CHAPTER XIV.

GONE HOME FROM THE SCAFFOLD.

Special Mission to Doomed Men--Indifferent but Finally Converted--Letters--Mother's Prayers--Claimed to Be Innocent-- Hardened in Crime--Ten Men under Death Sentence--Conversion of a Jewish Boy--Mysteriously Guided--In Long Expectation-- Sentence Commuted--A Man Deceived--Interceded for a Boy--Went to the Scaffold Singing--A Prominent Official--Recent Cases 254