The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-27
....THIS WORLDS MAZE.
By Beatrice Heron-MaxweII.

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lncIoSed in an iron frame, to prevent
! their being torn asunder and put out
| in the crowd.
A furious battle ensued, every one
| being eager to obtain the holy fire; and
! soon the lights increased in all direc-
| lions as one after another lit his candle
at the sacred flame, some in their &C.
| stasy putting the lunches of burning
| tapers stor their faces, hands and breasts
| to purify their sins.
! BY this time the atmosphere had be-
come so dense and suffocating that
people began to faint, and three men
| overcome by it fell from the upper
range OF galleries and were dashed to
pieces among the people below.
A young and beautiful Armenian
| lady, after an ineffectuaI attempt to
leave her place, sank down in it and
| died.
| Then panic seized the pilgrims, and
with one accord they made a move
! ment toward the great door, which had
| been closed, and round which numbers
of people, suffocated and pressed by the
I crowd in front of them, had fallen I'M
| conscious and dead.
| The church had suddenly become a
scene of danger and horror.
The pacha rose with his attendants
! to leave the gallery, and Auriel, alarm
| ed for her fathers safety, suggested ac-
| companying him.
1T viii be better to stay here now"
| said Chessom. you will never get
through that crowd. 1 will see if 1 can
find another way out for you if you will
wait here"
But the perversity which he always
| reused in Auriel prevented her seeing
| the wisdom of this suggestion.
Other people are getting out" she
sald see, the great door is open now.
think we had much better leave at
once VIII you look after my father,
| MI Rochfort? can take care of my
SELF
| Regardless of their circumstances,
she led the way down and joined the
| throng surging toward the corner be-
| hind which the great door stood
| The tumult had increased by this
time, and the guards outside, alarmed
| at the rush from within, thought that
the Christians wished to attack them,
! so they defended themselves with their
| bayonets, and the pilgrims, impelled
| forward, were either cut down or fell
| and were trampled to death.
Auriel, seeing the pacna a few PAGES
ahead of her. surrounded by his at
tendants, followed in his wake, and
group of people hurrying up closed in
between her and the others so that she
was cut off from them. She pressed
forward toward the Pacha, thinking
that she would be safe among his suite,
but at that mocent the pacha himself,
overcome with the sitting lack of air,
tainted, and while some of his people
picked him up the others, drawing their
swords, literally Glove way for him to
be carried out through the throng
Auriel, sick at heart with the horri-
bic sights and sounds, turned to re-
treat, but even step backward was
now impossible, and she saw with dis
may that her father, anxious for her
safety, was making his way after her,
followed by Rochfort. She cried to
them to go back, and as she did so a
mist clouded her vision and a feeling of
suffocation frightened like a grip at her
throat.
The next instant she swayed and
would have fallen, but that the crowd
carried her on a few steps, and then
sensation of drowning in a turbulent
sea came to her, and she sank down,
remembering nothing more.
The cool night air blowing on her
face brought her back to consciousness,
and she found that she was driving in
carriage with her father to their
hotel.
"That is right" he said, as she open.
ed her eyes and lifted her head from
the cushions. you are better, dear"
Where are the others?" she asked
family.
They are still In the church, am
afraid her father answered gravely.
after Chester brought you out, he
went back for Rochfort, who had dis
appeared"
Lord Chessom brought me out?" She
sat UP, striving to recall what had hap
pened. "Oh, | remember-that horrible
crowd-the people falling all round
me-" She shuddered. IT felt as though
| were dying" =
"Chessom was just in time If he
had not reached you as you fell, you
would have been trampled to death. He
lifted you above his head and literally
fought his way backward and brought
you to the sacristy. Then he went
back to find Rochfort'
She sat silent, a strange disquietude
taking possession of her.
Lord Chessom, the idler, the laggard,
had saved her, and was risking his
life again in that awful, surging sea of
panic-stricken people.
She had seen strong men struggle for
their lives and swooning in the strug-
gle. She had succumbed herself to the
frightful pressure and horror combin-
ed. And now he, this man whom she
had despised, whom she had almost
called a coward, was there-perhaps
dying or dead
Father" she said, eve must go back
am better now, mucn DeCter. l snail
not faint again. We cannot leave them
to their fate"
But Sir William was obdurate. He
blamed himself for ever having allow
ed her to go to the church at all; now
that she was rescued, he would not
hear of her returning there.
Il will send people to look for them
from the hotel,' he said, "but they will
probably arrive there themselves very
soon."
A rosy glow was beginning to tinge |
the gray dawn in the east when they |
descended from the carriage, and, while |
Sir William stayed to relate what had |
happened and to give directions, Au- |
riel hurried to her own room, there to |
give way to passionate weeping and |
prayer.
"If he is killed 1 shall never forgive
myself" she thought. IT want to ask
his pardon for the injustice 1 have
done him."
Her anxiety was entirely for Lord
Chessom. She had forgotten Adrian
Rochfort, and when presently she heard
his voice, mingled with her fathers,
at the door, she ran to greet them with
a joyful cry. saying, "You are SAFE
then?''
'Yes-I had a bad time of 1t, though.
A man pulled me down, and I thought
1 was done for, but Chessom dragged