» At our feet it sloped, breaking inwrocky sluits, banked \%p with bushes; ov*r all then? was the zephyr, tem-pering the j|eat.- It was a moment meant for rejoicing m ths beauty of earth's loveliness rather than for dimming it -with the sadness of seme crimson act. Presently we arrived, and as we bent across the slope the blood-red stream of passing sunlight played around the shzfTow hezip of earth, thrown out from this man's iinal rest ing-place. It was visible, much as were the deeper shadows, of tli*? excavation some seventyVards away, when as though wishing to spare" the prisoner his eye* baa:d iged by the officers of the party. With that a sudden silence fell upon us, and each seemed to feel that, he was walking within the shadows of. the Valley of death. The prisoner, supported on either arm, stum bled in the partial blindness of the bandage, seeming, now that his last hour was at hand, to bs more careless, mere light-hearted than any of the party. Then we halted, and he was asked whether there were anytliing fur ther which he wished to s'«.j\ and he was warned for the last time. \He shook his head somewhat defiantly, but his lips moved, and in Ms heart one could upmost hear the muttered curses. Then for a space he stood still, and a few yards distant, in fact some ten pacei, the firing party formed across Ins front. There wefts six of with a corporal and the officer in eoinmand of the post, and there was that other, who in a> little wag to pay the penalty of his crime. There was a moment of intense silence as we waited for the sim to set, in which the nerves seemed to be but little strings of wire, played upon by the emotions. Un consciously, eacii seemed to stiffen, waiting for the word of the officer, and feeling that at each pulsation one. wcfuld like to shriek "Enough, enough!" As we stood the prisoner spoke, unconscious: of the prepara tions, and ths officer approached him. He wanted, he said, to take a fimtJt glance at the place that he had known sinea iiis childhood. His prayer was granted, asd as he faced about the bandages across eyes was for a few brief minutes dropped ttpon his neck. 