New Britain herald., 1924-03-05
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| ing as Heayen-sent leaned forward
 in frentied fear tha, the trap va.
 about 10 close upon her.
 s"Hs lies. He lies" she shrieked Tn her terror. Tt is false: I have not the plague. have not tht
 plague. swear it: Do not heed | rim, sirs, Do not heed him, De, i lived me from these villains. Oh. ot ycur charity. sirs ir God,
 name do not abandon me, or I am lost woman else."
 The" stood at gaze, moved by hei riteogs cries, yet hesitating what tc believe. Holes addressed them
 speaking sadly: she is distraught poor soul. De mented. am her husband, sirs, and
 she fancits mo an enemy I am told Ut Is a common enough state in those upon whom this terrible disease has
 fastened" T. vas truth of which all London was aware by now tha, the onslaught of the plague vas com
 monty attended by arrangement of the mind and odd delusions. And Tor your governance, sirs, should tell you that I greatly fear I am, my self, alread" infected. beg you, then. not to detain me. hut 10 stand aside os that VIC may regain our home before my strength Is spent"
 Behind him Miss rarauharson con tinued to scream her furious denials and her piteous entreatries that they should deliver her.
 If they still doubted. yet they dared not put their doubts to the test.
 Aghast, spent by her effort, Miss Farquharson sank back with a moan, feeling herself exhausted and aban- doned. But when one Of the chair men, in obedience 10 an order from the Colonel, pulled the apron open. she at once ieaped up and out, and would have gone speeding thence but that the other bearer caught her about her slender body. and held her firmly whilst his fellow wound now about her head a long scarf which Holles had tossed him for the pur- pose. That done, they made fast her hands behind her with handker- chief, thrust her back into the chair, and shut her in.
 On it went, then away to the left and up the steep gradient Of Pau's Chains, and lastly to the right into Knight Ryder Street. Before q sub stantial house on the north side Of this. between Paul's Chains and Ser mon Lane, the chair came 10 a final standstill and vas set down. The root was raised and the apron pulled open, and hands seized upon her to draw her forth. She hung back, s dead weight, in last futile attempt at resistance. Then she felt herself bodily lifted in strong arms and swung to a mans shoulder.
 Thus Holles bore her into the house. wherein the chair, tne poles entity bestowed. The Colonel turned 10 the right Of the roomy hall in which tr'o silent figures stood at at- ention-Buckingham other two French iackeys-and entered a mode ratc-sized square chamber, somberly furnished and somberly msinscoted from bare floor to whitened ceiling. In the middle of the room a table with massive corkscrew legs was laid for supper, and on it's polished sur. face crystal and silver in the light from the great candle-branch that occupied it's middle. Tho long win. dow overlooking the street was close the shutters barred. Under this stood a daybed Of cane and carved oak, furnished with velvet cushions Of dull wine color. To this daybed Holles conveyed his bur den. Having set her down. he stopped 10 remove the handkerchief that pound her wrists.
 Tt was a compassionate act, for he knew that the pinioning must be causing pain by now to her arms. Under the broad brim of his hat. his face, moist from his excrtions, Eltamed white. his lips were tightly Hitherto intent upon the accomplishment of the business as he had planned it. hc had given little thought 10 it's ugly nature. Now suddenly as he bent over this figure. at once 50 graceful. so delicate and frail. as g faint sweet perfume that she used assailed his nostrils convey ing to his senses suggestion Of her daintiness and femininity. disgust of tne thing he did overwhelmed him, like pnysicai nausea.
 He turned awas. 10 ciosc the door. tossing aside his hat and cloak. and his brow as he went, for the sweat was running down him like basting on a capon. Whilst he vas crossing the room she struggled to her feet, and her hands being now at liberty she tugged and tore at the scarf until she ioosed it so that il slipped down from her face and hung in folds about her neck and shoulders above the line of her iou-cut modish bodice.
 He closed the door and turned a gain. to face her. He attempted to smother in smile the hangdog ex- precision Of his countenance.
 "CnIess you suffer me 10 depart at once. you shall
 There she paused. Hoarac and tense came iIcr voice st last:
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