The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1903, Page 2

° THE SUNDAY CALL. ast day or so from Sir Edwin; b ave n t; it T want- ;P‘:‘] E Y 22 he was not going & ed & Jimseif and ire of knowing you i : o refuse se 1t er 2 lances bec .»n: With this, her e f xing, self-w sister would : t to be a part of the movi A , make & f t tell me who he is, and - egree on Mary in a ed in the wish she had antering e 5 a few « has mo degree. He is a plain, tied soldier, not even & knight; that is ight. I think he has order of some sort an earl; mot even a has become & tragedy 4 a & to at - they could t her alone ke With fiim dow ( / which su the prince of fau § % himself c in no way biame B0 Mp Jwhs $o. o ¥ o b E 3 P She could not help it that God ha we determined to h new to fit to make her the faizest being on eart and the responsibility wou ave to lis where it belonged—with & ry wo to be at Green- M iR o~ EMENT FaT PRINCALY wowLr wrEzors Yxa Kowee ouT oR Wy a3 nd per sure were exag great deal; that is, tortell the exact truth, tues and failings, has ever since that day I did. Although Brandon had seen many and moment Kept hers. It seemed that n 3 an adventure during his life on the C my love, or what I supposed was lo “A man who mak tinent which would not do to write down left my heart at oncs, frogen in the cold himself about a w 0 here, he was as little of a boaster as glint ot her eyes as she smiled upon my The men of the court must be po any man 1 ever met, and, while 1 am in first avowal: somewhat as disease may tures the truth telling business. I was as great leave the sickened body upon & great He had to learn about the pow a braggart of my inches as ever drew the shock. And in its plac and is old enough to be her fat not?” I assented; and B: came the restful womanhood. There thing long bow--in that iine, I me Gods! [ flame of a friend's love, which so 8oftly but you know as much about it as I flush up hot even now when I think of warms without burning. But the burn- «wait until you see her,” I answ it. 8o T talked a great deal and found Ing! There is nothing in life worth hav- «and you will' be one of myself infinitely pleased with Brandon's Ing compared with it for all its pains and flatter you by givir 3 e conversationa: powers, which were rare; agonles. Is there her to be heels 1 e being no less than the acity for say “Now if you must love somebody,” ordinary man akes one-sixt ing nothing 1 listening politely to an tinued the Princess, “there is Lady Jane that time; so you see ] pay & com infinite deal of the same thing. in another Rolingbroke, who is beautiful form. from me and admires you. and, 1 think I remember that I told him T had known to——" but here the lady in a the Princess Mary from a time when she out from behind the draper.e was 12 vears old. and how I had made believe, she had been’ listening to it all, yur strength of Nonsense!"" broke think 1 left my wi Why, man, she is the s and is sought by Kings and Emperors. [ a fool of myself about her. I fear [ tried and put her hand over her mistre might as well fall in love with a twink- to convey the impression that it was her mouth to sllence her. ling star. Then, besides, my heart fs exalted Tank only which made her 100K “Don't believe one word she says, Sir not on my sleeve. You must think me a , unfavorably ipon miy passion, and sups Edwin,” cried Lady Jane: pogedly the fabt thatyshe, had laughed at never will f you do [ fool; a poor, enervated, simpering fool fke you.” The emphasis on like—like—well, llke one of tho nobles me good humeredly and put me off a3 the “will” held out such involuntary of England. Don't put me down with daring Brandon she would have thrust a poodle from her promise in case I did not believe the them skoden, if you would remain my - lap. The truth is. she had always been Princess that [ at once protested total friend entin, kind and courteous to me. and had ad- want of faith in a single syllable she had We both laughed at this sort of talk, y Jane: mitted me to a degree of intimacy much guid about her and vowed that I knew which was a littla In advance of the time, to her Highness greater than | degerved. This. partly at it coud not be true; that I dared not for a noble, though a to the most en, Swalts her least, grew out of the fact that I heived hope for such happiness of England was a noble 1. God created ng = her & the thorny path to knowledge: You see, I had begun to make love to and to be adored ssage. Jane a road she traveled at an eager galiop. Jane almost before | was off my kn for she dear'y loved to learn—from cu- to Mary losity perhaps G ees Another great bond of sympathy be- . and therefore 1 had not much tween Brandon and myself was a commu- hear for andon hurt in Mary’s case. I had suffered mere- nity of opinion concerning certain theo- to receive W 1 am sure she he'd me in her light, gen- ly a touch of the general epidemic, not ries as to the equali f men and toler- t & person *tle heart a: ar friend, but while her the lingering, chronic disease that kills. ance of religious t agh We belle a 2 to say to heart was fi with this mild warmth Then I knew that the best cure for the that these things would yet come, in spits Queen that 1l be with her pres- for me, mine began to burn with the sting which lies in u luckless love is to of kingeraft and priestcraft, but wisely $ flame that d'scolors everything, and I saw love elsewhere. and Jane, as she stood kept our pet theorfes to elves; that is, not turn his face toward Mary, her friendiiress in very distorting light there. so petite. so blushipg and so fair, betw 1 ourselv b again t Jane. > She was much kinder to me than to most ick me quite the most pleasing an- Of what use is it to argue the equality N ask your ladyship further tq say men, but I ¢'d not see tha was by tidote I could possibly find, so I began of human kind to a man who honest for m t If T have been gullty of son of my 3 0 ute harmies : and, at orce to admin r to myself the de- thinks he is better than any I was a fooi 1 lightful count:r-irritant. It was a happy to ore who really believes that some o gather pe—which thought for me: one of those which come else is better than he: and why d man's foye—and what is to a man now and then, and for which about the various w d ¢ I greatly regret it ¥s of re. actually climbed to the very apex he thanks his wits in every hour of his soul when you are not even su f idibey and declared myself. 1 well after life. a soul to save? When I open my knew the in » distance between us, but In the course of my talk with Brandon for public utterance the King is t ike every other man who came within 1 had. as [.have said, told him the story ma Christendom a prem he circle of this charming loadstone, I of Mary, with some slight v ions and of the realm th t best. Wher )st my Itead, and, in short, made a coloring. or rather discoloring, to make King is a Catholic I go to mass; since, creater fool of myself than- T naturally it appear a little less to my discredit than praised be the Lord, I have br enough s—which is saying a good deal for that the barefaced truth would have been. I not to let my t ead 1 time in my life, God knows! told him also about Jane; and, I grieve ways of a stone wall I knew vagueiy but did not fairly real- and blush to say, expressed a confidence Now, when Mary rfere w the set returned the whole hink the Lady puld not have ed Mary, whose Mary would perform irming but, in faet, of whiedling the King Lis was just after she caxed him (0 annu: a marr.age con- which her father had made for h.r s of Germany, then heir to inheritance that ever fell to " orn: ¥ AL man—Spain, the Nethep- er lips him t—t ’ and heaven oniy knows a Kiss else s - She had been made love to by S0 many CHAPTER i1 men, who had lost their senses in the L dazaling rays of her thousand perfections THE PRINCESS of whom, | u«m ashamed to say. that | Now, at S for a time, had n insane enough to be ssage sister, was ne—that iove hed grown to be a sort of ¥ w & womanly perfect joke with her, and man a poor, contempt- 1 e rythin from velvet; a rich, c.ear ible creature, made to grovel at her feet. . n, & settled t hot young bicod glowir t that she liked to encourage it; for, t y a g the faint red tinge we iever having been moved | f. sheé held m wh sh world i the inner side qf a wh v 1 its sufferin in utter . hair was a very light ove was o che nd ple i h other pur secrets, too, .en, and flufly, soft had no value in her eves, a y r irie. Al- of Arras silk. She was looked as if she would lose the best thing much of with a fig that Ve T by having too much of it “T JNALE NEvERE FORGET g ontinent ever vied. Her feet ch was the royal maid to whose ten- " was y 1 he was and apparently ma ler merci I now tell you frankly, my THE JIGNT OF THOfE TWe :xlldnot much s f world, vet had pose of driving mankind iend Brandon was soon to be turned ize how utterly beyond my reach in every /TawpiNG TNERE g F boyish a heart as if F t. that seemed to be amount over. He, however, was a blade of very way she was until I opened the flood- Tocmrmer” court rejoiced, and I was anxious for Nim along me from the clover fields an ect in her creation, she had the different 'temper from any she had gates of my passion—as I thought it—and Brandon to meet her and that they should Submit when led b s He seemed almost diident, but world of mer er Her greatest known; and when I first saw signs of saw her smile, and try to check the com- become friends. There would be no trou- 2hvhady wou n learned that but beauty was her glowing 3 . growing intimacy between them 1 felt, ing laugh. Then came a look of offended in that direction I little felt. ble in bringing this meeting about, since, 1ovable was Jane, which e with an ever - from what little I had seen of Brandon, dignity, followed by & quick softening It had been perhaps a year since my @as you know, I was upon terms of inti- thIng mascu t have giver 1 ask, is a _friend ter fr th the shade that the tables were very likely to be glance. adventure with Mary, and I had taken mate friendship with Mary, and was the Coming the P, e car ad vour heart upon est, bl urving lashes eve turned upon her ladyship. Then thought *'Leave me one friend, I pray yvou, Ed- all that time trylng to convince avowed, and, as I thought; at least hoped, ladie: e wai t ma whether the load be Her voice was soft and full and, except 1. “God help her” for in a nature like win. I value you too highly to lose, and Jane that I did not mean & word I had all but accepted lover of her first lady ‘Lad present Master r“"j’ rrow. If the former, the need is when angry, which: alas, was not infre- hers, charged with latent force, strong esteem you tos much to torment. Do not said to her mistress, and that I was very in waiting and dearest friend Lady don, who tended in any way er r Joy has an expansive quent, had a low and coaxing little note and 'hot and fiery as the sun's stored make of yourself one of those fools who earnest in everything I sald to her. But Jane Bolingbroke. Brandon, it fs humbly sues f. pardon.” That was i " from the. heser” pas, that made i( Irresistible. She was @ most rays, it needed but a flash to make it feel, or pretend to feel, I care not which, Jane's ears would have heard just as true, was not ~moble: _mot even one thing Brandon had mo matis o0, (s ¢scape from the heart upon adroit coaxer, and knew her power full patent, when damage was sure to follow such preference for me. You cannot know much had they been the pair of beautiful an English knight, while I was both of doing. but he let it go as Jane - ’l‘f'; m se g well, although she did not always plead, for somebody—probably Brandon. in what contempt a woman holds a man httle shells they so much resembled. This knighted and noble; but he was of as old it. and this was g SaG put B pioyd me of his hopes and having the Tudor temper and preferring Mary did not come home with us " his reward: ¥ who follows her though she despises him. troubled me a great deal, and the best I a family as England boasted, and near of It is not Master Brandon who shoeul e, vas his Lo command—when she could. As before from Westminster the morning after the No man can beg a woman's love: he must could hope was that she held me on pro- KIn to some of the best blood of the land. sue for pardon. respaaiey tnt g, fhould nd save enough money hinted, she had coaxed her royal brother joustings, as we had expected, but fol- command it. o not join their ranks, bation. The meeting came about sooner than I “itis I who was wreng. I blush f. lncess . s cecners ee- out of'several proposed marriages for her, lowed some four or five days later, and but let us be good friends. I will teli On the evening of the day Mary came, exDected, and was very near a fallurs. I did and said: Forglve o, (0F What bad turned over to his which would have been greatly to his Brandon had fairly settled himself at you the plain truth; it would be no dif- home fto Greenwich, Brandon asked: It was on the second morning after us start anew.” At this she stepged p' r CEsEr f1ey a8 the advantage; and If you had only known court before her arrival. As neither his ferent were we both of the same degree. “Who and what on earth is this wonder- Mary's arrival at Greenwich. Brandon Brandon and offered himtios | PPed up to taken it all. for his Henry udor, with his Vain, boisterous, —— duties nor mine were onerous, we had a Even then I could not feel toward you ful Mary I hear so much about? They and I wers walking In _the palace park he, without a will, but he stubborn violence, you could form some great deal of time on our hands, which dropping on his knee, kissed "ohch ; ; : as you think you wish, but I can be your say she is coming home to-day and the When we met Jane, and I took the op- gallantly. . kissed most ot enough to divide, so idea of Mary's powers by that achieve- we employed walking and riding, or sit- friend, and will promise to be that al- court seems to have gone mad about | ortunity to make thess, my two best- ~“Your Highness, you can well to them and hoped to ment alone. ting in our common room reading and ways, if you will promise never again to I hear nothing but ‘Mary is coming e erd bt; then for New Spain, Will Sommers, the fool, one day spread joved friends, acquainted. to offend when you have Mary is coming! Mary!® Mary' fom “How do you do, Master Brandon?" and gracious & talent for " mares: Coifuest and yellQw through court an announcement that men, that Very attractive branch of mat- 1 promised solemnly and have always morning until night. They say Bucking. sald Lady Jane, holding out her plump amends: A wren acknowledgeq Cn& of the voyage of the there would be a public exhibition In the ural history, feminclogy, was a favorite kept my word, as this true, gracious ham is beside himself for logve of her. little hand, so white and soft, lnf dear some one has sald, “beco; - - » the Cabots and @ host main hall of the palace that evening, topic, and we accordingly discussed it a woman, so full of faults and beauties, vir-_He has a wife at home, if I am right, to me. ~I have heard something of you lgatlon. ~ e leoked i lght ato oo » talking. Of course, as with most young speak of this to me.”