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Updated: June 19, 2025
Emanuel of Portugal fits out an expedition under Vasco da Gama to explore the eastern seas. Sten Sture offends the Swedish nobility, is defeated and stripped of his protectorate by John II, who enforces the Union of Kalmar; he is crowned at Stockholm. Pinzon and Vespucci discover Central America. Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope and reaches India.
The sudden appearance of her husband had at first stricken her with horrible fear, the fear of death; but this fear had passed into a more dreadful horror, that of repudiation. Seven years ago, when Michael Kalmar had condescended to make her his wife, her whole soul had gone forth to him in a passion of adoring love that had invested him in a halo of glory.
Siberia could not hold me, and do you think that any prison in this country can? But this report must go immediately." "Immediately," said Simon again. "Now," said Kalmar solemnly, "there is one thing more. Our cause fails chiefly because of traitors. In this city is a traitor. My oath demands his death or mine. If I fail, I must pass the work on to another. It is for this I have called you here.
Stockholm was held by the widow of Sten Sture with a half-famished garrison. In Kalmar another woman, Anna Bjelke, commanded, but her men murmured, and the fall of the fortress was imminent. When Gustav Vasa, who had slipped in unseen, exhorted them to stand fast, they would have mobbed him. He left as he had come, the day before the surrender.
Like a mad thing, his unhappy victim threw himself wildly about in a furious struggle. But he was like a babe in the hands that gripped him. Kalmar laughed gleefully. "Aha! Aha! Good! Good! You give me much joy. Alas! it is so short-lived, and I must hurry. Now for your right eye. Or would you prefer the left first?"
Death of Mary of Burgundy; her infant son, Philip, succeeds to the sovereignty of the Netherlands. Ferdinand and Isabella begin a war for the conquest of Granada. Usurpation of Richard III; murder of the princes. Death of Louis XI; Charles VII, his son, succeeds to the French throne. Renewal of the Union of Kalmar; Sweden and Norway acknowledge John I, but Sweden retains Sten Stur as Protector.
The mail had been delayed in consequence of there being no means of passage either by land or water. On the 10th Mr. W and Mr. K dined at Inver, and the former resisted all persuasions to remain until the morning, being anxious to reach his station, Ingolf, next day in time to intercept the expected mail-carrier, and feeling sure he could reach the intermediate station, Kalmar, before dark.
If I find, on looking about me, that I have traveled too far or not far enough, I shall board a ship again and sail on. Once I walked across into Sweden as far as Kalmar and even Oeland, but that was too far, so I turned back. No one cares to know where I am, least of all myself." You get used to everything; you even get used to the passage of two years. And now it is spring again....
"We are ready," he said quietly to the guard who stood near by. The boy passed out, and gave his hand to Paulina, who stood waiting for him. "Simon Ketzel," said Kalmar, as he bade him farewell, "you will befriend my boy?" "Master, brother," said Simon, "I will serve your children with my life." He knelt, kissed the prisoner's hand, and went out.
Kalmar, who had been deeply impressed by the judge's manner during his charge to the jury, searched his face a moment and then, as if abandoning all hope of mercy, drew himself erect and in his stilted English said: "Your Excellency, I make no petition for mercy. Let the criminal make such a plea. I stand convicted of crime, but I am no criminal.
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