Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-11-09


singed hair. Then he saw an odd
looking crumpled up mass clinging to
the front of the biz dynamo, and ap-
preaching, recognized the distorted
remains of Holroyd.
The man stared and hesitatpd
moment. Then he saw the face and
shut his eyes, convulsively squeezing
the lids together. He turned on his
heel before he opened them again, SO
that he should not see IIolroyd again,
and went out Of the shed to get advice
and help.
When Azuma-zi saw IIolroyd die in
the grip of the great dynamo he had
been little scared about tho conse-
quences of his act. Yet he felt
strangely elated, and knew that the
favor Of the Lord Dynamo was upon
him. His plan was already settled
when he met the man coming from the
station, and the scientific manager
who speedily arrived on the scene
jumped at tho obvious conclusion of
suicide. This expert scarcely noticed
Azuma-zi except to ask few ques.
tions. Did he see Holroyd kill him.
self? Azuma-zi explained that he had
been out of sightat the engine furnace
until he heard ference in the noise
from the dynamo
The distorted remains of Holroyd,
which the electrician removed from
the machine, weyse hastily covered by
the porter with cotfee.stainsd table
cloth.
Somebody, by n happy inspiration.
fetched a medical man. The expert
was chiefly anxious to get the machine
at work again, fos seven or eight trains
had stopped midway in the stuffy tun-
nels of the electric railway. Azuma-zi,
answering or misunderstanding the
questions of the people who had by
authority or mpvdence come into the
shed, was presently sent back to the
stoke-hole by the scientific manager.
OF course "a crowd collected outside the
gates of the yard-a crowd, for no
known reason, always hovers for day
or two near the scene of sudden
death in London-two or three report
ers percolated somehow into the en-
gine-shed, and one even got 10 Azuma-
ii, but the scientific expert cleared
them out again, being himself an anna.
teur journalist. Presently the body
was carried away, and public interest
departed with it. Azuma-zi remained
very quietly at his furnace, seeing
over and over again in the Goals fig.
ure that riggled violently and became
still
An hour after the murder, to anyone
coming into the shed it would have
looked exactly as if nothing had hap,
pened. Peeping presently from his
engine-room the black saw the Lord
Dynamo spin and whirl beside his lit
tie brothers, and the driving wheels
were beating round, and the steam in
the pistons went thud, thud, exactly
as it had been earlier in the evening.
After all, from the mechanical point
of view, it had been a most insigniti
cant incident-the mere temporary de-
Election of a current, only now the
slender form and slender shadow oil
the scientific manager repluced the
sturdy outline OF Holroyd travelling
up and down the lane of light upoa
the vibrating floor under tlse strap
between the engines and the dynamos
Have | not served my Lord?" said
Azuma-zi, inandibly, from his shadow
and the note of iIr great dynamo rang
out full and CT ar. AS he looked al
the big whirling mechanism the
strange ia cinaton of it that had beer
little in abeyanc9 since Holroyd's
death resumed it's sway.
Never had Azuma-zi seen a mar
killed SO swiftly and pitilcssly. The
big humming machine had slain it,
victim without wavering for secont
from it's steady beating 1t was in
deed mighty god. The unconsciou.
scientific manager stood with his bacl
to him, scribbling on piece of paper
His shadow lay at the foot of the mon
ster.
WAS the Lord Dynamo still hungry
His servant was ready"
Azuma-zi made stealthy step for
ward, then hesitated. The scientifi,
manager suddenly stopped writin.
and walked down the shed to the end
most of the dynamos and began to ex
anime the brushes.
Azuma-zi hesitated and then slipped
across noiselessly into the shadow b,
the switch. There he waited. Pres
emily the managers footsteps could b,
heard returning. He stopped in his OLE
position, unconscious of the fgur
crouching ten feet away from him
Then the big dynamo fzzled and il
another moment thick-set figure ha,
sprung out of the darkness upon him
The scientific manager will remem
Der all the details of that struggl
with the mad stolSer so long as Their
is life in him. First he was grippe,
round the body and swung toward
the big dynamo, then, kicking will
his knee and forcing his antagonist
head down with his hands, he loos
ened the grip on his waist and swung
round away from the machine; thei
the black grasped him with his arm
again, putting "a curly head agains
his chest, and they swayed and pante,
as it seemed for an age or SO. Thel
the scientific manager was impelle,
to catch black ear in his teeth an,
bite furiously. The black yelled hid
eously. Suddenly they rolled over o.
the floor, and the black, who had ap
parently slipped from the vice of tn
teeth or parted with some earth
scientific manager wondered which a
the time-tried to throttle him. Tn
scientific manager was making som
Intellectual efforts to claw something
with his hands and to kick, when til
welcome sound of quick footstep
sounded on the floor. The next INC
ment Azuma-zi had left him an
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