The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-21
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 .sNo. my lord Cardinal, not pphcard, rstartsd Mary Tudor haughtily. we have seen strange things today ana can only guess at the terribie tansle which caused the first gentleman m Enuland to take upon himself the burden of heinous crime.
 "And. no doubt" added Wesse*' that His Eminence can solve the rid- die of how pure and noble girl was led into sacrincing her honor
 .Nay.e reiterated the Cardinal biting ly. .sFIts Grace of Wessex Is more competent than to solve the riddle or A woman's heart. The Lady Ursula hsis confessed: this trick of trying to disprove her tale" he added with cut ting sarcasm. was well thought on by the most chfvalrous gentleman Tn EnxIand An ft satisfies His Grace. he continued with a careless shrug or his shoulders. ..sure1y I could never wish to dispel so plesanat an iiiu- sion.
 Perhaps the Duke would have re- torted in angry words. despite the un- utterable contempt which he fet TOT this final poisoned shaft aimed at him bv tha Cardinal. but just then the groups which surrounded him, the queen, and His Eminence, parted, ana UfusIa Glynde stood before them all.
 She still wore the white robes which became her so well. but now they only helped to enhance the brilliancy of her hair. the clear blue of her eyes. ana a certain rosy flush. which lent to her delicate face delicious air of child iahIess and innqcence- She looked at no one, though her spirit seemed to have wandered off into a land or dreams.
 Your Majesty sent for me7' she said.
 the Queen.
 Ursula closed her glorious eyes. A ray of intense joy. seemed to hiumi- nate her whole face, lighting it with a radiance which sureIy had its orig in in Heaven. Then she slowly turned her head towards Wessex, and. in one little word told him all that her soul contained.
 aEverythIngg. she said.
 Everything that is to say. his sin,his mistrust of her his great passionate love and salf-aacrIfice for her. Everythtngi which meant her own love. her own devotion. her joy to find him true and chfvalrous, her happiness and her hope
 Mary Tudor saw the look and it's response from Wessexs eyes. She saw the end of the one dream which had filled her dull, rigid life, and rendered it hopeful and bright. But she was, above all, Tudor. She accepted the dictate of Fate. she bent the neck to . greater will than her own, and closed the book of her illusions, never 10 peruse its pages again. One last look she cast at the man who had had the one passion of which her strange hard heart was capable, one short farewell she bade to the vague hope. which until now would not be gainsaid.
 From now to tlfe ned of her days. she would be Queen alone; the woman lay buried amongst the autumn leaves, which strewed the walks of old Hamp- ton Court Palace.
 As Queen now she once more turned to Ursula. Justice in her demanded that every wrong should be righted every misdoer punished.
 "Child.- she said quietly. fit was not you. then. who were, with Don higuel2"
 No, your Majesty" replied Urusla, returning to earth at the sound of the Queens kindly voice, Lady Alicia tells me that a girl, "a poor, sad girl. was in face so like to me. =. that His Girace must have mistaken.... and. ]"
 But, chiId... then why told lie?. .."
 His Eminence told me what to say before the Court. and promised His Grace would be saved by t.'
 Her voice dropped to low muTmur that no one heard it but the Queen ... and NWessex.
 T did ft to save him."
 "A lie, your Majesty" protested tha Cardinal
 The truth" retorted Ursula loudR T pray your Majesty to look on hifa. and see on whose face Is writW words fesrr'
 Almost as if in obedience to UT s words. Mary Tudor turned and Wed the Spanish Cardinal. He tried to meet her look boldly. Even in de feat there was certain grandeur in this man.
 He had staked and lost his own posi- ton, his future career. his hopes of greater destiny, but he had succeeded in his schemes He knew Mary Tud- or well enough to rejoice in this. that she would never break her royal word to Philip, even though she let the flood of her royal wrath fall full heav- fly upon him
 Go back. my lord. to your royal master said Queen Mary with lofty contempt Ny word Is my bond. and my pledge to him Is sacred, but tell