come back to him let us make haste march g lads up park street and down s lane it was the best chance he could think of for saving s life and he succeeded the pleasure of seeing the helpless man tied up for the moment if there were any who had ferocity enough to count much on coming back to him nobody s imagination represented the certainty that some one out of the houses at hand would soon come and him when he was left alone and the pushed up park street a noisy stream with still in the midst of them though he was laboring hard to get his way to the front he wished to determine the course of the crowd along a by road called s lane which would have taken them to the other � the end of the town he urged several of the men i him one of whom was no less a person than the big our old acquaintance to get forward and be sure that all the fellows would go down the lane else they would spoil sport hitherto had been successful and he had gone along with an unbroken impulse but soon something occurred which brought with a terrible shock the sense that his plan might turn out to be as mad as all bold projects are seen to be when they have failed mingled with the more headlong and half drunken crowd there were some sharp men who loved the of for something else than its own sake and who at present were not so much the richer as they desired to be for the pains they had taken in coming to the election induced by certain gathered at on the day that there might be the conditions favorable to that confusion which was always a harvest time it was known to some of these sharp men that park street led out toward the grand house of which was as good � nay better for their purpose than the bank while was entertaining his ardent purpose these other sons of adam were entertaining another ardent purpose of their peculiar sort and the moment was come when they were to have their triumph from the front ranks backward toward there ran a new summons � a new invitation let us go to from that moment was powerless a new definite y suggestion his influence there was a determined rush past s lane and not down it was carried along too he did not know whether to wish the contrary once on the road out of the town with into fields and with the wide park at hand it would have been easy for him to himself from the crowd at first it seemed to him the better part to do this and to get back to the town as fast as he could in the hope of finding the military and getting a to come and save the but he reflected that the course of the mob had been sufficiently seen and that there were plenty of people in park street to carry the information faster than he could it seemed more necessary that he should secure the presence of some help for the family at the by going there himself the were not of the class he was wont to be anxious about but s conscience was alive to the accusation that any danger they might be in now was brought on by a deed of his in these moments of bitter vexation and disappointment it did occur to him that very unpleasant might be hanging over him of a kind quite nt from inward dissatisfaction but it was useless now to think of such consequences as be pressed along the radical with the multitude into park his very movement seemed to him only an image of the day s in which the small of small selfish ends really toward any larger result had issued in widely shared mischief that might yet be hideous the light was declining already the candles shone through many windows of the already the foremost part of the crowd had burst into the offices and men were busy in the right places to find plate after setting others to force the butler into the and had only just been able to force his way on to the front terrace with the hope of getting to the rooms where he would find the ladies of the household and comfort them with the assurance that rescue must soon come when the sound of horses feet convinced him that the rescue was nearer than he had expected just as he heard tha horses he had approached the large window of a room where a brilliant light suspended from the ceiling showed him a group of women clinging together in terror others of the crowd were pushing their way up the terrace steps and gravel slopes at various points hearing the horses he kept his post in front of the window and with his cried out to the on comers keep back i hear the soldiers coming some scrambled back some paused the louder and louder sound of the hoofs changed its pace and distribution halt fire bang bang bang came the ears of the men on the terrace before they had time or nerve to move there was a rushing sound closer to them � again fire a bullet and passed through s shoulder � the shoulder of the arm that held the naked weapon which shone in the light from the window fell the ran like terrified sheep some of the soldiers turning drove them along with the flat of their swords the greater difficulty was to clear the invaded offices the who with another magistrate and several other gentlemen on horseback had accompanied the soldiers now jumped on to the terrace and to the ladies of the family presently there was a group around had 