Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-12
Mary, Jane, Brandon and myself

MdFys Jane, BranuOn ana mySe1
were at once summoned to the presence
of both their majesties and soundly
reprimanded. Three of us were order.
ed to leave the court before we could
speak word in self defense, and Jane
had enough Of her favorite truth for
once. Mary, however, came to our res.
cue with her coaxing e1oquence and
potent feminine logic and soon con-
vinced Henry that the queen, who real
~ counted for little with him, had
made mountain out of a very small
molehill. Thus the royal wrath was ap.
peased to such an extent that the order
Of expulsion was modified to a CON-
mand that there be no more quartet
gatherings in Princess Mary's parlor.
This leniency was more easy for the
princess to bring about by reason of
the fact that she had not spoken to her
brother since the day she went to see
him after Wolsey's visit and had been
so roughly driven off. At first, upon
her refusal to speak to him after the
Wolsey visit, Henry was angry on &C.
count of what he called her insolence,
but as she did not seem to care for
that and as his anger did nothing to-
Indifference. Still the same stubborn
silence was maintained. This soon be-
gan to amuse the king, and Of late he
had been trying to be on friendly terms
again with his sister through series
Of elephantine antics and bearlike pleas
antries, which were the most dismal
fa1lures-that is, in the way Of bring
ing about a reconciliation. They were
more successful from a comical point
Of view. So Henry was really glad for
something that would loosen the tongue
usually so lively, and for an opportu-
nifty to crafty his sister, from whom
he was demanding such a sacrifice and
for whom he expected to receive no
less price than the help Of Louis Of
France, the most powerful king Of
Europe, to the imperial crown.
Thus our meetings were broken up,
and Brandon knew his dream was over
and that any effort to see the princess
would probably result in disaster for
them both; for him certainly.
The king upon that same day told
Mary of the intercepted letter sent by
her to Brandon at Newgate and &C.
cused her of what he was pleased to"
term an improper feeling for lowborn
fellow.
Mary at once sent full account Of
the communication in letter to Bran
don, who read it with no small degree
Of ill comfort as the harbinger Of uou-
BILE.
81 had better leave here soon or
may go without my head" he remark
ed. "When that thought gets to work.
ing in the kings brain, he will strike.
and I-shall fall.''
Letters began to come to our rooms:
from Mary, at first begging Brandon to"
| come to her and then upbraiding him,
because of his GOODNESS and cowardice-
and telling him that if he cared for her
| as she did for him he would see her
| though he had to wade through fire
and blood. That was exactly where
the trouble lay. 1t was not fire and
blood through which he would have to-
pass; they were small matters-mere
| nothings that would really have added
| zest and interest to the achievement.
But the frowning laugh Of the tyrant,
who could bind him hand and foot, and
a vivid remembrance of the Newgate-
dungeon, with a dangling moose or a.
followed out block in the near back
ground, were matters that would have
taken the adventurous tendency out Of
even the cracked brain of chivalry it.
self. Brandon cared only to fight where
there was a possible victory or ran
som, or a prospect of some sort at least
of achieving success.