The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09

which any other ear would have
missed, warned his; he bent quickly.
A DARK object gyrated above the
heads Of the other two just mount
ing the long step; 1t landed with
a prodigious splash In the foun-
tain, flying into a multitude OF
suffering atoms and hufling a great
column of water high up in air. I'm
needing its s%hrieking clamor, the sol
der sprang over the side of the car,
darted through the great arched door,
way out upon the terrace toward q
clump of rubber trees. lie fired; again
he fired.
In every catastrophe the spectators
minds lose some parts Of the action.
There are blanks to be supplied by no
one. Every one of the men and wom-
en- present on that fatal morning had
a different story. Colvin was packing;
he could only remember the ~deafening
roar and the shouting; and when he
got downstairs and saw-he turned
deadly sick; his chief impression Is
the backs of people and the way their
hands would shake. Janet Smith, in
side, dressing Haley's wounds, was
first warned by the tumult and cries;
she as well as Archie and Haley who
were with her could see nothing until
they got outside. All Mrs. Melville
saw was the ~glistening back of the car
and Mercer stepping into the car and
instantly lurching forward. The ex-
plosion seemed to her simultaneous
with MERGERS entering the car. But
Mrs. Rebecca Winter, who perhaps
had the coolest head of all, and who
a standing on the dais of the arcade
exactly opposite the car, distinctly
saw Keatcham with an amazing exer.
ton of vigor for a man just risen from
a sick-bed, and with a kind of whirl-
ing motion, literally hurl Mercer out
of the car. She heard the crackle
and a roar and Kito screamed in Jap
anese, running in from the carriage
side. She cannot tell whether Tracy
ture on the pavement first. Arnold
only remembers how the carriage robe
tapped in Tracy's shaking hands be-
fore he flung 1t over the man. Tracy's
fair skin was. a strcaky, blush white,
and his under jaw kept moving up
there and down like that Of a fish out
of water, while he gasped, never ut
tering a sound.
Young Arnold was trembling so that
his hands shook when he would have
raised the wounded man. Mercer
| alone was composed although deathly
pale. He had the presence Of mind to
throw the harmless fragments of the
bomb into the fountain and to examine
the interior of the car lest there
should be more Of destruction hidden
therein. Then he approached the heap
on the flags; but Keatcham was able
to motion him away, saying In his old
voice, not softened In the least:
Don't you do that! I'm all in. No
use. They got me. But it won't do
them any good; you boys know that
will you Witnessed; it gives a fifty
thousand for the arrest and conviction
or the killing of Atkins; his own cut
threats will betray him for that. But
where's Winter? You damn careless
fools didn't let him get hurt?"
"Shure, sor, he didn't let himsilf
git hurted," Haley blurted out; he had
run in after Miss Smith, brandy bottle
in hand; otis the numbering dagoes
Is gettin' hurried on there behind the
big rubber trees; / kin see the dead
legs Of thin. this minnit. IT'S q grand
cool shot the colonel is, sor."
Bring him in, let them go; they
were only TOOLS" painted Keatcham
weekly; but the brandy revived him;
and his lips curled In q faint smile as
Janet Smith struck q match to heat
the teaspoonful Of water for her hypo-
! darmin. mako It rnnd ana atrnnG.