The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-07-21
CHAPTER XII.
The Footsteps DIo Out Forever

CHAPTER XII
Tho Footsteps Dle out Forsvsr.
There Is guard Of horsemen riding
abreast Of the tumbris and faces ara
often turned up TO them and they ara
asked some questions. II would seem
70 be always tn" same question for II |
IL always followed by II press Of people
toward the third cart The leading Gu |
riosity Is TO know which In he who stands |
back In the car holding the hand OF tho |
girl searstress
Here. and there cries arose against
him. the Marquis dc Saint Evremonde |
ON the steps Of church us they came
up. stood Cy Warman. the spy He
looks into the first tumbrl mot there |
hos he sacrificed me-" he thought hut
his face clesrs when he sees the third
tumbril and sydney Carton standing
there comforting the poor little seam
stress Which Is Evremonde7" asked a |
man bshlnd him
There he is
With that girls hand In hls2"
! Yes"
Thon the man cried outCand tho popu
lace took up the cry, Down with Eyre
monde To the Euilloune with him
'liush!' said the spy. "Why7' "Ho In
Foing 10 pay his penalty II will be paid
IN FIVE minutes" but the man continued
to shout Down Evremondc The face
! or carton ls for moment turned toward
him and he sees the face Of tho spy as
he goes on his way
| The rlo'hs were striking three and tho
| furrow plo~ed by the tumbrIls among tho
populace was turning around 10 come into
lhe place ot esecuton--and end, Tho
| ridges TO this side and that now closed
In and crUmblsd to follow hchind tho
death procession, All were following 10
The Eu'llotin- In front OF this shasty
Instrument, seated In chairs, a. IN n
garden Of public advertisement. were n
number Of women busy knitting
There was one woman who was known
as The Fury, for her work In klnng
lHristOCrnts
"Thctess Dcfsrse," said she. who hs.
seen her"
She never missed before" said a knit
ting woman Of the slsterhood
Nor win she miss now" cried Tho
Fury "Thcrese"
Louder" the woman knitting recon-
nends, aye louder and much louder
Fury, and s'ill she will scarcely hear
,hee Louder yet, Fury. and yet It will
hardly bring her
Send other women up and down 20
! ma her lingering somewhere and yet
although the messengers have done dread
deeds. II iS doubtful n one of them will
so far enough 20 find her. bad fortune"
cried The Fury, Stamping her foot upon
tho vacant chair Here are the tum-
hrils And Evremonde will be dispatched
In wink and she not here Zee her
knitting In my hand and hcr empty chair
beside me. cry with vesauon and dis
appointment" "
As the Eury descended from hsr sls.
walton the tumbrlls began TO discharge
their loads. Tho ministers Of Saint Gun
lotlne were robed and ready.
Crash a head falls and the knitting
women. who moment before had not
, paused 10 look st u while II was think-
Ing, and could speak. counted one Tho
second tumhril comes up and discharges
It's load and then the third comes up.
The knitting women never pause In their
IN that quiet corner OF Soho, IN. echoes
were more than ever spSpdlns about the
house Of Dr ManetteEh was as before
when Carton and pd&Se werp seated
there aud thunder b5S came up it
v, WA, ,,s, as tho ESQ, sound oisylss, multitude
) on The third coNN " crash And
, tho knitting women rfver folter ss they
a count, Tho supposed Evrsmonde de
1 scend, and the ll,tlo seamstress 10 li,sd
a out after him. He has not relinqushe cd
!, her va tent hand In getting out but holds
, II sull as he promised. lie places her
with her back to the clsshing engine and
rhe looks into his face and thanks him
= The spare hand does not uemhls as hs
releases II, She goes next before him
up the platform 20 the engine Of death
n The knitting women count twenty two
& Then II was the turn ~ Carton 20 mount
II the scnffold As hr assembled he kept
g repeating II nm. III" resurr.ction enC
9 tho HE. lie that hell-veth In me. though
he wcro dead, vet shall he live Ant
Y who-oy-re liveth and bclltyoth In m,
r. shall never die
There came 20 him the murmurlns nj
: many voices, tho sight ~ many up
turned faces, and the sound Of man,
footsteps on the outskirts Of tho crowd
All these sweled forward In mnss lik,
- one great hesye ~ water and then nj
flashed away, Twenty three" the knit
ting women counted
.y They rsid OF him that nisht that
= was the pcacsfuest mans face ever seeI
= there Many added that ho looked sub
limo and prophs,ic one of the mos
remarkable sufferers by this same an
womsn-hnd II few days before hsksd L
he allowed TO write down the thought
:, that were inspiring her,
II sydney Carton had given uttsrsnc
II To his thoughts and they were prophet
!, he would have said
y, u see the ranks of the new oppres
sors. tho long ranks who have taken tn
e. place Of the old opprsssor. who hsv
" risen on tho destruction Of the Old, per
IL ishins by this instrument before II sha
81 cease from It's present use. see beau
tful city and u brilliant people fisin
p. from this abyss and, In their struggle
ID 20 be free, In their trlumphs aud ds
IA tests through the long long years I
come, ! sec tho rvil of this Time and n
- tho previous time of which this IL IN
W. natural result, gradually making eSpia
~. tion for Itself and wearing out
II u see the lives for which ! lay dow
,o my life peaceful, happy and prosprrou
~ In that England which I shall SEQ n
2 more | SEQ her with child upon hs
borom who bears my name I see ~
- with hor Dged father, bent but o,hptwi-
restored and faithful 20 all men IN MI
heating office ~ peace I see the rou
old man, so long their filend IN ts
l. years time fnrlchlns them with all II
has and passing TRANQUILITY 10 his rewar,
No II sec that I hold y sanctuary In the
ss hearts aud IN the hearts ~ their ~
", sccndants generations hence I see NJ
an old woman, weeping for me upon N
=, anniversary ~ thi. day ! see het ar
her husband their course done YIN
side ny eide In their last earthly he
}. And | know that each was NOT mo-
- honored and held sacred In carh other
h souls than was In the soul ~ both
sh "a. the child who lay upon her hoto
es and who bore my name. muu wlnnii
IA. his way In tho path NJ life witch unD
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