The great war in England in 1897 . gravelled square. The bare, black branches of the stuntedtrees creaked and groaned, and the lonely sentry standing atease before his box rubbed his hands and shivered. Suddenly a side door opened, and there emerged a smallprocession. Slowly there walked in front a clergyman bare-headed, reciting with solemn intonation the Burial him, with unsteady step and bent shoulders, a tremb-ling man with blanched, haggard face, and a wild look of terrorin his dark, deep-sunken eyes. He wore a shabby morning-coattightly buttoned, and his hands in bracelets
The great war in England in 1897 . gravelled square. The bare, black branches of the stuntedtrees creaked and groaned, and the lonely sentry standing atease before his box rubbed his hands and shivered. Suddenly a side door opened, and there emerged a smallprocession. Slowly there walked in front a clergyman bare-headed, reciting with solemn intonation the Burial him, with unsteady step and bent shoulders, a tremb-ling man with blanched, haggard face, and a wild look of terrorin his dark, deep-sunken eyes. He wore a shabby morning-coattightly buttoned, and his hands in bracelets of steel werebehind his back. Glancing furtively around at the grey dismal landscape, heshuddered. Beside and behind him soldiers tramped on in officers sword grated along the a word of command caused them to halt againsta wall, and a sergeant, stepping forward, took a handkerchiefand tied it over the eyes of the quivering culprit, who nowstood with his back against the wall. Another word from the 328. EXECUTIOX OF VOX BEILSTEIX OS THE HOUSE GUARDS* PARADE. Dawn 329 officer, and the party receded some distance, leaving the manalone. The monotonous nasal utterances of the chaplain stillsounded as four privates advanced, and, halting, stood in singlerank before the prisoner. They raised their rifles. There was a momentary the distance a dog howled dismally. A sharp word of command broke tlie quiet. Then, a second later, as four rifles rang out simultaneously,the condemned man tottered forward and fell heavily on thegravel, shot through the heart. It was the spy and murderer, Karl von Beilstein ! He had been brought from Glasgow to London in orderthat certain information might be elicited from him, and afterhis actions had been thoroughly investigated by a militarycourt, he had been sentenced to death. The whole of his pastwas revealed by his valet Grevel, and it was proved that, inaddition to bringing the great dis;ister upon England, he hada
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