The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-13

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6NSe5 drawn to the deepress Of q
go window, while the black
slaves moved in and out, bearing the
breakfast dishes. as reasonably un-
needed by us as the cupbearers in a
picture of a Roman banquet in the
time of the Caesars which | saw once
Mistress Mary was pale with dismay,
and yet her mouth twitched with
/ laughter at the notion OF displaying,
f before the Mortified eyes of Madam
| Cavendish. those grim adornments
which had arrived in the Golden
| Horn.
La" said she. when they come
/ a-trundling in a powder cask. aud
courtesy and say, Madam, here is my
! furbeiowed and gold lowered sacque.
l wonder what will come to pass o.
I Then she laughed.
Madam" said /, "why did you give
that list:" She laughed again. and
her eyes flashed with the very light of
mischief.
Il grant twas a fb.'' said she. But
was taken unawares. and. Ia. how
could recite 10 her the true list of my
rare finery which came to port yester-
day: So / gave the list of goods for
which my Lady Culpeper sent to Eng
land for the replenishing of her ward
robe and her daughters. and which is
daily expected by ship. l had it from
Cicely Hyde. who had it from Cate
Culpeper. The ship is due now and
may be even now in port, and l so
worded what / said that twas not.
after all, fib except the nearer chose
to make ii so. l 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 un-
til she had finished. Then when she
turned and caught her keenly anxious
eyes she started. You here, Gather
ine?' said she. Then. knowing not how
much her sister knew already, she tried
TO cover her confusion like 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
hearth cried she merrily. "A pair Of
the silk stockings and two Of the
breastknots and q mask and a POWERED
apron shall you have" Then out of
the room she whisked abruptly, laugh
ing from excess of nervous confusion
and not being able to keep up the farce
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 it's farthest hole of hiding"
said she. Then she wrung her hands
and cried out sharply, Harry Wing
field, what is to be done:'
Madam Cavendish would surely
never betray her own flesh and blood,
said 1, though doubtfully. when 1 re-
f1ected upon her hardness to Catherine
herself, for Madam Judith Cavendish
was not one for whom love could
change the color of the clear light OF
justice. and she would see forever her
own as they were.
There is TO her no such word as be-
tray except in the service OF the king"
said Catherine. Then she added in a
whisper, know you the story of her
youngest son, my uncle. Ralph Caven-
dish, who went over to Cromwell:"
1 nodded 1 knew it well and had
heard it from lad how Ralph Caven-
dish's own mother had turned him
from the door one night with the kings
troops in the neighborhood, though ii
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 tear that any one saw.
A. 4. It.
will demand to see the goods" Gather
inc repeated.
"Then-the Golden Horn must not
come in" said /.
Catherine looked at me with that
fash 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, 1 pray thee.
Harry Wingfield, TO the wharf. For il
ever I saw sail saw that, and the tide
will have turned m. Quick, quick.'
She waited not for any headgear. but
forth into the May sunlight she rushed.
and I 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
Ills leu uiH WdS Ou ulS Ddek AHu
ct a hard gallop to the wharf, with
Mistress Catherine following as fast as
she was able. Now and then when I
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
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 l 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
OF branches through which we tore
way. till we came abreast of the Gold
en- Horn. Then / haIiooed. first max
ing sure that there was no one lurking
near to overhear. and waved my hand
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