and, as Ma
~, according to her wont when she
had another to rely upon. had taken
the opportunity to become thoroughly
frightened, no time was lost. We made
these forty leagues In less than twenty
four hours from the time of starting,
having paused only for a short rest at
little town near Rouen. which city
we carefully passed around.
We had little fear Of being overtaken
at the rate we were riding but Mary
said she supposed the wind would die
down for a month Immediately upon
our arrival at Dieppe. Fortunately no
one pursued US, thanks to Queen
Claude, who had spread the report that
Mary was i'll, and, fortunately also,
much to Mary's surprise and delight,
when we arrived at Dieppe, as fair a
wind as a sailors heart could wish was
blowing right up the channel. 1t was
a part Of the system of relays-horses,
ship and wind.
when the very wind blows for our
special use, we may surely dismiss
fear" said Mary, laughing and clap
ping her hands, but nearly ready for
tears Notwithstanding.
TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEDNESDAY.