him as it should feel toward others: "We did not appreciate him until too late."

Meanwhile, the assassin, almost boasting of his crime and waiting for the death, eagerly inquired every day for the news. He declared that it was for the good of the nation that he committed the deed, and pretended to pray for the people. His prison was guarded by police and soldiers to protect him from the mob, for the people regarded him and his act in almost a frenzy of rage.

Even one of the sentinels set to guard him attempted to shoot him, and but for the bar of iron on his cell would have succeeded. The ball grazed Guiteau's head. That unlawful attempt on his life tended to make the murderer change his demeanor, and from that time on the fear of death was so great that every footstep in the corridor startled him, and when told that the President was dying his seared conscience assumed again its sceptre, and made him crouch and cower, and call on God and man for mercy.

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CHAPTER XXII.

DEATH AND BURIAL.

REMOVAL TO LONG BRANCH. VIEW OF THE SEA.- THE LAST DAY OF LIFE. SUDDEN DEATH. THE GRIEF OF THE WORLD. THE FUNERAL TRAIN.IN THE ROTUNDA AT THE CAPITOL. THE CEREMONIES AT WASHINGTON. — THE ADDRESSES. — TRIBUTE FROM QUEEN VICTORIA. REMOVAL OF THE BODY TO CLEVELAND. LAST RITES.THE PROCESSION.—THE LAST ADDRESS. - RETURN OF MOURNERS.

WHEN the President had lingered and suffered at the White House for more than two months, holding on to life with an almost miraculous tenacity, and suffering incessantly the acutest pain, a council of noted physicians was called to consider the advisability of removing him from the heat and malaria of Washington. He had lost more than one hundred pounds in weight, and had become so weak that it did not seem possible that, without a change, he could survive many days. He longed to get away from the place in which he had suffered so much, and as there seemed no hope for him there, the physicians consented to undertake his removal to Long Branch, on the New Jersey shore.

His removal for so many hundred miles in his dangerously low state was one of the most remarkable