Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1903 — Page 7

[when knighthood! ; WAS IN FLOWER ? & Or, The Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor, the King’s Sister and Happening In the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth $ Rewritten Knd Rendered Into Modern English From Sir Edwin CKskodcn’s Memoir J By EDWIN CASKODfcN [CHARLES MAJOR] $ Li .. Copyright. 13M and 1901, by the Bowen-MerriU Company ±*A

Ag I told you once before, Henry did Lt care how much Brandon might love Is sister, hut Buckingham had whisked suspicions of the state of Mary’s part, and his own observations, toe(ber with the intercepted note, had iveu these suspicions a stronger colorlg so mat a very sman matter ungiii jrii them into certainties. The king had pardoned Brandon for ie killing of the two men in Billingsite, as he was forced to do under the reumstances, but there his kindness opped. After a short time he deprived Im of his place at court, and all that ras left for him of royal favor was emission to remain with me and live ■ the palace until such time as he lould sail for New Spain. CHAPTER XIII. A GIRL'S CONSENT. a HE treaty had been agreed up on. and as to the international ,:i ..igement.at least.the mar,e of l/juis de Valois and try Tudor was a settled fact. All it eded was the consent of an eighteen-ar-old girl—a small matter, of course, marriageable women are but compdities in statecraft, aud theoretically, least, acquiesce in everything their ge lords ordain. Wolsey, whose manner was smooth an otter's coat, had been sent to tch the needed "yes,” but he failed, [ane told me about it. [t'olsey had gone privately to see the (ncess and had thrown out a sort of Irmish line by flattering her beauty, it had found her not in the best hufcr rYes, yes, my lord of Lincoln, 1 know |w beautiful I am. No one knows bets’ I know all about my hair, eyes, ■th, eyebrows and skin. I tell you I h sick of them. Don’t talk to me lout them. It won't help you to get sy consent to marry that vile old create. That is what you have come for, ■course. I have been expecting you. Iy did not my brother come?” K think he was afraid, and, to tell It: the truth, I was afraid myself,” fcwered Wolsey, with a smile. This Ide Mary smile, too, in spite of her|f and went a long way toward putIg her in a good humor. Wolsey confut'd: "His majesty could not have ■en me a more disagreeable task. |u doubtless think I am in favor of M? marriage, but I am not.” ■llls was as great a lie as ever fell rt out of a bishop's mouth. “I have ■n obliged to fall in with the king's ■ws on the matter, for he has bad his L set on it from the first mention ■De Longueville.” ■Was it that bead eyed little mummy ■o suggested it?” SYes, and if you marry the king of k. - - OTT naiirv ”

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A vu WM , mu. ~ lva . “ ’Tis an Inducement, by my troth.” “I do not mind saying to you in confidence that I think it an outrage to force a girl like you to marry a man like Louis of France, but bow are we to avoid it?” By the “we" Wolsey put himself in alliance with Mary, and the move was certainly adroit. “How are we to avoid it? Have no fear of that, my lord; I will show you.” “Oh, but my dear princess; permit me. You do not seem to know your brother. Y’ou cannot in any way avoid this marriage. I believe he will imprison you and put you on bread and water to force your consent. I am sure you had better do willingly that which you will eventually be compelled to do anyway; and, besides, there is another thought that has come to me. Shall I speak plainly before Lady Jane Bolingbroke?” “I have no secrets from her.” “Very well. It is this: Louis is old and very feeble. He cannot live long, and it may be that you can by a ready consent now exact a promise from your brother to allow you your own choice in the event of a second marriage. You might in that way purchase what you could not bring about in any other WAV ” “How do you know that I want to purchase aught in any way, Master Wolsey? I most certainly do not intend to do so by marrying France.” “I do not know that you wish to purchase anything, but a woman’s heart is not always under bdr full control, and It sometimes goes out to one very far beneath her in station, but the equal of any man on earth in grandeur of soul and nobleness of nature. It might be that there is such a man whom any woman would be amply Justified in purchasing at any sacrifice —doubly so If it were buying happiness for two.” Ills meaning was too plain even to pretend to misunderstand, and Mary’s eyes flashed at him as her face broke into a dimpling smile in spite of her. Wolsey thought he had won. and to clinch the victory said, in bis forceful manner: “Ix>uls Nil. will not live a year: let me carry to the king your consent, and I guarantee you his promise as to a second marriage.” In an instant Mary's eyes shot fire, end her face was like the blackest stormcloud. “Carry this to the king: That I will see him and the whole kingdom sunk • n hell before I will marry Louis of France. That is my answer once and for all. Good even, Master Wolsey.” And she swept out of the room with head up and dilating nostrils, the very picture of defiance. After Wolsey had gone Jane said to Mary: “Don't you think it would have been better had you sent a softer an-

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swer to your brother? I believe you could reach his heart even now if you were to make the effort. You have not tried in this matter as you did in the others.” “Perhaps you are right, Jane. 1 will go to Henry.” Mary waited until she knew the king was alone, and then went to him. On entering the room she said: “Brother. I sent a hasty message to you by the bishop of Lincoln this morning, and have come to ask your forgiveness.” "Ah, little sister, I thought you would change your mind. Now you are a good girl.” “Oh. do not misunderstand me. I asked your forgiveness for the message. As to the marriage, I came to tell you that It would kill mo and that 1 could not bear it Oh, brother, you are not a woman. You cannot know.” Henry flew into a passion and, with oaths and curses, ordered her to leave him unless she was ready to give her conseut. She had but two courses to take, so she left with her heart full of hatred for the most brutal wretch who ever sat upou a throne, and that is making an extreme case. As she was going she turned upon him like a fury and exclaimed: “Never, never! Do you hear? Never!” Preparations went on for the marriage Just as if Mary had given her solemn consent The important work of providing the trousseau began at once. When the queen went to her with silks and taffetas and fine cloths to consult about the trousseau, although the theme was one which would interest almost any woman, she would have none of it, and when Catherine insisted upon her trying on a certain gown she called her a blackamoor, tore the garment to pieces and ordered her to leave the room. Henry sent Wolsey’ to tell her that the 13th day of August had been fixed upon as the day of the marriage, De Longueville to act as the French king’s proxy, and Wolsey was glad to come off w’ith his life. Matters were getting Into a pretty tangle at the palace. Mary would not speak to the king, and poor Catherine was afraid to come within arm’s length of her. Wolsey was glad to keep out of her way, and she flew at Buckingham with talons and beak upon first sight. As to the battle with Buckingham, it was short, but decisive, and this was the way it came about: There had been a passage between the duke and Brandon, in which the latter had tried to coax the former into a duel, the only way of course to settle the weighty matters between them. Buckingham, however, had had a taste of Brandon’s nimble sword play and, bearing in mind Judson's fate, did not care for ary more. They had met by accident, and Brandon, full of smiles and as polite as a Frenchman, greeted him. “Doubtless my lord, having crossed swords tw’ice with me, will do me the great honor to grant that privilege the third time aud will kindly tell me where my friend can wait upon a friend of his grace.” “There is no need for us to meet over that little affair. You had the best of it, and if I am satisfied you should’be. I was really in the wrong, but I did not know the princess bad invited you to her ball.” “Your lordship is pleased to evade,” returned Brandon. “It is not the ball room matter that I have to complain of. As you have rightly said, if you are satisfied I certainly should be, but it is that your lordship, in the name of the king, Instructed the keeper of Newgate prison to confine me in an underground cell and prohibited communication with any of my friends. You so arranged it that my trial should be secret both as to the day thereof and the event, in order that it should not be known to rnose’wfio might be‘‘*hi'iei ; es, Ti AT my release. You promised the Lady Mary that you would procure my liberty, and thereby prevented her going to the king for that purpose, and afterward told her that It had all been done, as promised, and that I had escaped to New Spain. It is because of this, my Loi-d Buckingham, that I now de nounce you as a liar, a coward and a perjured knight, and demand of you such satisfaction as one man can give to another for mortal injury. If you refuse. I will kill you as I would a cutthroat the next time I meet you.” "I care nothing for yew-rrt «eV, low, but out of consideration for the feelings which your fancied injuries have put into your heart, I tell you that 1 did what I could to liberate you and received from the keeper a promise that you should be allowed to escape. After that a certain letter addressed to you was discovered and fell Into the hands of the king, a matter in which I had no part. As to your confinement and noncommunication with your friends, that was at his majesty’s command after he had seen the letter, as be will most certainly confirm to you. I say this for my own sake, not that I care what you may say or think.” This offer of confirmation by the king made it all sound like the truth, so much will even a little truth leaven a great lie, and part of Brandon’s sails came down against the mast. The whole statement surprised him, and most of all the intercepted letter. What letter could it have bees? It was pu»zllng. and vet he dared not ask As the duke was about to walk away Brandon stopped him: “One moment, your grace; I am willing to admit what you have said, for I am not now prepared to contradict it but there is yet anoMier matter we have to settle. You attacked me on horseback and tried to murder me In order to abduct two ladles that night over in Billingagate. That you cannot deny. I watched you follow the ladies from Bridewell to Grouches, and saw your face when ytftir mask fell off during the melee as plainlv as I see it now. If other proof is wanting, there is that sprained knee upon which your horse fell, causing vou to limp even yet. I am sure now 1k.,! ...v lord will meet me like a man,

or would he prefer that I should go to the king and tell him and the world the whole shameful story? I have concealed It heretofore thinking it my personal right and privilege to settle with you.” Buckingham turned a shade paler as he replied "I do not meet such as von on the neid or honor, and have no tear of your slander injuring me.” He felt secure in the thought that the girls did not know who had attacked them, and could not corroborate Brandon in his accusations, or Mary, surely, never would have appealed to him for help. I was with Brandon—at a little distance, that Is—when this occurred, and after Buckingham had left we went to find the girls in the forest. We knew they would be looking for us, although they would pretend surprise when they saw us. We soon met them, and the very leaves of the trees gave a soft, contented rustle In response to Mary’s low, mellow laugh of joy. After perhaps half an hour we encountered Buckingham with his law-yer-knight, Johnson. They had evidently walked out to this quiet path to consult about the situation. As they approached, Mary spoke to the duke with a vicious sparkle in her eyes. “My Lord Buckingham, this shall cost you your head. Remember my w’ords when you are on the scaffold, Just when your neck fits into the hollow’ of the block.” He stopped, with an evident desire to explain, but Mary pointed down the path and said: “Go, or I will have Master Brandon spit you on his sword Two to one would be easy odds compared with the four to one you put against him in Billingsgate. Go!” Aud the battle was over, the foe never having struck a blow. It hurt me that Mary should speak of the odds being two to one against Brandon when I was at hand. It is true I was not very large, but I could have taken care of a lawyer. Now it was that the lawyer-knight earned his bread by his wits, for it was he, I know, who instigated the next move, a master stroke in its way and one which proved a checkmate to us. It was this: The duke went at once to the king and in a tone of injured innocence told him of the charge made by Brandon, with Mary’s evident approval, and demanded redress for the slander. Thus it seemed that the strength of our position was about to be turned against us. Brandon was at once summoned and promptly appeared before the king, only too anxious to confront the duke. As to the confinement of Brandon and his secret trial, the king did not care to hear. That was a matter of no consequence to him. The important question was, Did Buckingham attack the princess? Brandon told the whole straight story exactly as it was, which Buckingham as promptly denied and offered t<s prove by his almoner that he was at his devotions on the night and at the hour of the attack. So here was n conflict of evidence which called for new witnesses, and Henry asked Brandon if the girls had seen and recognized the duke. To this question of course be was compelled to answer no, and the whole accusation, after all, rested upon Brandon’s word, against which, on the other hand, was the evidence of the Duke of Buckingham and his convenient almoner. All this disclosed to the full poor Mary's anxiety to help Brandon, and. the duke having adroitly let out the fact that he had Just met the princess with Brandon at a certain secluded spot in the forest, Henry’s suspicion of her partiality received new force, and he began to look upon the unfortunate Brandon as a partial cause at least of Mary’s aversion to the French marriage Henry grew angry and ordered Brandon to leave the court, with the sullen remark that it was only his services to the Princess Mary that saved him from a day with papers on the nillorv.. Henry was by no means sure that his suspicions concerning Mary’s heart were correct, and in all he had beard he had not one substantial fact upon which to base conviction. He had not seen her with Brandon since tbeir avowal, or be would have had a fact in every look, the truth in every motion a demonstration in tone seemed’fcftarewu to .Tftempt concealment. In Brandon's handsome manliness and evident superiority the king thought he saw a very clear possibility for Mary to love, and where there is such a possibility for a girl she usually fails to fulfill expectations. Now, all this brought Brandon into the deep shadow of the royal frown, and like many another man he sank his fortune in the fathomless depths of a woman's heart and thought himself rich in doing it.

CHAPTER XIV. IN THE SIREN COUNTRY. HITH the king admiration stood for affection, a mistake frequently made by people not given to self analysis, and In a day or two a reaction set In toward Brandon which inspired a desire to make some amends for his harsh treatment. This he could not do to any great extent on Buckingham’s account—at least not until the London loan was In his coffers—but the fact that Brandon was going to New Spain so soon and would be out of the way both of Mary's eyes and Mary's marriage stimulated that rare flower In Henry’s heart, a good resolve, and Brandon was offered his old quarters with me until such time as he should sail for New Spain. He bad never abandoned this plan, and now that matters had taken this turn with Mary and the king his resolution was stronger than ever in that the scheme held two recommendations and a possibility. The recommendations were, first, it would take him away from Mary, with whom, when out of the inspiring influence of her hnovnnt u

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he knew’ marriage to be utterly impossible, and, second, admitting and facing that impossibility, be might find at least partial relief from bls heartache in the stirring events and adventures of that faraway land of monsters, dragons, savages and gold. The possibility lay in the gold, and a very faintly burning flame of hope held out the still more faintly glimmering chance that fortune, finding him there almost alone, might for lack of another lover smile upon him byway of squaring accounts. She might lead him to a cavern of gold, and gold w’ould do anything, even perhaps purchase a priceless a treasure as a certain princess of the royal blood. Brandon at once accepted the king’s offer of lodging in the palace, for now that lie felt sure of himself in the matter of New Spain and bis separation from Mary he longed to see as much as possible of her before the light went out forever, even though it were playing with death itself to do so. Foor fellow! His suffering was so acute during this period that It affected me like a/contagion. It did not make a mope of him, but came in spasms that almost drove him wild. He would at times pace the room and cry out: “Jesu, Caskoden,

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“Kindly tell me where my friend can wait upon a friend of hl» grace.” what shall I do? She will be the wife of the French king, and the wilderness and try every moment to imagine what she is doing and think Ing. I shall find the bearing of Paris J and look in her direction until my brain ’ melts in my effort to see her, and then ' I shall wander in the woods, a suffer | ing imbecile, feeding on roots and nuts. ! Would to God one of ns might die! If it were not selfish, I should wish I might be the one.” I said nothing In answer to these outbursts, as I had no consolation to offer.. We had two or three of our little meetings of four, dangerous as they were, at which Mary, feeling that each shn J!F last, would sit and look at him with glowing eyes that in turn softened aud burned as he spoke. She did not talk much, but devoted all her time and energies to looking with her whole soul. Never before or since was there a girl so much in love. A young girl thor oughly in love is the most beautiful object on earth—beautiful even In ugliness. Imagine, then, what it made of Mary! Growing partly, perhaps, out of his unattainability—for he was as far out of her reach as she out of bis —she had long since begun to worship him. She had learned to know him so well, and his valiant defense of her In Billingsgate, together with his noble self sacrifice in refusing to compromise her in order to save himself, had presented him to her in so noble a light that she had come to look up to him as her superior. Her surrender had been complete. and she found in it a joy far exceeding that of any victory or triumph she could imagine.

The trouble began in earnest with the discovery of our meetings in Lady Mary’s parlor. There was nothing at all unusual in the fact that small companies of young folk frequently spent their evenings with her, but we knew well enough that the unusual element in our parties was their exceeding smallness. A company of eight or ten young persons was well enough, although it of course created jealousy on the part of those who were left out, but four—two of each sex-*<nade a difference in kind, however much we might insist it was only in degree, and this, we soon learned, was the king's opinion. vnn bp gure there was many a

jealous person about the court ready; to carry tales and that it was impossi- ’ ble long to keep our meetings secret, among such a host as then lived In. Greenwich palace. One day the queen summoned Jane* and put her to the question. Now, Jane, thought the truth was made only to be, told, a fallacy Into which many goodpeople have fallen, to their utter de-' struction, since the truth, like every other good thing, may be abused. Well, Jane told it all in a momenta and Catherine was so horrified that siiet was like to faint. She weut with her hair-lilting horror to the king and poured into bis ears a tale of imprudence and debauchery well calculated to start his righteous, virtue-prompted indignation into a threatening flame. Mary, Jane, Brandon and myself were at once summoned to the preseuee of both their majesties and souudly reprimanded. Three of us were ordered to leave the court before we could speak a word in self defense, and Jane had enough of her favorite truth for once. Mary, however, came to our rescue with her coaxing eloquence and potent feminine logic and soon coni vinced Henry that the queen, who real!ly counted for little with him, had ■ made a mountain out of a very small I molehill. Thus the royal wrath was apj peased to such an extent that the order ,of expulsion was modified to a comI mand that there be no more quartet , gatherings in Princess Mary's parlor. ; This leuiency was more easy for the i princess to bring about by reason of j the fact that she bad not spoken to her | brother since the day she went to see | him after Wolsey’s visit and had been iso roughly driven off. At first, upon | her refusal to speak to him after the Wolsey visit. Henry was angry ou account of what he called her insolence, but as she did not seem to care for that and as his anger did nothing toward unsealing her lips he pretended indifference. Still the same stubborn silence was maintained. This soon began to amuse the king, and of late he bad been trying to be on friendly terms again with his sister through a series of elephantine antics and bearlike pleasantries. which were the most dismal failures—that is, in the way of bringing about a reconciliation. They were I more successful from a comical point of view. So Henry was really glad for I something that would loosen tlie tongue usually so lively, and for a opportu- ' lie was demanding such a sacrifice and | for whom he expected to i<»ive no ■ less a price than the help of Louis of i France, the most powerful king of i Europe, to the imperial crown. Thus our meetings were broken up. I and Brandon know his dream was over and that any effort to see the princess would probably result in disaster for them both; for him certainly. The king upou that same day told Mary of the intercepted letter sent by her to Brandon at Newgate and accused her of what he was pleased to tour -t for a lowborn

Mary at once sent a full account of the communication in a letter to Brandon, who read it with no small degree of ill comfort as the harbinger of trouble. "1 had better leave here soon or I may go without my head.” he remarked. ‘ When that thought gets to working in the king’s brain, he will strike, and I—shall fall.” Letters began to come to our rooms from Mary, at first begging Brandon to come to her and then upbraiding him because of his coldness and cowardice and telling him that if he cared for her as she did for him be would see her though he bad to wade through fire and blood. That was-exactly where the trouble lay. It was not fire and blood through which he would have to pass; they were small matters—mere nothings that would really have added zest and interest to the achievement. But the frowning laugh of the tyrant, who could bind him hand and foot, and a vivid remembrance of the Newgate dungeon, with a dangling noose or a hollowed out block In the near background. were matters that would have taken the adventurous tendency out of even the cracked brain of chivalry itself. Brandon cared onlj to fight where there was a possible victory or ransom, or a prospect of some sort at least of achieving success. [TO BE CONTINUED.} Wot Wholly Idle. Clara—Does Harry help you with the house cleaning? Harriet—Well, he hangs the pictures r £rooked and does the grumbling.—Detroit Free Press. _ at