The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-12
In the Cause
Freedom
By ARTHUR w. MARCHMONT
Author of The Queens Advocate,
"A Courier of Fortune" etc.
Copyright, 1908. by Arthur w.
Marchmont.

But the leader was a persistent fellow
in his way.
How many are in the house?" he
asked Burski.
The latter shrugged his shoulders. (;
There were plenty just now; enough to
treat me pretty roughly, and I'm no
bantling."
There are no police in the house ex-
cept that man and one other. He
knows that" I declared.
The leader turned to the crowd and
tried to reason with them, but 1t was
useless. Not a man would leave the
| house. Some began to murmur and
growl at him for his interference, and
the yells and cries against me redoubled
in violence.
Then for a while things went all
wrong with me. One of the fellows in
| the hallway picked up a mat and with
a raucous laugh an dan oath flung it at
me. 1t hit me full in the face and a
| burst of laughter and wild cheering
! hailed the shot.
| Before 1 knew anything more another
man rushed up the stairs and caught
me by the legs Down 1 went back
wards, my weapon flew out of my hand
and in an instant 1 was hauled down
the stairs, feet first into the seething
mass Of Infatuated men; grabbed here.
| thrust there, beaten, kicked and hustled
| all ways at once, to the accompani-
ment of such screeching oathing and
yelling as 1 hope 1 many never hear
again, at least under similar condi-
| tiOns.
Matters would have been much worse
with me, indeed, but for one stroke of
luck. One of the crowd, a grimy, fat,
| Vile-smelling creature, in his eagerness
to get kick at my head fell asprawl
over me as l lay against the wall, I
| grabbed him tight and hung on to him,
using his fat carcase as a shield until
his piercing screams for help let his
friends see what was happening.
The attack ceased while they dragged
him free. 1 managed to scramble to my
feet at the same time and with my
back to the wall I used my fists right
and left upon the front rank Of hot,
straining, sweating, staring faces in q
desperate effort to win a way back to
the stairs.
Against such numbers 1 could gain
no more than a moments respite, how
eer. But it proved enough.
A revolver shot rang out from the
stairway and drew all eyes that way.
1t was Volna.
Running from the room above she had
seen my pistol on the stairs and her
quick wits had suggested to her the
means of stopping the tumult. She had
discharged it over the heads of the
crowd and had thus gained hearing.
Her lovely face flushed and her eyes
alight with indignation, she used the
moment of establishment to dash right
into the midst Of the crowd and reach
my side.
Shame, men, shame" she cried
| Would you tear your friends to pieces?
I am one of the prisoners and this is
the other"
The fickleness of a mob is proverb.
Her plucky act succeeded wnere all ar
guments and inducements would have
failed. The crowd swung over to her
side and cheered her Justify.
Burski was quick to appreciate the
probable results to him, and I saw him
begin to edge his way to the door TO
escape.
stop that man." I cried, pointing at
, him.
In an instant his path was blocked,
and hoped that he was going to have
a taste of the treatment of which be
had secured such a full meal for NE.
He would have had it surely enough
but for an interruption from outside.
The luck had turned right in our ia
vor. Three or four men shouldeNed
their way into the house, and in their
I I
was known to many of the crowd, who
made way for him with loud cheer.
In few words 1 made the situation
clear TO him, and added that Bremen
hof was in the room above, and that if
the crowd got wind of it in their pres
ent temper, they would tear him to
pieces.
He succeeded ultimately in inducing
the people to leave the house; and put
| 1t L., 81, -
dislas, Volna and went up to Bremen
hof
1 He was in a condition of desperate
terror and, as we entered, started up
and stared at US wide-eyed, trembling
and AFFECT.
You are in no danger, Colonel Bre-
t menhof," said Ladislas. "They shall
take my life before I will see you
harmed"
Not quite so fast as that, Ladislas, u
1 declared. Colonel Bremenhof knew
g what his man, Burski, intended in set
ting the crowd on me, and l have a
I reckoning to settle"
The hunted expression in his eyes
which had been Gained somewhat by
my friends words, returned as he
asked: What do you mean?"
"You shall know that in a moment
First understand that the mob are still
| O0ASAAS bAOou IL up 4ACy udNS
i just been cheated of one victim, myself
handed over to them in your stead by
the cunning of your man and witt
your connivance. I have but to opeI
v the door and speak your name to them
and what they did to me will be &
trifie to what they'll do to you"
Il "Anstruther!" protested Ladislas
This is my matter, man. Leave it t
a me, please. If you'd been down under
that mOb's feet, you'd feel as do. Nov
! YOU" and Bremenhof covered again
as 1 turned to him. Listen to me
Even when 1 was in danger of my life
:, L kept secret the fact that you wer,
here in the house, and saved your life
Il Out of no regard for you, believe me
for swear that If you refuse to do ex
actly what 1 tell you now, 1 will drag
d you down with my own hands and pitcl
u you into the midst of the rabble."
What do you want?"
But little more than you promiset
me last night. Madame Drakona's re
lease at once, and the delivery of tn
evidence you hold against her. an of
fetal statement that there is no charg
of any kind against her daughter here
and definite written admission of tn
part you have taken throughout this
You'll play no more tricks on me-"
Yes, 1 agree. I'll do it the instant
get to the department"
Thank you. I know how you kee
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