The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-07-31
CHAPTER xv11.-canttnued,

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house 20 minutes ago. 1 saw her cross
the market place, wearing her cloak
n carrying a bag. I do not think she
will return"
Not return? But whittier has she
gomez" they both cried at once.
I shook my head.
II can only guess" l said in a ow
voice. II saw no more han l have
told you"
But why did you not tell me-" the
duehess cried reproachfully. Ssh Shall
TT would be useless" Master Berthe
answered. Yet l doubt if it 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 it before she
left the room."
NO." l allowed, that is true"
I was puzzled on this point myself,
now l came to consider it. l could not
see why h had taken the alarm so
OPPORTUNITY, but l maintained my opin-
Ion nevertheless.
Something frightened her." I said,
though it may not have been the let
ter"
YES said the duchess after a mo-
ment's silence. II uppos you are
right. l suppose something frightened
her, as o say I onde what it was,
poor wretch"
1t turned out that 1 was right. Mis-
tress Anne had gone indeed, having
staid, so far as we could earn 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 us in this foreign land
without q word Of farewell. without a
good wish given or received, without a
soul TIC say godspeed! The thought
made me tremble. If she had died. it
would nave 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 grievc for one who had move day
by day and hour by o among US
only that with each hour and day she
might plot and scheme and plan our,
destruction? 1t was impossible!
We made inquiries indeed. but with
out result, and so abruptly and terribly
h passed, for the time, out Of our
knowledge. though often afterward 1
recalled sadly the weary, hunted look
which 1 had sometimes seen in her
Poor girl! Her own acts had placed
her, as the duchess said, beyond love
or hope, but not beyond pity.
So it is in life. The day which sees
ones trial end sees another's begin.
BERTHE and 1. staid with our good and
faithful friends, the Lindstroms,
awhile, resting and recruiting our
strength, and during his interval. at
the pressing instance OF the duchess, l
wrote letters to Sir Anthony and Pc
tronilla, stating that l was abroad and
was we'll and looked presently to re-
turn, but not disclosing my refuge or
the names of my companions. AT the
end of fl days. Master BERTHE being
1airly strong again, and Santon being
00nCi1ayn1 ,,,rnFn f1,. ,y~ r~ ~ or,,n
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
was christened Peregrine-a wanderer
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-cne that the
parliament, though much pressed to it,
11scation Of the duchess estates; the
other that our joint prosecutor. the
great bishop OF Winchester, was dead.
This last we at first disbelieved. 1t
was true nevertheless. Stephen Card
1ner. whose vast schemes had inmeshed
people so far apart in station and in
deed in all else as the duchess and my
self, was dead at last; had dice toward
the end OF 1855, at the height of his
power, with England at his feet, and
gone to his Maker. 1 have known many
worse men.
We trusted that this might open the
way for u return. but we found, on
the contrary, that fresh clouds were
rising. The persecution of the REFORM
ers. which Queen Mary had begun in
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
brought SO much pressure to bear upon
our protector to induce him to give US
up that 1t was plain the duke of Cleyes
must sooner or later comply. We
thought 1t better, therefore, to remove
ourselves and presently did so, going
to the town Of winnheim. in the Rhine
p~alatinate.
We found ourselves not much more
secure here, however, and all ur eff
forts to discover a safe road into
France failing. and the stock OF money
which the duchess had provided be-
ginning to give out we were in great
straits whittier to go or what to dc.
AT this time Of u need, however,
providence opened a door in a quarter
where we least looked for 1t. Letters
came from Stgtsmund, h king of Po-
land, and from the palatine OF wilma
in that country, inviting the duchess
and Master BERTHE to take up their
residence there and Offering the latter
an establishment and honorable en-
ployment. The overture was unlocked
for and was not accepted without mis-
g1vings. Wilma being SO far distant and
there being none Of our race in that
country. However. assurance Of the
Polish kings good faith reached us-I
say US. for in all their plans I was in
cluded-through John Alasco, a noble
nan who had visited England. And in
cue time we started on this prodigious
journey and anne safely to wilma,
where our reception was such as the
letters had led US to expect.
I do not propose to set down here our
adventures. though they were many,
in that strange country of frozen
marshes and endless plains, but to pass
over Is months which spent not
without profit to myself In the Poles
service, seeing something of war in his
Lithuanian campaigns and learning
much OF men n the world, which
here, to say nothing Of wolves and
bears. bore certain aspects not COM
monty visible in Warwickshire. I pass
on to the early autumn OF 1858. when
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