The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-13

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up 30 no one can get II See, you
! have left all the doors open?'
The babble Of voices from the upper
part Of the house caused him to
straighten up, and his dim old eyes
grew wide.
"Hushl They are comingr' he said.
'"They shan't have itr' he suddenly
screamed. at is mine! Minei Every
dollar OF ity'
He rushed toward the door to close
It. but he stumbled and fell upon the
floor and lay quite still.
As soon as Henry Breed was carried
out there was room for the full score
Of men In the big vault. and Blagg call
ed them all in by name. each one as
he came forward loosing two long
brown sacks from about his middle.
"Gather up the money from the floor
first" Blagg directed. then take the
drawers systematically. beginning at
the bottom and working up"
Eagerly the men began filing their
sacks. with many EXPLANATIONS Of ami
NAL qualification as the silken feel Of
| the paper and the metallic touch Of the
metal glided through their fingers.
! In the house above the gentlemen
| and ladies of equality and fraternity
had hunted out the stores Of food and
liquor. These dispatched, they swarm
| ed over the house like rats, seeking
what they might pilfer or destroy.
They searched with almost whining
eagerness in every nook and Granny
| large enough to conceal human life.
They did not find Zelphan. but they
did find Jens. and he faced them and
fought and died standing. as he had
preferred.
Had be remained concealed for but
a few brief moments he might still
have lived. for there came suddenly
upon the big gray house a new and
terrible sound. borne by swift, shad-
owy engines that swept upward along
the wide curving driveway almost
noiseless, except for a rush and
whir. Out Of the purring silence
they burst upon the rabble outside
with a sharp rafting hailstorm of lead
en- death.
Kelvin and his squad of flying Cat
lings had arrived, and close behind him
trotted the detachment that had been
biyouacked nearest the gates. He
moved down men as If they had been
weeds. Stalwart men in khaki car
ried Calling and planted it In the
very doorway, pouring its deadly
blight back into the hall. They set 1t
up next at the library door and swept
that room as bare and clear Of living
humanity as If food had washed it
out. while the men in khaki swarmed
through the house. pursuing the follow
ers OF Blagg into bloody corners and
exterminating them as II they had
been vermin. A detachment, with
Rensselaer, and Kelvin in the lead,
stepped over the CHASTITY, huddled heaps
in the library. hurried back through
the little room and poured down the
narrow secret stairway. AS they had
swept through the library Rensselaer,
had caught brief glimpse Of a gray
haired woman in black silk gown,
with her head upon her folded arms,
sitting at the table, but the picture was
confused with others Of its riddled and
useless kind, and he hurried on ahead.
Kelvin had promised himself to be
in the lead as they went down the
stairway, but as he turned into the
closet entrance a huge black form
thrust itself in before him, and Sam
led the way. unarmed except for the
formidable weapons with which nature
had provided him.
The greedy garnerers Of Breeds
golden harvest were taken by COM
plete surprise. They turned from their
tasks as the men In khaki streamed
in upon them, but their weapons had
been laid aside, and they had only
bags Of money with which to fight,
and these were too heavy.
Sam was shouting aloud. An IRE
sistible demon. he clutched first one
thin throat in his mighty hands and
cracked it and threw the limp. resist
less body aside and sprang for anoth-
er, and the second man to fall before
bis savage onslaught was Ben White.
Blagg, with q mighty oath, sprang
for Kelvin, who had entered Just be-
hind Sam, but one Of Rensselaers
lieutenants was quick enough to inter
cept him. Blagg gradually bent his
assailant backward and in the act
managed to draw the Heutenant's pis-
toll from its holster. In place Of turn
ing It upon his own antagonist he lev
eled 1t over the mans shoulder
straight at Kelvin.
! 1t was Sam who. shouting In a fe-