Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-07-01
Anne sap both blades clam out.

Anne SdW both blades cldng out.
zen in her throat - saw both blades |
clang out with a single movement, saw
Jarrat hurl himself forward. heard the |
steel meet Mixed joy and horror held |
her.
She understood. He had cherished !
his masters purpose all along. pursued |
by treachery, meeting cunning with
cunning, constrained to deception. 1t
was the true message of the French
king that she clasped at that moment
under her cloak. To carry this be had
won his way from the hands of his EN-
mics and fooled Jarrat to his purpose.
And now without the packet his voice
would give the message to the congress.
She had brought it just in time.
All this came to her at once in a sue
cession of pictures vivid as patches Of
night landscape seen by violet lightning
and at an instant when horror over
rolled her joy.
The street, the taprOOm, were so near.
Would none come to stop them? She
feared to declare herself. for a start, a
tremor of the hand, might mean death
to her lover.
She saw the quick end. powerless tc
utter a cry. Armand stiffened sudden
ly, his left hand fallen low His blade
passed like needle in saicloth through
the others body, and Jarrat slipped in
a huddle to the floor and lay still.
Anne tried to scream, but her throat
only gave forth a whisper. Not till
Armand had sheathed his wet sword
and the door had closed upon him did
she find strength TO part the curtains.
She looked upon the PROSTATE man in
q terror She must summon help and
then take the packet to Armand. She
realized suddenly that Jarrat was not
dead that his eyes were upon her;
that he was struggling to a sitting
posture.
'l3"You saw-you heard!' he gasped
"You" a.. .,.. ........ ..
Yes" she -breathed. : -" :
:. You brought him. the packet. My
ICON. To, thfk 1 never suspected! And
KIP has gone gone"-
ITO -nis'hdnor,"
He stared at her, a slow, ghastly
smile coming to wreathe his lips: Hon
orr .Shy.you so? Wait"
/. lie made an attempt to unbutton his
waistcoat.s.:,1h paper in this pocket"
he Igxoaned. Take it and read. Quick!
Quick, Nay, call no one! Men bleed
not to death so soon". .-
she unfolded the scroll with shaking
t.taars and read: -
1T fSuis Armand. released from durance
: th,,iIaqtfa$, under special instruction from
.~his iajskty's government touching the
E.qr on nental. congress. do agree that, in
/. thesevent that l do mot Garry out this
I !nfission. as,'ordered, hold my life forfeit
.Snd pledge my honor within one month
7 this HEREAFTER to deliver myser to Lord
/ ChetwynaE whose custody, l. now leave,
! ARMAND :.
! She caught her breath. do pledge
/ my honor to deliver myself'-"to hold
my life forfeit" He had chosen to
give his life'to carry the true message.
His life! How dear that was to her!
| He must not do it! oh. If God would
only help her to think! He must not
do IT, She; heard Jarrat's breathing
through 1t all and felt his eyes. filming,
upon her. -;
AZ heavy knocking came at the door,
and Joseph Galloway entered, his stick
in his hand He made an exclama ton
as he saw and threw up his hands.
Galloway" said the wounded man,
his breath rafting with a CONFUSION
as the other bent over him. HE is
false to us. Armand-he is false! He
did this. He is gone to the congress.
You must stop him.
yes, yes l will call leech. 'Tis
not mortal thrust, man. I will go to
the hall. But how TO do it? Proofs
"She"- gasped Jarrat in a final ef-
fort, pointing to Anne. She and
lapsed into ashen Inconsistencies.
ITO ha continual