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


rEow about brealzfast?" 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,
a 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 up 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?" q
''They are very strong numerically, and
very weak in the head. Their cause is
Just enough. but they always present 1t
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
ana women with no axe 10 grind. If they
succeed in rushing this stockade and mas
sacreing everybody. what good will II do
themf None. And they don't see IT, They
think capital will be so frightened that
It Will! simply curl up its toes and yield
TO their every demand. Why Celestia there
are men in that town 50 ignorant-you
wouldn't believe it, There are grown men
over there who think that all the forces
of American capital are impounded in
this stockade, and that II these forces are
scotehed capital will no longer have any
one to take up the glove for IT, Guns
ddorfs a 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 you:"
Tommy nodded.
Il begged them not to come. but Guns
dorf would do it. / think"
s'What?"
Il think that II there is an attack OF
the stoekade Gunsdorf doesn't want e
be mixed up in it-teehnieaIIy. 1 think hs
intends to make Kehr so angry Kehr viii
throw him and his companions into the
lookup, white flag and all Gunsdorf's no.
returning at the given time. II o'clock
will be the signal for the attack: and goot
Lord. how the poor fools viii be slaught
cred
IF you could get TO them and tell then
about Gunsdorf?"
They might not believe me. but II
could get To them I'd certainly try IT,"
He has no right 10 lock us up" sal,
CelesSia- Il wonder how many men ar
guarding this house,"
II was only a matter OF moments 1,
ascertain that there we're but two. Tn
house oeing one of a row that had win
COWS only at the front and the back.
We might get away over the roofs
Tommy suggested.
They assembled n the second floor. an,
Hound a ladder which led 10 a trap doc