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Show Jane. ' I think you ought. Cod knows he loved you well, and most thanklessly. And he is the last, the hlm, THE, LION'S WHELP last de Wick. Root and b.anch, the de Wick tree has perished. I wish I A Story of Cromwell Tim could die also." "And Cymlln, Matilda?" "I shall marry Cymlin at the propDY AMELIA E. BARR. er time." " Author of Th Dew of Orn Ribbon," I. Thovi nd th Othr On. "You may have sons and daughters." "Tho Mld of Mldor Lio.M Etc. "I hopo not I pray not. I have had (Copyright, 1901, by Dodd, Mead & Company. All rifht reterved.) sorrow enough. My father and his three sons are a good ending for the ous life was closing like a brilliant house. It was built with the sword, CHAPTER XVI. Continued. and it has been destroyed by the For Matilaa had concealed every sun setting in a stormy Bky. fault and every unklndness by her The fifteenth of May had been set sword. No, Jane, the line of de Wick prompt action In the matter of Lord for his assassination, cromwell knew is finished. Cymlln and I will be the Neville, and Jane had been loving and all the Becret plana of this conspiracy; last Earl and Countess de Wick." "And Prince Rupert?" praising her for It, until the sweet- knew every member of It; and on the ness of their first affection was be afternoon when Jane Swaffham saw "Is a dream from which I have tween them. And Matilda enjoyed him passing up London streets, so awakened." "But he may stll he dreaming." praise; she liked the appreciation of stern and scornful, he had Just orderher kind deed, and was not therefore ed the arrest of one hundred of them. "Rupert has many faults, but he Is disposed to make light or little of Jane heard constantly of these a man of honor. My marriage to what she had done, or of Its results. events, but her heart had closer inter- Cymlin will be a harden sacred to "And, pray, how comes my lord on ests. The ship which was to carry both of us. Our friendship can hold You need towards recovery?" Cluny and herself to America was Itself above endearments. not for fear Matildt de Wick Cymlin; for "Slowly. Life was nearly gone; lying at the wharf nearly ready will honor her she whether husband, no to sea. be were were and mind Tnere at other death's pasbody door; but he can walk a little now, and in sengers; Cluny and Jane alone were obeys him or not. Cymlln Is formed two or three weeks we are going to find in its cabin their for power and splendor, and he will away, far away, we are going to my home for many weeks, perhaps stand near the throne." "If there be a throne." colA recent experience had brothers in the Massachusetts months. "Of that, who now doubts? Cromexclusfor this the ony." proven necessity is falling Blck, and you may feel well ion of strange elements. Early in "You will come back?" 'God save the King' in the air. If you bid to Israel had taken Cluny "I think It Is unlikely. Father feels June, a change approaching. The Protector's farewell to his old General, and the bad married Stephen, he would have health is falling rapidly; he Is dying, meeting had tried both men severely. been alive to Join in the cry. I could At its close Cromwell went to a desk weep at your obstinacy, Jane." Matilda." "Let it pass, dear. I was suckled on " and wrote a few lines to the officials "If ho dies? Puritan milk. Stephen and I never in them, "Father will leave England as soon of the Massachusetts Colony; as Cromwell Is in his grave. Cymlln commending Lord Neville to their could have been one. My fate waa to will keop old Swaffham fair, for Cym- kindness and care. Ills hands trem- go to the New World. Stephen has lin will never leave England while bled those large, strong hands trem- escaped this sorrowful world and " "Oh. then, I would he were here! bled as he gave the letter to Cluny. you are In It." This world with Stephen in "And you can bear to talk of leav- Then he kissed him once more, and it wassorrowful a world than it is with better was a "Farewell" a that blessing, ing England In that calm way, with- with out him. Jane, Jane, how he loved turned he away, weeping. out tears and without regrets. Jane, "It Is another friend gone," he said you!" it is shameful; It Is really wicked." "And I loved him, as a companion, "Dear Matilda, do not be angry at mournfully to his own neart; "lover friend, brother, it you will. When you me because I had to do what I had and friend are put far from me and his lay body in de Wick, cast a tear to do. I was married to Cluny three mine acquaintance Into darkness." on his coffin for me. God and a flower so much troubled and Cluny was days after he came home. We all him give peace!" thought he was going to die, and he affected by this visit that Israel At length their "farewell" came, wished mo to be his wife. Now did I thought it well to take him to see the The last words between them were not do right to marry him when and Bblp which was to carry him to the soft and whispered, and only those solitudes of the great waters and the how, ho wished?" sad, loving monosyllables which are im"Yes," she answered, but her face safety of the New Yorld. He was and voice showed her to be painfully patient to be gone, but there were yet more eloquent than the most fervid And so they parted. affected. "Jane, I cannot bear to lose a number of small interests to be protestations. forever in this life. The next afternoon Jane and Cluny rode through London streets for the last time. On the ship they found Wf Jane's father. Doctor Verity and Sir Thomas Jevery. There were no tears at this parting; nor any signs of sor row; every one seemed resolved to regard it as a happy and hopeful event. For, though not spoken of, there was a firm belief and promise of a meeting again in the future not very far off. Israel held his little daughter to bis heart, and then laid her hand in Cluny's without a word; the charge was understood. When the last few minutes came, and the men were trooping to the anchor. Doctor Verity raised his hands, and the three or four in the dim, small cabin knelt around him, and so their farewell was a prayer and their parting a blessing. Israel and Doctor Verity walked away together, and for a mile neither of tbem spoke a word. As they came near to Sandy's, however, Israel said: It "It Is a short farewell, John. wll be my turn next" "I shall go when you go." "To the Massachusetts Colony?" "Yes. I am ready to go when the time comes." "It is r.ot far off." "A few months at the longest" Jan knew how t comfort Matilda. "He is very 111?" "The foundations of his life are roo. I shall have no one to love me, attended to; for they were to carry for he lives not la his power shaken, with them a great deal of material nec- or no one to quarrel with," she added. or even in the work set his fame, essary to tne building and furnishing him to do. No, no, Oliver lives In "Too will have Cymlln." Oi tleir future home. Every day re- bis feelings. They are at the bottom "Cymlln is Cymlin: he is not you. vealed some new want not before of his nature; all else Is superstrucwoman la a I will aay no more. When of, so that it mas wearing the ture. And thought over." Is all Barried, Fairfax, as well as Lambert end of June wien at last all was deMatilda and and rose to Then Jane others, think they ran fill great go, clared finished and ready. Oliver's place! no roan can." tied her bonnet strings and stralchten-eThen Jane hastened re"For that very reason, when he deout her . ribbons and her gloves, solving to see Matilda on home, the follow-Ira I will with services away from England. I doing these trifling Hut when she reached parts, day. no heart for another civil war. I hare that filled Sandy's long absent tenderness House, Mrs. Swaffham met will draw sword under no less a gen Jane's heart with pleasure. "Oood-bra letter in her hand "Lady ber with era! than Oliver." dear!" she said with a kiss; "I Jevery asks you to come to Matilda, "Good night, John." will come as often as I can." who is la great trouble,' she said. "Good night, Israel. Have you told Neville," kind of you. So to went Jane her "Very friend. With Martha?" Idy a and answered Matilda with rnrtsy her, also, she fcund the grief death "Not yet. 8he will fret every day a tearful mockery; "very kind Indeed! brings. " till the change comes. Why should Cut will your ladyship consider "Stephen is slain!" were her first we have a hundred frets when a dozen threw her sod down broke then she words. Khe rould hardly utter them. arms round Jane, and railed her "a Hut Jase knew how to comfort Ma- may do?" But when Israel went Into Martha's dear, sweet, little Haggase" ar.d bade tilda; she ronld talk to her as she of some messages her give Cluny rould not to the ladles of Cromwell's presence something made him change so and partend congratulation, household. "How waa Stephen slain?" Ms mind. Tae moiher had been weeptope ed with her in a stranpe access of afing, and began to weep afresh wben she asked, "in a duel?" raw hor husband. He anticipated these haa sac true Hut frlendsnip fection. "No, thank Cod! He fell, as be hlm- woods of the individual and would not 9f)t rt uhl I, a vp wliho'l. fighting the Iirr orrowiui questions, and witn an of chcoi fulness, told hfr be tn;g without them. rr.rmlo of his kirp. He was lth l'a-ar(1 l"n?fl Jane and how ! flf VorJi and Jane walked home through the city, Cord ani thp I) ' mr!l to l,e- "ll fiot fpfI fe as cl"ny O'oucesicr her struck and turrnou lpfore UnnMrk, arid its busy ai a farting at all, Martha," he ft vain show it kllloi while mrptirg the rush of fhnP m" What before. peter waa bo ueeJ "anrl inf5',prl wa! A passing show, mnstattly tprrihl Irorjiflrs. famny wrote rne f,aI'1' surh frlirg. We are golcg for any ho 'Mother!' was that rail iniftillr. wiih there And suddenly changing. ourMh very toon now," the dlopirfi of boraemen, and the Ms la?t hrf r.fh." wrre fpokr-words and fruld a "Poor The Sunnm!" and little drew rrowd stood still, ir.'Jf-f'-l In a ror.illcd. 'tis ard be at te woll Mood, the to head rot "Oh, Cromwell, whl!? vry aside, try. i.'l:pn,' whm he the storm Ihf fieynrd mornent. ready to of hi K'jar'!.. ro!e at an eay ranter pfr.r Martha hoked at hef down the f iref . Every man bared his yo'ir pit jr. Vr u mirl.t have pitio.i i,i7iJ nia'.t r with fprorhlrs worlT and head as the prand. flflirly Retire ".t.en hp wss alive, that. wotiM have! and he ai more moved by so. All j dlftn passed :y. He saw Jare, ard a swift f,f Tj rtr?ri,ire to life than by her usual garrn ! a a his hoTt. attitude this moment has the ore e l.en nrtappy ay f'r smile orrowl'il frati'y of his fae. Hut he fon?art battle with Puritans and tiv lo'is rj.cr. He Pat flown ly her aids erty. Oh, bow I hate tho?e Siuarts! t and took her hnnd, pavirjr: left brl.lnd him a penetrating atmr I Am thankful to tee you can weep for fclorl(To be continued.) Ills of coming calamity. pfcere black-ribbe- Iff. I d 111 IIMII fli-- s jr..."' 'Vlv'.'Ofn...-- . fiiW7' & Two severe cases of Ovarian Trouble and two terrible operations avoided. Mrs. Emmons and Mrs. Coleman each tell how they were saved by the use of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound "Deaii Mrs. Fixkitam : I am bo pleased with the results obtained from Lydia 12. 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