The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

kindly and wisely" And Cluny bowed
and went silently to seek his be-
trothed.
"Your father says we 7 to wait
five years, sweet Jane; and it's a hard
condition. I know not how l am to
endure it."
And Jane smiled and began to talk
over with her lover the hard condi-
ton, and somehow it became an easy
and reasonable one. They soon saw
it through Love and Hope and Wis
dom, and so at the beginning Of their
probation, they rejoiced in the end Of
it.
Life soon settled itself to the new
conditions of the Swaffhams. The
General, in spite of his wife's and
daughters disapproval, bought the
Sandys House neal Russell square,
and some of the most precious heir
looms of old Swaffham were brought
up to London to adorn it.
Mrs. Swaffham was we'll content in
London. Social by nature, fond OF
the stir and news of life, enjoying
even the shadow of her old friends
power and %splendor, and taking the
greatest interest in all public events
of the time, she was pleased rather
than otherwise at the Lord Generals
determination to keep her husband
near him.
Neither was Jane at all averse to
London. Cluny was in London, and
Matilda was there, and most OF the
girls whom she had known all her
life long. And if Jane accepted will
ingly this change of life, Matilda took
her phase of it still more enthusi-
~astically. She was not long in discov-
ering that it was in her power to De
virtual mistress of the Jevery man
sion. Her youth, her beauty and her
many sorrows inclined Sir Thomas
Jevery's heart to sympathy. and this
prepossession grew rapidly to devot-
ed affection. She was considering
one morning a string of Orient pearls,
wondering if they could be worn with
her new damasse gown, when Jane
entered her dressing room.
Jane Swaffham,' she cried with
delight, "Ill swear | was just wishing
for you. Stephen is here. Will you
see him."
Il will not" answered Jane posi-
lively. Il will not come to question
about him if he is discovered. Do
not ask me to put myself in such a
strait. Matilda. 1t is far better |
aL~,IJ H. ohlA tn COW hoyn nnf
seer him."
Jane, | will tell you a piteous tale.
'Tis of our late Queen. She is so
wretchedly poor, and since her son
returned to their miserable little
court in the Louvre, SO broken-heart-
ed, 'twould make you weep to hear Of
her. Stephen came with Sir Hugh
Belward to get some money on Bel
ward"
How Ices Sir Hugh Belward hope
to get money on Belward? He is pro-
%scribed."
His younger brother joined the
Parliament. and he left the estate in
his care. And his brother has turned
traitor to him. and would give him
nothing but permission to ride away
as secretly as he came. But Oh, Jane!
the poor, poor Queen!"-and then Ma
tilda went into some details OF the
piteous straits and dependencies and
insults the widowed m had been
obliged to bear.
Jane listened silently, but there
were tears in her eyes; and when
Matilda said, Il have given her the
jewel the gracious King sent me by
my beloved Prince Rupert, and also,
what moneys | could get from my
Uncle Jevery,' Jane added:
81 have ten pieces Of gold that are
altogether my own, | will give them
to her. | will send the gold by a sure
messenger to-day"
Matilda did not urge her to remain,
n Jane was eager to get away
Whef she reached home, her father
was waikiki g about the parlor and
talking in an excited manner to his
wife. He showed much discomfort,
and as he walked and talked he rat.
tied his sword ominously to his
words.
ITO be continued.)