Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-07-31
CHAPTER xvII.-continued.

M CHe WdS SWttDitS VIII tIil WIN
from the room and had nearly reached
the door before | found my voice. Then
i called out, stay" just In time. You
will do no good. madam, by going!"
said, rising. You Will not find her
She is gone"
Gomez"
Yes / said quietly. "She left the
house 20 minutes ago. | saw her cross
the market place, wearing her cloak
and carrying a bag. | do not think she
will return"
Not returr2 But whittier has she
gomez x they both cried at once.
/ shook my head.
II can only guess / said In a low
voice. Il saw no more than | have
told you"
But why did you not tell me-" the
duchess cried re~proachfully. she shall
be brought back
1T would be useless" Master Berthe
answered. yet / doubt IL 1t be as
Carey thinks. Why should she go just
at this time? She does not know that
she Is found out. She does not know
that this letter has been recovered. Not
a word, mind. was said OF IL before she
left the ROOM
mo, / allowed, that is true"
/ was puzzled on this point myself,
now ] came TO consider IL. / could not
fNR ~ Alh AAGlt toh&i tA1 etiAt ~ ~
OPPORTUNITY, but | maintained my opin-
Ion nevertheless.
Something frightened her" I said,
though 1t may not have been the let
ter
Yes" said the duchess after a mo-
ment's silence. II suppose o are
right. l suppose something frightened
her, as you say. l wonder what 1t was,
poo wretch!'
II turned out that ] was right. Mis-
tress Anne had gone indeed. having
staid, so far as we could learn from an
examination of the room which she had
shared with Dymphna, merely to put
together the few things which our adj
ventures had left her. She had gone
out from among Is In this foreign land
without a word OF farewell. without a
good wish given or received. without q
soul TO say godspeed! The thought
made me tremble. II she had died. 1t
would have been different. Now. to feel
sorrow for her as for one who had
been with us in heart as we'll as In
body seemed a mockery. How could
we grieve for n who had moved day
by day and hour by hour among us
only that with ZACH hour and day she
might plot and scheme and plan our,
destruction? 1t was impossible!
We made inquiries indeed, but with
- . ~ AAhA4 9V tbth IN IlOAH
she passed, for the time. out OF Dur
knowledge, though often afterward I
recalled sadly the weary. hunted look
which / had sometimes seen In her
eyes when she sat l~istiess and dreamy.
Poor girl! Her own acts had placed
her, as the duchess said. beyond love
or hope, but not beyond pity.
So 1t is In life. The day which sees
ones trial end sees another's begin.
We, the duchess and her child, Master
BERTHE and /. staid with our good and
friends, the Lindstrums,
resting and recruiting our
strength, n during this interval, at
the pressing instance Of the duchess. l
wrote letters to Sir Anthony and Pc
tronilla, stating that / was abroad and
was well and looked presently to re-
turn, but not disclosing my refuge or
the names of my companions. AT the
end OF five days, Master BERTHE being
fairly strong again, and Santon being
considered unsafe for us as a. perma-
nent residence, we went under guard
to Vessel, where we were received as
people OF quality and lodged. there be-
ing no fitting place, In the disused
church of st. Willibrod. Here the child
christened Peregrine--a wanderer
governor Of the city and l being
godfathers. And here we lived In peace,
albeit with hearts that yearned for
home, for some months.
During this time two pieces OF news
came TO us from England--one that the
parliament, though much pressed Ia 1t.
had refused to acquiesce In the con-
fiscation OF the duchess estates: the
that our joint prosecutor, the
great bishop OF Winchester. was dead.
This last we at first disbelfeved. 1t
was true nevertheless. Stephen Gard
liner, whose vast schemes had inmeshed
people SO far apart In station and in
deed I'm all else as the duchess and my
self. was dead at last: had died toward
the end Of 1855, at the height OF his
power, with England at his feet. and
gone TO his Maker. have known many
worse men.
We trusted that this might open the
way for our return, but we found, on
the contrary, that fresh clouds were
rising. The persecution OF the reform
ers. which Queen Mary had begun In
England, was carried on with increas-
ing rigor, and her husband. who was
now king OF Spain and master OF the
Netherlands. freed from the prudent
checks Of his father, was inclined to
pleasure her in this by giving what aid
he could abroad. His minister In the
Netherlands, the bishop OF Arras.
brought so much pressure to bear upon
our protector to induce him to give us
up that 1t was plain the duke of Cleves
must sooner or later comply. We
thought ii better. therefore. to remove
ourselves and presently did SO, going
to the town OF Winnheim, In the Rhine
palatinate.
We found ourselves not much more
secure here. however. and all our ef-
forts to discover a safe road into
France failing, and the stock OF money
which the duchess had provided be-
ginning to give IA we were In great
straits whittier TO go or what to do,
At this time Of our need, however,
providence opened a door In a quarter
where we least looked FOR II. Letters
came from Sigismund, the king OF Po-
land, and from the palatine OF wilma
In that country. inviting the duchess
and Master BERTHE to take ND their
residence there and offering the latter
an establishment and honorable en-
ployment. The overture was unlocked
for and was not accepted without mis-
giyings, wilma being so Ear distant ana
there being none OF U race In that
country. However. assurance OF the
Polish kings good faith reached us-]
say us, for In all their plans / was in
cluded~~through John Alasco, a noble
mar who hnd visited England. And In
due time we started on this prodigious
Journey and came safely TO wilma
whele our reception was such as the
letters had led us TO expect.
d not propose 10 set down here oul
adventures. though they were many
In that strange country OF froxer