Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-05
CHAPTER vi, y
THE RESOLUTION OF Mr.. Law.

The problems of England's troubled
finances, the questions of the coinage,
the gossip of the kings embroilments
with the parliament-these things, 1t
may again be said, occupied Laws
mind far less than the question OF
gaining audience with his fair rescuer
Of the morn at Sadler's Wells. This
was the puzzle which, resolve as he
might, not even his audacious wit was
able to provide with plausible solution.
He pondered the matter in hundred
different pleasing phases as he passed
from the Bank of England through
the crowded streets of London, and so
at length found himself at the shabby
little lodgings in Bradwell street, where
he and his brother had, for the time,
taken up quarters.
ut starteth we'll, my boy" cried he,
gaily, to his brother, when at length
he had found his way up the narrow
stair into the little room, and discov-
cred Will patiently awaiting his re-
turn. ALREADY two OF my errands are
well acquit."
"You have, then, sent the letters to
our goldsmith here?" said Will.
Nov, to say the truth, had not
thought of that But letters of credit
why need we trouble over such mat
tiers? These English are but babes.
Give me night or SO at the Green
Lion, and we'll need no letters of cred
it. Will. Look at your purse. boy
since you are the thrifty cashier of our
| firm!"
81 like not this sort Of gold." said
Will Law, setting his lips jldicially.
"Yet it seems to purchase well as
any, said the other, indifferently.
But there must be serious purpose"
Know then" cried the elder man.
suddenly, that have found such
serious purpose!"
The speaker stood looking out of the
window, his eye fixed out across the
roofs of London. There had now
fallen from his face all trace Of levity
! and into his eye and mouth there
came reflex Of the decision Of his
speech. Will stirred in his chair, and
at length the two faced each other.
and pray, what is this sudden reso-
L
"If must tell you, it is simply this:
am resolved to marry the girl we
met at Sadler's Wells.'
"How-what-?"
Eyes, how-what-?" repeated his
brother, mockingly.
| But would ask, which?"
There was but one," said John Law
"The tall one, with the brassy- brown
copper-red hair, the bright blue eye
and the figure of queen. Her like Il
| not in all the world!"
| "Methought twas more like to be the
other" replied Will. "Yet you-how
dare you think thus of that lady
Why, Jack, twas the Lady Catharin'
Knollys, sister to the Earl Of Ban
bury!"
Law did not at once make any an
swer. He turned to the dressing-tabl'
and began making such shift as b.
could to better his appearance.
'Will," said he at length, ''you are
as ever, babe and a sucking. quit
| despair of you. 'Twould serve nj
| purpose to explain anything to SO fain
heart as yours. But you may com
| with me"
"And whither?"
whittier? Where else. than to tn
residence Of this same lady! Loo
you, l have learned this. She is, a
you say, the sister Of the Earl of Ban
bury, and is for the time at the tow
house in Knightwell Terrace. More
over. if that news be worth while t
so white-feathered swain as your
self, the other damsel, the dark one
the one with the mighty pretty littl
foot-lives there for the time as tn
guest Of Lady Catharine. They ar
rated thick as peas in pod. True, W
are strangers, yet venture we hav
made a beginning. and if we ventur
more we may better the beginning
Should falter, when luck gave me til
run Of trente ct lie va but yesterday
Nay, ever follow fortune hard, an
she waits for you"
ITO be continued