The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-11

Yet, ever as he looked, he saw d
body of them sweep round the far
angle OF the %plaza]ike space and run
wildly toward the mission, uttering
savage, cultural cries. They seemed
like devils-and they were devils,
athirst for murder, Some carried
pixies, some swords, some blazing
torches; and at the sight of them the
besiegers leaped to their feet from
behind their defenses and. joining
them, swept up to the mission doors
once more. Now from within resound-
ed the crack OF repeating rifles. Here
and there a man fell, but the mob
were too insatiate for blood to heed
their dead. They broke like a storm
against the heavy. barricaded doors,
hammering on them, firing into the
shattered windows, battering at them
with x % and billets of wood. Haynes
saw that this onslaught must prove
decisive. No doors could survive SO
tremendous an impetus. Even while
he watched the place would be
stormed, then men slaughtered, and
the women
That thought set the blood whirling
through his brain. He touched the
stop that set the gyroscope in motion.
An instant later he was darting across
the square with the speed of a missile
shot from a catapult. He saw houses
whfz past him, he shot by the heaps
Of dead, welding that dripping sword
and shouting exultantly. They heard
him furpnd and onut n 4a-r,R. .----4
tion-their own god of war and de-
struction, fully armed and welding
his dreadful sword, issuing forth
against them! A moment, and
Haynes was in their midst and cutting
them down.
None could withstand him. He ran
through their ranks like a war chariot,
leaving a broad trail of death behind
him.. He clicked the stop of the gyro-
scope, swung round, and went through
them again. Their missiles glanced
like hail off his brazen TANKS and
shoulders. They turned and fed along
the narrow streets, and he pursued
them; packed tightly IS they were be-
tween the houses, there was nowhere
for them to seek safety. He passed
them, hewing tSem down, swung
round, and repeated his journey OF
destruction. times he traversed
their ranks, like some angel of de-
struction, and each time the dead were
heaped up on either side of him like
chaf on a threshing floor. When at
last he paused, through sheer phys
ical weakness, the streets were redder
than a shambles and the last of the
mob were flying in the distance. Then
he came to his senses out of a deliri-
GUS dream; he wiped the sword and
went back to the pagoda garden,
where he found the others still wait
ing.
Come" he said. "The streets are
clear"
He did not know that he was spat-
tered from head to foot, nor that at
that moment he seemed to them as in
human as he had appeared t. the Chi
nese. They followed in abject fear;
they dared not answer him.
Haynes led them across the square
toward the mission, but, before they
reached it they heard the shouting of
another mob and, at his command
stood still. Haynes drew himself up
before them, waiting. one foot against
the stop of the gyroscope.
But it was white men who were
advancing-white men, In khaki tunics
and wearing white helmets. In col
m of fours they swept up the
streets and into the square; and all
at once came answering cries from
the mission windows, and the defend
ers poured forth, men and women, I'M
scathed, and ran to meet their res
cuers. Half way between the cover
ing bodies stood Haynes and his little
band Then the man whom he had re-
cued broke from his side with a glad
cry and caught his wife by the arms
and drew her to him and kissed her
~joyously.
For the first time the figure in armor
dropped a little and the drawn sword
bent to the ground. Haynes bowed
his head upon his breast. He knew
that he had come too late. For in
this woman he recognized his wife, I'M
changed after all those years, but
seen again at what a price of suffer-
ing!
He turned to Eleanor, who stood at
his side In fear, trembling, not dar-
ing to claim kinship with her whom
she had come SO far to see. He drew
her aside, and Beyers too, and spoke
to them softly, raising his chain face
guard aver SO little.
You understand p he asked.
He saw that they understood.
Il am going away" said Haynes.
"You will not tell herr"
They could not answer him.
You will tell her that you learned
she was here and came after her. OF
me you will lever speak. If you must
do SO, when occasion makes this nee
essary, you. will speak of me as though
l died in that steamship accident i've
years ago You must blot me out of
your memory"
Eleanor's arms we're round him.
round the spattered and stained ar
NOR which contained all that. next
to her husband, was most dear to her.
You promise?" he asked.
Il promise" he heard her whisper.
He kissed her; he grasped Beyers
by the hand; an instant later, and he
had touched the stop of the gyroscope
again and was speeding southwark
toward WI Chang. He knew that he
had acted riphtIv and that Ro4 -