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"You were in Lima thirty years ago," echoed Don Pedro; "then you were there when Vasa stole this mummy." "I don't know who stole it, or even if it was stolen," said the Professor obstinately, "and I don't know the name of Vasa. Ah! now I remember. Young Hope did say something about the Swedish sailor who you said stole the mummy."
Item, I thanked God that I had likewise secured the vasa sacra, which I had forthwith buried in the church in front of the altar, in presence of the two churchwardens, Hinrich Seden and Claus Bulken, of Uekeritze, commending them to the care of God. But he answered me nothing, and I should have perished for want if Hinrich Seden had not begged for me in the parish.
She survived to a good old age, withdrawn but happy, and the memory of her virtues and benevolence still lives among the peasantry of the neighborhood of her abode. With the accession to the throne of Sweden in 1611 of Gustavus Adolphus, grandson of Gustavus Vasa, that country gained its ablest king, and the most famous with the exception of the firebrand of war, Charles XII., of later date.
Barely has tyranny met with such retribution on earth, and the "Fall of the Tyrant" will serve as a fitting title to an impressive tale. So sudden and successful was the rebellion of the Swedes under Gustavus Vasa, that in the summer of the year after the massacre in the Great Square of Stockholm the Danes held only that city and a few other strongholds in Sweden.
Barbara, Arendt's wife, though Danish in her sympathies, had a warm, romantic interest in Gustavus Vasa, and when she saw her husband, on his return from his visit to Mans Nilsson, drive past the house and in the direction of the house of the Danish steward, she suspected him of treachery and determined to save their too-confiding guest.
They told him that they would not desert the King; he must expect nothing of them. Broken-hearted and desperate, Gustav Vasa turned toward the Norwegian frontier. He would leave the country for which there was no hope. While the table in the poorest home groaned with Yuletide cheer, Sweden's coming king hid under an old bridge, outcast and starving, till it was safe to leave.
But now for something else; how did this little phial come into the hands of the dealer Hiram?" As he spoke the Emperor took from his table the little bottle of Vasa Murrhina which the lad had given to Arsinoe and which she had sold to the Phoenician, and held it up before the favorite's eyes. Antinous turned pale, and stammered in great confusion.
The dealer turned it over and over in the sunlight, tested its ring, tried to scratch it with the stone in his ring, and then muttered, "Vasa Murrhma."
"Vasa did, and brought it to Europe to sell probably to that man in Paris, who afterwards sold it to your Malteses collector." "No doubt," rejoined Braddock calmly; "but what has all this to do with me, Don Pedro?" "I want my mummy," raged the other, and looked dangerous. "Then you won't get it," retorted Braddock, adopting a pugnacious attitude and quite composed.
War with Gustavus Vasa of Sweden. Political Punctilios. The Kingdom of Livonia Annexed to Sweden. Death of Anastasia. Conspiracy Against Ivan. His Abdication. His Resumption of the Crown. Invasion of Russia by the Tartars and Turks. Heroism of Zerebrinow. Utter Discomfiture of the Tartars. Relations Between Queen Elizabeth of England, and Russia. Intrepid Embassage. New War with Poland.
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