The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-11

lDSC-ateIy imdGe everything bright
again for her. so great was her capa.
bility for distilling light. She would
20 at once to Windsor with Jane and
would dispatch n note TO Brandon at
Newgate telling lin upon lis escape
TO come to her. He might remain In
hiding In tie neighborllood Of Wind
tor, ard she could see him every day.
The time Lad come To Mary when to
''see him every day" would turn Plu-
tonian shades into MONDAY brightness
ard weave sunbeams out of utter dark
ness. With Mary. To resolve was to
act: so the note was soon dispatched
by n page. and one hour later the girls
were on their road to Windsor.
buckingham vent TO Newgate. ex.
recting to make n virtue. with Mary,
ont of the necessity Imposed by the
Kings command in freeing Brandon.
He had Hoped to induce Brandon to
leave London stealthily and immediate
~ by representing TO him the evil con-
sequences of IL break between the citi-
zens and the king. liable to grow out
of his release. and relied on Brandon's
generosity to help him out. but when
he found the note which Mary's page
had delivered to the keeper of Newgate
he read 1t. and all his plans were
changed.
He caused the keeper to send the
note to the king. suppressing the fact
that he. Buckingham. had any knowl-
edge of it. The duke then at once
started TO Greenwich. where he ar
rived and sought the king Il few min.
utes before the time he Knew the mes
senger with Mary's note would come.
The king was SOON found. and Buck
ingllani. in apparent anger. told him
that the city authorities refused to de-
liver Brandon except upon an order un-
der the kings seal.
Henry ard Buckingham were in
tensely indignant at the conduct of
the scurvy b%urghers. and an immense
amount of self Importance was dis.
played and shamefully wasted. This
manifestation was at it's highest when
the messenger from Newgate arrived
with Mary's poor little note as intend
ed by the duke.
Tie note was handed to Henry. who
read aloud as follows:
To Master Charles Brandon. greeting
Soon YOU viii be at liberty. perhaps ere
this Is 10 your hand. Surely would ] no
leave you long in prison. | go to Windsol
at once. there to live in the hope that
may zee you speedily. MARY.
What is tlis?' cried Henry. any
sister writing to Brandon? God.
death, My Lord of Buckingham. til,
suspicious you whispered in my cal
may have some truth. We will let thi:
fellow remain in Newgate and allow
our good people of London to take
their oyn curse with him."
Buckingham went to Windsor mex
day and told Mary that arrangement.
had been made the night before fol
Brandon's escape and that he shat
heard that Brandon had left for New
Spain.
Mary thanked the duke. but had NJ
smiles for any one. Her supply wa:
exhausted.
She remained at Windsor nursing
her love for the sake of the very pain
1t brought her and dreading the battl,
for more 1lan life itself which she
knew she should soon be called upon Il
fight.
At times she would fall into one O
her old fits of anger because Brandon
had not come TO sec her before he left
but soon the anger melted into tears
and the tears brought Il sort OF 10,
when she thought that he had rul
away from her because he loved her
After Bsandon's defense of her in Bill
lingsgate Mary had begun TO see til,
whole situation differently. and every
thing was changed. She still saw til,
same great distance between them a
before. hut with CHS difference. sh,
was looking up now. Before tina
event he had been plain Charles Bran
don and she the Princess Mary. Sh,
was the princess still, but he was
demigod.
So Mary remained at Windsor an,
grieved and wept and dreamed an,
longed that she might see across TIL
miles of billowy ocean to her love. he
love, her love! Meanwhile Brandon
Lad his trial in secret down in Londoi
and had been Condemned to be banged
drawn ard quartered for having save,
to her more than life itself.
Put not your trust IN princesses!