The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-07

quietly at his furnace, seeing over and
over again in the Goals figure that
wrlggled violently and became still.
An hour after the murder. to anv one
coming into the shed it would have
looked exactly as if nothing remark
able had ever happened there.
Peeping presently from his engine
room. the black saw the Lord Dyns-
mo spin and whirl beside his little
brothers. the driving wheels were
beating round, and the steam in the
pistonS went thud, thud, exactly as
it had been earlier in the evening.
After all. from the mechanical point
OF view, it had been a most insig-
nIhcant incidcnt-thc mere temper
AIRY DETECTION OF current But now
the slender form and slender shadow
OF the scientific manager replaced the
sturdy outline OF Holrovd travelling
up and down the lane OF light upon
the vibrating floor under the straps
between the engines and the dyna-
mos
Have | not served my Lord,- said
Azuma-zi, inaudibly. from his shadow,
and the note of the great dynamo
rang out iull and clear. As he looked
at the big. whirling mechanism the
strange fascination OF it that had been
a little in allegiance since Holroyd's
death resumed its sway.
Never had Azuma-zi seen a man
Killed 50 swiftly and pitilessly. The
big. hummIrg machine had slain its
victim without wagering for a second
from its steady beating. 1t was in
deed a mighty god
The unconscious scientific manager
stood with his hack to him. scribbling
on piece OF paper His shadow lay
at tho foot of the monster.
Was the Lord Dynamo still hun
gry' His servant was ready"
Azuma-zi made a stealthy step for
ward. then stopped. The scientific
manager suddenly stopped writing,
and walked down the shed to the end
most OF tho dynamos. and began to
examine tho brushes.
Azuma-zi hesitated, and then slip
ped across noisclcssIy into the
shadow by the switch. There he wait
ed.
Presently the managers footsteps
could be heard returning. He stopped
in his old position. unconscious of the
stoker crouching ten feet away from
him.
Then the big dynamo suddenly fz-
zled, and in another moment Azuma-,
Ii had sprung out of the darkness
upon him.
First. the scientific manager waa
grippcd round the body and swung.
toward the big dynamo, then. kick
ing with his knee and forcing his an.
tagonist's head down with his hands,
he looscncd the grip on his waist
and swung round away from the ma.
chine. Then the black graspcd him
again. putting a curly head against
his chest. and they swayed and pant
ed as it seemed for an age or so. Then
the scientific manager was impclledl
to catch black car in his teeth and
bite furiously. The black ycllcdl
hidcously
They rolled over on the floor. and
the black. who had apparently slip
ped from the wise OF the teeth or part
ed with some car-the scientific man
ager wondered which at the time
tried 10 throttle him.
The scientific manager was making
some Intellectual efforts to claw some
thing with his hands and to kick.
when the welcome sound OF quick
footsteps sounded on the floor
The next moment hzuma-zi had
left him and dartcd toward the big
dynamo. There was spluttcr amid
tho roar
The officer OF tho company. who
had entered. stood staring as Azuma-
ii caught the naked terminals in his
hands. gave one horrible CONFUSION,
and then hung motionlcss from the
machine. his face violently distorted.
"Tm jolly glad you came in when
you did said the scientific manager,
still sitting on the floor.
He looked at the still quivcring FIG
urc. 1T is not a nice death to die,
apparently it is quick"
The official was still staring at the
body. He was man OF slow appre-
hcnsion.
There was pause.
The scientific manager got up on
his feet rather awkwardly. He ran
his fingers along his collar thought
fully. and moved his head to and froN
several times.
Poor Holroyd, | sec now"
Then almost mechanically he went
toward the switch in the shadow and
turned the current into the railway
circuit again. As he did so the singed
body loosencd its grip upon the ma
chine and fell forward on its face.
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