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f‘To.be`suatched up again by

some debt-ridden pimp who wants to escape his creditors,” said Holles, his tone betraying at last some of the bitterness fermentlng in his soul.

Albeinai'le stood sorrowfuly rc-

garding him. “This hits you hard, gandal, I know."

The Colonel recovered and forc-

_ed a laugh.

"Poohl Hard hits have mostly

been my portlon."

“I know.” Albemarle paced to

the window and back, his head sunk between his shoulders. Then he came to a halt before the Colon- el. “Keep me informed of where you are lodged, and look to hear from me again as soon as may be. _Be sure that I will do my best." '

The ’Colone1's glance kindled

again. lt was a flicker of the ex- piring flame of hope.

"You really think that some-

thing else will offer?"

His grace paused before answer-

ing, and, in the pause. the sorrow- ful gravity of his face increased.

"To be frank with you, Randal. I

hardly dare to think it. Chances for such as you are. as you understand. not . . . frequent. But the unex- pected may happen sooner than we dare to hope. if it does, be sure l'll _:not forget you. Be sure of that.”

Holles thanked him steadily. and

rose to depart, his radiance quenched, despondency in every line of him.

Albemarle watched from under

furrowed brows. AB he reached the door the Duke detained hlln.

“Randal! A moment." The Colonel turned and waited

_whilst slowly Albemarle approach- ed him. His grace was deep in thought, and he hesitated before speaking.

“You . . . you are not urgently

in need _of money, I trust?" he said _at last. _ ,

The Colonel’s gesture and laugh

conveyed a shainefaced admission _that he was. _

Albemarle’s eyes considered him

a moment still. Then, slowly, he drew a purse from his pocket. It was apparently a light purse. He gnfasiened it.

“If ii loan will help you until

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"No, no!" cried Holles, his

pride aroused against accepting ylhat amounted almost to alms.

Even -so the repudiatlon was no more than half-hearted. But there' _was no attempt from Albemarle to combat it. He did not pres, the offer.

CHAPTER XI

' A Woman Scorned

BACK AGHEII

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COLONEL HOLES retraced his

steps to the City on foot. A hackney-coach, such as that in which he had driven almost in tri- umph to the Cockpit, was no longer for him; nor yet could he submit to the expense of going by water now that the unexpected was all that

;i_tood between .himself and destitu- on. And yet the unexpected was not

quite all. An alternative existed, though a very desperate one. There was the rebellion in which Tucker had sought fruitlessly hitherto to engage him. The thought of it be- gan to stir in his dejected mind, as leacleu-footed he dragged himself toward Temple Bar through the al- most stifling hcot which was mak- ing itself felt in London at the end of that month of May. Tempta- tion iirged him now, nourished not only by the circumstance that in rebellion lay his last hope of escap- ing starvation, but also by hot resentment against an inclement and unjust government that drove able soldiers such as himself into the kennels, whilst befriending the worthless minions who pandered to the proflgacy of a worthess prince. Vice, he told himself, was the only passport to service in this England of the restored Stuarts. Tucker and Rathbone were right. At least what they did was justified and hallowed by the country’s,iieed of salvation from the moral -leprosy that was fastening itself upon it, n disease more devastating and deadly than this plague upon which the re- publicans counted to arouse the nation to a sense of its position.

I-Ie counted the cost of failure;

but he counted it derisively. His life would be claimed. That was the stake he set upon the boards. But. considering that_it was the only stake remaining him, why hesitate? What, after all, was this life of his worth that he should be tender of setting it upon a last throw with Fortune? Fortune favors boldness. Perhaps in the past he ‘had not been bold enough.

Deep in his musings he had

he was abruptly aroused by, a voice. harsh and warnlngly com- manding. 0

"Keep your distance, slr!" Checking, he looked round to the

right. whence the order came.

He beheld a man with a pike,

who stood before a padlocked door that was smeared with a red cross a foot in length, above which also in red was heavily daubed the legendz'

LORD HAVE MERCY UPON US.

Taken thus by surprise, the

Colonel shuddered as at the con- tact of something unclean. and horrible. Hastily he stepped out into the middle of the unpaved street, and, pausing there a moment, glanced up at the closed shutters of the infected house.

Albemarle was frowning. He pon-

dered a moment; but only because it was ever his way to move slowly. Then he gently shook his head and pursedhis heavy lips. _ "I have also to consider. your grace. whether Sir Harry is emi- nently suitable to the office, and. to be quite frank, and with all 'sub- missiou. I must say that I cannot think so."

Buckingham was taken _ aback.

He stared haughtily at Albemarle. “I don't think I understand," he said.

Albemarle fetched a sigh, and

proceeded to explain himself. '

“For iliis offlce~one of consider-

able responsibility-we require a soldier of tried experience and character. Sir Harry is no doubt en- dowed with mnny commendable qualities, but at his age it is ini- possible that he should have gain

advantage the onerous duties which would await him. Nor is that the only obstacle. your grace. I have not only chosen my man- and such a man as I have describ- ed-bu-t I have already offered, and he has already accepted, the coin- mission. So that post can no longer be considered vacant.”

"But the commission was signed

only last nlghtby I-Ile - Majesty- signed in blank. as I have reason to know.”_ ,

"'I‘rue. But I am none the less

pledged. I am expecting at any mo- ment now, _the gentleman upon

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his annoyance. ‘Way one inquire his name?" he asked, and the ques lion wls a demand.' `

tu . known to your grace. He is a com- paratively obscure soldier, whose nierits, however, are fully known ' me, and I am persuaded that a

nd then _ . ." ‘Buckingham interrupted him ar-

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It is not a question of something

`else, your grace, but of this. I have

already obtained His Majesty‘s sanction. If your grace requires more explicit instruction I shallbe happy to obtain you His Majesty's commands in wrl-Ling.”

Albemarle Was checkmated_ He

sat there grim and impaseive as if he were carved of stone. ' But his mind was a seething cauldron of anger. It was always thus. The places of trust. the positions de- manding experienced heads and a-ble hands that England might be served to the best advantage -bY her most 'meritorious sons, were con- stantly being -flnng away upon the worthless parasites that flocked about Charles’ lecherous Court. And he was the more a-ngered here, because his hands were tied against resistance by the very identity of __i._._.__§_..___--_-

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the MH he was appointing. Had it -599|! I Question of any other man of Holles’ soldierly merit, but of such anitecedents as would permit the disclosure of his name, he would clap on his hat and step across to -the palace to argue the matter with the King, And he would know bow to conduct the argument so as .to prevail against the piaceeeeking lust-,19n¢e of Buiiklllshaim. But, as it was, he was forced to realize that -he could do none of th-is 'without perhaps dooming Holles and bringing heavy censure fruitlessly upon himself, “0dd.sfish!" the King would ery, "Do you tell me to -my face that you prefer the son of a regicide to the .friend of my friend 2'" And what should he answer then?

'He lowered his eyes. The com-

mission which was the subject of this discussion lay there on the table before him, the space which the name of Randal Holles was in- “mded 1° OCCUDY still standing blank. He was defeated, and he had -best, for the sake of _Holles as much as for his own, accept -the sit. nation without lfiirther argu-ment.

H9 100k UD H Den. dipped dt, and

drew the document to him_

"Since You have His Majesty’s

authority. there can be, of course, no further question."

Rapidly, his quill scratching and

spluttering across the sheet, he .fil- led in the name of Sir Harry Stan- hope. bitterly considering that -he might as profitably have .filled in Nell Gwynn's. I-le dusted the thick_ writing with pounce. and proffered

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it without another word. But -liis` looks were heavy.

'Buckingham rose, smiling, and

Sir Harry bounced up with him, smiling also. For the finst and last time in the course of that short ln- terview Sir Harry spoke.

“Your grace’e devoted servant,”

he professed himself, bowing and smirking. “I shall study to dis- charge -my office credltably, and to allay any qualnismy youth may leave in your gr:ice's -mind.”

“And youth." said Buckingham.

smiling, to reassure Albemarle, "is a fault that time invariably cor- rects."

Albemarle rose slowly to his feet,

and -the others bowed themselves out of his presence.

Then he sat down again heavily.

took his head in his hands, and softly loosed an oath.

Hollescame an hour later, radi-

ant with expectation, a 355'. YOUUI- iiil-looking, commanding figure in _ins splendid red coat. to -be crushed by the news that proved hlin For- tnne‘s fool again. an ever.

Bu; lie bore It well ou the face oi

hi-m, however deeply the iron WHS thrust. into his soul. It was_Albe- marie who inveighed in most un- measured. terms nBf|l¥\5f- f-he 0°" rnpt influence of the 'Court and the havoc it was working. _“lt needed a man for this office and they have constrained nie to give it to a iribble, a dolly ln breec- hes. a 'painted diiivcockf'

Holles remembered 'I‘ucker‘s de-

unuciatioiis of the present govern- ment and began to realize at last how right -he was and how justified, he and his aseociaites -might be of their conviction that the people were ready to rise and sweep this Augean stable clean.

Albemarle was seeking to coni-

iort him with fresh hope. No doubt something else would offer soon. li. was the first that he had seen; for although he had coiue this way a week ago, when the plaslw WHS already active in the neighborhood, yet it was then confined to

The end of it was that, as he toiled up Ludgate Hill toward - Paul’s, his resolve was taken. That evening he would seek Tucker and throw in his lot with the republic- ans.

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rendered uapleassntly conscious of ~ . ~__ _ , _ , its spread.And, as he now pursued ‘ P07701!! his way with instinctively quicken- biiillwhm of P .~- ed steps, he found his thoughts hw am NV' ;,

thrust more closely than ever upon “mmm the uses which the revolutionaries “nd at 2° w _ _ could make of this dread pestilence. Nquufmm m

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stats of mind distorted his mental _Willdsfto

vision, so hthatl he ;:_ameh_|;res_ently :h°~d|'|l;’lll

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was a visitation from Heaven upon 'M 'mb' h°°U¢W“l_Nl»

goity abandoned to ungodllnese. PAlfflil\¢U#AlY,

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