a load noise the blood mounted to his very his lips parted widely and having almost shouted out � it s i knew she d be here he suddenly made a spring to clear the back of the ly no impulse to escape dictated the action he wanted to e � � from the floor of the and clasp her in his arms � and that was all and doubtless in his vigorous and thrice strength he must have succeeded in his wild attempt but that the sleeve of one arm and the hand of another became on the sharp which surmounted the formidable barrier before him thus cruelly however he was easily secured and instantly let down through a trap in the bottom of the dock to his condemned cell continuing till his voice was lost in the depths beneath us to call out ma i hastened with many others into the body of the court and there learned from her father and mother and other friends the be d by h a peasant s love lier and tlie lad they were to have been married at this did not my interest in my attorney joined me and we t of all possible efforts to obtain a of sentence after a parents had forced her out of the on the to their home ail her entreaties to be led into the jail and � married we thought of hearing what the wounded policeman might say but he was fourteen miles distant where the had occurred and even though his evidence might be favorable we knew we must be prepared to forward it to as the judge would leave our town that day we set to work however mounted two good horses and within three hours learned from the lips of the man that the who had fired at him was an elderly and ill favored fellow it was our next business to convey our new evidence into the town we did so in a carriage borrowed from the person whose house had been attacked he was confronted with all the prisoners we him to say nothing that might give a false hope to the object of onr interest � but after leaving d by a peasant girl s love the tell he persisted in him from either killed bis comrade or and pointed out the among those who had not been pat on their thi was a good beginning an was soon which the policeman signed a few ni s the attorney helped in bis expenses for the road ly some friends my e if among tlie started for as fast t four horses gallop out of the allowed to the condemned to prepare foi had already elapsed oar good attorney must now do the best he within thirty seven hours � it was fearful not to leave an to to calculate t me when it would he into eternity but we had good i it horses did not fail on the road and returning and if the and after him the lord could be rapidly approached it was a thing to be done tf however � i scarce slept a wink h the night early i called on the clergyman it wai to visit the poor lad in his condemned d by a s love cell he and i had been school and he was a young man of most character he tow me his poor penitent was not to die nor did be dread the fate before notwithstanding bis utter anguish of heart at bo sudden and terrible a parting from young i the hopes we had and asked the clergyman s as to the propriety of the lads agony by a slight of them my reverend friend would not hear of such a thing his con science did not permit him it was his he said his sacred duty to allow nothing to the mind and heart of his penitent from resignation to his lot and should he give him a hope of life and then see that hope dashed he would have helped to kill a human sou not to save one i gave up the point and endeavored to seek occupations and amusements to turn my thoughts from one subject which absorbed and them but in vain and when night came i had less sleep than on the t early on the second morning i took a wa k into the country along the vaguely hoping to meet even so early our zealous d by s to us with a li te streaming from the window of that idea liad got mj lead hke a picture and would every moment i met him not i lingered on the road i car i our twelve � the had bnt an hour to live i looked towards the il wh he had been removed for � the black dig wag waving over its drop door once more along the road i ran as fist as i towards the jail at the iron of its outer yard i wa scarce conscious of the multitude who sat on a height t all hushed and silent or of the of at the gate til one of them me way i the to convey my name to the governor of the prison and was admitted first into the yard then hy the door ai d along a of pillars connected with iron work at either hand into the inner courts of the jail the guard room was under the execution room and both formed a building in themselves separated from the main pile the of which i have spoken leading from one to the other � what had sent me where i d by now found myself was an to the whom i knew and who was necessarily m the jail to the condemned to the door of the execution room for some short of the fatal moment he came 