Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-10-05
NOT An In probable tale" he

cried.
81 have proofs" I retorted.
I held out to him the tiny brooch
He took 1t with a shaking hand.
"His! not a doubt of It," he whis.
pered; I'll Q martyred King's!"
He got up and paced the floor, look
ing at the jewel in his palm.
Yes, as a child / have seen him
wear It," he murmured. "By what
Vaccinations did Lord Waters obtain
this brooch" he said c~uttingly.
Il told you. SIRE" I replied with
dignity.
He paced the floor with a more nur.
ried tread, while he frowned and knit
his brow in deep thought. He said:
Nov, l remember having heard that
after the battle OF Marsden, being sep
arated from his guards, he had been
captured by a man serving on the
other side, but when the man found
that it was the King he held, he had
released him, even given him safe
conduct to his men, SO that he should
not be retaken. 1t was told me by
General L~auderdale, to whom my
father had related the incident.
Strange! the King, my father, did not
recognize so familiar a man at court
as Lord Waters"
"He was much changed, SIRE" l
said, land affected the p~uritanical
style. 1t was also dark and he wished
to be unrecognized."
s'What strange creatures men are!"
~soliloquized his Majesty.
II would have you know, SIRE" I
continued, that after that the old
love for his King returned to Lord
Waters. He resigned from Crom.
wells army, and went to his estate in
Long Haul. There he obtained a
divorce from his wife, and, after liv.
ing in retirement, married my mother.
who died in childbirth. During the
years of my minority the thought that
he might have wronged the King and
his first wife never left him. 1t made
him what he has been aver since, a
! miserably sick man. Owing to his
! condition he vas not able to come
himself, so he sent me to lay the mat.
: ter before your Majesty and plead for
forgiveness"
I had finished and l knelt before
him.
: "'Fore Godi you shall have IT," he
cried, as he motioned me to rise; "but
1t seems to me that tits to Lady
. Dwight you should go as your father
emissary to plead for forgiveness"
Q LADY Dwight" I exclaimed.
I wal too astonished to say more.
"She is yOur fathers divorced
wife," he explained.
my fathers wife!" I repeated.
even So" he affirmed, none too pa
tiently.
Light dawned upon me and I under
stood my lady's fainting fit; she, toe
was overcome by circumstances.
"And Sir Raoul Dwight" I ques
toned fiercely.
"Your half-brother," he answered
"born in France. six months sfte
your father left in such im%portunat
haste"
"My God!" I cried. "And they tai
about instinct; l had not the least ii
nate feeling toward him. Why, W
were ever as cat and dog whenever W
came II sight of one another"
Ever brothers Will quarrel over
woman" he smiled.
"There need be no more q~uarrelin
upon that score" I replied; che
welcome to the lady"
"That is good. he enjoined. Eye
will return the paper at once to Lad
FELTON,, and nounc all claim to hi
hand"
Certainly" I replied. 81 4
tended to keep her to It. I will 6,
the paper from the person who has
and make her a present of 1t to-nigl
before 1 sleep. Had the lady been
town she would have had It befol
this"
4. Been In town." he began. "a
In yes. So you shall gladden. Rao
Dwight's heart; he but now wei
from here with a hanging head b
M cause I would promise him nothing
His Majesty yawned and then ID
bo missed me.
~ ITO be continued.)