Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-05-01
Continued from last week.


always he found a food of healthful
tears. Mary had reached it when she
threw the necklace and shot her bolt
at Wolsey so she broke down and has
tily left the room.
The king of course was beside him
self with rage.
"By Gods soul" he swore, "she shall
marry Louis of France or will have
her whipped to death on the Smith
field pilory!" And in his wicked heart
so impervious to a single lasting good
impulsc-he really meant it.
Immediately after this, the king, De
Longueville and Wolsey set out for
London.
l remained behind hoping TO see the
girls, and after a short time a page
plucled me by the sleeve. saying the
princess wished to see me.
The page conducted me to the same
room in which had been fought the bat
tie with Mary in bed. The door had
been placed Oh its hinges again. but
it. and tho room was in great disorder
ooh, Sir Edwin" began Mary. who
was weeping, "was ever woman in
such frightful trouble? My brother is
killing me- Can he not see that could
not live through week of this mar
riagc? And | have been deserted by
all my friends, too, excepting Jane.
She, poor thing, cannot leave"
"You know | would not 60" said
Jane parenthetically. Mary continued,
you, too, have been home an entire
week and have not been near me-"
l began to soften at the sight of her
grief and concluded with Brandon that,
after all, her beauty could well cover
a multitude of sins, perhaps even this,
her great transgression against him.
The princess was trying to check her
weeping and in a moment took up the
thread of her unfinished sentence:
"And Master Brandon, too, left with
out so much as sending me one little
word-not line nor a syllable He
did not come near me. but went off as
II / did not care-orshe did not. OF
course he did not care or he would not
have behaved so, knowing | was in SO
much trouble. l did not see him at all
after-One afternoon in the kings
about week before that awful night
in London, except that night, when l
was so frightened | could not speak
one word of all the things l wished
to say"
This sounded strange enough and l
began more than ever to suspect some
thing wrong. |, however, kept as firm
grasp as possible upon the stock of
indignation | had brought with me.
How did you expect to see or hear
from him." asked l, when he was ly-
ing in loathsome dungeon without
one ray of light, condemned to be
hanged, drawn and quartered because
of your selfish neglect to save him who
at the cost of half his blood and al
most his life had saved so much for
your"
Her eyes grew big, and the tears
were checked by genuine surprise.
l continued: Lady Mary, no one
could have made me believe that you
would stand back and let the man to
whom you owed so great a debt lie so
long in such misery and be condemned
to such death for the act that saved
you. l could never have believed it!'
Imp of hell" screamed Mary. what
tale is this you bring to torture me-?
Have | not enough already? Tell me
it is lie or l will have your miserable
little tongue torn out by the root.'
1T is no lie, princess, but an awful
truth and Il frightful shame to YOU
l was determined to tell her all and
let her see herself as she was.
She gave a hysterical laugh and,
throwing up her hands with her accus-
toned little gesture fell upon the bed
in utter abandonment, shaking as with
a spasm. She did not weep; she could
not; she was past that now. Jane went
over to the bed and tried to soothe her.
In moment Mary sprang to her feet,
exclaiming: Master Brandon con
demned to death, and you and l here
talking and moaning and weeping!
Come, come; we will go to the king at
once. We will start to walk, Edwin-I
must be doing something and Jane
can follow with the horses and over
take us. No; will not dress; just as
l am this will do. Bring me a hat,
Jane-any one, any one" While put
ting on hat and gloves she continued:
81 will see the king at once and tell
him all-all! | will do anything. |
will marry that old king of France or
forty kings or forty devils. It's all
one to me. Anything, anything, to
save him! Oh, to think that he has
been in that dungeon all this timer
And the tears came UNDECIDED in del
uge.
She was under such Roadway and
spoke and moved so rapidly that l
could not stop her until she was nearly
ready to go; then held her by the arm
while said:
1T Is not necessary now. You are
too late"
A look of horror came into her face,
and I cOntinuad SLOWLY. ssI n,oo,,,o1