The Irish standard., 1911-06-24

udSLer, OdSu, AOyd4 SUBJECTS, anu your
masters master, the king Of Cash!'
Grandfather" said Lillian, hurry
ing to him, come with me. We want
to put this money away and lock it
up so no one can get it. 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.
"Hush! They are coming!' he said.
"They shan't have it!' he suddenly |
screamed. 1T is mine! Mine! Every
dollar of it!'
He rushed toward the door to close
it. but be 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 DOCCOIu anu 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 be faced them and
fought and died standing, as he had
preferred.
Had he remained concealed for but
few brief moments he might still
have lived, for there came suddenly
upon the big gray house new and a
terrible sound, borne by swift, shad-
owy engines that swept upward along
the wide curving driveway almost
noiseless, except for rush and
whir. Out of the purring silence
they. burst upon the rabble outside
with 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
bivouacked 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 it
up next at the library door and swept
that room as bare and clear of living
humanity as If a 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 If 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 a 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 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-
ct, anu Lue SeCOuu udu " 1du Ue1OFe
his savage onslaught was Ben White.
Blagg. with mighty OATH, sprang
for Kelvin. who had entered just be-
hind Sam. but one of Rensselaer's
! lieutenants was quick enough to inter-
cept him. Blagg gradually bent his
assailant backward and in the act
managed to draw the lieutenant's pis.
toll from it's holster. In place of turn
ing 1t upon his own Antagonist he lev
! eled It over the mans Nhoulder
I straight at KelviN.
| It was Sam who. shouting in fe-
yer of savage joy. saw that motion
and sprang to wrest the pistol from
Blagg. receiving in his own breast the
three bullets that the firearm yet con-
tanned. Then. his work done. he fell
heavily to the floor. and upon his face
was fixed forever that same sardonic
grin that displayed all his snarling
yellow teeth.