Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-07

For IN Instant the Body swaysd.
5onn d,d not answer. Ne was SUR
ing at the face OF Warren Blake.
Haig mopped his forehead again.
Lets get out of here" he muttered
nervously. IF stay much longer with
-that-Ill be gibbering idiot"
he took the dead cashier's keys
from the desk, turned out the light
and went to the door. The others
followed.
They forgot to close the vault But
It was we'll guarded. - .,s
New Chelsea had bsen long asleep.
the streets emptied. when Haig and
Murchell. accompanied By the doctor
AID stockholders IN tho
bank and frightened into secreey-
drove a roundabout course By side
streets and alleys to the rear door
of the bank. Like thieves. they entered
and carried what lay there out to the
carriage. Then they drove away. pray
ing that no untimely passerby had
CHANGED to observe them
But the luck held.
Later still, with another picture-a
little, faded old woman become in IN
instant fooiishly smiling child-burnt
into their memories. Haig and Mur.
chell emerged from the home OF War.
rem Blake Haig stopped, looking mp.
II wonder what John Dunmeade Is
going through Just now? ! can see
the end. The good have no luck.
There's q curse on the man responsible
for this night. Old man. do you say
amen? You and I will have to discuss
|. the matter Of payment"
He caught the other BY the shout
ders. reered closely into his face and.
laughing harshly, turned away.
Through night that seemed endless
q man fought battle old Us sin itself.
He had sought the solitude of the fields
in a blind, vain wish to escape the
issue and the thing that filed his eyes.
He had come 80 near to greatness.
And now. at IN hour when he seemed
most to need stimulus and support, he
was brought face to face with the
| Temptation to desert. IL was one thing
in a moment OF disbursement to cry.
as he had cried to himself. II have
come to the end" 1t was far different
when opportunity had come to revive
| q sinking cause to stay his hand. BE
| knew he had but to reach out to dis.
close, not an ExcaNbur rising ont Of
the waters to lend invinclbility to
him who would WELD It, but . new
prod for q calloused people. one fnct
the more to add to the knowledge;
whose cumulative power In Tho end
would-must-carry tho people for
ward. upward.
| It was Hampden. Katherine and
John Dunmeade against the people.
And what did he owe the people. the
! culloused fools whose knowledge. II
not complete. was yet full enough to
| show them whittier they were goine
/ and whittier they must turn, but who
trudged contentedly on, Indifferent ia
all but the present profit. thinking
only Of self, repudiating and sneerins
at those who offered honest service
and counsel7 The balance was nj!
against them and in bis favor. Lei
some one else now take mp the task
/. TO which John Dunmeade had been
unequal!
He saw Stephen Hampton covering
suddenly broken, fear palsied man
before the death agony, looking with
kind Of wiytfulness on the dyinA
mans face, AZ though in Warren
Blake's example he saw way out Of
the tangle. A troop Of miserable. pitt
able figures marched before him-9lay'
ton, Brown. Parsons, Sheehan. Blake
men whom he had punished. swhosl
lives he had shattered or taken n bis
crusade-to what end3 Their places
had been taken BY other men of Ike
kind. tho world no better. no Wiser
! % far . he could see. Behind III