Show 1611 A ca candle 4 in tho the A tale of the beginning of new england by IRV ING BACHELLER service copyright by irving Bac Bahel bellr lr THE STORY robert heather and william hoyden to escape secular and religious r alg loua tyranny leave leav england in 1634 for or the new world thoy they are welcomed at boston by rev doctor cotton and make acquaintance with amos veteran boedler and woodsman heydon falls in love with elizabeth brade the young youn men settle down to the life of 0 the colon colonials lists adverse comment forces them to dispense with their pretty aoh book ooh mabel mabal Il hartley artley robert 19 smitten with peggy weld who is 1 engaged to james gosei rosewell ell CHAPTER III HI continued 6 they rode on in silence she broke it saying dont take it seriously you are one of the dearest of men and there are better fish in the sea than were ever caught im a common alewife that they use in growing corn I 1 feel sorry for rosewell when I 1 think of myself im unregenerate A lady asked ras me the other da day y it if I 1 was bound for heaven I 1 told her that I 1 just kept going and really know where id fetch up she grew stern and said its a pity have you no s sense nse of sanctification I 1 had to say that no one had ever suspected me of having baying any kind of sense that one might as aa well try to pick strawberries on the sea beach im all right in england but here im a lost soul well I 1 ask one favor he said it may be the last one I 1 shall ever request I 1 what Is it she asked 1 I want a memory that will last as long as I 1 live A me memory moryl 1 she exclaimed A blessed memory I 1 I 1 want to kiss those lips of yours just once she looked down and dla did not answer the horses stopped ile he dismounted they were in the deep gre greenwood enwood she leaned toward him and their lips met looking into her eyes he asked do you think that I 1 could ever forget that lord 0 mercy I 1 its a mean thing to do to one ssie she answered with a sigh why mean because you put me in mind of the devil I 1 shall have nothing more to do with you your lips have filled me with a strange trembling get on your horse and look to your behavior let us go home and pull this burr out of our minds I 1 am engaged to marry one of the best men in the world keep that among your memories robert returned to his home in a rather unhappy mood ile he said eald to william 1 11 I am now it a lack brained sorry varlet my aly virgin heart Is broken I 1 called callad her a ray of sunlight piercing the gloom but she has only pierced me ashes been a kind of lightning flash and now its darker than ever and im like a splintered tree with its top on the ground cheer up old man william answered girls are coming on every ship theres time enough meanwhile my home shall be yours early october of the memorable year of 1635 brought a welcome art arrival avill to the colony he was young sir harry vane of the best blood in england a descendant of the sir harry who fought heroically with the black prince at poitiers the newcomer had bad been a friend of heydon in the school at westminster the young baronet had been a commoner in spirit and a noted rebel at magdalen college ile he was still a rebel young handsome and picturesque A courtly figure he had the puritan leaning and a genius for statecraft his fine manners and brilliant talk captured the leading men of tile colony ile he they agreed should be the next governor heraldry had its power even in new england when backed by a clean personality and hatred of oppression ho took william willam to his heart with all friendly good feeling for the sake of well re days vanes vane s friendship had strengthened william wiiiiam iii iam with the brades one evening the boy sat with bess his way was now open after all these ages of waiting when are we to be ba marr married led le he asked suppose I 1 say tomorrow bess answered theres a test for your fourage courage next to tonight I 1 favor tomorrow lie he answered there Is a matter of family courtesy to be considered mr brade remarked my father will arrive early in november it Is only a little time to wait for hta his blessing a de deference ferenc 0 willell would I 1 am sure please him deeply the marriage may take place immediately after his arrival in the says jaya that followed the lovers lovera sailed the alie smooth Bia translucent scarf pear bottomed sea whose water Is nectar and eliose rocks pure gold it was a day la in the time of the indian summer bummer when of 0 a sudden every face in the quiet town waa changed the colony was rent with tumult and groping in a black cloud of mystery in the evening of that day robert announced his intention of going to see peggy weld the housekeeper testified that he went out at seven thirty william was waa not at homo home when robert left an AB to williams movements that night the historian must be content with the court record it had been a warm quiet evening under a clear sky with a great golden moon rising As to robert his doing up to the hour of nine there was wa much unquestionable evidence leaving home lie he wore his belt and pistol as both young men were wont to do when they went t out after dark ile he was talking with the welds and james Ros ewelt and the lat lattera bosom friend roderick Lel leighton gliton from wiltshire lre and sir harry vane at the house of tho governor ile ho left there at nine saying Ws to Is the land of early hours one wandering in the night at ten has to give a good account of himself the young lady went out of the door with him this entry in roberts diary made some days later relates an incident of this last meeting as follows she went out with me into the moonlit space in front of the door nl she cried out dont strike run before he sees you she put in my hands a little golden case shaped like a locket tills this Is a curious plaything said she it was as called le medallion avee arec la gerture gerr ure a secret it came to me from my grandmother it was matle made by an ingenious french jeweler for one of the naughty ladles ladies of the court of lung king henry VIII 1111 the little thing Is made to hold and carry secrets you see eee it has a gold beading around its rim it Is a trick to open it a test of ones patience and curiosity I 1 lend it to you when you have opened it bring or send it back to me but be warned years may pass before you find the combination that opens it or you may be lucky with that I 1 came away I 1 have spent many hours pushing at members in the circlet around its rim that look like ilke small golden beads I 1 suppose that certain of them communicate with springs and that these must be pushed in the right order of the events of that evening he has hag nothing further to say ile he went away in the darkness and whither A goodman of the parish one Hacha liall grout a constable lay concealed that night beside a mossy glade in a pine thicket remote from the house of the governor his lantern hidden under his cloak ile he had learned that the glade was a trysting place the thicket was not in the path which robert would naturally have taken about nine fifteen of the clock a women came down the path to the glade dimly lighted from above As the she came the officer detected the odor of musk mask the woman concealed herself in the bushes bushea soon after that a young man entered the glade walking hurriedly his sword tapping his hig leg the woman stopped him and kissed his hand dont you know me she whispered 1 I am your slave mab blab you wanton 1 again Agalli you put my neck in danger tie he had answered the pair retired in the shadows not two fathoms from the edge of the glade blade A little later the constable sprang upon them his lantern in his bin hand they arose terror stricken the officer seized the woman ile he saw maw the young man not too clearly in the tha lantern light the latter drew hla his sword the woman had the better head shi she cried out dont strike run hun before he sees you there wits was no time for thinking it was a moment when action yields to impulse the young man leaped away and ran he tore through the thicket and was soon in the open As lie he ran a dog pursued him it was thought for a dog was found lying dead from a sword thrust the court convened at eight thirty next morning the young woman mabel alabel hartley sometime the kitchen maid of william and robert was brought brou glit from the prison the watchman related the circumstances under which she had been arrested the grave stern faced dudley examined the prisoner having heard the constables account of her taking substantially ly as given above lie he asked have you a husband tius band who Is living r yes yea sir air it Is the foul sin of adultery do you know that the punishment la Is death all eyes were on the unfortunate woman who was wai weeping she gave her head a pathe pathetic dc affirmative nod As you value the mercy of god and this court I 1 enjoin you to tell the whole truth with whom were you when the constable discovered you she wiped lier her eyes lifted her head and in a trembling tone spoke a name heard in every part of the courtroom william am heydon winthrop wynthrop dropped the quill with which lie he had been writing and sank back in his chair A pallor fell upon its his face almost as much in contrast with his black robe as the ample breadth of white linen in his bis collar endicott Endl cott and dudley with wrinkled brows turned to each other and whispered winthrop broke the silence lie he asked the constable did you see the man yes ves sir air lie he was william heydon sir air I 1 have seen him often this to la the coat he wore it was torn from his back in the thicket we found it bin among thorny briars in one ol 01 0 the pockets Is a letter to william heydon Is he under arrest no sir air ile he threatened me with his sword and took to lits ills legs ile he la Is not to be found either at his home or the plantation lie Is cl clear earIn ln both he ha and his friend made oft off for parts unknown whilst I 1 was busy with the prisoner winthrop conferred n moment with endicott Endl cott and dudley then with sorrow in his face lie he said in a low tone if william cleydon has not returned by high noon you may proclaim the hue and cry in due t time line the constables went through th the town with etli raised staffs crying out william heydon wanted for the foul sin of adultery has fled let all who hear me assemble at the courthouse for a hue and cry there were many who enjoyed tho the excitement of a man chase it was one of the frightful customs of medieval men linen giving free rein to primitive passion still used la in england but not before in the colony the vulgar crowd gave themselves to its plan with the eager avidity of hounds in the chase and especially if a man of rank were the fugitive in the rage of it the captive was likely to lose hla his life soon men and boys boss andrish and fish wives wh es and dogs were in lull full cry seeking william heydon the running shouting screaming barking and blowing of horns filled the pursuers with excitement many joined them streaming westward in the main path spreading into the bush on either cither side and beating the thickets with clubs in hand some had guns or pistols they were more like furies than like those who have hava the brain and heart of man in them the tumult awoke strange echoes la in the silent wilderness it reached the ears of young heydon who lay asleep in a mossy glade a mile or so west of the path from which he had wandered in the darkness trying to walte walk to his plantation it pained the ears of the brades of margaret hooper I 1 of nf of nf people of the parish what a striving rot of thoughts what a beating of hearts what a shuddering of souls was under all this hellish uproar 1 TO BE CONTINUED |