The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-19

I the king but I-e0plained that / had NJ
wish to interfere in matters which did
not concern me. and they parted TO
| meet again somewhere else
DO you know where?"
Il think in Lord TraqUair's own cas-
tie. but OF that / am not sure
This is interesting. We shall. OF
| course, try TO prevent any messenger
reaching the king. but l do not under
island why you connect the incident at
the inn with your detention
There was a great spiore about a
spy that escaped. and ! have no doubt
If he saw ne there and heard the pro-
/ posal made to me he might well have
/ brought my name and description
across the border. AT least that was
the way 1 reasoned it out With my
/ self"
1T is very like you are right. Spies.
! unfortunately. seem to be necessary
I when a country is in a state OF war.
Many unjustifiable acts are then COM
mitted including the arresting OF inno-
/ cent men, b-t / am anxious nothing
| shall be done that win give Just cause
/ of offense to Scotland, a God-fearing
! country and friendly. When such m
| Justice happens, as it has happened
! in your case. l try to make amend.
| How far south do you propose to
J travel?"
! Il may go to the length of NIanches-
/ ter or Birmingham. The distance and
1 the time viii depend on the state o.
! trade"
IF YOU will tell me the places yoa
/ intend TO visit l Will include them in
i the pass 1 shall now write for you"
That 1 cannot just say at the mo-
ment. / wish to follow trade where
ever il leads ne"
! Then an inclusive pass, extending
as far south as Manchester. viii meet
/ your needs?"
1T will more than meet them. gem
eral,' said Armstrong with supreme in
/ difference.
The commander took up his pen, but
paused, and still shading his face, scru-
tlnized the man before him.
As I am not likely to see you again.
! perhaps it would be as well not to
limit it to Manchester. You may wish
| TO travel further south when you reach
/ that town?"
1T is barely possible"
AS you carry no message from Ira
QUAR- to the king. 1 can write Oxford
on your permit as easily as Manches-
/ ter"
Thank you, general, but Manchester
will be far eOnugh."
Il may cay that we ar strict about
those whom we allow to journey to
| and fro at the present time and IL YOU
/ should overstep the limit Of this docu-
ment you are liable TO investigation and
/ delay, and I am not likely to be So
near at hand on the next occasion
1 Il quite understand. and if I wished
/ 10 go further south l would have no
hesitation in begging permission OF
! your excellency, but 1 doubt if 1 shan
1 even see Manchester
| You will not be leaving Corbiton uu-
/ Ill the morning. OF course?''
! No general xt-har, 7
/ we'll housed"
Then, as 1 have much to do, I viii
make out your paper later. and il viii
be handed to you in the morning"
! Thank you, general
With this the commander rose and
! himself accompanied Armstrong to the
1 door in most friendly manner The
/ young man. in spite of his distruct. was
very favOrably impressed, for there had
/ been nothing in Cromwell's conversa-
/ ton of that cant with which he was
/ popularity accredited. The Scot had ex-
/ pected to find an English Alexander
Henderson. disptuatious, gruff; tyran-
meal leader, cOmmi .ting acts of oppres-
sion or cruelty. and continually appeal
ing to his Maker for justification, But
/ Cromwell's attitude throughout had
been that of the honest soldier. with
little to suggest the fervent exhorter.
After giving him lacOnic instructions
touching the welfare of the northerneE
/ to Captain Bent who was lowering un-
! easily in the outside hall. Cromwell
| bidding his enforced guest a cordial
/ farwell. ordered wentworth to be
brought to him and retired once more
/ into the dim council chamber
With hands clasped behind him and
/ head bent he strobe slowly up and
4 down the long room in. deep meditation
vanishing into the gloom at the further
/ end and reappearing in the limited cir
I Gle of light that surrounded the two
/ candles, for the torches had long since
smoked themselves out, and there had
/ been no replacement of them, for none
dared enter that room. UnsummOned.
! while the leader WAS within it. The
watcher in the gallery felt, rather than
/ saw, there was an omnibus frown on
/ the lowered face of the commander
waited for the second prisoner. over
/ whom hung sentence of death.
| This time a clanking of chains an
| nounced the new arrival who was pre-
/ coded by Colonel Porlock, and accom-
panied by two soldiers. one or either
side of him. The young fellow. who
/ shufiied up to the table, dragging his
/ irons, cast an anxious look at the for
bidding face Of the man who was to be
/ his final Judge: in whose word lay life
, or death for him, and he found there
! little to comfort him. Cromwell seated
/ himself once more and said gruff1y:
Take Off those fetters'
( When the command was complied
with the general dismissed the trio and
sat for some moments in silence, read
/ ing the frank, open face Of ms opposite
I like a poster on wall
You are to be shot at daybreak to-
morrow" he began in harsh tones that
( echoed dismally from the RATED cell
! ing. This statement contained no in
] formation for the youth, but the ravens
croak sent q. shiver through his frame.
! ana somehow the tldings brought ter
I ror that had been absent before. even
J when sentence Of death was pronounced
with such solemnity by the court.
J There was a careless infection in the
words. which showed that the speaker
cared not one pin whether the human
/ being standing before him lived or died.
/ Allowing time to produce the impress
sion he desired. Cromwell continued in
1 the same strain of voice.
Il have examined the evidence and I
find your condemnation just"
The boy remembered that his father
3 had met death Dravely, asking no
mercy and receiving none and. the
4 thought nerved him. If this man had
! merely brought him here to make death
more bitter by haunting him. it was an
unworthy action so, moistening his
I lips twice before they would obey his
/ viii, he spoke up.
IT have never questioned the YER
dict. general nor did ] make appeal.
( The shaggy brows came down over
I CromweIIs eyes. but his face cleared