The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01
THE
QUEENS PAGE
By Cornelia Baker 0Dzsat Xss ls b. Ss 'O0'
Charles the Fifth France-What Happened to Pedr'
Copyright 1905, by the Bobbs-
60 Merrill Company
CHAPTER XXI.

HARLES THE FIFTH of Spain wanted to V1slt
Ghent, which part of his domain and, being
afraid to go by account of the English Ships
and not caring to 60 thru Germany for fear OF some
with the Protestant states, he invited by
Francis to thru France which the shortest
route, an invitation which the Spanish sovereign ac
eepted - ,-' " -
These two monarchs as we have seen, had been
enemies and atho they brothers-naw and had
made of friendship they did not love eaeh
other yet Henri the dauphip hated Charles for he was
of the boys who had been sent Spain as
he could forget his long imprisonment when he
that Brusquet the court fool ehuckled he opened the
calendar which he kept for the Of nscrlbng IN It
the of greater fools than himself and wrote the
of the Spanish king deeming the latter fool for
trusting himself in France. -. .... IL ...-
: When, with a grin of satisfaction, he showed the
to his royal master, Francis asked: "And what
would you say fool should allow the King OF Spain
to pass thru my realm without let or bindrancefu
'In that case cousin - returned Brusquet should
erase his and write your in its place." -
But Charles started his way thru Franco taking
with him very small retnue, willing apparently, to
trust to the good faith of his quandom adversary.
The royal guest received at every town with the
greatest and ceremony and was met at Loches by
Francis himself After embracing if they adored in
stead of dsusg each other the two monarchs travelled
together stopping at palaces The lively French
could enjoy and possibly good many that bored the
6panard who inclined to be serious and cared but
By the table, for he appetite
The velasco twins had pictured the king of Spain
as tall and handsome and they were greatly surprised
to find him short and somewhat lame for his love of good
things had brought with it nps of the gout His
ower jaw proruded, his lips thick and his mouth
always open, showing his teeth. But he very
dignifed and his gentle it hard to be-
ieve that this king cruel and that he set value
human life when suited purpose to destroy it,
Queen Eleanor was delighted to be in the company Of
her Of whom she was very f9n tho she dd not
IS Marguerite Of Navarro for Francis E'& #%E= 50
Pedro constantly at the beck call Of the queen,
could that she worried and it is reasonable to
suppose that she had her doubts of the sincerity Of the
friendship shown by Francis for his royal brother
day before the Spanish sovereign depart
the time, concentrated ali his thoughts upon himself
1T was at the end Of great banquet and Francis
was telling story as usual Of the days of shiyalry In
to his feet and in order the better illustrate the
he describing he drew his dagger from its sheath
highest point, the dagger slipped from his hand and
! struck Pedro, who standing behind the queens
chair The boy had stepped backward the weapon fell
of the sharp blade pierced his cheek inictng painful
J wound 49,,
tBy the Mass!" exclaimed the king in dismay when
he what he had done. But the queens page pos
essed the soul of sodier pressing his handkerchief to
with the other and kneelng restored to his majesty
z. "Well done' said Francis adding kindly: "Retire,
my lad, and send for physician, "a command which
the boy glad to obey. -. -. e..
The physician stanched the blood and applied heal:
ing lotion TT will not leave sea1,n said A 'thanks
fortunate for you boy for would be pity to have
: your beauty marred.' - '-~$ . :..~
Petronila who had not been present when the aeci-
occurred wep bitterly at beholdng her brother 3
bandaged face laughed at her and told her that when
he grew up he no doubt would often feel the point of
enemy's blade much severely than he felt
the accidental thrust of the dagger and assured
her that would have been willing to meet worse
ishap order to win word of praise from his majesty
But the wound painful nevertheless, and all
night long he tossed uneas his couch unable to sleep
until near the approach of dawn. =
In the afternoon of the following day the boy was
surprised to her majesty and her confidential friend
. the Dona Ysabel, enter his
1 tBoy,' said Eleanor, do you think your wound will
permit you to undertake journey for me''
'I not too i'll to your gracious majesty, -
returned Pedro, kneeling at her feet. J.. ~ ::
'sMy brother, the king of spain has taken his de-
parture will rest tonight at hostely three
four hours ride from Paris I have heard of plot to
arrest his majesty at chanty greatly fear that il
may be than merely to arrest him. for you may
the prediction of the astrooger concerning the
king and his smiling enemy It is plainly revealed to
4 The maze ne1Rhn unustv for Of