Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-07-24

in by high box hedges. and quite de-
serted. In the midst of It was q well.
There was no water In the well. But
six feet down, clingIng with clenched
fingers to shelf in the broken brick
work Of the wall, was white man in
tattered Chinese garb, the body
strained in agony and the face
blanched with pain. As Haynes stood
on the edge, welding the sword, a
fearful figure In his armor, the mans
eyes were opened and were turned
upon him, and from his mouth came
few Chinese words.
Haynes understood nothing OF it.
but he surmised that the fugitive mag
ined him to be the executioner. He
called In English.
Come outI You are safe! We are
friendsI"
The man stared up at him incredu-
lously and chung still more tightly to
the wall. Haynes saw that his suffer
ings had paralyzed his understanding.
There's man down here-a white
man." he called back to Beyers
We've got toHpull him out. Lie fat
and catch me~round the waist. Let
Eleanor catch you. Now-pull!''
Two minutes later the man emerged
from the we'll
He was one Of the missionaries, he
said, when he recovered his wits.
There had been FIVE men and three
women in the mission, one Of the lat
ter his wife, married to him only two
weeks previously. He had gone out
as an envoy to parley with the mob,
had been lured into the temple, and
had somehow contrived to secret him
self near the altar when he suspected
the priests designs. While they pur-
sued him through another door. by
which they thought he had escaped,
ne had discovered the exit into the
little garden and, seeirg the well, had
flung himself into II and had chung
there for several hours. So far as he
was aware, the mission was safe. Only
q few of the mob had firearms. and
they were too cowardly to attack.
since the defenders we're we'll supplied
with rifles and ammunition. Further.
more, they had contrived to send
messenger through the mob to seek
aid from a body of English marines,
who were supposed to have landed at
WI Chang to protect the consulate.
Rescue might arrive at any moment.
When he had left, all were unframed.
Haynes did not dare to ask IL Mary
were there.
At the end OF the garden was
small door, of height level with the
top of the hedge. Motioning to the
others to remain where they were,
Haynes opened 1t cautiously and
looked out, his body still concealed
from view by the towering branches.
In front of him was a large open
space, surrounded by small, mean
houses, and Immediately across this
square, facing him, was the mission
itself. Half way between the mission
and the pagoda were encamped a num-
Der Of irregular levies. They had
raised low parapet of sandbags, from
behind which they kept up an inter-
mittent fire upon the building. Evil
IDENTIFY, failing to capture It by storm,
of which attempt evidence was a.
plenty in the shape of bodies OF their
dead, lying where they had fallen upon
the street In front of the mission, they
had resorted to siege tactics. The
main force of the rioters seemed to
have withdrawn to another part Of
the city, for their cries came family
to Haynes ears, and here and there
the smoke of burning houses was
swept up on the breeze.
Yet, even as he looked, he saw a
body of them sweep round the far
angle of the plaza-like 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 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
suffered windows, battering at them
with axes 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 darling across
the square with the speed # missile
shot from a catapult. He saw houses
whiz past him, he shot by the heaps
of dead, welding that dripping sword
and shouting exultantly. They heard
him, turned, and saw terrific appari-
tion--their own god of war and de-
struetion, 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 war chariot,
leaving 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
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