Show VILLAINS IN no NOVELS I 1 T 0 HOW SOME FAMOUS AUTHORS DISPOSE OF THEM ten r ot of the Greir faten tl TI it ltaif ben been Ile lel 1 ba the ke 11 of 0 F I 1 tion for tt irl air lr men in i d of crime dickens ie is for a mot en pertaining rt illery of rogues quila the distort ed 04 eddard an dart arf and rogue ridera aid the tile ruffian ruman alike terminate their ex otence i in a watery brave ralph hick leby and jonas chizzle wit N it take gieir ta air own lues it m while L rial riall b i lueers and lottimer Lit timer leave thair country for their country a good in garba provi provided led ly govern i lent alt I 1 fret freely ly embred ambo embo teed with broad arrows perhaps bertia pa the most grew gren some of dick ens death scenes is that ide delby 1 by the face it A the en ee er smiling carker into which the irresistible loco locomotion motiN 0 la is iia im i rot ably for the first time in the bi hartory tory of fiction scott a villains most frequently meet with violent deaths at the hand of oth era otten often their accomplices or commit suicide on the eve of discovery and lie its grace but the senea sensation tion lover has nevertheless been catered for in the death of anthony foster roster the tile accod of the kichard richard N arney this miserable wretch is depicted depleted as hiding from his pursuers in a secret cell the entrance to this is fastened by means of a spring lock of which lio bon ever lie he omits to retain the key with the that he eventually mi miserably drably of mingled fear and fan me ing lytton a sight night and morning gives us the coiner gavi trey who meets his big fate at the hands of the pans paris police from whom he be is attempting to escape when hena a listol shot drops him himo over the side of a hooee to berish miserably this I 1 11 lei le i of falling from a height is by no mebin confined to lytton it is til iced by anthony hope in phroso and by stanley in under Und erthe the red robe where the villain and hia big victim fall from a lofty bridge into a seething torrent below in this way too conan doyle killed the immortal sherlock holmes who fast locked in a i et st with mith the greatest villain of them all falls over an alpine pr preci ee I 1 pice tt NN ilkie brings his principal villain the double faced calculating calculation count rasco to an ignoble end he be dis ds appearing for a time only to reappear upon the ghastly shel of the pans paris morgue AL still more ghastly fate is that odthe of ho she fiend gasool immortal iced hy Ilag haggard gardin in king bolo mon men a mines having conducted Qua curtis and party into that celebrated monarch monarchs s rock hew hei n treasury treas nry which is guarded by a pon derous rising door of living rock she touches a secret spring by means of a bich the door begins once more to de beene with a elow slow but irresistible me lion tion while the englishmen are sizing up the jewelry ebe she hakea off through the rapidly lessening aperture her progress ie is temporarily arrested by the nate girl foulata whom she stabs in order to free herself hurriedly scram bling over the threshold she is caught by the inexorable force which she has herself put in motion and a realistic ally dramatic scrunch puts an end forever to the machinations of this truly horrible old woman ngali like scott a templar in ivanhoe dies from an excessive mental strain acting upon the heart while to hark back to the days of t the he bluff doctor of fleet meet street the gentle gentl 0 genial I 1 carted goldsmith is contented content cd to reform the rakish squire Thern hill in order that he may at last become the t he exemplary spouse of t the he gentle olivia olivi a around whom he i wove eve that entrancing ly simple narrative the N icar of wakefield finally the palm for writing lurid may fairly be accord accorded cd hamson aina ains worth for hi thrilling dispo disposal salof or be the two ghoulish ghou lieh wretches u who haunt the pages of his celebrated celet rated novel old baina paul a the creatures crea torea w m ho bat bened upon the spoils of the dead and dying during the great plague were ere wont to etow their ill gotten gains in one of the cathedral vault the cathe dral taking fire they hasten thither in order to rescue their precious hoard hoar d the greed of gain bo however veYer misleads them into rojo FOjo just a moment too As they turn to leave the now stifling vault they ace hit that a thin stream Is making ita its ay down tie tl e fairs by which abune they can gain an exit even aa as they look it thickens perceptibly percer bibly and before they can escape the whole stairway et airway is 1 and tl 0 a 0 vault about them begins to fill with tl the 0 silvery liquid when U lien it ig is added that flat the harmless harn ilesi lor king fluid is nothing more or less than the molten lead from fro in the roof ard windows of the cathedral it will become ap apra larent rent that evin sir WE gilbert a armethine grm arm ething with boiling oil in it a dangerous rival in the pages bf if old saint pani paul a london Stan darl I 1 |