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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1936.

Charles Dickens.

ATALE OF TWO CITIES

Adapted by

LEBBEUS MITCHELD

Darnay, SYNOPSIS Charles nephew of the Marquis of Evre- monde, returns to Paris from London, during the French Re

the volution, to attempt to rave life of his old tutor murdered, who has already Darnay is imprisoned. His wife, Lucio, her father, Dr. Manette (who had been imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille through the machinations of the Marquis Evremonday do to Paris in an attempt to save Darnay's life. The Revolutionary Tribunal

of

donms him to death,com.

hours before the exceution, Syd- ney Carton, English Advocate in love with note, redeema kis mis- spent life by getting into Dar nay's coll and changing places with him.

CHAPTER XII

from

Kihe

Mauro

Goldwyn- Mayer

PICTURE

she entered quickly, saw Misa Pross, condemned the same day you were." in the act of picking up two packed "Yes," replied Carton, keeping his baga. She turned to hurry down to face turned lest she discover he was the entrance to stop the carriage or but an impersonator. have it followed. But slie was not quick enough. Miss Press interposed her bulky person between Madame Defarge and the door.

no, you don't" she cried,

ordered Madame

lot mo

Defarge Importantive

"Novor

know what you want, and thank heaven I'm put here to stop you, and stop you I will!"

"When I go to the guillotine, may

I ride with you, Citizen Evremonda Will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but am a little wonk She broke off suddenly as Carton's face was revealed to her upturned eyes. After that start of ed, in won- she whispered, astonishment,

der: "You're going to die in his He was your friend?" He motioned to her to say nothing to

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she nocepted the situation. "That woman! You've killed many innocent gives me such courage." she whis people, but my ladybird you'll never pered. Then, if you let me hold

You may be the

your hand, stranger, 1 shall feel touch again!.

| wife of Lucifer, yet you shall not got strong answered Carlon. "I will

man. 1

hold it till the last."

Till the last repeated the girl, and acsmed on the point of break.

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the better of me--I am an English- woman. No, you wicked foreign wo

I am your match." "Pig, get out of my way or I'll break you in pieces!""

"Break away then! I ani a Britoning, down at the picture the words

conjured before her.

Guards came clattering in; exclama- While the foregoing events took I don't care an English tuppenco for 7 Aug. 12 pince in La Force prison, on the myself. I am desperate. The longer tions were heard from the condemned, of the day appointed for I keep you here, the greater hope A woman cried with anguished sobs. The little seamstress stood up, keep- Aug. 24

cution, a small group there is for my ladybird.

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that heart

Madanie Defargo at length got her tumbril to the guillotine. Among It must warm your

and seamstress the years of waiting will end when hand on the butt of the pistol she thom were numbers twenty-two and carried, was attempting to draw It

Erremonde." The Evremonde spits in the sack."

guards deafening report. Cree the "It is not the end," said Madame when there came Defarge, as La Vengeance entered. Madame Defarge looked unutterably hurried them to the door. The exe- surprised, then dropped, slipped from cution was appointed for four o'clock "He is not the last of the blood."

Defergo turned to face his wife. Pross's arms to the floor, a crimean and it was now three of a lowering "You have no quarrel with my old stain on the front of her corsage. afternoon.

Citizens in groups lounged on master and his family. Let thent, Panting, Pross gathered up the bags

and fled. She roached the coach as stops, in the streets, watching the un- slow progress of the tumbril Indif Charles Darnay, muffled, still

to the sight as something customary stondy on his legs, was being helped ferently. They were so accustomed that they made no unusual revolu tionary demonstration. At one halt in Carton car of a their progress.

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"Ile would rescue Evromondo even now!" cried a Jacques, glaring at Defarge.

"Drive! Drive!" she gasped as she climbed into the vehicle. The driver cracked his whip,

"No, not if to lift this hand would to it. But I say: Stop there.""

"Why, stop?" asked the Jacques.

At the Parla gate, a guard looked "You always said, Exterminate.""

"But this case is different. This inside the coach, counted the occu-

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of Barsad standing by a house; they exchanged glances. Bar- nad wan completely changed; his pants, inspected the passport. "Yes. eyes followed Carton as the tumbril saw them!" interrupted the yes," he said. "In order the Citizen cont

amazement, almost under- wood-cutter. "The woman was out-Doctor, Lucle Manette and child, Mr. continued, his face somehow softened banker-yes; Miss Pross, standing of the scene of the preced- Bide with the Doctor making signs is Lorry,

maid; Jerry Cruncher, messengering night in which he had been a the prisoner."

"When?" demanded Masiane De-yce; Sydney Carton, advocate-yes. participant,"

The Englishma scens overcome. Close in front of the guillotine, You can depart, Citizens. A good favory day. In all weathers."

where the crowd was greatest, seat- fed on an equestrian statue which hind Madame Defarge flung down her prisoners in La Force so- been overturned, were La Vengeance,

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the knitting. "I'll go to her now. They'll bo frantic at the death of Evremonde lected to feed the guillotine on that the wood-cutter and

denouncing the justice of the Ro- afternoon had been assembled in a Jacques who frequented the Defarge public and then She quitted the large, gloomy, impressive room in the wine shop.

prison.

La Vengeance looked around tran- room hastily.

"No. 21," said a jailer, ticking off tically as the time drew near for the As Madame Defarge approached number of a sheet of paper, and execution of Evremonde. Tellson's Bank, she saw a coach loaded followed Sydney Carton into the Defarge-why isn't aho here? Where with baggage, standing at the door room. The little seamstress who had can she bo? They'rs up to fifteen with two Englishmen by it. Her been found guilty because her friend, nnd Evremondo will be up soon. suspicions aroused, she moved quickly the countryman, had criticized the His number is twenty-three." into that part of the building con- Revolution, went to him. She was a taining the living quarters. It ap-fragile young woman with wide-open

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