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TEE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
THE QUEEN DISCOVERS THE KING AND ANNE BOLEYN
gers are without, in dress of shepherds," answered the herald. "They pray me to tell you that, having heard of this fair assemblage, they have left their flocks and crave leave to join the revels. ' '
" So be it. They have done my palace grace. Bid them take their pleasure."
A moment later a troop of twelve shepherds entered the room and began to make laughing selection of their choice from the assembled ladies. One went straight to Anne Boleyn, who was standing near the Cardinal, and he bent over her slim hand, saying: "This is the fairest hand that ever I touched. Oh, beauty, till now I never knew thee !" At the sound of that voice, Wolsey started: it was the voice of Henry the Eighth !
All the Queen's forebodings recurred to the Cardinal instantly, and as the dance went gaily on, his gaze followed the King with brooding doubt and dread. For years this proud, ambitious Cardinal had toiled
ceaselessly to intrench himself in his monarch's favor. No feat of diplomacy or intrigue had been too difficult for him to undertake — if it meant the Empire's advancement, and hence his own greater glory. His success had been great. He was looking for still greater power and reward. What would the outcome be, should the King form a strong attachment to this fair Anne Boleyn J With Catherine, his influence was secure. Should this newcomer win the King's heart, what would follow? She might turn against the Cardinal, and all his carefully laid plans would be overthrown !
Out of this tangle of confused thought, Wolsey 's mind emerged with a fixed purpose: to keep the King's favor, at any cost, but, by skillful diplomacy, to nip in the bud this new entanglement.
' ' Tonight I will, by fair words and courtesy, strive to gain Anne Boleyn 's confidence and friendship," he thought. "Tomorrow I shall confer with the Queen, and together we will devise a plan to draw the King from this fair enchantress. ' '
But, to Wolsey 's surprise and dismay, the Queen, when he approached her the following day with news of her husband's infatuation, refused utterly to listen. Womanlike, she could not bear to hear criticism of her beloved, tho she could give it freely.
THE QUEEN IS OBDURATE