Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08

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out your title-anything you please
Rollins smiled thinly, but he could
not take bis eyes nor his mind from
+! the appalling wreck Of Henry Breed.
the richest man the world had ever
known or perhaps ever would know,
the man who, starting without dol
lar, had in the course Of an ordinary
lifetime comprised half the wealth Of
nation to his own use and through
that half controlled the balance Of 1t.
And he was come to this end!
Nelson reused Rollins to immediate
business.
what is the news?" he asked alb.
ruptly.
Rollins turned to him with relief.
Il have a force Of more than fifteen
hundred good, solid men who will be
here inside Of half an hour to protect
the vaults. I am quite sure that an
! attack will be made upon them to-
night. have been collecting my
forces for week against this moment
and watching Kelvin through the spy
! Of whom you told me. When they got
| the Gatlings into the garage today
knew the time was growing very short.
! We made a forced march tonight,
making a straight cut to get here"
"They have Gatlings, you say:" ask.
ed Nelson, troubled.
Fourteen Of them from the govern
ment arsenal mounted in automobiles.
If my men get here in time want to
ambush the expedition from behind
the wall and have my sharpshOoters
puncture their tires and pick off their
gunners. Kelvin is to be among them.
F. If we can capture him the whole prob
lem is solved"
"But they have Gatlings," protested
Nelson.
1--WE have ambush and strategy" in
sisted Rollins confidently. III only my
forces can arrive In time!"
"You have done wonders said Mel
son admiringly. "How have you man
aged it? thought we were helpless"
Rollins shrugged his shoulders.
s"Kelvin had one enemy he could not
throttle, and that was the American
press, which, after all, is the stanch
foundation upon which our liberty has
been founded and upheld. Upon the
instant Of his proclamation Kelvin had
| q censor ready to take ostensible charge
of every newspaper Office in the Unit
ed States. He might as well have put
infants there. In some cases the CEN
sors were inundated, In others they
lS~
bound and gagged and in some places
killed. The eastern newspapers on the
very first day issued my call to arms.
and, though the telegraph was closed
to us, within two days the appeal was
being printed in Chicago and St Louis,
spreading farther west every day since
the proclamation. In every village and
every country settlement men are arm
ing-the sort of men who always re-
spond to the call Of patriotism, the
sort of men who know when their
country and their homes are in dan
ger and who are willing to die to de-
fend them. Nelson, you can't whip
men like that"
Zelphan, whose whole bearing until
| now had been like the dlppancy of
an overgrown. mischievous schoolboy,
smiled and nodded his head approx
ingly.
1T is the existence Of such men as
these followers of yours and your
self, Rollins, that reconciles me to
America" he admitted. II have
damned you as a whole more than
once as being q race Of people who
are plunging themselves into nerve
bankruptcy; but, after all, there is
something in the fundamentals OF this
country different from any other ma
ton. There Is healthiness in the
body polite which, If nature be given
q chance, can throw of all its can
GERS. America needs Just some such
eruption as this to clear her blood and
let the healthy molecules like you and
| Nelson here get to work. Nelson was
fortunate enough to earn the schol-
arship grade emitting him to be sup
ported by Breed through his college
career and conceived himself bound
in simple loyalty! Strange, isn't it,"
81 know" nodded Rollins, with a
kindly glance at Jens. Breed gave
him to me for my secretary. and he
was spy on all my acts"
HE was more than that" went on
the doctor. HE was passed on to
Kelvin when Phillip !. became presi-
dent, and when Jens found that KEEL
vim actually meant to declare him
self emperor, to the exclusion Of Breed
and everybody else, he set up system
Of spies of his own and helped Blagg
place the bombs that were intended to
blow Kelvin out Of his throne! All
this. mind you, in spite Of the fact
that he does not quite approve Of ev-
erything that has been done by our
royal friend back here and that he
does not believe any one man should
control so much cash"
| "Cashw suddenly broke in the shrilI
voice Of Breed, aud the crown bumped
from his glistening bald head upon the
table in front Of him and rolled to the
| door. "Cash" ana his wrinkled old
face weakened into an expression of
desperate intentness. "The greatest
force in all the world-the power that