The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-22

tie with Mary in bed The door had
been placed on its hinges again, but
the bed was tumbled as Mary had left
it, and the room was In great disorder.
"Oh, Sir Edwin" began Mary. who
was weeping, was ever woman In
such frlghtful trouble? My brother is
killing me. Can he not see that l could
not live through a week of this mar
riage? And I have been deserted by
all my friends, too, excepting Jane
She, poor thing, cannot leave"
"You know l would not CO." said
Jane parenthetically. Mary continued.
you, too. have been home an entire
week and have not been near me-"
| / began to soften at the sight of her
| grief and concluded with Brandon that.
after all, her beauty could we'll cover
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
i out so much as sending me one little
/ word-not a line nor syllable. He
did not come near me. but went or as
If i did not care-or he did not. OF
course he did not care or he would not
have behaved so, knowing l was in so
much trouble, 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
a. -. n tel.
to say"
This sounded strange enough, and !
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 |, when he was ly'
ing in a 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 fol
your"
Her eyes grew hig, and the tears
We're checked by genuine surprise.
j continued: Lady Mary, no one
could have made me believe that yor
would stand back and let the man Il
whom you owed so great n debt lie 81
long I'm such misery and be condemned
! to such a death for the act that savet
you. could never have believed itw
limp of hellr' screamed Mary. "Wha
! tale Is this you bring to torture me
Have l not enough alreadyi Tell M
il is a lie or I will have your miserable
little tongue torn out by the rootr'
"It is 10 lie, princess, but an awfu
; truth and a frightfui shame TO you"
! ! was determined To tell her all ant
3 let her see herself as she was.
She gave hysterical laugh and
throwing up her hands with her accus
$ toned little gesture. fell upon the be-
d in utter abandonment, shaking as wit
i a spasm. She did not weep; she coul'
o not; she was past that now. Jane wen
II over to the bed and tried to soothe hei
h In moment Mary sprang to her fee
o exclaiming: Master Brandon col
a demned to death. and you and l her
IS talking and moaning and weeping
Come, come; we will go to the king q
II once. We will start TO walk, Edwin
L must be doing something and Jan
can follow with the horses and ovel
q take us. No; will not dress; just a
am; this will do. Bring me ha
'r Jane-any one. any one" While pu
II ting on hat and gloves she continued
d Il will see the king at once and te
'e him all-all, l will do anything.
will marry that old king of France {
lie forty kings or forty devils. It's a
! one to me. Anything, anything,
M save him! oh. to think that he ha
II been in that dungeon all this time
$ And the tears came unheeded in u de
- uge.
h- She was under such headway an
at spoke and moved so rapidly that