San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-10

stagc-managemcnt of the affair. For
| il was not more than half an hour
/ since the removal of that citizen who
\ had been smitten with the pestilence
at the very foot of Paurs steps when
Miss Farquharson's chair came
| jast the spot, making its way
| through n fear ridden crowd failed
into voluble groups to discuss the
| event.
Suddenly dominating all other
sounds, Il harsh, croaking voice arose
somewhere behind but very close &c
the chair:
There goes one of those who have
drawn the judgment of the Lord
| upon this unfortunate city,"
She heard the cry repeated with
little variation, again and yet again.
Again the voice beat upward,
shrilly, fiercely.
her silks and velvets, while the God
Heaven smites US with sword OF
pestilence for the sin she brings
among u.s."
Her chair rocked little. as il her
bearers We're being hustled, for in
lAutu SOiilc thItS VI lOuE VI tic sNul
vier sort. those scourings of the
streets who are ever on watch for
| fruitful opportunities of turbulence
had joined that raving fanatic who
followed her with his denunciations,
and were pressing now upon the
chair.
But her chairmen, stolid. massive
fellows, who held her in the esteem
CHI al al H.. T.
closely, plodded steadily onward de-
spite this posting.
The leader of the mob was along
side the chair now, brandishing a
short cudgel, and Miss Farquhar-
sons scared eyes had glimpse of
his malevolent face. To her amaze
ment she recognized it for the face
that had peered at her two hours ago
from the shadows of Betterton's
house in SALISBURY Square.
"10u have seen one of yourselves
smitten down with the plague under
your very eyes" he was ranting.
And so shall others be smittcn to
pay for the sin of harotry with
which this city is corrupt
Now, for all the fear that was be-
setting the naturally stout spirit in
her frail white body, Miss Farquhar-
sons wits were not at all impaired.
This fanatic - to judge him by the
language he used - represented him
self as moved to wrath against her
by something that had lately hap
pened in Pauls Yard. But since he
had been on the watch in SALISBURY
Court 10 observe her going forth,
and had followed her all the way
thence, it was clear that the facts
were quite otherwise, and that he act
ed upon premeditated design.
And now the knaves who had
joined him were hustling the chair
men with greater determination. The
chair was tossed alarmingly, and
Miss Farquharson flung this way
and that within if.
Hemmed about by that hostile
mob, the chair came at last perforce
to a standstill just opposite the Paufs
Head. on the steps of which Colonel
HOLES was. at that moment standing.
He had been in the act of coming
forth upon The errand of finding Il
purchaser for his jewel, when his at
tention was drawn by the bubbub.
and he stood arrested, frowning and
Observant. ~ -
The scene nauseated him. The WON
an tney were prosecuting with their
insults and menacrs might be no
better, than that dirty fanatic was
pronouncing her. But she was 4
woman and helpless. And apart
from this there was in all the world
no vice that Holes found more hide
ous than virtue driven to excess.
Over the heads of the crowd he