San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-28
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Colonel HOLES, soldier and adven.
turer, returns TO England. his native
land, when war with Holland is dc.
olared. His Grace of Buckingham
hires HOLES TO abduct the actress, Syi-
via Farquharson. 1t is dark when
the colonel carries her to the house
Buckingham has rented.
Upon their arrival HOLES is horri-
fled 10 see that Sylvia is an old sweet
heart.
The servants of the duke render the
colonel unconscious. When Bucking-
ham attempts to embrace Sylvia, her
dress falls from her throat, revealing
a purple blotch, token of the plague.
The duke and his servants flee.
Holes nurses Sylvia and saves her
life. Then HOLES disappears in the
night. Sylvia engages to nurse the
plague victims. HOLES drinks too
heavily, and. falling on the street, is
picked UP by a plague cart. Now go
on with the story.
"He'll still swarm, Larry" he said
ENORMOUSLY. ,.-..
Larry approached, pulling at his
pipe. He growled lewd oath, ex-
pressive of contempt and indiffec-
ence.
What odds:" he added cynically.
Hell be cold enough or ever we
comes TO Aldgate.", And he laughed
as he took the doublet Nick flung st
him.
The next moment their filthy hooks
were in the garments they had left
upon HOLES. and they had added him
to the terrible lead that already half
filled their cart.
They backed the vehicle out Of the
alley, and then trundled on. going
eastward, their destination being the
pit at Aldgate.
They were already approaching
their destination, and the first light
of dawn. pallid, cold and colorless as
a moonstone, was beginning to dis
pei the darkness, when, be it from
the jolting of the cart, or from the
flow of blood where one of those fou!
hooks had scraped his thigh, or yet
from preserving nature, quickening
his wits that he might save himself
from suffocation, the colonel was
aroused from his drunken trance.
He awakened, thrusting fiercely for
air, and seeking to kslodge a heavy
mass that lay across his face. He
braced himself and heaved more
until at length he won
clear. so far, at least, as his head was
He saw the paling stars above and
was able at last to breathe freely
and without effort. But the burden
which he had succeeded in thrustins
from his head. now lay across his
breast and the weight of it was
troublesome and painful. He put
forth a hand, and realizing by the
sense of touch that what he graspcd
was human arm, he shook it vigor-
OUsly. Eliciting no response, he be-
gan to grow angry.
"Afoot there. We drunken lob" he
srowled in thick voice. Get up.
say. Get up! O's my life! Dye take
me for bed that you put yourself to
sleep across me? Gerfup!" he roared,
his anger increasing before that con-
tinued lack of response. "Gerrup, or
He ceased abruptly, blinking in the
glare of lighc that suddenly struck
across his eyes from the flaming
head of the torch which had been
thrust upward. The cart had come
to a standstill. and above the tall
sides of it, rising into his field Of
vision. came the two horrible figures
Of the carriers, whom the sound of
his voice had brought to mount the
wheels of the vehicle.
In plsintive impotence came the
the nasal voice of one of those
shouis.
Il told We the gentry-cove was
warm. Larry"
aye. Well? And what now?"
iuoth the other ENORMOUSLY.
"Why. fling him out, o course"
But HOLES was no longer i'll need
Of their assistance. Their words and
what he saw of that grim load of
which he was apart made him real
ize at last his CHASTITY situation. He
heaved himself clear. and struggled,
gasping, to his knees. Thence he
gripped the side of the cart, pulled
himself to his feet. flung leg over
and leaped down, stumbling as he did