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dome, Rattenbury street.
L. McRae,,
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Office hours at hospital :-
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-DR. J. W. SHAW-
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RATTENBURY ST. EAST,
-CLINTON.-
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A recognized authority,
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June 30.. mos.
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(Jntn NeW
C.
' Witnees:hesttated, but tola the truth,
said he; "X saw tee Signe of
bleed upon him( either. then .or after,
1W4;0.11
1.H
4Saw jno signs of blood upon the
'prisoner either then or afterward. You
are quite positive, howeyer, that the
roan who waytaid Ye= fare in the
Finale), road was the prisoner in the
dock.?"
"Q,utte .positive."
."Then 'ffidn't you reeognize- him In
the morning when Your brother-in-law
brought him to your house 77,
`Wei' sir; I did not."
"What! Not Name he was, pitting at
your own breakfast tattler .. •
is did not:, •
"Nor yet when . you save him the
newspaper and he read yOu an, account
of the very .crime with which he ratande
indicted? You suspected nothing, sew
'nothing suspieleus in, his matener, notb:
Ing familiar in. his fate?" .
"No; not then I didn't." . • •
"You. sespected nothing and did not
recognize him tbert, yet at a word !rem..
your wife you .identifiecletlie prisoner
with the man who 'stepped your coach,
and you have so. identlaed him ever
since?" •
Witness made the ,neeessary adults -
talon, but attempted to explain mat-
ters, whereupon ,Culliford. .Cut him.
short and, Waving gained' the, edvan.s.
tage which Tom had foreseen, passed.
on to one that was less apparent..
• "To return to put. fare," said effete
"Dld you. notice •any :valuables up-,
OU his puthr persoh? A watch ehain?
Rings? A breastpin' In the St0Cli 2" • •
• "I saw a ,watch chain and a pin -a
diamend pin." ,
Mr. Sergeant Cullifoed sat .down un-
expectedly, .but with an ,expressten so.
.satisfied that Tom ..lost Anna of the
• next evidence (that pf .the coachman's
-Wife) in endeavoring t� eeeount for it.
He had, not Succeeded • when the Court .
adjoutued for luncheonfoe the lam
• of acute perceptions .was Oyer .and had,
left . him dazed 'est that the venerable
turnkey who had charge of him in the
dock had to take him. by the 'arm -to
-niake • Wm .leave
• The principal witnesses of the after;
noon were Mrs, Adcook, Jonathan But..
terfleld and the diminutive householder..
of Itew. 'Thus the trio 'wile had Maga the world sem 'so kind a fortnight be:- -
fore now tYPifleil -its ' ernelty,. for 'the
eVidenee of the first two was rellietant
buf•denaning and that of •the loft was :
supplementary • in Matter, hutgiven
wieh the officious Venom and the trate
-
parent exultation of a personal fee....'
But hue eld landlady shed team as
• she deseribed..ber . lest interview with
theepeisonereatetheebar.......14,--viae-wl
-edifliecultee' that • thineneatelieToutehad
said en that occasion and to. which she
bnd.filready' sworn at Marylebone could
be wrung a second time front he'r un-
wilhIng. lips., "Pit pay him" and
'break every bone in his informal body"
Were net the Worst Of the words which,
were extracted by degrees.. Then the
stick was .peodlieed in .•eouet, and :the.
knob that heti beee 'so dean 'mid
map* was now blotted over with 'tte
,scaly, russet: skin, like a. emit'. of glue,
at sight of Which the Witness -turned •
as white as her .hair and was given a
glass. of water in the •box. The kick
eAimesethen duly. Identified.. the Jeri, in.-
ferniedthat the prisoner had described
• it' to' witness. Its.'"a 'Tod itt pickle" .for
tbe deceased and the witness allowed.
to stand down after u brief but painful
etoes examination, in whieh the good
seers fondness' for Tom was betrayed
Y sigag,that touchedaddeep 7 SS -
Anything could jug' ehen.. .111s been
Was reelIng.under the dread weight of
. nee' 01(104 against him.- Ile felt its,
battik/ice npon Judge ..and :jury as it
palpable force. its very reluctanee
only heightened its anertel effect. ..
JOnathati Butterfield eXhihtted a like
demeanor With ii like result It only
showed that the Prisoner had not lack-
ed those common attributes of the.
Worst rascalit an engaging manner and
-the POWer •of imposing on the rtiraple
minded. This witness, however ; swore
very positively that there Were no
Intake ot blood, linen the prisoner:when .
they :Were together. And though '.hig
My Successor as positively swore that
sea a 'stainupon the kerseynie:U •
Waistcoat had first arotuted his fult:)1-,
Clots in the garden at lideetied
ethoegli this was afterward proved in
the. medieal evidence to be n blood '
Stain, It was eventually estn-')Iislittd
that the bleed was not that Of the mitr.-
•
dered Irian.. The point was finally
gained in cross' examination Of the po-
lice officer upon whom Tom had jump-
ed bodllyM his escape fronettanerepty•
ileum .Witneesadmitted haying open-
ed his eyes to find the prisoner. leaning
over him with a bloody nese: And the
defense had :adored once niore, bet this
• after an interval so .prolifle of tectitad-
Mating matters thrall/1e Sergeant .0011I
-
feed set delve with neigh instead of a
smile, and the 'prisoner at the bar
longed %continently tor the end.
The ne'5tIfkifitYgilie' trial was 'conelud•
de• Eriebsera was convicted.
Its horrid levIty, its coarse eiwagget
and a fereed but bleeticurdling con,
• tempt of death, Still, it was SOItea
thing -to listen to, something new VI
think about 'and shudder over, and the
creature, having been alone at nigh'
since his 'conviction on the opening
flay of the sessions, hardly paused till
the small hol3r0 of the morning.
His nanie was Creasey, e had
been convicted tof stabbing hts wife (he
was twenty years of age), but had new
er done it; IWO a pack of lies. But
he boasted to Tom og Many a thing he
had done In bis short life, and they
were sue!' things as Torn never forgot
in his. He. lay ilstenline, andshudder-
Mg upon his bed. Yet when the other
seemed to have talked himself out his
Own tornients only began, and he was
grateful when the brute broke out
afresh, $o the night wore on until 1
or e in the morning. Then there wap a
limp unbroken silence, then a sobbing
and a shaking and a burst of frantic
ewer °from Creasey's bed; then quiet,
then, enereig, and the bell of .Rt.
•eher's marking the weary milestones
of the night
Tom never slept a Wink.
Next morning in the bottom day
Winn; 'which the condemned prisoners
had:the use of during the day, he rub-
bed shoulders with a third eonvict un -
:der recent eentence ef death, but this
• was a heavy, sullen, Middle aged man
of the•name of Certer, who sat all day
with his huge. head between, his cruel
hands and *Poke to nobody, nor did
either youth venture to speak to him.
Ovetheed there was another day
room and eleven mote prisoners nuclei
ientence nominally eapitat, but these
were morally, certain of reprieve and
could be heard playingleap frog .and
larking and singing from morning till
night. • •
"I wish were. up- there," said
• Creasey mournfully, "But wait. a bit;
the yard's for us the smile as .for
them when it's exercise time, and then
there'll be a bit 6', fen for us air!'
The bit of fun estayed by Creasey
• was openly to Melte theeeleven jovial
spirits frame Upstairs to badger Tom
and put. him in a rage. But by 'tills
time •Erlasenel reputation in 'Newgate
was such that the plot fell threugh for•
'• itnt. a supporters._ Tom, shrugged
his shoulders at the petty treachery
and was treated by. Crease), with a sly
servility when they were locked •up to.
gather once more. Meanwhile the bur-
den of the day' had been lightened :by
• Several visitors ,and as many private
intetviewai. • •
• . :Mr. Macmurde, the Surgeon, 'end Mr.
Cottee, the ordinary of Newgate, :had
th amen Tone the kindest : atten-
,
, h-o'eve,
eirch. regarded hini as a • man only ten-
-justly senteneed to death. The.sur
geon offeied to use his lnfluenee In the
matter of. a separate .cell • at • nights.
Tom would net hear of it.
"No, •no,". said be.; 'elt • would be a
-peer ,kindness, • .though...1 thank eoti
°with all my heart for the theught. 'The
greatest- ruffian In the jail. would be a
;better friend to nee than My dein re-
flectione • Ai) 1 sen.what you :think!"
cried Tom as a .queer light glimMOred
In 'the .sergeon's eyes.. eeyell, I haye
done .protesting ' any innoeeeed • but.,
don't ..let them leave me by: myself,
that's • • .e,, ' • . • • •
Mr.. Cotton entered _Into. eisirlinal
matters, . to . whia• Tom listened' Cour-
teously,.though chiefly out of loving
respect for his -dear father's meniory, .
for .where Was the God who would:pew
init . an lenocent man to, suffer death
for another's. crime?' When, however,
the good cluiPlain eloeed his books he
• referred discreetly as he' rose"to cer-
tain efforts already being made to oh
-
Min a reprieve • adding that be •would
-himself do what he'eould to further'
them; as a matter of. eourse.
"Whyshould you, ale: asked Tom
dbferentiallye "when you are quite
convinced' of 21:pe'suiltl"
' •Tne. chaplain colored. .• .
“I never 'said Iwas conelneed,"
cried "It IS no.. pert of Any duty to be
convinced in dila matters:tither 'Vey...
No, any poor fellow, your guilt or your
lenocence is a mater between your
ownheatt and God Almighty.Z, his
servant, am only coneerned with your .
immortal soul, and the longer you live
the Acorn time Will be yotirs.,'for re;
eentance- of all your sine •=' and the -
gPeater your chances Of immortal lite.
not build .upon• nothing of the hind."
And .with a ..parting• exhoetetiOn the
Ordinary went his way.'
•
• Bassettwaft the last visItOe. ,He Was
hi a tremendous hurry. The petition
Was -already .reeelving support and
signatures on every hand. The news-
papers were 'full • Of it.. And he who
had furnished the sinews of defense'
was now working heart and soul for .
the respite, for , whielt there Watt still
every reason to hope. So said Bassett
In a breath end 'Wag gone nett minute. '
It was the last piece of tiewe that
heartened Tom most, the news that the
noble unknown believed in him still,
against judge and jury, and was still
heroically driving to WO .111S niftier-
, able life. Whe could he be? Sonie
Mend of Clairefs? The thought C41310
for the Bret thee. It never eaine again.
Claire was with the judge, the jury
and the word She had not written
him oiie Word,
Tem Wag now In prison drese, a
gaunt, dread figure, but they bad. let
him keep a slip of paper that he bad.
often taken out of it poeitet itt his °WO
clothes to pore ever and to dream Upon,' .•
Ite produced It now. It Wrig the slip
of paper '11aletree had handed doWli to
him during the proceedinge tit Margie.
bone, and, he had neVer seen the writ*
er'e ram But he had Madeit fat*
tinto lilmeelf; had built up a ante:Met
from timed few ecribbled Worde, rtnd
cruiPTtn xxx.
M
Owas thrust into a eondemn-
ed Cell meaeuring telt We by 6
fbet and In height a foot less
than its length. Yet OVetk this
'hole he was to tillard with a eemrade
in like calamity, And in a dribble of
tiummer twilight, as the Massive doer
Clanged behind him, he found himself
Shia up with a 'young ruffian, eon.
damned fotnitirder, with Whom he had
had an altercation over it trifling mat-
ter hi chapel yard.
The recognition was tnutuai, and
TOM 'Tibia out 1118 band.
His hand Was taken with an evil
grace. In it little, however, the other
•
tette his lips nor afterwardil to find It
ennulged with his tears.
Tlaose were the clays :when. the cap-
ital Convict Was drat found guilty.
next brought up for sentence and next
"reported to the king." The two Mt*
ter filuetIone rested with the recorder
of London, the laSt heving its origin
in the ntunber ot °Memos for which a
man Might be condemned to death,
without the least risk of being exe-
cuted, The recorder Would wait upon
his majesty in outwit and make his
report of the prisoners lying In New-
gate under sentence of deeth, where-
upon the Mug would be graeleesly
pleeeed to respite, say, all but the will-
ful murderers. The amehded report
was straightway dispatched to the pref.
on and his axial fete broken to each
Man withoUt a moment's unnecessary
delay. •
It was the 18th or May and a Tburs.*
day night neer the stroke of 12. All
'VMS silent In the .condenine(L cells, for
even creasey's voluble tongue had.
mused to wag, and TOM lay thinking
on his bed. His compenion was a
trashy hound, ever cursing God or en-
' treating him With shrieks and tears,
° unburdening his sordid soul to Tom
half ipe night, mailer, covert spite
and enmity upon him day after day.
Tonight he had been alternately pro-
.
,
"Briehsen, the report! It's come!"
. .
testing his innocence, abusing his dead '
wife. and mocking heaven and hell .by
the hour together. Tom lay awaiting
the reaction which would follow as
sueely. as the morning, and tonight It
was before its time. Tkie eileuce had
been. dead indeed, • but not long.
when. the creature leapedfrom his pal;
let With a sni
erea. • Next instant he
. was kneeling by its neighbor, fawning
over Tom with trembling arms and
twitching .fingers.
"I done it! I done it!" he whisper-
ed hoarsely. , "There! I had to tell
. somebody, and I have. I'd got to tell
or burst I feel better now. No, no!"
-have I said? I was joking, you flat --
joking, I tell yer! Ha, int, MO It's '
you, that dope yours! I nevet don.e .
mine at ell!" . •
And he Was strutting up neat down
• the „cell, trembling from head. to -feet
and laughing horribly through ' his
chattering teeth, •
But a worse sound yet cut his laughw-
ter short • It as the seem]. of volees '
1
loosened it not unfriendly tongue, lait both face and character wero the
one se blasphemous and so foul that. Sweetest, the kindest and be best that
gom half, regretted his- advance, Ire bad 'existed upon earth during the last
could not regret it altogether. The 1,8001rears,
vilest conversation was better just So when his last visitor had depart -
then than none at all. That of Tom's ed the condemned man Wes: not
.!biltud enemy Was vile .enough, With ashamed .to kiss that dotted scrota
•
Merey their lives are spnred."
Crefoiey withdrew hia hand frem
Tom's men and edged further away on
his knees. A deep sigit rose from a
dozen •breasts; then as the chaplain
was about to offer up it prayer there
vane) a sudden craa at Ton's side,
and the wretched Carter)wits flounder.
ing ou the floor In con4el:4mm. .The
rest /WM hurried back to their cella,
and Creasey executed ft breakdown
while Tom quietly undressed.
"But that's all right!" cried the for-
mer, stopping suddenly. '"It's no More
'n I expected, 'cause, Yen Sea, 1'na an
Innocent man an' allus was; that's say
you never caught me showing the
white, ErIchsen, though Mice or twice.
you thought you did. Jiggered if yea
- wouldn't believe anythink, a mug like
you! Why, t• used to bilk you eve*
blooming alight for funt Not but wbat
Vra• sorry It's ell lap with you, old
14011; though it's a nice all' VOlufy
death, you toldmeso yourself, and
you know we've all got to die SOMO
day!' Besides, you clone yours -no
denying it -but I. never dope nahee at
all, so it's fair an' square enough, you
must admit!"
The little cur was Snoring In ten
minutes. He was removed' to the.
Transport side next meriting. And
5.'oan, left In selltude, would have give
en some days of the twelve remaining
to have bed him back.
The execution wile fixe4 for the 500.,
He -would never see another aune,
Bassett came from day to day with
news of the petition. It was heleg
signed, but not as freely an at fleet
Bassett's disappointment was patent to
the condemned man, The smart young
fellow was in fact beginning to Weary
,of his uphill work and to think about
the bill. • • '
So' next day Toni asked. Bassett
whether the eoble Unknown had else
'abandoned hope mad effort
• "Not be;" said Daas.ett in a half dis-
gusted .1:ate, • "He Is :toying heaven
and earth; seeking private interviewe
With the home seeretaty, lf not . with
'tha kia.4 'dessert,. II tee quite capable..
Of it -.A \yea:Jerre1 wan when :be*gots
an idea into his bead!"
"But what put this :idea. Into his
11"e'a'aderaVen knOWs!""
Tom tookea the attorney through and
through end asked another question.
"Did you telehim how much t ShQuld
like to see him before I, die-n:4.41611k
him?". • , • •
"I: did, .but hetweet). busy • wothiug-
for you, He said that Would do you.
t''''')"171.geee°,'(1/'sa.id Toni Sadly; "aeother
• Ciilliford! Then why Is he doing it?.
..Cetilford Was. bald. He paid him. But
.Why, 4010'. See. •here, you Bassett.
Both you and he disbelleve_le .
knowit now -but you are tired of your
lob; and he is, .not, :Why. not? I he.
Neve, you know! ,Then tell me, and let'
Us part Mendsmace and for. all. • You
- need bother your .heiiiIrno' More -ahoet
me, onlyeteleme what yon .naust know."
• "1 know nothing.." , •
. "Thee what you suspect"
'Bassett 'considered; bad, his paean
eonvieboe abet etbere .Was a woanan
• in lti on the tip or his' tongue,:but-
timately shook his. shrewd, cool head. •
There Was 'nothing to be •galued by
speaking out • A dying tnan's gratitude
'Was nothing. And there might be
• '• • ••.- s • At rate the'
--safe aide-Wad:the wise 'side e withthee
bill not,even properly drawn . up, .so•
Toan•his selleitor petted eoldly for
the last time, • and Tom tore .up. that
slip. of writing which had been. handed
to nine, at entrylebone, but ' relented
'next •teomene and treasetred the torn
piecestili the end
And new ;it lasthis gallant spirit
'surrendered itaelt to :the apathy of
sheer despelee and ',thee 'physical col
Mese which supervened was. almost.. as
conapiete as that of the brave bilt.hrO
ken beitit.' .A.,stidden'outbreak:pf ;tor
appearaneed •brought :the SargeOn
In het, haste to. clean the foul tongue
to regulate the irregular pulse; moisten
the pat -ailed skin; and, in. a 'word, to
keep his mai well enough .to die, on
the following T.uesday. The good Mac -
alined°. would as lief have elven hIne
draft of :deadly poison, but such • he -
'Manny evould have sent bianself to. the
gallows instead. ,So the •siageott did
hie best for the Poor•cloomed.hody, and
the • chaplain dlil his best•tor an. *bee
mortal soul, still filled with bitter re-
belilon and . rage. But this physician
was less.' euccessful, though • not • less
kincl-praying in , his chember for the
poet' impenitent, but yet tieing what
M. him layto feethee suetyefforts as
were still being made for a reprieve.
Even on the . laet • Sunday, whenthe
stern divine . furnished tbet•lnoiedible
•barbaelsni;:the Cenderened sermon,the
humane gentleman .Was anon the ether
taeie and lie almost beauty cominuelcie
Oen with Daintree himself. ••
Torn could not guesneti Gnat The
last to enter, the flet to leave, the
crowded eluttabl, hp did so with the
settee , of liis . indignity heavier upon
hit then at either Matrylebone or the
Old Bailey. The very chapel hod been
filled With. siteakeers-and be the
eightt no bed receighte.ed the noble
earl who had con-ur to spy upon him
before' the trial, and .with hint Indies,
And; to cap all, the erdinalre had men..
tined bit hy name "to the sermon,
taking the sixth emenieradment for hie
text and directly eddreseing Tom tem
the pullet. The outrage was unforgiv-
able. When Mr. Cotton clime to bis
cell soon after, the convict flatly re-
fused ever to listen to lam agate.
'"You have insulted me 'before men,?
he cried. "You need plead for me no
more befornOod," • •
"Bet consider who you are, what
you were,". protested the reverend gen.
tinutn-"la elergyinatt's son, your poor
ether"- •
“Not one Word of him!" said Tom.
'Ile would never haVe Spoken as
noke; There, sir, do not fore rne to
ay more. You have been kind to me
n your own way, but Jim greatest
kith:less now is to leave me in vette°
Mil the 'end" .
Neet day lio asked for pens and na-
ei end spent tbe entire afternoon
tion one letter. Turnkeys, who came
ontinually to see how he WAS bearing
Is last bows on earth, found bitbital-
Waye -writing, writing; writing, with
the tome streaming (WWII his face
and yet the happiest look that they had
$4001i in ;it yet. The,turnkeye were prate'
Beal; experienm
ces' en, They never
Iodated that whet Er iebeen was writ-
ttgIvtul ills full vonfe.oituo of the (-Otte
or whieb be was to nuffer In the mati-
ng i0' one brolight enether et lay
PHI him in the iu•t: Or iimorie
ANL. Awl Ain he 1*, and Still In*
c
h
and; the ratline ,of keys.
• Creasey Melia:led his bullet 'head •one
moment, then stumbled to the door and
fell heavily upon bis lcuees.
"The- revert!" be 'quaveted. • "Erich.
sen, the report! It's come; it's comer .
CHAPTER,• '
HE condemned youths heard the
next • cell entered and their
comrade Carter • roused' from• ,
his, bed, A key thee grated in
their own doer, it ,was flung open,' and
there were Mr. Cope, the governor and
e bevy- of three:eye in tile passage.
"Out with it!" gesped•Creasey, on his
knees. “I'm respited. ain't I? I never
done It, sir. I never did, The king
Wouldn't hang an innocent rean?“
"Get tip and dress yourself," was the
reply, "you will hear the report, tip;
stairs,' all of you together. You, too,
Eriehsen. Slip on Your things," '
. Tom obeyed end then lent a head. to
CreeseY, who Madly knew hid •small
elothes, free] his jacket and clung to
Tom as 'a child to its nurse. .
innocent," be kept •niumbling.
"They'll be the murderers if they let
me siing, tell you 1 was in-
Eelchsen? Haven't I said 'so
all along'? ' Oh, My Gawd, if they let
Me swing!"
"They won't," whispeied Tom. "But
it they did, 'why,. We've•got to die Mini
time. It's an easy death, and there's
an end to it" • •.
' "tut 1 &nit want to. die! I dursn't
die 1 don't deserve to die! Don't
keep telling yer I never done it?"
And the abject thing clung blubber;
ing to Tom's arm as the turnkey Who
was welting at the door conducted the
pair upstairs.
The tipper day room, or cell ward as
it was indifferently termed, was but
poorly lighted with candles, whose se-
pulchral rays added a paler even to the
White faees of those dragged from
their beds to hear . their doom,
number of the tatter being now 6111.
Wet* all fourteen -Were ordered tct
kneel, and Tom found hitneelf beeween
Creariey and Carter at one end of the
line, Creasey elung to his tarm.
Carter knelt like it rock, with his great
fingerer clutched in front a him and,
heavy drove falling on them from his'
berated brow. This was all Toni saw
before the ordinary entered Wide goser.
and halted before him first
"Mr. Erichsen," saftl he, with it coin -
passionate tremor, "the recorder has
this evening made ids repeat to etlie
king., run very sorry to have to 'in-
form you that it is unfavorable."
Tom Inelined his head. He heti chew
!shed no hopes.
The ordinary approached Carter..
"1 mu sorry to' tell you it is all
igalnet 'Yeil age," he ontinued. "As.
for you, Creasey," and the hater tight -
mod hie grip ou Tom's arm, "I am
happy to inform you that your life is
sewed, rand t am very happy to fee
form all the ethers that by the rola!
A
wrote. •
WIIS done before dark ,and ata
his supper as be 1344 eaten nothing tar
days. ue seemecl a happier ruau--that
was Only natural to the turnkey mind.,
And yet the sealed packet set lu trout
of blur on the table was not yet ad-
dressed, and when the, governor, pay-
ing him it Visit in the evening, aald
slyly, "Is this tor me?" Tom answered,
With seethe At laugh, that it Was not,. It
waster a friend, and the hist act et hia
unginioireil hands %Mould be to add tbe
address.
TOM stepped back into thell
cemgl
stood there with the full moon, IOUgh-
big 131 MS White face and blazing ma.
Very well'. lie would brain the next
turnkey who came near him and pp 0.ti.
least deserve bio death even it be
could not slip 'into the dead man's
clothes and thus away. .1Fici the hot tit
bad tollowed the cool; so madness trod
t
upon the heel s of rational though ,
':Vbe murmur of the erOwd bad. done
it. It .bad lett bine it Woutpled lion,
and bis maddened eye:it-were now M-
ing! redact the cell . in search of that
with Which to shed blood for blood.
They Ilt upon the metal washstand
fixed (like the iron candlestick) to the
Itt an Instant the washstand was
torn out by the roots and poised Mr
the crppped Allow head, while the
loose fin things. rang like cymbels on
the 'floor. The clatter was slow to
cease. It was followed inevitably .hy
hurried footsteps in the corridor.' So
Piga the better. The thio was come.
Tom iitised the washstand on leen in
both- heeds and hiniself Betook; to
give tbe greater force, to his blow as
the door was *flung berriedly open, He.
. was bringing It Own upon gray hairs,
when he saw their color and, swervieg„
swung the epee:eaten witia green
against the walie
"Lucky for You it was you!" he cried
as the chaplain threw up this. bands'.
"Unlucky for Pd•have killed any -
other men In the place. Now you see
remitherve made of, me. Better send,
lawn to tie me, ep. ,It's. no good your
westing yottr 'breath."
he ordinate, wrung his . hande and
gezed . in the frenzied fake with un.
-
He W0.8 bringing. it down upon 'Oral/
hairs,
speakable anguish in his own: while
louder and louder through the cell
Window came the clamor of the greet--
ing mob. • *
!Save you so utterly forgotten your
God?" began the poor elan, with the
' tears in his .eyes. "He lias never for-
- gotten you." , •
"Ile has," said Toni doggedly, •''or •
Lie •svotildn't let in suffer for another
, .1 2P '
I" "Ile has not!"' shouted the ehaelain,4?)
• _flourishing a paper from his pocket
• "Tlehas moved ihe tweets Of those In
. authorite ,over us, On your knees; sir;
and, give him thanks,.ankS,. for your life has e
been spared att the eleventh hope!"
Clr ePTP11
HE geed' news was 'broken to
Claire by her father in the
dead of nighe She had thus.' '
some hours in which to prepare
fee what she ; was resolved Should be
her Test conversation With Daintree on
the subjeat of And she Maid-
. Dated not Only the last, bet the riskiest •
eof ec, Many risky. Interviews. 'She fei,.
that ineffable -relief niightear*e haeder
t� conceal thai
n ntolerable anxiety,
and 50 no sooner were het.het.worsa-tears
dissipated than. new fears took t their
plate.
' * ." *
•
She went foe a ride with Daintreeer
and he wearied her More thanever.
„tt!'"WaS it heavenly jene day, bet
clog: fields u$norneolis sky werei
Or)titintted on Pad6
'•
..• . .
Not a Miracle .
.But Medical Science
Dr. T, Ai Slocum, Ideated; •
4• Toronto, Ont,
Gentlemen:- • .
"Some time ago 1 began to lose gosh
and failed awe* day until. I had to
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to 119. 1 was advised to go to the
Itoekies or to the coast. 7 went to both •
places .under heavy expense. 1 eon,'
tinned to fail, anal was edvised by the •
doctors to route home as nothing more
could • be tlene for mo. trope seemed
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"1 tried. Isa.7011ino and since starting.'
its use I have gained front 110 to 144 -
pounds-, 1 have use& $10.00 worth of
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ritnnot say too muell in praise of 1"y -
rhino, The ,strongest recommendation,
would be weak in vie‘v of ttio rite; t:,•.rt •
1 believe it leis meat my life, it itt
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