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...Scaffold." Sir Austen "ascended the scaffold," to reply with extraordinary bitterness...
...still gripped his monocle as might a band of steel, descended at London from a boat train last week and grimly faced the assembled press. "Gentlemen," he rapped, "I hear that I am going to be executed on the day after tomorrow. I shall wait until I ascend the scaffold before saying anything...
...Look at the history of punishment. England used to kill a man for picking pockets. They held their executions on a high hill so all could see and feel the deterrent effect. But there were more pickpockets among the crowds surrounding the scaffold than at any other time...
...effigy pipes-one, in the image of a standing wolf, beautifully cut; another, a foot in length and highly polished, showing a bear. There were cloths, folded beneath the grisly one's vacant pate and beneath the heads of three companions who lay beside him on the scaffold in that charnel house. Woven in patterns of concentric circles of different colors, these textures had to be sketched quickly before their 2,000-year-old fibres crumbled in the warm outer...
SEDUCERS IN ECUADOR-V. Sackville-West-Doran ($1.50). With adroit indirection, the author acquaints you with the sad end, on the scaffold, of Arthur Lomax. The colored glasses he bought in Egypt so marvelously altered the aspect of life that he married Miss Whitaker, murdered his yachtsman host, Bellamy, and left Bellamy's money to Artivale, the scientist of the cruise-all with the loftiest of motives. In court, bereft of the illusive spectacles, normal Arthur Lomax could quite understand the jury's incredulity. His was the tragedy of the man who made believe and had his dream...