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Show ' Genuine "Escaped Nuns." Two Sisters now on a visit to a con- vent in London are veritably "escaped nuns." They escaped, in fact, from a doom which overtook nearly all their Sisters in religion and most of their relatives in "the world." For they were at their convent in Martinique when Mont Pelee shot forth its fire and fumes and electricity of St. Pierre. One of these ladies. Sister Margaret Marv, was in St. Pierre when Mont Pelee, six miles away, uttered its first threats. Duty took her, as to certain death, up the mountain to an orphan-, age kept by some of the Sisters only three or four hundred feet from the volcano. On the day of the great eruption erup-tion the convent close to the crater was spared, and the Sisters could see the fire black fire the Sisters call it-shoot it-shoot down to St. Pierre, destroying at one stroke 40,000 human beings, including includ-ing nearly all near and dear to them. They themselves said their last adieu to each other .and went into their chapel to die. They were nearly all choked by the hot sulphurous air, but I the doom of that convent was post- ! poned until the date of the later eruption- Meantime the two sisters, now in London to tell the tale, had left the mountain shrine, in which all their fellows fel-lows who remained subsequently perished. |
