San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-01
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Colonel HOLES, soldier and adven
turer, returns to England, the land o
his birth, when war is declared will
Holland. He. comes to lodge will
Martha Quinn, hostess of the Paul.
Head, in Paul's Yard, London.
The colonel asks his old friend, His
IGrace of Albemarle, to secure for him
a place in the army. Albemarle warns
him that the name of Randall HOLES
father of the colonel, is on the warrant
\ for the execution of the late king
Therefore it is dangerous for the colo
mel to secure commission.
HOLES meets a friend named Tucker
on the street. A street preacher is
loudly lamenting the rapid spread OF
the pestilence. HOLES goes to Tuck
er's home and is asked to enter con-
spiracy to overthrow the government.
HOLES promises o'think over the prop
osition. Now 60 on with the story.
"You overstate the case. Though
much that you have said of him may
be true, will not yet despair of the
help of Albemarle."
why, you blind mailman, tell
you'll swear to you-that in very
little while Albemarle will be beyond
helping any man, beyond helping even
himself"
HOLES was about to speak, when
Tucker threw up a hand to arrest him.
do not answer me now. Let what
have said sink home into your wits.
Give it thought. We are not pressed
for few days. Ponder my words,
and if as the days pass and no further
news comes to you from Whitehall
no fulfillment of this airy promise
perhaps you will regard things differ
emily, and come to see where your in
terest really lies. Meanwhile, Randall,
the bottles not half done. So sit you
down again and let us talk of other
matters"
Going home toward dusk the thing
that most intrigued the Colonel was
the dangerous frankness that Tucker
had used with him, trusting a man in
his desperate case With a secret so
weighty upon no more than his
pledged word and what Tucker re-
membered of him in the creditable
state from which he had long since
fallen. Reflection, however, dimin-
ished his wonder. Tucker had di-
vulged no facts whose betrayal could
seriously impair the plotters. He had
no names; he had no more
than vaguely alluded to q directing
mind in Holland, which the Colonel
guessed to be Algernon Sidney's who
was beyond the reach of the Stuart
irm. For the rest, what had he told
him? That there was a serious move
nent afoot to overthrow the Stuart
lynasty, and restore the Common
wealth. Let HOLES carry that tale to
he authorities, and what would hap
pen? He could impeach by name no
nan but Tucker; and all he could say
If Tucker was that Tucker had told
him these things. fuckers word
would be as good as Holes before
Justice. On the score Of credit. Holes
would be the subject of
inquiry, and the revelation of them
would result in danger to himself
alone.
Tucker had not been as ingenious
posed. He laughed little to himself
1t his own simplicity. Then laughed |
again as he reviewed the proposal |
Fucker had made him. He might be |
desperate, but not desperate enough |
or that-not yet. He carcssed his |
leck affectionately. He had no mind |
o feel n rope tightening about it.
Nor would he yet despair because of |
what Tucker. largely for the purposes
# his own advocacy. had said of Abe
narle. The more he considered it, |
lway from Tucker now, the more per- |
'uaded was he of Albemarle's sincerity |
md good intentions,