The San Francisco call., 1903-01-11

tact, Jane can be as provoking as ever
when she takes The fancy, for she is as
S1nr,, my tiaT Is nf% riS. as t %p3m tir5sar .me
Aye, surer since she knows that in all
THESE years ii has changed only to grow
greater and stronger and truer in the
IIucLu ying light OF her sweet face, and
the nUrturing warmth OF her pure soul.
" Lat a b.easeu thing il is for man to
love hls VIE ana be satisfied with her,
ara to think her the falreSI being In all
the world; and how thrice happy is he
who can stretch out the sweetest season
OF his existence, the days of triumphant
courtshIp, through the flying years OF all
his life, and then lie down to die IN the
quiet ecstasy CT first love.
my heart, as she always did.
There Is something that greatly trou
DS1 'whatt hat is it?S i asked in some con-
My mistress" she answered, nodding
In the direction Of the two riding ahead OF
Ls. II never saw her much interested
ter m T Brandon. e % not | that m eRe 'ea is reaiy in
love with him as yet perhaps, but / fear
It Is coming ard dread 20 see It. She has
never been compelled TO forego anything
lutcly imperative. They drive her. and
she is helpless against them. She would
not and could not make the smallest ef-
occurred to her that such thing could
be necessary: everything she wants she
naturally thinks Is hers by divine right.
gh has NO b Your NEED en9 Of saGh
at" at the p' other side M Of Of "se t5e World we I
think she feels that she ought to keep
Tor his sake and her own but she is
powerless to deny herself the pleasure Of
being with him, and l do not know what
loose girth is illustration. Did you
ever know anything so bold and trans
parent? Any one could see through 1t,
and the worst of It is she seems not to
them ahead of u.s. No girl is so happy
riding beside man unless she is inter
ested In him. She was dull enough until
he joined her. He seemed in no hurry to
come. so she resorted to the fNmsy excuse
of the loose girth to bring him. am sur
prised that she even sought the shadow
Of an excuse, but did no, order him for
ward without any pretense of one Oh!
/ don't know what to do. 1t troubles me
greatly. Do you know the state of his
feelings"
heart-whole, or nearly so. He told me he
was not fool enough to fall In love with
the Kings sister, and I really believe he
will keep his heart and head even at that
dizzy height. He is a cool fellow, If there
ever was one
He is certainly different from other
men," returned Jane. II think he has
never spoken word of love to her He
has said some pretty things. which she
has repeated to me: has moralized to
some extent, and has actually told her
see any one else take that liberty. She
seems to like it from him. and says he in
spires her with higher, better motives and
a yearning to be good; but I am sure he
Perhaps it would be better II he did.
1t might cure her, replied.
"Oh! no! no! not now; at first, per
if he remains silent much longer she will
take matters in hand and speak herself.
l don't like to say that-it doesn't sound
be different than with an ordinary girl;
she might have to speak first, or there
might be no speaking from one who
thought his position too far beneath hers.
will never forego 30 great a thing as the
man, she loves only for the want Of
word or two"
Then 1T was that Jane told me of the
scene with the note, of the little whis-
pered confidence upon their pillows, and
hundred other straws that showed only
too plainly which way this worst of I'll
winds was blowing-with no good in it
for any one. Now who could have fore
told this? II was easy enough to pro-
phesy that Brandon would learn to love
come off crestfallen, as all other men had
done. But that Mary should love Bran
don, and he remain heart whole, was an
unlooked-for event-one that would hard
prophet.
What Lady Jane said troubled me
greatly. as It was but the confirmation
know was far better than mine, but l
had seen enough to set me thinking
Brandon, / believe, saw nothing Of
Marys growing partially at all He
attractive and interesting, and perhaps It
needed only the thought that she might
love him: to kindle a fame in his own
Windsor. Charles Brandon was not in
love with Mary Tudor, however near It
he may unconsciously have been. He
would whistle and sing. and was as light
hearted as lark-I mean when away
from the Princess as we'll as with her
a mood that does not go with heart full
of heavy love. Of impossible. fatal love,
Princess of the first blood royal OF the
world.
But another's trouble could not dim the
to Wndsor Was the happest anG DAY na Of rras mS
life up to that time. Even Jane threw
off the little cloud our forebodngs had
gathered. and chatted, and laughed like
Now and then her heart would well up so
full of the sunlight and the flowers and
contagious love in my heart, too, that 1t
song which thrills me even now.
Ahead of us we're the Princess and
Brandon Every now and then her voice
came back to us in a stave of song, and
wings of the soft south wind. made the
glad birds hush to catch its silvery note.
1t seemed that the wild flowers had taken
on their brightest hue. the trees their
richest Sabbath-day green and the
his softest radiance, only to gladden. the
heart of Mary that they might hear her
laugh. The laugh would have come quite
as joyously had the flowers been dead
and the sun black for flowers and sun
light, south wind, green pastures and YER
dant hills. all were riding by her side.
Poor Mary! Her days OF laughter were
numbered.
We all rode merrily on to Windsor and
when we arrived 1t was curious to see
the great mobiles, Buckingham both the
Howards, Seymour and a dozen others
stand back for plain Charles Brandon to
disn1ount the fafrest maiden and the most
renowned Princess in Christendom. It
was done most gracefully. She was but
trife to his strong arms, and he lifted her
to the sod as gently II she Were a
child. The mobiles envied Brandon his evi-
dent favor with this unattainable Mary
and hated him accordingly but they kept
their thoughts to themselves for two rea-
sons: First, they knew not to what de-
gree the Kings favor, already marked
with the help of the Princess might carry
him; and second, they did not care to
have a misunderstanding with the man
who had cut out Adam Judson's eyes
We remained at Windsor four or five
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