The Washington times., 1913-05-20
CHAPTER Xxx.
Sanctuary.

LII day Thomsine Musgrove had
sat behind her bolted door,
shamed to the soul because she
could not mourn for Carisford.
ana much wearied with the tedium Of
hor seclusion.
.she even sewed on Henrietta's gown
. nttle, to make the time run faster.
AZ twilight she heard at the door
Joan Laycock, with a tray Of food
fairly bursting with information.
Mistress said Joan. here's to-do
indeed in this vain house. Here have
they taken a spy, and he is to be
hanged on the Friday, and they
say
Il care not rush have they taken
twenty spies" spoke Thomsine. from
her heart
She meddled not at all with their
troublesome politics and policies.
"Prithee. Joan, be gene and leave me
to myself. ] shall not need thee more
this night
Joan Laycock went. eager to CLEAN
more gossip below stairs.
Thomsine sat by her window to think,
as was fitting. on her dead betrothed.
but she found herself wondering what
was on the supper-tray.
She went at last and loked. and she
found that IL was roasted chicken
and white bread and jug of buttered
ale: and though she felt it shameless
Of her, she sat down and made an ex-
celient meal
Then she went to bed-not to sleep
oh. no, But before she knew it she
was rousing from dreams, and far away
she heard the clock In the grayeled
Sbe was wide awake now. She lay.
and more TRANQUILITY than in the day
light she thought of Carisford.
Poor lad. for whom she had not wepti
Sorry for her lack of sorrow. touhcing
which she would no longer be self de
ceived. she felt her heart soften toward
him.
Suddenly she knew that she was fain
TO look upon him where he lay. Per-
haps then she could feel what a girl
bereff as she was should have felt
II was a crazed impulse, even such
one as she had ac'cd on 4 year ago.
when she had gone posting forth in
Carisford's breeches to seek .he terrible
Von Kerstenbroock in behalf of Wat.
She was given to such impulses.
Cp she rose and folded a bedgown
over her night-smock She had no
mind to go by the main staircase and
haply be seen of some half-fuddled gen.
tieman stumbling late-or early-to his
bed.
She went down the privy stair. founi
the door at the foot bolted. contrary
TO all custom. drew the bolt and passed
lightly through.
Ouietry. in the shadows. she reached
the chamber of state. hard by in the
east corridor; and there. couched amid
tive lighted candles. looked iler last on
Carisford.
face, 30 utterly at variance with ihe
face that she had known in life. she
dropped all pretense to convention
demanded sorrow.
Even as the boys own father, she
must say, Better so.
She laid her slender hand on the
cold fingers. claspet on the sword-hilt
not less cold.
Little good had we wrought esch
other haply.' she said, ciear-s'sh'e1 IN
"But we part friends. and oh. eternal
ly NAV God be with thee, Carisford.
Then she knelt by the bier. ana for j
space earnestly she prayed.
Quietly as the shadows Thomsine
passed from the room that should nave
been her marriage chamber; v.,od
She heard the clock in the eraVeieo
court strike g. Silently and uhna.Aeo'
she reached The privy stair.
A careful girl. and well-brought up py
Great-ount Eutasia. she hoited the oe'or
behind her. even as she had iouh1 y;
Then she passed lightly the starr anu
along the corridor
She pushed open her door. which she
had left ajar. closed ard bolted II be-
hind her. She turned, and there, In the
faint first grayness of the dawn. sne
saw standing by the cu-tained bed the
figure Of a man.
Some Of the Murgroves had been men
Of courage. and the merchant Gedneys
were by no means cowards
Thon sine. their child. neither screamed
nor Ned. She passed a, gnze. and IN
that second she knew him.
cscar-sighted girl she was to recognize
the norm Of her dreams in such CORY.
a1tered guise. But she was no more