8/21 "I repeat, that though I deeply deplore your condition, I rejoice in your delivery from this sin. It is better--far better--to die thus, than by the hands of the common executioner." "What do I see ?" cried Guy Fawkes, trying to raise himself, and sinking back again instantly upon the pillow. "Elizabeth Orton rises before me. "His senses have left him!" "She leads me into a gloomy cavern," continued Fawkes, more wildly; "but my eyes are like the wolf's, and can penetrate the darkness. It is filled with barrels of gunpowder. |