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"iruin in it'.!, your honor, anu know a very good reason for it." "Humph: And what is that?" "Some nig'ats since, us I was making for the English line, I stopped for refreshment at an inn 'Where I had beer accustomed to halt in my travels. Tc my amazement, I was refused admittance by a man who stood on guard We had a bit of a debate, which ended in my overpowering him and forcing ar entrance, and which was more surprisedthe tlozen there gathered together, or me, with their sentry undei my oxter it would be difdcnlt to tell Swords were drawn, and 1 might have come badly out of the encounter had it not been that a friend of mine among the assemblage recognized me." "I suppose you wish to mention nc names V" "I see no objection," continued Armstrong innocently. "I take it that the men were quite within their right in gathering there, although I contended they exceeded their right in trying tc keep me out of a public house. My friend was the Earl of Traquair. These gentlemen, finding I was for England, nsked me to carry a message to the king, but I explained that I had no wish to interfere in matters which did not concern me. and they parted to meet again somewhere else. There was a great splore about a spy that escaped, and I have no doubt if he saw me there and heard the proposal made to me he might well have broiight my name and description across the border. At least that was the way I reasoned it out with myself." "It is very like you are right. Spies, unfortunately, seem to be necessary when a country is in a state of war. Many unjustifiable acts are then committed, including the arresting of innocent men. But I am anxious nothing shall be done that will give just cause of offense to Scotland, a God fearing country and a friendly. When such injustice happens, as it has happened In your case. I try to make amend. How far south do you propose to travel';" "I may go the lentrth of Manchester or P.inuingham. The distance and the timt' will depend on the state of trade." "If you will tell me places you intend to visit 1 will include them In the pass I shall now write for you." "That I cannot say just at the moment. 1 wish to follow trade wherever it leads me." "Then an inclusive "pass, extendlxj as Tar south as Manchester", vrtf? your needs?" '. -f' "It will more than meet theavL" eral." said Armstrong, with fr-" Indifferanc. .

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".s ,ou carry ;io message trom Traquair to the king 1 can write Oxford on your permit as easily as Manchester." "Thank you, general; but Manchester will be far enough." "I may say that we are strict about those whom we allow to journey to and fro at the present time, and if you should overstep the limit of this document you are liable to investigation and delay, and I may not be so near at hand on the next occasion." "I quite understand, and if I wished to go farther south I would have no hesitation in begging permission of your excellency, but I doubt if I shall even see Manchester." "You will not be leaving Corbiton until the morning, of course" "No, general. I know when I am well housed." "Then, as I have much to do, I will make out your paper later, and it will be handed to you in the morning." "Thank you, general." After giving some laconic instructions touching the welfare of the northerner to Captain Bent, who was hovering uneasily in the outside hall, Cromwell, bidding his enforced guest a cordial farewell, ordered Wentworth to be brought to him and retired once more into the dim council chamber. With hands clasped behind him and head bent, he strode slowly up and down the long room in deep meditation, vanishing into the gloom at the farther end and reappearing in the limited circle of light that surrounded the two candles, for the torches had long since smoked themselves out, and there had been no replacement of them, none daring to enter that room unsummoned while the leader was within it. The watcher in the gallery felt rather than saw that there was an ominous frown on the lowered face as the commander waited for the second prisoner, over whom hung sentence of death. This time a clanking of chains announced the new arrival, who was preceded by Colonel Porlock and accompanied by two soldiers, one on either side of him. The young fellow, who shutSed up to the table dragging his irons, cast an anxious look at the forbidding face of the man who was to be his final judge, in whose word lay life or death for him. and. he found there little to comfort him." Cromwell seated himself once more and said gruffly: "Take off those fetters." When the command was complied irith the general dismissed the trio ftnd sat for some - moments in silence, reading the frank, open face of his op-

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"You are to be shot at aayDreaii tomorrow," he began in harsh tones that echoed dismally from the raftered ceiling. I have examined the evidence, and I find your condemnation just." "I have never questioned the verdict, general, nor did I make appeal." The shaggy brows came down over Cromwell's eyes, but his face cleared perceptibly. "Y'ou own the penalty right?" "Sir, it is partly right and partly wrong, like most things in this world. It is right to punish me for deserting my post; it is wrong to brand me a traitor." "Ah, you have found your voice at last, and there Is some courage behind it. Desertion is an unpardonable crime. The point I press upon you is this: Y'our life is forfeit; yet, although your fault is unpardonable, I do not say it cannot be compensated for. Even my enemies admit I am an honest trader. I will bargain with you for your life. You shall buy it of me, and I shall pay the price, even though I do not forgive the crime. We will first, if you please, clear up the charge of treachery. You were visiting your own home that night, and as it is on the farther side of Rudby Hall your accusers naturally thought you had a rendezvous there?" "No, general; it was my intention to have visited Rudby Hall." "The residence of that" foul,' malignant Lord Rudby, so called?" "Yes, but not to see his lordship, who is my enemy, personal as well as political." "Y'ou are truthful, and it pleases me. Why did you make a foolish mystery of your excursions? I take the case to stand thus: Your grandfather and Rudby were neighbors and possibly friends. Y'ou were and are in love with my lord's daughter, but since you belong to the cause of the people this oppressor of the people will have naught of you. You have risked your life to see the girl, who is doubtless as silly as the rest of her class, as you will discover if I let you live. Stand3 the case not thus?" "In a measure, sir, it does, saving any reflection on the lady, who" "Surely, surely. I know what you would say, for I was once your age and as soaked in folly. The question is, if you will risk your life for her, will you do what I ask of you to earn the girl and your life, or will you refuse and let her go to another?" "Sir, I will do anything for her." "Then harken well. There was here before me, where you now stand, some moments since, the most plausible liar in the kingdom. He told me truths which on the surface appeared to be treachery to his friend, but which he was well aware I already knew. This was to baffle me into believing him. He rides to Oxford to see the king, and in that I am willing to aid him. He may tell the king what pleases him and those wjio send him. Little good will it do any of them. In re.rn the king Is to give him a commission to be handed to certain lords in Scotland. If that commission crosses the border we are like to have a blaze to the north of us which I do not wish to see kindled until a year from now. Then, by God then, by God's will I shall be ready for It&em. We shall dpff th Soots in.

has, is fifths the patron. any case, but If this commission reaches these malcontents we cannot have the pleasure humph! we shall le precluded from the duty of beheading the ringleaders without bringing on ourselves the contumely of Europe. Without the king's commission they are but broilers, marauders. With this commission they will set up the claim that they are belligerents. "The commission must be intercepted at all costs. It will be your task to frustrate the intentions of the king and his Scottish nobles. Put the task is more complicated than yet appears. It would be an easy matter to run this messenger through the body and there an end. I want what he carries, but I do not wish to harm the carrier. These Scots are a clannish, troublesome, determined race. If you prick one with a sword's point the whole nation howls. This, then, must be done quietly, so that we bring no swarm about our ears. William Armstrong is the messenger's name, and he has powerful supporters in his own country. He was stopped as soon as he crossed the border yesterday and brought here. He pretends to be an innocent trader in cattle and will likely keep up that pretense. I have appeared to believe all he says, and he leaves this house tomorrow morning with a pass from my hand, giving him permission to travel as fjir south as Manchester, which was all he asked. I would willingly have given him safe conduct to Oxford, but he was too crafty to accept such a thing. He thinks he can make his way south from Manchester. As a matter of fact, be cannot, but I wish to make the way easy for him. "Of course I could give a general order that he was not to be molested, but there are reasons against this, as we have doubtless spies in our own ranks, and a general order would excite suspicion and would probably prove useless because this man. south of his permit's territory, will endeavor to go surreptitiously to Oxford and by unfrequented routes. It will be your duty to become acquainted with Armstrong and win his confidence. Y'ou will accompany him to Oxford and return with him. You will be protected by a pass so broad that it will cover any disguise either of you may care to asume.' It is such a pass as Thave never issued before and am not like to issue again, so I need not warn jou to guard it carefully and use it only when necessary. It reads thus." Here the speaker took up a sheet of paper on which he had been writing and, holding it so that the light from the candles fell upon it, read aloud: "Pass the bearer and one other, without question or interference, from Carlisle to Oxford and return. "The journey south will give you the opportunity to become acquainted with your man. On the northward march you must become possessed of what he carries, and when you bring it to me you receive in its stead pardon and promotion. If y do not succeed before you reach Ctrillfr, ikm I must crush him, poscibly kill M-Zi as a spy. Will you undertake it?" " 'Tis an ungracious office you would bestow npon me, sir. I had rather meet him in fair fight and slay him or haT? him slay me. a od willed." t

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"There speaks youth!" cried Croru-, well impatiently. "This man' is ' a treacherous, lying" spy,' whose life by all the rules of war is already forfeit. ' I propose to discomfit him with his -own weapons. Nay, more, I willingly , save Win from the destruction he merIts. You are set to do him the great- " est service one man can offer another. If you fall, he dies; if you succeed, be , has probably a long life before him." ; "Sir, you are In the right, and your argument is. incontestable. I' accept r your command willingly." . A gleam of pleasure lit the rugged ' face of the general, for he was flat-, tered to believe his prowess in'contro- 1 versy was no less potent than his gen ius In war. His voice softened perceptibly as he continued: ' V ' "You save your country and at th. same time save your country's enemy. What excuse will you give to Arm-" 6trong, for your desire to visit Ox ' ford?" "My friend, the son of Lord Rudby, is there. Although we are on opposite cfrlea tin hna none fit thft bitterness

against me shown by his father. I vrill say l wisu to comer whd uim. ' , "That will serve. Now this pass is for two, and you can offer to Armstrong safe conduct under your guidance, giving what plea you choose for the absence of the man who was to accompany you and who, it may, be, -was supposed to have procured this pass from me." " , - Cromwell folded the pass and handed U it to young Wentworth. "Go. This paper is your safeguard. I shall give the order that yon are to be well ,, mounted and provided with money. Send Captain Bent to me as you pass out." k .. V; , Once more alone, Cromwell wrote , the pass for Armstrong, giving him t permission : to travel between Carlisle -and Manchester. When he had finished writing. Captain Bent was standing beside the table, and to him " be de ' livered the paper. v - "You will - give that to your late prisoner," he said. "He is to depart tomorrow morning, not . before 8 o'clock, and is to travel unmolested You have accomplished your duties1 well, captain, and your services shall not be forgotten." -. The silent but gratified captain left the room with straighter shoulders tnan naa marnea nis previous exit. . His chief looked up at the dark gallery and called out, "Come down and report yourself to the officer of the night-" For nearly ten minutes Cromwell sat at the table in silence, save for the busy scratching of his pen. Then he rose wearily, with a deep sigh, his marked face seemingly years oldei than when he had entered the room. Once outside, he gave Colonel Porlock the papers he had written and saiai "The finding of the court martial Ja approved, but the sentence lo msyesyg. ed. It is possible tksvt WeR?rorth may render such v&rrn to the state as will annul t-s sentence against him. Toh rrfii give him every assistance he requires of you and the amount of money set clown In this order. Bring out my horse." ;;r (Continued Tomorrow.)Palladium Want Ads Pay