The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-20
and the forgery which had stirred the

and the forgery which had stirred the
world.
AZ he spoke, he felt, in some subtle
way, that thc.life and warmth were dying
out Of the arms which were round him.
The electric current VI devotion which;
had been flowing from this lady seemed
to flicker and die AWAY.
The awful story was ended ut last
Then with a face In which the horror
came out in waves, ineXpressibly terrible
to see. with each beat Of the pulses q
wave of unutterablo horror, She slowly
rose.
Her arms fell heavily to her sides. oil
her, motions became automatic jerky.
Slowly, slowly, she turned.
Her feet made no noise MS she moved
over the room. Her garments did not
rustic. But she walked, not as an elder
~ woman but q very old woman.
The door clicked softly. ulc was left
alone in tho comfortable room.
Alone.
JIG stood Up, tottercd a few steps IN tho
direction she had gone, and then, with
q resounding crash which shook the fur-
niture In n succession of quick rattles, MS
great form fell prone upon the floor.
He lay there, head downwards, with
the sunshine pouring on him, sun ana
without any rcactionary movement.
u
was as it had been for days. The uncast-
ness and unrest which were now become
the common incubus of Its inhabitants
neither grew nor lessened.
The afternoon papers were merely repe-
titions of form days. Great 1inancial
houses were totterpg, rumors OF wars
grew every hour, no country was at rest,
no colony secure. over the world law
lessness and rapine were holding horrld
revel.
But. and long afterwards, this fact was
noticed and commented on by the hlsto-{
rians: on this especial winters afternoon
there wns no utrn-alarming shocK,
speaking comparatively, TO the general
state OF things.
In the pale winter sunshine men moved
heavily about their business, the common
burden was shared by all, but there WIS
no loud trumpet note during those hours;
About four o'clock some carriages drove
to Downing Street. In one sat s;lr NIL
chnel Manichoe, Father Ripon, t1a1o!aa
Spence and Basil Gortre.
In another was the English consul at
Jerusalem, who had arrived with spence
from the Holy City; DR.. Schmoulder from
Berlin, and the Duke OF Suffolk.
The carriages stopped at the house OF
the Prime Minister and tho party en-
tered.
Nothing occurred visibly for an hour,
though uTSelt IIiessh e,SS W. = 1'-''r''
the telephone wires.
In an hours time cab came driviRg
furiously down the embankment, roNno
by the new Scotland Yard and st. Ste
phens Club, into Parliament Street.
The cab contained the editor OF the
Times. Following ahis arrival, IN re"
second. n number Of other cabs drove up.
all at a fast pace. Each one contained
a prominent journalist. Ommaney was
among the first TO arrive, and folliott
Farmer was with him.
It was nearly an hour when these Deo-
pie left Downing Street all With very
grave faces.
A few minutes after their departure Sir
Michael and his party came out. accom-
panied by several ministers, including the
home secretary and the CHEF commits
sioner of police.
Though the distance to Scotland Yard
is only few hundred yards, the latter
gentleman jumped into a passing hanson
and was driven rapidly to his office.
This brings the. time up to about SIX
o'clock
1t was quite dark in Sir Roberts room.
A faint yellow flicker came through the
window, which was not curtaned, from
a gas lamp In the street. a dull and
distan: muf1nur from the Edgeware Road
was quite silent.
Llewellyn did not lie where he had
fallen. His swoon had lasted long. and
no one had come to succsr him. But the
end was not just yet. The merciful OBJ
lvion Of passing from a swoon into
death was denied him.
He had come to his senses late In the
afternoon, about the time that the large
party of people had emerged on foot
tn, rinr ! I,n r~nx oil.
de-sac Of Downing Street.
He had felt very cold, an icy-cold.
There had come terrible moment. The
physical sensation was swamped and for
gotten in one frightful flash Of reallza-
ton. He was alone; the end was at
hand.
Alone.
Instinctivcly he had tried to RISE He
was lying face-downwards at the return
Of sensation. His legs would not answer
the message of his brain when he tried
to move them 80 that he might rise.
They lay like long dead cylinders behind
him. He was able to drag himself very
slowly, for yard or two, until he reach
ed an ottoman. He could not lift the
vast weight OF his body into the seat.
1t was utterly beyond his strength. He
propped his trunk against the seat. 1t
was all he was able to accomplish. Icy
excrtion. After he had finished moving
he found that all strength had left him.
He was paralyzed from the waist down
wards. Tho rest OF his body was too
weak TO move him.
Only his brain was working with a
terrible activity, there alone IN the chm
dark
There came into his molten brain the
impulse to pray. Deep down in every hui
man heart that impulse lies.
II IL seed planted tore by Cod that
II may grow into the tree of salvation.
The effort was sub-conscIous. Almost
simultaneously with II came the awful
remembrance Of what he had done
4 name danced In letters OF flame in
his braln-JUDAS.
lie looked round for some means to end
TINS unbearablc torture. He could SEQ
iol,i'as' me room was very cold and
dark, but he knew there was case OF
faZors on table BY the window.
when he tried to move he found thai
ne could not The paralysis was growing
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