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HKKK TODAY Colonel Holies, soldier and adventurer. returns to Kngiand vfte land oi bis birth, when war is declared with Holland. He comes to halite with Martha Quinn. iMistrss of toe Pauls Head, in Paul's Yard. London. The colonel asks his old friend. His Grace of Albeniarie. to secure for him a place in the army and Ailv-iuarle warns him that thefname of Randal Holies, father of the colonel, is on the warrant for the execution of the late king-. Therefore it is dangerous for the colonel to secure a commission. On the street. Holies meets a onetime friend named Tucker. Together they listen to the fanatical lamenting of a street preacher who lifts liis voice to warn the people of the rapid spread of a dreaded pestilence. Holies goes to Tucker’s rooms. NOW GO ON WITH THK STORY SUCKER’S face set into grimly sardonic lines. “An eloquent fellow, that,” he said. “He should rouse these silly sheep from their apathy.’’ The Colonel stared at him, puzzled. There seemed to be an ulterior meaning to his words. But Tucker, without adding anything further, drew him away and on. In a handsome room on the first floor of one of the most imposing house:. n Cheapside, Tucker waved his guest to the best chair. “An old friend, just met by chance,” he explained to hi£ housekeeper, who came to wait upon him. “So it will be a bottle of sack ... of tire best!” When, having brought the wine, the Woman had taken herself oft' and the two sat within closed doors, the Colonel gave his friend the account of himself which the latter craved. Gravely Tucker heard him through, and grave his face remained when the tale was done* .He sighed, and considered the Colonel a moment in silence with sombre eyes. “So George Monk’s your only hope,” he said slowly, at last. Then he Uttered a short, sharp laugh of Infinite “I DRINK TO YOUR BETTER Fortune, randal.” scorn. “In your case I think I'd hang myself and have done. It's less tormenting.” “What do you mean?” "You think that Monk will really help you? That he intends to help?” “Assuredly. He has promised it, and he was my friend—and my fa ther’s friend.” “Friend!” said the other bitterly. “I never knew a trimmer to be any man’s friend but his own. And if ever a trimmer lived, his name is George Monk—the very prince of trimmers, as his whole life shows. First a King’s man; then something betwixt and between King and Parliament; then a Parliament man, selling his friends of the King's side. And ’lastly a King’s man again, in opposition to his late trusting friends of the Parliament. Always choosing the side that is up-

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permost or that can outbid the other for his services. And look where he stands; Baron of this, Earl of that, Duke of Albemarle, Commander-in-Chief. Master of the Horse, Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and God knows what else. Oh, he has grown fat on trimming.” “You do him wrong, Ned.” Holies was mildly indignant. “That is impossible.” “But you do. You forget that a rnan may change sides from conviction.” “Especially when it is to his own profit,” sneered Tucker. “That is ungenerous, and it is untrue, of course.” The Colonel showed signs of loyal heat, “You are wrong also in your other assumption. He would have given me all the help I needed, but that . . “But that he counted the slight risk —nay; what am I saying?—the slight inconvenience to himself should any questions afterward be asked. He could have averted in such a case all awkwardness by pleading ignorance to your past.” “I have that he will help me; that he has promised.” “And you build upon his promise? Promises' They cost nothing. Monk’s revenues amount to thirty thousand pounds a year. He was your friend, you say; he was your father's friend, and owed much to your father, as all know. Did he offer you his purse to tide you over present stress, until opportunity permits him to fulfill his promise? Did he?” “I could not have taken advantage of it if he had.” “That Is not what I ask you. Did he offer it? Os course he did not Not he. Yet would not a friend have helped you at once and where he could?” “I say again, you are unjust to him. You forget that, after all, he was under no necessity to promise anything.” “Oh, yes he was. There was his Duchess, as you’ve told me. Dirty Bess can be importunate, and she commands him. He goes notoriously in terror of her. Yielding to her im portunities Tie promised that which he will avoid fulfilling. ’ He grew conscious that Colonel Holies was staring at hint, amazed by his sudden vehemence. He checked abruptly, and laughed. “I grow hot for nothing at all. Nay, not for nothing—for you, old friend, and against those who put ibis deception upon you. You should not have come back to England, Randal. But since you’re here, at least ; do not woo disappointment by nour Ishing your hopes on empty prom ! ises.” He raised his glass to the! light, and looked at the Colonel solemnly across the top of it. “I drink to your better fortune. Randa l .” Mechanically, -without answering a word, the Colonel dran' - with him. His heart was turned t( lead. “If you are right.” he said slowly, his eyes upon the table. "I may as well take Vour advice, and hang myself.” “Almost the only thing left for a self-respecting man in England,” said Tucker. “Or anywhere else, for that matter. But why about England in particular?” Tucker shrugged. “You know my sentiments, what they always were. I am no trimmer. I sail a steady course.” Holies regarded lurr. searehingly. He could not misunderstand the man's words, still less his tone. “Is that not ... Is it not a danger ous course?” he asked. Tucker looked at him wdth wistful amusement. “There are considerations an honest man should set above danger.” "Oh, agreed.” “There Is no honesty save in steadfastness, Randal, and I am, I hope, an honest ihan.” “By which you mean that I am not,” said Holies slowly. Tucker did not contradict him by more than a shrug and a deprecatory smile that was a mere politeness. The Colonel rose, stirred to vehemence by his friend's manifest opinion of him. “I am a beggar, Ned; and beggars may not choose. Besides, for ten years now I have been a mercenary, neither more nor less. My sword is for hire. That is the trade by which I live. I do not make governments; I do not plague myself with questions of their worth: I serve them, for gold.” But Tucker, smiling sadly, slowly shook his head. "If that were true, you would not be in England now. You came, as you have said, because of the war. Your sword may be for hire; but you still have, a country, and the offer goes to her. Should she refuse it, the next will not go to an enemy of England’s. So why belitttle yourself thus? You still have a country, and you love it. There are many here who are ready to love you, though they may not be among those who govern England. You have come back to serve her. Serve her. then. But first, ask yourself how best she may be served.” “What’s that?” “Sit dow r n, man. Sit and listen.” And now, having first sworn the Colonel to secrecy in the name of their old friendship—to which and to the Colonel's desperate condition, the other trusted in opening his heart—Tucker j delivered himself of what was no less I than treason. He began by inviting the Colonel to | consider the state to which misgovern ment by a spendthrift, lecherous, vindictive. dishonest king had reduced the country. He came in the end to deal with the war to which the country was committed; he showed how it had been piovoked by recklessness, and how it had been rendered possible by the gross, the criminal neglect of the affairs of that navy which Cromwell i had left so formidable. “We touch the end at last,” he con- ; eluded with fierce conviction. “Whitehall shall be swept -clean df this ! Charles Stuart and his trulls and pimps and minions. They shall be flung on the foul dunghijl where they | belong, and a commonwealth shall be restored to rule this England in a sane ; and cleanly fashion, so that honest i men may be proud to serve her once again.’’ gA “My God, Ned. you’gY surely Holtes was aghast as much at the

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