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

l'oNLY MIsTAKEN," He SAID.
yellow porch light, and this yellow
light was in moment more augment
ed by saffron glare that fiared out as
the roof. from fire In the attic, start
ed by tue recent vandals, broke into
a blaze.
Charge" came sudden sharp voice
from the shrubbery.
Startled, In the glare of the burn
ing roof Rensselaer, saw a host of men
with fixed bayonets suddenly spring
out of the dark shrubbery at the north
west side of the building and come
tearing down upon them.
Left face. Present armsp' came the
sharp command of Rensselaer,.
The word Fire" was just trembling
upon his lips when he recognized the
advancing leader, rushing with drawn
saber and pistol at the side of the
first line in the column.
Halt! For Gods sake, haiti" he
cried. waving the white sheet that he
had snatched from across Kelvin. "a
truce! For Gods sake, Rollins, halt
your men! This madness is all overl
Kelvin is dead!
Within but few feet of what must
otherwise have been desperate strug-
gle the advancing column was checked,
and Rollins heard briefly from the sick
ened Rensselaer, what had happened.
He strobe up the steps and stood be-
fore Kelvin with barred head.
"Only mistaken" he said i'm bene-
dictlon and forgiveness. Then he turn
ed to his own followers and those of
Repsselaer. "As president of the Unit
ed States. vice Kelvin. | have become
your chief commanding officer" he told
them. Kelvin is dead. but the repub-
lie still lives. Blagg and his consort
will die this morning, and with them
the rebellion is broken. Some re-
strictive legislation TO be carefully and
wisely considered must be made TO
keep down such appalling accumula-
tons of wealth as may threaten our
liberty and our republic. But, gentle
men, through IL all the constitution of
the United States still is sacred and
supreme. and there" his voice took on
a sudden ring of exultatlon-"andt there
waves its everlasting emblemr
One grlzzled old veteran Of Sumner
Rollins ranks had brought with him
a tattered old American flag that had
gone through the war of the north and
south and had unfurled its war stain
ed stars and stripes to their gaze. I
a httf Ia
one. The men. almost with one ac-
cord, took Off their hats. and moisture
stood In their eyes.
strange figure appeared among
them. Old Henry Breed, still clad in
his mockery of royal raiment. stag
gered to the door. In his fall and
through allrhat succeeded 1t his hands
had convulsiyely grlpped his money,
and he still held 1t, green and orange,
in his fingers.
CASH! his shrill old voice quavered
as he Haunted 1t In the air. "Cashl
The greatest force In all the world! The
power that can totter thrones aud dis
rupt governments. Cash! The life
blood of commerce. The golden lever
of Archimedes! Cashw
He stopped to laugh shrilly and al
lowed soldier 10 seat him i'm chair,
where he drooled Off into n jibbering
AS he left the doorway his
hands were filled with shawl strapped
packages of his precious manuscript.
He looked down Mt Breed moment In
pity.
"He will die the way he IS now"
said he. "TIis once remarkable brain
Is mere mush. He was a wonderful
study. n most wonderful study, and
the nearest approach to an absolute
of any resident OF this globe.
In the meantime, gentlemen. America
has had her orgasm. and her nerves
will be quieter now. bid you GOOD
day. I am going to Switzerland And
be strobe down the drive and around
the trees at the bend.
Running around the corner came Ell
sic White, who had been hidden TO
stay back in safety. but who could
not, and Rollins drew her TO his SIDE
The wind. blowing away some heecy
clouds, revealed In the east the nrsc
rosy glow of coming day, and the
same grim old veteran who hac
brought with him the war stained bas
Ilenag broke In trembling accents
into song that cleared the still qu'V.
ering air of the fevered "Marseillaise.
hat was caught up by n mighty
'horus of newly freed men. that was
1T once the requiescat of Kelvin
and the promise OF new,
birth for the republic he had almose
ihrottled:
Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's eariN