The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-07-30
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the door before / found my voice. Then
II called out, STAY" just In time. You
viii do no good. madam, by goingl" 1
said rising. "You will not find her.
She is gone"
yes" 1 said quietly, "she left the
house 20 minutes ago.. I saw her cross
h market place, wearing her cloak
and carrying a bag. do not think she
will return"
mot return? But whittier a she
Igone7" they both cried at once.
4 shook my head.
a can only guess" SAID In q low
'But why did you not tell me r. the
duchess cried reproachfully. She shall
be brought back"
.Tt would be useless" Master BERTHE
answered. Yet / doubt IL 1t be as
mt this time? She does not know that
she Is found out. She does not know
khat this letter has been recovered. Not
q word. mind, was said Of 1t before she
1eft the room"
.No," / allowed, that is true"
I was puzzled on this point myself,
NOW / came to consider 1t. / could not
iBee why she had taken the alarm so
opportunely, but I maintained my opin-
don nevertheless.
"Something frightened her." I said,
though 1t may not have been the let
ter"
Eyes. said the duchess after a mo-
anent's silence. II suppose you are
fright. I suppose something frightened
her, as o say. I wonder what 1t was,
poor wretchl"
II turned out that I 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 20 put
together the few things which our adj
venturesshad 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 20 say godspeedI The thought
made me tremble. If she had died. It
would have been different. Now, TO feel
sorrow for her as for n who had
been with us In heart as well as In
body seemed a mockery. How could
we grievc for n who had moved day
by day and hour by hour among us
only that with each hour and day she
might plot and scheme and plan bur
d~estruction2 1t was impossiblei
We made Inquiries indeed, but with
out result, and so abruptly and terribly
she passed. for the time, out Of our
knowledge, though often afterward /
lrecalledssadly the weary, hunted look
which I had sometimes seen In her
eyes when she sat ~listless and dreamy.
Poor grill Her own acts had placed
her, as the duchess said, beyond love
OF hope, but not beyond pity.
So IL is In life. The day which sees
ones trial end sees another's begin.
We, the duchess and her child, Master
Bertle and /, staid with our good and
faithful friends, the Lindstroms,
awhile, resting and recruiting our
lgtrength, and during this interval, at
the pressing instance or the duchess, I
wrote letters to Sir Anthony and Pee
ttronilla, 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-
inent residence. wes1went under guard
TO Vessel, where we were received a.
people OF quality and lodged, there be-
ang nc fitting place, in the disused
ichurch of st. Willibrod. Here the child
was christened Peregrine-a wanderer
1.-THE governor OF the city and I being
igodfathers. 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 to 1t,
had refused to acquiesce In the con-
1iscation of the duchess estates; the
other that our joint prosecutor, the
great bishop OF Winchester, was dead.
This last we at first disbeIieved. 1t
was true nevertheless. Stephen Gard
liner, whose vast schemes had inmeshed
people SO far apart in station and in
deed In all else as The duchess and my
self, was lead at last; had died toward
the end OF 1865, 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
Fising. The persecution OF the reform
ers, which Queen Mary had begun in
England, was carried on with increas-
ing rlgor, 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 Cloves
must soone or later comply. We
thought 1t better. therefore. to remove
VuAoClNco dHu PECSSHIy Olu SO, going
ITO 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 falling. and the stock Of money
which the duchess had provided be-
ginning to give out we were I'm 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 1t. Letters
came from Sigismund, the king OF Po-
land, and from the palatine OF wilma
I'm that country. inviting the duchess
and Master BERTHE to take up their
residence there and offering the latter
an establishment and honorable EN-
ployfnent. The overture was unlocked
FOR and was not accepted without mis-
givIngs, 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 / was In
cluded-through John Alasco, a noble
man who had visited England. And In
due time we started on this prodigious
Journey and came safely t wilma.
where u reception was such as the