| | THE MINION OF SPANISH TYRANNY IN DISTRESS.

The latter wishes to marry her; the former's intentions are strictly dishonourable, and with the aid of his ubiquitous secret policemen he persecutes her, using his power to set her free from the attentions of his detestable minions for bargaining purposes in a perfectly Hunnish manner.

A minion from one of the chambers above clattered in through the swing doors and muttered something.

But gogo thitherbarter thy free soul, Take land in fief, be minion to a prince, Where thou might'st be lord paramount, and prince Of all thine own unburden'd heritage!

Only the Minion under Hawkins and the bark Judith under the young Francis Drake escaped to carry the harrowing tale to England.