The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-06-21
grew wide.


"They shan't have itp' he suddenly
screamed. lit is mlnel Mine! Every
dollar of it,
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 he remained concealed for but
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 rush and
whir. Out of the purring silence
they burst upon the rabble outside
with a sharp rattllng 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 I'm 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 n food had washed it
out, while the men I'm khaki swarmed
through the house, pursuing the follow
ers of Blagg into bloody corners and
DISCRIMINATING them as IL they had
been vermin. A detachment. with
Rensselaer, and Kelvin in the lead,
stepped over the CHASTITY. hudded 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 n gray
haired woman I'm black silk gown,
with her head upon her folded arms,
sitting at the table. but the picture was
confused with others OF its ridded 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 n 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 |
his savage onslaught was Ben White.
Blagg. with n 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
TO draw the leutenant's pis-
tol from its holster. In place OF turn
Ing IL upon his own antagonist he lev
eled 1t over the mans shoulder
straight Mt Kelvin.
1t was Sam who. shouting in n fe-
yer Of savage Joy, saw that motion
and sprang 10 wrest the pistol from
Blagg. receiving In his own breast the
three bullets that the flrearm 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.
Kelvin, spent with his own efforts.
stood erect to breathe for n moment.
and In that moment needle sharp
dagger was thrust into his side. He
tottered ana fell. and above him knelt
Lillian Breed. while before his eyes
she held the dagger.
''Seew she cried. "Thls was your
Of triumph! This was the sign
In which you were to conquer! This
was the instrument that twice threat.
ened you and twice failed. but the
third time II wins. Phillip. you made
but one mistake. Had you put me Mt
your side as your empress in this
sign," and she held the dagger point
upward tive would hove conouarad |