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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1937.

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

The

Original TOUGH

GUY

by

F. G. H. Salusbury

T

HE only thing in which cur hearts take concern nowadays, as the nith

of November comes round, the appeal by children on 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, complese with an unsolved Mystery,

Please to remember, when King James succeeded hiy distant cousin Elizabeth on the throne, that Catholics 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 considerabic lesseuing of the pains and penaltics enacted against them: and that such bel- remember, too, that there was talk terment did not result, Flense to

of the King of Spain plotting with

English Catholics for an invasion

of England.

☆☆

URROUNDED, then, by antique prejudices, hatreds, and bigotrics,

Spauk, 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 which Japan should be sum-

October 26, 1005.

Lord Monteagle. n Catholic moned to appear. At the same nobleman, was waiting for supper time, something more than re-in his London lodgings, very snug petition of the purpose of the by the fire, and thinking idly of meeting might have been ex- the assembling of Parlament in pected. Perhaps in its secret ten days' time. He had sent his footman across the street. on an sessions the

may errand.

conclave

accomplish something. But it The footman, returning, nearly seems to be admitted among the fumped out of his livery at being delegates that the result of the tapped on the shoulder by a man early deliberations is disappoint- whom he could only describe ing even to them. Yet they are the only persons who might have contributed something construc- tive.

Without being unjust to the representatives of the powers, who have their orders and are bound by the instructions of their governmente, it would seem that such a conference as this needs firm, courageous; leadership. And at the mo- ment, and without a detailed

afterwards as "a reasonable tall personnge."

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

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

Lord Montonglo, puzzled by the breathless footman's story. broke the seal and read as follows:-

“My lord: out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care for your preservation: Therefore, I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devisc. some excuse, to shift of vour For attendance at this parliament. Gou and man que concurred 10 punish the wickedness of this time.

"And think not lightly of this ad- vertisement, but retire pourself into your country, where you may espect the event in safety. For, though there be no appearance of any stir, yet I say, they shalt receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not sce who hurts them.

"This counsel is not to be con- demned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm, for the Hanger to past so soon as you have burnt the letter; and I hope God will olre you race to make good use of it; to whose foły protection I comment

you,"

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his

Lord Monteagle wrinkled brows. He

ntdownys glanced about the room. "A terrible blow this parliament.

That was treason Indeed, there could be none worse, for the King and the Queen and Prince Henry would certainly be there to share the blow.

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, Monteagle was admitted, and handed the jetter.

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N'astute man, was Lord Salisbury, and unscru- pulous in his duty. His small stature, combined with an unrivalled nose for conspiracles, had earned him the nickname of "little beagle" from the King. The Beagle was now het on n scent.

But did he know already where it would take him? Was the Monicagle letter concocted to cover the real source of the be-

Guido Fawkes and friends alarmet 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. Salisbury embraced Monteagle. My dear lord," he said, " you bavo deserved well of his majesty and this realm."

We may now go back to 1003, Llic first year of King James' reign, when Robert Catesby con- ceived the idea of blowing King and

Parliament sky-high with. gunpowder, and tonfided it to Thomas Winter. Other supporters were got and sworn to secrecy; in- cluding Duy Fawkes, an English soldier of fortune, whom Winter brought from Ostend. All were disaffected Catholics, labouring under a БСПЅС Ol persecution. Their chicl, and the most fanatical of them, was Catesby.

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powder. They placed stones and iron bars on the powder, hid all beneath a pile of wood, and, in May, 1005, dispersed to wait, leav- ing Fawkes, who was to fire the mins 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 alater. Princess Elizabeth, was to be kidnapped and proclaimed sovereign.

the Prince Henry, eldest son (who died before his father) would have been killed with the King and Queen.

And now King James retums from hunting, and his “ittle bengle "* shows Every- him the Monteagle letter. thing, says the King, must be done cautiously and circumspectly. But first-the letter with

curious phrases" lerrible blow" And "the- danger is past so soon as you have burrit the letter.". Ahi họ has it has lie not, Beagle?—it must mean danger that strikes quickly, not one that in past so soon as Monteagle- shall burn his warning, "for that was likely to be the saying of a fool." No. "As they were working on the

here is no foolfaliness! That kind of wall," said Fawkes in his deposi

danger, combined with a "terrible tion afterwards, they heard a blow ...what could that be but "rushing In à cellar, of removing of ̈danger from aricaplosion" of "guine"

powder? coals; whereupon we feared we had been discovered; and they sent me (who had stood sentinel) to go to the cellar."

N 1004, 'n house Wis hired by Thomas Percy, adjoining the Parila- માન ment building, and the conspira- 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.

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

Beggars Who "Pitch the Tale"

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HE Beaglo and the other lords almost

swooned from admira- tion of the royal perspicacity: n prince of wisdom, indeed! But was it all so clover? Was it, perhaps, a game of make-belleve that has been landed down to us7 Ware James and the Beagle already aware of the plot? That has been suggested,

knowledge of the discussion. it WHY work when you can get a go told no long, elaborate tale, and heher railway, fare, It is believed that November 4. Then the Beagle recom-

get a shilling or two more towards she does very well out of it, for she is still neat and tidy, and respectably dressed in binck.

Firat an elaborately casual inspec tion of the Parliament building was made by the Earl of Suffolk and Lord Monteagle. They found a cellar, a ple of wood, and a man who said he was Mr. Percy's servant. Mr. Percy.. eh? Why, Percy was notorious for his backwardness in the Protestant religion, Their suspicions strength- ened.

That was ou the afternoon of living by just asking for it? A asked for but a penny, without even would seem that leadership was City business man was surprised one specifying what he needed it for,

mended action; and, in the early hours day when a well-dressed person come

of November G. Bir Thomas Knevett conspicuously lacking.

up to him in Throgmorten Street and)

swooped on the cellar with guard, M. Spaak was only the chair-with a charming smalle

She must be a connection of the asked him

arrested Fawkes, who was lounging at Just man, and the representative of for a peuny,

the entrance, woman who was in the habit of slop-

and uncovered the humble copper Others of the tribe of mendicents ping benevolent-looking people in coin was all that the well-dressed who infest the streets of large cities the

barrels of gunpowder, a smaller power. It could not

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

had two little boys in an orphanage, sent the letter to Monteagle, died in For years an elderly lady in re- The matter was urgent, for she had, did do, in effect, was to warn He afterwards learnt that the man spectable black haunted Victoria had a letter that very morning, soy-; 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 a light style, with black cost, striped trou- the fare to enable her to see her dy dangerously ill, and calling for his

cers, 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 and honour." There is a strong of Throgmorton Street and usking That daughter, ke Charles H. least once in her nefarious career. section of publle opinion which them for pennies,

must be “on unconscionable time dy- | She'succeeded in extructing a shilling will feel that that sort of flabby ensured its success.

The very simpllelly of the dodge ing," for when last seen the anxious from a lady one afternoon. A week The Impostor mother was still patiently trying to later this same Indy was walking Conduct is undesirable. Soft words and an attempt to sugar]

Denny,

with her, sister, when the "distraefèd mother" came up and accosted the the pill, so to speak, cannot are the concern of all..

latter, with of course, the same story. ¡ "We their respective countries the The victim of the previous week step- servo any useful purpose in a expect to join with other nations expense of their fares and to ped forward and revented herself, case of the kind where action in urging upon Japan and Chinn have addressed their pleas in when the "tale-pltcher" at once tools under the Nine-Power Pact that they resort to peaceful pur- dividually to the Governments to her heels and ran. is.contemplated.

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

tilities. pecting something a little more

Following Mr. Davis, camej Ente yesterday it was learned same story to tell, and never vary it. These mendleants always have the formidable in the way of speeches from the representa Mr. Eden of Great Britain, the from London that Mr. Eden was Why should they, when it serves its tives of the major powers. power which Japan has accused trying to "anivage" the confer- turn over and over again with dif- Like a sensible man ho was do- of openly assisting China. "We ence. Apparently the delegates ferent audiences?

The people with dying offspring In ing his obvious duty as a chair hope that with the least possible were dispirited. They could ace various parts of the courtyard le And delay the conference will resolve no prospect of reaching the car ways women. Men have a different man. He urged caution. the speakers, for all that they itself into a working committee of the Japanese Government, technique. A young man who haunt- delivered, might have taken his to get to grips with the task." which has announced that-it cd the vicinity of Holland Park Inte Mr. Davis had will have no truck with the at night always opened by noking the prospective victim if he spoke French. words to heart. They solemnly What task 7 said nothing. The longer hos said a few minutes before that Brussels parley. And how can Whether he did or not, the young tilities last 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 purposca.", and a peaceful settlement from London, and anxious to reach the to find a settlement.

French Embassy, where his Ambas- United States is prepared to If that is the ultimate aim of Brussels when Tokyo does not Bador would assist him. From Hol- the delegates to Brussels they choose to hear? Certainly not land Park to Knightsbridge is a very share in common efforts". The hostilities in the Far East had much better have saved by speaking softly.

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the Tower,

"Stand by me, Tom,” said Catesby' to Winter at Holbench House, on the borders of Staffordshire, "and we will die togetlier."

Sir." said Winter, "I have lost the use of my riglit armi, and fear that will cause me to be taken.

Takut he was, but Catesby and. Percy were shot with one baliok

OBERT

WINTER, Sir

R Everard Digby, John

-Grant .and Thomas Bates were executed on January 30, 1600, nt the West end of Paul's Church-so ends the report of their trials and on the Friday following. Thomas Winter, Ambrose Rookwood, Robert Keyes, and Guy Fawkes, within the old Falaco Yard, at Westminster. not far from the Parliament House." Henry Garnet. Superior of the Jesuits in England, who was alleged to be privy to the plot, was hanged outalde St. Paul's on May 3.

King James returned to his hunting. The Bengle resumed hh satecraft hundreds of years ago. And for hun. dreds more, I suppose, we will be en treated to "sparo a penny for the guy."

-To-day's Thought

A FOOL atteaus finds a bigger,

· fool to admire him:

--BOILEAU.

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