Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-06
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old face starting out like whipcords.
He raised both his clinched fists and
opened his mouth. to speak, but no
words came.
Speech was supplied on the instant,
however, BY Sumner Rollins. "By
Heaven, no.' he cried. II knew that
you contemplated some folly, Kelvin.
but never that you had in your crazed
mind crime so great as this or 1
should either have impeached you as a
traitor or had you imprisoned as q
tunatic. Hear me, you men! Let no
word Of this proclamation get, be-
yond this room as you value your
lives" =.
ARREST thatsmanr shouted Kelvin.
ARREST me If you dare!" cried Roll
Inns. II am, going from this room a
free man, and will show. you that
patriotism and the love of liberty in
the United States are neither dead nor
asleep. In every village and upon
every farm there still dwells the i'm
mortal spirit Of our forefathers. KEEL
vim. am going out Of here to face
you with an army which can defeat
any politically made army in the
world, an army fighting for the sacred
ana unbeatable causes Of home and
country and freedom. I shall issue
such call that every unvitiated de-
scendant Of every true American will
swing into line to sweep this colossal
folly back into the fourteenth century,
where It belongs, and to make by
WORD and laughingstock of the name
Of Phillip Kelvfn-emperor!"
The guards who had advanced to-
ward Rollins had hesitated upon his
tOutburst, and In that moment of his
righteous fury, stnnding stern and stall
Mart with his eyes flashing, he was
commanding enough to have halted
any underling. Now, however, the
guards looked to Kelvin, and he struck
his knuckles impatiently upon the ia
BILE. Elsie White upon Kelvin's plunge
into hts proclamati on had stepped back
to the door, where she now stood d.
rectly back of Rollins. AS the latter
spoke she had put her hands behind
her and quietly turned the key. Now
she plucked Rollins by the sleeve.
Hurry! Ger she whispered.
She pulled open the door and thrust
Rollins through it before he had more
than half comprehended her intention:
then she slammed it shut, turned the
key In the lock and slipped the key
into the neck Of her gown 4just as the
guards and Sam threw themselves
npon the door.
Miss White, I will give you thirty
seconds in which to produce that key"
came the cold voice Of Kelvin.
She looked back at him steadily, but
made no move. Kelvin drew his watch
from his pocket. A tense silence set
tied In the room. Finally he slipped
his timepiece back into his pocket.
swM you give it upT' he demanded.
Now his voice was trembling.
She shook her head -
':Sam, take it"
Tho blood that; had left Elsie's face
suddenly suged up crimson as Sam
approached her, but except to clasp
her hands over her breast she did not
move. nor did she take her eyes from
Kelvin. He himself turned, half
nauseated. but the word Of an emperor
was out. She shuddered as Sam put
hiy enormous hands upon her, but she
defended the key as best she could
with her puny strength. There was q
brief struggle, then Sam sprang from
Elsie and inserted the key in the lock,
though Rollins by that time was in
biz automobile and speeding away to.
ward the Maryland line.
Elsie staggered back pace against
The wall for support, still with those
largo eyes fixed upon tKelvin. Across
the width Of the room he gazed into
them and saw die there every last
lingering trace. from every corner Of
her heart, Of the love and affection
that had for many years been a part
pf IT. fiber. She sank faintng to the
aoor. Two or three ran to revive her,
but Lillian was not among them.
In the midst of that confusion Henry
Arsed found his voice. ''You shan't
have it," he cried. "You shan't have
my money. I'll resist to the last ditch.
6ou can't get into the vault III hire
i million assassins to kill you. II
Mas TO be emperor! was to be en-
pesorr' His face was scarlet, and
tAsro were decks Of foam upon his
npa, dill .s' ".ass.. y -.
MS granddaughter put her hand
npon his shoulder. "Never mind,
xfandfather," she said contemptuously.
ERsnsmber that its all In the family"
she glided up to the desk before
Phillip. my emperor, I salute you,"
he sa3d, smiling up at him, and from
his desk she picked up the dagger.
pH0o It is, your talisman that twice
threatened your life. Do you remem-
bee how once, holding its point up like
This. you declared that in this sign you
would conquer? It represented then,
as It does now, the tips Of ten thou
rand glittering sword points, OF a mil
lion differing bayonets. believed in
you then, az do now, and declared
that I, too, would reign. In this sign
we conquerr' and with hysterical
lau9h she raised the dagger aloft.
Kelvin looked down upon her In sud-
dan fury. He had not forgiven her
for enticing him to the forgetfulness
pf his great principle that to acquire
success he must have no entangle-
msnfs with women; he had not for
xiyan her his entrapment into a mar
riass avowal; he had not forgiven her
the death Of that love which he had