The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-23
CHAPTER XIV.
The Fate of Lord clunv Neville.

The Fate of Lord Cluny Neville.
On tides of glory England was
bori-e TIE next til years. to a ma
tional homo" aud strength which had
never before been dreamed Of Never
in her whole history had the govern.
ment been AZ once so thorough and SO
penetrated with a desire for honesty
and capacity. For the first time, the
sense of social duty to the state took
the place of the old spirit Of loyalty
to the sove ign For the first time
rope, morality and religion were the
qualif lions insisted on by a court
In the n tntime Spain. was help
ing Charles with money which was
spent in plots to assassinate the Pro
tec,or The effect Of this IVES sew
eral petition and .addI esses offered
In Parliament begging Cromwell to
assume the ancient Office of King, If
only for the settlement of the nation
He was quite strong enough to have
taken it, and there was nothing IN
manly either In his desire for the
crown or In his refusal of it, One
thing he KIN Y well that the title of
King would take all meaning out of
the Puritan revolution, and he could
not SO break with his own past, with
his own spii .tual life, aud with the
godly men who had so faithfully fol,
lowed and SO fully trusted him.
Why SHOULD he fret himself about
mere word? All real power was in
his hands, tie army ant the navy, the
churches and the universities. the re
form and administration of the law.
and government of Sec, land and OF
Ireland. Abroad, the wac with all It's
details, the alliance with Sweden.
with Franc" with & Protestant
princes OF Germany, TIE Protestant
Protectorate extending as far as
Transylvania, the planting" OF the
West Indies, the settl lent of the
American Colonies. and their defense
against their rivals. the French--all
these subjects were Cromwels daily
cares.
TO be '0g is not l.. my commits
sion.'' he said TO Doctor Verify. 1T
squares not 18th my cell or my con
science. | sill not f.. .,e with the
question aga; no, not for AN hour
These three years were full OF glory
and romance, and the r-orest family
in England led throus an epic OF
such national grandeur as few gen
erations have witnessed. Yet. amid
it all. the S.~7ple dome lie lives OF
men and won went c. ally on, and
birth, marri' ., and deaf made rich
or barren til ). homes. Jane Swaffham
had long be able to think of Cluny-
NJ . as lyin. blood" rave, but as
one of the Sons of Gou among the
Hosts OF Ec ven. And this consola
tic accepted, she had begun to study
J.. IN and mathematics with Doctor
Verify and 20 give her love and her
service to al.
A..lilda's life during this interval
had been cranlped and saddened by
the inheritance from her previous
years. Really loving Cymlin. She
could rot dise1tangle the may
threads binding her to old unfCT-
tunate passica, for, having become
wealthy. the Stuarts would NOT resign
tleif claim u2on her. Thus she was
con- pelled, Oh en against her will to
be aware of plots for the assassiI...-
tion of Cromwell-plots which SHOCK
ed her moral sense, and which gener.
ally seemed to Ter intelligence exceed
irgly foolish and USELESS.
She loved Cymlin, but she feared to
marry him. She feared the reproach.
es OF Rupert, who, though he made no
effort to consummate their long en-
gagement was furiously indignant if
she spoke of ending it, Then, also,
she had fears connected with Cymlin,
When very young he had begun to
save money in order to make himself
a possible sutton for Matilda's hand
In the Irish campaign he had been
exceedingly fortunate; be had bought