Evening star., 1924-10-18
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His chain companion on that dread
full march was the same Jeremy Pitt
! who had been the agent of his pres
ent misfortunes. The young ship
master had remained his close COM
panion after their common arrest.
| Hence. fortuitously, had they been
chained together in the crowded pris-
on, where they were almost suffocat-
ed by the heat and the stencil during
those days of July, August and Sep
| tember.
Scraps Of news filtered into the
gaol from the outside world. Some
may have been deliberately allowed
| to penetrate. or these was the tale
| profoundest dismay among those men
who were suffering for the duke and
for the religious cause he had pro-
| fessed to champion. Many refused
utterly to believe 1t. A wild story
began to circulate that a man resem-
| bling Monmouth had offered himself
| up in the dukes stead. and that Mon
mouth survived to come again in
glory to deliver Zion and make war
| upon Babylon.
| Mr.. Blood heard that tale with the
same Indifference with which he had
received the news of Monmouth's
death. But one shameful thing he
heard In connection with this which
| left him not quite so unmoved, and
served to nourish the contempt he
was forming for King James. His
majesty had consented to see Mon
mouth. To have done SO unless he in
\ fPnhad
ecrable and damnable beyond belief:
for the only other object in granting
| that interview could be the evilly
mean satisfaction of spurning the ABB
| ject penitence of his unfortunate
| nephew.
| Later they heard that Lord Grey,
| who, after the duke-indeed, perhaps
before him-was the main leader of
the rebellion, had purchased his own
pardon for 100000. Peter Blood
! found this of piece with the rest
! His contempt for King James blazed
| out at last.
| Why, here's a filthy. mean crea-
ture to sit on a throne. II l had
known az much of him before as 1
| know today, l don't doubt l should
have given cause to be where l am
now" And then. on a sudden thought:
And where will Lord Gildoy be, do
!
Young Pitt, whom he addressed,
turned toward him a face from which
the ruddy tan of the sea had faded
almost completely during those
| months of captivity. His gray eyes
| were round and questioning. Blood
| answered him.
Sure, now, we've never seen his
! lordship since that day at Ogle-
thorpe's. And where are the other
4 o. N Y~N~ hot
leaders of this plaguey rebellion
Grey's case explains their absence, 1
think. They are wealthy men that
can ransom themselves. Here await
! ing the gallows are none but the un-
fortunates who followed; those who
| had the honor to lead them go free.
| It's curious and instructive reversal
| Of the usual way Of these things.
| Faith, It's an uncertain world en-
| tirely"
! He lauged and settled down into
| that spirit OF scorn, wrapped in which
he stepped later into the great hall
| of Taunton Castle to take his trial.
! With him went Pitt and the yeoman
Baynes. The three of them were to
be tried together. and their case was
| to open the proceedings Of that ghast-
| ly day.
The hall, even to the galleries
| thronged with spectators, most of
whom were ladies-was hung in scar
let: pleasant conceit, this Of the
| lord chief Justices, who naturally
| enough preferred the color that
should reflect his own bloody mind.
| At the upper end, on a raised dias,
sat the lords commissioners, the five
| judges in their scarlet robes and
| heavy dark periwigs, Baron Jeffreys
| of Wem enthroned in the middle
place.
The prisoners filed in under guard
| The crier called for silence under
pain of imprisonment, and as the
hum of voices gradually became
hushed Mr.. Blood considered with in
terest the IL good men and true that
composed the jury. Neither good nor
| true did they look. They were scared,
uneasy. and hang&g as any set Of
thieves caught with their hands in
the pockets of their neighbors. They
were IL shaken men, each of whom
stood between the sword of the lord
chief Justices recent bloodthirsty
| science.
From them Mr.. Bloods calm, de-
liberate glance passed on to consider
the lords commissioners. and particu-
larly the presiding Judge, that Lord
Jefrreys, whose terrible fame had
come ahead of him from Dorchester.
He beheld a tall. slight man on the
that was delicately beautiful. There
were dark stains of suffering or
sleeplessness under the low-lidded
eyes, heightening their brilliance and
their gentle melancholy. The face
was very pale, save for the vivid
color OF the full lips and the hectic
| flush on the raher high but incon-
spicuous cheek bones. 1t was some
thing in those lips that marred the
perfection of that countenance: q
| fault, elusive but undeniable, lurked
| there to belle the fine sensitiveness
of those nostrils, the tenderness of
those dark, liquid eyes and the noble
calm of that pale brow.
The physician in Mr.. Blood regard
| ed the man with peculiar interest,
knowing as he did the agonizing mall
ady from which his lordship suffered,
and the amazingly irregular, de-
bauched life that he led in spite of 1t
perhaps because of it.
Peter Blood, hold up your hand!'
Abruptly he was recalled to his po-
sition by the harsh voice of the clerk
of arraigns. His obedience was me-
chanical, and the clerk droned out
the wordy indictment which pro-
nounced Peter Blood a false traitor
against the most illustrious and most
excellent prince. James the Second,
by the grace of God, of England,
Scotland, France and Ireland King,
his supreme and natural lord. 1t in
formed him that, having no fear of
God in his heart, but being moved
and seduced by the instigation of the
devil, he had failed in the love and
true and due natural obedience to-
ward his said lord the King, and had
moved to disturb the peace and tran
Quillity Of the Kingdom and to stir
up war and rebellion to depose his
| said lord the King from the title,