The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-10

could mark their faces now, cruek
angry, revengefuFSS the hands that
grasped the veranda ratings; the leap
ing bodies; the ride butts uplifted TO
batter down our frail defenses.
AS trapped tigers we fought, hurting
them back from the windows. slashiug,
clubbing, striking with fist and steel.
Two lay dead across the sill before
me, cloven to the very chin. but their
bleeding bodies were hurled rennorsc-
lessly aside, while. others clamP ered
forward, mad from lust OF = bioodi,
crazed with liquor. With dubbed
guns we cleared It again and again.
battering 7nercilessly at every head
that tronted us. Then great giant.
OF a felIow-dead or alive, I know
not sas hurled headlong through the
opeAlug, an inert, limp weight, that
bore the two soldiers beside me to the
f.por beneath his body. With wide
sVeepSof my gun I struck him, shat
tering the stock into fragments, and
ewing back to meet the others. tho
1or DarreI railing TO right and left like
a fail. They we're through ana on
me! Wild as any sea-rOver OF the
north fought, crazed with blood, I'M
conscious of injury, animated solely
by desire to strike and sIay! Back
had to go; back-I trod on dead
bodies, on wounded, shrteking In pain,
yet no man who came within sweep OF
chat iron bar lived. l loved to hear
the thud of it, and fronted those
glaring eyes, my blood aflre, my arms
like steel. Through the red mist be-
held Cation for an instant as twenty
brutal hands upilfted, and then hurled
him into the ruck beneath their feet.
oil NYNf-
cared not Then some one pressed
next to me, facing as | did, welding
sword like a mailman, We had our
backs against the piano, our shout
ders touched; before US that mob
swayed, checked for the moment, held
fast by sudden empowering dread
glanced aside My companion was
Brennan hatless, his deep-set eyes
aflame, his coat torn on. his shirt
ripped open to the waist, his bare
breast red with blood.
mo shootin'. damn vel" shouted
voice, hoarsely. mo shoOtin'; 1 want
that Reb alfve!
Through the swirling smoke rec
ognized the malicious face OF Red
Lowrie as he pushed his way to the
front. To me it was IKE q personaI
challenge to combat.
Rush them!'' muttered into Bren.
mans ear "FIurl them back a bit. and,
dodge under into the next room"
never waited to ascertain If he
heard me- With one fierce spring ]
struck their stunned line; and my
iron bar swept clear space as 1t
crashed rernoTselessly into them. The
next instant Lowrie and we're seem
ingIy alone and fronting each other.
A wild cat enraged by pain looks as
he did when he leaped TO meet me-
Hate, deadly, relentless gIored in his
eyes. and with yell OF exultation he
swung up his long rife and struck
savagely at my head with the stock. 7
1 caught It partially on my barrel 1
breaking Its full force, and even as IT !
descended upon my. shoulder, iabbed |
the muzzle hard into his 1eering face. /
with snaTl OF pain he dropped MS |
gun and grappled with me, but as /
his fingers closed about my throat !
something swirled down through the |
maze. and the maddened brute stag |
gered back, his arms upiifted, ms REQ I
beard cloYen In twain,
Now for It, VVaynei" shouted BFer'
nan. Back with You!"
With dive I went under the piano.
I heard the sliding doors yshut behind
a.. and asfnOs ith the SQUAD &c !.
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