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LESSON IN EVASION

The Original

TOUGH

GUY

by

F. G. H. Salusbury

T

HE only thing in which our hearts take concern nowadays, as the fifth of November comes round, is 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, complete with an

unsolved Mystery,

Please to remember, when King Janics succeeded his 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 Nazla. 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

and

enacted pains

penalties against them: and that such bet- terment did not result. Please to remember, too, that there was talk of the King of Spain plotting with English Catholies for an invasion of England.

URROUNDED, then, by antique prejudices, reds, and blgotries, we may take a dive backwards into the past, and come to the surface on the fateful night of October 20, 1605.

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 Paul the Belgian chairman, Spaak, pointed out, the confer- ence was not to consider itself an international tribunal before which Japan should be sum- moned to appear, At the same time, something more than renobleman, was waiting for supper petition of the purpose of the in his London lodgings, very snug meeting might have been ex by the fire, and thinking idly of pected. Perhaps in its secret the assembling of Parliament in the conclave may ten days' time. He had sent his sessions accomplish something. But it footman across the street on an seems to be admitted among the errand. 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 to the representatives of the powers, who have their orders and are bound by the instructions of their governments, it would seem that such a conference as this needs firm, courageousį leadership. And at the mo- detailed ment, and without a

Lord Monteagle,

IL

Catholic

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 personage.”

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

"

and fail

not to give it into his hands only."

Lord Monteagic, puzzled by the breathlesa 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 devise some excuse, to shift of your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.

And think not lightly this ad- mertisement, but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For, though there be no appearance of any slir, yet I sus, they shall receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shalt not sec ipho hurts them,

"This counsel is not to be cons demned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm, for the danger is past so soon as you have burnt the letter; and I hope God will pire poti prage to make good use of it: to whose hory protection I commend you."

Lord Monteagle wrinkled his

Re brows.

glanced sideways about the room. "A terrible blow That was this parliament. treason! Indeed, there could be none worno, 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 Jelter.

A

Nastute man, was Lörd

Salisbury, and inseru- pulous in his duty. His small stature, combined with an unrivalled nose for conspiracies, had carried him the nickname of "little beagle" from the King. The Beagle was now hot on 12 scent. But did he know already where it would take him? Was the Monteagle letter concocted to cover the real source of the be

Guido 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. Sallsbury embraced Monteagle. "My dear lord," he said, "you have deserved well of his majesty and this realm."

We may now go back to 1603, the first year of King James' reign, when Robert Catesby con- ceived the idea of blowing King and Parliament sky-high with to

wder, and confided t nas Winter. Other supporters were got and sworn to secrecy, in- cluding Guy Fawkes, an English soldier of fortune, whom Winter

All were brought from Ostend. disaffected Catholles, labouring under a sense of persecution. Their chlef, and the most fanatical of them, was Catesby.

house N 1004, a

WOE hired by Thomas Percy,

the adjoining

Parlia 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, "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 wo 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-Whyneard, Keeper of the Wardrobe, and moved in with their thirty-six barrels of gun-

Beggars Who "Pitch the Tale"

knowledge of the discussion, it ▼THY work when you can get a good told no long, elaborate tale, and hei get a shilling or two more towards' would seem that leadership was living by just asking for it? A asked for but a penny, without even conspicuously lacking.

City business man was surprised one specifying what he needed it for. day when a well-dressed person camel M. Spaak was only the chair-up to him in Throgmorton Street and man, and the representative of with a charming smile asked him Just a humble copper a smaller power. It could not for a penny.

powder. They placed stones and iron bars on the powder, hid all beneath a pile of wood, and, in May, 2005, dispersed to wait, leny- ing Fawkes, who was to fire 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 ether Prince Charles (Charles 1) or his sister, Princess Elizabeth, was to Sovereign. Prince Henry, the eldest son (who died before his

and

bo kidnapped and proclaimed

father) would have been killed with the King and Queen.

And now King James returns from hunting, and his "little beagle" shows him the Manteugle letter. Every- tung, says the King, must be done cautiously and circumspectly. But

with Its first-the letter

curious "the phrases-"terrible blow" and danger is past so soon as you have · burnt the letter." Ah! he has it--hns he not, Beagle7-it must mean a danger that strikes quickly, not one- that is past so soon as Monteaglo shalt bun his warning, "for that was: likely to be the saying of a foot." No. hero is no foolishness! That kind of: with a "terrible- danger, combined blow" . what could that be but danger from an explosion” at ~ gume-- powder?

T

the

HE Beagle and other lords almost

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

Firat an elaborately casual Inspec- tion of the Parliament building wILK made by the Earl of Suffolk and Lord Monteagle. They found n cellar, a pile of wood, and a man who sold he Was Mr. Percy's servant. Mr. Percy. ch? Why. Percy was notorious for his backwardness in the Protestant religion, Their aunplelons strength- ened.

That was

the afternoon of

mended action; and, in

ол

her railway fare. It is believed that! he does very well out of it, for she is still neat and tidy, and respectably dressed in black.

She must be a connection of the woman who was in the habit of stop- ping benevolent-looking people in barrels of gunpowder. the

She streets of Bayswater. urgently needed a shiling or so to help her to get to Suffolk, where sho

November to then the Beauty Hous

of November 5, Sir Thomas Knevett swooped on the cellar with a guard. arrested Fawkes, who was lounging at tha entrance. and uncovered the

The other conspirators were chased.

some of them killed and some caught

for trial. Tresham, who may have sent the letter to Monteagle, died in the Tower.

Others of the tribe of mendicants coin was all that the well-dressed who infect the streets of large cities be expected that he would do stranger requested; and the business have their own heart-rending stories very much in the matter of lead man, thinking that perhaps he need-ready to spin to anybody guiflciess ing discussion. But what he ed a bus fare, readily parted with enough to stop and listen to them. bad, two le boys in an orphanage. did do, in effect, was to warn a penny.

For years an elderly lady in re- The matter was urgent, for she had; He afterwards leamt that the man spectable black haunted Victoria had a letter that very morning, any-j his colleagues against offending Japan and putting her in a light he was got up in orthodox "City" Station, London, trying to make up ing that one of her sons was very "incompatible with her dignity style, with black cunt, striped trou- the fare to enable her to see her dy- dangerously ill, and calling for his borders of Staffordshire, and

sers, and spate was in the habit of ing doughter somewhere down in a mother. and honour." There is a strong stopping people in the neighbourhood remote.part of the country,

That daughter, like Charles I, section of public opinion which of Throgmorton Street and asking

must be "an unconscionable time dy- will feel that that sort of flabby them for pennies.

The very simplicity of the dodgeing," for when last seen the anxious conduct is undesirable. Soft

This impostor made a bad slip at: least once in her nefarious career. She succeeded in extracting a shilling from a lady one afternoon. A week

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

words and an attempt to sugar ensured its success. The Impastor mother was still patiently trying to later this same Indy was walking

is contemplated.

Pact

"Stand by me. Tom," said. Caterby to Winter at Holbeach House, on the

will dla together."

we

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

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

R

OBERT 'WINTER, Sir' Everard : Digby, John -Grant and Thomas

Bates were executed on January

30. 1000. **at the West end of Paul's Church"--so ends the report of their trial and on the Friday, following. Thomas Winter, Ambrose Rookwood. These mendicants olways have the Robert Keyes, and Guy Fawkes, within

the pill, so to speak, cannot servo any useful purpose in a are, the concern of all.... "We their respective countries the The victim of the previous week step- ease of the kind where action expect to join with other nations expense of their fares and to ped forward and revealed herself, .under the Nine-Power

in urging upon Japan and China have addressed their pleas in- when the "inle-pitcher" at once took that they resort to peaceful pur-dividually to the Governments to her heels and ran. M. Spänk; no doubt, was ex-poses." Thus Mr: Davis of the concerned in the Far East hos.

tilities.. pecting something a little more United States.

Late yesterday it was learnedame story to tell, and never vary it. of way formidable in the

Following Mr. Davis, came speeches from the represents 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 "salvage" the confer-turn over and over again with dif- Like a sensible man he was doof openly assisting China. "Wolence. Apparently the delegates ferent audiences? 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 caution. And delay the conference will resolve no prospect of reaching the car 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- delivered, might have taken his to get to grips with the task." which has announced that it ed the vicinity of Holland Park late at night always opened by asking the Mr. Davis had will have no truck with words to heart. They solemnly What task?

praspeclive victim if he spoke French 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 plond for reason man was a Frenchman stranded in to find a settlement, The "resort to peaceful purposes." and a peaceful settlement from London, and anxious to reach the United States in propared to 12 that is the ultimate aim of Brusscle when Tokyo does not French Embassy, where kin Ambas share in common efforts". The hostilities in the Far East the delegates to Brussels they choose to hear? Certainly not land Park to Knightsbridge is a very

have saved by speaking softly. had much better

the

The people with dying offspring in

Andor would assist him. From Hol-)

(Continued on Page 5.)

the old Palace Yard, at Westminster. Henry Garnet, Superior of the Jeralis in England, who was alleged to be privy to the plot, was hanged outside St. Paul's on May 3.

not far from the Parliament House."

King James returned to his hunting. The Beagle resumed. hils aintecraft

dreda more, I suppose, we will be en- hundreds of years ago. And for hun. treated to "sparò a penny for the guy."

------- To-day's Thought›

A FOOL always finds à blower,

'Jool to admire him.

-DOILEAU.