The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-08-24
testing, ran back under the porte co.

mob. "Ab ain we'll"
Sam Immediately jumped out after
him.
"Git back in yo' placer he com.
manded.
"Now 20 all 20 way from me.
Samr' cried Peavy. "Ah aim got no
time to proiec' roun' wild vol All ain
well, All tells yo'r
'Sit back on yo' placer repeated
Sam.
The sharp voice Of Kelvin came from
the automobile.
Leave him there. Sam. We don't
want him. He will be worse than use
less to us"
"All right. sub, Ah'll leave him heah.
then. Jes' one minute"
There was the wall as of a lost soul
from Peavy as Sam. gripping his pow
erful fingers around Peavy's neck.
bore him to the 6oor. He knelt over
him for just a moment. while Peavy's
legs struggled convulsively. Then he
Jumped up by the chauffeur, and
Peavy lay still where Sam had left
him.
Kelvin uttered no word of protest tc
Sam. but he turned to Herbert with
return of that chill feeling which had
twice before oppressed him this night
"A bad omen" he said
Herbert laughed lightly.
There will be thousand bad omens
before we are through with this" he
predicted, but think that even Peavy
would have been safe in this flying
wedge of ours"
The automobile rolled out into the
street and took its place in the center
or the hollow square. Both before and
behind II were six automobiles. three
abreast, and one was upon each side
Each of these was seven passenger
car, and in the tonneau of each rested
upon n tripod. its sweep above the
head OF the chauffeur a cylinder OF
shining brass. Behind each cylinder
stood a stalwart soldier in khaki. and
two others sat upon the seat. each
soldier was further accoutered with
rifles and small arms, and thus. sur
rounded by fourteen Gatling guns and
spare men to man them. the fifteenth
automobile. which contained Kelvin.
took command of the expedition. There
was a shril whistle from Rensselaer,
the soldiers fell away from before the
machines like chaff. and the strange
battery sprang forward
Upon the cross street at the eud OF
the block the people quickly gave way.
but out from an intersecting avenue
two blocks beyond. a fanatical mob.
shouting and cursing. turned and bore
straight toward them Guns could be
seen on shoulders and torches were
hounted. From the forward automo.
bile there came sharp cracking. a
succession OF staccato snaps like the
ripping OF shingles from roof. The
Il scattered like chaff and In an in
stant more the autos. keeping evenly
abreast. bumped and ierked over
pavement strewn with sickeningly soft
impediments So through the city
and out into the country they swept
TO roads whore they could 20 but two
abreast and sometimes but single file
But always Kelvin was I'm the center
and never was there any interference
A half mile n0rt heast OF the city the
headlights harpd on n detachment I'm
unmistakabe khaki on both sides OF
the road. and these saluted as the i'm
perlal escort swept by and cheered
and. closing In behind, marched at
double quick.
The ringing OF that first deep toned
knell In Washington had been stimuli
taneous with the clang OF the same
grim death watch from east to west
and from north To south. George
Blagg's own hand had pressed the
wireless key which had sent the mes
sage flashing In every direction across
startled space Eager fanatics had
received IL and swnrmed an i'll clad,
upkempt. underfed horde TO avenge
the follies of society upon itself. The
horror of 1t was that they did not at.
tack the soldiery direct. as Blagg had
planned, but the better nourished citi-
zens, for Blagg's original secret or
bound together with some
Idea OF order, with some sense OF phi
lanthropIc motive, with some plan Of
warfare against the "imperla army,"
was now augmented by a wild disor-
dered herd Of the criminally inclined,
who. seeing that law and order were
swept away: turned to mad license,
Out into the residence districts they
swept in packs. like starving wolves,
and sickening scenes OF horror ensued
Wherever a proud home reared itself
monument to the industry or the
wit or the greed of some man. there
we're murder and pillage and rapine,
Ill ending in the torch, and when the
mob swept on II left behind II but a
Gaping blaze TO light its way. The
were worse than powerless.
An all seeing eye sweeping that night
lcross the North American continent
would nave found the land reddened
)y these many pyres. which lighted a
'edness still more terrible, for not only
men and women were put to death In
his manlacal orgle OF reprisal but
little children were slaughtered as they
'an shrieklng from warm beds. No
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