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TWELFTH INSTALMENT His withered figure seemed to have gathered strength and dig~ sity and his appearance and tone, as he gazed scornfully at the girl at his feet, was full of a strange dramatic force, Her heart sank as she listened to him, This was no idle, vulgar passion, no morbid craving for evil, which animated bim, It was a purpose which had became hallowed to him; some- thing which he had come to look upon as his sacred right, She un. derstood how her drawing back might seem to him. * As though a flash of light bead laid bare his mind, she saw how weak how pit. fully weak, any words of hers must sound, so she was silent. He had commenced walking up and down the room; and, watching him fearfully, she saw that his manner was gradually changing, The unnatural calm into which he had momentarily relapsed was leaving him, and he was becoming every moment more and more ex- cited, Fire flashed in his eyes, and he was muttering broken words and sentences to himself. Once he raised his clasped hands to the roof in a threatening gesture, and in the act of doing so she saw the blue flash of a stiletto in his breast pocket. It frightened her, and she moved toward the door. It seemed almost as though he read her purpose {in her terror. help me? Ob you will help me? My Husband is) being murdered there on the cliff by an escaped lunatic. Oh! Leonardo; save him and you may strike me dead at your feet, It'ls I whom you should hate, not him, Oh, come! Come, or it will be too late!" stood quite still, looking at her curiously. ; "And 1t is I to whom you dare to come for help--I whom you ask to save him---your husband? Ad- rienne, do you remember my words on the sands at Palermo?" She wrung her hands, frantically imploring. "How can I remember anything «think of anything, now? For the love of God, help him," she beg- ged, seizing his hand, "That was all so long ago. You would not have him killed here before my eyes? Come! Oh, do come!" "Lead the way," he answered sternly. "Call your loudest for oth- er help. I make no promise, but I will see this tragedy." She ran back slong the path and he followed her. They turned sud- denly an abrupt corner, and came upon two men locked in one an- other's arms. and swaying back- ward and forward upon the short green turf. The lunatic, an Im- mense fellow, more than six feet high, was clutching his opponent's throat with his left hand, while with his righit he brandised a long table-knife with keenly-sharpened "will you promise prmise to keep it THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1929 she asked in a low tone. The man hesitated. : "It 1 do 80," he said doubttully, absolutely secret?" "Yes." " "Well, then, I have told it to no one yet, but I will tell it to you. Many years ago I was a chemist, and among my customers was Court Leonardo di Marion. His history was a very sad one, as doubtless you may have heard. When he was quite a young man he was arrested on some political charge, and imprisoned for five and-twenty years--a cruel 'time. Well, scafcely more than twelve months ago he came to me here, s0 altered that I found it hard indeed to recognize him. Poor old gentleman, when he pad talked for a while, I felt quite sure that his long confinement had affected his mind and his errand with me made me sure of it. He came to buy a celebrated poison which I used at one time to he secretly noted for, and T could tell from his manner that he wanted it for some fatal use, Well, I thought at first of refusing it altogether, but what was the use of that? Some one else would pave sold him an equal- ly powerful poison, and the mis- chief would pe done all the same. So, after a litle consideration, I made up quite an innocent powder, which might cause a little moment- ary faintness, but which could do stricken face, and it maddened him, He caught her by the wrist and thrust her back. "You shall not leave this room, girl!" he cried. "Wait, and soon I will bring you news!" She stood, still panting, over- come for a moment by the strength of his grip. Before she could re- cover herself, he had caught up his hat and was gone. Outside, she heard the sound of a key in the lock. She was a prisoner! Her first thought was the win- dow. Alas! it was too small even for her to get her head through. She cried out. there was no one to answer, She was alone in the cottage, and help- less, and away over the cliffs, to- ward Mallory Grange, she could see a small dark figure walking steadily along, with bent head and swift steps, The cottage stood by itself, a mile from the village, and was approached only by a clit? path. She turned away from the window in despair. It seemed to her then that the time for her final sacrifice hag indeed come. It was a warm drowsy morning, and the air which floated in through the open lattice window was heavy with the Pyfioms of flowers, mingled with the faint ozone, of the sea. Outside, the placid silence was broken only by the murmurous buzzing of insects and the soft lapping of the tide upon the shingly sands, Within the room, a pale-faced girl knelt upon the floor, with her long, slim fingers stretched upward, and the passionate despair of death in her cold, white features. The sun- shine laughed upon her hair, and glanced around her, bathing her beautiful face in its fresh, bright glory, Was it an answer to her prayer, she wondered----her prayer the peace and forgiveness? Ob, that it might be so! God grant it! There was no fear in her face, though only a moment before she had taken out and swallowed the contents of that little packet of poison which had burned her hos- om for those last few ddys, But there had been just one passing shade of bitterness. Her life had been go short, so joyless, until there had come to her that brief taste of wonderful, amazing happiness. She was young to die--to die with the delirium of. that passionate joy still burning in her veins, 'Yet, aftgr all, it is best!" she whispered softly, at the end of that unspoken prayer; and with those words of calm resignation, a change crept softly in upon her face. It seemed almost as though, while yet on earth, there had come to her a touch of that exquisite spiritual beauty which follows only upon the extinction of all earthly passion, and the uplifting into a purer, sweeter life. And her eyes glosed upon the sunlight, and dark- pess stole in upon her senses. She lay quite still upon the floor; but the smile still lingered upon her lips, making her face more lovely sven in its cold repose than' when the glow of youth . and life had shone in her dark, clear eyes, and lent expression to her features. Saints like St. Francis of Assisi may dle thus, but seldom women. "Help! For God's sake, help!" A woman's cry of agony rang out upon the sweet morning still ness. Count Marioni, who had been hurrying on with downcast head, stood still in the cliff path and lift- ed his head, It wag the woman whose memory he had cursed who 'stood before him--the woman on whom his vengeance was to fall. Her face was as white as his own, and in the swiftness of her flight her hat had fallen away and - her hair was streaming in the breeze. Yet in that moment of her awful fear she recognized him, and shrank back trembling, as though some unseen hand had palsied hee tongue, and laid a cold weight upon her heart. They stood face to face, breathless and speechless. A host of forgotten sensations, kindled by her appearance, had leaped *up with the Sicilian's heart, He bad indeed loved this woman. woman, "Merciful God! to meet you pere," she falered. "You will No one answered; ' Leonardi di Marioni C omes to the Rescue edge. The struggle was virtually over. The madman's strength was more than human, and despderate- 1y though he had struggled, Lord St. Maurice was lying exhausted and overcome in hig arms. With a final effort he turned his head at the sound of footsteps, and saw them come--his wife and this shrunken little man. But close at hand though they were, nothing could help him now. He saw the steel flashing in the cunlight, and he closed his eyes. The knife descended, but Lord St. Maurice remained unhurt. With a swiftness which seemed almost incredible, the Sicilian had sprung between them, ahd the knife was quivering in his side. Behind, the lunatic was struggling helplessly in the grasp of three keepers. There was a wild cry of horror from Lady St, Maurice a choking gasp of relief from her husband, and a horrid chuckle of triumph from the madman as he gazed up- on his handiwork, But after that there was silence--a deep, awe- stricken silence---the silence of those who stand in the presence ot death, Count Marion! lay on the turt where he had sunk, very white and very still, with the blood drop- ping slowly from his wound upon the grass, and hig eyes closed. At first they thought that he was al- ready dead; but, as though aroused by Lady St. Maurice's broken sobs, he opened his eyes and looked up. His lips moved, and she stooped low down to catch the sound. "Will you tell Margharita that this was best?" he faltered. *'I have heard a whisper from over the sea, and---anq the White Hyacinth for. gives, I forgive. She will under. stand, "Léonardo," she sobbed, 'your vengeance--"' He interrupted her. "This {s my vengeance!" he said. "I have kept my oath!" Then he closed his eyes, and a gray shade stole Into his pallid face. A breeze sprung up from the sea, and the tall, blood-red poppies, which stood up all around him like a regiment of soldiers, bent their quirering heads till one or two of them actually touched his cheek. He aid not move; he was dead. Lord anq Lady Lumley had ling- ered long in Rome, and now, on the eve of their departure, they had spent nearly the whole of a bright November afternoon buying curios of a wizened old dealer, whose shop they had found in one of the dark narrow streets at the back of the Piazzo Angelo. Lady Lumley had taken up a curious old ring, and was examining it with a vague of sense of familiarity. "Ten pounds for that ring, my lady," the curio dealer remarked. "apd it has a history. You will see that it bears the arms and the motto of the Marionis, once 'the most powerful family in Sieily. I had it from the late Count him- self." i Lady Lumley sank {nto the little chair by the counter, holding the ting tightly in her hand. "Will you tell us the history?" '| swept over the park as the service no further harm, and I gave it to im as the real thing. I couldn't thke money for dong a thing like that, s0 he pressed this ring upon me. You see, it really has a hist. ory." Lord Lumley took his wife's hand and presed it tenderly. In the deep gloom of the shop the curio dealer could not see the tears which glistened in her dark eyes, "We will have the ring!" Lord Lumley said taking a note from his pocket-book and handing it across the counter, The man held it up to the light. "One hundred pounds," he re- marked. "I ghall owe your lord- ship ninety." Lord Lumley shook his head. "No, Signor Paschull, you owe me nothing; it is I who owe you a wife. Come, Margharita, let us get out into the sunshine again," And Signor Paschull kept the note. But he has come to the con. clusion that all Englishmen travel ing on their honeymoon are mad BURY BITTERNESS SCOUT JAMBOREE German Youths Unite With Those of Former Enemy Nations Arrowe Park, Eng, Aug. 7.--War bitterness was buried in striking fashion on this anniversary of the outbreak of the world war, when Ger man boy scouts stood with their Eng- lish, French and Belgian comrades and with boys of many other nations in a great international thanksgiving service, . This younger generation of nations which had fought each other came together Sunday in friendship and co-operation for the advancement of mankind and civilization. There were 30,000 scouts, representing al- most every faith and every nation- ality at the service, and it seemed that only the strongest bonds of comradeship could have induced them to stand exposed to the deluge which ended. The Archbishop of Canterbury, rob- cd in purple and scarlet, conducted the service from the royal box, and by his side stood Baron Baden-Powell who dreamed this dream of universal brotherhood 21 years ago. The archbiship in his address al- luded to this when he said: "To-day behold this dreamer cometh, and he comes not alone, but with the com- radeship of nearly 2,000,000 boys be- longing to 41 countries; his dream has become the world's reality" Not far vay on the recreation ground Cardinal Bourne conducted a high mass for the Catholic scouts which had its thrilling climax when the throng stood bareheaded with up- raised hands in a deluge of rain and gave the scout promise to do their best. They say the wrist watch was invented by a Scotchman who wu- Shrine sacrificed to Soviet war on religion. Shrine of the Iberian Virgin, Moscow most famous reli- gious spot in Russia, = demolished recently in sensational blow struck by Soviets in war against religion before communist anti-war day. This venerated edifice contained a copy of an Tkon of the Iberian Mother of God, brought from Mount Athos in 1648 and consider ed a special miraculous efficacy, TODAY'S LIST OF AUTO ACCIDENTS FOUR CHILDREN KILLED Lake Odessa, Mich, Aug. 7-- Four children of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Johnson of this village were instantly killed yesterday afternoon when their automobile, driven by one of their number, a 12-year-old boy, was struck by a Pere Mar- quette passenger train at a crossing here, MOTORCYCLIST HURT Galt, Aug. 7--When he lost con- trol of his motorcyclist and it jump- ed the curb, struck against the cor- ner of a house and pitched over a fence, John Stauffor, 20, of Dundas street, suffered a compound fracture of his leg and scvere cuts. He was rushed to the hospital where it is reported his condition is serious. There is some fear about saving his leg. TRUCK HITS CHILD Hamilton, Aug. 7--Run down by a heavy truck when she attempted to take a piece of ice, Rosie Francisco of 85 Barton street west, aged eioht, was - fatally injured late yesterday afternoon at Barton and lay streets, a short distance from her home. Driving a truck owned by the Sil- verwood-Burke dairy, Geo. Devall of 373 Mary street, stopped at the corner to deliver ice cream. He started the machine away, unaware that thelittle girl was on the other side. She was thrown to the road- way and a rear wheel passed over her body. When picked up she was in a dying condition. A passing motorist rushed her to the General hospital, but she died of internal in- FAMOUS BANDITS TENDER NURSE Kingston Doctor Hails 'Red' Ryan as Finest of Orderlies i, i -- b aa Toronto, | Aug. 6.~An emacidted figure of 'a man lay on a prison cot. His eyes had sunken in his wan face. A wreck, a shadow of humanity, His nurse came in, an orderly in rison stay. He was big and red- aired. ith gentle bands he lifted the shrunken form and changed the linen on the bed, » Soothingly he bathed the thin face, The doctor said: "You see that orderly? He's a prince of a chap, one of the finest orderlies here. He's Red Ryan, the once famous bandit." This is an incident that Rev. W. McIlroy, executive secretary of the Citizens' Service association of, Can- ada witnessed at Kingston peniten- tiary last 'week and described yes- terday at a luncheon of the West Toronto Kiwanis Club in the Palais Royale, . "Here is a man whose gifts were just misused," Mr, Mcllroy comment- ed. "Since this man, who is perhaps the most picturesque criminal in America, has been in Kingston he has invented a lock for mail bags that has marked him as a genius. There are many such men in prisons who become fine citizens when they are released and re-established. . "Men who are in Kingston peniten- tiary represent not only their own er- rors but the weaknesses of all man- kind," he continued, "and until our citizenship is strengthened in its weakest link we cannot hope to pro- duce the finest standard of men and of life." The association of which Rev. Mc- Ilroy is secretary has been organized to rehabilitate released prisoners mn society. In the province of Ontario, Mr. Mcllroy stated, there were 2,350 persons discharged from prisons an- nually, "Our association js trying to give these people a chance to get back in civil life. Since it began last May we have plaged over 200 men, only two of whom proved to be 'duds' One of these latter was a dope addict. It is very hard to do anything for those who have the drug habit. In fact, if ever a man seems to lost the grace of God it is the dope man. And I urge any of you who know anyone who is playing with drugs to do your best to hel hump break away." Society has advanced in its attitude toward crime beyond mere punish- ment and suppression to prevention, he pointed out. The futility of fear as a deterrent to crime was shown hundreds of years ago in the reign of Henry VIII, although the population of Britain was small, 70,000 executions took place. "Surely if capital pun- ishment served as a deterrent it would have heen effective then. It juries in a very short time, never regaining consciousness. merely showed, however than when A com ed the building A building was once madé up al- most entirely of wood and stone; to- day. it is made up of a great diversity of materials. ; A few years ago, in order to serve sary that a dealer be conversant in a very general way with his two ducts; but to-day he must be thor- oughly familiar with all the latest de- tails of construction and construction materials. Furthermore he must be in a position with ample finances and ample stocks of the physical themselves, to serve this field. In the term of one short year, the Oshawa Lumber Company has won the confidence of the public of this community <---- unmistakably -- simply because it has offered more in value and in service. Our constant endeavour crease that value and service, to enhance the public confidence, Oshawa Lumber COMPANY, LIMITED 25 Ritson Road North TELEPHONE 2821.2820 field, it was only neces- ro- commodities is to in- and the government holds life cheap, so do people." Blames Society for Crime "Crime is the result of a selfish in- dividualistic society, and prevention can only be effected by sgrentghening our 'power of resistance to criminal impulse. The root of all crime is the individualistic impulse that expresses itself in every man for himself and the desire to get instead of to give. This is the bane of our society. Chil- dren are sent to school not to learn, but so that they can make a better living; men engage in business not to be of service to humanity, but to carn larger profits. Everyone's object is not service, but gain, This creates an atmosphere in which crime thrives. In this sense society pepares the crimes which men commit. 'The law of service is crime's only cure." Ontario is the only province which maintains a parole board; 40 per cent of released prisoners are under its care, Mr. llroy stated. The other provinces exercise executive clemen- cy thiough the attorney-general's de- partments. The attorney-general of Manitoba who visited the penal in- stitutions of Ontario last week. was much impressed by the system in this province, Mr. McIlroy commented, and that e hexpressed the intention of modelling the new penal institu- tion in Winnipeg along similar lines to Guelph reformatory. In Mani- toba magistrates had legal as well as social training before they were al- lowed to sit on the bench, he said, and he expressed the hope that the time would come when these quali- fications were demanded in Ontario. 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