The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-12-18
The Brooch
BY DONALD MACKNlGHT
Copyright. 1910, by American Press
Association.

During the war between King
Charles !. and his parliament two
English families, the vincents and the
Traverses, were living on adjacent es-
tates. Young Egbert Travers and An
gela Vincent played together as chill
dren; then when the young Cavaliers
were leaving their homes to support
the king and Egbert marched to the
war the parting made them sensible
OF the fact that they were lovers. Over
the hedge that separated the two es-
tates they plighted their troth, and the
young lover dashed away thinking of
the day when, the Puritans having
been made to. know their place and
the authority of the king having been
fully re-estabished, he would return to
take up the pleasant life he had thus
far led, made far happier by his union
with Angela.
But, us under the struggle Of 1861 to
1865 in America there lay, unrecog-
nized at the time, the principle Of civil
liberty, so under that in England there
was a principle of constitutional gov
eminent. Travers was fighting for the
king as an uncontrolled power, while
his enemies We're fighting for the king
as he is today--a mere representative
head Of the government. The latter
cause triumphed, the king was behead-
ed, and those who supported him.
many Of them deprived of their es-
tates, found themselves without the
means of subsistence.
Sir Edward Vincent, who espoused
the parliamentary cause, had fallen
at the battle of Marston Moor, and his
wife had died during the struggle,
leaving the Lady Angela an orphan.
The Travers estate was confiscated
and Egbert. Travers, instead of return
ing to his home, as he had anticipated
when he set out to fight for the king,
found himself penniless and without a
roof over his head. An aunt Of An
gela's had taken what funds she could
get together and gone to Holland
Angela decided to Join this her only
relative and remain with her till Eng.
land became more settled under the
sway Of the parliament and the pro.
tectorate of Oliver Cromwell.
One evening when travelling toward
the coast Angela heard shot, the
coach came to stop, and man on
horseback appeared at the window,
thrusting In one of those cumbersome
supplements with f1intlock which in
those days they considered a pistol. A
yellow strip ,of cloud rejecting the
light Of the setting sun shone on the
mans face, while the features of the
lady were concealed from him.
"I'll trouble you for your purse" he
said.
The lady handed him a silk purse
well filed.
"And now your Jewels"
She removed a brooch from her
throat and gave him that too, Thi.
seemed to satisfy him, and he told the
,coachman to drive on, but immediate
~ stopped him to ask:
"Are you for the king or the parlfa
ment"
my father died for the parliament
my betrothed fought for the kingw
The bighwayman straightway thrus
his hand into his pocket, took out th'
purse and Tossed 1t back into the car
riage.
tits only the cursed Roundheads,
he said, whom we force to give u
food while we wait for the return o
king Charlie"
He was feeling for the brooch whel
she stopped him.
Keep It," she said, "for a remem
brance. If | mistake not, you are on
of those young men who, having los
. your possessions In defense of th
king, have taken to the road The da
may come when we shall meet agar
If so, the brooch may be means o
'Eecognitlon."
The Nhighwayman lifted his ba
thanked the lady for her Gift and sis
nifed to the coachman that he Nigh
drive on.
King Charles III. was entering I.or
don amid great rejoicings, A carriae
was standing by the curb In the stree
where the royal procession must pas
When the king had gone by youn
man In the cavaIcade, seeing face
the carriage, refined in, crying:
angela"
"The last time you were at my ca
riage window it was for a very diffe
ent purpose" she replied.
'What mean you. sweetheartf"
Sweetheart, indeed! You robbie
me-"
what. Of your hearth"
"Of my heart forsooth! or II
purse"
The young man looked confuse
awe must needs do something aft
Naseby," he said. hanging his hea
shut ! surely never robbed you "A
gela."
"You have brooch lady IN
yaui'
"A brooch. Yes. have brooch
gave II to you. saying that sor
day it might be a means of recoG'
! ton"
His face turned scarlet. The =
clapped her hands in great glee.
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