Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-26


 distressing detail, you may De sure. During my recital she sat with down l cast eyes and tear stained face playing l with the ribbons of her hat
 When I was ready to go, she said, Please say to Master Brandon should like-to-- -see-him If he cares to come, if only that may tell him how 1t hap | pened."
 "I greatly fear, in fact, know he will not come,o said I. "The cruelest blow of all, worse even than the dun geon or the sentence of death, was | your failure to save him. He trusted you so implicitly, At the time of his | arrest he refused to allow me to tell the king, saying he knew you would l see to that you were pure gold"
 "Ah, did he say that?" she asked, as l sad little smile lighted her face. | 'His faith was so entirely without doubt that his recoil from you is cor | respondingly great. He goes to New Spain as soon as his health is recovered
 sufficiently for him to travel" 1 This sent the last feck of color from
 her face, and with the words almost
 choking her throat, "Then tell him what I have said to you and perhaps
 he will not feel SOL
 q cannot do that either, Lady Mary.
 When mentioned your name the other I day, he said he would curse me If ev-
 CT spoke 1t again in his hearing.'' ssIs it so bad as that2" Then, medita- lively: And at his trial he did not tell the reason for the. killing? Would not
 compromise. me, who had served him 1 so ill., even to save his own life? Noble, noble!' And her lips went together as 1 she rose to her feet. No tears now;
 nothing but glowing, determined wo- l manhood.
 "Then I will go to him wherever hel
 may be. He shall forgive me, no mat
 ter what my fault"
 1 Soon after this we were on our way, I to London at brisk gallop. We were all very silent, but at one l time Mary spoke up from the midst of a reverie: During the moment when II 1 thought Master Brandon had been exe- cuted d-when you said 1t was too late tE seemed that was porn again and all made over; that was changed in the l very texture of my nature by the shock, as they say the grain of the iron
 cannon is sometimes changed by too l violent an explosion" And this proved l to be true in some respects.
 We rode on rapidly and did not stop in London except to give the horses drink.
 l After crossing the bridge Mary said. half to Jane and half to herself, II will
 never marry the French king-never." ]"
 Mary was but girl pitted against a
 body of brutal men, two of them rulers l of the two greatest nations on earth rather heavy odds for one woman. We rode down to Greenwich and en- I tered the palace without exciting com ment, as the princess was in the habit of coming and going at win. The king and queen and most of the courtiers were in London at Bridewell House and Baynard's. castle, where
 Henry was vigorously pushing the
 loan of soc, 900 crowns for Mary's dow CT, the only business of state in which at that time he took any active inter est. Subsequently, as you know, he be- came interested in the divorce laws and the various methods whereby q man. especially king, might rid him- self of distasteful wife, and after he saw the truth in Anne Boleyn's eyes he adopted combined policy of church and state craft that has brought us deal of senseless trouble ever since and l is like to keep 1t up. l As to Mary's dover, Henry was to l pay Louis only 100000 crowns, but he
 made the marriage an excuse for an extra 100000 to be devoted to his own l private use.
 When we arrived at the palace the girls went to their apartments and | to mine, where found Brandon read l ing. There was only one window to our common room-a dormer window set into the roof and reached by lit 1 tie passage as broad as the window it. self and perhaps yard and half long. In the alcove thus formed was i a bench along the wall, cushioned by Brandon's great campaign cloak. Tn this window we often sat and read, and here was Brandon with his book. had intended to tell him the girls were com ing, for when Mary asked me if thought he would come to her at the palace, and when I had again said no, she reiterated her intention of going to him at once; but my courage failed me and I did not speak of it. knew that Mary ought not to come to our room, and that if news of it should reach the kings ears there would be more and worse trouble than ever, and as usual Brandon would pay the penalty for all. Then again, if it were discovered it might seriously com promise both Mary and Jane, as the world is full of people who would rath- CT say and believe an evil thing of an- other than to say their prayers or to believe the holy creed.
 had said as much to the Lady Mary . when she expressed her determination to go to Brandon. She had been in the wrong so much of late that she was humbled, and was brave enough to say whatever I felt, but she said she had thought it all over, and as every one was away from Greenwich it would not be found out if done se-