Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-22
CHAPTER III-fcont;nred

He did not look like French soldier,
but rather like an English athlete dress
ed for a battle with ages-straw hat,
gray trousers, gray flannel shirt broad
leather belt around his waist. In one
drowned hand he carried huge cavalry
sword, in the other a double-barreled pis-
TOT still smoked.
Ahe other young man was dark as the
hrst was fair, and shorter than his
friend. He might have been two or three
years older. He wore the blue red
striped trousers of the National Guards,
and a gold-laced cap on his lead, but
beyond that he was as innocent Of uni
form as his comrade. His shirt had been
originally white, but was now black and
bioodstained.
The two had been companions for
years. The Honorable Walter Glaydes,
son of Lord Yorley, had met Eugene de
Ba-dinot at Oxford, and there had sworn
friendship with him. Since then the two
mad been nearly inseparable. and thus it
came that Walter Glaydes was allowed
to tight in the front rank Of the Nation
al Guards against the Reds.
How far are we from the house
nowF asked Walter, pantingly; you
are sure you know which it is" -
Yes" replied De Bardinot; you can
see 1t there. He lives on the second floor
at the back"
lie cannot escape us this time, then"
cried Walter. Il shall find her at last.
and we can have our reckoning with
him.
a short and swift reckoning it will
be" replied the captain. HE has done
as much az anybody to incite the wretch
ed people. to this dastardly insurrection
with his speeches, and his writings and
his poems. What had he to do with us,
TINS stranger, that he must come to egg
the people on TO their destruction? Onv'
he cried to a couple of his men; "don't
lag! Forward
And he dashed on himself in the midst
of the smohe and the flashes. Walter
followed his friend, and with him rushed
through the gateway of the house which
he sought. A number of the Reds, driv-
en- into conner, had shut themselves
into the lower floor of the building at the
back, and there fought like fiends The
Guards rushed in like q swarm of bees,
and in less than two minutes there was
the silence of death along that lower
floor.
Now upstairsr' cried Walter. who
had been foremost in the fighting, and
whose face and hands were red with
blood, some Of which oozed from a great
cash in his own face
He flew upstairs, followed by De Bar
dinot and half a dozen of his men. The
staircase was dark as pitch nearly, and
they had to grope for the door Thar
was soon found, and few smashes with
a musket butt shiyered it to pieces.
Il have discovered you at last. thenr'
exclaimed Walter as he entered the room
and saw the old man sitting there with
the light dimly streaming about his white
face and beard through the partly opened
shutter. The Guards were about to fol-
low him, but a motion of De Bardinot' 5
hand stayed them and kept them outside.
Leave this man with me for a mo-
ment," said Walter; you can reckon
with him afterward." He looked around
the room, as if seeking somebody.
Where IS she?' he questioned, angrily.
Where is Heleney"
The old man smiled, but spoke not a
word. Walter approached with clenched
fists and biting his lips.
will you tell me, you old villain q
he cried; ''or shall l have to choke you
TO get the truth from your throatT'
He had not noticed the little kissing
and sputtering sound and the tiny sparks
that pulled from the hole in the floor.
The old man sat still there smiling calm
ly On n sudden q crash as of an earth
quake shook the room, and a roar of
fame issued from the floor.
The floor heaved and burst upward,
the walls shook and fell, the roof crash
ed away, and quicker than it can be writ
ten or read Walter Glaydes, Bardinot,
the old man and half a dozen of the
Guards were blown toward the sky. to
mingle with bricks, mortar, wood and
iron in the general destruction.
At the same moment a lull seemed to
come over the fighting, and a silence of
death hung over the place like a pail, to
be followed the moment afterward by I'M
earthly shrieks and blood-curdling groans.