Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-07-06

that he was one of the foremen in the
employ of the railway construction
company. He brought the diSQuletln2
news that another strike had been de-
cIared. that the men were ugly and
determined to tear up the track al
ready laid unless their demands were
considered and, Furthermore. that there
had been severe fighting between the
two factions engaged on the work.
He urgently implored Dangloss to
send troops out to hold the rioters in
check
What is your name?" demanded the
harassed minister of police.
Poison" replied the foreman. He
lied. for be was no other than John
Cromer. the unsavory husband of Anna
Cromer of the committee of ten.
Come with me-" said Dangloss.
eve will go to General Braze. Good
by and good luck. Tullis."
At that very moment Lorraine TuIlis
was comparing notes with Truxton
King in the room beneath the armor-
er's shop Count Marlanx was hiding
in the traders inn outside the northern
gates The abductors themselves were
scattered about the city, laughing tri-
umphantly over the success of the ruse
that had drawn the well feared Amer
lean away on a wild goose chase to the
distant passes Of Dawsbergen. More
than that, at o'clock in the afternoon
second detachment of soldiers left
the city for the scene Of the riots in
the construction camps, twenty miles
| away.
Surely the we'll laid plans of the
Iron Count were being skillfully car
ried out,
All afternoon and evening men strag-
gled in from the hills and surrounding
country, apparently loath to miss the
early excitement attending the cere-
monies on the following day. Sullen
strikers from the camps came down.
! cursing the company, but drinking
noisy toasts to the railroad and it's flu
ture. The city by night swarmed with
reveling thousands. The bands were
playing, the crowds were singing and
mobs were drinking and carousing il
the lower end
At o'clock in the morning word
flew from brothel to brothel, from
lodging house to lodging house, in al
parts of the slumbering city. A thou
sand men crept out into the streets
after the storm, all animated by one
impulse, all obeying a single fierce in
junction.
They were to find and kill a tai
American! They were to keep him o.
his companion from getting in toucl
with the police authorities or with TIT
, royal castle, no matter what the cost!
At o'clock a stealthy whisper wen
the rounds, reaching the ear of ever!
vagabond and cutthroat engaged in tn
untiring vigil. Like smoke they faded
away. The silent watch was over.
The word had sped to every corne
of the town that it was no longer nee
essary to maintain the watch TO
Truxton King He was no longer il
a position to give them trouble or VI
easinesS.
The 26th dawned bright and coo
after the savage storm from the NORTH
II don't like the looks of things,
said Baron Dangloss time and again
His men were never so alert as toda
and never so deceived.
"There can't be trouble of any sort,
unused Colonel Quinnox. "These fe
lows are ugly, it's true, but they al
not prepared for a demonstration"
Colonel, We'll yet see the day whe
Graustark regrets the economy thu
has cut our little army to almost not
ing. What have we now all tolC
Three hundred men in the royal guar
fewer than COO in the fortress. l hay
a hundred policemen. There you ar
Today there are nearly 200 soldier
off in the mountains on nasty busine;
of one sort or another. Cad, if the
ruffians from the railroad possessed l
more than pistols they could give us
merry fight. There must be a tho
sand of them. l don't like it. We
have trouble before the days over"
By II o'clock the streets in t
neighborhood of the plaza were pac
ed with people. At II the cast
gates were to be thrown open for t
brilliant cavalcade that was to pa
between these cheering rows of people
Shortly after half past II o'clock c.
tain groups of men usurped the Pc
lions in front Of certain buildings
the south side of the square, a sec
here, a half score there, others bell
them. They favored the shops {
Grated by the friends Of the comm
tee of ten; they were the men W
were to take possession of the riff
that lay hidden behind counters a
walls.
From the distant castle came
J. sounds of shouts, crawling up the lC
line of spectators for the full len:
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