Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-01

 tESz4GY and still make. his escape I cannot say. as he soon had no choice in the matter. At midnight a body of yeomen from the Tower took possession of the Bow and String and carried Brandon off to London without commu- nication with Mary. She did not know Of his arrest until next morning, when she was informed that she was to fol- low immediately, and her heart was nearly broken.
 Here again was trouble for Mary. She felt. however, that the two grent questions, the marriage of herself to Louis, and Brandon to any other per- son, were, as she called it, settled" and was almost content to endure this as mere putting off of her desires, a neddlesome and impertinent interfer- ence of the fates, who would soon learn with whom they were dealing and amend their conduct
 She did not understand the conse- quences for Brandon, nor that the fates would have to change their purpose very quickly or something would hap pen worse even than his marriage to another woman.
 On the second morning after leaving Bristol Brandon reached London and. as he expected, was sent to the Tower. The next evening Lady Mary arrived and was taken down to Greenwich.
 The girls fair name was of course lost, but, fortunately, that goes for lit tie with princess since no one would believe that Brandon had protected her against himself as valiantly and honor ably as he would against another. The princess being much more unsophisti- cated than the courtiers were ready to believe never thought of saying any, thing to establish her innocence or vir- tue, and her silence was put down to shame and taken as evidence against her,
 Jane met Mary at Windsor, and of course there was great flood of tears.
 Upon arriving at the palace the girls were left to themselves, upon Mary's promise not to leave her room, but by the next afternoon she, having been unable to learn anything concerning Brandon, broke her parole and went out to see the king.
 It never occurred to Mary that Bran don might suffer death for attempting to run away with her. She knew only too well that she alone was to blame, not only for that but for all that had taken place between them, and never for one moment thought that he might sbe punished for her fault, even admit ting there was fault in any one, which sheswas by no means ready to do.
 The trouble in her mind growing out of lack of news from Brandon was of a general nature, and the possibility of his death had no place in her thoughts. Nevertheless for the second time BranA don had been condemned to die for her sake. The kings seal had stamped the warrant for the execution and the headsman had sharpened his ax and could almost count the golden fee for his butchery.
 Mary found the king playing cards with De Longueville. There was a roomful of courtiers, and as she en- tered she was the target for every eye, but she was on familiar ground now and did not care for the glances !. nor the observers, most of whom she despised. She was the princess again and full of self confidence, so she went straight to the object of her visit, the She had not made up her mind
 what to say first, there was so h, but Henry saved her the trou- L.c. He, of course, was in a great rage end denounced Mary's conduct as un- rstural and reasonable, the latter, in T. rvs mind, being crime many greater than the breaking of all smmandments put together in one f composite act. All this the king had communicated to Mary by the lips of Wolsey the evening before, and Mary had received 1t with a silent scorn that would have withered any one but the worthy bishop of York. As I said, when Mary approached her brother he saved her the trouble of de- ciding where to begin by speaking first himself, and his words were of part with his nature, violent, cruel and vul- gar. He abused her and called her all the vile names in his ample vocabu- lary of billingsgate. The queen was present and aided and abetted with a word now and then, until Henry, with her help, at last succeeded in working himself into a towering passion and wound up by calling Mary vile wan ton in palmer terms than l like to write. This aroused all the antago- nism in the girl, and there was plenty of 1t. She feared Henry no more than she feared me. Her eyes flashed fire that made even the king draw back as she exclaimed: You give me that name and expect me to remember you are my brother? There are words that make mother hate her firstborn, and that is one. Tell me what I have done to deserve it? I expected to hear of in- gratitude and disobedience and all that, but supposed you had at least some traces of brotherly feeling-for ties of blood are hard to break-even If you have of late lost all semblance to man or king"
 This was hitting Henry hard, for 1t was beginning to be the talk in every mouth that he was leaving all the af- fairs of state to Wolsey and spending his time in puerile amusement. "The toward hope which at all poyntes ap- peared in the younge Kynge" was be- ginning to look, after all, like nothing more than the old time royal cold fire, made to consume but not to warm the