The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-11
CHAPTER XXI.
BouRKE DOES WHAT HE

~ NM DOSO WHAT he CAN.
1t was pitch dark when Bourke
reached the Due d'Ypres, but the red
glare of torches lighted up the ram
parts and cast lurid reflections across
the fronts of the shadowy houses on
posite. A constantly increasing crowd
OF people surrounded his house. He
hastened on, pushing, struggling, fore
ing path through the throng to his
own door. The flare of petroleum
torches fell red ON scores Of sonbre
faces. lie saw Yolette near the door
step, surrounded by half a dozen men.
some OF whom he recognized as neigh
DORIS. When Yolette heard Bcurke's
voice she took one uncertain step for
ward The next moment her white.
frightened face was hidden on his
shoulder
What is it," he said. Speak to me.
Yolette. Don't tremble so See. YOU
are safe. Nothing can harm you, my
darling
Somebody in the crowd said: IT'S
her sister. She can't be found"
Hilde?" gasped Bourke.
The same voice spoke again. 'Tha
carbineers sacked the house. There was
nobody there except Mile. Hide and
the little servant
Yolette trembled violently and raised
her head
i had gone to the butchers to have
our rations renewed" she said. when
returned, they-they had done this. l
cannot find Hide
Il saw them" said a man in blua
blouse. Il heard people say that there
was revolution at the Hotel de Vile,
and that we were to have the com
mune. Many of us started for the
place-we numbered perhaps 5O-when.
saprisu. the bayonets of the carbineers
rlled the streets-two companies, mon
sieur, with drums and bugles sounding.
and their captain, Speyer. shouting to
US to get back. Then the artiIlerymen
yonder, who were exercising with the
Prophet, came over the street to see
what the carbineeTs were doing but
Captain Speyer waved an order from
the Hotel de Ville-so, monsieur, there
was nothing to do
The man spoke cautiously. appealing
to the crowd to corrohorate him.
Bourke, his arm around Yolette, who
seemed too dazed to understand,
listened with a sick fear at his heart.
eyes helplessly roaming through the
throng of eager. sympathetic faces
that pressed on every side.
The spokesman of the group wiped
his face on his sleeve, shrugged, and
continued:
Dame. it was soon finished. Speyer
went into the house. Somebody sc;d
he haG a mandate of arrest for YOU.
and also for Nj. Hardwood. A carbi-
neer told me that the commune was
proclaimed, and that your house was
to be reserved for the carbineers' head
quarters. He added that you and NJ.
Hardwood were known as suspects of
the commune, and that they would
catch you sooner or later. Then, mon
sieur. they began to bring out your
papers and portfolios. These they
placed in an ambulance, along with
books ard clothing and some cans of
preserved meat. 1t was then for the
first time that I. standing in the crowd
behind the row Of bayonets, saw Mile.
Hide in the hallway among all those
bandits. What happened after that 1
cannot say, for there came soldier
galloping who cried, Treason, We
are betrayed at the Hotel de Ville,'-
and the carbineers ran out of the
house like rats-this way and that
way. until their captain, Speyer, shout
ed for them to charge and drive back
the crowd" The man paused; then
added: After that, monsieur, we ran
for cur lives, and that is all I know
Eourke cast one glance around the
crowd at the door, beckoned to the
spokesman. whose name was Maillard,
and who. in days of plenty, had sup
piled the street with bread-then he