El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-20

a shiVertng, sinister silence. followed
BY another cry. intoned first By a
single voice, then bioated into thar
same chorus OF Ilats dead voices:
To the guillotinel To the guilIo-
tiner syncopated by Kisses and
[ groans and accentuated by the STAG
cato stamping Of feet and walking
sticzs-like an enormous. Jagged.
/ resonant mass Of hate, poured out in
I thickly fluid form across the heads
I OF the audience: straight toward the
| slim, girlish figure who stood there
I -wide-eyed, immobile. as IL turned
I into stone
/ Tenant felt as II something were
I plucking al the core OF his heart
nor was it altogether pity for An
! sWeeter, finer than pity; something
soft and tender and wonderfully
I human
-Angelei Angelei" he strained his
voice 20 a cracked pitch above the
turmoil and she heard. She be-
came less rigid Ire ghost Of a smile
3 tlickered across her pale features
she looked toward the stage-bo and
caught Tenants eye; she made a
slight gesture, as Of thanks. courage.
Suddenly she whirled to the left
Her voice flew free and clear.
MOI NO. % a grimy stage hand
who was fitting through the wings
!
would bring down the curtain. j
shall play-pl1y through"
She picked up her cue:
"NerVcusei PourquOi voulez-vous
cue Je sol nerveuse-" TO the juve-
nile who was playing across from
Ter and who had stumbled IN a half
faint against property mantelpiece
that was slowly tearing and ripping
under his weight, while the people in
the boxes and orchestra seats and
O HnIn nlnnH H.r.H
applauding franCcally. while again
from the pit there came the
Hat. crushing, grotesque chant Of:
Murderess! Murderessi To the
guillotinet"
Sdn Angelo was trying to carry
her part through, by gesture and
movement since her voice was
drowned in the turmoil, when one OF
the men in the pit hurled a heavy
nalacca walking stick across the
heads Of the audience. missing the
girls shoulder by the fraction Of an
inch Amidst chorus Of yells and
shrieks and curses, somebody rang
down the curtain. somebody else
found the electric switch which con-
trolled the huge chandelier turned
Il. and dreuched the house IN a flood
of white light. and Tenant. looking
toward the pit. saw the men who had
caused the scene
They were sitting in a row-twenty
or thirty Of them-and he knew
several OF them by sight Deputies OF /
the Internatlonalist Party. political I
henchmen and haugers-on. ward ]
heelers from around the Quarter des /
Halles. reporters OF the radical press, /
and a sprinkling OF apaches-iookinE /
strangely out Of place, with their ]
peaked caps and crimson waist
shzwls amidst the sober black and I
white.
In the center. erect. his hand /
which had thrown the walking-stich 3
stln raised above his head. stood ]
Roaul STEWARD. the editor OF the 4
Etoie. his gross. sensuous. purple l
olotched face showing above his \
snowy shirt Ike a bloated balloon.
and as he opened his mouth TO fling
a last. vindictive. "Murderesst MUIR
deressi To the guillotini" toward the /
descending curtain. the words seemed /
10 drip from his sagginE lips like Z
so much deadly venom
Tenant felt his muscles stfffen. I
For a moment he was not the de- 4
tectlve, intent only on his craft, his p