Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-07

cluded, standing in the dock, himself az states
evidence scorning their impotent rage. vari-
ant Of this picture was the last clear thought In
his mind as he drew his ragged. dirty blanket
over him and sank into sleep that was the pro-
found reaction after the strains Of the day.
He had awakened with the touch of hand
upon his shoulder. His blind start from the bed
was the instructive movement Of an animal
habltually under menace and now trapped.
He looked up, in pang OF terror into the face
bent over him. the heavy. impassive countenance
Of a policeman. AS he glanced around him in
the chill gray light Of early morning he saw
that his garrett was abnornally peopled-an-
other policeman behind the one who had awak-
ened him, and, near the door, two men in plain
clothes whom he instinctively recognized as
from Scotland Yard.
"Come quietly, Jake" had said the voice
from that face up to which he stared. "We've
got you."
The tightening Of the grip upon his shoulder
bore in upon him the hopelessness of escape
He let himself relax, resigned himself.
whats it for?" he asked, sullenly. He
remembered now, vividly, the sudden panic fear
he had all but betrayed. Was it for his last
nights Job? The thought drove the blood from
his heart-a life sentence loomed startlingly in
evitable, life or little less. He had not dared to
raise his eyes.
1t was one Of the plain-clothes men who had
answered
IT have a warrant for your arrest, Jake
Bravinsky, on charge Of arson in Glasgow last
May. give you the usual warning"
Glasgow last May! He had almost shrieked
mocking laughter in the revulsion OF his relief
A few hours later. shrunken between the
two large policemen he had shuffied into the
dock of district police court just commencing
It's business of the morning. The magistrate
had glanced UP at him with contemptuous in
difference, registering him evidently as merely
yet another Of the miserable deadbeats present
ed to him by organized society for temporary
elimination.
The magistrate could not suspect the ex-
ultant savage triumph which filled the distorted
little soul behind the pinched and pallid face
He had done 'em! They hadn't found out! No
matter what they did to him, he had got his
revenge! He'd show ern!
He gloated over the thought of that carload
of bunker coal pouring into the bowels of the
Gargantuan. visualized, with unholy glee, the
more satisfying in that it was perforce secret,
the great liner throbbing on her course, her
thousands of unconscious passengers at ease
on her multtudinous decks. serenely superior
to the ordinary perils Of the sea, until that in
evitable moment when an unsuspecting stoker
he loathed stokers and stokehoIes with fierce
and personal hatred-hurled the shovelful Of
coal on to her furnace fires.
Absorbed In this vision, he had scarcely
heard the charge as 1t was read over to him. 1t
concerned something very remote from him
gow--the real. vital thing for which he was
responsible was hidden from these blind FOOLS
He exuted chidshly. And they'd never know!
for once he was certain Of immunity in his
war against an unsympathetc world. for once
he'd done 'em. He felt savagely contemptuous
Of the stolid policeman who gave evidence of
arrest.
Then one Of the plain clothes men stood up
in the court, addressed himself to the magis-
trate. What was he saying?
e.. I'VE should be obliged IL you would
make an order without adjournment Of this
case We hold . warrant for the extradition Of
the accused" He passed 1t up to the magistrate
His presence in England Is urgently re-
Quired for trial with his confederates already
arrested. We have retained passage for him
on the Gargantuan, which sails tomorrow
morning"
The Gargantuan! The name. cymbal-clash
Of Significance awoke him with o shock at the
heart to full realizatons Of the detectives mat
ter-of-fac request. The Gargantuani Upon the