The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-09-29

Eer l"oNLY MISTAKEN" HE SAID.
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 over!
Kelvin is dead"
Within but a 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 in bene-
diction and forgiveness. Then he turn
ed to his own followers and those Of
Rensselaer,. "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 it all the constitution of
the United States still is sacred and
supreme. and there" his voice took on
a sudden ring Of exultation-"and there
waves it's everlasting emblem!"
One grizzled 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 it's war stain
ed stars and stripes to their gaze.
There was cheer, but only a feeble
one. The men, almost with one ac-
cord, took off their hats. and moisture
stood in their eyes.
A 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 all that succeeded it his hands
had convulsively gripped his money,
and he still held it. green and orange.
in his fingers.
"Cash"' his shrill old voice quavered
as he Haunted it in the air. Cash!
The greatest force i'm all the world! The
power that can totter thrones and dis
rupt governments. Cash, The life
blood of commerce. The golden lever
Of Archimedes. Cash"
He stopped to laugh shrilly and al
lowed soldier 10 seat him in a chair.
where he drooled off into a jibbering
mumbling. AS he left the doorway his
place was taken by DR.. Zelphan. Both
hands were filed with shawl strapped
packages of his precious manuscript.
He looked down at Breed a moment in
contemplative pity.
HE will die the way he is now"
said he. His once remarkable brain
Is mere mush. He was wonderful
study. most wonderful study. and
the nearest approach to an absolute
monarch 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. / am going to Switzerland" And
he 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 fleecy
clouds. revealed in the east the first
rosy glow of coming day. and the
same grim old veteran who had
brought with him the war stained bat
tlefiag broke in trembling accents
into a song that cleared the still quiv-
ering air of the fevered "Marseillaise."
that was caught up by a mighty
chorus Of newly freed men. that was
at once the requiescat Of Kelvin.
benediction and the promise of new
birth for the republic he had almost
throttled:
Oh, say. can you see by the dawn's early
light
What so proudly we hailed at the twi-
lights last cleaning?