A Noble Woman

ng. He duly notified the date of the trial; but in thorough keeping with what had gone before, during the two days' progress of the inquiry he made no

ng powerful influence to bear upon the authorities for a revision of the sentence. Kirschen

ed. That Kirschen is believed to be an Austrian by birth, although a naturalized Belgian, doubtless explains much that for a time had mystified the officials of the American Legation. It makes one's gorge

He also denied that he promised to inform the American Legation about the sentence, and, in fact, did not know until it was announced publicly. It

ht M. de Leval went to see Baron von der Lancken. The Baron was out

uld be made acquainted with the judgement immediately it was pronounced, at the sa

rmed that he would not be at home until late in the afternoon. He therefore proceeded to the house of another lawyer, who had been interested in one of Miss Cavell's fellow prisoners, but failed also to find that gentleman. However, he call

nt), and upon each occasion it was stated that sentence had not been pronounced; and this was the reply as late as 6.20, t

nce had been passed, and the execution would probably take place at two o'clock in the morning. Thus the American Minister was hoodwinked up to almost the last moment. The same fiendish mind that had engineered the secret arrest

aron von der Lancken, it was pointed out that the condemned Englishwoman had been treated with more severity than had been the result in other similar cases, although it was only her own commendable straightforwardness that enabled the charges against her to be proved. It was urged that she had spent her

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er testimony were necessary, that the Prussian model of manliness is utterly devoid

ncken. Not only was the Baron not at home, but no member of his staff was in attendance, which suggests even to the most charitable chronicler that the visit had been anti

rning. But the neutral diplomatists were too hot upon the trail of German trickery and prevarication to permit of the desired procrastination; they were ambassadors in mercy rather than mere politics, and they firmly insisted upon the Baron instituting immediate inquiries. He retired to

rs appealing for delay in execution of the sentence, and at the same time he verbally emphasized every conceivable point that might

the Governor-General had no authority to intervene; and that appeal could be carried only to the Emperor, and

half an hour, and upon his return stated that he had been to confer personally with the Military Governor, who declared that the sentence upon Mis

,' and consequently cannot be expected to hold those of others in very high esteem. Astute as Baron von der Lancken may have imagined himself to be, his idea is patent to an ordinarily unsophisticated mind, which not unnaturally, albeit ungenerously, infers that at some time in the future the Baron may desir

Villalobar continued to make fresh appeals for delay. Finally the Spanish Minister drew Baron von der Lancken aside in order to express some forcible opinions that he hesitated to say i

ain, that had heaped up atrocity upon atrocity to appal all Christendom. As the bells of the c