Three soldiers are discovered as adherents to the faith and are imprisoned awaiting Cromwell's sentence. A respite, however, is offered them that they should cast lots and one would be executed, allowing the other two to return to the ranks of their own following to spread the warning among those true to the Church of Rome. This they refuse to do, so Cromwell sends for a child, the first the guards may meet, to be the messenger of life or death to the condemned, and by a strange fatality he obtained the child of one of the soldiers. The child is brought before Cromwell, and its presence prevents him striking down his best friend in a fit of anger. He is so impressed with the little one, particularly as it revives memories of his own dead child, that he presents it with his signet ring, promising to obey any command of hers invoked by its aid. Three discs are to determine which should live or die, and. childlike, she decides to give her father the prettiest, "The Death Disc," thus condemning her own father to death. The soldiers who return the child to her mother are moved to compassion and tell the poor woman the value of the signet ring. Through this she saves her husband on the eve of the execution and Cromwell redeemed his promise.
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