Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-23
TENTH EPISODE.

Show about breakfast" she called
Orders are to supply breakfast on de.
mand'
Can you make it breakfast for two?"
Certainly"
Ten minutes later the door was oeened,
steaming tray was slid along the floor
through the opening and the door was
once more closed and locked.
Almost in silence. for they were both
very hungry, Celestia and Tommy ate a
hearty breakfast
Once again, as at the Octagon fire.
Celestial and Tommy found themselves in
agreement. Each was bent upon saving
life. Tommy told Celestia Of the fighting
temper the strikers were in and Celestia
told Tommy OF Kehr's preparations for
making the defense of the stockade a
shambles of those who should attack it,.
She told him. too. how she had made a
beginning of softening hearts, but seeing
that she had been locked uD she feared
that the softened hearts had owned up
to Kehr and been put where they could
do no mercy.
But, Tommy" she said, they wouldn't
be such fools as TO attack in broad day
light, would they?"
'They are very strong numerically, and
very weak in the head. Their cause is
Just enough. but they always present it
to notice In unjust ways. Their every
passions seems to them an argument.
Labor is its own worst enemy. What
labor needs is friends. friends of educa-
ton and experience. dispassionate men
and women with no axe TO grind. If they
succeed in rushing this stockade and mas
saereing every body. what good will It do
themF None. And they don't see It. They
think capital will be so frightened that
II vii. simply curl up its toes and yield
to their every demand why Celestia there
are men In that town SO ignorant-you
wouldn't believe Il! There are grown men
over there who think that all the forces
of American capital are impounded I'm
this stockade and that II these forces are
scotched capital will no longer have any
one TO take up the glove for It, Guns
ddorfs wise old fellow, but he's not in
this game because he loves labor, but be-
cause he loves Gunsdorf. Carson Is a
Jamaican honest fanatic Cracowitz is
an out and out anarchist. It's a pity, be-
cause fundamentally theirs is the side of
justice. wish could hear what they are
saying with old man Kehr. I'm afraid II
won't be soothing interview for any
one"
They came with sou?"
Tommy nodded.
Il begged them not to come, but Guns
dorf would do it. / think"
"wbat?"
1 think that il there is an attack on
the stockade Gunsdorf doesn't want 10
be mixed up in it-teehnicaIly. 1 think he
intends to make Kehr so angry Kehr will
throw him and his companions into the
lookup. white flag and all. Gunsdorf's not
returning at the given time. II o'clock.
viii be the signal for the attack: and good
Lord. how the poor fools will he sIaught-
cred &"
IF you could get TO them and tell them
about Gunsdorf?"
They might not believe me. but II 1
could get TO them ia certainly Try H."
He has no right TO lock US up" said
Selesla- Il wonder how many men ar,
guarding this house,"
II was only a matter OF moments 10
ascertain that there were but two. The
house 1eins one of a row that had win
uoWs only az the front and the back.
We might get away over the roofs. +"
Tommy suggested.
They assembled IN the second floor and
Hound ladder which led 10 a trap door