Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-07-27
CHAPTER v.
Lord Waters Message.

went into the house and down q
long corridor until reached the nook
known as the library. Here MY faith.
er was wont to spend most of his
time. A quiet herein" came in re-
Spouse to my resounding knock. It
dampened my ardor so still was 1t in
contract to my impetuousity, and re-
called most wildly what was on the
verge of slipping my mind, that Lord
Waters was a wretchedly sick man.
His life, as Gil had said, had been
ruined by a woman-his first wife.
From gay cavalier about that un-
fortunate King Charles l. court, he
had become a morose Roundhead. A
Roundhead for a short time only, but
morose man ever afterward.
It is a matter Of history how after
leaving the Kings side and serving
| Cromwell at both the battles of
| Winceby and Marsden, he had as sud.
denly resigned from the army and
| gone to his estate at Long Haut In
Sussex county. There he married,
having previously obtained a divorce
from his first wife, a squlre's daughter
who brought him much land and gold.
What could have induced him to
know not. Men are insoTutable crea-
lures; no doubt woman's tender
glances made him for the time forget
his former disappointment.
/ was the issue of this second mar
riage. My mother, gentle creature
dying in child birth, left Lord Waters
to again face an existence which had
slight charm for him.
Long Haut was not SO many miles
from London as the crow flies, but
separated from 1t by sloughs, rocky
hills and morasses.
The Manor House was built on ,
steep hill of powders taken from the
rocky hillside. It was well nigh i'm
pregnable, and that perhaps was VIII.
in the many changes of Parliament 1
had been left to the indisputabl
rights of its original owners, whel
many other estates changed hands.
Only one horse road led to it. I
was a road that in fair weather wa
only fair, but In foul an unapproacf
able way. The wagon must be Q
strong timber that could even CHM
to where the bride path began; bu
let it rain, and it rained often in tha
region by the sea, the road became
river of mud. A cart trying to ascen
then would be buried up to the huh
and needs be forced to stay there III
til spring dried up the slough.
The Manor was surrounded
many acres of forest, fen, fell an
some tillable land. A village whic
was held in fief of some hundre
souls was huddled at its purlieus an
gave Lord Waters little obligatio
They seemingly rendered him seal
service, except at the planting in tt
spring time, and in the autumn the
gathered together motley, half-sa
age crowd-consisting Of men, wol
en- and children-and they all fell
work at the husking and failing
the corn.
When the work was done, riotol
fun began. Flaming torches of tarr'
pine were placed at intervals In Il
open to give light and to piece o.
the harvest moon. These lent wei
aspect to the glen.
A long board was spread wi
trenchons of steaming beef, huge pill
of black bread and other edibles, al
about this the people were benche
10 1t did not take them long to lightt
: the table of its weight of plent
Hogsheads of strong home-brewed a
helped wash and pack down the be
"a in the bellies of the men, till tn
- were like taut drawn drum heads tn
- a touch might burst.
ITO be continued.)