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"Ramorny was employed in my service, I think that answer may satisfy my uncle." "But it will not satisfy me," said the angry father. "God knows, I never coveted man's blood, but that Ramorny's head I will have, if law can give it. He has been the encourager and partaker of all thy numerous vices and follies. I will take care he shall be so no more. Call MacLouis, with a guard."
Take them to thee at once, man; and mayst thou feel as I have done, that they are both of red hot iron! Oh, Rothsay Rothsay! thou hast at least escaped being a king!" "My liege," said MacLouis, "let me remind you that the crown and sceptre of Scotland are, when your Majesty ceases to bear them, the right of Prince James, who succeeds to his brother's rights."
"True, MacLouis," said the King, eagerly, "and will succeed, poor child, to his brother's perils! Thanks, MacLouis thanks. You have reminded me that I have still work upon earth. Get thy Brandanes under arms with what speed thou canst. Let no man go with us whose truth is not known to thee.
Their captain, making an obeisance to Albany, seemed to desire to address him. "What now, MacLouis?" said the Duke. "We are informed the Duke of Rothsay has been insulted, and I can scarce keep the Brandanes within door." "Gallant MacLouis," said Albany, "and you, my trusty Brandanes, the Duke of Rothsay, my princely nephew, is as well as a hopeful gentleman can be.
But the besotted father who gave the son into thy hands who gave the innocent lamb to the butcher is a king, and thou shalt know it to thy cost. Shall the murderer stand in presence of his brother stained with the blood of that brother's son? No! What ho, without there! MacLouis! Brandanes! Treachery! Murder! Take arms, if you love the Stuart!"
MacLouis, with several of the guards, rushed into the apartment. "Murder and treason!" exclaimed the miserable King. "Brandanes, your noble Prince " Here his grief and agitation interrupted for a moment the fatal information it was his object to convey. At length he resumed his broken speech: "An axe and a block instantly into the courtyard! Arrest " The word choked his utterance.
"May it please you," said MacLouis, with hesitation, "if your Highness would consent to retire just now, and to wait awhile in patience, I will send to acquaint you when the Duke of Albany goes; and I doubt not that his Majesty will then admit your Grace to his presence. At present, your Highness must forgive me, it is impossible you can have access."
MacLouis cast a look of wonder towards the Duke of Albany, who endeavoured to hide his confusion under an affectation of deep sympathy, and muttered to the officer: "The great misfortune has been too much for his understanding." "What misfortune, please your Grace?" replied MacLouis. "I have heard of none." "How! not heard of the death of my nephew Rothsay?"
He was about to use the privilege of his rank and birth to enter the royal apartment, when MacLouis, the commander of the guard of Brandanes, gave him to understand, in the most respectful terms, that he had special instructions which forbade his admittance. "Go at least, MacLouis, and let them know that I wait their pleasure," said the Prince.
"Arrest whom, my noble liege?" said MacLouis, who, observing the King influenced by a tide of passion so different from the gentleness of his ordinary demeanour, almost conjectured that his brain had been disturbed by the unusual horrors of the combat he had witnessed. "Whom shall I arrest, my liege?" he replied. "Here is none but your Grace's royal brother of Albany."
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