The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-06-10

claSneS 10 set cltlZen against soldier
and soldier against citizen, and re-
cruits that but the day before yesterday
had spat at 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 right to inquire, to argue,
to protest, to dcnouncc. Day after
day Kelvin, sitting in calm pomp.
with his two huge. gaudily liveried
negroes behind him. enigmatically dis
posed of one agitated patriot after an
other.
Just now Kelvin was entertaining n
delegation picked by himself. They
We're 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 DIR. 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 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 relockcd. He had been upon the
point of making an important an
nounccment to his waiting and APP
parently prepared cabinet, and now.
his small audience once more quiet, he
raised his hand imprcssivcly. but be-
fore he could speak Elsie White hur.
ricd forward to him.
Look in your desk quickly, but care
fully she cried. AN internal ma
chine is concealed there. timed to ex-
plode at twclve!'
She was deathly pale. There were
dark rings under her eyes. Evidently
she had passed a slccplcss night. Phil
lip, obcying his habit of mentally ig-
noring sudden and agitatcd 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
time. He had fought and he had won.
Tho moment of his triumph was Mt
hand, and with the fruits of that
triumph he would crown love. He
| glanced at the clock. 1t was then bare
~ 10. Jcns Nelson had started hastily
toward the door, but now he returned
to the side OF DR.. Zclphan.
according to that, we have plenty
of time" Phillip said calmly
! Look" Elsie frantically insisted.
"Thc machine might be faulty. II
was timed for II because it is known
that You never leave until 1, but there
is danger this very second. Every act
of your daily routine has been stud
led, ana i'll half dozen places these
things lie in wait for you. Here is q
list of them" And she gave him 4
paper. "Morcovcr. today at noon
there will be flashed from one end of
tho country to the other by telegraph
and by wireless George Blngg's com.
mnnd to begin fighting. He has an
immense secret army ready awaiting
this word. Only n sn1nll proportion of
the men are armed. but they intend
to take their weapons from the sol
dicrS and capture the states simulta-
| ncOlSly from cOnst to cOnst."
GLOW do you know these thingsy'
Kelvin demanded.
What little color there Ind been in
Elsic's face left it. suddenly. Even her
lips were rs white as paper. III can
not tell YOU" she mnrmured family.
Kelvin nodded his head lie sur.
missed that this vast conspiracy had
Ben White as one Of its wenll arms.
"But hurry, Phillip, hurry" plead
ed Elsie, using his familiar name un,
consciously. "If you find there what
l have told you, you may know that
all the rest is true"
at is probably true enough" replied
Phillip calmly. "IIcrbcrt. / had wish
cd you to be here when I made my
announcement, but you know what 1t
| IL, iiS wv tllC olucl VI lily tuIiilCt, uuO
what your share in it is to be. ! shall
excuse YOU for the time being. Wire
ut once to every military force under
your command to be in readiness for
this uprising"
One Of the attendants opened the
private door and let Herbert out Kcl
win stopped and opened every drawer
of his desk on either side. but found
nothing. He turned to Elsie with q
slight smile, but she was on her knees
now in front Of the desk, with her ea1
applied to 1t.
search further" she insisted. 81
hear something ticking"
Again Kelvin looked through the
drawers and found nothing unusual.
"Pull out the bottom one on this side
and look underneath it," she directed
with now almost frantic insistence.
Kelvin did so. Under the right hanG
bottom drawer, in the six inches OF