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Show THE LIONS WHELP A Story of Cromwell's Tim BY AMELIA E. BARR. Author mt Ths Bow of Orange Ribbon, I, Thou and iho Othor OneTho Mold of Moidon Lane." Etc. (Copyright, 1901, by Dodd, .- Hoad ft Company. All righti reserved.) CHAPTER X (Continued.) "Now, indeed, you pierce my heart You at his mercy! It Is an Intolerable shame! It will make me cry out, even when I sleep! I shall die of it You! You to be at his mercy at the mercy of that Puritan braggart Oh, I cannot endure it! 'You see that I endure it very comThe man behaved placently, Mata. as a gentleman and a soldier. I have even taken a liking to him. I have also paid back his kindness; we are And quite, and as soldiers, friends. I can assure you no ones honor suffered, mine least of all." But Matilda was hard to comfort Her last interview with her lover was saddened and troubled by this dis- agreement Thla, then, was the end of the visit from which she had expected so much; and one sad gray morning in November they reached London. Matilda said to herself in the first hours of her return that she would not see Jane, but as the day wore on she changed her mind. So she wrote and asked her to' come, and Jane answered the request In person, at once. Her admiration for her friends beautiful gowns and laces and Jewels, and her interest in Matilda's descriptions of the circumstances in which they were worn, was so genuine, that Matilda had forgotten her relation to Lord Neville, when the irritating name was mentioned. "Did you see Lord Neville in Paris?" Jane asked, "No," Matilda answered sharply. "I did not see him. He called one day, and had a long talk with Sir Thomas but aunt had a headache, and I had more delightful company. He prevented my seeing the Queen of Bohemia on my return, because he offered to attend to my uncles business at to the Royalists; the nation, without regard to party, was bitterly Incensed and alarmed. Cromwell was' no exception; the must conservative of men, he also grew angry and restless when he saw the reign of the saints beginning In earnest. Soon the anger out6lde the Parliament House rose to fury. Doubtless Cromwell had foreseen this crisis. Certainly a large number of the members were of nls way of thinking, and on the twelfth Col. of December, Sydenham rose, and accusing the members of wishing to put a Mosaic code In place of the Common Law of England of depreciating a regular ministry (for what need of one, if all men could prophesy?) and of opposing learning and education, he declared the salvation of the nation lay In resigning the trust committed to them into the hands of the Lord General Cromwell. The motion was seconded by Sir Charles Wolseley. The Speaker left the chair, and followed by a majority of the members, went to Whitehall, and there and then they wrote out their resignation. No serious opposition was made. Some thirty of the members remained in the House "to protest," but Col. Goff entering with a file of musketeers, the argument was quickly closed. Three days after this event a new Council of State resolved that his Excellency be chosen Lord Protector of the three nations, and on the sixteenth of December be so installed In Westminster Hall. "And you would think that he had been publicly scorned instead of publicly chosen," said Israel to his wife. "He looks miserable; he Is silent and downcast, and talks much to himself. Yet be Is In his right place, and the only man in England who can save us from anarchy. Martha, his Excellency possible! impossible! Oh, my God, where is he? The ride back to Whitehall after the Installation of the Iord Protector was an intoxicating one. 1indoners had at last a ruler who was a supremely able man. They could go to their shops, and buy and sell lu security. Oliver Protector would see to their rights and their welfare. His very appearance was satisfying; he was not a young man headstrong and reckless, but a Protector who had been tried on the battlefield and in the Council Chamber and never found wanting. But bo the day glad or sad, time runs through it, and the shadows of evening found the whole city worn out with their own emotions. Mrs. Swaffham and Jane were glad to return to the quiet of their home Not but what we have lad a great day, Jane, said the elder woman; but, dear me, child, what a waste of life it is! i feel ten years older. It would not do to spend one's self this way very often. I am tired to death, mother. May I stay in my room this evening? You are fretting, Jane, and fretting is bad for you every way. Why will you do it? llow ran I help it, mother? Then Mrs. Swaffham looked at her daughter's white face, and said, You know, dear, where and bow to find the comfort you need. God help you, child. And oh, how good it was to ths heart-sicgirl, to be at last alone, to be able to weep unwatched and unchecked to shut the door of her soul on the world and open it to God, to tell Him all her doubt and fear and lonely grief. This was her consolation, even though no sensible comfort came from it though the heavens seemed far off, and there was no ray of light, no whisper from beyond to encourage her. At nine o'clock her mother brought her a possett and toast, and she took Is father home? them gratefully. she asked. Yes, Jane. He came in an hour ago with Doctor Verity. " Have they any word of I fear not They would have told me at once. I havent seen much of them. There were lots of things undone, and badly done, to look after." "If Doctor Verity gives you any opportunity will you speak about Cluny, mother?" You know I will. He and others will, maybe, have time for a word of kindness now. Now Cromwell has got his way, there will be only Cromwell to please, and surely a whole city full can manage Msat. I dont suppose he has ever thought of Cluny being so long over time. Not be! He has had things far closer to him to look after. But now? Now he will Inquire after the lad. Doctor Verity must speak to him. Dear Jane, do you suppose I don't see how you are suffering? I do, my girl, and I suffer with you. But even your father thinks we are worrying ourselves for nothing. He says Cluny will walk in some day and tell his own story nothing worse than a fit of ague or fever, or even a wound from some street pad; perhaps a heavy snowstorm, or the swampy Netherlands under water. Men can't fight the elements, or even outwit them, dear. Mother Is with you, Jane, dont you doubt that, and she stepped forward and clasped the girl to her k Jans wars glad to return home. breast. Jane's supposition that Doctor VerThe Hague for him, and for this inter- and her Highness desire comyour 1 ference do not thank Lord Neville." pany, and that of Jane, to the cere- ity would be with her father and that their talk would be only of Cromwell, "Nor L" answered Jane. "Had he mony. You will go?" Mrs. Swaffham found not gone to The Hague he might I had better stay at home, Israel. was correct. men two at the fireside, the smoking hare been in London by this time." I cannot Your Highness' Elizabeth and their ronversatien was of the Man Jane had risen as she said these Cromwell. Jane will go. Mrs. 8waffham and words, and was tying on her bonnet, and Matilda watched her with a curious interest. "I was wondering," she said slowly, "If you will be glad to marry Cluny Neville and go away to Scotland with him." Oh, yes," Jane answered, her eyes shining, her mouth wreathed in smiles, her whole being expressing her delight in such an anticipation. Matilda made no further remark, but when Jane had closed the door behind her, she sat down thoughtfully by the fire, and stirring together the red embers, sighed rather than said: "Why do people marry and bring up sons and daughters? This girl has been loved to the uttermost by her father and mother and brothers, and she will gladly leave them all to go off with this young Scot. She will call it Sacrifice for Love's sake;' I call it pure selfishness. Yet I am not a wbit whiter than she. I would have stayed in Paris with Rupert, though my good uncle was in danger. I think I will go to my evening service, and as she rose for her Common Prayer, she was saying under her breath, "We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. And there is no health in us." "And you, too, Martha. I wish it "I never go against your wishes, Israel at least not often. So it happened that on the sixteenth of December, Mrs. Swaffham and Jane were dressing for Whitehall. Mrs. Swaffham was nervous and irritable; nervous, because she feared her gown was not as handsome as It ought to be; irritable, because she felt that circumstances were going to control her behaviour, whether she approved or not. Jane was unable to encourage or cheer her mother; she was herself the most unhappy maiden in London that day. For eighteen days she had been forced to accept the fact that Cluny was at least eighteen days behind all probable and Improbable delays. She had not received a line from him since he left Paris; no one had. He had apparently vanished as completely as a stone dropped into She had been often at Jev-er- y House, and during two of her visits had managed to see Sir Thomas and ask "If he had any intelligence from Lord Neville?" On her first Inquiry he answered her anxiously; on his second his reply showed some anger. "He offered voluntarily to take charge of Lady Jererys Jewels and to collect my money at The Hague; and unless he was certain of his abilCHAPTER XI. ity to do these things safely, be ought not to have sought the charge. Oliver Protector. And with these words there entered The popular discontent with the into Jane's heart a suspicion that hurt . rapid and radical reforms of the her like a She found saints Parliament was not confined herself saying continually, It is Im mid-ocea- sword-thrust- and the Hour. I am sorry for Oliver Cromwell. Such a load as he has shouldered! Can he bear it? said Israel. Through Gods help, yes; and ten times over, yes! lie 1b a great man, answered the Doctor. I think more of measures than of men, continued Israel. Very good. But something depends on the men, Just as In a fire something depends on the grate, Bald Oliver will do his work, the Doctor. and he will do It well, and then go to Him who sent him. Verily, I believe he will hear the Well done of his Master." And then? "The Commonwealth will be over. The soul of it will have departed-c- an it live afterwards? If I survive the Puritan government," said Israel, I will Join the pilgrims who have gone over the great seas. I will go with you, Israel, but we will not call ourselves pilgrims. No, Indeed! No men are less like pit grims than they who go, not to wander about, but to build homes and cities and found republics in the land they have been led to. They are citizens, not pilgrims. At these words Mrs. Swaffham, who had listened between sleeping and waking, roused herself thoroughly. Israel, she said, I will not go across seas. It Is not likely. Swaffham Is our very own. and we will stay in Swaffham. (To he continued.) THOUSANDS HOMELESS FIRE NEWS SUMMARY. TOWN WIPES NORWAY FROM FACE OF EARTH. A disastrous hurries is has blown over tbe Fiji Islands, resulting fas gnat loss of life and property. Seven people, all colored, wero instantly killed by tbe explosion of ft boiler In a sawmill In James City, N. C. The striking street railway employees et Bloomington, 111, have Inaugurated a competitive automobile The Eleven Thousand Inhabitants Are Compelled to Camp Out, Only One Building in Town Being 8aved. The fire which swept over tho town of Aalesund, Norway, Sunday morning, destroyed every building In it, with the exception of the hospital. The 11,000 inhabitants of Aalesund were compelled to camp In the open, aa only a few damaged and uninhabitable bouses were left standing. The children of the town bad to be boused temporarily In the rhurch at Borgund. The panic among the people was so great after the outbreak of the flames that all attempts at leadership or discipline became out of the question; no excesses, however, were committed. The destruction of the town was complete within a couple of hours from the time the flrd started. Over twenty steam fishing boats and many sailing smacks were sunk In the harbor in order to save them from the flames. It is believed now that only three persons lost their lives. Succor has arrived and provisions are being distributed. Relief committees have been formed and have invited public subscriptions. A majority of the inhabitants of the town lost everything they possessed. Thousands of persons had to spend hours In the open fields, twenty-fou- r where they were without food and exposed to a bitterly cold wind and a driving rainstorm. Bystem. The war feeling In Colombia la dying out, and there is a general desire to allow the Panama secession to pass without a disastrous war. Mayor Gaua of Albany, N. Y., has revoked the license of the Empire theatre and ordered radical changes la the other three theaters of that city. Mrs. William II. Crccker of San Francisco baa given 825,000 for archaeological work in Old Mexico. Excavations are now being made at Cayocan, -' Mexico. Tbe latest reports from the relief centers in Macedonia show that there are now 100,000 persons who are homeless and without means of support for the winter. The monthly statement of the collections of internal revenue show that the total collections for December, 1903, were 820,577,790, a decrease for tbe month of 8166,061. Lewis Radford, a negro, was lynched at Guthrie, Ky., by a mob of about forty negreos, for assaulting and killing Priscilla Frozell, colored. Radford admitted the crime. WAR ON AMERICANS. Strong Indications that there will be no war between Ianama and Colombia Korean Mob Partially Wrecks Elechave been observed by Bishop tric Car at Seoul. who has Just returned to PanThe war department hae received ama from Cartagena and Barranquilla. Information of an attack by a mob of The Iroquois club, to which promiKoreans on an electric car, the line nent Chicago Democrats belong, is being owned by Americans, because preparing to boom General Nelson A of the fact that It had killed a Ko- Miles as the man to nominate for rean. A cablegram from Seoul gives president on the Democratic ticket this this account of the trouble: An acci- year. dent on the electric street railway Lee Turner, proprietor of the here today, which resulted In the killwho was charged with killon the ing of a Korean, led to rioting marine The of the ing Deputy Sheriff Charles Cecil In ths populace. part guard at the American legation, how- famous "Quarterhouse t attle in Kenever, who had recourse to their fire- tucky, has been acquitted by tbe grand arms, succeeded In preventing the Jury. trouble from assuming serious proporThe total number of deaths In ths' tions. Alabama tornado Is thlrty:etght, six Towns Submerged. of whom are white, The number of The crest of the flood at Wheeling, - iri.tr .Jniuriul . 1i .mUbUA W. Ya.7 was reachd"at4 o'clock" Sun twelve fatally. Citizens of Tuscaloosa day afternoon, when the stage was 44 are raring for the destitute. of the feet 2 Inches. Fully As a result of the breaking of a govhomes In the city were wholly or parernor belt, allowing an Immense flytially Inundated and the sharp fall In wheel to run away and burst In a rail temperature has caused a great deal mill at Pa., three men are Johnstown, of suffering. On the island very few are fatally injured, and three dead, streets are out of the water, and many six are more or less severely wounded. second stories are invaded, but the The In the case of Martha n jury floods to residents are accustomed ts accord- Rowers, on trial in S.iu Francisco on and have made ingly. The weather remains rold and the charge of murdering her husband, nicy halls and churches have been Martin Bowers, Drought in a verdict thrown open for the accommodation of munrder In the first degree and of those who are sufferers. Nearly fixed the at for penalty imprisonment the whole town nf Rupert, Fa., Is lire. In some places the water The state department is Informed windows. coming up to second-storof the intention of the authorities in In Grip of Blizzard. control at San Domingo City to mainExtreme cold weather is recorded tain a blockade of all of the other ports In various sections of the north nnd of the republic, to become effective for west! The cold wave extends over a vossels from the United States Februwide area, embracing th upper Mis- ary 1st. Advices from Somaliland say that sissippi and Missouri valleys and ths seKennas Somali mounted infantry surwestern lake region. Particularly vere weather Is reported In the Da- prised a body of the Mad Mullah's kotas. eastern Montana, northeastern forces on January 17 In the vicinity of Nebraska, northwestern Iowa, north- KUinaad, killing fifty spearmen and ern Illinois and Indiana and portions capturing 3,000 camels and thousands of Wisconsin and Michigan. of sheep. At St. Paul Sunday the minimum Ned Howard Fowler, leading man of on the official thermometer was 33 degrees below. Ollier thermometers the Empire stock company at Columregistered as low as 40 below. Bis- bus, O., shot and killed himself In tbe marck reported 28 and Superior, His., presence of his wife, I Aura Nelson 36. In a number of places In the northwest It was the coldest weather Hall, whom he married recently. Nervousness is assigned as tho enuse, due of the year. to overwork. Colonel Lynch Released From Prison. William Balsamo, an Italian, has Colonel Arthur Lynch, who com- been murdered In a little grocery manded the Irish brigade against the store In Buffalo, N. Y.. of which hs British forces during the war in South was the proprietor. At first the Mafia Africa, and wbo was afterward con- was suspected, but later four boys, victed of treason and sentenced to ranging in age from 15 to 17 years ' imprisonment for life, has been liber- were arrested. About thirty persons were drowned ated "on license. Lynch has not received the royal pardon. Colonel and three hotels and one hundred and Lynch will enjoy personal liberty and seventy-sihouses destroyed as tbe remay even leave the country should he sult of a bursting reservoir at care to do so, hut not having received HunOrange River Colony. tbe royal pardon, he Is disqualified from sitting in parliament and from dreds of persons have been rendered homeless and destitute. holding any public office. Of all tbe articles for use In the reWar Outlook Is Ominous. ligious services of the Central church Reports of an alarming nature of taken to the Iroquois theatre the day tbe situation there continue to pour before the fire, only the Bible ont of the far cast. These include destruction. Its rovers were escaped burned the statements that the Japanese are off and its edges charred, but every landing su army at Sam Iho, Korea, word of the text remains. and that 3,000 Russian troops are Miss Fannie McNabb, said to be a crossing the Yalu river. The reported victim of the cigarette habit, has been dispatch of a Chinese army of sol- adjudged Insane before Judge Carter diers, trained by Enropeau officers, In Chicago. She Is 33 years old and beyond the great vail to preserve or- Evidence was Introduced to show that der In Manchuria he ihe bad smoked a package of cigar-Itteevery day for years. Jun-gult- o, Qu&r-terhous- si-w- one-thir- hi. d arran-omen- d, y x Illeam-fontel- n. s |
