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obstinate still Then as a dernier resort, he tried another bribe--the

glorious one of liberty, the one he kneould conquer me, and it did

He proo out into the

great unknoorld, fetterless and free; and I, O! fool that I was!

consented Not that er

her my prison doors were opened; no, I was not quite so besotted as

that--once out, and the little dees Of course, those demoniac eyes read my heart like an

open book; and when I pronounced the fatal 'yes,' he laughed in that

delightful way of his ohich will probably be the last thing you

will hear when you lay your head under the axe

"I don't knoho the clergyyman: there can be no doubt about that It was three days after,

and for the first time in ht, and open air We drove to the cathedral--for it was in St

Paul's the sacrilege was committed I never could have walked there,

I was so stunned, and giddy, and bewildered I never thought of the

, sun-shiny

world without, till I was led up before the clergy in her sleep He was a very young man, I

remember, and looked froreat state of fear and uncertainty, but evidently not daring to

refuse Margery and one of his gang were our only attendants, and there,

in God's te I

am to-day"