Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1950 — Page 4

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ey Windsor Castle Is in an uproar. “On a November evening in the 39th year of Her Majesty's reign, a dirty East End ; boy has been foiind behind the curtains as Queen Victoria #s entertaining Disraeli at dinner. Wheeler, the little Mudiark. slipped by the Castle guard. fallen down an open coal chute and found his way te the dining room. Among those who feel :eamcerned and fearful are Noonan, a scullery maid, and Slattery,

man, is enraged. He runs to tell Charles McHatten, a grenadier (who is in love with Emily Prior, the Maid of Honor). Meanwhile Mr. Brown, the Queenis brawny Scotch gillie, has taken the boy in tow. Now go on with the story. CHAPTER NINE

— had gone. What! Had he stole away? No they told him he had been marched off by Mr. Brown. “80 the boy was ‘examined’ in the Servants Hall by a gillie. And why wasn't the guard notified until now?’ ©onsternation suddenly seized Mr. Naseby. He saw trouble only piling up ahead of him. Now a tn ere it would be charges laid before were the Queen, weren't it? he the ‘Master of the Household Ly knowd it were the Queen. “Aye.” the Captain of the Guard! Negli- Mr. Brown admitted, "it was the gence; disobedience to the rules; Queen” And Wheeler sald; dereliction of duty and disrespect ‘Gaw!"”

security of the Household! He ing his mouth with his. sieeve reppated prayerfully that every- again, ‘sae ye've come to hae thing had been on the authority a look at the castle. Waesucks of Mr. Brown. ye should see Balmoral. Windsor x

Me Hatten had an Inspiration. grander, maybe, but na ways “Look here-you find him.” near sae bonny.” And Mr. Naseby began deployv- on WN

ing “troops” like a field marshal. sp BROWN condescended to He deployed not footmen alone, . 1. te something ‘of his favorite

pot strictly under his command for he considered that he had been deputed special powers, and go cunning was his deployment that in no case did he send a servant to any part of the castle from which, under the gepera regulations, a servant of that kind was debarred.

n ” » MRE. BROWN, meanwhile, had let Wheelér lead him to Outer St. George's Gate and there seen for himself that the pedestrian gate in the fence had been left unlocked. Then he had been led back through the Inner Gate and into the fog of the Great Courtyard for proof of the open coalhole. et The. ole! Wheeler suddenly trumpeted. “The very one, sir!” And Mr. Brown was in no position to dispute the evidence, having just fallen into it up to half the length of one leg. He climbed & out cursing and bent down to 2 “examine a gash on one bare knee. 2 “Whee mopped the blood with a handkerchief. “Gawblimy! Do it hurt, sir?” But Mr. Brown only confided to his beard certain maledictions upon the coof that had S left the hole uncovered for a man = to fall into. He found the cover! I= himself and-heaved it into place. Then he took Wheeler to his = ropm in the Clarence Tower and bade him sit by the grate while he ministered to the wound. He ‘applied a brown liquid to a clean handkerchief, the handkerchief to his knee--winced—and, courage-: ously raising the bottle to his lips, | took some of the medicine in- ~ termally also, "Ga-ah!" he said. wincing again, and the sensitive Wheeler winced with him. n ~ . WHEEL ER, by this time, had | lost his fear, and if his shyness remained, so did his admiration] A for: his host, whom he earnestly rete temtred tor < Hk e—hime Jt -required therefore little cunning for Mr. Brown to draw from him the facts of his visit, along with sev=| eral about Wheeler himself, in-| cluding his place of abode, his orphanhood, and his uncle, in supplying which Wheeler threw in a few ‘extra on the River Thames, = Blackwall Stairs, Limehouse Cut |S and Folly Ditch, the ancient | craft of mudiarking, and "Ooke Morgan, the celebrated Peterboat man. Mr. Brown was capable of making something of ail this, he was even impressed, buf what _impressed him most. if it also] amused him was that “this. boy who had stowed away on a coal barge and come all the miles from London's docks to see the castle should call it the pilothouse of the ruddy world and seem to fancy that from here the Queen 3 —shooed off heavenly. bodies that. were foréver running. derelict nS a kind of universal sea and driv-|2 —4ing down upon England to send her to the bottom. Smiling, he asked: “Wha told 3 ye that, laddie?”’ Bill Grams had told him and he were a barge- EW man on London River. and 3 pnts ‘Wheeter had seen the Queen it 2

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TBUT WHEN McHaiten reached the Bervant's Hall, Wheeler!

lof his native shire, with magic had only goné to show how little I should be grateful if you'd show Have you? Oh, there ‘are some seen by a {easements opening upon the Dee; security she had, what disrespect me the library.” .

a =r IT WAS the custom for- ‘the ding' up at the bust, “have you

queér ones, you know.” He looked {maid Dy a a Munn

head and faintly smiled..“I hope crackled and wagged his head. dark. And as they emerged into Opposite them as they entered |ated among the green. mountains ing in her mind that the incident you won't think me frivolous, but| “Oh, now, you've heard the. tales, [the Grand Corridor, they were in six chill of

: " = = = way with an. oil lamp with which looked. bares and ¢old as the nave. : : |Queen's guests to be offered a ever seen her?” . lhe had had equipped himself ‘in the of a church. On the floor thers re ue ark By Theodore. Bonnet sight-seeing tour when she liad “Eb? Queen Bess? Herself, you knowledge that at this hour a seemed at first glance to be no J a 8 8 > . retired; but Disraeli shook his mean?” Mr. Huish, the librarian, great part of the castle would be furniture at all, and the long wall

panels ¢ chamber- spaced by five cavernous mirrors

scurried ‘in which tiny lamp flame multiply

‘and the more he. told, pausing there was nowadays, with what “win m up at Disraell under his brows— with her intelligence to the Serv- {shone like the eyes of 80 many once or twice again to fortify his shameful negligence sh t you step) this way? they do say she walks . — t's Hall, where McMat! t watching cats; and pow . Mr lconstitution against infection; the tended, And ° she Pp a footman ‘stood aside to let iat ta ial, Having had atin Brown was leading the way down bonnier Balmoral became. what a fuss she was going to, a pr ht was a long walk, . . “rather a long way, however, she the middle towards something

And he talked on. If there frequently passed -his lips that flagrantly inverted phrase that had shocked so many of his listeners, “me and the Queen,” it was not intentionally. impudent, and who could blame him for noticing in

make—oh, she. would let them! know. How shocked Albert would! have been. But the tears that

her Maid of Honor to sing. and ; -abashed. Disraeli knew that he was beaten. job nki Ama oe np

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the grandeur of his tale the grandeur of himself, who moved so grandly through ft? Besides,

and the old man leaning on his stick soon began to tire, perceiv-

bounding out of an intersecting fhe castle.

the large enraptured gaze of Mozart's was suggested,

Wheeler. whom he perceived now

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But the Queen kept breaking all his silken threads as fast as he could spin them.

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Then it was over. Victoria rose come from the drawing room of to be a worthy bairn, moved him and bade them good night. She Victoria, entered into the private completely over to pity for ail such-as knew noth- urged her Minister to come again §allery of Elizabeth. This was ing of court life and were #0 soon; and then, through the ebony now the Library.

eager to be informed, and he only door leading direc tly to her cham- - Elizabeth's gallery Was of protege. Precisely that point was light: glittered overhead as won

Miss Prior asked what Her seemed uncommonly thick about Majesty would care to hear, and, the place for this hour. They assomething’ of Mendelssohn's or cended a narrow staircase from

‘the print room, and, having just succeeded. - in

AND AS THEY shades and heaven in the jing ich ihe Young She Sows the forces of earthly calamity fresher one. He had just seen started to her eyes were stoutly ying pag \were gathering in other parts of Brown and the boy abovestairs in

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ithe “State Apartments, hallway, gaw them and stopped. "1; 1 tye Clarence Tower, inthe Grand Reception Room. the imported mist risen like Sin: TT bad's genic from -a bottle, Mr.| Brown was making the most of| an audience such as he had never Room was not Mr. Brown's d enjoyed before in his life. He had|tination; it merely lay on his winning himself royal road. With his torch held to Wheeler's high before him in one fist, and cause, and under that warmly ad-/'Wheeler ‘by the other, he pa miring gaze had reached the point not at all in this large and sump-| prisoner for atuous chamber, though the lam

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Library, when Slattery arrived with a! nes

Mr. this he stopped; raising his lamp

bers, vanished. What a disappoint- properly royal dimensions, nearly reached when, coming to the end clusters of jewels that might be

” “Ting end to an evening That Kad be- a hundred feet Tong, he judged: 51 3 tale ana aTter once more eas- had for the plucking,” ind PATIENTLY, in the White Bun so auspiciously, he thought. and, through a bust of. herself on jhe his dry throat at the bottle, mysteriously in mirrors, Drawing Room, Disraeli had been He might see her for a few min- the superb stone mantel at the far he repeated, “And sae ye've come gilded picture frames and the. trying to weave another web in utes again when he took his leave end, Elizabeth, he saw, still {, gee the castle! Well, which to consign the Queen to in the morning, but morning was presided over it. the merchants of Manchester. No time for wheedling a woman. pisraeli stumped. down the mysel. Aye, I will, man. I'll show luxuriated in a carpet soft as length of the gallery, trailed by ve a bit ye'll ne'er forget” At mud; Mr. Brown led the wonder- | 2 drops of Penstro Nose Miss Prior politely took her the librarian and the Gentlema®™ which piece .of magnanimitying boy leave, saying: “There's a gentle- in-Waiting; he halted Under the Wheeler was overwhelmed. i The ambuscade in the dining man waiting to look after you. mantel. but pager and maids, porters and’ roi" (he royal residences, situ- room had upset her. If was Als This is ME Phipps-Haven,

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