Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-03-21
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/ / watch small eyes grow large viii
establishment But the truth is a mar
can only be at one place at a time. AnC
/ though, In this very month of Feb
/ ruarN, 1855 Prebendary Rogers
( good. kindly man, as | have heard. who
! had q wife and nine children--Was
! burned in Smithfield in London for re-
{ iigion, and the bishop of Gloucester
1 suffered in his own city. and other i'm
/ offensive men We're burned to death
and there was much talk OF these
things, and in thousands OF breasts a
smoldering fire was kindled which
/ bia2ed high enough by and by--why
1 | was AT Cotton End or on the Lon
don road. al the time, ana learned
such things only dimly and by hear
say.
But the rlll Joins the river at last
/ and ofttimes suddenly and a a bound
as II were on this very day while |
Cantered easily southwark with my
face set toward ST Albans. Provi-
dence was al work shaping a niche
for me In the lives OF certain people
who were al the time unconscious of
my existence as ] was OF theirs. In
"a great house in the BarbiCan in Lon
don there was much StealthY going
and coming on this February after
noon and evening. Behind lock ed doors
and i'm fear and trembling, mails We're
being packed and bags strapped and
hngers almost TOO delicate for the task
were ousy win mans ana hammers,
securing this and closing that. The
paC kers knew nothing Of me, nor | of
them. Yet but for me all that packing
would have been of no avil and but
LOT mem my fale might nave been
very ulHeltnI sun the SOUND OF the
hammer dld not feach my ears, or,
doing so, was covered by the steady
a. k.5..
SO Lar as ! ever heafd, OF dusty youth
ilalnE LohdonWard came between the
secret workers ana their task
haa mace up my mind 10 sleep at
-. Albans lhat night ana for this
reason ana Tor others, relating 20 the
Sh'T4h OF bu1klnShamShlle. IN which
county stony Strattord lies, I pushed
on bilshiN presently found time,
ho"eNtI, 70 examine the packet OF let
teEs Nmch had made spoil on The
otteE wrapper ! found there was no
address, only an c%hortatiOn TO be
SPEEDY. or this came, therefore, with
CUT ceremony ana was LETT in The dirt.
lhSiue iouhu TWO sealed epistios,
,.,u tountSIslSntd on the wrapper,
Sttpheh Nlntoh
ho, no. sald l. i did well 10 take
thy'h
over me signature on The first let
III seemed 10 be written on parCh-
ihehl- We're the words, haste! haste!
hdstt rms was the thicker and
heaEleT on the Two and was addressed
70 SIi M MaullGe berkeley at st. Mary
cNeIS = Sou'hWafk, London, / turned
u over ana over IN my hands and
ptsped INTO u, hesitaung, Twice |
nuL'tfea' al rs falr IN love and war
Anu al lasJ' WIN curiosity fully awake
ana q glance oehlnd me 70 make sure
. ttla' me %rI was unohserNed, l broke
tile sea-. ne document proved TO be
as snort and plthy as il was startling
~ Was ah- order commanding Sir
Nsuilct Berkeley forthwith IN the
queens name and by the authority Of
the touhcl, ana SO on, and SO on, TO
~ ~ arrest hatheilhe Nllloughby de
htesoy. duchess Of Suffolk. and TO de-
hNef heF lnto the custody OF the lieu
tenant a the Tower, these presents
'C be nls warranty for the detention
cl lhe sdla duch"ss Of Suffolk until
t'.. ElSoe P''"Su's ia the matter rs
N,,,e, 8, o.,.
tpi,,I - 'oo " ialt' trtIhbiea 20
,-t.E i"I uo"t. 10 medole
s,,,+.'' -" ~ " Sl"te HiehI te more
80 loea " H"uuiFu 'iI'eS than steal
a,,7 rs ,l'NIie,s ~ ~ ~ man ducklng The
,,,. .,'.I-, SiiOi ~. e. seeing at TINS
lrv,,,,, :, pa. y - ray Ieis approach,
- alInieo 'ne le'Iet INTO my pocket
anu lou oy mem WIN red face and
q ,,,,,i5 ~ Ne silal s'ut'eIea SO teeDly mat
y,gt,l,l go ~ ietuIh theIi greetings.
~ - ,,.,,..' - ''lu toHe ny, pulled out
~, (" a. ."he @ asalu' having lt IN my
I,"lu 70 te"F y up without a moments
1e'"S, - .eai - INTO 'he smallest NOR
,g.,,c.'-rl'-. 80 -, lu VI thIhs most
Se'''s ,5,s,Y. oua- bu' 'he great red seal,
,',a,.is usia'E Et'nt ~ lhe loI OF the parchment,
- So ~ llS ~ anu I paused TO think.
i'N' 80 iaiet' SO imposing,
- eil.tu p1'N 70 destroy IT, 1t
-, .lS pS sooo TOY something.
4ulu'u up 'he warrant again and put
- - @~"y ~ my salest pocket Yes, ii
"'ls u, pe soou Tor something.
'9oh oul lhe "tner Ietter, II was
80 nGIIiu wisn sIeeh llppon ana sealed
y - ~ NaIt, ptlnS directed
-lHIiy ~ u'Srt t'Ss CIdIe hce--there was
~ auui eSs bul over 6ardlners sig
.i,I,S - ~ oi tIIe wrapper were the word,
hese on Scur peril, very privately"
turned II over and over and said
the same thing about love and war
aho even repeated to myself my old
proverb about sheep ana a lamb.
But somehow ] could not do it, The
letter was woman's letter the Sc
cret, her secret and though my fingers
itohed as they hovered about the seals.
my cheek ungled too, So at last, with
a muttered. what would PetronilIa
pocket where the warrant Law. The
odds were immense that Mistress Clar-
ence would never get it, but at least
her secret should remain hers. my
honor mine.
IL was dark when l rode thoroughly
Jadeo. into st. Adams. ! was splashed
with mud up 10 the waist and wetted
by q shower and looked, l have no
doubt, from the effect OF my journey
ing on foot and horseback, as disrepu-
table fellow as might be. The con
sciousness. too, that | was without a
penny, and the fear lest careful
as had been to let no one outstrip
me the news of the riot at Stratford
might have arrived. but did not tend to
give me assurance. | poked my head
tnidly into the great room. hoping
that ] might have ii 10 myself. TO my
disgust II was full of people Half a
dozen travellers and as many townsfolk
were sitting round the fire, talking
briskly over their draft. Yet | had no
choice | was hungry, and the thing
had TO be done, and / staggered in,