The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-06-05
ntber good thing. may be abused.

other good thing. may be abused.
Well. Jane told it all in a moment,
and Catherine was SO Mortified that she
was like to faint. She went with her
hair-lifting horror to the king and
poured into his ears a tale of impru-
dence and debauchery well calculated
to start his righteous. virtue-prompted
Indignation into threatening flame.
Mary, One. Brandon and myself
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 a word in self defense, and Jane
had enough of her favorite truth for
once. Mary. however. came to our res
cue with her coaxing eloquence and
potent feminine logic and soon con-
vinced Henry that the queen. who real
ly counted for little with him, had
made a mountain out of n very small
moiehill. Thus the royal wrath was ap-
peased to such an extent that the order
Of expulsion was modified to n COM
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 of. At first, upon
her refusal to speak to him after the
Wolsey visit. Henry was angry on ac-
count OF what he called her insolence,
but as she did not seem TO care for
that and as his anger did nothing to-
ward unsealing her lips he pretended
Indifference. Still the same stubborn
silence was maintained. This soon be-
gan to amuse the king. and OF late he
had been trying to he on friendly terms
again with his sister through n series
of elephantine antics and bearlike pleas
antries, which were the most dismal
failures-that is, in the way of bring
ing about Il 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
for whom he expected to receive nc
less a price than the help Of Louis OF
France. the most powerful king OF
Europe, to the imperial crown.
| Thus our meetings We're broken up
| and Brandon knew his dream was ovel
and that any effort to see the princess
| would probably result In disaster fol
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 lowborr
fellow.
Mary at once sent a full account oi
the communication I'm a letter TO Bran
don. who read il with no small degree
of i'll comfort as the harbinger OF trou
BILE.
Il 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 room
from Mary. ut first begging Brandon +
come to her and then upbraiding hin
because OF his coldness and cowardic
and telling him that IL he cared for he
as she did for him he would see he
though he had to wade through fir
and blood. That was exactly wher
the trouble lay. 1t was not fire an
blood through which he would have t
pass; they were small ma,ters-mer
nothings that would really have adde
zest and interest to the achievement
But the frowning laugh of the tyran
who could bind him hand and foot, an
a vivid remembrance of the Newgat
dungeon. with n dangling moose or
followed out block In the near bacl