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see her for the first tiuests, and his passion known, he would insure for her, did she well or

did she ill, order, interest, decent applause" MacLean broke off with a

short, excited laugh "It was not needed,--his mediation But he could not

know that; no, nor none of us True, Stagg and his wife had bragged of the

powers of this strangely found actress of theirs that they were training

to do great things, but folk took it for a trick of their trade Oh, there

was curiosity enough, but 'twas on Haward's account Well, he drank to

her, standing at the head of the table at Marot's ordinary, and the glass

crashed over his shoulder, and we all went to the play"

"Yes, yes!" cried Truelove, breathing quickly, and quite forgetting how

great a vanity was under discussion

"'Twas 'Taeneration calls for

every 5th of Noveyle--had ordered it again for this week 'Tis a cursed piece of slander

that pictures the Prince of Orange a virtuous Emperor, his late Majesty of

France a hateful tyrant But for Haward, whose guest I was, I had not sat

there with closed lips I had sprung to iven those

flatterers, those traducers, the lie! The thing taunted and angered until

she entered Then I forgot"