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"Thhte is nettling, misttrese. Yet I
love•,' yop, for .your ,:pitiful. heart, and
331 Promise you that on Tnesday 1'li
walk the firmer hos it. But do
consider me, I';pray you. I': do hot-
plate
ot-
plate I am ut pP�py: I would, that
you. were not, sweet mistress. Tell
met`why you have been used so :cruel
ly?„
His voice was grave,.. and beguiling,
like one whose soul has _deep places
cin it. In -despite of the'slow , agony
of, her, tears she had no choice but to
Beed it. .There was in his' -tender
speech a quality that melted her re-
solve as though. it had been but , a
flake of now.
"Tell me, sweet mistress, I pray
youY
How could she tell him of her-
fro-wardness? How could she -tell him, of
' 'the setting up of here -stubborn will
and of the grievous fashion " of its
breaking? How ,could she 'tell him
that in a single night she was cured
forever- of the . folly of holding ' her-
self - other1han' she was? •
But'' his gentle insistence was �be-
yond her.. power to' put off.
"I have been beaten," She said' with
utter humility. "And all that has been
done to me is no more theI1 nay mer-
it."
It was the elema star woman break-
ing
reak
ing from the soul that yesterday was
so `vainglorious. The young man look -
fag upon,her from his precarious coign
felt 'Idris heart leap to her in her abase-
anent
base
znent. In the. delicacy of her youth
she was the fairest thing upon which
ever he hag set his eyes. It hurt him
keener than his' own fate that a beau-
ty so rare should, •whatever its faults,'
have been chastened so cruelly.
All that there was of chivalry in
lir tender soul, went out to her in
her desolation. In his three -and -twen-
ty years of life he had never known
love, but by God's grace was it given
that he. would not . have to die with-
out tasting the rarest of, all mortal
experiences. ••
Mistress"—his heart leaped in . his
throat so that he could hardly breathe
—"Give me your name, sweet mis-
tress, and I. will promise as God is in
His heaven that , on' Tuesday morning
when Gervase Heriot comes to die by
the ane he $heal ease with your ..
upon life lips:" •
,•.T;ike '.'wells of :soft'. light her eyes
00110... uii to him. :My' name
not • AQax`... she said; with a'' simplici
t that 'yeste'rd'ay hail, set °been hers.
"Miistreee Anne, _wi11 you pray
me when I am passing?"
He could not hear her' answer,
he knew what it was,
• "God keep you, sweet mistress! God
keep you forever! I .will.- bear,`your
name on my lips through all' the, wide
fields' of eternity."'
'These high vaunting words were his
last. No longer could he keep his
,precarious hold on the top of the
.wall: The strain on arena and knees
was too much. Suddenly the eyes so
full of • courage and pity were lost to
''her. ,
Anne was left , •to reel against the
wall of her prison, shaken with an
anguish more terrible, than any, the
long night had known. •
• CHAFFER VI
Gervase Heriot had" entered upon
,the last hours of his' life: It was ar-
ranged that • he should die •at eight
o'•clock of the April' morning, He lay
in his cell during the watches of the
night that was to ?,be 'his last upon
earth,with every sense a -stretch. Try
as he would — and God only could
•know how he had..fought during ,these
last weeks foie -self -mastery -he could
not subdue the' insurgency of ardent.
blood, the intense desire to' live.
He, was too young for death. 'He
loved. the sun, the blue sky, the green
grass, the birds in the trees, the
spring flowers, the abundant, sweet-
-smelling earth. He loved his fellow-
men. They amused and interested
him: He ,adored the beauty of wo-
men. His ears were attuned to deli-
cate •harmonies .of sound, his eyes
were ravished by feasts of color.
The world, that wonderful, assemb-
lance of things visible, entranced him
in its glad, mysterious majesty. There
was the soul • of a poet in a frame. all
a -quiver with youth. Ass he lay in hie
cell in the darkness, tossing feverish-'
ly upon, his pallet through the slow,
hours,. he could not bear the thought
that all too. ,soon 'lie, would see the'
sun rise for the last time..
It drove him nearly mad to think
that he must leave it all, Ahat-.••his
'brief sojourn upon the fair andenoble
earth. which .he loved so .passionately
was at an end. He was too strong of
bloo,d for such a death,: With all the',
force of his will had he' striven to
compose himself.. Many prayers 'had
he - ad tressed to God that it might "b'e
given to 'him to' meet his fate with,
the high dignity; that was. the .due• of
his manhood. But as now he lay shud-
dering in , the darkness; do ^ es •he
would he could 'not bring his mind. to
accept •the end. Time and again he
pressed his wild eyes • to 'hiss pallet
with a half -strangled moan of, de-
spair.
The fact that he was an.entirely
innocent pian• did' nothing to console
him. Indeej, had he been guilty,
death had been les,s,hard to bear. But
coming to him ,iu this arbitary, unjust
guise, its cruel tauselessness set his,
every .fiber in revolt. •
Faint sounds began to creep through
the night. All too soon his quivering.
senses caught them. Subtle as they
were, be knew them . at once for the
noise of hammers. upon wood. O God!
they; •'were setting up the scaffold in
the,. . courtyard. , In spite of "the
•strei'igth he had won• in these last
few weeks he eelle off the pallet on-
to his "knees ane «hegan. to pray wild-.
lye A. fevereshaok -bis mind. His
nest --found strength was leaving him.
Death -and such a death!—was a
thing the did not know how to meet.
A grim terror took hold of.hine.
And then a thing. happened to him
which •shook'the, central forces of his
being.
f uddenly he saw -the face of •Anne.
He saw it 'ail wan and swollen with
tears, And as he looked he saw the
eyes grow ' starlike ..,and• great with
their compassion. And then he re-
name• He Beard the' door creak gently.,, It
" ! then. came; open` with so' :little erond
as to, thrill him with surprise; A faint
in thread' of. light gleameds fitfully. But
ty'; w'hoev'er' was the visitant, he was eh-
far Ieoenpanied by a silence so profound'
'as:to fill Gervase Heriot with wounder.
It was not t'hu's that his jailers had
yet been wont to visit him.
"Mr. Heriot."
The;•name was breathed rather than
spoken: - There was a curious fasnil
Rarity he the •voice as it stole thrc agh
the darkness. His heart seemed to
stop, beating. •
He tried to answer, but could not.
-"Mr. Herlot."
Beyond the faint • rays of a half -
shuttered jantere was the outline of
a dark form.
"Mr. Heriot." •
His name was being breathed in his`
ears. A hand had touched him. -
"Oh, it is you!" were the first words
his tonguecould find.
"Do not speak," whispered Anne
,Fevrersbam. "Do hot make. a sound.
But if you would live follow close a miracle, such ;was their exaggera-
wlthout a question." ' tion' of events, 'that the ; escape was
He rose from his pallet unsteadily. not -known already.
He w'as utterly bewildered and very At last they were come to the place
weak from man vigil But 1 d
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membered his vaunt to her that he
would walk haply in . his- last hour,
and that' her•naaieeihoo�tld be upon his
lips. Her image -was hhrid1 snore than
that of a mortal• daughtejr of men;
bet that which had•.•sprung •frgm her
ovn bruised spirit, "which looked, Out
of her eyes as now he say -them in
the darkness,;, was ,the Only evidence
he. bad of the Eternal. Some immer-
tat'essence had fused her heart as so
humbly and so pitifully she had look-
ed up to him. Through those eyes he
had seen God.
Sue'h a thought had the ;power to
offset a measure of ease ,to his tor-
ments. The dreadful tumult began to
grow less.' Tbose eye's were as' stars
.in that gross darkiless. No tenger
'a;as he afraid.' A strange peace, had
begun. to bear him, upon its wings.
No longer had he cause to fear the
noise of the hammers. -"rot the morn-
ing
orn
ing break. Let death 'come when it
Would, His fainting spirit had now
a manifestation to which to cling. He
would walk to the scaffold with this
noble image in his heart,. and It
,should accompany him forever in his
wanderings' through the Wide fields of
eternity.. - ..
'ffe crept back to his pallet, and
§tretehed out his fever -racked limbs
to their full length. A, profound• peace
was enfolding him. ^ If only dearth
could come now! •
Long he lay thus, and as he lay he
strained •his eyes to cathh the first
faint light of the dawn. Would it
never -arrive? AU his fear `now ova's
lest this now strength should flee as
suddenly as it had been .given, tut
no!—the ineffable spirit that had en'-
tered into him wo`u'ld continue throti•g'h
all eternity, to bear his coul. • '
At Iti.st and^quite suddenly a more
instant sound began to 8iingle with
the distant noise of the baramere. A
key was grating in the lock of the
door., Yes, his Hour was here' at lash'
and he had not known it. 'With a
feeling. akin to relief he sat up on
his pallet.
But •shell position w48: stiff agile •pf
very ga pat peril; 't`1 e wh�,ale ',place
seemed ,t`e. be astir ZJen and,:li tett
were moving In °;ail., ii'eci!ons •""%thee ,
es :of soldiers, attritrpen and OrY0A s
of the Oastle.••were net
about . thom.
A.e, yet thei e was not a single heck
of the "d w:n "to le seen, but already
the bird's? rhgd begs; tbheir early notes:;
Daybreak must he ,YerYY near.
Not for air instant must they eBay
In the 'ghee they. were now in. Byrn
as they is els close' .,by the wall they
expected to hear, -the startled;' outcry
that would gnheen ce the escape ed
the condenanehemau,
Q ..:'$RVII
They had only: ,eoae hope of gettiaf
free. By some means they must
eroas the :cued ctitartyard, and creep
round to the ,Cgstle gate before, the
c9m_ing dawn, . had . brie to . - reeveal .
them.
On hands and ,knees,•„ they made for
the open. With .no longer: the sha-
dow of the Castle walls to conceal
them, their peril . was greatly Increas-
ed More than"once.:they stopped and
lay full length on the ground,, so near
they were• to discovery. It seemed as
if they would nevex:..be able to get to
the point they had,Sxed upon, which
was the precarious'` shelter of a few
stunted shrubs growing near to •the..
Castle gate.
It was a , long while before they
cotild reach that security. • Not long
perhaps In point;.of "fact but an age
in experience. Each time they Jay
down *on the hard, cobblestones to
avoid • some new danger they expect-
ed,
xpect
ed the dread proeiamation to ring in
their ears, It ,.seemed little short of
T2 ,4 week's, votes in the I^Iouse of
Commons have stopped all the,"elee-
tion 'talk" in politic'ethircles. here, The
"r�ogressive- t',onservativ'e amendment.
to the speech repro, the Throne wasp
carefully phreee�d so that all true op-
position could combine -in an effort to
defeat the government. _Under these
circumstances, a majority of 50 vot-
ing confidence is considlered .'insurance
that the government Will live out its
usual term of office.
Those who have been criticizing the.
attendance -in the House also receiv-
ed • a setback in last week's crucial'
vote. By .parties' the vote showed an
attendance of Liberals 95 per cent,'
Progressive Conservative 93 per cent,
C.C.F. 79 ,per cent, Social Credit 100
per cent. It is recognized that the re-
suit of the "non -confidence" votes will
create greater confidence in industrial,
labor and 'financial circles which'.
should tend to maintain employment
and markets at'a high level.
Parliameentary Representation
There is a great deal of new and
interesting discussion here, stimulat-
ed by the work of .the Redistribution
y s: a res y they sought, hard by the gate. And
the lantern had begun to move away, here it was that the Provident h h -
from him, and. it was a talisman that ? e w is
had the'power to draw him ' after it: (
ed,
far had used them so well seem-
had
before he was aware of what d now to desert them. To their hor-
he did he.' realized that he was be- , ror they -realized that the east was
phut the door of his cell.. already' Might • The only hope of get-
"Pleas'e wait while I lock the door ting clear had been,. to slip unseen
again," whispered, hiss deliverer, "so through the gate at a moment it
that they may not know too 'soon." might chance to be open for the ad -
Her deliberation, her calmness fill- • mission -of others. But from the first
ed him with wonder, they had known that daylight would
Step by step they groped their way !make the risk too great -to &dealt of
along a very narrow corridor :thatany such expedient
smelled close and, evil. The' damp
glistened from the walls in the light of
the lantern, "
With infinite caution they made
their way to the end of the, long pas-
sage. And as' they neared. its- end
there arose the sound of a man snor-
ing heavily. • A jailer' was fast asleep
on a low, stool that 'had been placed
just within the 'outer door of the pri-
son. He, was 'a, gross -looking fellow,
andhis large legs were stretched' out
to., the full, barring completely the
narrow way,
They used great caution in striding
over these legs lest they should wake
their owner. 'Attlee. they ,had safely
cleared this obstacle Anne gave Ger-,
'vase the lantern, and also a poniard
from a belt which she wore round' her.
waist. "1' ani 'going to replace the
keys in his girdle," •' she' whispered
resolutely.. "I do not think he will
'wake; a powders has been. shaken him
his posses. •Butshould.you see him
rousing himself:"plunge the dagger in-
to his•heart. I'have not the cgurage.
to do it myself:" '
With a delicate deftness. with . a
cool precision that Was remarkable,
Anne reattached the keys to the girdle'
of the sleeping man. He dad not so
much es stir in his sleep.
"Now!" she whispered.
In the next moment they Arad crept
noiselessly through, the unbarred out-
er door. The cool morning air -rush-
ed upon -them. They ,felt the delicious -
green turf under their feet. ' ,
Por all that the shrewd air .piay-
ed about the condemned man's tem-
ples, for all that the soft grass under
him, for all that a'young. moon and a
sky 'of faint stars was .over ,hi ehead;
he could hardly believe he was alive,
ot• if alive cold -hardly -el ^ realize, he
was broad, aveake. .'
Less than a hundred yards. :away;
round an angle of the great building,
the hammers were still mutilating the
peace of the night. ' As Gervase and
Anne stood to listen, not 'knowing
what to do next and uncertain of the
way to 'go., since peril hemmed them
in on every side, they were •greatly,
startled by a scrunch of feet on _,the
gravel quite 'close , to them. • There
was a sudden d•ron'e of voices which -
told 'them that two men were quickly
approaching the spot on which they
stood. Indeed they • had .barely time
to put out ,the light. of thh lantern
and to crouch elose under the shadow
of the huge wall of the prison before•
the men passed them
They came so' near that they ale
most touched Anne and Gervase a
they knelt. They heard the men op-
en.' the •door throtigh 'Which they..had
just come, and as it swung back, so
close were Anne and Gervase to it
that it concealed them behind it..
The sudden flash of the light that
one of the' men carried was very. ter.
rifyieg.
'Wake up; Nick."' The rough voice
,the other side of the door was so loud
In the ears of she fugitives that they
held their breathse. "Wake up, Niek."
They heard the man grunt as he gave
a vigorous shake to the turnkey, who
was still snoring tremendously. "What
a devil you are for sleeping and, drink-
ing! Master Norris the headsman le
bete - and"' would have a few words
with the condemned."
A 'perfect tornado of shakes accom-
panied• the words, which yielded- :pres-
ently to a series o8 kicks-. Evidently.
the business' ,of'.arousing the turnkey
was to prove no light 'one.
"Wake,...you..dr-unken.•fool: Here -ds
Master .Norris . • the headsman, don't
you heat? Are you going to keep us
here all day'!" •
Hardly daring to draw' breath, Anne
and Gervase continued to_.kneel close
behind the open 'door, 'Their terror
and their peril soddenly made Aurae
desperate. Not daring to speak; she
plucked her c'ompanion's sleeve; and
then putting 'all to • the touch , and
keeping close under the shadow .of
the *all, she started to creep away
on hands a'nd lttrees from this peg!.
Iron of.'•immineht •anger. Niven, by
the time they had made h, distance of
.fifty yardd In this painful fashion, and
had set a buttressoe the Castle'be-
tween theist and the open door, three
could atilt hear..the iudigfrrt hciee
of him vwho had.•laid upon hinasel'f the
task of rousing the sleeping jaflehe
They 'eovld breathe a'little new.
M1'
They must find some other way.
Yet Anne well knew there was no
other way, The Castle Was surround-
ded by walla it was impossible to
scale. except on the -south side. Here
the parapet• was Iaw, and for a suf-
ficient reason. Beyond the south wall.
the Castle rock ended abruptly. A
terrible • chasm, hundreds of feet in
depth,• lurked beneath. .
They • had soon decided 'that the,
gate could not, avail them now. Thu
they crept awaytto 'the left in the
direction ,of . the. south wall,' taking -
cover as they went beneath a row of
laurel -bushes,. But' no sooner had
they reached the:wall than they saw,
even_ in the gray twilight: that it• was
certain death to climb it and hazard
a descent of the sheer' precipice on
the farther side. What could . they
do? Every moment it was growing
ligh.ter,. ;
By now Gervase• had. shaken off his'
lethargy. ; One who has lain weeks in.
a prison and has composed .himself
for death can hard'i he -expected' to
take occasion by the bend.' But the
fine and' keen air of the "morning and,
the almost ,miraculous 'chance of life .
'that had been, given him. had done
much to restore his numbed faculties.
A resolve' had already been born in
his heart to sell his life very dearly.
In the ..last resort, he was determined
to attempt the almost impassable
face of.the cliff. ,.
But there was his brave.-,compan- •
ion. She seemed to read his mind.
And reading it she summoned the
courage of despair. "If there• is no
other way we .will. crawl down the
rock," she said.
"It would be.. death, mistress.'
The clear, eyes that were so un- ..
afraid shone- like stars. through the
gray light, "I do not rear' death,"
she said in a low voice. "Rather
death than the whip or a duugeon un- '
derground." •
Dismally he realized that there w
no answer to this: argument, "We
will go together, mistress„'wherever
it be—unless—” a deadly chill' cor-
roded the young man's veins --"I walk
back to myprison."
-"No, no," said his deliverer tpnse-
tY. "Anything rather than that," ,
Every minute it was growing light-
ed. They crouched under the scanty
cover of the laurel -bushes, not know-
ing which way to turn or what to do.
Au' their senses •Were strung to catch
the alarm• they were ever expecting
to hear. .But the miracle stili endur-
ed; the alarm was not yet given. Yet
it was impossible that it couitb be
much, longer delayed. •
In, despair they crept farther along Wall. all. They must choose a place
for the grisly 'descent, yet even as
they looked far dow-n , over the para-
pet of the wall they hardly knew how
to race such a hideous alternative.
"It is' certain death for use both,"
said Gervase. "It is better that I re-
turned to my prison if you are sure
there is no other- way of escape."
"I?o you fear the'rock?" The: firm
voice vias low and'ca1m.
"Por you I fear it, mistress."
The starlike eyes pierced him with
their light- "For myself," said Anne, -
"I fear only to be left alive." Vert-
deliberately
erydeliberately sthe•took the dagger from
her . belt. • "Where'ver ,you go," she
said as she offered it . by'• the hilt, "'I
would have you plunge this into :my
heart rather than you left me."
His cold fingers trembled on the
hilt of the dagger, but even as' they,
touched Wile knew that such a deed
'was far` beyond his present strength.
"Be'ttei; the rock than that," he said.
(Continued Next Week)
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in a commission of seven.'The deci-
sion of the commission is printed. in.
the Gazette and has' the same stand-
ing in law hs if it had' been passed by
Parliament. Parliament haw no con-
trol of veto power whatever.
Ihhiger To Canada
Some of these changes are now be-
ai' order .:.,,.
iigG the sake ql
future use Rood
ing 'advocated rn pan. au,,
s ttenueg believers xn hmaeraey
their`guard;. The C:�G.F_'pa'rty' ink
House of Cemnions has. already ae 0 It
,that redastrihution lee made ,by a• rapt
naisslon.
«F,
Tlts ahaslges were made rn
Zealand altaitiat• strong but unaya
pro. is trope. M i,
Moved
,represents S
o the. ed tdnat the ti4ile o
the 'Act be c;yy�ha�. to "The
Gove unbent .7ec a Aet'"
•These'' is, great 'iiitere4•t'
part 01 the , representation qor* talttea.
in- the leglslaterre' in urinate Colu n� ,ia
comwhichpulso;i"ecorymender
ing anwhelehi°lm+ent in ;
mvotxpehas little
support in any circles here.
Our imports
Those' who talar glibly of •,Canada's?
ability to produce many times ,her;
needs are inclined to. create. the .the
ference - that w e can be self support -
A glance at the record•'of outbm
ports of necessary, commodities^hetiee-
escarp if our presen.t standard„of? liy
ing is to be maintained,—iraprelehe
with the importance to Caanada' Of
world trade. Our imports of agricule
ture and vegetable products last year
were over 310 million dollars. This is '
eluded, nuts, fruits, rice; tea, coffee,
rubber and sugar. Fil?res-ind textiles
products of 264 million dollars inelud::
ed cotton, silk, artificial silk, flat,.•
hemp and, jute.
DRESSING STERILIZER'
'r
Sterilizers in Red Cross Outpost 'Hospital derive heat from the
kitchen' stove. Nurse Dorothy Stoughton is sho'Wn sterilizing dress-
. 'ings at Outpost. Hospital at Wilberforce, Ont. There °are now 54 Out.'
Post Hospitals and Nursing Stations operated by the Canadian Red .
Cross Society and it is hoped to increase the number to 106' or share
in frontier districts. " The sum of $1,390,000•is budgeted for the opera- •
tion and expansion of the Outpost Hospital service in the $9.000,000
sou$,ht'in the present national appear.
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