The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-06-12
CHAPTER xix-contInued.

CHAPTER xix-contInued.
Now the automatics and the rifles
from tho redoubt to which the Browns
had fallen back opened fire. So
close together were these bullet-ma-
chimes that the orbit of each ones
swing made a spray Of only few
yards breadth over the sedoubt. where
the Browns gun-fire had not for mo-
ment ceased its persistent Smelling.
with increasingly large and solid tar
gets of flesh for their practice. The
thing for these targets to do. they
knew, was to intrench and begin to
return the infantry and automatics'
fire. Desperately, with the last effort
Of courage, they rose in the attempt
rose into playing hose streams OF bull
cts whose close hiss was a steady I'M
lertone' between shell bursts. In the
sarish, jumping light brave officers
rnpulsively stood up to hearten their
commands in their work. and dropped
With half-uttered urgings, threats. and
,aths on their lips.
The bullets from the automatics
, Missing one mark were certain to find
mother, perhaps four or five In row.
such was their velocity and power OF
penetration. Where shells made gaps
md tore holes in the human mass, the
tutomatics cut with the regularity OF
he driven teeth of comb. The men
who escaped all the forms Of slaughter
md staggered on to the ruins of the
'edoubt, pressed their weight on top
If those in the craters or Rugged be-
lind the pyramids OF debris, and even
made breastworks from the bodies OF
he dead. The more that banked up.
he more fruitlese the efforts Of the Of
icers to restore order in the frantic
medley OF shell screams and explosions
It a time when a minute seemed an
sge.
Meanwhile. between them-this
sankedup force at the charges end
md the Brown redoubt with its auto
natics, the Gray gunners were making
. zone Of shell bursts In order to give
he soldiers time to make their hold
II the ground they had gained secure.
Through this zone Stransky and his
men were to lead the Browns in a
.ounter-attack.
At the very height of the Gray
charge, when all the reserves we're in.
lark objects fell out of the heavens.
md where they dropped earth and
lesh we're mingled in the maceration.
Ike some giant reptile with it's YER
-ebrae breaking, gouged and torn and
sinioned, the charge stopped, in with
ng, throbbing confusion. Those on
he outer circle OF explosions were
brown against their fellows, who
urged back In another direction from
n explosion in the opposite quarter.
from the rear the pressure weakened;
he human hammer was no longer driv-
ug the ram. Blinded BY the lightnings
Nnd dust, dizzy from conclusions and
soise, too blank of mind to be sane or
insane, the atoms of the bulk of the
charge In natural instinct turned from
heir goal and toward the place whence
hey had come. with death from all
hdes still buffetipg them. Staggering.
ly, at first, they went, for want of in
tative in their paralysis; then rapidly.
- the law of Representation asserted
itself in wild impulse.
A. sheep driven over a precipice
they had advanced; as men they fed
There was no longer any command, NO
longer any cohesion, except OF legs
struggling in and out over the uneven
footing of dsaA and wounded, while
they felt another pressure, that of the
mass OF the Browns in pursuit OF all
those Of FfNcasse's company whom
we know 7nly the judges son and
Jacob Pilze5 were alive. Stained with
blood aud dust. his teeth showing In
q griwA,e OF mocking hate of all hui
mankind, PLIERS savagery ran free of
the restraint of discipline and civilized
convention. Striking right and left.
he forced his way out of the region of
s1eil fire and still kept on. Clubbing
bis rife, he struck down one officer
who tried to detain him; but another
ofncer. quicker than he. put a revolver
bullet through his head.
Westerling, who had buried his face
= his hands in Marta's presence at
the thought of failure. must keep the
pose Of his position before the staff.
With chin drawn in and shoulders
squared in sort of petrified military
habit, he received the feverish news
that grew worse with each brief bulle
On He. the chief OF staff; he, He'd.
worth Westerling. the superman, must
be a rock in the flood of alarm When
he heard that his human ram was in
recofi he declared that the repulse had
beet exaggerated-repul always
vese. with word that a heavy counter.
attack was turning the retreat into an
ungovernable rout, he broke into a
storm. He was not beaten; he could
not be beaten.
Let our guns cut a few swaths in
De mob!" he cried. THAT will stop