The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1921-10-14
The Adventures of Den1obilized
Officer Who Found Peace Dull

an accident In the night; In q house
like this one never can tell. Orr
he carefully cut the end OF cigar
you might go mad, In which case we
shouldn't bother to kill you. In fact,
II you go mad, we shall not be dis
| pleased"
Once again he smiled genIally.
"As l said before, in house like
this, you can never tell. :"
The inundated rabbit, breathing
heavily, was staring at Hugh fascin-
ated ; and after moment Hugh turned
to him with courteous bow.
"Laddie," he remarked, you've been
eating onions. Do you mind DETECTING
the blast In the opposite directionT
His calm imperturbability seemed to
madden darlington.
"YOu watt" he snarled thickly; "you
wait till I've finished with you. You
| won't be so id humorous then. :"
Hugh regarded the speaker languid-
ly.
Your suppositlon Is more than prob
able he remarked, In bored voice.
II shall be too intent on getting into
a Turkish bath to remove the contain
ination to think of laughing"
Slowly Lexington sank back In his
chair. a hard, merciless smile on his
lips; and for moment or two there
was silence In the room. 1t was broken
| by the unkempt man on the sofa. who,
without warning, exploded unexpected
| ly.
"A truce to all this fooling," he
burst forth in deep rumble; II con-
fess l do not understand 1t. Are we
assembled here tonight. comrades, to
listen to private quarrels and stupid
| talk?"
A murmur Of approval came from
the others, and the speaker stood up
waving his arms.
~ know not what this young man
has done: care less. In Russia such
trifies matter not. He has the appear
ance Of bourgeois, therefore he must
die. Did we not kill thousands-aye,
tens of thousands of his kidney, before
we obtained the great freedom2 Are
we not going to do the same in this
accused countryi Kill him now
throw him in a corner and let US pro-
ceed."
He sat down, amidst a murmur Of
approval, In which Hugh Joined heart
lily.
Splendid" he murmured. "A mag
nificent peroratiOn. Am / right, sir,
In assuming that you are what Is vul-
carly known as a BolshevistT
The man turned his sunken eyes,
glowing with the burning fires of fanat-
icism, on Drummond.
II am one Of those who are fighting
for the freedom of the world" he cried
harshly. ''for the right to live Of the
proletariat." He flung out his arms
wildly. at is freedom; It is the dawn
Of the new age"
Hugh looked at him with genuine
curiosity; It was the first time he had
actually met one of these wild vision
aries In the flesh And then the curl
osity was succeeded by very definite
amazement: what had Peterson to do
with such as hef
For the moment his own deadly risk
was forgotten: a growing excitement
filed his mind. Could II be possible
that here. at last. was the real object
of the gang; could 1t be possible that
Peterson was organizing deliberate
plot to try and yBolshevize England?
He looked up to find Peterson regard
( Ing him with q faint smile.
ut is a little difficult to understand,
isn't 1t. Captain Drummondf he ssid,
carefully fllcking the ash Off his cigar
II told you you'd find yourself in deep
water" Then he resumed the contem-
plation of the papers In front Of him.
Hugh half closed his eyes, while a
general buzz Of conversation broke out
round the table. y,
Fragments Of conversation struck his
ears from time to time. The intimi-
dated rabbit, with the light of battle
In his watery eye, was declaimlng on
the glories of workmen's councils; a
bullet-headed man was shouting an In
spring battle cry about NO starvation
wages and work for all.
"Can 1t be possible" thought Hugh,
grimly, shat such as these have the
power to control big destiniesT' And
then, because he had some experience
| OF what one unbalanced brain, whose
owner could talk, was capable of
achieving: because he knew something
about mob psychology. his half con-
| temptuous amusement changed to q
| bitter forebodlng.
.You fool" he cried suddenly to
| the Russian and everyone ceased talk
ing. "You poor did boobl You--and
your new earthi In Petrograd today
bread Is two pounds four shillings a
pound tea, fifteen pounds pound. Do
| you call that freedomT' He gave Z
contemptuous laugh.
L Too surprised to speak, the Rus
sian sat staring at him; ana It was
Peterson who broke the silence with
his suave voice,
s'Your distress, 1 am. glad to sag,
| IL not likely to be one Of long dura-
ton" he remarked. In fact, the time
| has come for you to retirs Tor the
night. my young friend" a =
ne stood up5smiling; then he walked
over to the bell behind Hugh and rang