586            NATHAN HALE

    position a moment, and then, with a sigh of

    relief and rest, looks upon the sympathetic faces

    of the people about him, with almost a smile on

    his face.

  HALE. I only regret that I have but one life to

lose for my country!

  [FITZROV makes a couPle of steps toward him;

    HALF turns aid places one foot on the lower

    rungs of the ladtder, as


              TVE CURTAIN FALLS