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FRANCIS CL'JBQE,
By STANLEY J. Y'EYMAtf.
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.SYNOPSIS.
M uy is queen of England. uncle, Francis
Cludde isiivititf with his Sir
Anthony, and his cousin Petronilia, Sir
Anthony's daughter, Gardiner, bish
op of Winchester, pays a visit to Sir
Anthmiy, and being a Catholic is dis¬
liked by Francis, who is at heart a
Protestant. CHAPTER ll.-GarcVt
ncr tells Francis who liis father is, that
lie i< a traitor and informer, and offers
to make the young man’s fortune if lm
will enter bis service as a spy. Francis
aS !;s for time to reply and runs away,
iut-nding to carve out his own fortune,
jll —De’is overtaken by Clarence, whom an
agent of Gardiner, against be in¬
cites the mob by telling them the man
B a yess gang leader, and escapes on
Clarence's horse and with his dispatches
IV,— Francis goes to an inn at St. Al¬
ban?, and showing the di-patches is
thought to he a queen’s courier. Cla¬
rence arrives, asui he escapes with the
aid of a waiting maid. V. anil VT.—lie
roaches London and renders aid to two
women. He and the women escape in
boat, are attacked, and Francis is stun
ned, VII.—'They are re-cued and put
on hoard a vessel bound for Holland.
One of the women proves to be the Duch
ess of Suffolk, who has married a man
named Bertie. The other is a kinswo
man named Anne Brandon. Bertie i
nn beard too. Being Pi otegtants, they
were fleeing from England. Francis
tells them his name is Garey. VIiI —
They ascend the river Rhine in a boat
an ! reach the house of a friend named
Lind-trom. IX, X and XI.—Carey
saves Dymphna, Landstrom's daughter
from the violence of a soldier and kill?
the man. They decide to bury tbe
Spaniard, but Carey sees a ghost. Van
Tree, Dymphna’s lover, warns them
that, they are discovered, and they flee.
XII.—They reach Emmerich by boat.
'Jhe Dutchman’s parly go to SautoD,
while Carey, Bertie and the two women
start for VI e<el on horseback. Xfll.—
They are delayed by floods, and the
Sp iiiards, led by disperses Clarence, them. come Tbe up
With them. Carey
rivers being Hooded, they turn toward
San ton. Bertie by mistake kills one of
the town guard. XIV.—They reach
Sautoti, but are besieged in the gate the
house by the townsfolk, furious at
death of a citizen. Lindstrom appears
ai-d gains release for the party, provi¬
ded the man who struck the fatal blow
he given tip. To save Bertie, who is
hurt, Carey surrenders.
CHAPTER XVI
They took me back to the room in the
tower, it, being now nearly 10 o’clock. Mas
ter Lindstrom would fain have staid with
mis constantly to the end; but, having the
matter I have mentioned much in my
mind, I begged him to go and get me
Van writing materials. When ho returned,
Tree was with him. With a particu
laxity very curious at that moment, I re
marked that tho latter was carrying some
thing.
‘Where once." did you get, that?” I said sharp
lj and at
''It is your haversack,” ho answered,
setting it down quietly. “I found the
man who had taken possession of your
^utsssse^stt
.... Itismy . haversack,” I assented, ‘but
It was not cn my horse. I have not seen
It einco I left it in Master Lindstrom’s
louse by the river. I Left it on the pallet
lu my room there, and it was forgotten.
I searched for it at Emmerich, you re
“ only , know, ... lie replied, that v T I dis- its
Wcml it behind tho saddle of tho horse
J°u were riding yesterday.”
He thought that I had become confused
ml was a littlo wrong headed from ex
icmoiit. Master Lindstrom also felt
doubled, as he told mo afterward, at see
Zr takCD UpWUh ° trifl ° at 8UCb "
But there was nothing wrong with my
"The l'°rso ,r,T ly fil ‘° l ' d tlK T
I was riding r r yesterday! , I I
IV,nt: 3 ' 1 “ then, I understand. I
'
irasrir *as nding the horse which I took from
tte Spanish trooper. Tho Spaniard must
ave annexed the haversack when he and
hs companions searched tho house after
.That departure.”
is it, no doubt,” Master Lind
“Kwsaiti. "And in the hurry of yester
£ aBed to notice it.”
was a strango way of recovering one's
Property-—strango helped that the enemy should
ono to it. But thero are times
' aC! -l this to me was onc-when the
P^.&SiX&?SSS J* B W seems the ordinary and common
h- vJ 1 letxei I T , had I f leit !! Vv there was «
li 1 there—the letter to Mistress Clarence.
it out. The corners of tho littlo
Packet Wi fv * i i i
“r;:. UdatxOm S h^nds.
ard. It *to the duchess after^
"•talk concerns her You have heard
Ik-SlccLY^ about it r-, BdherUJak wl
T Itu P'CuSfes of it.”
!*« Jra ed away then and sat down, feel
Restart “littlo flurried uponlj^St and excited as one
ja^atu feel
nor exceedingly depressed, but
’“t to make a brave show and hide
sadness I did wemuptfu feel hv the knowledse ttt
eyes me, and
w ould he watching me presently.
»Si far end of the room a number of
h ad gathered and were con
W?r? Hi/, 3 L . °^ filers ther ' of Among them were not
uSicers, the night, but two or
^ a priest who had come to
hi* services and some inquisi«vo
's who had obtained admission. Their
k° we ver, did not distress me
^Burautof contrary, I W as glad to bear tbe
life about me to tho
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CONYERS, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1895.
last.
I will not set down tho letter I wrote
to tho duchess, though it were easy for me
to do so, seeing that her son lias it now.
It contains some things very proper to ho
said hy a dying man, of which I am not
ashamed—God forbid!—but which it
would not he meet for me to repeat iiere.
Enough that I told her in a lew words
who I was and entreated her in tbo name
of whatever services 1 had rendered her to
let Petronilla and Sir Anthony know how
I had died, and I added something which
would, I thought, comfort her and her
husband—namely, that I was not afraid
cr in any suffering of mind or body.
The writing of this shook my compo¬
sure a little, hut as I laid down the pen
and looked up and found that the time
was come I took courage in a marvelous
manner. Tho captain of the guard—I
think that out of a compassionate desire
not to interrupt me they had allowed mo
somo minutes of grace—came to mo, leav¬
ing tho group at the other end, and told
mo gravely that I was .waited for. X rose
at once and gave tho letter to Master Lind
stroni, with some messages in which
Dymphna and Anne wero not forgotten,
and then, with a smile—for I felt under
all those eyes as if I were going into bat¬
tle—I said: “Gentlemen, I am ready if you
are. It is a lino day to die. you know,”
I added gayly, “in England we have a
proverb, ‘The bettor the day the better the
deedl' So it is well to have a good day to
liavo a good death, Sir Captain.”
“A soldier’s death, sir, is a good death,”
ho answered gravely, speaking in Spanish
and bowing.
Then he pointed to tho door.
As I walked toward it I paused momen¬
tarily by tho window and looked out on
the crowd below. It filled the sunlit
street, save wiiere a littlo raised platform
strewn with rushes protruded itself—with
beads from wall to wall, with faces all
turned one way—toward me. It was a
silent crowd, standing in hushed awe and
expectation, tho consciousness of which
sent a sudden chill to my heart, blanching
my cheek and making my blood run slow
for a moment. Tho next I moved on to
the door, and bowing to the spectators as
they stood asido began to descend tho nar¬
row staircase.
There wero guards going down beforo
me, and behind mu wero Master Lindstrom
and more guards. The Dutchman reached
forward in the gloom and clasped my
hand, holding it as we went down in a
firm, strong grip.
“Never fear,” I said to him cheerily,
looking back. “It is all right.”
He answered iti words which I will not
write here, not wishing, as I have said, to
mako cortain things common.
I suppose the doorway at the bottom
was accidentally blocked, for a few steps
short of it we came to a standstill, and al¬
most at tho same moment I started, de¬
spite myself, oil hearing a sudden clamor
and a roar of many voices outside.
“What is it?” I asked tho Dutchman.
“It is the Dukeof Cleves arriving, I ex¬
pect,” ho whispered. “Becomes in by the
other gate.”
A moment later wo moved on and passed
out into tbe light, the soldiers before mo
stepping on cither side to give mo place.
The sunshine for an instant dazzled me
and I lowered my eyes. As I gradually
raised them again I saw before me a short
lane f ° r! ? cd *’ y tw ° row s ° Jjf 0 a
^pt back . by guards ami , at f the end . of f
this two or three rough wooden steps lead¬
ing to a platform on which wero standing
» number of people, and above and beyond
all only the bright blue sky the room and
fta“ cs <> £ tho J10ilruc Iumses showlns datk
against it.
I advanced steadily along the path left
fox me and would have ascended the steps,
but «t tho foot of them I earns to a stand
stili and looked round for gun ance.
persons on tho scaffold all had tli r s
EHfE££iH“S tho people
Then l/* 6 ” it 1 Windows struck me seeing afso that
at the windows were were w gazing g» away
and taking no b e , < ■
p “ ss, ,' 18 ’nan* pain'shot
a si rp p P » of angry B y I
tlicse'people'that thJ ' ; ’ ™ “ p ^'to
they turned away to see
a f n „ 'enth v ,,, or tal ride bv!
pn as wo nfviewlVt stood there in a pit, ns
It '’ ’f,- to Master
“ndstron T)n r s s hatld which still clasped * ,f.
fnnnd^hat to ni
* “ his faco had changed to n
h iS conUivo eyesweroprotrud
tag with a kind of eagerness
‘/‘stammered. I began to
trtmble also. The air rang, it seemed to
word w hich a thousand
’ i reiterated. But it
. tongues , ]CS t00 t ]- up P am
T ... . , .
was a Germa. . , -
stand
.Wait, ^p' r'nd . bo^rue.l” t indsfrom ex
claimed. Pray ; v God it ta be true! '
He seized my other hand and hddtt as
though ho would protect mo from som
Atthosamo
pushed past me, and bound 1 g P
steps tbrusthswny t^oughthoofficials
on tho sctmold, causing more than one
fur robed citizen near the edge to lose hta
balance and come down as best ho could
cried in imoatient wonder.
On, my iad, niy . ^ Master • Lind
stroni answered, Ins face close to mine . and ,
the tears running down his cheeks. It
uo
true, ,, ho t»«d, . ;1 P . 1 8 I n Pm ulinnt mv
* ' *
ehouldcp. * Do not mako too sure of f it. .
It is only tho mob cry it put.”
My Mr heart heart ffiado matto a a great graac bound oounu auu and
seemed to stand sulk X here was aloud
surging in my brain, and a mist rosobo
fore my eyes and hid everything The
clamor and shouting of the street pas_ed
away and ecunded vague and distant
The next instant, it is true, trembling I was myself
Jg-i-. fer we, But and my I stood kne^ flaccid were and unnerved. nn
" r “
J. wl
Pa^ienc . PaUence awhile > lad!” he
answeijjfl. thank heaven, I bad not , long t .
But, scarcely ofl! bts
wait. The words were
tongue when another hand sought mine
aud shook it wildly, and I saw \ an
before me, his face tadiauC with joy, while
aI’.Y 1
,
hasty limp r.ora -rs tnrru-rw wits- rising
beside me with a good uatured smile. As
if at a signal, every face now turned to¬
ward me. A dozen friendly hands passed
mo up the steps amid a fresh outburst of
cheering. Tho throng on the scaffold
opened somehow, and I found myself in a
second, as it seemed, face to face with the,
president of tiio court. Ho smiled on me
8 £llvvi ? and kindly—what smiles there
seemed to bo on all those faces!—and held
ou t a paper.
"In tho name of (ho duke!” ho said,
speaking in Spanish in a clear, loud voice
■ . A pardon)”
I muttered something, I know not what,
nor did it matter, for it was lost in a hurst
of cheering. When this was over and si¬
lence obtained, tiio magistrate continued:
‘■you are required, however, to attend the
duke at tiio courthouse, whither wa had
better proceed at once. ”
“I am ready, sir,” I mutterod.
A road was made for us to descond, and
walking in a kind of beautiful dream I
passed slowly up the street by the sido of
tho magistrate, the crowd everywhere will¬
ingly standing asido for us. i. do not
know whether all those thousands of faces
really looked joyfully and kindly on 1110
as I passed or whether the deep thankful¬
ness which choked mo and brought the
tears continually to my eyes transfigured
them and gavo them a generous charm
not their own. But this 1 do know—that
tiio sunshine seemed brighter and tho air
softer than over before; that the clouds
trailing across tiio blue expanse were
things of beauty such as I had never met
before; that to draw breath was a joy and
to move delight, and that only when tho
dark valley was loft behind did I compre¬
hend its full gloom—by heaven’s mercy.
So may it bo with alll
At tho door of tho courtiiouso, whither
numbers of the people had already run,
tiio press was so great that wo came to a
standstill and wero much buffeted about,
though in all good humor beforo, oven
witii the aid of the soldiers, wo could bo
got through tho throng. When I at last
emerged, I found myself again before tho
table and saw—but only dimly, for the
light now fell through the stained wind ow
directly on my head—a commanding figure
standing behind it. Then ^ strango thing
happened. A woman passed swiftly round
the table and came to mo and Hung her
arms round my neck and kissed me. lb
was the duchess, and for a moment sho
hung upon me, weeping before them all.
“Madam,” I said softly, “then it is you
who liavo done this!”
“Ah,” sho exclaimed, holding mo off
from her and looking at mo with eyes
which glowed through her tears, “and it
was you who did that!”
Sho drew back from me then and took
me hy tho hand and turned impetuously
to tho Duko of Cloves, who stood behind
smiling at her In frank amusement.
“This,” sho snid, "is tho man who’gave
fcis lifo for my husband, and to whom
your highness has given it back. ”
“Let him tell hi3 tale,” tho duko an¬
swered gravely. “And do you, my cousin,
sit hero beside mo.”
She left me and walked round tho table,
and ho eamo forward and placed her in
his own chair amid a great hush of won¬
der, for she was still meanly clad and
showed in a hundred places tho marks and
stains of travel. Then ho stood by her
with bis hand on tho hack of tho scat. He
was a tall, buriy man, with bold, quick
glancing eyes, a flushed face and a loud
manner—a fierce, blusterous prince, as I
have heard. Ho was plainly dressed in a
leather hunting suit and woro huge gaunt¬
lets and brown hoots, with a broad leaved
hat pinned up on one side, yet ho looked a
prince. I stammered out the talc of
Somehow
- „ der
., But w |, y w j, rj why, man,” ho asked,
when j p ad finished, “why did you let
, think it was you who wounded the
received nothing but good from her grace,
bad eaten her breadant been received into
her service. Besides it was through my
persuasion that wo cuino by the road
which led to this misfortune instead of by
another way. lhereforo it seemed to me
right that I should suffer, who stood alone
and could be spared, and not her bus
band.
was ? groat deed!” cried tbo prince ,
lo " dly - “I would had such p servant.
Aro you noble, lad?
colored high, but not . mor
I n pain or
tification. The old wound might reopen,
events such as those of this
“°ob'S‘mayit ^
liess ’” 1 onsv ”: mi ln o l1est ly -
Kta “ ces prevelit 1110 cla,miDg ( U S ! V
lt; -
He was about, , . I T think, , . to question n
further when tho duchess aooked up and
8 aid something to him, and ho something
to her. She spoke again, ami he aroWerco
Then ho nodded assent You would fain
stand on your own feet?” he cried to mo.
,. Ig that g0? „
“It is, sire,” I answered.
“Then so bo it ” he replied loudly look
ing round on tho throng with a frown.
ennobl0 y0ll . you would have
died for your * lord and Iriend, and there
fore i gi 0 you a rood of land in tho com
WQn graveyar( j of Kant-on to hold of me,
^ \ ers P rinc ® the einp 6^ AorUra vou >
* three
noble and give you for your arms
gWGr ^ s Q f justice and tho motto you may
t . ,, ^ lot this riorree be
sparkling, there SSlZS&S was a no l ,°S
turbancc behind me. It was caused by the
a u r viT>t entrance X of the subdean. He too*
m in part rt nf of the sitaation si.uation at at a a giance--inai, -danco-that
j Si fio saw mo kneeling beforo tuo duke,
foot he could not see tho Duchess of Suf
f Locarno n the duke’s figure being croVd interposed,
forward, the making
/ for him he casJ an angry glance at
m and 6ca rcely smoothed bis brow even
iarc , sg tho pr i n ce. "I am glad that
has not done what was re
poned tQ )llc . „ , 10 said hastily, his obci
sance brief and perfunctory .1 heard an
u P roar in th ® and WUS d
mag was pardoned. , duko curtly, cyi .
“It is 80 • ’ said the g
t fi 0 ecclesiastic with no great favor. II
iapardo ned.” priest ct
part, I presume, the ,
.. OD iy in ‘‘or, if otherwise, I am
rejoined urgently,
^ thet ^
certain rnformUCUn Wlih widen I cun Tar¬
nish you.”
“Furnish away, sir,” quoth tho duke,
yawning.
"I liavo had letters from my lord bishop
of Arras respecting him.”
“Respecting him!” exclaimed tho
prince, starting ami bending his brows in
surprise
"Respecting those in whose company
ho travels,” tho priest answered hastily.
"They ore represented to mo as dangerous
persons, pestilent refugees from England
and obnoxious aliko to tho emperor, tho
prince of .Spain and tho queen of Ragland.”
"I wonder you do not add also to tiio
king of France and the soldan of Turkey!”
growled tho dulte. ‘'Pish! I am not go¬
ing to he dictated to by Master Granvello
—no, nor by his master, bo bo ten times
emperor! Go to! Go to, Master Subdean!
Vou forget yourself, and so docs your mas¬
ter tho bishop. I will have you know that
these people are not what you think them.
Call you my cousin, tho widow of tho con¬
sort of tho late queen of France, an ob¬
noxious person? Fie, iic! Vou forget your¬
self!”
IIo moved as he stopped spoakjng, so
that the astonished churchman found
himself confronted on a sudden by tho
smiling, defiant duchess. The subdean
started, and his faco fell, for seeing her
j V
likftjL mmm i
m
i
t I l i
j .
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st¬
f#
“hvould he were hung with hisowntapes
try!"
Eented in the duke’s presence ho discerned
at once that the game was played out, yet
ho rallied himself, bethinking him, I fan¬
cy, that there wero many spectators. Ho
made a last effort. “The bishop of Ar¬
ras”— he began.
“Pishi” scoffed tho duko, interrupting
him.
“The bishop of Arras”— tho priest re¬
peated firmly.
“I would ho wore hung with his own
tapostry!” rotorted tiio duke, with a
brutal laugh.
“Heaven forbid!” replied tho ecclesias¬
tic, his pale faco reddening and hiseyo
darting baleful glances at me. But ho
took tiio hint, and henceforth said no
more of tho bishop. Instead, ho continued
smoothly: “Your highness has, of course,
considered the daegor—tiio danger, I
mean, of provoking neighbors so powerful
by shielding this lady and making her
cause your own. You will remomber,
sir”—
“I will remember Innspruck!” roared
tho duko in a rage, “where tho emperor—
aye, and your everlasting bishop, too—fled
beforo a handful of Protestants like sheep
bofore wolves. A fig for your emperor! I
nover feared him young, and I fear him
less now that ho is old and decrepit and,
as moil say, mad. Let him get to his
watches and you to your prayers. If there
wero not this tablo between us, I would
pull your cats, Master Churchman!”
“ But tell mo ” I asked Master Bertie as
cm i f r0 m something you or she said a
6 j 10J . t timc back that you had no influence
’ . , . n k of rn BVes »
..jj otou j te that ” lie answered “My
wjfc the ]at e Dukeof Suffolk had
do with wedding tiio prince’s sis
t0 Ki \ Henry , years back, is it?
Aml K0 far vo ought have felt confident
of his protection. But the marriage
jjj, ’ or turned out short, and
AnI10 0 f C leves was divorced, and
-well, ’ we felt a littlo less confident on
tlja( . a ccount< partioll)arly as ll6 bM the
DauJ0 0 f a-headstrong, passionate ntan.”
‘'Heaven keep hint in it!” I said, smil
** “But you have not told me yet what
‘‘“The duchess was still asleep this mom
ing, fairly worn out, ns you may suppdse,
when a great noise awoke her. r-hegut up
and wen t to Dymphna and learned it was
, a ^ , trumpets. Then she went to
t]l(! willdoWi and seeing few people in the
stroets to welcome him inqtiired why this
Dymphna J 1 broke down at that and
thlt . , . , . d/ea/tha/ hanrwnina to vou and
youwerato very hour.
She WMit out straightway, knowhow without covex
impetuous
jJ® h '£*^Me'shoTSoaslwe^ j_ana Huns herself on her knees in
tcrcA Ho Ho knew knew her her, and and the the rest rest you yo can
- ‘
hanninoza it was'
roofs, with their rows of casements, and
the sleepy W ." square in which knots of
people still l n] ' Jin gerul, r i tf h. g the morn
iug s events. I could seo Ijc1oa\ mo the
room tho cheerful ^ voices of my friends,
; happin , n , J 5 WRR to i? ve f what han
*■..-»
P> ness to be loved! How very, very good
d beautiful and glorious * a world seemed
J* 1 ® ^ that oW Mav ? morning
in that quaint n German town f which „. h ( , h we . vo ha
entood so oddly fu „ of
th ‘’ f f" nfc k f L*% s ^„ v ye3 ,Tt®ng me tthwo of Mis
A “ n fllh s m the far
’ w in
f “ cr "^ V d , “asr^ek ... ^ ’/L™ k'andexpo^ra lv
had made a deeper mark
^ her thaJ , up0I] any of ns _ site was
paler, graver, older, more of aVoman and
less, much less, of a girl. And she looked
^ ,,, Her eyes, in particular, seemed
to fi aT o grown larger, and as they dwelt
o„ me now there was a strange and sol
light in theta, under which I grew
v - -t - - jt .m ,-1 —
.
" ' Tai have been womlorruiry preserved, ”
she said presently, speaking dreamily,
and as much to herself as to mo.
"I have, indeed,” I answered, thinking
sho referred only to my escape of tbo
morning.
Hut siio did not.
There was, firstly, the time on tho riv¬
er when you were hurt with tho oar," she
continued, gazing absontly at me, liar
hands in her lap, "am! then tho night
when you saw Clarence with Dymphna.”
"Or, ratiier, saw him without her,” I
interposed, smiling. It was strange that
she should mention it as a fact, when at
the time she had so scolded me for making
tho statement.
“Ami then,” sho continued, disregard¬
ing my interruption, "there was tho time
when you rvero stabbed in tho passage,
and, again, when you had tho skirmish
by tho river, and then today you were
within a minute of death. You liavo boon
wonderfully preserved!"
I have,” I assented thoughtfully.
“Tho more as I suspect that I liavo to
thank Master Clarence fur all those little
adventures.”
“Strange—very strango!” sho muttered,
removing her eyes from mo that she might
fix thorn on tho Hour.
“What is strange?”
Tho abrupt questioner was the duchess,
who. came bustling in at tho momont.
“What is strange?” sho repeated, with a
heightened color and dancing eyes. “Shall
I tell you?” Sho paused and looked
brightly at mo, holding something con¬
cealed behind her. I guessed in a mo¬
ment, from tho nspoct of Iter faco, what
it was—tho letter which I had given to
Master Eindstrom in tho morning, and
which, with a pardonable forgetfulness, I
had failed to reclaim.
I turned very red. "It was not intended
for you now,” I said shyly, for in tho let¬
ter 1 had told her my story.
"Pooh, pooh!" sho cried. “It IN just as
I thought A pretty piece of folly! No,”
she continued as I opened my mouth, "I
am not going to keep vonr secret, sir. You
may go down on your knees. It will he of
no use. Richard, you remember Sir An¬
thony Cludde of Coton End in Warwick¬
shire?”
“Oh, yes,” her husband said, rising on
his elbow, while his face lit up, and I
stood bashfully shifting my feet.
“1 have danoed with him a dozen timos,
years ago!” sho continuod, her eyes spar¬
kling with mischief. “Well, sir, this gen¬
tleman, Master Francis Carey, otherwise
Von Santonkirch, is Francis Cludde, his
nephew!”
“.Sir Anthony’s nephew?”
“Yes, and tho son of Ferdinand Cludde,
whom you also have heard of, of whom
thu loss”—
Sho stopped and turned quickly, inter¬
rupted by a half stilled scream. It was a
scream full of sudden horror and amaze¬
ment and.fear, and iteamo from Mistress
Anne. Tho girl had risen and was gazing
at mo witii distended eyes and blanched
checks and hands stretched out to keep me
off—gazing, indeed, ns if sho saw in mo
some awful portent or somo dreadful
threat. Sho did not speak, but she began,
without taking her eyes from me, to re¬
treat toward tho door.
. “Hoity, toityl” cried my lady, stamp¬
ing her foot in anger. “What lias hap¬
pened to tho girl? What”—
What, indeed? Tiio duchess stopped,
still more astonished, for, without utter¬
ing a word of explanation or apology, Mis¬
tress Anno had reached tho door, groped
blindly for tho latch, found it and gone
out, her eyes, with the same haunted look
af horror in theiPr-feeiLon mo to tho lust.
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