The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-09-15

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prevail. II not his anger. Rensselaer,
fingered long enough TO protest.
II say. old man." said he. you might
have been fair enough to give a fell
low a correct tip when asked you In
the first place. You've let me make an
ass Of myself. | finally gave in to the
aunt and proposed to Miss Breed not
long ago. IL wish you happiness"
Kelvin looked systematically into
Rensselaer's eyes. abruptly laughed
aloud and then. wheeling, turned into
his own room.
Stalwart soldiers surrounded the
White House grounds In lines two
deep. From the gates to the main
entrance the way was lined upon both
sides with bronZed. gray bearded non
descripts, who stood slouchily in their
olive green khaki and who had moth
| ing Of the bearing of soldiers In their
attitude. They were strange lot full
500 of them, and yet any one disposed
to laugh at the awkward line had only
10 look into the stern succession Of
| inirthless eyes to know that here
was logged fighting blood. Already
throughout the length and breadth Of
the land there had been sufficient
| clashes to set citizen against soldier
and soldier against citizen, and re-
cruits that but the day before yesterday
had spat at a uniform and yesterday
had been driven by necessity into the
employ of the army TODAY found them
selves arrayed against their former
comrades and spat at the plain citi-
zenry.
Within the White House there were
| throngs Of those who deemed that
they had a right to inquire, to argue.
to protest, to denounce. Day after
day Kelvin, sitting in calm pomp.
with his two huge, gaudily liveried
negroes behind him, systematically dis
posed of one agitated patriot after an
other.
Just now Kelvin was entertaining a
delegation picked by himself. They
were his cabinet officers, and they
were pale and nervous to a man. Add
ed to them were two strangely out of
place groups, the one consisting of
Henry and Lillian Breed, Jens Nelson
and DR.. Zelphan and the other of Rol-
Inns and Elsie White. All of these had
been admitted by private door. The
arrival Of the latter two groups was
disconcerting to Phillip at the mo-
ment. although. after a slight period
Of cogitation, he had ordered them
both admitted. Rollins and Elsie
White came last, and the moment they
had entered Phillip ordered the door
to be relocked He had been upon the
point Of making an important an
nouncement to his waiting and APP
parently prepared cabinet, and now,
his small audience once more quiet. he
raised his hand impressively. but be-
fore he could speak Elsie White hur-
ried forward to him.
look in your desk quickly. but care.
fullyw she cried. can internal ma
chine is concealed there, timed to ex-
plode at twelve!'
She was deathly pale. There were
dark rings under her eyes. Evidently
she had passed sleepless night Phil
lip. obeying his habit Of mentally ig-
noring sudden and agitated thoughts
that he might consider them In forced
calmness, looked down upon her COM
passionately, and the moment for
which Elsie had waited all these years
had at last arrived. Today she stood
nearer to him in affection than any
other living creature. Love had come
to him at last. Well. there was still
time. He had fought and he had won.
The moment Of his triumph was at
hand. and with the fruits of that
triumph he would crown love. He
glanced at the clock. 1t was then bare
ly 10. Jens Nelson had started hastily
toward the door. but now he returned
to the side of Dr. Zelphan.
According to that. we have plenty
Of time." Phillip said calmly.
Look! Elsie frantically insisted.
1.-THE machine might be faulty. 1t
was timed for IL because ii is known
that you never leave until l. but there
is danger this very second. Every act
Of your daily routine has been stud
led. and in half dozen places these
things lie in wait for you. Here Is a
list of them" And she gave him a
paper. Moreover. today at noon
there will he flashed from one end of
the country to the other by telegraph
and by wireless George Blagg's COM
mand to begin fighting. He has aR
immense secret army ready awaiting
this word. Only a small proportion Of
the men are armed. but they intend
to take their weapons from the SOL
diers and capture the states simulta-
neously from coast to coast"
"How do you know these thingsw
Kelvin demanded.
What little color there had been In
Elsie's face left 1t suddenly. Even her
lips were as white as paper. 81 can
not tell you," she murmured family.
Kelvin nodded his head. He sur
missed that this vast conspiracy had
Ben White as one of its weak arms.
But hurry. Phillip. hurryw plead
ed Elsie. using his familiar name un-
consciously. IF you find there what
I have told you. you may know that
all the rest is true"
at is probably true enough" replied