The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-04-24

the train at Aldsa,e and faced the
m~alodorous shamhie-stores OF Butch
ers Row. the p~aNeraents OF the big
thoroughfare seemed alive With the
threatening silence of the coming
storm.
Knots of two or three or Of half d
dozen denizens of the district stood
about at every vantage point discuss
ing in low tones ON evidently weighty
matter. Fitting from group to group
We're a few better dressed men. whose
mission ii seemed TO he to keep popular
interest in the subject under discussion
up to standard point.
AT the corner OF Commercial street
the knots of men appeared TO crNstaiize,
the police good ~hunloYedly taking little
notice so long as The road traffic was
not interfered with or irnpeded.
Gerald. there's Dick exclaimed
Mabel AS they were preparing 10 cross
the road.
She was pointing eNcitedly toward q
tall mar IL a coarse tweed suit and
Il golf cap of the same olo
The man was talking to Il lady, who
had just descended from a hanson, that
waited by the curbside.
Tan. dark and stately looking. and
dressed IN well-fitting tailor-made dress
and jacket, the latter was rapidly ex-
citing in the male East End mind UNI
disguised admiration for her aristo-
craticallN handsome face.
BY Jove. So it ISL replied Gerald
HAYNES, and If I'm not very much
attention is Lady Marjorie!"
Pushing a way for himself and Mabel
through n fast-increasing crowd, he
soon came abreast of the man in the
tweed suit and his companion.
Their eyes met simultaneously. the
whole four of them. quite o%blivious of
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giving themselves up unreservedly to
the pleasure Of the meet
inc.
Unfortunately, Richard CULVER. the
socialist pioneer. the leader of men, the
man who it was ramored. had given up
a fortune to help his east end brother,
was recognized by an enthusiastic fol-
lower.
The news spread like wilafre. In an
instant Dick and his friends were hem
med in SO closely that to get
clear of the press seemed an absolute
impossibility.
Now Dick was a giant among men;
stood. indeed. Saul-like. above his fell
lows from the shoulders Upward.
This fact stood him in good stead
now, inasnluch as it enabled him to
look round for a means of escape from
his admirers
On the side OF the Mile Enc Road
where they stood was the entrance to
a large hall, wedged in between two
shop fronts.
1t was in this nall that :hc meeting
referred to by Gerald Haynes was to
be held at 2 o'clock on that day.
Whispering to Gerald to take quick
advantage of his next move. Dick
squared his shoulders and elbowed
himself backward toward the door of
the hall. Putting Mabel and Lady Mar
iorie before him and thus between
himself and Dick. Gerald followed up,
step BY step. the formers retreat down
ward.
The moment Dick CULVER reached
the door he, deity taking a large key
from his pocket, felt behind him for the
keEhole and before the crowd could
realize that their idol a sappeared
he and his friends We're safely inside
the closed door of the hall.
Suddenly there vas a sound of an
ever nearing roar Of a human Niagara.
len thousand Threats seemed split
ting-ten thousand voices seemed split
ting in hideous discord in the street
outside.
Follow me-" cried Dick, as he sprane
up a steep flight of stairs to the left
of the entry. This brought them onto
q landing. the window Of which over
looked the main road.
ookin down they saw n huge
seething crowd, principally men, fran
tically struggling to reach one objective
polhi-the entrance to the hall.
Scattered here and there THROUGHOUT