GREAT SUFFRAGETTE RAID ARREST OF TEN WOMEN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13101, 28 April 1908, Page 9

GREAT SUFFRAGETTE RAID ARREST OF TEN WOMEN.

1 book up my daily paper, and read this heading: "Miss Brown, Miss Nora Harrington, Miss Heleji Brandsoornbe" —I looked aghast at the picture of ELelon, disfigured by the orue&ty of daiiJy newspaper photography. Helen! —obviously struggling between two burly policemen. This had gone beyond a joke, and Helen, who had only gone to the meeting to pose as a heroine, and then "slip away in a taxicab." had evidently been taken seriously, by the polioo, at least, and her fljigry explanations had only been drowned m the noise, and added to the reasons for her arrest. Poor Helen! Minus her face-powder, amd a fire in her room, with no bath, or only the tepid bath of coercion, Helen being searched, her hair out, with an. arrow on her dothes; no, mixed as I am about prison regulations, I did not think the poEoe would really go tihat length. "What was to bo done? Helen must bo bailed out now at once, this very morning. Helen who, bnaver than •Helen of Troy, herself had posed as a heroine and become a martyr. We drove home by a back way, and I lowered her side of the blind in the brougham, for a night in gaol had not added, alas! to Helen's good looks. I had paid her fimo, and I saw her home, where she went to bed, and stayed for a. week. And then '.I gave a little party, and Helen came. She still looked pale amd bunted, I thought, but thai, perhaps, may have been only my fancy—'but it was no fancy on my part when, as my cousin. Sir Harry, went forward to greet her, she turned, not obviously but dexterously round, amd became absorbed in a fat old lady who was sitting down. Helen had openly out Sir Harry. , • * * It is a strange world, and men are the strangest creatures in it. Not two months later,, Harry and Helen were engaged to be married. Perhaps it was the shame he knew she felt, or. tihe new diffidence in Helen's manner, or perhaps the knowledge that it had been a sacrifice she had made to try to win his love, and men forgive, even glorify, anything that is done for themselves; but, whatever the reason, Harry—the hunted and uneasy, Harry the cousin who, chivalrous as he always was, had risen in rebellion at "beamg married," was now the most adoring of lovers; while Helen, chastened by tihe cruel horrors of a fireless and powderless prison, has acquired the sort of gentle diffidence that ever raises in man the protective angel, while her suffering had aroused the pity that mot only is akin to love but really turns to love; while I, the intriguer, whose plans were so successful only on account of their utter'failure, am loft still wondering that greatest of all sex questions, "What is it that attracts man to woman, and womain to maai?"