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Slowly the prisoners ascended the damp and slippery steps, Francis and her mother being the last to go up. A few quick commands and Babington and the others were hurried away, each man between two warders. Then the lieutenant turned to Lady Stafford. "Follow me, madam," he said making a respectful salutation.
Francis was so disconcerted by this question that she did not attempt to reply, but looked at him hopelessly. The wily minister saw her confusion and pressed his advantage. "Thou needest not to answer, boy, on the condition that thou tell to me all that passed the first time that you saw Babington." "I cannot do that, sir." "'Twill be the better for thee," warned the secretary.
And, since that, among the names of many other relatives and friends, those of uncle Babington and Robert Bolton had been proposed. Hester had been particularly anxious that her brother should be asked, because, as she so often said to her husband, he had always been her firm friend in the matter of her marriage. But now, when the question was to be settled, John Caldigate shook his head.
"Child, child," entreated Susan, as soon as they were out of hearing, "be on thy guard. Thou wilt betray thyself by such conduct towards me." "But, mother, they did so long to see the Queen, and there would have been no harm in it. They are well affected, and the young gentleman is a friend of poor Master Babington." "Nay, Cis, that is further cause that I should not let them pass onward.
This part of the country had been several times traversed, but had never been subdued by British columns. The Boers, like their own veld grass, need but a few sparks to be left behind to ensure a conflagration breaking out again. It was into this inflammable country that Babington moved in March with Klerksdorp for his base.
"Silence her not, good nurse," said the Queen, "it imports us to know this matter. What saidst thou of Tibbott?" "She was the woman who got Antony Babington into trouble," explained Cicely.
The famous Babington conspiracy, discovered by Walsingham's "travail and cost," had come to convince the Queen and her counsellors if further proof were not superfluous that her throne and life were both incompatible with Philip's deep designs, and that to keep that monarch out of the Netherlands, was as vital to her as to keep him out of England.
Smirkie had more endeared himself to Julia's mother than to Julia's father or sisters, and that Mr. Smirkie himself was very clear as to the criminality of the bigamist. 'I suppose you are often there, Mr. Babington said to his guest, the parson of Utterden. 'Yes; I have seen a good deal of them. 'Do you think it possible? 'Not probable, said the clergyman. 'I don't, said the Squire.
Lady Stafford suffered a like mental anguish, and so, on account of the weakness of the two prisoners, the guard was compelled to return to the city by slow stages. Upon their entrance within the gates they found that the whole city was in an uproar, caused by the apprehension of Anthony Babington and several others of the conspirators.
Thus Mary was left to dwell on the little she knew, namely, that Babington and his fellows were arrested, and that she was supposed to be implicated; but there her knowledge ceased, except that Humfrey's warning convinced her that Cuthbert Langston had been at least one of the traitors. He had no doubt been offended and disappointed at that meeting during the hawking at Tutbury.
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