The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-10

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 of their
gunners. Kelvin Is TO be among them.
If we can capture him the whole prob
lem Is solved"
But they have Gatlings," protested
Nelson.
"We have ambush and strategy" in
sisted Rollins confidently. 'If only my
forces can arrive in timer
You have done wonders" said Mel
son admiringly. "How have you man.
aged it? ] thought we were helpless"
Rollins shrugged his shoulders.
KELVIN had one enemy he could not
throttle, and that was the American
press, which. after ell, is the stanch
foundation upon which our liberty has
been founded and upheld. Upon the
instant OF bis 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 intimidated, in others they
were hoodwinked, In others they were
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 dam
ger and who are willing to die to de-
fend them. Nelson, you can't whip
men like THAR
Zelphan, whose whole bearing until
now had been like the fiippancy Of
an overgrown, mischievous schoolboy,
smiled and nodded his head APPROX
ingly.
"It 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 a 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 a healthiness in the
body polite which. II nature be given
a 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 a spy on all my acts"
He was more than that" went on
the doctor. HE was passed on to
Kelvin when Phillip l. 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 a 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 be 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"
Cash. suddenly broke in the shrill
voice Of Breed, and the crown bumped
from his glistening bald head upon the
table in front Of him and rolled to the
floor. CASH and his wrinkled old
face weakened into an expression OF
desperate intentness. The greatest
force in all the world-the power that |
can totter thrones and disrupt govern