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"OUT with it, Bacon!" ******** Essex spoke impatiently, looking down at the royal messenger from his pranc- ing charger, the sharp talons of his hooded falcon gripped around his gaunt- leted wrist.
"You've not come this long way just to bid the time of day!" Then his voice softened. "Was it the Queen herself who sent you?"
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THE STORY THUS FAR: London, 1596, The Earl of Essex and his subordinates, Sir Walter Raleigh and Lord Howard are summoned before Queen Elizabeth on their return from the successful storming of Cadiz in Spain. Essex--with whom the Queen is notoriously infatuated-is enraged when Elizabeth, instead of praising him for heroism, denourices him as having been actuated by selfishness, and elevates Essex angrily pro- Raleigh and Howard to places of honour. tests and the Queen strikes him across the face. He turns Her armies are defeated his back on her and leaves London.
in Ireland and Francis Bacon suggests that she order Essex back to lead a new army,Telling Bacon she wants Essex. back, alive and with her, but not in Ireland to be killed, she sends him to bring Essex back.
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IN the wide torch-lit hall out- side the Queen's private apart- ments were gentlemen' pension- crs, Indies-in-waiting, servant in livery and Sir Walter Raleigh, resplendent in his silver armour, gift of Her Majesty.
When Lady Penelope Grey on- tered from an inner room be caught her arm and with elaborate courtesy nak, "I'll lay you wager, my dear, that you're rushing to the window to see Essex arrive! Tell me, what sort of a reception will ho | get?"
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"One that will little please you!" "And one," he retorted, stung "Yes, my lord Essex, and you forgotten you're talking trick to handling about the Queen?"
slipped the hood from the bird's by her manner, "that will plenso Her Majesty says.
head. It opened its cruel beak; you even less! So rus, my lady! "Queen!" retorted Essex con- the wild, golden eyes glittering Ran quickly, lest you miss this "I can guess what she temptuously, "she's nothing but savagely as it turned in search of romantic fellow, who gives his
a prey. "They're like this little lady favours so easily and go widely!" says," exclaimed Essex ea- the great-granddaughter of
Even as he spoke, his own men gerly, "She sends me her Welsh pantryman! My fathers here Bacon! It takes a man to
came in,
C3102-Flight of ages each wearing shining dear love, and begs me to stood with King John at Run-tame them! Jest starve them
White wing. armour, precisely like his own! The bird snapped viciously at the return! Ah, if she could but nymede! As I told you before, little to make them keen and
They explained that it had been | BD681—Banjo song medicy. Bacon, I'll stay here!"
gauntleted hand.
presented to them as they came off know how greatly I've
"And If you starve them too guard, and that they had been in- BD107-Songs from the Plantation Medley. moment longed for this
they turn and rend you!"structed to put it on at once! "But Her Majesty did send for In the midst of his fury and | BD654-Love could I only tell thee.
Essex asked seriously, amazement, Essex "What do you mean?”
hooding the falcon again. "And "Greetings, Sir Walter!" he cried "Haven't you heard? Cecil, Bagenal is killed...?... His gleefully, looking him up and down, "By the Moss you're even more laden with hohours-Coke ap-army ...
"Obliterated! A new army's to be raplendid than I'd imagined!" "Commands, does she?" he pointed Attorney-General-and formed and Her Majesty bits me
"I've borne enough from you, Raleigh steadily worming
say that she needs you'
my lord!" shouted Raleigh, whip- himself into favour! Yes, "Ah
she needs mo! She ping out his blade. "Bagenal's defeated in Ire-every day the wily Sir Walter said that, did she?" land! Her Majesty needs you grows nearer to her in counsel "Yes... as Master of Ordnance in London, and commands you .. closer in her affections?"
. a great honour "Where's your head, man!" cried to your duty!"
"You say that Raleigh-the Essex jubilantly. "Why didn't you "Docs she. Luke me for a ser-nincompoop is...is.. tell me that straight away? That vant? She insults me before
means stay in London near her "She's just given him new the entire court, then, when an emergency comes, and she finds silver armour, the magnificence she needs a man to help her, she of which fairly blinds the sun!" commands me to return! The
. "Immmm-m. and closer devil with her and with Ire in her affections, you say, land, too! I'll stay here till England rings with an apology from her, as public as her affrent !"
broke in sharply.
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"For lack, my lord, of some- one dearer. She still loves | you; but being a woman, she has her pride,"
and he
"So has a man can hang on to it longer."
"Having the stiffer neck?" "Bah!" jaculated Essex, rough- fondling his falcon,"There's no
"SOFTLY, my lord!" warned Bacon with a grim smile, "If you lose your head now, you'll lose it in earnest later on! Havey
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"Have you forgotten, Sir Walter," Bacon said with a faintly Knowing smile, "That Her Majesty awaita my lord. Essox!"
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Down Under (Land the Diggers) Wonders If It's Cosmopolitan
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
One of the things which trouble this metropolis of the South Pacific is whether or not it is really cosmopolitan, whether it ranks with the great cities of the world in urbanity and approach to living.
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Walking about Sydney you might through the week-end hours, the be misted by its abundant vitality, towering flats which leave you rather its disregard of conventions and its astonished when you are told (as apparent acceptance of the speed of you are so often) that Australians modern life.. On the surface Sydney love their homes to the point of liking a self-satisfied, bustling, modern to stay in them while other nations city, fully occupied with the present, dash about; the same movies, the sure of its place in the world, and foreign restaurants, the vessels from driving ahead with that faith in the hundred far ports moving easily in
and out at the plers. future which is characteristic of a young.com
country. But if you recept Sydney on trust on the strength of But you will also see some oddly its appearance you will be wrong, incongruous sights. You will find Actually, Sydney is far from being that Friday nights the whole of the confident, assured, rather strident vast and tropical suburbs of the city matron she appears. More she re- seems to empty its contents into the rembles the debutante, busy with her centre of the town. And since the new freedom but uncertain of her uptown district in Sydney is enorm- values, much concerned with cover-ously greater than its heart, the re
Street ing Lup her origins and lack of real sult is something akin to Main experience, full of the strength of parade in Gopher City. Maybe the fresh youth but
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tortuous harbour. Its get into the city's chief movie houses exuberance, its blue weather, and its these nights unless you make reser- cheerful provincialism all have a vation a week ahead. This is Syd- strong appeal. You get to like the ney's evening out. distorted streets, the prevalent feel-
Living here it is difficult not to phenomending the streets for the
And Sundays you will find the
ing that work is not all and that sea cosmopolitan atmosphere very much and cricket field and tennis court absent. The Sabbath here has over are Just waiting for you to whisk tones of Victorian England; no shows, away from the pretence of living, the no movies, few eating houses open.
The Australian will toll. you he unruffled Australians, and the as- sumption that the whole of this vast stands midway between London and continent really exists as a backs San Francisco, that he is more Inconic and less well-dressed than the Lon- ground to this vital town.
doner, and less easy-going and more. But before long you become aware conservative In his habits than the that the apparent unconcern with men from the Golden Gate. He will which Sydney faces the world is say he is cautious in his approach to tempered by a real anxiety about the newspapers, lacking in high spirits attitude
of her visitors. Do you and without the art of self-advertise think Sydney is really metropolitan?ment. These comments were printed dwellers here want to know. What in a Sydney newspaper the other day ure, as true of the type. To the visitor is your opinion of her architecture, her art galleries, her newspapers and they are astonishing. He finds the magazines?
Are the galleries suf- Australian communicative, prosper- ficiently stocked with masterpieces? ous-looking, dressed in his own style Are they better than those of her which precludes, almost as undemo- rival Melbourne: Do you delect a craile, the striped pants and allk hats distinctively Australlan note in her of the Londoner; adventurous, and |full of galety. The observer will culture? And so on endlessly.
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