The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-25

duck trousers. who looked Ike college
Lad Say, who'll help the trainmen TO
clear the traekT'
The big conductor ha6 wiped his face:
be turned IL. abzurdly streaked. on the
poiieemen and Informed them that II they
let much OF that stuff go on he was going
20 shoot. he was lie added his personal
opinion in regard 20 the courage OF the
force. IL was not OF nature 10 please.
hence may have excused the irritation OF
the youngs- policeman. who babe him go
TO a place that Is TO be inferred rather
than mentioned
The little motorman jumped on the
ground. Instantly followed by the college
man, and In a second-only 20 give him
time 10 stow away his book-by The read
CT Of Carlyle The crowd hailed them
with furious yell and a shower OF mud.
stones, and vegetables from a neigh6or-
ing stall. Nearest the car were the lads
In their teens and disheveled women. One
OF these stood in the roadway. In the
fore front OF the mob. shaking a black
mat OF cabbage stalk in the motorman's :
race. Her frowsy. gray hair, her savage.
red face, her waving, bare arms, her un-
kempt figure In its scanty, household
garb. were blazoned by the sun against
the black wreckage on the road. She had
burst the hooks OF her thin bodice, and
her white flesh showed unheeded. The
feroeious abandonment OF her rage had
unsexed her. She was no longer a wo-
man. she was a sexless fury. XIII the
scab?' she beloved kill 'em all! Kf
EN- before We starvel'
Git up, you bloody IDIOT" commando
the older policeman between his taerG
grabbing at the motormans collar. "T's
can't fight all them people; they s1I g rs,
too. Git back and Wen pgck sd g.j
some help"
A bark OF revolver storpe5 llis vo-ds
and set the crowd wild. II migh. rave coine
from the crowd or from q window md
II hit no one, but il was like sign9. for
horrible deepening OF the roaI Then.
as dog draws back before he springs, n
kind Of lull came and the rear of the
writing mass pushed forward the front
A brick struck the college lad on the
shoulder. and as he staggered, a police
man lifted him bodily up the steps. Half
stunned, he struggled with them.
All at once the crowd. which was clos
ing In on them. menacing, howling like
wolves with the taste of blood on their
tongues, all at once. this crowd turned
its myriad heads and was split into little
fleeing groups as if by a charge of dyna-
mite; 1t plunged into shop doors and down
the side streets and covered back onto
the sidewalks before a new cry in a wo-
mans shrek, Mad dog mad dog" An
other cry and another, a wall of pure
horror and fright, 'The baby! the baby,
he'll get herr and into the street, down
the corner, the huge mastif that had
aroused terror dove like IN arrowhead
into the vacant space, after a flying child
The dogs huge frame had the tense,
shrunken lock Of his awful state. his
great head was lower than his shoulders,
painted with its own blood from a futile
shot, the eyes glared. the dreadful jaws
spattered flecks of foam from a wrinkled
black grin of hate and fea-. He was
driven by a wilder and erueler impulse
than ruled the crowd, and they shrank
before 1t. Paralyzed for second, not one
lifted hand. The policemen fun,bed
for their revolvers. Then there was a
groan; the dog was on the child.
The woman leader uttered a cry; she
flung herself barehanded on the beast.
She was a woman again, woman with a
baby grandchild at home; and her wits
were quicker to escape their trance than
those of the boys or the men. But one
man was before her. A gasp of excite
ment went like low moan through the
pale faces at windows and doors; the mo-
torman had pulled the child's skirts out
Of the dogs teeth and was clutching his
collar with a death grip. Get off, lie
called 10 the woman, who had seized the
creatures tail: "get off! let 'em shoot,
Shoot, you d. fools, can't you; don't
mind me! Put your pops at his headr'
The college lad caught a revolver out
Of the speakers own pocket and fired