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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1037.

The

Original TOUGH

GUY

by

F. G. H. Salusbury

HE only thing in which our hearts take concern nowadays, as the Afth of November. comes round, is the appeal by children' 011 behalf of "the guy"-- usually a small, long-suffering brother with blackened face, pushed along in a soap-box on wheels. But behind it all, far- behind it, is a story of the right. thrilling kind, complete with an unsolved Mystery.

Please to remember, when King James

his succeeded

distant cousin Elizabeth on the throne, that Catholles were only a little more popular with the English

Parliament than Communists and Jews are with the Nazis. Remem- ber also that English Catholics had had reason to look to James for some great betterment in their lot, some considerable lessening of the pains

enacted and Denalties against them: and that such bet- terment did not result. Plense to

remember, too, that there was talk

of the King of Spain plotting with of England. English Catholies for an invasion

then, by

and fall not to give it into his hands only."

Lord Monteagle, puzzled by the breathless footman's story, broko the scal and read ES follows:

"My lord out of the toue bear to

have a care for some of your frionita, your preservation: Therefore, I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise aome cxcuss, to shift of your attendance at this parliament. "For God und man have concurred to punish the nickedness of this time.

And think not lightly of this ad. vertisement, but retire yourself to your country, where you may expect the ceent in safety. For, though there be no appearance of any stir, yet I acp, they shall receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them,

"This counsel is not lo de cor. demned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm, for the danger i pust so soon as you have burnt the letter; and I hope God wi glue you graze to make good use of it; to whose help protection 1-commerd you."

Lord, Monteagle wrinkled his brows. He

sideways Klanced about the room. A terrible blow 18 That was this parliament. treason! Indeed, there could be none worse, for the King and the Queen and Prince Henry would certainly be there to share the

Santique prejudices. blow.

Lord Monteagle.

0 Catholic

LESSON IN EVASION] Hope dies hard. But from the speeches at the opening of the Brussels Conference China. and the friends of the ideal of collective security, can glean little encouragement. True, as the Belgian chairman, Paul

hatreds, and bigotrics, Spaak, pointed out, the confer- we may take a dive backwards ence was not. to consider itself Into the past, and come to the an international tribunal before surface on the fateful night of

October 20, 1805. which Japan should be sum- moned to appear. At the same time, something more than re- -petition-of-the-purpose-of--the meeting might have been ex- pected. Perhaps in its secret sessions the conclave Thay accomplish something. But it seems to be admitted among the delegates that the result of the early deliberations is disappoint Ing even to them. Yet they are the only persons who might have contributed something construc- tive.

Without being unjust lo the' representatives of the powers, who have their orders and are bound by the instructions their governments, it would seem that such a conference as

of

this needs firm, courageous

leadership. And at the mo-

ment, and without detailed

赴

nobleman, was waiting for supper in his London lodgings, very snug by-the fire,-and-thinking. Idly of the assembling of Parliament in ten days' time. He had sent his. footman across the street on an errand.

The footman, returning, nearly Jumped out of his livery at being tapped on the shoulder by a man whom he could only describe afterwards as

a reasonable tall

perconage."

"Fellow," said the personage, "I wish you no harm. Take this letter to his lordship your master:

King James was away hunting at Royston. All affairs of State were in the hands of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, and to him, on a matter of great urgency, Montengle was admitted, and handed the letter.

A

Nastute man, was Lord

Sallsbury, and unscru- pulous in his duty. His small stature. combined with an unrivalled nose for conspiracies, had earned him the nickname of "little beagle" from the King. The Beagle was now hot on a scent. But did he know already where it would take him? Was the Monteagle letter concocted to cover the real source of the be-

Guldo Fawkes and friends 'alarmed at. their work by the -removing of coals from the cellar next door in which they eventually planted their powder

trayal? No one will ever know. Balisbury embraced Monteagle. "My dear lord," he said," you have deserved well of his majesty and this realm.”

Wo.may now go back to 1603, the first year of King James' reign, when Robert Catesby` con- erlved the idea of blowing King and Parliament sky-high

with gunpowder, and connded it 10 Thomas Winter. Other supporters were got and sworn to secrecy, in- cluding Guy Fawkes, an English soldier of fortune, whom Winter brought from Ostend. All were. disaffected

labouring Catholles, under a sense of persecution. Their chief, and the most fanatical of them, was Caterby,

* ☆

N 1004, a house was hired by Thomas Percy, adjoining the Parlia ment building, and the conspire- tors began to burrow through the foundations to lay their mine of gunpowder, The wall was three yards, thick: The work was hard. Suddenly they had a stroke of luck.

As they were working on the wall" said Fawkes in his deposi- tion afterwards, they heard a rushing in a cellar, of removing of coals; whereupon we feared we' had been discovered; and they sent me (who had stood sentinel) to go to the cellar."

He found that the cellar was not only directly under the Houses of Parliament, but was to be let. They Immediately hired it from-of all people-Whyneare, Keeper of the Wardrobe, and moved in' with their thirty-six barrels of gun-

Beggars Who "Pitch the Tale”

get a shilling or two more towards told no long, claborate tale, and heher railway fare. It is believed that knowledge of the discussion, it WHY work when you can get a good

living by just asking for It? A asked for but a penny, without even she does very well out of it, for she' would seem that leadership.was City business man was surprised one specifying what he needed it for.

day when a well-dressed person came conspicuously lacking.

up to him in Throgmorton Street and

M. Spank was only the chair-with a charming smile asked him.

coin

is still neat and tidy, and respectably dressed in black.

powder. They placed stones and Iron bars on the powder, hid all beneath a pile of wood, and, in May, 1005, dispersed to welt, leav- ing Fawkes, who was to fro the mine with a slow match, as care- taker.

Meanwhile Bir Everard Digby had arranged to start an Insurrec- tion in Warwickshire on Novem- ber 5, when Parliament should have been blown up; and either Prince Charles (Charles I) or his sister, Princess Elizabeth, was to be kidnapped and proclaimed sovereign. Prince Henry, the eldest son (who died before his father) would have been killed with the King and Queen.

And now King James returns from hunting, and his "little beagle” shows. him the Monteagle letter.

Every- thing. saya the King, must be done

But cautiously and circumspectly. first-the letter with Its curious phrases" terriblo blow" and "the danger is past so soon as you have burnt the letter." Ah! he has it--has he not, Beagle?-it must mean danger that strikes quickly, not one- that is past so soon as Monteagle shall burn his warning, "for that was likely to be the saying of a fool." No.. here is no foolishner That kind of danter._.combined with a "terrible.

blow

a

...what could that be but" danger from an explosion of gune powder?

T

* *

"HE Beagle and the other lords almost

swooned from admira- tion of the royal perspicacity: a prince of wisdom, indeed! But was t all so clever? Was it, perhaps, a game of make-believe that has been handed down to u97 Were James and the Beagle already aware of the plot? That has been suggested.

First an elaborately casual inspec tion of the Parliament bulding was nade by the Eart of Suffolk and Lord Monteagle. They found a cellar, a pile of wood, and a man who said he was Mr. Percy's servant Mr. Percy, eh? Why, Percy was notorious for hl backwardness in the Protestant religion, Their suspicions strength- ened.

That Was

00

the afternoon of

November 4. Then the Beagle recom mended action; and, in the early hours of November 5, Sir Thomas Knevett swooped on the cellar with a guard. She must be a connection of the

arrested Fawkes, who was lounging at woman who was in the habit of stop-: the entrance, and uncovered the man, and the representative of for "Be it that the well-dressed who infest the streets of large cities the

Just a humble copper

Others of the tribe of mendicants plug benevolent-looking people in barrels of gunpowder. a smaller power. It could not com was

streets of Bayswater. Shei The other conspirators were chased, stranger requested; and the business have their own heart-rending stories urgently needed a shilling or so to some of tiem killed and some caught be expected that he would do man, thinking that perhaps he need ready to spin to anybody gulleless help her to get to Suffolk, where she for trial, Tresham, who may have very much in the matter of lead-ed a bus fare, readily parted with enough to stop and listen

thera.

had two little boys in an orphanage.; sent the letter to Monteagle, died in ing discussion. But what hela penny.

For years an elderly lady in re- The matter was urgent, for she had' the Tower. did do, in effect, was to warn He afterwards learnt that the man spectable black haunted Victoria had a letter that very morning, sny- to Winter at Holbeach House, on the his colleagues against offending who was got up in orthodox "City" Station, London, trying to make up ing that one of her sons was very Japan and putting her in n light style, with black coat, striped trou- the fare to enable her to see her dy dangerously ill, and calling for his, bordern of Staffordshire, "and we

sers, and spats-was in the habit of ing daughter somewhere down in a mother. "incompatible with her dignity stopping people in the neighbourhood remote part of the country.

This impostor made a bad slip at That and honour." There is a strong of Throgmorton Street and asking

daughter, like Charles 11, least once in her nefarious career. must be "an unconscionable time dy Sho succeeded in extracting a shilling section of public opinion which them for pennies.

The very simplicity of the dodge ing," for when last seen the anxious from a lady one afternoon. A week will feel that that sort of flabby ensured its success. The Impostor mother was still patiently. 'trying to later this same lady wan walking conduct is undesirable. . Soft

with her sister, when the "distracted mother came up and accosted the Iatter, with of course, the same story.

words and an attempt to sugar

"We their respective countries

to her heels and ran..

Btand by me, Tom," said Catesby

will die together."

Bir." said Winter, "I have lost the use of my right arm, and I fear that will cause me to be taken.“

Taken he was, but Catesby and.. Percy were shot with one bullet

OBERT WINTER, Sir John Everard Digby,

Grant and Thomas Bates were executed on January

30, 1600, at the West end of Paul's Church" ends, the report of their trials" and on the Friday following. Thomas Winter, Ambrose Bookwood, Robert Keyes, and Guy Fawkar, within the old Palace Yard, at Westminster. not far from the Parliament House.” Henry Garnet, Superior of the Jesults in England, who was alleged to be privy to the plot, was hanged outside Bt. Paul's on May 3.

the pill, so to speak, cannot are the concern of all,

•RE the The victim of the previous week step- serve any useful purpose in a expect to join with other nations expense of their fares and to ned forward and revealed herself, case of the kind where action in urging upon Japan and Chim have addressed their pleas In- when the "tale pltcher" at once took under the Nine-Power Pact that they resort to peaceful pur-dividually to the Governments is contemplated.

posca." Thus Mr. Davis of the concerned in the Far East hos- M. Spaak, no doubt, was ex-United States.

tilities.

These mendiconts always have the pecting something a little more

Late yesterday it was learned same story to tell, and never vary it. Following Mr. Davis, came formidable in the way of

Mr. Eden of Great Britain, the from London that Mr. Eden was Why should they, when it serves its the representa- speeches from tives of the major powers. power which Japan has accused trying to "salvage" the confer- turn over and over again with dif-

Apparently the delegates ferent audiences?

The people with dying offspring in Like a sensible man he was do- of openly assisting China. "We ence. ing his obvious duty as a chair-hope that with the least possible were dispirited. They could see various parts of the country are al- man. He urged azullon. And delay the conference will resolve no prospect of reaching the ear ways women. Men have a different the speakers, for all that they itself into a working committee of the Japanese Government, technique. A young man who haunt

at night always opened by asking the delivered, might have taken his to get to grips with the task." which has announced that it ed the vicinity of Holland Park late

Mr. Davis had will have no truck with

the prospective victim if he spoke French. words to heart. They solemnly What task? said nothing."The longer hos said a few minutes before that Brussels parley. And how can Whether he did or not, the young tilities Inst the harder it will be they intended to join in urging a conference plead for reason man was a Frenchman stranded in The resort to peaceful purposes." and a peaceful settlement from London, and anxious to reach the French Embassy, where his Ambar- to find a settlement... United States is prepared to If that is the ultimate aim of Brussels when Tokyo does not sador would applet. Amb

the delegates to Brussels they choose to hear? Certainly not land Park to Knightsbridge is a very share in common efforts".

(Continued on Page 5.) The hostilities in the Far East had much better have saved by speaking softly.

King James returned to his hunting. The Beagle resumed his statecraft- hundreds of years ago. And for hun. dreds more, I suppose, we will be en treated to "apore a penny for the guy."

-To-day's Thought

foot to admira him.

A FOOL always Ands a bigger.

-BOILEAU.