The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
The Brooch
By DONALD MACkNlCHT
Copyright, 1910. by American Press
Association

English families, the Vincents and the
Traverses. We're 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 athe 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-established, he would return to
take up the pleasant life he had thus
far led, made far happier by his union
with Angela.
But, as 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 were 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 espouset
| 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 q
| 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 a shot, the
! coach came to stop, and man on
horseback appeared at the window,
| thrusting in one of those cumbersome
implements with a flintlock which in
those days they considered 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.
''Ill trouble you for your purse" he
said.
The lady handed him a silk purse
well filled.
"And now your jewels"
!. She removed brooch from her
throat and gave him that too. This
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 parlia,
ment?"
''My father died for the parliament,
my betrothed fought for the kingw
| The highwayman straightway thrust
his hand into his pocket, took out the
| purse and tossed 1t back into the car
riage.
Its only the cursed Roundheads,"
he said, whom we force to give US
food while we wait for the return OF
King Charlie
He was feeling for the brooch when
she stopped him.
Keep it," she said, "for a remsm-
brance. If mistake not, you are one
OF those young men who, having lost
your possessions in defense Of the
King. have taken to the road. The day
may come when we shall meet again.
II so, the brooch may be q means of
recognition
| The highwayman lifted his hat,
thanked the lady for her gift and sig
nlned to the coachman that he might
drive on.
King Charles II. was entering Lon.
don amid great rejoicings. A carriage
was standing by the curb in the street
where the royal procession must pass.
When the king had gone by a young
man In the cavalcade, seeing face in
the carriage, reined in, crying:
| angela"
| The last time you were at my car
| rage window it was for very differ
emit purpose" she replied.
| b What mean you, sweetheart"
sweetheart, indeed! You robbed
| me-"
what, Of your hearth.
"Of my heart, forsooth! OF my
| purse"
The young man looked confused.
eve must needs do something after
Naseby, he said, hanging his head,
''but l surely never robbed you, An
| gela."
you have brooch q lady gave
your"
"A brooch! Yes, have brooch"
i gave 1t to you, saying that some
day it might be a means Of recogni-