Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-08-03

Il may Be even now IN port, and so
worded what said that twas not.
after all, fib except the nearer chose
to make it so. I said. Such goods as
these are due, madam .
Then she gave the list anew. like a
parrot while Catherine. who had re-
turned, stood staring at her. white with
terror, though Mary did not see her UNI
til she had finished Then when she
turned and caught her keenly anxious
eyes she started. you here, Gather
inc? r. said She. Then. knowing not how
much her sister knew already, she tried
to cover her confusion like a child de
nying its raid on the jam pots while
It's lips and fingers are still sticky with
the stolen sweet.
What think you OF my list, sweet
heartw cried she merrily "A pair Of
the silk stockings and two of the
breastknots and mask and Powered
apron shall you have" Then out of
the room she whisked abruptly. laugh
ing from excess of nervous confusion
longer.
Then Catherine turned to me. "She
has undone herself, for Madam Caven-
dish will see those goods when the
Golden Horn comes in or ferret the
mystery to ifs farthest hole of hiding, .
said she Then she wrung her hands
and cried out sharply, Harry Wing
field, what is to be doneY'
Madam Cavenlish would surely
never betray her own flesh and blood, :"
said l, though doubtfully, when / re-
f1ected upon her hardness to Catherine
herself. for Madam Judith Cayendish
was not one for whom love could
change the color of the clear light of
4 justice, and she would see forever her
own as they We're.
There is to her no such word as be-
tray except in the service of the king. 2
said Catherine Then she added in a
whisper, Know you the story of her
4 youngest son, my uncle, Ralph Caven-
dish, who Went over to CROMWELL"
I nodded | knew it well and had
heard it from lad how Ralph Cayen-
dish's own mother had turned him
from the door one night with the kings
troops in the neighborhood, though it
was afterward argued that she did not
know of that, and he had been taken
before morning and afterward execut-
! ed, and she had never said a word
nor shed a tear that any one saw.
when the Golden Horn comes in she
will demand to see the goods" Gather
inc repeated
s'Then the Golden Horn must not
come in,' said l.
Catherine looked at me with that
flash of ready wit in her eyes which
was like to the fash of fire from gun
powder meeting finder. Then she cried
out: 'Quick, then quick, | pray thee,
Harry Wingfield, to the wharf. For If
ever | saw sail saw that, and the tide
/ will have turned m Quick, Quickr'
She waited not for any headgear, but
forth into the May sunlight she rushed,
and / with her, and shouted at the top
of my lungs to the slaves for my horse,
then went myself, having no mind to
| wait, and hustled the poor beast from
his feed bin and was on his back and
4
Mistress Catherine following as fast as
! she was able Now and then when
/ turned / saw her slim green shape adj
vancing, looking for all the world to
my fancy like some nymph who had
/ been changed into river reed and had
gotten life again.
When reached the wharf. with my
horse all afoam, there was indeed the
1 Golden Horn down the river, coming
in The tide and wind had been against
her or she would have reached shore
! ere now Then along the bank | urged
my horse and in some parts, where
there was no footing and the tangle Of
woods too close, into the stream we
| plunged and swan, then up bank again,
and SO on with a mighty splatter of
/ mire and water and rain of green
leaves and blossoms from the low hang
i Of branches through which we tore
way, till we came abreast Of the Gold
en- Horn Then / hallooed, first max
ing sure that there was no one lurking
near to oyerhear, and waved my hand
kerchief, keeping my horse standing to
/ his fetlOckS in the current, until over
the water came an answering halloo
from the Golden Horn and | could
plainly see Captain Calvin Tabor on
the quarter deck The ship was not
far distant and / could have swan to
her, and would have, though the tide
was strong, had there been no other
way.
'Halloe,' shouted Captain Tabor, and
two more men came running to the
side, then more still, till it was over
hung by whole row of red English
| faces.
"Hallooly shouted l.
What dye lack? What's afoot?
Halloor'
"Send boatv I shouted back
News, news! Keep where ye be. Do
not land Send boatr'
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