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The clear, cold tones rang when gaze had met gaze.
through the court as the'eounsel „nurel' if he were innocent he on her,. the inevitable notoriety
far the prosecution approached the would have submitted to the ordeal branding both, shattering his
earl of ars ass to the jury,: of cross-examination 7" he replied, worldly prospects, bending her
He had meets
ls the most of such dcubtfnlly. pr°ucl young head to the dust.
evidence as had been forthcoming, "Listen. This man is innocent, Yet rather loss of''ambition than
bur none knew better than himself I repeat, and I alone, perhaps, in does, of love.
how weak had been the links is all the world have every reason'for. But, on the other hand, need lie
that chain, and ho' to stroll his stating that." lose either? What compulsion was
eloquence, all his skill, strength- ,:You 7 Why, what do ems mean 7" upon him to proclaim Herbert Cra;
on them, for in that hour of ambi-I ",:You
mean that the guilt is mine. yen's innocence, beyond reluctance
tion it mattered little to Wilfrid Tt was 1 who stole those securities to see the guiltless suffer and e
N&,xminster whether.the man al dad .secretly disposed of them, play- sense of honor'? 'l o expose the dead
the (lack was guilty or innocent. He leg the part of a common thief ; I, man was perhaps to break the heart
maid t to win the case for his side who saw, in that desperate action of the girl who had loved her father
• if possible, anal at the same time mi
.h° tee ony means of saving my dearly, and cause hor to regard it
establish his own reputation. , house. more as the action of lin enemy than
This was the finest o ortunity; d of al] ob-I of ono who professed to `hold her'
Thi pp We stand clear to ay
Wilirld, wondering at the other's)
savage tone.
"Naturally. Well, listen to me.
You did the worst day's work of
your he ,
1'f Wilfrid Norminster, for,
w1i
giant problem. What should be do
—speak or keep silence?
He thought of the warm young
beauty of the girl he loved, her
deep, true eyes; the wonder of iter
, t
whatever ilio verdict, the man tried hair, and the fragrant kisses that
to -day is innocent V' held intoxication for his soul. Love
The barrister moved uneasily. he could net saerifrce. Ile would
Tirese words seemed to deepen the cling to Winifred, even though she
effect which Craven had produced was the daughter of e thief, and
upon him in that one moment the shadow of her father's crime
ouli1 fall upon him as well 'as tip -
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of 1 is death and its contentsmade
pub ie. I forgot these explicit 10 -
stn. etiens, Mr. Norminster, im-
mersecl in my own ills, my failing
bed ly strength. But. please . Hea-
that his career had yet offered him,' ligations except this one; but, Wil-. dearest in the. world. 1 yen it is not too late for every -
and nob onlywould success be sweet fridc113
, throw months ago we were oni. A cruel temptation stretched thing to be pat right. This paper
for himself, but for another as well the edge of ruin, and only that out upon the rack, and a week pass- it will amaze you^ to road. It is
—the girl -whose heart beat in tune oriminai action of mind sauced the ed and found him still undecided nothing less than a confession of
with his own—his beloved. I firm. I encluring all the mental agony ft elony.
Once or twice the prisoner glans -i "T day my credit is anund but such irresolution means to a mail `irilfrd started" rather guiltily,
eel at him through the gathering °` , q
i} is clue solely to that theft, trained to form rick decisions.
gleans of the court—a strange, The moxnhn following ltalph but said, nothing, reaching out a
lthcu •htful' lance, not bitter nor crime that I was able to .carry, g hand into which the other placed
g g throe h by virtue of my confiden- Godwin's funeral be slept heavily a paper whose nature Wilfrid had
yet shamed, but unfaltering andtial and trusted relations with the and late, awal,enrng to the g
Hefrank. firm which has now engaged your of a dismal autumn day.
ar was and elderlyman, and 00 to prosecute a suspected] A grey, damp mist hung over
ooifelo y. Securities
riesagainst hva was 000pservices innocent man. London, not thick, but unspeak-
in
Talon Sec hich isa eels kept' ku inn I ablydreary;unrefreehed by
y' "I re tired my campaign with ; and, „ into his
3n a safe to which he had access, p p t ' d surreptitious • his slumbers, he plunged
were discovered to be b
of them had been lam cured a wax impression, pumpel t usual c e rg •
abroad by persons it had been impartners for the secret; His letters were arranged for sense of ease, although at ilii, time.
possible to trace, but not one of cue of the him bythe dGlc of his plate, pat
them had been found in Herbert combination of the safe where 1: there his mao. who knew -that Craven had not been arrested.
Cravens possession et suspicionlodged, YWilfrid gave a sigh. After
y P ti na his master disgrace
missing; soma• c^ery care, o aide surrep s bath with something more than
d g' possession of private keys and Be- _ 1 ' ht
guessed already.
Yes.; it was a dt.ly-signed confes-
Sion written by the dead man ac-.
keowledging his crime, lest anyone
should at any time be suspected.
Instinct had warned him that death
was not far' off, and to write out
tins' deposition had. brought him a
•
knew those securities were • all,
through my o era o sometimes spent the was to be brought upon
pointed a denouncing finger in his and carriedp hest part of the night in reading ,
R h complete success.orders Godwin s name. diol he was thank -
had done and his confide h court with p me moments strug-I and studying, and whose 0,1 that the painful task was spared
had done o muchtto a heel robbed the corn-' He paused so were to let him sleep undisturbed
non opinion that he had the' g'„ing against a deadly faintness. upon certain mornings, when the
firm which employed him. He had; Wilfrid had sprung to his feet, Courts were not sitting.
kept persistent and unbroken si Coand with incredulous eyes• stared at One of the letters that caught his
fence, had refused to give any evi- the other. I eye he seized upon immediately, but
dense whatsoever, and had alto -I Ralph Godwin continued in a;reading the few lines it containeed
tether created a most unfavorable; voice of increasing weakness. d r he stared at them a second time,
impression. I "Don't be a fool, he gasps , as
I if unable to grasp their significance.
Norminster sat down at last, and, and imagine that I am wandering. He pressed his hand across his
for the first time glanced directly; I am telling you the sober truth, forehead in a bewildered manner,
at the prisoner. He caught the and should have revealed it o you'
and glanced up with a dull and al -
other's gaze fixed upon himself, and weeks back but for this illness, I most stupid gaze. Winifred had
he wondered at the dumb reproach,! which has held me in a prison of gone—left his life. She gave no.
the momentary flash of fire and un-j.pain and delirium. I never dream-' Qzplanation. She merely said that,
conquerable pride that shone in his ed that suspicion of my crime would owing to some discovery she had
e3es. Here was no aspect of guilt,fall upon another; yet I .am no,
' treacle, it would he better that they
nu written shame upon that brow.' coward, and the moment I am able
The jury retired to consider their: 1 shall acknowledge my own guiltshould never meet again. He must
, not seek to trace her whereabouts;
noteverdict, and Norminster took up a' rather than see an innocent man, ,t would be no use. He must be -
note which had been placed on his .suffer for it. n d ashen The t lieve that she Loved him still, and
desk during his address. Recogniz Wilfrid ter e g re . Y that it was for his sake, as much
dug' the writing, his heart gave a room seemed to be spinning round away' as for her own. that she was going
f
swift throb of tenderness, his ole a
him, and he wondered was this
vor young face softened, his eyes some terrible dream 7 Yet no, Fo some long moments he was
lost their battle gleam: ` those words had been actually stunned by this unexpected blow.
He broke it open and eagerly spoken—spoken by Winifred's fa- The , as his brain threw off the
read the few lines enclosed. short
"Wilfrid, you must come at once. He moistened his dry lips, about'sudden lethargy, he fancied that
he understood.
Father is conscious at last, and in- to speak, when he saw that thi I In some unknown way she had
• mists upon your immediate pros- other had fallen back upon his p discovered her father's guilt. That
•
ence.i' low and was breathing heatily,
To that insistent call of love and stertorously.
urgency Norminster was at once Alarmed. he summoned the nurse.
obedient. She came and gazed gravely dio leis what to do in it.
When he reached his destination twitching features of her patient, He rose slowly from the table,
he lingered but fog a moment in and murmured something which his breakfast untested. He had no
W. what it meant. Yet she hac
left him uninstructed upon that
sital matter, and he was still at a
the hall with his sweetheart, then
passed ° on to her'father's bedside,
Ralph Godwin rose upon his el-
bow, his pallid face flushed with fe-
ver., his eyes shining with some
strange emotion. For weeks he
had lain ill, a breakdown, the doc-
tors .declared, induced by over-
work.
"Shut the door." He spoke in
faint tones, but with e note of com-
mand, • and, greatly distressed at
his evident feebleness, Wilfrid
obeyed.
He approached the other once
more: and sat down un a ebair near
' the bed.
"'Well, what was the verdict?"
Wilfrid gazed ett him in bewilder -
Wilfrid did not hear. heart for work, no appetite for
He was too dazed, too overwhelm- food. One tremendous fact, one
cd, to heed what the woman said, desolating thought, loomed like a
but, rushing away front the room, mighty shadow darkening his world.
he came upon Winifred, who was Winifred was lost to him, gone' of
waiting for him. For a moment he her own free will, cutting the silic-
as
her to his breast, held her en cords of love that had bound
a if he could never let her go, then heart to heart.
* a, * *
him. Yet he grieved for Winifred,
in whatever corner of the world she
had taken refuge, hiding away from
love.
After they had gone.carefully
through the paper old Mr. Gaunt
departed, still murmuring his self -
reproaches, but ready now to carry
cut his dead client's instructions.
That particular section of society
which had known the late Ralph
Godwin was amazed at 'the story
which the newspapers had to tell
the following day.
The news was flashed across wide
spaces, and was read in a newspa
pee paragraph by a woman, lovely
and young, but sad in face and
heart, to whom it brought a strange
blending of surprise and relief and
regret, yet joy too; and not to her
only, but to another as well, for
acme weeks later Wilfrid glanced
up from his papers to find standing
before him the girl he had feared
lost to him for ever—Winifred her-
self.
With a cry of rapture he took
her in his arms, scarcely daring to
believe that it was she.
"Why diel you go, oh, dearest --
why did you leave mel"
She was trembling :and sobbing
with commingled emotions.
"1 thought I should disgrace You
and. spoil your career if i stayed
and"became your wife," she mur-
mured. "After Mr. Godwin's death
I . d that T was merely his
do ted chid and
ALL' AROUND TILE WORLD.
t'it•Bkts of Kiiowlellge A.bont 'Brost
Everything.
In 1908 Britain sent France, over
ten million tons of coal.
At six months a baby walrus will
eat 50 pounds of cod -fish a day.
There are about 15,000 square.
miles of coal -fields in England.
A new farthing stamp has been
received in Barbados for use in the
Colony. '
German drill has superseded
British methods of training in the
Afghan Army.
Married to a foreigner, an Eng-
lishwoman takes the nationality of
hoe husband.
A watch for the' blind has been
invented, The dial, plate is •on the
?Braille system.
The eel has two separate hearts.
One beats sixty, the other 100,
times a minute. .
In the Belgian Parliament there
Cs an age minimum of 95 for depu-
ties and 40 ,for senators.
The salaries of Government 'of-
of-
ficials in the United Kingdom
amount to over £23,000,000 annual-
ly.
Canada and Australia are the
only important parts of the Brit-
•sh Empire. which have not accept-
ed the Imperial Postal Order
Scheme.
In time of peace there are nearly
twelve hundred deaths in the Brit-
ish Army annually, the rate per
thousand abroad being 2% times
that at home.
All the six sons of Mr. and Mrs.
John Moore, of Edwards Road, Bel-
vedere (Kent, England), are serv-
ing in the Army, five being in the
P.uyal Field Artillery, in which the
father served for twenty-nine and
a half years, and the sixth in the
Army Service Corps.
A family of young rabbits are
sharing the kennel of a collie pup-
py at Eucharoon, New' South
Wales. They were unearthed: from
their burrow by a kangaroo dog,
but a collie intervened and; driv
irg the other dog' off, carried them
to her kennel. There she is tend-
ing them as carefully as she does
her own offspring.
The congregation at a Washing-
ten church were startled recently
when, during a sudden spell of hot
weather, the pastor walked into the
pulpit clad in a white flannel suit,
drscotere a pleated white soft shirt, white
a p d, that Herbert collar and tie, and white shoes add
Craven, who was accused and be- seeks. To complete the unconve
n-
licved guilty of crime, was my true tienai garb, he carried a white Pa -
he had vanished, flying back to the
court as fast as the taxicould carry
him.
Ho found that the jury were still
absent, still considering. He wait,
eel in suspense and anxiety, a.nd, even ambition seemed to have tak-
jpeople looking at him: imagined wings.
that he must be consumed by a enHe had made no move towards
that his troubled fever bair ambition,
eatssed establishing Herbert Craven's in -
morel by anxiety lest his fine nocence; indeed, it had been un-
..
meat. He was unaware that. les in speech should have miscarried and Accessary. Freedom had been re -
tended father-in-law knew anything hid case should be lost: stored to the man without his as-
e
this case in which he had "The jury can't agree," d:erclar- sistancer for a second jury acquit -
been engaged, but swiftly assure- I e . ' i the teed him. But he ]eft the court a
that he must have obtained this .,i l_ s..�tedihe; an habitue -o — ruined and disgraced man never-
�, e°urts with immense experience—
an
xperience theless for on all hands it was
within the last hour,
e, e v
1
axe, gandrite
Lrsigns; au
thehisac
when the c`jtzttd`Jiatl lifted from hid one who could read generally held that q.
was duo to lack of evidence, and
brain."
"Not. t yd," .delivered;" hs xeapon- that he was actually guilty of the
Hunte late It t given felony.
sled. 1 1 Oen morning Norminster was
"But what will it be?" or' r� to .
Wil`rid shook his head. 1 Y g seated in his chambers, striving, to
"Don't our mind,sir, keep Lis mind from wandering
Dont disturb 3
with these matters just now," he ba.c]c to those days which had been
glorified bylove—a futile endeavor
said soothingly. But his'words —u
—when a caller was announced—an
old gentleman, a tall, bent figure,
,vho advanced into the room with
somewhat shaky steps. He was well
known to the barrister, who recog-
nized him at once as Ralph G
yin's lawyer;
The old gentleman sat down in
the chair which Norminster threw
forward, and then, began to explain
the errand which had brought him
there. "I have been wandering
al,road in a vain search after
bring down disgr•ace'.upon the girl health," he said, "and neglecting
he 'vas going to marry, and probab- my duties, Mr. Norminster 1 that is
Weeks passed. months went by,
ale' still his life was empty—bar
ren. His days had lost their sav-
cur, delight had fled from him, and
his conclusion was very quickly
proved to be correct, fox some mo-.
r the verdict was,
er, the decision that the
is failed to agree. The judge
thereupon discharged them and a
P
fresh trial was ordered.
A sigh of intense relief escaped
the barr'ister's lips. He olid not
seemed to have the reverse effect,
irritating the invalid almost to linger in court, but when he reach -
fury. ed Godwin's house once more, he
"Answerquestion " he said, witnessed the blinds being brawn,
ng question,"
weak:] raving. "I know 'all. 1 and realized what that dread sign
y Tt brought have gone through the newspaper signified. blit Homo to ]rim
reports. Yeti had e. hard task. The the awful responsibility that now
evidence was weak. There were rested upon him. Mr, Godwin
many loo bolas.- Come, you are a could only have rallied to 'tell hien
y p
lawyer, and youmust know,, remit the truth, but how was he to prove
instinctively feel what the "verdict i'• how was he to clear Herbert
will be."Graven 7
„Guilty I think," responded It was left to him to do both, and
e p
\Inlfrid, slowly. "That was the be-
lief held in court.".
The other was silent, lying back
upon his pillows and breathing
heavily.
"It wasou I ,suppose, wlholee-
irrr...sod the jury r r with your infernal
cleverness,," Ise snarled at last,
"Creme, no modesty, nor yet idic,tie
cclrceit. If the verdict is one of
gullty the jury will have acted up•
on pour address, cis?
THE BABY'S PERQUISITES
CURIOUS "AiCIENT RIGHTS
GEORGE V. GIVES UP.
a
WHAT THE SEA GAVE l?
(cMIA.STLF SCENES INSIDE THIU
PLUVIOSH.
\Then the Victims et ilia French.
Submarine were Taken from
the Wreck.
As the tugs slowly towed the ill-
fated French submarine Pluviose
.irto Calais harbor, the trail boat.
Pan do Calais, which caused they
chsaster sixteen days before, corn-
ins• out ors her svaq to Dover, slot+•
eel down her engines, as else posted •
tie wreck, and then proceeded on
hex voyage, It took funs lr ens of
the early morning to tow the Pl,r•
viose from the point where she was
brought to the surfar,e until she was
beached on Calais sands to a•:ow
the ebbing tide. to rxpvho'vc f.,r
tits work of the rescue party:
The suspense was painttl beyond,
description as Admiral hull i and
bis assistants watched the water re-
cede inch by inch until th; tip cif
the conning tower was visioie then
the closed Hatchways, and finally
the curved and battered sides of
the Pulviose.
All the deck plates wove twisted
or torn as though made of paver.
The conning tower was bent on one;
side, the periscopes were pulled out
err all recognition, and in fact, the;
entire outer skin of the submarine•
They Include all Gold and Silver
Mines and all Waifs
and Strays.;
The King's message to Parlia-
ment asking that renewed provis-
ion be made for the civil list" an-
nounces that "his Majesty places
unreservedly at the disposal of the war. so damaged that it resembled;
House those hereditary revenues of a mass of scrap iron. All the.
thu Crown which were so•placed by hatches were lith y
predeoessors," The fixing of
the civil list is almost wholly a
eertmereial transaction. In con-
sideration of the sum voted by Par-
liament the King forgoes many per,
quisites.
The ancient privileges of the
father, these two men haying been
friends in the long years` back.
"But I wronged my father in my
ilreughts, Wilfrid—wronged a noble
nature that could keep silence even
from me, letting me live with him,
as since his acquittal I have been
doing, content for me to believe
him guilty, because of the bond
love he haul felt for the dead ,
and whose crime be had accepted as
hi• own in payment of the debt that
began at that moment when Ralph
Gcdwin rescued me from wretched
poverty and brought me up as bks
own child.
"My father could have cleared
himself before all the) world had he
chosen to speak, for he knew all
the time, as since be has acknow-
ledged to me, who was the real cul-
prit, but he chose the nobler 1
of silence."
Wilfrid gazed at her, bewilder-
ed and amazed. Then there came
back to his remembrance the lofty,
even disdainful, look which Herbert
Craven had cast upon him in that
stuffy court at the conclusion of his
address. He had thought then that
the prisoner's face was not the face
of a rogue. me,this
"What will he say to
your real father, Winifrecl1 . 1 in
member, I used all my skid
striving to convict him.
"You shall come and ask him that
Y
vcurselfr' she returned. The
man who could act as he' did can
surely forgive anything that seem-
ed a duty to the man Isis daughter
laves." ---London Tib -Bits.
ly extinguish. his nwn career, since the honest truth, And I find that
if it were publicly known that he a grave wrong has been done an in -
Was marrying the daughter of a nncent man, and in .part through
d,Sgrneed man, a confessed ormen•
el, whu must Imre been sentenced
lived, theIl
world
my forgetfulness."
11e paused. and. drew out a paper
frees a small- brown bag he .lead
names hat in his hand.
The Rev. George Hobson, presi-
aent of the Essex Congregational
Union and a member of the Dun-
mow (England) Board of Guardi-
ans, officiated as tobacco sampler.
during the consideration of the an-
nual tenders. Be tried various
brands of shag. with a "churchwar-
den" pipe, and recommended the
acceptance of a tender which was
not the lowest.
To make forgery a practical im-
possibility a Parsee gentleman re-
sident in London has invented -a
clever electrical apparatus which
will enable a person to write with
an electrically -operated pen, from
which sparks instead of ink will
flow, burning a' continuous series of
almost imperceptible perforations
gra the paper. :Each bolo is carbon-
ized by
arbonized'by the process, and to alter
the order of the markings is im
pcssible. milliner
A leading Parisian m er hasbs
just invented a hat which y
adapted for various ocasions at
will. 1t can be taken to pieces..
When its removable brim is tucked.
away under the brow it becomes a
ciose-fitting toque suitable for rno
•oring, railway ,travelling, or for
walks in rough weather, 11 its own-
er. finds herself unexpectedly called
uyon to appear in evenieg dress
she has simply to roadjilst her
r
for
crown, and sire. is reedy 3
function .demanding the greatest
elegance, a
The B,o'a1'Ii'islr fusiliers have 3
eonrplebe travelling kitchen, can-
sti ueted on simple yet very ingeni-
tr,c lines, :which cooks as it moves
with tllrr troops on the; march. Pe-
troleum underpressure is the fuel
used, 1t gives such se intense heat
that. hot dinners for 1,000 men can
Le cooked in'an hour,• renderiugtthe
battalion indifferent of the seg rl
tion supply of wee wood for to kitchens and enabling the men t
supplied with a leech -appreciated
bowl of piping hot soup immediate -
id
on reaching camp.
l closed,howev-
er, showing that no attempt had
bee made to open them after the.
collision.
HFLMSMAN DEAD AT POST.
When the water had receded suf-
ficiently from the upper portion of
the wreck the naval surgeon and
Crown will be surrendered during sailors who had been detailed to en-
ter King's reign, or rather will be, ter the wreck put on rubber gloves
allowed to remain in abeyance so and rubber boots. They"wore pada
so long as the civil .list is sanction-
ed;
anction-ed; but while they are merged in
thenational income in accordance
with a mutual arrangement by
which the sovereign receives. a de-
finite amount from the State annu-
ally, it is beyond dispute that the
statute by which the compact is ar-
ranged confines the surrender of
rights to the,lifetime of the mon-
arch. iHence if the King preferred
the casual and uncertain process of
replenishing the Crown' coffers by
means of his royal perquisites in-
stead of troubling Parliament be
could constitutionally command the
exercise of numerous ancient cus-
toms for' the purpose of supplying
7s) PRIVATE.
tc, a;i had ho ivc
"Have you ever loved before?"
wtern its' hark u.. on frim, and placed on the table before.him. Wil asked the ; : coy maid. "Yes,"
bit ra t.0on
on
ambitions would be like sweets frirl eyed him cui�ionsly,. wondering yawned the +errlbef.raoouan ohaper'
slo1en from him, navel' to bo en- what he was going to irnparb. "blit--er-atev brothers. and a er
" I left London, he pro-r,nc, two small jnyccl, Before
r pet
* * E' * ' ar ecredcd, " Mi', Godwin Ala ed in my be;lldog."'. And then she suggeste-
rl1
"Naturally, Wa ablatio my pont. as ' ,.
well as I. able, and del all in Alone in his � tun rooms that night care a certain paper wine he told c•.] a trrptdown the old roach to sc
my power to wiry the, ease," replied, iNertirinstcr s t face to face with a me was to be opened in I. e event the star.
HIS FINANCIAL NEEDS.
There is, for instance, the and -
eat, right of the King to all gold' and
silver urines, not only on his own
land but also upon any lands be-
longing to his subjects within his
dominions. As the British Empire
last year produced about $400,000,
000 in gold and silver,' the exercise
of this one ancient right alone
would perhaps suffice.
Another right which a sovereign.
in quest of funds might make oper-
ative is that which applies to the
appropriation of "waifs and
sways." 'Waif, in strictly legal de -
fixation, means "`such stolen goods
as are thrown away by the thief
in his flight for fear of being appre-
hended."
Those "are due to the King as a
Punishment upon the holder for not
himself• pursuing the felon and tak-
ing the goods away'from him.
Wherefore if a person, being:rob-
ibed, lis diligent and immediately
follows and brings the thief (which
is called fresh suit), or do prose
over their mouths saturated with
disinfectants.•
The submarine.was opened after
groat difficulty. Three sailors
worked for half an hour at the con-
ning -tower hatch. Finally it was
removed. A sailor bent over the
open'ng and then shrank back with
a gesture of horror. As every one
expected, a body was there — the
body of the man at the wheel.
Admiral Benue stepped alongside
and peered into the cavernous op-
ening. Commandant Guedeney
followed him and looked over his
shoulder. The silence was so pro-
found that, ono might have heard
a pin drop: When Admiral Bellue
straightened up his face was white,.,
and he wiped the perspiration from
his forehead. He had been staring
nt the dead quartermaster of the.
Pluviose, who was still at his post..
WHAT THE ADMIRAL SAW.
Disinfectants were thrown into J
the interior of the wreck, and then. h
Ur. Savidan, of the'Dunois, an& elle"
four sailors were ordered to bring,.
out the body. They plunged boat
hooks into the conning tower, and
found there was no water. The
fact of Lehreton, the quartermas-
ter, was turned towards them with
lifeless eyes.
After a violent effort Lebreton's
body was pulled out of the conning
tower, and removed in a steam
launch to the mortuary. The phy-
sicians who examined the body
think he must have lived several
hours. Death was, caused by lack of
air •
liy the time the returning tide was
again filling the battered hull of
tiro submarine, and work hcul to be
suspended till the night ed tide.
cute hint to conviction, he shall Then the water that hml pourC'
have his goods again. Also if the L's the hull during the day *In
person. robbed ca:n retake the p;unped out,aud at half -past eight
=coeds before they arc seized for the a search party was, able to 'reach
the accumulator room, where the
body of EusignEvngel was found.
ENSIGN'S MERCIFUL DEATH.
The young officer was lying at
the foot of the 'added which com-
municated with the forward hatch.
Hos hands were clasped above his
head, and it is believed that he was
tryi g to releaac the automatic,
buoy which would Have proclaimed
the exact position of the Pluviose
to other vessels.
Several -other bodies were lying
in the alma comp trtment, The
physicians state that 1 nsign Engel
was drowned almost immediately.
His watch had -stopped at ten min-
utes past two. The work of search-
ing the forward compartments was
very difficult on aconuet of the lack
of light, as the illuminal an from
the searchlights around. the Clock
could not penetrate uncle:' tau curv-
ing sides of the suhmr.,riue.
Again world had to bo stolrpge
until low tide of the not morning,
when fro more bellies were rcmov-
ea, and thus the task continued un -
111 the twenty foot hole in the' Plu-
viose could be patched and t1he res-
cuers enabled to work continuously
inside the ltitll.
Chown, if at a distance of twenty
years, the Crown shall have not
them."
THE SALE OF ESTRAYS
is said to have been a profitable
perquisite at one time. "Estrays
meal all kinds of animals except
dogs, cats, bears and wolves, which'.
may be found wandering on the
King's highway. Such estrays
must be proclaimed in a church and
in two market towns close adjoin-
ing the place where they were
found, and then :if they have no
claimants they become the proper-
ty of the King or his grantee at
the encs of a year and e day.'•'.
Originally the Queen consorts of
England derived their revenue
!fres certain rents exchtsit>ely ate
propitiated to them out of clamcsee
lands of the Crown and the contri-
butors were required to pay for
specificroyal needs. Thus it was
the duty of one taxpayer to pay for
tae Queen's wool, another . putt -
()bead oil for her lamp, a third.
bought attire for her head and' feet,
and so on through the whole list
of queenly requisites.. •
Queen gold was another form of
tribute to leis Majesty's consort
and "was derived from a percent-
age of all monies paid to the 'Kung
in respect 01 any privilege, grant, A WASTE OP ENERGY.
license, pardon or -other royal fa- Professor of history--"liegirra1cl,
ver:" I shall exposit you to write en irs-
sny on the French 0•,oluil00. '
Indolent Student—"Why do ,yea
Let lire to do that. proles:,oi , Isn't
Carlyle's 'French Resolution' good
enough 1"
One thing in the world that is
tried by us all for It spell --the al-
phabet. -
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