Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-23
twttshihts The other rose with him.

8 I Lou VIII Act. now this hour.
Observation-Disclosures
IS tAlS emit do it-rfake me! You
hAveNstas faen here. and I have. the
serVAAtA here obey me-"
.lztkn bring mon snapped Meyer.
"MeA VINO can bring YOU out OF our
hi~dins-placs, though you keep your
servants would not obey you II you
brdefNA them: 10, attack me. Attack a
white man of power and place-their
i1astersl 4 FREQUENT visitor and friend!
ri know it--you! But I'll have I'M
til tQlnoffoW night"
what do you want time for 1t
Dan change nothing"
s want to Think
""ot RIO NAbuco sneered Meyer,
In ASpAlel fury. "po not act the fool,
Brnes. You WILL open that safe, or
, IS, XIV nrss s. y you; on meter matter
You, : convict, with scruples! Are
YOU thinking that you can get away?
You cannot. dfAnados is In q stupor
We. sen easily handle. II YOU try to
Get 70 the. city, even IL y6u know any
q ,NoAlt friends there who might be-
My4ssyout. story, I Will have you seized
ohIm tl1e road. Ny people are every
I'm have until tomorrow night
Meyer thrust his pallid face tor
"Y 8u viii pay for it, then" he
pf6fnised "You coward pig .sof an
'AirnSflcar, hays / not studied you for
wAsks? DO / not know YOU. have
], not tested? Have I not come here
arranged to encounter you on roads.
or here--f1Ade occasion to mention
Rio sNabuco and seen you finch each
time /. Yes eveh~the lame you could
not. bear t. hear, and nov will YOU
.pretehdyt % face the thing itself? you
are eaten through with fear, you are
a coward. save yourself, then, With
out wasting my time" 2,
You have done all that. Bruce
ana ninted' yes. f You sua Fight right,
too! But you can't get any further
now..<.Iu have, until tomorrow night,
coward >or no coward. I'm. all you
say But. don't laugh at Americans,
Ne Meyer, Whatever ! d9|they viii get
VIM. az are !, you s'eins is DO b.txse,n
oWlAnd Tomorrow? Come, I am
Meyer made, an angry movement,
then Atsred his attention and laughed
very Ssii! Think! Think: the
longer YOU think the sooner will you
coRie W~hiihpering to heel. You will
be ready: to, open the safe tomorrow
night, when 1 come, my friend. Yes,
ana to; do what else 1 require OF you!
Now, walk back to the house with
me unless you want to start the
servants Whispering and spying"
Side BY side, they walked back to
where Meyers automobile awaited its
owner. >.
When the car was out, Of, right,
Bruce turned about and went indoors.
The droWty nurse looked up as the
American came into GSanados' bed
chamber, then relAps6d into noddink
inattention. Tho doctor had not yet
sraee leaned over the bod and
ssatened With eassr eyes the uni
saos aad toe . & tes, tdaF,n man IL d Ssli.
hour which had left Bruce q man DIES.
per6te and departing.
"MAfshal,." he Addressed the deaf
ears. his voice choking. Then recall-
ing what Noel called his friend: ''Gil
GrAnAdos! Gil GrAnAdos!" Z
Not q hutttrf Of response, not the
stirring Of a limb. the quickenins of a
breath answered the appeal. Bruce
laid his hand over the MANNED hand
OF the soldier.
The h Gn lifted hef, head and stared
inquiSiYvely.
"Cin you hear me? Can you hear
Anguish betrayed itself in tie cry.
by his own voice. Bruce fell
silent, his gaze dwelling on the man
who could have aided him. Now, he
marvelled at the folly which had kept
him from cof1idiig in Granadps be-
fore matters readhed this point. True,
Jacinto Meyer had confined himself to
vAtutst alluslon,. innuendos that
might hxvss meant nothing or much.
And to admit his own obsession Of
fear OF the prison was bitter NORTH
cation to Bruce; * bitter that he had
shrunk. from admitting the dread to
himself. 10 cofifess himself a. cow
ard to 0rAnAdoA, the Scared veteran
OF thirty-f1ve Year,, to see the quick,
bright dark. eyes cloud with a pity
that ftml4t, be half ,contempt-Bruce
had avoided that q few hours too
lonx. But who could have, foresesn
re accident. With lie %conseauence Of
qfAnados's strante stupor? or that
ARSS0k S0kN IVA =
Suddliiy It! came again: the awful
resnfsent panic OF horror that was
like: a .forefunn4r OF insanity, Up, up,
ike black waters rising over his
brain, drowning viii, making honor a
wet, ssod4et corpse. He struEeled
Against It, painting like q runner. The
foci1 went dark before his straininx
eyes. This WA thu. visitation Of fear
he hAd. known At returfent tinnek,
x1lAA +sSk Al ~ AAslAs Z. Ny-xS- ~ lA
the possibility of his own
death. EVER since that frst frenzy Of
dteAd IA which Hftce had tainted
acfosSss hls deBk,, the horror mad re-
turned osseflp him at intervals. 1t
wal. 3onssssthis sicknAts tot the mind
Jatintog Meyer 1Ad played. But for
hin. Bruce nigttt have overcome his
Isl sp Whining anser. With which
Bruce Ripped The TIE bsd ,coysrinss, ED
, ,s,s NTH e IT, Tae ,, .af,a =; sonsast va.
with pef4tirAtion SAS from rain, and
SjSn6edSs, fdftivAly illAfouhd him. The
huhi itItl drowbed 81. the window,
HfAnAdxS had notx stirred. No one
6S6n.. his vOaks9ss;; It Wa stll &
secret bstwesn jacintb Meyer and
d wnan III iiAbI no, longer shook.
Bruce ltthd Np ana Alowly vent to;
th6s 3.430n3.,ft 1S doctor WAS aacendint'
the. Stair wlth sttet llisurelinS1o--of 9
fat man ID ne tfoDie.. an snsrrnouS
g astks kotitst man NJ unctuously
soar aiassnsuishsd bstiens improves,
B0ah3SHs.sshA youch1AfAd an Sbinion.
III saEEf6ffxs1es! yes, ne protrosSas:.s'
ssfaahMs,t1oh WElshe speak q
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