The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02

However, the one who called had jumped up. Several
others had done the same THE soldiers" he cried
more clearly and ran towards the center.
The tall man turned around, Soldiers were actually
coming thru the ravine below They marched in double
file, The Light reflected in the leather of their
| tschakos,s
Get up" cried the men, who had all risen and
massed themselves around him.
Up above, however. they heard the signals of an
auto Commands, too What should they doY
~over the fences" cried slender turner who first
saw that they locked in above below and he
helped a small roundish the barbed wire
The Others too, climbed over Pushed and pressed.
4ore another Ran up the stone behind the wire
until they reached the tapering peak
They didn't all come. So the military didn't follow
Immediately. They arrested those who remained be
hind.
The first could therefore gather on the stone mound
Even achieved certain eompactness. On the other
side, they swept down again like black stream.
Big Spencer walked at the head. his face was dark
and threatening. But he not discouraged. He
intent upon speaking to the last too. That was
the only thought that occupied his mind.
The others followed him as fast as they could They
tried to hold him back In order to be closer to
him There assurance In his hasty forvard-strid-
ing They pressed around him like frightened herd.
But they weren't discouraged either. They merely
didn't know what going to happen and so they
stuck to him He seemed to have taken a definite
direction To know a goal He was fastening some
where.
But Big Spencer didn't know where to go himself
Only he sensed pavement under his feet and saw
houses, did place. which bay out of the way and which
would be suitable for meeting, come to his mind
And his feet turned Immediately the right into
small street leading to that place The others fol
lowed him.
| Ii must have been late The street was devoid Of
people All the peculiar was the effect Of their
| feeting figures drawing thru the street like black
shreds and vanishing again
| When they to a broad thorofare the tan man
first wanted 10 whisper the nearest to him that they
Distribute themselves But he rejected the thought and
they troted compacty between the walls of the
houses
| 1t was almost devoid of people, too. So much the
more frightened were the Individuals whom they over
took In the between the houses they gave the
effect Of fugftves and their shadows sped before them
Dig and ghostike Even the distinct uniform beat of
their feet did not diminish the strangeness Of their
hasty forward sriding- II echoed back even more
dutly from the tail houses. Penetrated them again
with Its monotony and drove them to even faster
They crossed another place Ran 1t like thieves
who feared the Light and into a dark park The
trees enveloped them. They disappeared among them
like night animals In the suburb they came out again
were more massed together dipping hack into the sea
Of houses.
1t strange that no one was lost or that no one
| broke away here there as they passed their own
homes The COLLECTIVELY Of their fight kept them TO-
gether- Tied them as II they bound with single
chain and indssoluble
Here between the houses their flight became calmer
more sober. Almost all home in these resident
blocks Sensed the nearness of their dwelling holes
and breathed in their air. They knew where the
tail man wanted to Called the name of the place
softly 10 one another and approved Of it.
They walked more carefully too Stepped softly
whispered only half audibly Not because they were
afraid, but because they knew that their wives and
children lived here surely asleep already or were
worrying about them.
| Thus, they finally to the small place II was
only narrow quadrangle OF house walls. lantern
stood In the middle lit up the gray cracked faces
| Of the houses and brought them nearer
Big Spencer went to the lantern This time he did
not wait until they had all gathered around him but
got up Immediately on the sloping stone which stood
near the lantern and drew himself erect Nevertheless
he still cast glance the dark street from which the
others were coming. Small. bowed with agile swift
ness.
| They crowded densely around him Surrounded him