The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-22

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girl I draw up the ladder, close the postern
She went out by the way they had entered and
shut the door with force that seemed to the king
later his quick seemed to tell him bolt had
fallen He rose at once. tried to open the door and
discovered that it was indeed barred on the outside
One other exit remained to be tested-a larger door
evidently communicating with another pas
that also he found locked and he returned to
the middle of the room and stood there for q few
minutes with knitted brow.
Trapped, Jamie, my lad! Trapped" he muttered
himself. Now what object can my mother have
her authority me- Does she hope that
her third husband shall rule Scotland in my name
did her second, with me a prisoner? BY st. An
The king seized a bench raised it over his head
and crashed it in bits against the larger door with
noise that reverberated through the castle.
Open, he cried Open instantly" -
Presently he thought he heard light footsteps coming
turned slowly in the lock. The door opened and to
his anazement he saw standing before him with vide
Madam said the king. sternly Il ask you the
Pleasantly" echoed the girl staring at him with
her hand upon the huge iron key alert TO If this
the bench he had broken. attempted to lay hands
Pleasantly she repeated; that is a question 1
may well ask you. Who are you, sir, and what are
who / am and what am doing here you very
well know, because you brought me here. A change
and the king bowed to his visitor with a return of
his customary courtliness, that his suspicious
allayed, for he how to deal with pretty
Madam, there is queen in Scotland.
you queen by right of nature and though you
your gown, you cannot change your golden crown
The girls hand unconsciously up to ruddy
hair while she murmured herself than to
him:
This is some of GATHERINGS work.
Catherine your in forest my lady.
What is your in the castle?"
Isabel is my in castle and forest alike.
You have met my twin sister, Catherine. Why has
she brought you here?"
Like obedient son. a command
of my honorable mother and your sister-if, indeed,
goddesses strangely fair, and strangely similar.
be two persons-has gone to acquaint my mother
my arrival"
The girls alarm seemed increase as the kings
diminished Trouble, dismay and fear her
perfect face, and the king scrutinized her more
infinitely he that the firm mouth and the resolute
chin of her sister had place in the softened
and womaniy features of the lady before him.
Your mother? Who is she?'
First Margaret Tudor, daughter OF the king 0
England; second, Margaret Stuart. wife of King
Scotland; third Margaret Douglas. i'll the
Earl of Angus: fourth, and let hope finally Mar
garet Stuart again. spouse of Lord Methven and
er of this CASTLE
The girl swayed if she would fall all color.
struck suddenly from her face She leaned nearly
fainting, against the stone wall. passing her hand
or twice across her terror-hIled eyes.
Great Cod" she moaned edo not tell me that
are James king of Scotland here and alone in
this den of Douglases!'
':Douglas." cried the king, reused at the hated