Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1903 — Page 7

WHEN KNIGHTHOOD* ■ WAS IN FLOWER S i p , n. e Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor, the King’s Sister, and k ” Happening In the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth ?*¥ ' ~ “~— — A» ;> r Rewritten and Rendered Into Modern English From Sir Edwin '»* Caakoden’s Memoir J By EDWIN CASKODEN [CHARLES MAJOR] $ . Copyright. 1898 and Isol, by the Bowen-MerriUCompany

-he king l,w not open these prlvate ; it is he was supposed at least not ■ *’ tbeir patron, and the queen, who „ considerably older than Henry, ‘ averse to such things. So the prin- * opened her own balls, dancing for feW minutes, with the floor entirely ,herself and partner. It was the bon • of the evening to open the ball with ■ fll) d quite curious to see how men t themselves in her way and stood a s to be easily observed and, pernce chosen. Brandon after leaving arT had drifted into a corner of the pack of a group of people and as talking to Wolsey—who was alars very friendly to him—and to Masr Cavendish, a quaint, quiet, easy lit- ' » man. full of learning and kindness. 1( ] a warm friend to the PrincesSj ary. 1 It was time to open the ball, and om my place in the musicians’ gal- | I could see Mary moving about uong the guests, evidently looking for 1 partner, while the irien. resorted to me very transparent and amusing itedients to attract her attention. The ■jncess. however, took, none of the ,Ilers and soon. I noticed, she espied rantlon standing in the corner with |« ba. k toward iter. s ~.: thing told me &lu> was going to L h n to fpen the dance, and 1 re Ltted it. beva'M» I knew it would so., pry nobleman Tn the hous ■ ag®nsq ini,' they'"l>eliig very jealous of theft lowborn favorites,” as they called the (.titled friends of royalty. 'Rare BOTgb. I was right. Mary at once beLn to make her way over to thetebrC and i heard her say, “Masteteßranen, will you dance with me?” ;■ was done prettily. The whole girl bangeilas soon as she found herself in tout of him. In place of the old time jnfidence, strongly tinged with arroance.she was almost shy. and blushed nd stammered with quick coming reath. like a burgher maid before her ; ew found gallant. At once the court[rs made way for her. and but she talked, leading Brandon by the hand. : [pon her lips and in her eyes was a ire, triumphant smile, as if to say: ’•Look at this handsome new trophy f ray bow and spear." I was surprised and alarmed when lary chose Brandon, but when I turnJ to the musicians to direct their play Mgiue, if you cau, my surprise when J. lie leader said: ® "Master, we have our orders for the rs: dance from the princess." Imagine also, if you can. my double nrprise and. alarm — nay, almost my mor—when the band struck up Jane's Sailor Lass.” 1 saw the look of sur rise and inquiry which Brandon gave I lary, standing there demurely by his ide, when lie first heard the music, nd 1 heard her nervous little laugh as Le nodded, her head. “Xes ” and Men-

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ped closer to him to take position for the dance. The next moment she was in Brandon's arms, flying like a sylph about the room. A buzz of astonishment and delight greeted them before they were half way around and then a great clapping of hands, in which the Ling himself joined. It was a lovely sight, although I think a graceful woman is more beautiful in La Gaillard than any other dance or. in fact, any other situation in which she can place herself. After a little time the dowager Duchess of Kent, first lady in waiting to the queen, presented herself at the' musicians' gallery and said that her majesty had ordered the music stopped, and the musicians, of course, ceased playing at once. Mary, thereupon turned quickly to me. “Master, are our musicians weary that they stop before we are through?” The queen answered foe mein a high voiced Spanish accent: "I ordei»d the music stopped. I will not permit such an indecent exhibition to good longer.” Lire spring to Mary s eyes and she exclaftned: "If your majesty does not like Um way we do and dance at my balls, you can retire as soon as you see tit. Your face is a kili-inirtli any wtiy." It never took long to rouse her ladyship. The queen turned to Henry, who was laughing, ami angrily demanded: ■ ‘‘Will your majesty permit me to bo. thus insulted in > pur very presence';" "Yon got j'ourseif into it. Get but of it as best you can. I have often told you to let lier alone. She Inis sharp claws." The king was really tired of Catherine’s sour frown before he mar ried her. It was her dower of Spanish gold that brought her a second Tudor husband. “Shall I not have what music and ilan.es I want at my own balls?” asked the princess. "That you shall, sister mine: that you shall." answered the king. "Go on, master, and if the girl likes to dance thgi way. In God s name let her have' her wish. Lt will never hurt her. We will learn it ourself, and will wear the ladies out a-daucing.” After Man nad finished the opening dance there was a great demand for instruction. The king askoil Brandon to teach him the steps, which he soon . learned to perform with a gi -e per haps equaled by no living creature oth er than'a fatvbrown bear. The ladies were at first a little shy and inclined to stand at arm’s leng^jbut Mary had set the fashion and the others soon followed ' 'lad lakfii a fiddler to Hlv room and hnd learned the dance from Brandon and was able to Beach' it also, though 1 lacked practice to make my step perf«*ct. The princess had needed no practice, but had danced beautiful--ly from the first, Iter strong young

nmns ana suppie noay taking as Saiurally to anything requiring grace of movement as a cygnet to water. This, thought 1, is my opportunity to teach Jane the new dance. I wanted to go to her first, but wits afraid, or for some reason did not, and took several qther ladles as they came. After I had shown the stop to them I sought out my sweetheart. June was not a prude, but I honestly believe she was the most provoking girl that ever lived. I never had succeeded in holding her hand even the smallest part of an instant. and yet I was sure she liked me very much—almost sure she loved me. She feared I might unhinge it and carry it away, or something of that sort, I suppose. When I went up and asked her to let me teach her the new dance, she said: “I thank you. Edwin, but there are others who are more anxious to learn than 1, and you had better teach them first.” * “But I want to teach you. When 1 wish to teach them. I will go to them.” “"You did go to several others before you thought of coming to me," answered Jane, pretending to be piqued. Now, that was the uukindest thing I ever knew a girl to do—refuse me what she knew I so wanted and then put the refusal on the pretended ground that I did not care much about it. 1 so told her, and she saw she had carried things too far and that I was growing angry In earnest. She then made another false though somewhat flattering excuse: “I could not bear to go through that dance before so large a company. I should not objpgt so much if no one else Could see-that'is, with you, Edwin.” "Edwin!” Oh. so soft and sweet! The little jade! To thiuk 'that she could hoodwink me so easily and talk me into a good htipaor <,with her soft, purring “Edwin!" I through it all quickly enough and left her without another word. In a few minutes she went into an adjoining room where I knew she was ab i.e. The door'was open, ami the music cottid be heard there, so I followed. @ ; "My lady, there is no one to see us here. I can teach you now, if you wish.” said I. She s.-iw she was cornered, and replied, with a toss of her saucy little head. "But what if 1 do not wish?” Now, this was more than I could endure with patience, so 1 answered. “My young lady, you shall ask me before I teach you.” “There are others who cau dance it much better than you." she returned, without looking at me. “If you allow another to teach you that dance,” I responded, “you will have seen the last of me.” She had made me angry, and 1 did not speak totter for more than a week. When I did but 1 will tell ypu of that later on. The evening was devoted to learning the new dance, and I saw Mary busily engaged imparting information among the ladies. As-' we were about to disperse I heard her say to Brandon: "You have greatly pleased the king by bringing him a new amusement, lie asked me where I learned it, and I told him you' had taught it to Caskoden and thaf;.! bpd it from him. I told .Caskodeu. so that he can tell the same story." "Oh. but that is not true. Don’t you think you should have told him the truth or have evaded it in some way?” asked Brandon, who was really a great loiter of the truth, "when possible,” but who! I fear, on this occasion wished to appear more truthful than he really was. If a man is to a woman's taste and she is inclined to him, he lays up great stores in her heart by making her think him good, and shameful impositions are often practiced to this end. Mary flushed a little and answered: "I can't help it You do not know. Had 1 told Henry that we four had enjoyed such a famous time in my rooms he would have been very angry, and—and you might have been the sufferer.” “But might you not have compromised matters by going around the truth some way and leaving the impression that others were of the party that evening?" That was a mistake, for it gave Mary an opportunity to retaliate: "The best way to go around the truth, as you call it, is by a direct lie. My lie was no worse than yours. But I did not stop to argue about such matters. There is something else I wished to say. I want to tell you that you have greatly pleased the king with the new dance. Now teach him ‘honor and ruff' and your fortune is made. He has had some Jews and Lombards in of late to teach hjaa m•w games at cards, but yourfe is worth all of them." Then, somewhat hastily and irrelevantly. “1 did not dance the new dance with any other gentleman, but I suppose you did not notice it,” and she was gone before be could thank her. CHAPTER VI. A RARE RIDE TO WINDSOR.

HE princess knew her royal brother. A man woulfj receive quicker reward for inventing ftn aniusepient or a

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gnudv costume for the king than by winning him a battle. Later in life the highroad to his favor was in ridding him ot his wife and helping him to a new one. a dangerous way, though, as Wolsey found, to his sorrow, when he sank his glory in poor Anne Boleyn. Brandon took the hint and managed to let it be known to his play loving klifc that he knew the latest French games. The French Due de Longue ville had for some time been an honored prisoner at the English court, held as a hostage from laiuis NIL, but De Longueville was a blockhead, who could not keep his little black eyes off our fair ladies, hated him, long enough to tell the detfee of spades from the ace of hearts. So Brandon was taken from his duties, such as they were, and placed at the card table.

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This was fortunate at first, for, being the best player, the king always ehose him as his partner, anti, as in every other game, the king always won. If he lost, there would soon be no game, and the man who won from him too frequently was in danger at any moment of being rated guilty of the very highest sort of treason. I think many a man's fall under Henry VIII was owing to the fact that he did not always allow the king to win in some trivial matter of game or joust. Under these conditions everybody was anxious to be the king’s partner. It is true he frequently forgot to divide his winnings, but his partner had this advantage at least there was no danger of losing. That being the ease, Brandon's seat opposite the king was very likely to excite envy, and the time soon came, Henry having learned the play, when Brandon had to face some one else, and the seat was too costly for a man without a treasury. It took but a few days to put Brandon hors de combat financially, and he would have been in a bad plight had not Wolsey come to his relief. After that he played and paid the king in his own coin. This great game of "honor and ruff” occupied Henry's mind day and night during a fortnight, lie feasted upon it to satiety, as he did with everything else, never having learned not to cloy his appetite by overfeeding. >o we saw little of Brandon while the king's fever lasted, and Mary said she wished she had remained silent about the cards. You see. she could enjoy this new plaything as well as her brother, but the king, of course, must be satis tied first. They both had enough eventually, Henry in one way. .Maty in another. One day the fancy struck the king that lie would rebuild a certain chapel at Windsor, so he took a number of the court, including Mary, Jane, Brandon and myself, and went with us up to London, where we lodged over night at Bridewell House. The next morning—as bright and beautiful a June day as ever gladdened the heart of a rose—we took horse for Windsor, a delightful seven league ride over a fair road. Mary and Jane traveled side by side, with an occasional companion or two, as the road permitted. I was angry with Jane, as you know, so did not go near the girls, and Brandon, without one r.ppnrcnt'intention one way or the other, allowed events to adjust themselves and rode with Cavendish and me. We were perhaps forty yards behind the girls, and 1 noticed after a time that the Lady Mary kept looking backward in our direction, as if fearing rain from the east. 1 was in hopes that Jane. too. would fear the rain, but you would have sworn her neck was stiff, so straight ahead did she keep her face. We had ridden perhaps three leagues when the princess stopped her horse and turned in her saddle. 1 heard her voice, but did not understand what she said. In a moment some one called nut. "Master Brandon is wanted!” So that gentleman rode forward, and 1 followed him. When we came up with the girls. Mary said, “I fear my girth is loose.” Brandon at once dismounted to tighten it. and the others of our immediate party began to cluster around. Brandon tried the girth. “My lady, it is as tight as the horse can well bear,” he said. “It is loose. I say.” insisted the princess, with a iittle irritation. "The saddle feels like it. Try the other.” Then, turning impatiently to the persons gathered around: "Does it require all of vou. standing there like rran<>-~

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bumpkins, to tighten my girth? Ride on. We can manage this without so • much help.” Upon this broad hint everybody rode ahead while I held the ’ horse for Brandon, who went on with his search for the loose girth. While he was looking for It Mary leaned over her horse's neck and asked: "Were you ' and Cavendish settling all the philosophical points now In dispute, that you found him so interesting?” “Not all,” answered Brandon, smiling. "You were so absorbed 1 supposed it ■ could be nothing short of that." "No,” replied Brandon again. "But the girth is not loose.” “Perhaps I only imagined it,” returned Mary carelessly, having lost interest in the girth. I looked toward Jane, whose eyes were bright with a smile, and turned Brandon’s horse over to him. Jane’s smile gradually broadened Into a laugh and she said. “Edwin, I fear my girth is loose also.” “As the Lady Mary's was?” asked i, ■ unable to keep a straight face any longer. O il •W|| “But iChat it I do not wiiht" "Yes.” answered Jane, with a vigorous little nod of her head and a peal of laughter. „ "Then drop back with me,” I re- ■ spouded. Tlie princess looked at us with a half smile, half frown, and remarked, “Now you doubtless consider yourselves very brilliant and witty.” “Yes," returned Jane maliciously, nodding her head in emphatic assent, | as the princess and Brandon rode on before us.

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"i nope sne is sansnea now, ' sani Jane sotto voce to me. “So you want me to ride with you?” I replied. “Y’es," nodded Jane. “Why?” I asked. “Because I want you to,” was the enlightening response. “Then why did you not dance with me the other evening?” “Because I did not want to.” “Short, but comprehensive,” thought I, “but a sufficient reason for a maiden." I said nothing; however, and after a time Jane spoke: “The dance was one thing and riding with you is another. I did not wish to dance with you, but I do wish to ride with you. You are the only gentleman to whom I would have said what I did about my girth being loose. As to the new dance. I do not care to learn it, because I would not dance it with any man but you, and not even with you—yet.” This made me glad, and coming from coy. modest Jane meant a great deal. It meant that she cared for me and would some day be mine, but it also meant that she would take her own time and her own sweet way in being won. This was comforting, if not satisfying, and loosened my tongue. “Jane, you know my heart is full of love for you”— “Will the universe crumble?” she cr! d. with th" most provoking little laugh. Now, that sentence was my rock ahead whenever I tried to give Jane some idea of the state of my affections. It was a part of the speech which I had prepared and delivered to Mary in Jane's hearing, as you already know. 1 had said to the princess, “The universe will crumble and the heavens roll up as a scroll ere my love shall alter or pale." It was a high sounding sentence, but it was not true, as I was forced to admit, almost with the same breath that spoke it. Jane had heard it and had stored it away in that memory of hers, so tenacious in holding to everything it should forget. It is wonderful what a fund of useless information some persons accumulate and cling to with a persistent determination worthy of a better cause. I thought Jane never wouhl forget that unfortunate, abominable sentence spoken so grandiloquently to Mary. 1 wonder what she would have thought had she known that I had id substantially the same thing to a dozen others. I never should have won her in that case She does not know it yet and never shall if I can nrevent. [to be continued.]