The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-14
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had loved her, little girl and now he returned home after his wanderings to be told that she had grown into dazzling young woman of IS. He would soon see her again, he thought; and. indeed, he was right, for Roses bantshment was not for long. But Amyas soon saw that Frank,too, loved the Rose of Torridge, and he re- solved to think no more of her-Ahat is, to think of her as little as he could help the Rose of Torridge. and he resolved to think no more of her--that is, to think of her as little as he could help and he could even pray success or the suit of his brother, whom he loved unselfishly.
 Amyas had not long settled down to the quiet life of Burrough when all North Devon was aroused by the news that force of Spaniards had landed on the coast of Ireland and taken the fort at Smerwick; and with a hastily collected party of the other youth Of the region he prepared an expedition to fight the invaders. Eustace Leigh also departed, but not to fight his countrys battles. He Stole away a fugitive. having been discovered in reasonable correspondence with the enemy.
 Poor Frank did not dare to go to Ireland without the permission of the Virgin Queen. who kept a tight reign upon her courtiers; but If he could not go to make war abroad, he resolved that, before the expedition sailed, he would make peace at home.
 The well born youth men of North Devon were scarcely on speaking terms with each other, all on account of Rose Salterne. Not that Rose had given any one of them cause to hope; but, then, ne .er had she given any one of them cause to despair. TThe mir was full of rumors of duels over the Mayors daughter, and Frank saw that If this state of things continued there would be bloodshed; for one beautiful woman can bring many brave men to grief.
 So Frank persuaded all the gailants who aspired to the love of Rose to come to a dinner with him at the Ship Tavern, and there, when the wine had begun to work and the guests were in receptive mood, he proposed the health of the Rose of Torridge and made a speech to them. He declared how al 1t was that men of Devon, who stood shoulder to shoulder throughout the world, should be at swords drawn with each other in their native land.
 He set before them that no one could claim any better right to Rose than another, and proposed that each and all should follow the example of the knights of old and binding themselves together in fellowship, with one ob- ject of adoration. depart In search or adventures, to return after three years had passed and let Rose choose which was the most worthy of her love. Franks words moved his hearers to enthusiasm, and all the young men leaped up and swore friendship with
 each other and fidelity to Rose on the hilt of Franks sword.
 Thus was founded the Brotherhood of the Rose, which was to carry the
 fame of the Mayors daughter beyond the verge of the Seven Seas. The heart of Amyas leaped anew at this It was Franks own proposition. and perhaps he might after all carry off the prize that all men coveted. He sailed with his expedition, and they laid seige to the fort, and so peppered it with their cannon that the Spaniards were forced to surrender.
 The common soldiers were all put to the sword, as a warning to other Spaniards, and the officers held for ransom. To massacre a surrendered garrison was thought rather work of piety in those days both by Spaniards and Englishmen. When the Spanish officers were distributed among their captors Amyas claimed as his share Don Guzman de Soto, grandson of that famous cavalier who was With Pizzaro in Peru, and who afterwcrd found his grave in the waters of the Mississippi. Don Guzman was all that a hidalgo of such ancestry should be-courtly, brave and generous Once during the siege, when a cannon ball had carried away the staff from which floated
 the proud flag of Castile' Don Guzman | leaped upon the parapet amid a storm Of shot, and, shining in his armor, held the banner aloft until another staff could be procured.
 At the close of the campaign Amyas sent his captive on parole to Bideford, where Sir Richard Grenville, his fathers old friend, agreed to keep him as guest until his ransom should arrive.
 This was the same Sir Richard who later was to fight his immortal fight of the one and the fifty-three," when 1 his little Revenge fell in with a Span isharmada off the Azores.
 Don Guzman and he got on we'll to- gether, as two brave gentlemen will in spite of all differences in religion 1 and natonalIry.
 As for Amyas, he soon was up and l away again. He sailed with that ! disastrous expedition of Sir Humphrey | Gilbert, which sought to 'olonize New l 1Oundldnu. II was w Tn the reign of Elizabeth and from Lab- rador to the Brazils the gentlemen adventures" of England were seeking their fortunes In plundered Spanish | fleets and cities or in newly founded colonies
 The family of Don Guzman was poor, Spain a long way from England in those days and so nearly two years had passed since the Don came to Bide- i ford, and nearly three since the found- ing of the Brotherhood of the Rose,
 when the looked for ransom arrived at last. With the ransom came an order of the Spanish King appointing De Soto governor of the Caracas, as Venezuela was then called, and so he departed But all that night Rose Salterne lay moaning upon her bed,
 calling out for him to come back to her
 Perhaps he heard! At any rate, few days after the Dons departure Rose was missing They traced her to the hut of Lucy Passmore, an old woman who lived by the waterside and was reputed a witch But the hut was empty; Lucy also had flown. There were rumors, later, of a tall. Spanish-lookIng man accompanied by two women, one young and one old, having passed over to the Isle of Lundy of the fugitives was lost.
 Will Cary, one of the Knights of the Rose who had returned from the Irish mourned for It's lost beauty, and old ! Col