The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-18

Lew Countries which the Duke was
 then conducting. e When Colonel Esmond returned once more from the wars he found that his fathers widow, the Lady Isabel. had
 died and left to him her small fortune
 and her diamonds, which were of con-
 siderable value, being the gift, of a king She was about to marry the great Duke of Hamilton, who was go- ing on an embassy to France which, it
 was hoped might result in the young
 King at St. Germains being brought back as heir to his sister, the Queen,
 who was rapidly failing in health.
 Beatrix was heart and soul in "the 1 good cause" and radiant with ambi ,
 marry mama" she said to the Colonel ! "Go and be Darby and Joan the rest l of your lives; that's what. you two are ! fitted for; Oh. cousin: when s.r VIII you | Lady Castlewood was established in
 a modest house at Kensington. where
 Beatrix, was maid of honor in ,tfie the
 coming anxiously, Harry" the gentle 1 lady said Dean Attearbury advised
 me to await your decision. Your Ia me and told me, all. She learned the | secret accidentally, she said, after she | had been three years married, ana nad
 kept 1t because 1t had peen Ensss eEmsioeFea resl l. rrSt- 1 toration that 1t should be so. Those | who knew held 1t as a whip over my
 husband to keep him true 10 the gI,4hh g,fh you.' My decision was made beside | the deathbed of my dear lord said | Harry, q am the head Of the IanlIy,
 but your son is 'Viscount Castie"ooo | still"
 .Dear. general IIarryr cried the
 lady. throwing herself at his feet. Nay, | do not raise me; let me kneel and and worship you."
 Iadv CastIewood's house was a very
 headquarters of the Tory faction; and | one night as a company of gentlemen
 sat over their glasses after dinner my | Lord BollngbrolSe. excited by the wine
 he had drunk. shouted out: Ireasoh' l Loyalty! What names are these to | friehten you and me with? Here's to | inc king over the water. We'll bring l hm back and show him Whitehall, ana l then if he betrays us, hurrah Tor the Iust then Dean Swift came in with a scared face. For Gods sake. my | Lord, drink no more," he said.
 "Whatr'. exclaimed the company'
 "No but Duke Hamilton Is dead
 renIIed the Dean. He has just been killed in a duel. with that rascal Mo- hun. who is dead. too.'
 "Poor Beatrix!' was Esmopd's first ! thought But the proud girl bore the | ruin of her ambitious hopes with a | dignity that repelled sympathy and | A gravity that disarmed criticism. As to the disaster which the Duke 8 death had been to the Tory party. | Colonel Esmond had a plan of his own for retrieving it. This was to bring over the King secretly and have | him proclaimed instantly on the death 1 of his sister. who could not last much
 IIndoubted inheritor of the right di- vine the feelings of more than half | the nation, of almost all the clergy and of the gentry of England and Scotland were with the king over the water" Brave. young. handsome, unfortunate--a prince armed with his right only. and relying on the loyalty of his people. was sure of a welcome among them and of being proclaimed James III. almost before the breath should have left the body of Queen Anne.
 The young Viscount Castlewood had | ben abroad for three years striving
 with the army of the Rhine and ex- | tending his travels. He was of the same age of the youthful King and
 bore a remarkable personal resem- | biance to him. What was easier than that the King, travelling as the Vis- count Castlewood. with Frank as his | servant, should come swiftly to Lon | don? The leaders of the Tory party | agreed and so one night the little l house at Kensington had a royal guest
 who was to lie hid there for a while. He was but a boy. and French boy at that with all the imperfections of | his race aggravated by exile and his