San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-14

coaches, sedan-chairs, and vast mob
on foot. All here were come upon
the same errand as himself; to pro-
cure. the Lord Mayors certificate of
health that should enable them to
escape from thi sstricken city.
Most of the day he waited in that
throng, enduring the Sitting heat
and the pangs of hunger and thirst.
For the only hawkers moving in the
crowd were vendors of preventive
plague. Instead of the cry of
Sweet oranges" which in normal
times would have been heard in such
a gathering, and which he would
now have welcomed. here the only
cries were: "Infalible Preservativc
Against Infection" "The Royal An
tidote." Sovereign Cordial Against
the Corruption Of the Air." and the
like.
He could i'll afford to purchase the
favor of the ushers and bride them
into according him some precedence.
He must wait and take his turn with
the humblest there. and as he had
arrived late, his turn did not seem
likely to come that day at all.
Toward evening he departed empty
handed and disgruntled. Yet within
the hour he was to realize that per-
haps he had been better served by
Fate than he suspected.
In sparsely tenated eating house
in Cheapside. where he sought TO stay
the pangs of thirst and hunger-for
he had neither eaten nor drunk since
early mOrning-he overheard some
scraps of conversation between two
citizens at a neighboring table. They
were discussing an arrest tnat had
been made that day. and in the course
of this they let fall the words which
gave pause TO Colonel HOLES.
"But how was he taken? How
discovered ?'sone of them asked.
"Why. at the Guildhall. when he
sought certificate of health that
should enable him to leave town. l
tell you it's none so easy to leave
London nowadays, as evil-doers are
finding when they attempt it. Sooner
or later they'll get Danvers for this
way. They're on the watch for him.
aye. and for Others. too
Colonel HOLES pushed away his plat
ter. his appetite suddenly dead. He
was in a trap, it seemed and it had
needed those words overheard by
chance to make him realize it. To
attempt flight was but TO court dis
covery. True. it might be possible to
obtain certificate Of health in false
name. But. on the other hand. it
might not. There must be inQuisition
into a persons immediate antecedents
il only TO verify that he was clean OF
injector and this inquisition must
speedily bring to light any prevarica-
ton or assumption of false identity.
And so he was on the horns of n
dilemma. If he remained in London.
sooner or later he would be run 10
earth by those who sought him. who
would be seeking him more relentlessly
than ever now. after his man-handling
Of those messengers OF the law last
night If he attempted to go, he de-
livered himself up to justice by the
very act.
He determined. after much gloomy
cogitatiOn. 10 seek the protection of
Albemarle in this desperate pass, and
with that intent went forth. He per-
sisted in it until he reached Charing
Cross. when n doubt assaulted him.
What if Albemarle should refuse to
take the risk of believing his inno-
cencn. considering the nature of the al
legged 'offense? He finally determined
that first he would make one last at
tcmpt TO move the Duke of Bucking-
ham.