The Washington herald., 1909-02-07

should submit to him She ran shot and missed then
he used the pistol beat her down 1t another hell
ish case"
The professor who was bending over the form on the
couch turned with terrible cry. hands
his head with fingers working his bianched turned
a pad green, his eyes cleaned Ike the eyes of
impaied serpent Awful words spilled from his lips
Wild adjuratons and blasphemous appeals to God for
revenge. The face Of each present turned wolhsh
mirroring murder and violence The lawyers words had
PASSED through their numbed minds awakening the
primitive beast in them. The white haired
pied down by the unheeding form the couch and
looked at the IN speecaless CONSERVATION The
lineaments Of those she love- changed; pacdity
kindness intellectually had fed leaving the looks Of
maddened wild animals Her lips worked dryly and
moaningly she stared at them.
"ComeI" shouted the lawyer The murderer es-
capes while watt and he and the professor and the
young man rushed out. The doctor sprang to tele-
town His words harsh. cultural. unnatural he
told the officer what had fallen When ne had done he
turned the woman and the dead girl
Telephone the professors wife. cali some Of the
ne,ghbors to help you arrange the girls body decently
but do not NEEDLE with the injury" he said almost
roughly Opening the drawer Of desk. he drew forth
pistol thrust II into his pocket and passed with
long crashing strides quickly through hall The
shape on the couch and moaBed afresh-
Down the edge OF the park the doctor found
twenty IN moOnlit road Their faces were
family touched with paor and they mingng and
stirring In odd purposeless distraction The lawyers
hoarse heavy driving his hypothesis OF the
crime upon their recoiling At first 1t II
ne struck upon loose janglng strings then the cords
began tighten and respond in unison. giving or pres
emily single snarlIng frightful note cry for blood.
Their took eongested, less reasoning, less
human look and they scattered IN all directions, hunt
ing for the evidoer with tireess fury OF insanity
The Doctors had described the supposed murderer
as being young man probably yet teens
dark haired. palld youth with particularly strange.
Wild He had caught swift glimpse OF the crmi-
nails frightened visase as they met Two other men
who had been idng not far from the spot had noticed
a CLEAN OF light they said. and recalled that young
fellow OF the cast OF counenance described had hurried
past them they walked The story put forward by
the doctors looked but natural truth As the fevere
hours sped however Il grew as II few from lip to lip
night time fungus that enlarged swiftly to
growth.
Were one skilled enough in such black magic
st hardly well to make an open and true picture Of the
reversion 10 saagey OF the cultured czenry OF the
town that night Alteration pretty manifesto
ton nelectuals and morasts ravenIng after blood
spectacle particularly Gripping 70 human pride and
pride In its way Is well and 20 be heedlessly So,
aside Hence. IN what wise the suspected youth feIl
into the aery net that flung abroad him.
BY what fierce effort he taken from the f-ies who
surrounded him and placed bruised and half dead IN
the town lookup. and how the cultured ctizenry bat
the down and dragged him back to the park
for execution may left the fancy and the reader
brought quickly 70 the dawn
The natural and human aspects OF the wer.
\
pie overhead sky blue and dewy the inside Of
morning glory blossom IN the park freshness and CLINT
ing leaves the midst OF this human Quite
three-fourths OF the male members of the community
were there. among them score OF Two Of women In
all Of these male and female doctIty tenderness toIer
anee refinement, had been engufed and lost Not ever
refined savagery theirs FeaTfuIly altered from
their former selves uncoUh animal eyed frsRetc they
swayed. and pushed. and yelled.
The prisoner a half witted youth struggled in
binding rope s5berng unintegiby with fear and pair
and lack OF UNDERSTANDING n his look thai
might have kInded pity tigers heart from slim
and Erithing body mercy cried IN wild persuasion bu
the wolsh eyes him expressed only vengeance ht
distorted visages pressing him only violence and
fierce perturbation
Across flower beds and through sh-ubbery they had
drasged him. crushing plants and blossoms IN thelI
eage-ness bring him TO his death upon ground made
fitting, they thought BY his crime Alas for tbs
shallowness Of dementa! This place for deeds
unhoy dawnllt garden OF beauty, The thing thel
sought to DO had been better framed BY secret
sunsn hollow among sweating rocks lined with thornet
bra1bIes and scum quilted pools aid choked witt
odors mephitic. haunt where hideous intention
might materfalizs and awaken 20 their hideousness
slime Beauty for that mad oo1coGrse did not exist
their ecstasy had It's derivation many gulfs distan
from that fountain OF fine delight which springs O
beauty seen and felt Their pleasure was OF drunk
enness that siays their iutoRication the consuming
frenzy OF dizzy Drained madness.
The lawyer and Doctors son held the rope wit
which the youth TO be hanged Their faces wer
as the faces OF the others rabd of expression
fever eyed, greenfsh white. Near them in the crusl
OF bodies the doctor and the professor struggn
TO keep back two officers who vainly trying t
pluck the offending boy from this pot boiling rage
More than a thousand people were choked togeths
under the silvered trees little way to the left
lakes waters whispered along green banks. its lip