The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

Just then Dean Swift came in with q scared face "tor Gods sake, my lord, drink no more,' he said.
 "What!' exclaimed the company, start ing up, lis the queen dead?'
 No but Duke Hamilton is dead' re- piled the Dean He has just been killed in duel with that rascal Mohun, who is dead, too."
 Poor Beatrix!" was Esmond's first thought. But the proud girl bore the ruin of her ambitious hopes with a digni- ty that repelled sympathy and a gravity that disarmed criticism.
 As for the disaster which the Duke s death had been to the Tory party, Colonel I1smond had plan of his own for re- trieving it. This was to bring over the King secretly and have him proclaimed instantly on the death of his sister who could not last much longer.
 Undoubted inheritor of the right divine, the feeling of more than half the na- ton. 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 q vel come among them and of being proclaimed James III. almost before the breath should have left the body of Queen Anne,
 The young Viscount Castlewood has been dDTOdu TOT three HttISs StiNlHB WlNll the army on the Rhine and extending his travels. He was of the same age as the youthful King and bore a remarkable per- sonal resemblance to him. What was easier than that the King travelling as the Viscount Castlewood, with Frank as his servant, should come swiftly to London? The leaders of the Tory party agreed and so one night the little house at kenslng- ton had a royal guest who was 10 lie hid there for while
 He was but boy, and a French boy at that, with all the imperfections of his race aggravated by exile and his foreign training But they served him on pended knee in the house of Lady Castewood.
 Young Castlewood was startled by the beauty and spendor of Beatrix when she came down stairs to meet the King on his arrival; and James Stuart stood en- thralled. as Harry Esmond had once stood when Trix came down the stairs to meet him. years ago. at Walcote.
 These were busy days for the Tory managers. who were filled with the hope of d great triumph. But the King instead of showing interest in the hot labor of his supporters, employed his waiting time in daliance with -,eatrix; and the bearing of that young lady toward the royal guest caused the Esmond family much concern. The girl was better at Castlewood her mother said at last. until the King should have a house of his own.
 For shame" burst out Beatrix with tears of rage and modification. You dis grace me with your suspicious. I will go; but I will go alone to Castewood. You three shall stay behind and triumph over my unha ppiness. 1 want not that my mother should accompany me. l thank you Harry Esmond, for your share in thls conspiracy"
 Well" said Frank, i've all think you are deal too fond of the King and he of you and that's a fact"
 So poor Beatrix went off to lonely Cas- tlewood and the young King. when he found her gone. swallowed his supper very sulkily and did not rally in spirits unti lthe second bottle.
 Messengers were coming constantly from the palace now where the Queen lay dy- ing At any moment the youth who was siahin9 for tha vanished Beatrix might be