New-York tribune., 1905-12-24

meeting in the straits of their merchant vessel
with a Turkish man-of-war. Their captain. in
order that his ship might make a formidable ap-
pearance ordered all the men on deck and al
the women below. He locked Anne in her cabin.
where she knocked and called until the cabin
boy came to the door. Crying heartily. she be
guiled him with half crown out of his cap and
coat, and, putting them on, crept up on deck
to Richards side. The Turk. approaching. was
discouraged at sight of the adversary's arma-
ment and tackled off Then the Englishman
suddenly recognized his daring wife He
blessed himself and snatched me up in his arms
saying, Good God. that love can make this
changer and though he seemingly child me. he
would laugh at it as often as he remembered
that voyage"
The Fanshawes spent some time in Ireland on
the royal affairs, and Anne tells a strange ghost
story apropos Of a night spent at the house OF
Lady Honor O'Brien- Weakened by a strange
voice in the dead and awful middle Of the night,
she saw by the light of the moon woman lean
ing through the easement, a woman in white
with red hair and pale and CHASTITY complexion
"She spoke loud, and in d tone I have never
heard, thrice, a horse and then with a sigh
more like the wind than breath she vanished,
and to me her body looked more like thick
cloud than substance I was much fright
ened that my hair stood on end. and my night
clothes fell off" She awakened her surprised
husband, and they spent the rest of the night
conversing on the subject of spectres. There
WAS grewsome sequel. Early in the morning
their hostess came to tell them that cousin Of
hers, whose ancestors had owned that house"
had died during the night, and she added: Il
wish you to have had no disturbance for it's
the custom of the place that when any Of the
family are dying the shape of a woman appears
in the window every night till they be dead"
Those acquainted with the innumerable tradi-
tons of this kind need hardly be told that the
apparition was that of poor woman supposed
to have been murdered in times past by lord
of the castle.
A pathetic portion of Lady Fanshawe's remi
niscences relates to the period in which her
Richard was Cromweu's prisoner at Whitehall
The close confinement and many anxieties COM
ing after cold and hard marches wrecked his
health. and he almost died of scurvy. The pas
sionately tender wife clung to him throughout
those hitter days:
constantly 10 60 when the clock struck in the
mo- m ft %t'n f . ur8 n Isi IN n my b bo & a. f G7
at my cousin Youngs, to Whitehall, in at the
green There / would go under his window and
softly call him: he. after the first time excepted.
hus we talked Cd fogefher and e9 soees f was $50 50
wet with the rain. that it went in at my neck and
put at my heels
Fanshawe's release came about through
curious misapprehension of the members Of the
Council. who on hearing Cromwell make an ex-
tremely poor pun on the subject of the prison
ars illness thought that it would oblige him to
give the cavalier liberty on bail We should
not forget to say that like the gallant gentle
man he was, Fanshawe, just before his capture,
yrasped chance to burn all his papers. thus
saving the lives and estates Of many Of the
Kings supporters.
This loyal cavaliers own fortune was spent
N the Kings service, and although at the
Restoration the second Charles sent him on an
embassy to Portugal. and finally made him
Ambassador to Spain, his end was sadness An
intrigue of the greedy courtiers at home caused
lin to be suddenly superseded and his death
hortly after at Madrid was partly caused It
nay be conjectured. by foriorn sense of in
Justice
''The Call of the Blood" the new novel by the
LuthOr OF The Garden Of Allah" is a story of
Sicilian life. the scene being laid in the noun