The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-09-02

"If You Won't Give Me the Key !
Shall Have to Break the Door
Down."
said he was a spy. In any case he de-
served to be hanged"
"He-attacked a defenseless won.
AM" exclaimed Celestia and she
laughed with a kind of cold scorn.
Mrs. Gunsdorf crept slowly forward.
cit had to come out" she cried sud-
denly, che attacked me. If you got to
know"
"He attacked your"
'T swear it by"
There was battle Of eyes.
Look at me! Look at mel" ok.
claimed Celestia. eff you are telling
the truth you can surely look at me-"
Mrs. Gunsdorf lifted her defeated
eyes in one last effort.
"Now tell the TRUTH" said Celestia.
Speak out, SO that everyone can hear
you"
For a few moments the Gunsdorf
woman was silent. Then suddenly she
lifted her head defantly and spoke in
loud voice.
II lied" she said. "He didn't attack
me. 1 loved him and he wouldn't look
at me. I trapped him in my room,
and locked the door and put the key
in his pocket. Then | screamed for
help. That's all. I did it because
loved him and he wouldn't look at me.
If he wouldn't look at me, I said, he
shouldn't look at anyone-ever. I'd
rather he'd be dead. And that's the
truth and the whole truth, so help me
God"
Then Gunsdorf spoke.
"Cut that man 1oose," he said. Then
he turned to his wife and very quietly
and methodically, but with all his
strength, struck her on the point Of
the jaw and laid her senseless at his
feet. Low murmurs of approval greet
ed the act.
Meanwhile, the moose had been
withdrawn from Tommy Barclays
head and the ropes which bound him
had been cut. He came slowly and
painfully down the ladder and stood
before Celestial, holding out both his
hands to her.
But she did not look at his hands,
and only for a moment at him. 1t was
as If she had never seen him before.
In the back of the crowd somebody
chuckled. 1t was Professor Stilliter.
"Celestia-" pleaded Tommy.
But she would not look at him, and
her dark. deep eyes began to gather
eyes in tie crowd, and then she began
to speak; began right in the middle
of a speech as was her wont, and
spoke to them Of justice, and patience,
and brotherly love, and scolded them
a little for having flown at conclu-
sions, and SO nearly stained their souls
with Innocent blood. And when she
told them quite simply that she had
come from heaven to make the world
a better place to live in, those who
succeeded in catching glance Of her
eyes believed her. And the others
kept dead silence and greatly won.
dered.
When she had finished, the crowd
opened for her, and she passed sweet
ly ana quietly through, and vanished
alter Willie Iu0 OuSh, IOIlOWSu
only by Freddie the Ferret and Stillt
ter.
"stop her." somebody cried; she's
going to the stockade. We want her
with u.s."
But nobody made a move to follow
her.
The Gunsdorf woman raised herself
on her hands and moaned. Tommy,
all compassion, stepped swiftly for
ward and helped her to her feet.
His heart ached terribly, because
Celestial had not spoken to him. He
wondered why she had been SO cruel
There were two reasons. Professor
Stilliter was the chief one; the ex'
IRENE good looks of Mrs. Gunsdorf
was the other.
The thought of any physical COB
tact, however unwilling on his part
between Tommy and Mrs. Gunsdorf
had turned Celestia's not altogethss
celestial heart TO ice in her breast
cTo BE CONrzNIrED3