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"'Tis even I, my lord," answered a tall young man coming forward. "I had news that you were coming this way and hurried hither to greet you." "Right glad am I to see thee, Babington," was Stafford's rejoinder. "I have much to say to thee. Hast dined?" "No, my lord." "Then let us eat, and afterward there will be leisure for converse. Be in haste with thy meal, Giles."
These two guards took her to Fotheringay Castle, her new habitation, where she found the apartment she was to lodge in already hung in black. Mary Stuart had entered alive into her tomb. As to Babington and his accomplices, they had been already beheaded.
"Then, sir, I confess I am guilty," he said, with great calmness, though it was the resignation of all hope. The same question was then put to Babington.
'Twas all my good lord, and my sweet sir with her. I promise you butter would not melt in her mouth, for my Lord Treasurer Cecil hath been to see her, and he has promised to bring her to speech of her Majesty. May I be there to see. I promise you 'twill be diamond cut diamond between them." "How did she and my Lord Treasurer fare together?" asked Mrs. Babington.
Owing to this accident the young couple were detained at Rothley into the winter; and the child was baptised in the private chapel which formed part of the house, on the 26th November 1800, by the names of Thomas Babington; the Rev. Aulay Macaulay, and Mr. and Mrs. Babington, acting as sponsors.
"I do believe it," answered the secretary. "I think that thou hast been made use of by others to further design of bold and unscrupulous men. Didst thou ever meet with Anthony Babington?" "Yes, Sir Francis." "Where?" "Once at Salisbury, and once in the forest as I left London." "What passed at those meetings?"
Two of their number, however, one of whom was a priest, kept Elizabeth's wisest minister, SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM, acquainted with the whole project from the first. The conspirators were completely deceived to the final point, when Babington gave Savage, because he was shabby, a ring from his finger, and some money from his purse, wherewith to buy himself new clothes in which to kill the Queen.
But she was gone; she had not looked at him. Like a shot animal he suddenly began to run. He got to his rooms; they were empty; Baby Thomas, his "wife," known as Archibald Babington Thomas on the catalogue, but not elsewhere, had been taken for Scroll and Key; he was off with the others who were worth while.
Poor Babington had been far too youthfully simple to guess what he now perceived, that he had been made the mere tool and instrument of these traitors.
But she thought she must gain time. She stood up. "You would like to see his letters?" she asked. "I will bring them." And she slipped out of the room. Anthony Babington sat still, staring up at Icarus in the chariot of the Sun, with something of a moody look on his face.
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