Cañon City record., 1904-01-07
When KnighthOOd Was In Flower

told, fallacy into which many good
people have fallen, to their utter de-
struction. since the truth. like every
other good thing, may be abused.
Well, Jane told 1t all in a moment.
and Catherine was 30 horrified that she
w IS like to faint She went with her
hair-lifting horror to the king and
poured into his ears tale of impru-
dence and debauchery well calculated
to start his righteous. virtue-prompted
Indignation into a threatening flame.
Mary, Jane, Brandon and myself
We're 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 a very small
molehill. Thus the royal wrath was ap-
peased to such an extent that the order
of expulsion was modified to a 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 on. 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-
ward unsealing her lips he pretended
Indifference. Still the same stubborn
gan to amuse the king. and Of late he
had been trying to be on friendly terms
again with his sister through a series
of elephantine antics and bearlike pleas
antries, which were the most dismal
failures-that Is. in the way of bring
ing about n reconciliation. They were
more successful from comical point
of view. So Henry was really glad for
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 Sewgate and ac-
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 n letter to Bran
don. who read 1t with no small degree
of Ill comfort as the harbinger OF trou-
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. lie 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 coldness and cowardice
and telling him that IL 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
vivid remembrance of the Newgate
dungeon. with n dangling moose or
followed out block In the near back