Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-08
Rex Beach


sF1ngerless" FraseYs voice was
louder now, as il for a signal. Arrest
me? What DO ycu meant Get out of
my way
You'd better some ~peaceably.'
Boyd heard a sharp exclamation, Get
him, Bill" And then the sound Of
men struggling. He ran, followed by ..
roar from the strikers. In whose full
view Fraser's encounter with the plain
clothes men were taking place. 4
backward glance showed him that Frs
ser had drawn his pursuers 10 the
street. He had broken away and lodged
out into the open, where the other OH
GERS responded at a call and seized him
as he apparently undertook TO break
through the Gordon. This diversion
served an unexpected purpose. Not
only did II draw attention from Elmer
sons retreat, but It also gave the mob
its long-awaited opportunity. Recog-
nizing in the officers quarry the sup
posed figure Of Emerson, the hated
cause OF all this strife, the strikers
gave vent to a great shout Of rage and
triumph, and s1rsed forward across the
wide street, carrying the police before
them with irresistible force.
In a moment 1t became not a Ques-
ton Of keeping the entrance to the
wharf, but Of protecting the life of the
prisoner. n the policemen rallied with
their backs to the wall, their clubs
working havoc with the heads that
came within striking distance.
Scarcely had Boyd reached Big
George. when 8 wing of the besieging
army swept in through the ~unguarded
entrance and down the dock like an
avalanche. leaving behind them the
battling officers and the hungry pack
clamoring for the prisoner.
Drop that freight and get aboard the
best wa you cant" Boyd yelled at the
fishermen, and with a bound was out
into Ink open crying TO Captain Peas
ley on the bridge:
Here they come! Cast off, for Gods
sakei"
Instantly a wild cry of rag and de-
fance rose from the clotted rigging
and upper works Of The Bedford Cas-
tie. Down the fishermen swarmed,
ready to overflow the sides of the ship,
but, with a sharp order to George,
Boyd ran up the gang-plank and
rushed along the rail to a commanding
DOSlIlOn III Tie PAIN y IAS AiCA, NoCACs
drawing his revolver, he reared at them
to keep back, threatening the first to go
ashore. His lungs were bursting from
his sprint. and 1t was with difficulty
that his voice rose above the turmoil:
but he presented such a figure of de-
termination that the men paused, and
then the steamship whistle interrupted
OPPORTUNITY, with a deafening blast
The dozen men who had been singing
freight on the dock FASTENED up h
gang-plank or climbed the tenders,
while the signalman chung to the lifting
tackle, and, at the piping cry OF his
whistle, was swung aloft out of the
very arms of the rioters
Above. on the flying bridge, Captain
Peasley was believing orders: a quar-
termaster was running up the iron
steps to the pilot-house; on deck the
sailors We're lighting their way to their
posts through the ranks of the raging
fishermen and the shrieking confusion
OF the Orientals; the last mel aboard
with a "Heave Hoi' in unison, slid
the n plank upward and out of
reach. The neighboring roofs lately -
black, were emptying now, the onlook-
ers Fastening to Join in the attack.
Big George alone remained upon the
wharf. AS he saw the rush coming he
had ordered his men to abandon their
load; then he ran to the after-moorings
and, taking slack from a deck hand.
cast 1t off. Back up the lock he went
to the forward hawser, where, at a
signal, he did the same, moving, toward
the last, without excessive hurry, as
If In a spirit Of bravado.> The ship wax
clear, and he had not cut a hawser.
He had lone his work: all but a ton Or
two Of the cargo was slowed. There
was no longer cause for delay.
(To ne conffnues Tomorro~.f