White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-13

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could not distract the petrifed. atten-
ton of the vast audience. The lace
Of the creature was like the Widest
gargoyle that the Imagination Of q
mad medieval builder could have con-
ceived. 1t was malicious. horrible.
with two small red eyes as bright as
points of burning coal. It's long. saw
age mouth. which was held half open.
was full of q double row of sharklike
teeth. Its shoulders were bumped.
and round them was draped what ap-
peared to be a faded gray shawl. 1t
was the devil of our childhood in per-
son. There was a turmoil In the audi
ence-some one screamed. two ladies'
In the front row fell senseless from
their chairs. and there was a general
movement upon the platform TO follow
their chairman into the orchestra. For
a moment there was danger of a gen
eral panic. Professor Challenger threw
up his hands to still the commotion.
but the movement alarmed the crea-
ture beside him. Its strange shawl
suddenly unfurled. spread and 1utter-
ed as a pair of leathery wings. Its
owner grabbed mt its legs. but too late
to hold II. 1t had sprung from the
perch and was circling slowly round
the Queens hall with a dry. leathery
tapping of Its ten foot wings. while a
putrid and insidlous odor peryaded the
room. The cries of the people in the
galleries. who were alarmed at the
near approach of those glowing eyes
Inc that murderous beak. excited the
creature TO a frenzy. Faster and fast
er ii few. beating against walls and
! chandeliers in a blind frenzy of alarm.
The window, For heavens sake shut
that Window roared the professor
from the platform. dancing and wiring
ing his hands in an agony of appre-
tension. Alas. his warning was too
late, In n moment the creature. beat
ing and humping along the wall like
a huge moth within a gas shade, came
upon the opening. squeezed its hideous
bulk through e and was gone. Pro
fessor Challenger fell back into his
chair with his face buried In his
hands. while the audience gave one
long. deep sigh of relief as they real
lied that the incident was over.
''Then-oh. how shall one describe
what took place then-when the full
exuberance of the majority and the
full reaction of the minority united to
make one great wave of enthusiasm.
which rolled from the back of the hall,
gathering volume as 1t came, swept
over the orchestra. submerged the
platform and carried the our heroes
away upon It's crest?" Good for you,
Mach IF the audience had done less
than Justice surely 1t made ample
amends. Every one was on his feet
Every one was moving. shouting, ges-
t~iculating. A dense crowd of cheering
men were around the four travellers.
up with them! Up with them? cried
q hundred voices. In a moment four
figures shot up above the crowd. In
vain they strove to break loose. They
were held In their lofty places Of hon.
or. 1t would have been hard to let
them down II it had been wished. so
dense was the crowd. Out In the
street the scene was extraordinary. An
assemblage Of not less than 100000
pes pie was waiting. The close packed
throng extended from the other side of
the Langham hotel to Oxford circus
A roar of reclamation greeted the four
adventurers as they appeared, high
above the heads of the people, under
the vivid electric lamps outside the
hall. "A procession! A procession
was the cry. In a dense phalanx.
blocking the streets from side to side,
the crowd set forth, taking the route
of Regent street, Pail Mall. st James
street and Piccadilly. The whole en-
trail traffic of London was held up, and
many collisions were reported between
the demonstrators upon the one side
and the police and taxi cabmen upon
the other. Finally 1t was not until
after midnight that the four travellers
were released at the entrance to Lord
John Roxton's chambers in the AL
bany and that the exuberant crowd.
having sung They Are Jolly Good Eel
lows In chorus, concluded their pro-
gram with God Save the King"
One word as to the fate of the London
pterodactyl. Nothing can be said to be
certain upon this point There Ia the
evidence of two frightened women that
1t perched npon the roof Of the Queens
hall and remained there like a diaboli-
cal statue for some hours. The next
day It came out in the evening papers
that Private Miles Of the Coldstream
guards. on duty outside Marlborough
House. had deserted his post without
leave and was therefore courtmartial-
ed. Private Miles account that he
dropped his rifle and took to his heels
down the mall because on looking up
he had suddenly seen the devil between
him and the moon. was not accepted by
the court, and yet It may have a direct
bearing upon the point at issue. The