The Lambertville record., 1899-03-01
VILLAINS In NOVELS.
HOW SOME OF THE FAMOUS AUTHORS
DISPOSE OF THEM

Examples of the Grewsome ERtes
That Have ncen Devised by the
Writers of Fiction For Their Men
and Women OF Crime
Dickens is responsible for most en-.
tertaining gallery of rogues. Quilp (the
distorted dwarD and Rogue Riderhood
(the rutiian) alike terminate their ex-
istence i'll n watery grave. Ralph
Nickleby. Gashford and Jonas Chuzzlc-
wit take their own lives. while Uriah
Heep, Squeers and Littimer leave their
country for their country's good in
garbs gratuiteusly provided by govern
ment and freely embossed with "broad
arrows.
Perhaps the most grewsome of Dick
ems death scenes Is that provided by
the face of the ever smiling Carker, int
which the Irresistible locomotive is i'm.
pressed, probably for tho first timo in
the history of fiction
Scott'a villains most frequently meet
with violent deaths at tho hands of 9th.
ers often their accomplices, or commit
suicide on the eve of discovery and dis.
grace But the sensation lover has
nevertheless been catered for in the
death of Anthony Foster, the accom-
plice of the poisoner Richard Varney
This miserable wretch is depicted as
hiding from his pursuers in n secret
cell The entrance to this is fastened
by means of II spring lock, of which,
however, he omits to retain the key.
with the consequence that he eventually
perishes miserably of mingled fear and
famine
Lytton's Might and Morning" gives
Us tho coiner Gawtrey. who meets his
fato at the hands of tho Paris police.
from whom he is attempting to escape
when pistol shot drops him over the
side OF house TO perish miserably
This idea of falling from height il by
no means confined to Lytton. 1t il util-
lied by Anthony Hope in "Phroso"
and by Stanley Weyman in Under the
Red Robe. " whore tho villain and his
victim fall from lofty bridge into a
seething torrent below In this way,
toe Conan Doyle killed the immortal
Sherlock Holmes, who. fast locked in a
struggle with "the greatest villain OF
them all falls over an Alpine prcci.
piee.
Willtie Collins brings his principal
villain. the double faced. calculating
Count Fcsco, to an ignobo end. he dis.
appearing for Il time. only to reappenr
upon the CHASTITY shelves of the Paris
morBue A still more ghastly fate IL
that Of the she iicnd. Gagool immortal
lied by Rider Haggard in "King Solo.
mons Mines Having conducted
Qnatcrmain, Curtis and party into
that celebrated monarch's rock hewn
treasury which is guarded by II pom
derons rising door of living rock, eht
touches n secret spring. by Weans OF
s,,I,,..l, .i.--i---a "ssssa ssssf. - ~ 'io
scend with slow but irresistible mo
tion.
While the Englislimen are sizing up
the iowelry she makes off through the
rapidly lesaeninR aperture Her progress
is temporarily arrested by the unfortu
nate girl Foulata. whom she stabs in
order TO free herself Hurriedly scrnm
bllDb oNtl iIN AllINbilbifit Filt IS tNuhHl
by tho inexorablc force which she has
herself put In motion. and realistic.
ally dramatic "scruneh puts an end
forever 10 the Vaccinations of this
truly horrible old woman
Syengali. liko SCOTS Templar in
"Ivanhoe, dies from an excessive
mental strain acting upon the heart,
while, TO hark back to tho days Of the
bluff Doctor Of Fleet Street, the gentle.
genial hearted Goldsmith is contented
TO reform the rakish Squire Thornhill
in order that he may at last become the
exemplary spouse Of the gentle olivia.
around whom he wove that entrancing
ly simple narrative. "The Vicar Of
Wakefield
Finally, the palm for "writing lurid
may fairly be accorded Harrison Aims.
worth for hia thrilling disposal of the
two ghoulish wrctches who haunt the
pages Of his celebrated novel, "Old
Saint Paul's. The creatures who bat
tened upon the spoils Of the dead and
dying during tho great plngue were
wont to stow their i'll gotten gains in
one Of the cathedral vaults The catho-
dral taking fire, they hasten thither In
order to rescue their precious hoard.
Tho greed Of gain however, misleads
them into eojourning just moment
too long
As they turn to leave tho now sitting
vault they SEQ that thin silvery
stream is making its way down the
stairs. by which alone they can gain
an exit Even as they look it thickens
perceptibly, and before they can escape
the whole stairway is blocked. and the
vault about them begins 10 fill with the
silyery liquid When it Ia added that
the harmless looking fluid Is nothing
more or less than tho molten lead from
the roof and windows Of the cathedral,
it will become apparent that even Mr.
Gilbert's q something with boiling oil
in II" possesses dangerous rival In the
pages Of "Old Saint Pauls London
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