The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-06

any chance. Of the interests Of the
whole"
May 7 tell Cromwell that? He
seemed at some pains TO intercept a
billet that 0 receive but lightly.
L e CROMWELL You're never going
TO write to that s%coundrelc"
4 intend to see him before the week
is past
What You're not such a fool as to
put yourself in CromweIs clutch
again.
Just that"
'WiIl. L wonder at YOU. Angus got
the steel bonnet on YOU with some
work. but no man in Scotland can get
Cromwelis rope of YOU neck if once
you thrust your head through the
moose.
'Cromwell's not such q fool as 10
hang me. If he did it would but unite
your wavering hosts like an invasion Of
Scotland"
1T win be a heavy price TO pey for
union, Wfn.'
'The price viii never be paid. Crom-
well knows what he wants. and he
doesn't want me now, however anxious
he was for my company this morning.
Have you actually seen him?'
Il met him the first day I crossed the
border. I saw him once again, and I
Travelled over most OF England on a
pass from his own hand. Cromwell and
I have a mutual respect for zach other
By this time. but there are some mat
ters of difference between us that /
think win best be settled by word Of
mouth. so I'm or day after tomorrow
to fOregather with him. I cannot 80
sooner because my new bear viii not
be ready, n I want to give the gen
eraI time to withdraw his troops from
across the country so that ] may come
on him in other fettle than as a pris-
Oner."
"Who is the woman. VIII? I knew
you would go clean daft when you met
her"
Never you mind. AS the border is
a land of nobility and romance, we viii
call her an earIs daughter 10 please
you"
More like some peasant girl who as
sisted o to escape from your enc
miles,
Well, whoever she is, Traauir. I'll
make her Mrs. Armstrong when 1 set
the chance"
Lady Armstrong. you mean. You're
forgetting your new dignity. Surely,
if the case stands thus. you will ask the
king to fulfill his promise and make you
a baron at the least
THAT viii I not. III trouble the
badgered man no further"
i KNOW the ways OF the sex DelLer
than you do, and 1 warrant you the
lady Will give you no rest until the
titles yours, whenever she knows you
have earned it and have had the offer
of it."
she thinks less of these things than
I do even
Then she is no peasant lass
II w said she was"
At this point, greatly to the delight
of Armstrong, whose We're be
coming more and more short. his sup
per was announced and TTaquir. with
his arm Over the shoulder Of his guest,
! led him to the dining room.
The tailor came when supper was fin
ished and measured his new customer,
received minute directions concerning
the garments and retired protesting he
would do his best in the limited time
allowed him. The barber operated as
we'll as he could on a Fad that began
to nod in spite of the efforts Of it's
owner. Sleep laid it's heavy-haud on
/ Armstrong. and the voice Of Traquair
sounded distant and meaningless. some
thing resembling h rush of Eden
water in his ears, whereupOn William
nearly got those useful members crop
ped in earnest. At last he found him
self in his room, and, for the first time
since he left that hospitable mansion
enjoyed the luxury of lying between
clean sheets with his clothes Off. Their
he slept as dreamlessly as his ancestors
TO be COntinued)