Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19

commands must De ODeveQ.
TOAN, of course could only guess what was
being said; but she could not fail to recog-
nize the sounds of conflict on the stairs Men
strangely akin to tigers when they see red,
and the tigers roar when he pounces a vic
tim differs greatly from his own death scream.
Alec, powerless to move Stampof, who be-
lieved, rightly, as it transpired, that the ring
leaders were foremost in the attack, turned to
BcaumanO1r.
Release that fellow" he said eff l am
able to make my voice heard through the
racket, / can put an end to this butchery"
Beaumanoir let 60 the arm, and body fell
the other side of the door. You are too
took the knock just before you spoke. felt
it run through him. And you're wrong, you
know. This gang must be cleared out He
peered through the broken panel. Its all
over he added. mo flowers, by request"
Felix was peering up at them with his bright
crafty eyes. Queer thing!" he growled. FIN
my first honest fight have been on the side of
tyranny. If you young gentlemen will be good
enough to remove the barricade and give or
ders to have the passage cleared, l can go back
Meanwhile Joan must be taken to her ROOM
She is going to faint, and the Lord only knows
what has become of her maid!"
made Alec saa at nde G sss d Fs5 had
sweetheart he cried IAN danger is over and
with Gods help you will never witness such
scene in Delgratz again.
Il feel tired" she sighed. 81 know quite
well ! am safe. Alec. Somehow. | hardly
thought you and should die to-day. We have
things to do in the world you and 1: but those
horrid men frightened me by their shrieks. 1t
must be awful to pass into the unknown-ike
that
She sighed again. To her strained vision
Alec suddenly assumed the aspect of Henri
Quatre's gilded statue on the Pont Neuf. 1t
did not seem to be in the least remarkable that
the statue should leap from his horse and take
her in his arms She was absolutely happy and
content. She felt she could rest there awhile in
safety.
so, when the door was opened, the King ex-
perlenced no difficulty in carrying Joan through
a scene of bloodshed that would certainly never
have been blotted from her mind had she re-
manned conscious. Stampoffs commands had
been obeyed and the place reeked of the sham
bles; but the girl was happily as needless of its
nightmare horrors as the thirty-one men who
lay there dead or dying.
Alec bore her out into the street. The sight
of him greeted by sustained cheer from
the troops and the loyal citizens who were now
threatening riot of curiosity and alarm, since
the news had gone round that the King was
being done to death by rebeious soldiery in
the Furst MIchaelstrasse, and DelgratZ was
hurrying to the rescue.
Joan revived little by the fresh air and be-
wildered by the shouting throng that pressed
am l." she whispered, delightfully."- ignorant of
the fact that she nesting in Alecs arms
under the gaze of many hundreds of his SUBJ
jects.
am sending you to my mother. dear he
replied. Felix and your maid will be here in
moment, and they will take you to her in
carriage You cannot remain at the hotel and
you will be well cared for in Monsieur Nesmir' S
house"
Are you coming. Alec" she asked, scan
ming his face like timid child
Soon, quite soon.''
Then / content" she said and the
cloud descended again for brief space.
Pauline, fortunately. happened to be in the
kitchen when the fray began. She was nearly
incoherent with fright; but Felix managed to
reassure her. and piloted her skfully out of
the hotel by an exit that concealed the grue-
some staircase.
The glittering escort of soldiers surrounding
the carriage pressed into the Kings service
served to complete the illusion insisted on by
Poluski, and Pauline rejoined her mistress firm
in the conviction that the tumult was an out
landish Serbian method of merrymaking.
A Lee, having seen the carriage started on its
journey, approached Stampoff and wrung
his hand. 1t was a near thing, General" he
said. Five minutes later and we should have
been in another world"
He spoke in French, and Beaumanoir heard
him.
Not bit of it, said he THAT anarchist
Johnny carries about with him the finest assort-
Ir1ent of bOmbS- Rv the way uhere &c the