The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-08-14

much more to the purpose. He was
hungry; there was restaurant next
door to the bank. Without
thought of the risk he ran, or of the
audacious subtlety of such an ex-
pedient at such critical moment,
he went in, sat down at one of the
small tables and calmly ordered
breakfast.
Now, hunger is lusty special
pleader, and it will make itself heard
above any pulpit drum of the higher
faculties; hence Griswold thought
less of what he had done than of
what he was about to eat, until the
hue and cry reminded him that the
chase had begun. Whereupon, not
to be suspiciously injurious, he put
on the mask of innocence and asked
the waiter concerning the uproar.
The man did not know what had
happened. but he would go and find
out if M'sieu' so desired "M'sieu'"
said breakfast first and Informal
ton afterward, by all means. Both
came in due season, and Griswold ate
Wn1le ne nSCeneQ.
Transmitted into the Creole-Eng-
lish of the serving-man, the story
of the robbery lost nothing in it's
sensational features.
cha! Wat you t'ink, M'sieu'?'
De bank mex do is been rob-" and
descants at large. The bank was
surrounded by gang of desperate
men and every exit guarded while the
leader, a masked giant, armed to the
teeth, had compelled the president
at the muzzle of a pistol to pay
ransom of ffty-one hundred-five
hundred thousand dollars. With the
money the gang had vanished, the
masked giant firing the pistol at
M'sieu' the president as he went
Cross-examined, the waiter could not
affirm positively as to the shot. But
as for the rest there could be no
doubt
Griswold ordered second cup of
coffee, and while the waiter tarried,
conscience-not the enlightened con-
science, but the conventional-be
it's bow and sped it's final arrow. It
was suddenly brought home to the
enthusiast with sharp emphasis that
to all civilized mankind, save and ex-
cepting only those few chosen ones
who shared his peculiar convictions,
he was a common thief, a robber, an
outlaw.
Public opinion, potential or ex-
pressed, is at best but an intangible
thing; but for a few seconds Girls
void writhed under the ban of it
as if it had been a whip of scorpions.
Then he smiled to think how strong
are the bonds of custom, and con-
science flung away it's empty culver.
None the less, the enthusiast was
rather thankful for the Christening.
1t served to remind him afresh of
his mission. This money which he
had just wrested from the pluto
cratic dragon should be held as a
sacred trust; it should be devoted
scrupulously to the cause of the op-
pressed. Just how it was to be ap-
piled he had not yet determined, but
that could be decided later.
Meanwhile it was very evident that
the dragon did not intend to accept
defeat without struggle, and Girls
void set his wits at work upon the
problem of escape.
cts little queer that I hadn't
thought of that part of it," he
unused. II suppose the other fellow,
the real robber, would have figured
himself safely out of it-or would
have thought he had-before he
made a move. AS I didn't, I've got
to do it now, and there isn't much
time to throw away. Let me see
he shut his eyes and went into the
inventive trance beloved of the lit
erary craftsman-"the keynote must
be originality. I must do something,
that the other fellow wouldn't think
Of doing" ..........
He dallied with the second cup of
coffee and outlined plan, basing