The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-06-30

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Again and again he sprang for the
the grating in the ceiling. !
Come he cried: come and hold .
me uP, 1 can break the grating.
Three OF US sprang to his assist
ance A fourth climbed on our
shoulders. Then Han Raj spraug
up He barely reached the bars
with his fingers. He lifted and tug
ged and swore. Looking up with /
straining eyes from the bottom, 1
sas the face of the Spanish Lieu |
tenant who had captured Han Kai, |
STOPPING over the grating.
With quick spring Han Raj |
grasped the grating with one hand |
and with the other grasped the
Spaniard by t1e hair, hauling his |
face to the bars Then suddenly
he let go the grating, threw his left
arm around the man neck and be-
gan to choke him with his right |
hand.
The Spaniard's eyes started from
his head; his face grew purple; he
writhed like a snake 10 his efforts TO
get away. md high above Us hung
Han Raj, growing and mumbling
at his victim like an angry dog
"A clatter Of feet, aud soldiers
came running to the grating. Out
came their swords, aud in an instant
Han Kai was bleeding from 81 aw-
ful wound across tie throat, but
Han Ksi hung on biting and snsrl-
iug like beast.
Finally one of the siIdiers kneit
down and dcove his sword straight
down behind Han Kai's collarbone
aud into his chest. Il was the
stroke that Spanish matadors use IN
killing bull. Slowly Han kai's
head lolled back and slowly his
huge muscles grew limp, and then
down came his body on the stone
aoor with crash, the dead lieuten-
aut staring down at him with horn
bic bursting eyes from the grating
above.
THE SEA RISES To The GRATISG
about 10 o'clock tide moon shot
a shaft of light into tie dungeon
bathing it in a sort of blue light,
like that OF an inferno. The floor
was covered with tangled mass of
men Hands clenched 10 stony rigor.
Breasts heaving deep and convulsive
ly, faces CHASTITY in the moonlight,
lips drawn back twitching spasmod
ically, and teeth cleaning.
above we could hear the steady
tread of the sentry, and beneath the
hungry tapping of the sea. The
tide was raising, and we thought the
/ cold sea water would refresh US
Soon through the grating We
| could reach the undermining waves
with our hands. We Tapped up the
: water in our palms and throwed i
over the PROSTATE and half sepse'esi
tangle of men.
5 In their delirium some Of thu
men moan horrible blasphemies
| The Spaniards are Christians
shrill voice would cry: we are not
e Another voice would moan: Don
e say that. [ am a Christian. Chris
was good. God is good. He vii
2 take care Of Us. Glory be to God
up came the water, inch by met
e filling the grating with a low, hal
q human sob. 1t ran snakelike int
e the room Breathing seemed III
possible while waves flushed into th
e hole.
p TIE SEA ; DEATH CRY.
: TIE Spaniards had put US there
suffocate. The breathing spells b(
II tween the rua OF the waves gre
/ further apart. The sea was no
e coming in with long weeping cry
s death song.
d .Some of the dead mea lay wit
t. their faces under water. Other
n drowning tossed their hands, wea
and helpless. Others leaned again
d the wall with the water lapp.D
n about their shoulders
1T crept up and up to my shou
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