LIKE HIS FATHER ASHUR NATSIR PAL FOUGHT AGAINST THE MUSKI WHOSE POWER WAS DECLINING THEN HE TURNED SOUTHWARD FROM THE BORDERS OF ASIA MINOR AND DEALT WITH A REBELLION IN NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA AN ARAMAEAN PRETENDER NAMED AKHIABABA


HAD ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AT SURU IN THE REGION TO THE EAST OF THE EUPHRATES ENCLOSED BY ITS TRIBUTARIES THE KHABAR AND THE BALIKH HE HAD COME FROM THE NEIGHBOURING ARAMAEAN STATE OF BIT ADINI AND WAS PREPARING IT WOULD APPEAR


TO FORM A POWERFUL CONFEDERACY AGAINST THE ASSYRIANS WHEN ASHUR NATSIR PAL APPROACHED SURU A PART OF ITS POPULATION WELCOMED HIM HE ENTERED THE CITY SEIZED THE PRETENDER AND MANY OF HIS FOLLOWERS


THESE HE DISPOSED OF WITH CHARACTERISTIC BARBARITY SOME WERE SKINNED ALIVE AND SOME IMPALED ON STAKES WHILE OTHERS WERE ENCLOSED IN A PILLAR WHICH THE KING HAD ERECTED TO REMIND THE ARAMAEANS OF HIS DETERMINATION TO BROOK NO OPPOSITION


AND WHEN THEY HAD BEEN FLAYED THEIR SKINS WERE NAILED UPON THE CITY WALLS ANOTHER REVOLT BROKE OUT IN THE KIRKHI DISTRICT BETWEEN THE UPPER REACHES OF THE TIGRIS AND THE SOUTHWESTERN SHORES OF LAKE VAN


IT WAS PROMOTED BY THE NAIRI TRIBES AND EVEN SUPPORTED BY SOME ASSYRIAN OFFICIALS TERRIBLE REPRISALS WERE METED OUT TO THE REBELS WHEN THE CITY OF KINABU WAS CAPTURED NO FEWER THAN THREE THOUSAND PRISONERS WERE BURNED ALIVE


THE UNFAITHFUL GOVERNOR BEING FLAYED THE CITY OF DAMDAMUSA WAS SET ON FIRE THEN TELA WAS ATTACKED ASHUR NATSIR PAL'S OWN ACCOUNT OF THE OPERATIONS RUNS AS FOLLOWS


THE CITY OF TELLO WAS VERY STRONG


THEY DID NOT COME DOWN OR EMBRACE MY FEET WITH BATTLE AND SLAUGHTER I ASSAULTED AND TOOK THE CITY THREE THOUSAND WARRIORS I SLEW IN BATTLE THEIR BOOTY AND POSSESSIONS CATTLE SHEEP I CARRIED AWAY


MANY CAPTIVES I BURNED WITH FIRE MANY OF THEIR SOLDIERS I TOOK ALIVE OF SOME I CUT OFF HANDS AND LIMBS OF OTHERS THE NOSES EARS AND ARMS OF MANY SOLDIERS I PUT OUT THE EYES


I REARED A COLUMN OF THE LIVING AND A COLUMN OF HEADS I HUNG ON HIGH THEIR HEADS ON TREES IN THE VICINITY OF THEIR CITY THEIR BOYS AND GIRLS I BURNED UP IN FLAMES I DEVASTATED THE CITY DUG IT UP IN FIRE BURNED IT


HE WAS SO GREATLY FEARED BY THE SYRO CAPPADOCIAN HITTITES THAT WHEN HE APPROACHED THEIR TERRITORY THEY SENT HIM TRIBUTE YIELDING WITHOUT A STRUGGLE


FOR SEVERAL YEARS THE GREAT CONQUEROR ENGAGED HIMSELF IN THUS SUBDUING REBELLIOUS TRIBES AND EXTENDING HIS TERRITORY HIS MILITARY HEADQUARTERS WERE AT KALKHI TO WHICH CITY THE COURT HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED


THITHER HE DRAFTED THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS THE GREAT MAJORITY OF WHOM HE INCORPORATED IN THE ASSYRIAN ARMY ASSYRIAN COLONIES WERE ESTABLISHED IN VARIOUS DISTRICTS FOR STRATEGICAL PURPOSES AND OFFICIALS SUPPLANTED THE PETTY KINGS IN CERTAIN OF THE NORTHERN CITY STATES


THE ARAMAEANS OF MESOPOTAMIA GAVE MUCH TROUBLE TO ASHUR NATSIR PAL ALTHOUGH HE HAD LAID A HEAVY HAND ON SURU THE SOUTHERN TRIBES THE SUKHI STIRRED UP REVOLTS IN MESOPOTAMIA AS THE ALLIES OF THE BABYLONIANS


ON ONE OCCASION ASHUR NATSIR PAL SWEPT SOUTHWARD THROUGH THIS REGION AND ATTACKED A COMBINED FORCE OF SUKHI ARAMAEANS AND BABYLONIANS THE BABYLONIANS WERE COMMANDED BY ZABDANU


WHO WAS EVIDENTLY ANXIOUS TO REGAIN CONTROL OF THE WESTERN TRADE ROUTE THE ASSYRIAN WAR LORD HOWEVER PROVED TO BE TOO POWERFUL A RIVAL HE ACHIEVED SO COMPLETE A VICTORY


THE PEOPLE OF KASHSHI BABYLONIA AND KALDU CHALDAEA WERE STRICKEN WITH TERROR AND HAD TO AGREE TO PAY INCREASED TRIBUTE


REIGNED FOR ABOUT A QUARTER OF A CENTURY


HAVING ACCUMULATED GREAT BOOTY HE ENGAGED HIMSELF AS SOON AS PEACE WAS SECURED THROUGHOUT HIS EMPIRE IN REBUILDING THE CITY OF KALKHI WHERE HE ERECTED A GREAT PALACE AND MADE RECORDS OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS


HE ALSO EXTENDED AND REDECORATED THE ROYAL PALACE AT NINEVEH AND DEVOTED MUCH ATTENTION TO THE TEMPLES TRIBUTE POURED IN FROM THE SUBJECT STATES THE MOUNTAIN AND VALLEY TRIBES IN THE NORTH FURNISHED IN ABUNDANCE WINE AND CORN


SHEEP AND CATTLE AND HORSES AND FROM THE ARAMAEANS OF MESOPOTAMIA AND THE SYRO CAPPADOCIAN HITTITES CAME MUCH SILVER AND GOLD COPPER AND LEAD JEWELS AND IVORY AS WELL AS RICHLY DECORATED FURNITURE ARMOUR AND WEAPONS


ARTISTS AND ARTISANS WERE ALSO PROVIDED BY THE VASSALS OF ASSYRIA THERE ARE TRACES OF PHOENICIAN INFLUENCE IN THE ART OF THIS PERIOD ASHUR NATSIR PAL'S GREAT PALACE AT KALKHI WAS EXCAVATED BY LAYARD


WHO HAS GIVEN A VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE VERDANT PLAIN ON WHICH THE ANCIENT CITY WAS SITUATED AS IT APPEARED IN SPRING ITS PASTURE LANDS KNOWN AS THE JAIF ARE RENOWNED HE WROTE


IN THE EVENING AFTER THE LABOUR OF THE DAY I OFTEN SAT AT THE DOOR OF MY TENT GIVING MYSELF UP TO THE FULL ENJOYMENT OF THAT CALM AND REPOSE WHICH ARE IMPARTED TO THE SENSES BY SUCH SCENES AS THESE


AS THE SUN WENT DOWN BEHIND THE LOW HILLS WHICH SEPARATE THE RIVER FROM THE DESERT EVEN THEIR ROCKY SIDES HAD STRUGGLED TO EMULATE THE VERDANT CLOTHING OF THE PLAIN ITS RECEDING RAYS WERE GRADUALLY WITHDRAWN


LIKE A TRANSPARENT VEIL OF LIGHT FROM THE LANDSCAPE OVER THE PURE CLOUDLESS SKY WAS THE GLOW OF THE LAST LIGHT


KESHAF ANOTHER VENERABLE RUIN ROSE INDISTINCTLY INTO THE EVENING MIST STILL MORE DISTANT AND STILL MORE INDISTINCT WAS A SOLITARY HILL OVERLOOKING THE ANCIENT CITY OF ARBELA


THE KURDISH MOUNTAINS WHOSE SNOWY SUMMITS CHERISHED THE DYING SUNBEAMS YET STRUGGLED WITH THE TWILIGHT THE BLEATING OF SHEEP AND LOWING OF CATTLE


AT FIRST FAINT BECAME LOUDER AS THE FLOCKS RETURNED FROM THEIR PASTURES AND WANDERED AMONGST THE TENTS GIRLS HURRIED OVER THE GREENSWARD TO SEEK THEIR FATHERS CATTLE OR CROUCHED DOWN TO MILK THOSE WHICH HAD RETURNED ALONE TO THEIR WELL REMEMBERED FOLDS


BALES OF EMBROIDERED CLOTH IVORY AND JEWELS SILVER AND GOLD THE PRODUCTS OF MANY COUNTRIES WHILE THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS WERE ASSEMBLED THERE TO REAR STATELY BUILDINGS WHICH ULTIMATELY FELL INTO DECAY AND WERE BURIED BY DRIFTING SANDS


LAYARD EXCAVATED THE EMPEROR'S PALACE AND DISPATCHED TO LONDON AMONG OTHER TREASURES OF ANTIQUITY


THE ASSYRIAN SCULPTURES OF THIS PERIOD LACK THE TECHNICAL SKILL THE DELICACY AND IMAGINATION OF SUMERIAN AND AKKADIAN ART BUT THEY ARE FULL OF ENERGY DIGNIFIED AND MASSIVE AND STRONG AND LIFELIKE


THEY REFLECT THE SPIRIT OF ASSYRIA'S GREATNESS WHICH HOWEVER HAD A MATERIALISTIC BASIS ASSYRIAN ART FOUND EXPRESSION IN DELINEATING THE OUTWARD FORM RATHER THAN IN STRIVING TO CREATE A THING OF BEAUTY WHICH IS A JOY FOR EVER


WHEN ASHUR NATSIR PAL DIED


WHOSE MILITARY ACTIVITIES EXTENDED OVER HIS WHOLE REIGN


AS SHALMANESER WAS THE FIRST ASSYRIAN KING WHO CAME INTO DIRECT TOUCH WITH THE HEBREWS IT WILL BE OF INTEREST HERE TO REVIEW THE HISTORY OF THE DIVIDED KINGDOMS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH AS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE


ESTABLISHED THE RELIGION OF THE CANAANITES AND MADE GODS AND MOLTEN IMAGES HE WAS CONDEMNED FOR HIS IDOLATRY BY THE PROPHET AHIJAH WHO DECLARED THE LORD SHALL SMITE ISRAEL AS A REED IS SHAKEN IN THE WATER


AND HE SHALL ROOT UP ISRAEL OUT OF THIS GOOD LAND WHICH HE GAVE TO THEIR FATHERS AND SHALL SCATTER THEM BEYOND THE RIVER


AND HIS PEOPLE SLEW THEM WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER SO THERE FELL DOWN SLAIN IN ISRAEL FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN THUS THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE BROUGHT UNDER AT THAT TIME AND THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH PREVAILED BECAUSE THEY RELIED UPON THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS


AND ABIJAH PURSUED AFTER JEROBOAM AND TOOK CITIES FROM HIM BETHEL WITH THE TOWNS THEREOF AND JESHANAH WITH THE TOWNS THEREOF


AND THEY BURIED HIM IN THE CITY OF DAVID


IN HIS DAYS THE LAND WAS QUIET TEN YEARS


FOR HE TOOK AWAY THE ALTARS OF THE STRANGE GODS AND THE HIGH PLACES AND BRAKE DOWN THE IMAGES AND CUT DOWN THE GROVES AND COMMANDED JUDAH TO SEEK THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS AND TO DO THE LAW AND THE COMMANDMENT


ALSO HE TOOK AWAY OUT OF ALL THE CITIES OF JUDAH THE HIGH PLACES AND THE IMAGES


HE PROCEEDED TO FORTIFY RAMAH A FEW MILES TO THE NORTH OF JERUSALEM


AND APPARENTLY SUPPORTED THE REBELLIONS OF THE NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIAN KINGS


AND THEREFORE UNABLE EITHER TO ASSERT ITS AUTHORITY IN JUDAH


IN THE HOUR OF PERIL JUDAH SOUGHT THE AID OF THE KING OF DAMASCUS


AND THE TREASURES OF THE KING'S HOUSE AND DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HAND OF HIS SERVANTS


THE SON OF TABRIMON THE SON OF HEZION KING OF SYRIA THAT DWELT AT DAMASCUS SAYING THERE IS A LEAGUE BETWEEN ME AND THEE AND BETWEEN MY FATHER AND THY FATHER BEHOLD


WHEN HE WAS MURDERED BY HIS SERVANT ZIMRI CAPTAIN OF HALF HIS CHARIOTS WHILE HE WAS DRINKING HIMSELF DRUNK IN THE HOUSE OF ARZA STEWARD OF HIS HOUSE IN TIRZAH


ZIMRI'S REVOLT WAS SHORTLIVED HE REIGNED ONLY SEVEN DAYS IN TIRZAH THE ARMY WAS ENCAMPED AGAINST GIBBETHON WHICH BELONGED TO THE PHILISTINES AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE ENCAMPED HEARD SAY


ZIMRI HATH CONSPIRED AND HATH ALSO SLAIN THE KING WHEREFORE ALL ISRAEL MADE OMRI THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST KING OVER ISRAEL THAT DAY IN THE CAMP AND OMRI WENT UP FROM GIBBETHON AND ALL ISRAEL WITH HIM


AND AHAB DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD ABOVE ALL THAT WERE BEFORE HIM SO NOTORIOUS INDEED WERE FATHER AND SON THAT THE PROPHET MICAH DECLARED TO THE BACKSLIDERS OF HIS DAY FOR THE STATUTES OF OMRI ARE KEPT


AND ALL THE WORKS OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB AND YE WALK IN THEIR COUNSEL


BOAST HIMSELF AS HE THAT PUTTETH IT OFF


TWO YEARS PREVIOUSLY HE HAD BROKEN THE POWER OF AKHUNI


THE LEADER OF A STRONG CONFEDERACY OF PETTY STATES THEREAFTER THE ASSYRIAN MONARCH TURNED TOWARDS THE SOUTH WEST AND ATTACKED THE HITTITE STATE OF HAMATH


THE VARIOUS RIVAL KINGDOMS OF SYRIA UNITED AGAINST HIM AND AN ARMY OF SEVENTY THOUSAND ALLIES ATTEMPTED TO THWART HIS PROGRESS AT QARQAR ON THE ORONTES ALTHOUGH SHALMANESER CLAIMED A VICTORY ON THIS OCCASION


IT WAS OF NO GREAT ADVANTAGE TO HIM FOR HE WAS UNABLE TO FOLLOW IT UP


OF DAMASCUS AND AHAB OF ISRAEL AKHABBU


THE LATTER HAD A FORCE OF TEN THOUSAND MEN UNDER HIS COMMAND FOUR YEARS AFTER AHAB BEGAN TO REIGN


HE TURNED NOT ASIDE FROM IT DOING THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF THE LORD NEVERTHELESS THE HIGH PLACES WERE NOT TAKEN AWAY


DURING THIS PERIOD BUT IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE TWO KINGDOMS HAD BEEN DRAWN TOGETHER


AFTER REPULSING THE SYRIAN ALLIES AT QARQAR


SHALMANESER THE THIRD OF ASSYRIA FOUND IT NECESSARY TO INVADE BABYLONIA


OF THAT KINGDOM AND WAS THUS ABLE TO OPERATE IN THE NORTH WEST WITHOUT FEAR OF COMPLICATIONS WITH THE RIVAL CLAIMANT OF MESOPOTAMIA


WERE RIVALS FOR THE THRONE THE FORMER THE RIGHTFUL HEIR APPEALED FOR HELP TO SHALMANESER AND THAT MONARCH AT ONCE HASTENED TO ASSERT HIS AUTHORITY IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM


WAS SUPPORTED BY AN ARAMAEAN ARMY WAS DEFEATED AND PUT TO DEATH


AFTERWARDS REIGNED OVER BABYLONIA AS THE VASSAL OF ASSYRIA AND SHALMANESER HIS OVERLORD MADE OFFERINGS TO THE GODS AT BABYLON BORSIPPA AND CUTHAH


AND COMPELLED TO PAY ANNUAL TRIBUTE IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR SHALMANESER HAD TO LEAD AN EXPEDITION INTO NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA AND SUPPRESS A FRESH REVOLT IN THAT TROUBLED REGION BUT THE WESTERN ALLIES SOON GATHERED STRENGTH AGAIN


HE FOUND IT NECESSARY TO RETURN WITH A GREAT ARMY BUT WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL IN ACHIEVING ANY PERMANENT SUCCESS ALTHOUGH HE PUT HIS ENEMIES TO FLIGHT THE VARIOUS WESTERN KINGDOMS INCLUDING DAMASCUS ISRAEL


REMAINED UNCONQUERED AND CONTINUED TO CONSPIRE AGAINST HIM THE RESISTING POWER OF THE SYRIAN ALLIES HOWEVER WAS BEING GREATLY WEAKENED BY INTERNAL REVOLTS WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN STIRRED UP BY ASSYRIAN EMISSARIES


A ROYAL PRINCESS OF ISRAEL WAS DEAD


THUS SAITH THE LORD I HAVE ANOINTED THEE KING OVER ISRAEL AND THOU SHALT SMITE THE HOUSE OF AHAB THY MASTER THAT I MAY AVENGE THE BLOOD OF MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS AND THE BLOOD OF ALL THE SERVANTS OF THE LORD


JEHU CONSPIRED AGAINST JORAM AND THEN ACCOMPANIED BY AN ESCORT


SO THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRST TO ANNOUNCE THE REVOLT TO THE KING WHOM HE WAS TO DEPOSE THE WATCHMAN ON THE TOWER OF JEZREEL SAW JEHU AND HIS COMPANY APPROACHING


AND INFORMED JORAM WHO TWICE SENT OUT A MESSENGER TO ENQUIRE IS IT PEACE NEITHER MESSENGER RETURNED AND THE WATCHMAN INFORMED THE WOUNDED MONARCH OF ISRAEL HE CAME EVEN UNTO THEM AND COMETH NOT AGAIN


AND THE DRIVING IS LIKE THE DRIVING OF JEHU THE SON OF NIMSHI FOR HE DRIVETH FURIOUSLY KING JORAM WENT OUT HIMSELF TO MEET THE FAMOUS CHARIOTEER


WHERE HE WAS WELCOMED HE MADE OFFERINGS THERE TO HADAD THE LOCAL THOR AND THEN SUDDENLY MARCHED SOUTHWARD HAZAEL WENT OUT TO OPPOSE THE ADVANCING ASSYRIANS AND CAME INTO CONFLICT WITH THEM IN THE VICINITY OF MOUNT HERMON


I FOUGHT WITH HIM SHALMANESER RECORDED AND ACCOMPLISHED HIS DEFEAT


HE FLED TO SAVE HIS LIFE HAZAEL TOOK REFUGE WITHIN THE WALLS OF DAMASCUS WHICH THE ASSYRIANS BESIEGED BUT FAILED HOWEVER TO CAPTURE SHALMANESER'S SOLDIERS MEANWHILE WASTED AND BURNED CITIES WITHOUT NUMBER


AND CARRIED AWAY GREAT BOOTY IN THOSE DAYS SHALMANESER RECORDED I RECEIVED TRIBUTE FROM THE TYRIANS AND SIDONIANS AND FROM YAUA JEHU


SHOWS THAT THE UNPRONOUNCED ALEPH AT THE END WAS AT THAT TIME SOUNDED


JEHUA SHALMANESER DID NOT AGAIN ATTACK DAMASCUS HIS SPHERE OF INFLUENCE WAS THEREFORE CONFINED TO NORTH SYRIA


HIS REVOLT RECEIVED THE SUPPORT OF THE ORTHODOX HEBREWS AND HE BEGAN WELL BY INAUGURATING REFORMS IN THE NORTHERN KINGDOM WITH PURPOSE APPARENTLY TO RE ESTABLISH THE WORSHIP OF DAVID'S GOD HE PERSECUTED THE PROPHETS OF BAAL BUT SOON BECAME A BACKSLIDER


FOR ALTHOUGH HE STAMPED OUT THE PHOENICIAN RELIGION HE BEGAN TO WORSHIP THE GOLDEN CALVES THAT WERE IN BETHEL AND THAT WERE IN DAN


OF THE IDOLATORS OF THE ANCIENT CULT OF THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN THE CROWN OF JUDAH HAD BEEN SEIZED BY THE ISRAELITISH QUEEN MOTHER


BUT ANOTHER WOMAN THWARTED THE COMPLETION OF HER MONSTROUS DESIGN


THE KING'S SON AND PUT UPON HIM THE CROWN AND GAVE HIM THE TESTIMONY AND MADE HIM KING AND JEHOIADA AND HIS SONS ANOINTED HIM AND SAID GOD SAVE THE KING


SHE CAME TO THE PEOPLE INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND SHE LOOKED AND BEHOLD THE KING STOOD AT HIS PILLAR AT THE ENTERING IN AND THE PRINCES AND THE TRUMPETS BY THE KING AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND REJOICED AND SOUNDED WITH TRUMPETS


ALSO THE SINGERS WITH INSTRUMENTS OF MUSICK AND SUCH AS TAUGHT TO SING PRAISE


AND SAID TREASON TREASON THEN JEHOIADA THE PRIEST BROUGHT OUT THE CAPTAINS OF HUNDREDS THAT WERE SET OVER THE HOST


HAVE HER FORTH OF THE RANGES AND WHOSO FOLLOWETH HER LET HIM BE SLAIN BY THE SWORD FOR THE PRIEST SAID SLAY HER NOT IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD SO THEY LAID HANDS ON HER


AND WHEN SHE WAS COME TO THE ENTERING OF THE HORSE GATE BY THE KING'S HOUSE THEY SLEW HER THERE AND JEHOIADA MADE A COVENANT BETWEEN HIM AND BETWEEN ALL THE PEOPLE


AND HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HAND OF BEN HADAD THE SON OF HAZAEL ALL THEIR DAYS THEN JEHOAHAZ REPENTED HE BESOUGHT THE LORD AND THE LORD HEARKENED UNTO HIM FOR HE SAW THE OPPRESSION OF ISRAEL


AND KEPT HIS GENERALS CONTINUALLY EMPLOYED SUPPRESSING REVOLTS ON HIS FRONTIERS AFTER HE SUBDUED THE HITTITES


TRIBES OF THE MEDES CAME UNDER HIS POWER


LIKE THE FRONTIER TRIBES OF INDIA AGAINST THE BRITISH TROOPS THE KINGDOM OF URARTU WAS GROWING MORE AND MORE POWERFUL


THE GREAT EMPIRE WAS SUDDENLY SHAKEN TO ITS FOUNDATIONS BY THE OUTBREAK OF CIVIL WAR THE PARTY OF REBELLION WAS LED BY SHALMANESER'S SON ASHUR DANIN APLI


HE WAS A POPULAR HERO AND RECEIVED THE SUPPORT OF MOST OF THE IMPORTANT ASSYRIAN CITIES INCLUDING NINEVEH


ARBELA IMGURBEL AND DUR BALAT AS WELL AS SOME OF THE DEPENDENCIES SHALMANESER RETAINED KALKHI AND THE PROVINCES OF NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA AND IT APPEARS THAT THE GREATER PART OF THE ARMY ALSO REMAINED LOYAL TO HIM


AFTER FOUR YEARS OF CIVIL WAR SHALMANESER DIED HIS CHOSEN HEIR


WHEN AT LENGTH THE NEW KING HAD STAMPED OUT THE LAST EMBERS OF REVOLT WITHIN THE KINGDOM HE HAD TO UNDERTAKE THE RECONQUEST OF THOSE PROVINCES WHICH IN THE INTERVAL


URARTU IN THE NORTH HAD GROWN MORE AGGRESSIVE THE SYRIANS WERE OPENLY DEFIANT THE MEDES WERE CONDUCTING BOLD RAIDS


SHAMSHI ADAD HOWEVER


BURNED MANY CITIES AND COLLECTED ENORMOUS TRIBUTE WHILE THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS WERE TAKEN AND FORCED TO SERVE THE CONQUEROR HAVING ESTABLISHED HIS POWER IN THE NORTH SHAMSHI ADAD


ON HIS WAY SOUTHWARD HE SUBDUED MANY VILLAGES


AND ACHIEVED A GREAT VICTORY KILLING THIRTEEN THOUSAND AND TAKING THREE THOUSAND CAPTIVES THEN THE BABYLONIAN KING


BUT WAS DEFEATED IN A FIERCE BATTLE ON THE BANKS OF THE DABAN CANAL


TWO HUNDRED HORSEMEN AND ONE HUNDRED CHARIOTS SHAMSHI ADAD CONDUCTED IN ALL FIVE CAMPAIGNS IN BABYLONIA AND CHALDAEA WHICH HE COMPLETELY SUBDUED PENETRATING AS FAR AS THE SHORES OF THE PERSIAN GULF


IN THE END HE TOOK PRISONER THE NEW KING


FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY AFTER THIS DISASTER BABYLONIA WAS A PROVINCE OF ASSYRIA


HE HAD FOUND AT LAST THAT THE DRAUGHTS CONTAINING DISSOLVED PEARLS WHICH THE QUACK DOCTOR LEONI DI SPOLETO PRESCRIBED FOR HIM AS IF HE DESIRED TO ADAPT HIS REMEDIES RATHER TO THE RICHES OF HIS PATIENT THAN TO HIS NECESSITIES


WERE USELESS AND UNAVAILING AND SO HE HAD COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE MUST PART FROM THOSE GENTLE TONGUED WOMEN OF HIS THOSE SWEET VOICED POETS HIS PALACES AND THEIR RICH HANGINGS THEREFORE HE HAD SUMMONED TO GIVE HIM ABSOLUTION FOR HIS SINS


IN A MAN OF LESS HIGH PLACE THEY MIGHT PERHAPS HAVE BEEN CALLED CRIMES THE DOMINICAN GIRALAMO FRANCESCO SAVONAROLA IT WAS NOT HOWEVER WITHOUT AN INWARD FEAR AGAINST WHICH THE PRAISES OF HIS FRIENDS AVAILED NOTHING


THAT THE PLEASURE SEEKER AND USURPER AWAITED THAT SEVERE AND GLOOMY PREACHER BY WHOSE WORDS ALL FLORENCE WAS STIRRED AND ON WHOSE PARDON HENCEFORTH DEPENDED ALL HIS HOPE FOR ANOTHER WORLD INDEED SAVONAROLA WAS ONE OF THOSE MEN OF STONE


COMING LIKE THE STATUE OF THE COMMANDANTE TO KNOCK AT THE DOOR OF A DON GIOVANNI AND IN THE MIDST OF FEAST AND ORGY TO ANNOUNCE THAT IT IS EVEN NOW THE MOMENT TO BEGIN TO THINK OF HEAVEN HE HAD BEEN BORN AT FERRARA


HAD FLED FROM HIS FATHER'S HOUSE AND HAD TAKEN THE VOWS IN THE CLOISTER OF DOMINICAN MONKS AT FLORENCE THERE WHERE HE WAS APPOINTED BY HIS SUPERIORS TO GIVE LESSONS IN PHILOSOPHY THE YOUNG NOVICE HAD FROM THE FIRST TO BATTLE AGAINST THE DEFECTS OF A VOICE THAT WAS BOTH HARSH AND WEAK


A DEFECTIVE PRONUNCIATION AND ABOVE ALL THE DEPRESSION OF HIS PHYSICAL POWERS EXHAUSTED AS THEY WERE BY TOO SEVERE ABSTINENCE SAVONAROLA FROM THAT TIME CONDEMNED HIMSELF TO THE MOST ABSOLUTE SECLUSION AND DISAPPEARED IN THE DEPTHS OF HIS CONVENT


AS IF THE SLAB OF HIS TOMB HAD ALREADY FALLEN OVER HIM THERE KNEELING ON THE FLAGS PRAYING UNCEASINGLY BEFORE A WOODEN CRUCIFIX FEVERED BY VIGILS AND PENANCES HE SOON PASSED OUT OF CONTEMPLATION INTO ECSTASY AND BEGAN TO FEEL IN HIMSELF


THAT INWARD PROPHETIC IMPULSE WHICH SUMMONED HIM TO PREACH THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH NEVERTHELESS THE REFORMATION OF SAVONAROLA MORE REVERENTIAL THAN LUTHER'S WHICH FOLLOWED ABOUT FIVE AND TWENTY YEARS LATER RESPECTED THE THING WHILE ATTACKING THE MAN


AND HAD AS ITS AIM THE ALTERING OF TEACHING THAT WAS HUMAN NOT FAITH THAT WAS OF GOD HE DID NOT WORK LIKE THE GERMAN MONK BY REASONING BUT BY ENTHUSIASM WITH HIM LOGIC ALWAYS GAVE WAY BEFORE INSPIRATION HE WAS NOT A THEOLOGIAN


BUT A PROPHET YET ALTHOUGH HITHERTO HE HAD BOWED HIS HEAD BEFORE THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH HE HAD ALREADY RAISED IT AGAINST THE TEMPORAL POWER TO HIM RELIGION AND LIBERTY APPEARED AS TWO VIRGINS EQUALLY SACRED


THE RESULT OF THIS WAS THAT SO LONG AS LORENZO LIVED IN RICHES HAPPINESS AND MAGNIFICENCE SAVONAROLA HAD NEVER BEEN WILLING WHATEVER ENTREATIES WERE MADE TO SANCTION BY HIS PRESENCE A POWER WHICH HE CONSIDERED ILLEGITIMATE


BUT LORENZO ON HIS DEATHBED SENT FOR HIM AND THAT WAS ANOTHER MATTER THE AUSTERE PREACHER SET FORTH AT ONCE BAREHEADED AND BAREFOOT HOPING TO SAVE NOT ONLY THE SOUL OF THE DYING MAN BUT ALSO THE LIBERTY OF THE REPUBLIC


LORENZO AS WE HAVE SAID WAS AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF SAVONAROLA WITH AN IMPATIENCE MIXED WITH UNEASINESS SO THAT WHEN HE HEARD THE SOUND OF HIS STEPS HIS PALE FACE TOOK A YET MORE DEATHLIKE TINGE


APPEARED ON THE THRESHOLD WHEN HE PERCEIVED HIM LORENZO DEI MEDICI READING IN HIS MARBLE BROW THE INFLEXIBILITY OF A STATUE FELL BACK ON HIS BED BREATHING A SIGH SO PROFOUND THAT ONE MIGHT HAVE SUPPOSED IT WAS HIS LAST


THEN HE ADVANCED WITH A SLOW AND SOLEMN STEP TOWARDS THE BED LORENZO WATCHED HIS APPROACH WITH TERROR THEN WHEN HE WAS CLOSE BESIDE HIM HE CRIED O MY FATHER I HAVE BEEN A VERY GREAT SINNER THE MERCY OF GOD IS INFINITE REPLIED THE MONK


YOU BELIEVE THEN THAT GOD WILL FORGIVE MY SINS CRIED THE DYING MAN RENEWING HIS HOPE AS HE HEARD FROM THE LIPS OF THE MONK SUCH UNEXPECTED WORDS YOUR SINS AND ALSO YOUR CRIMES GOD WILL FORGIVE THEM ALL REPLIED SAVONAROLA


GOD WILL FORGIVE YOUR VANITIES YOUR ADULTEROUS PLEASURES YOUR OBSCENE FESTIVALS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SINS


FRANCESCO FRESCOBALDI AND MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED OTHERS WHOSE NAMES WERE NONE THE LESS DEAR TO FLORENCE BECAUSE THEY WERE LESS RENOWNED SO MUCH FOR YOUR CRIMES AND AT EACH OF THESE NAMES WHICH SAVONAROLA PRONOUNCED SLOWLY HIS EYES FIXED ON THE DYING MAN


HE REPLIED WITH A GROAN WHICH PROVED THE MONK'S MEMORY TO BE ONLY TOO TRUE THEN AT LAST WHEN HE HAD FINISHED LORENZO ASKED IN A DOUBTFUL TONE THEN DO YOU BELIEVE MY FATHER THAT GOD WILL FORGIVE ME EVERYTHING BOTH MY SINS AND MY CRIMES


EVERYTHING SAID SAVONAROLA BUT ON THREE CONDITIONS WHAT ARE THEY ASKED THE DYING MAN THE FIRST SAID SAVONAROLA IS THAT YOU FEEL A COMPLETE FAITH IN THE POWER AND THE MERCY OF GOD


MY FATHER REPLIED LORENZO EAGERLY I FEEL THIS FAITH IN THE VERY DEPTHS OF MY HEART THE SECOND SAID SAVONAROLA IS THAT YOU GIVE BACK THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS WHICH YOU HAVE UNJUSTLY CONFISCATED AND KEPT


MY FATHER SHALL I HAVE TIME ASKED THE DYING MAN GOD WILL GIVE IT TO YOU REPLIED THE MONK


EXCLAIMED LORENZO FALLING BACK ON HIS BED AND SHAKING HIS HEAD NEVER THE MONK WITHOUT REPLYING A SINGLE WORD MADE A STEP TO WITHDRAW MY FATHER MY FATHER SAID THE DYING MAN DO NOT LEAVE ME THUS HAVE PITY ON ME HAVE PITY ON FLORENCE SAID THE MONK


BUT MY FATHER CRIED LORENZO FLORENCE IS FREE FLORENCE IS HAPPY FLORENCE IS A SLAVE FLORENCE IS POOR CRIED SAVONAROLA POOR IN GENIUS POOR IN MONEY AND POOR IN COURAGE POOR IN GENIUS BECAUSE AFTER YOU LORENZO


WILL COME YOUR SON PIERO POOR IN MONEY BECAUSE FROM THE FUNDS OF THE REPUBLIC YOU HAVE KEPT UP THE MAGNIFICENCE OF YOUR FAMILY AND THE CREDIT OF YOUR BUSINESS HOUSES POOR IN COURAGE BECAUSE YOU HAVE ROBBED THE RIGHTFUL MAGISTRATES OF THE AUTHORITY WHICH WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY THEIRS


AND DIVERTED THE CITIZENS FROM THE DOUBLE PATH OF MILITARY AND CIVIL LIFE WHEREIN BEFORE THEY WERE ENERVATED BY YOUR LUXURIES THEY HAD DISPLAYED THE VIRTUES OF THE ANCIENTS AND THEREFORE WHEN THE DAY SHALL DAWN WHICH IS NOT FAR DISTANT CONTINUED THE MONK


IT IS NOT I WHO DESIRE IT IT IS THE LORD REPLIED SAVONAROLA COLDLY IMPOSSIBLE IMPOSSIBLE MURMURED LORENZO VERY WELL THEN DIE AS YOU HAVE LIVED CRIED THE MONK IN THE MIDST OF YOUR COURTIERS AND FLATTERERS


LET THEM RUIN YOUR SOUL AS THEY HAVE RUINED YOUR BODY AND AT THESE WORDS THE AUSTERE DOMINICAN WITHOUT LISTENING TO THE CRIES OF THE DYING MAN LEFT THE ROOM AS HE HAD ENTERED IT WITH FACE AND STEP UNALTERED FAR ABOVE HUMAN THINGS HE SEEMED TO SOAR


A SPIRIT ALREADY DETACHED FROM THE EARTH AT THE CRY WHICH BROKE FROM LORENZO DEI MEDICI WHEN HE SAW HIM DISAPPEAR


AND FOUND THEIR FRIEND CONVULSIVELY CLUTCHING IN HIS ARMS A MAGNIFICENT CRUCIFIX WHICH HE HAD JUST TAKEN DOWN FROM THE BED HEAD IN VAIN DID THEY TRY TO REASSURE HIM WITH FRIENDLY WORDS LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT ONLY REPLIED WITH SOBS


HIS LIPS CLINGING TO THE FEET OF THE CHRIST HE BREATHED HIS LAST IN THE ARMS OF THESE THREE MEN OF WHOM THE MOST FORTUNATE THOUGH ALL THREE WERE YOUNG WAS NOT DESTINED TO SURVIVE HIM MORE THAN TWO YEARS


CHAPTER TWENTY SIX SIGHT SEEING GENERAL ORD COMMANDING THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PLATTE AT THE TIME AND WHO HAD BEEN OUT ON THE ALEXIS HUNT HAD SOME BUSINESS TO ATTEND TO AT FORT MC PHERSON


AND I ACCEPTED HIS INVITATION TO RIDE OVER TO THE POST WITH HIM IN AN AMBULANCE ON THE WAY THITHER HE ASKED ME HOW I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AN OFFICER'S COMMISSION IN THE REGULAR ARMY HE SAID THAT GENERAL SHERIDAN AND HIMSELF HAD HAD SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT THE MATTER


AND IF I WANTED A COMMISSION ONE COULD EASILY BE PROCURED FOR ME I THANKED GENERAL ORD FOR HIS KINDNESS AND SAID THAT ALTHOUGH AN OFFICER'S COMMISSION IN THE REGULAR ARMY WAS A TEMPTING PRIZE YET I PREFERRED TO REMAIN IN THE POSITION I WAS THEN HOLDING


HAVING DETERMINED TO VISIT NEW YORK I ACTED UPON GENERAL SHERIDAN'S SUGGESTION AND WROTE TO GENERAL STAGER FROM WHOM IN A FEW DAYS I RECEIVED MY RAILROAD PASSES OBTAINING THIRTY DAYS LEAVE OF ABSENCE FROM THE DEPARTMENT I STRUCK OUT FOR THE EAST


ON ARRIVING IN CHICAGO IN FEBRUARY EIGHTEEN SEVENTY TWO I WAS MET AT THE DEPOT BY COLONEL M V SHERIDAN WHO SAID THAT HIS BROTHER THE GENERAL HAD NOT YET RETURNED


BUT HAD SENT WORD THAT I WAS TO BE HIS AND THE COLONEL'S GUEST AT THEIR HOUSE WHILE I REMAINED IN CHICAGO I SPENT TWO OR THREE DAYS VERY PLEASANTLY IN THE GREAT CITY OF THE WEST MEETING SEVERAL OF THE GENTLEMEN WHO HAD BEEN OUT ON THE SHERIDAN HUNT IN SEPTEMBER GENERAL STAGER


COLONEL WILSON EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL MISTER SAM JOHNSON GENERAL RUCKER AND OTHERS BY ALL OF WHOM I WAS MOST CORDIALLY RECEIVED AND WELL ENTERTAINED I WAS INTRODUCED TO QUITE A NUMBER OF THE BEST PEOPLE OF THE CITY AND WAS INVITED TO SEVERAL SWELL DINNERS


THAT IT WAS MORE DIFFICULT FOR ME TO FACE THE THRONG OF BEAUTIFUL LADIES


I WAS TO STOP AT NIAGARA FALLS BUFFALO AND ROCHESTER ON MY WAY TO NEW YORK AND HE PROVIDED ME WITH ALL THE NECESSARY RAILROAD PASSES JUST AS I WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE CHICAGO I MET PROFESSOR HENRY A WARD OF ROCHESTER FOR WHOM DURING THE PREVIOUS YEAR OR TWO


I HAD COLLECTED A LARGE NUMBER OF SPECIMENS OF WILD ANIMALS HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO ROCHESTER AND KINDLY VOLUNTEERED TO ACT AS MY GUIDE UNTIL WE REACHED THAT POINT WE SPENT ONE DAY IN VIEWING THE WONDERS OF NIAGARA


AND I HAD THE HONOR OF RECEIVING AN INVITATION TO DINE WITH THE MAYOR ON ARRIVING AT NEW YORK I WAS MET AT THE DEPOT BY MISTER J G HECKSHER WHO HAD BEEN APPOINTED AS A COMMITTEE OF ONE TO ESCORT ME TO THE UNION CLUB


WHERE JAMES GORDON BENNETT LEONARD W JEROME AND OTHERS WERE TO GIVE ME AN INFORMAL RECEPTION AND WHERE I WAS TO MAKE MY HEADQUARTERS DURING MY VISIT IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS I HAD AN ELEGANT DINNER AT THE CLUB ROOMS WITH THE GENTLEMEN WHO HAD BEEN OUT ON THE SEPTEMBER HUNT AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CLUB


HE WAS DELIGHTED TO SEE ME AND INSISTED ON MY BECOMING HIS GUEST HE WOULD LISTEN TO NO EXCUSES AND ON INTRODUCING ME TO MESSRS OVERTON AND BLAIR PROPRIETORS OF THE BREVOORT THEY ALSO GAVE ME A PRESSING INVITATION TO MAKE MY HOME AT THEIR HOUSE


I FINALLY COMPROMISED THE MATTER BY AGREEING TO DIVIDE MY TIME BETWEEN THE UNION CLUB THE BREVOORT HOUSE AND NED BUNTLINE'S QUARTERS THE NEXT FEW DAYS I SPENT IN VIEWING THE SIGHTS OF NEW YORK EVERYTHING BEING NEW AND STARTLING


CONVINCING ME THAT AS YET I HAD SEEN BUT A SMALL PORTION OF THE WORLD I RECEIVED NUMEROUS DINNER INVITATIONS AS WELL AS INVITATIONS TO VISIT DIFFERENT PLACES OF AMUSEMENT AND INTEREST BUT AS THEY CAME IN SO THICK AND FAST I SOON BECAME BADLY DEMORALIZED AND CONFUSED


I FOUND I HAD ACCEPTED INVITATIONS TO DINE AT HALF A DOZEN OR MORE HOUSES ON THE SAME DAY AND AT THE SAME HOUR JAMES GORDON BENNETT HAD PREPARED A DINNER FOR ME AT WHICH QUITE A LARGE NUMBER OF HIS FRIENDS WERE TO BE PRESENT


BUT OWING TO MY CONFUSION ARISING FROM THE MANY OTHER INVITATIONS I HAD RECEIVED I FORGOT ALL ABOUT IT AND DINED ELSEWHERE THIS WAS A BAD BREAK BUT I DID NOT LEARN OF MY MISTAKE UNTIL NEXT DAY WHEN AT THE UNION CLUB HOUSE SEVERAL GENTLEMEN AMONG THEM LAWRENCE JEROME


AND WHY I HAD NOT PUT IN AN APPEARANCE AT BENNETT'S DINNER THEY SAID THAT BENNETT HAD TAKEN GREAT PAINS TO GIVE ME A SPLENDID RECEPTION THAT THE PARTY HAD WAITED TILL NINE O'CLOCK FOR ME AND THAT MY NON ARRIVAL CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DISAPPOINTMENT


I APOLOGIZED AS WELL AS I COULD BY SAYING THAT I HAD BEEN OUT ON A SCOUT AND HAD GOT LOST AND HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT THE DINNER AND EXPRESSED MY REGRET FOR THE DISAPPOINTMENT I HAD CREATED BY MY FORGETFULNESS AUGUST BELMONT THE BANKER BEING NEAR SAID


NEVER MIND GENTLEMEN I'LL GIVE CODY A DINNER AT MY HOUSE THANK YOU SIR SAID I I SEE YOU ARE DETERMINED THAT I SHALL NOT RUN SHORT OF RATIONS WHILE I AM IN THE CITY I'LL BE THERE SURE


BOTH MISTER JEROME AND MISTER HECKSHER TOLD ME THAT I MUST NOT DISAPPOINT MISTER BELMONT FOR HIS DINNERS WERE SPLENDID AFFAIRS I MADE A NOTE OF THE DATE AND AT THE APPOINTED TIME I WAS PROMPTLY AT MISTER BELMONT'S MANSION WHERE I SPENT A VERY ENJOYABLE EVENING


MISTER BENNETT WHO WAS AMONG THE GUESTS HAVING FORGIVEN MY CARELESSNESS INVITED ME TO ACCOMPANY HIM TO THE LIEDERKRANZ MASKED BALL WHICH WAS TO TAKE PLACE IN A FEW EVENINGS AND WOULD BE A GRAND SPECTACLE TOGETHER WE ATTENDED THE BALL AND DURING THE EVENING I WAS WELL ENTERTAINED


THE DANCERS KEPT ON THEIR MASKS UNTIL MIDNIGHT AND THE MERRY AND MOTLEY THRONG PRESENTED A BRILLIANT SCENE MOVING GRACEFULLY BENEATH THE BRIGHT GAS LIGHT TO THE INSPIRITING MUSIC TO ME IT WAS A NOVEL AND ENTERTAINING SIGHT


AND EXHIBITED SOME OF MY BACKWOODS STEPS WHICH ALTHOUGH NOT AS GRACEFUL AS SOME WERE A GREAT DEAL MORE EMPHATIC BUT WHEN I UNDERTOOK TO DO ARTISTIC DANCING I FOUND I WAS DECIDEDLY OUT OF PLACE IN THAT CROWD AND I ACCORDINGLY WITHDREW FROM THE FLOOR


I OCCASIONALLY PASSED AN EVENING AT NIBLO'S GARDEN VIEWING THE MANY BEAUTIES OF THE BLACK CROOK WHICH WAS THEN HAVING ITS LONG RUN UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF JARRETT AND PALMER WHOSE ACQUAINTANCE I HAD MADE AND WHO EXTENDED TO ME THE FREEDOM OF THE THEATER


NED BUNTLINE AND FRED MAEDER HAD DRAMATIZED ONE OF THE STORIES WHICH THE FORMER HAD WRITTEN ABOUT ME FOR THE NEW YORK WEEKLY THE DRAMA WAS CALLED BUFFALO BILL THE KING OF BORDER MEN WHILE I WAS IN NEW YORK IT WAS PRODUCED AT THE BOWERY THEATER


AND OF COURSE I WAS PRESENT ON THE OPENING NIGHT A PRIVATE BOX HAVING BEEN RESERVED FOR ME THE THEATER WAS PACKED EVERY SEAT BEING OCCUPIED AS WELL AS THE STANDING ROOM THE DRAMA WAS PLAYED SMOOTHLY AND CREATED A GREAT DEAL OF ENTHUSIASM


THE AUDIENCE UPON LEARNING THAT THE REAL BUFFALO BILL WAS PRESENT GAVE SEVERAL CHEERS BETWEEN THE ACTS AND I WAS CALLED ON TO COME OUT ON THE STAGE AND MAKE A SPEECH


AND THAT I SHOULD BE INTRODUCED TO MISTER STUDLEY I FINALLY CONSENTED AND THE NEXT MOMENT I FOUND MYSELF STANDING BEHIND THE FOOTLIGHTS AND IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I LOOKED UP THEN DOWN THEN ON EACH SIDE AND EVERYWHERE I SAW A SEA OF HUMAN FACES


BUT WHAT THEY WERE I COULD NOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME TELL NOR COULD ANY ONE ELSE IN THE HOUSE MY UTTERANCES WERE INAUDIBLE EVEN TO THE LEADER OF THE ORCHESTRA MISTER DEAN WHO WAS SITTING ONLY A FEW FEET IN FRONT OF ME BOWING TO THE AUDIENCE I BEAT A HASTY RETREAT INTO ONE OF THE CANONS OF THE STAGE


I NEVER FELT MORE RELIEVED IN MY LIFE THAN WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE VIEW OF THAT IMMENSE CROWD THAT EVENING MISTER FRELEIGH OFFERED TO GIVE ME FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK TO PLAY THE PART OF BUFFALO BILL MYSELF


AND THAT HE MIGHT AS WELL TRY TO MAKE AN ACTOR OUT OF A GOVERNMENT MULE I THANKED HIM FOR THE GENEROUS OFFER WHICH I HAD TO DECLINE OWING TO A LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN MYSELF OR AS SOME PEOPLE MIGHT EXPRESS IT I DIDN'T HAVE THE REQUISITE CHEEK TO UNDERTAKE A THING OF THAT SORT


THE PLAY OF BUFFALO BILL HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL RUN OF SIX OR EIGHT WEEKS AND WAS AFTERWARDS PRODUCED IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE COUNTRY EVERYWHERE BEING RECEIVED WITH GENUINE ENTHUSIASM


I MET HIM SOON AFTER HE GOT INTO TOWN IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION HOW I WAS ENJOYING MYSELF I REPLIED THAT I HAD STRUCK THE BEST CAMP I HAD EVER SEEN AND IF HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MY LEAVE OF ABSENCE EXTENDED ABOUT TEN DAYS


THIS HE WILLINGLY DID AND THEN INFORMED ME THAT MY SERVICES WOULD SOON BE REQUIRED AT FORT MC PHERSON AS THERE WAS TO BE AN EXPEDITION SENT OUT FROM THAT POINT AT WESTCHESTER PENNSYLVANIA I HAD SOME RELATIVES LIVING WHOM I HAD NEVER SEEN


AND NOW BEING SO NEAR I DETERMINED TO MAKE THEM A VISIT UPON MENTIONING THE MATTER TO BUNTLINE HE SUGGESTED THAT WE SHOULD TOGETHER TAKE A TRIP TO PHILADELPHIA AND THENCE RUN OUT TO WESTCHESTER


AMONG THEM AN ELDERLY LADY WHO WAS MY GRANDMOTHER AS HE INFORMED ME HE TOLD ME THAT MY AUNT ELIZA HIS FIRST WIFE WAS DEAD AND THAT HE HAD MARRIED A SECOND TIME LIZZIE GUSS MY COUSIN I THOUGHT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL I HAD EVER SEEN


THEY WERE ALL VERY ANXIOUS TO HAVE US REMAIN SEVERAL DAYS BUT AS I HAD SOME BUSINESS TO ATTEND TO IN NEW YORK I WAS OBLIGED TO RETURN THAT DAY ASSURING THEM HOWEVER THAT I WOULD VISIT THEM AGAIN SOON I BADE THEM ADIEU AND WITH BUNTLINE TOOK THE TRAIN FOR NEW YORK


CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAMPION BUFFALO KILLER SHORTLY AFTER THE ADVENTURES MENTIONED IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTER I HAD MY CELEBRATED BUFFALO HUNT WITH BILLY COMSTOCK A NOTED SCOUT GUIDE AND INTERPRETER


WHO WAS THEN CHIEF OF SCOUTS AT FORT WALLACE KANSAS COMSTOCK HAD THE REPUTATION FOR A LONG TIME OF BEING A MOST SUCCESSFUL BUFFALO HUNTER AND THE OFFICERS IN PARTICULAR WHO HAD SEEN HIM KILL BUFFALOES WERE VERY DESIROUS OF BACKING HIM IN A MATCH AGAINST ME


IT WAS ACCORDINGLY ARRANGED THAT I SHOULD SHOOT HIM A BUFFALO KILLING MATCH AND THE PRELIMINARIES WERE EASILY AND SATISFACTORILY AGREED UPON WE WERE TO HUNT ONE DAY OF EIGHT HOURS BEGINNING AT EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND CLOSING AT FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON


THE WAGER WAS FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS A SIDE AND THE MAN WHO SHOULD KILL THE GREATER NUMBER OF BUFFALOES FROM ON HORSEBACK WAS TO BE DECLARED THE WINNER THE HUNT TOOK PLACE ABOUT TWENTY MILES EAST OF SHERIDAN AND AS IT HAD BEEN PRETTY WELL ADVERTISED AND NOISED ABROAD


A LARGE CROWD WITNESSED THE INTERESTING AND EXCITING SCENE AN EXCURSION PARTY MOSTLY FROM SAINT LOUIS CONSISTING OF ABOUT A HUNDRED GENTLEMEN AND LADIES CAME OUT ON A SPECIAL TRAIN TO VIEW THE SPORT AND AMONG THE NUMBER WAS MY WIFE WITH LITTLE BABY ARTA


THE BUFFALOES WERE QUITE PLENTY AND IT WAS AGREED THAT WE SHOULD GO INTO THE SAME HERD AT THE SAME TIME AND MAKE A RUN AS WE CALLED IT EACH ONE KILLING AS MANY AS POSSIBLE A REFEREE WAS TO FOLLOW EACH OF US ON HORSEBACK WHEN WE ENTERED THE HERD AND COUNT THE BUFFALOES KILLED BY EACH MAN


WHEN THEY WERE TO COME UP AS NEAR AS THEY PLEASED AND WITNESS THE CHASE WE WERE FORTUNATE IN THE FIRST RUN IN GETTING GOOD GROUND COMSTOCK WAS MOUNTED ON ONE OF HIS FAVORITE HORSES WHILE I RODE OLD BRIGHAM I FELT CONFIDENT THAT I HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF COMSTOCK IN TWO THINGS


FIRST I HAD THE BEST BUFFALO HORSE THAT EVER MADE A TRACK AND SECOND I WAS USING WHAT WAS KNOWN AT THAT TIME AS THE NEEDLE GUN A BREECH LOADING SPRINGFIELD RIFLE CALIBRE FIFTY IT WAS MY FAVORITE OLD LUCRETIA WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE NOTICE OF THE READER


WHILE COMSTOCK WAS ARMED WITH A HENRY RIFLE AND ALTHOUGH HE COULD FIRE A FEW SHOTS QUICKER THAN I COULD YET I WAS PRETTY CERTAIN THAT IT DID NOT CARRY POWDER AND LEAD ENOUGH TO DO EXECUTION EQUAL TO MY CALIBRE FIFTY AT LAST THE TIME CAME TO BEGIN THE MATCH


COMSTOCK AND I DASHED INTO A HERD FOLLOWED BY THE REFEREES THE BUFFALOES SEPARATED COMSTOCK TOOK THE LEFT BUNCH AND I THE RIGHT MY GREAT FORTE IN KILLING BUFFALOES FROM HORSEBACK WAS TO GET THEM CIRCLING BY RIDING MY HORSE AT THE HEAD OF THE HERD SHOOTING THE LEADERS


TILL THEY WOULD FINALLY CIRCLE ROUND AND ROUND ON THIS MORNING THE BUFFALOES WERE VERY ACCOMMODATING


I HAD NURSED MY BUFFALOES AS A BILLIARD PLAYER DOES THE BALLS WHEN HE MAKES A BIG RUN AFTER THE RESULT OF THE FIRST RUN HAD BEEN DULY ANNOUNCED OUR SAINT LOUIS EXCURSION FRIENDS WHO HAD APPROACHED TO THE PLACE WHERE WE HAD STOPPED SET OUT A LOT OF CHAMPAGNE WHICH THEY HAD BROUGHT WITH THEM


AND WHICH PROVED A GOOD DRINK ON A KANSAS PRAIRIE AND A BUFFALO HUNTER WAS A GOOD MAN TO GET AWAY WITH IT WHILE TAKING A SHORT REST WE SUDDENLY SPIED ANOTHER HERD OF BUFFALOES COMING TOWARD US IT WAS ONLY A SMALL DROVE AND WE AT ONCE PREPARED TO GIVE THE ANIMALS A LIVELY RECEPTION


THEY PROVED TO BE A HERD OF COWS AND CALVES WHICH BY THE WAY ARE QUICKER IN THEIR MOVEMENTS THAN THE BULLS WE CHARGED IN AMONG THEM AND I CONCLUDED MY RUN WITH A SCORE OF EIGHTEEN WHILE COMSTOCK KILLED FOURTEEN


WE CAME UP CLOSE TO ANOTHER HERD AS I WAS SO FAR AHEAD OF MY COMPETITOR IN THE NUMBER KILLED I THOUGHT I COULD AFFORD TO GIVE AN EXTRA EXHIBITION OF MY SKILL I HAD TOLD THE LADIES THAT I WOULD ON THE NEXT RUN RIDE MY HORSE WITHOUT SADDLE OR BRIDLE


AND I REMEMBER ONE FAIR LADY WHO ENDEAVORED TO PREVAIL UPON ME NOT TO ATTEMPT IT THAT'S NOTHING AT ALL SAID I I HAVE DONE IT MANY A TIME AND OLD BRIGHAM KNOWS AS WELL AS I WHAT I AM DOING AND SOMETIMES A GREAT DEAL BETTER SO LEAVING MY SADDLE AND BRIDLE WITH THE WAGONS


WE RODE TO THE WINDWARD OF THE BUFFALOES AS USUAL AND WHEN WITHIN A FEW HUNDRED YARDS OF THEM WE DASHED INTO THE HERD I SOON HAD THIRTEEN LAID OUT ON THE GROUND THE LAST ONE OF WHICH I HAD DRIVEN DOWN CLOSE TO THE WAGONS WHERE THE LADIES WERE


IT FRIGHTENED SOME OF THE TENDER CREATURES TO SEE THE BUFFALO COMING AT FULL SPEED DIRECTLY TOWARD THEM BUT WHEN HE HAD GOT WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF ONE OF THE WAGONS I SHOT HIM DEAD IN HIS TRACKS THIS MADE MY SIXTY NINTH BUFFALO AND FINISHED MY THIRD AND LAST RUN


COMSTOCK HAVING KILLED FORTY SIX AS IT WAS NOW LATE IN THE AFTERNOON COMSTOCK AND HIS BACKERS GAVE UP THE IDEA THAT HE COULD BEAT ME AND THEREUPON THE REFEREES DECLARED ME THE WINNER OF THE MATCH


THEY PREPARED TO DEPART HAVING DECLINED AN INVITATION TO PASS THE NIGHT THERE


HAD ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF THE INDIANS WHO OVERTOOK HIM AND HIS COMPANION WHEN THEY HAD GONE ABOUT HALF A MILE AFTER SURROUNDING THE TWO MEN THEY SUDDENLY ATTACKED THEM THEY KILLED SCALPED AND ROBBED COMSTOCK BUT GROVER ALTHOUGH SEVERELY WOUNDED MADE HIS ESCAPE


OWING TO THE FLEETNESS OF THE EXCELLENT HORSE WHICH HE WAS RIDING THIS SAD EVENT OCCURRED AUGUST TWENTY SEVENTH EIGHTEEN SIXTY EIGHT ON OUR WAY BACK TO CAMP WE TOOK WITH US SOME OF THE CHOICE MEAT AND FINEST HEADS


IN THIS CONNECTION IT WILL NOT BE OUT OF PLACE TO STATE THAT DURING THE TIME I WAS HUNTING FOR THE KANSAS PACIFIC I ALWAYS BROUGHT INTO CAMP THE BEST BUFFALO HEADS AND TURNED THEM OVER TO THE COMPANY WHO FOUND A VERY GOOD USE FOR THEM THEY HAD THEM MOUNTED IN THE BEST POSSIBLE MANNER


AND SENT THEM TO ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND RAILROAD CENTERS IN THE COUNTRY HAVING THEM PLACED IN PROMINENT POSITIONS AT THE LEADING HOTELS DEPOTS AND OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS AS A SORT OF TRADE MARK OR ADVERTISEMENT OF THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD


AND TO DAY THEY ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF THE TRAVELER ALMOST EVERYWHERE WHENEVER I AM TRAVELING OVER THE COUNTRY AND SEE ONE OF THESE TRADE MARKS I FEEL PRETTY CERTAIN THAT I WAS THE CAUSE OF THE DEATH OF THE OLD FELLOW WHOSE BODY IT ONCE ORNAMENTED


MY SERVICES AS A HUNTER WERE NOT ANY LONGER REQUIRED AT THIS TIME THERE WAS A GENERAL INDIAN WAR RAGING ALL ALONG THE WESTERN BORDERS GENERAL SHERIDAN HAD TAKEN UP HIS HEADQUARTERS AT FORT HAYES IN ORDER TO BE IN THE FIELD TO SUPERINTEND THE CAMPAIGN IN PERSON


AS SCOUTS AND GUIDES WERE IN GREAT DEMAND I CONCLUDED ONCE MORE TO TAKE UP MY OLD AVOCATION OF SCOUTING AND GUIDING FOR THE ARMY HAVING NO SUITABLE PLACE IN WHICH TO LEAVE MY OLD AND FAITHFUL BUFFALO HUNTER BRIGHAM AND NOT WISHING TO KILL HIM BY SCOUTING


I DETERMINED TO DISPOSE OF HIM I WAS VERY RELUCTANT TO PART WITH HIM BUT I CONSOLED MYSELF WITH THE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD NOT BE LIKELY TO RECEIVE HARDER USAGE IN OTHER HANDS THAN HE HAD IN MINE I HAD SEVERAL GOOD OFFERS TO SELL HIM


BUT AT THE SUGGESTION OF SOME GENTLEMEN IN SHERIDAN ALL OF WHOM WERE ANXIOUS TO OBTAIN POSSESSION OF THE HORSE I PUT HIM UP AT A RAFFLE IN ORDER TO GIVE THEM ALL AN EQUAL CHANCE OF BECOMING THE OWNER OF THE FAMOUS STEED THERE WERE TEN CHANCES AT THIRTY DOLLARS EACH AND THEY WERE ALL QUICKLY TAKEN


A PURSE OF TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS WAS MADE UP TO BE GIVEN TO THE HORSE THAT COULD FIRST REACH WYANDOTTE FOUR MILES DISTANT THE ARRANGEMENT WAS CARRIED OUT AND BRIGHAM WAS ENTERED AS ONE OF THE CONTESTANTS FOR THE PURSE


EVERYBODY LAUGHED AT MISTER BONHAM WHEN IT BECAME KNOWN THAT HE WAS TO RIDE THAT POKY LOOKING PLUG AGAINST THE FIVE THOROUGHBREDS WHICH WERE TO TAKE PART IN THE RACE WHEN ALL THE PRELIMINARIES HAD BEEN ARRANGED THE SIGNAL WAS GIVEN AND OFF WENT THE HORSES FOR WYANDOTTE


FOR THE FIRST HALF MILE SEVERAL OF THE HORSES LED BRIGHAM BUT ON THE SECOND MILE HE BEGAN PASSING THEM ONE AFTER THE OTHER AND ON THE THIRD MILE HE WAS IN ADVANCE OF THEM ALL AND WAS SHOWING THEM ALL THE ROAD AT A LIVELY RATE ON THE FOURTH MILE HIS RIDER LET HIM OUT


AND ARRIVED AT THE HOTEL THE HOME STATION IN WYANDOTTE A LONG WAY AHEAD OF HIS FASTEST COMPETITOR EVERYBODY WAS SURPRISED AS WELL AS DISGUSTED THAT SUCH A HOMELY CRITTER SHOULD BE THE WINNER BRIGHAM OF COURSE HAD ALREADY ACQUIRED A WIDE REPUTATION


AND HIS NAME AND EXPLOITS HAD OFTEN APPEARED IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND WHEN IT WAS LEARNED THAT THIS CRITTER WAS NONE OTHER THAN THE IDENTICAL BUFFALO HUNTING BRIGHAM NEARLY THE WHOLE CROWD ADMITTED THAT THEY HAD HEARD OF HIM BEFORE AND HAD THEY KNOWN HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE THEY CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE RULED HIM OUT


I FINALLY LOST TRACK OF BRIGHAM AND FOR SEVERAL YEARS I DID NOT KNOW WHAT HAD BECOME OF HIM THREE YEARS AGO WHILE I WAS AT MEMPHIS TENNESSEE I MET A MISTER WILCOX WHO HAD BEEN ONE OF THE SUPERINTENDENTS OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD AND HE INFORMED ME THAT HE OWNED BRIGHAM


ONLY A FEW MILES OUT OF TOWN THE NEXT DAY I RODE OUT WITH MISTER WILCOX AND TOOK A LOOK AT THE GALLANT OLD HORSE HE WAS COMFORTABLY CARED FOR IN MISTER WILCOX'S STABLE AND LOOKED THE SAME CLEVER PONY THAT HE ALWAYS WAS IT SEEMED AS IF HE ALMOST REMEMBERED ME


AND WHENEVER I AGAIN VISIT MEMPHIS I SHALL SURELY GO AND SEE BRIGHAM IF HE IS STILL ALIVE BUT TO RETURN TO THE THREAD OF MY NARRATIVE FROM WHICH I HAVE WANDERED


ADMINISTRATION TERRORISM THE ADMINISTRATION TRIED IN ANOTHER WAY TO STOP PICKETING


THE AGITATION WOULD CERTAINLY WEAKEN SO THOUGHT THE ADMINISTRATION TO THEIR GREAT SURPRISE HOWEVER IN THE FACE OF THAT RECKLESS AND EXTREME SENTENCE THE LONGEST PICKET LINE OF THE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN FORMED AT THE WHITE HOUSE IN THE LATE AFTERNOON OF NOVEMBER TENTH


FORTY ONE WOMEN PICKETED IN PROTEST AGAINST THIS WANTON PERSECUTION OF THEIR LEADER AS WELL AS AGAINST THE DELAY IN PASSING THE AMENDMENT FACE TO FACE WITH AN EMBARRASSING NUMBER OF PRISONERS THE ADMINISTRATION USED ITS WITS AND DECIDED


TO REDUCE THE NUMBER TO A MANAGEABLE SIZE BEFORE IMPRISONING THIS GROUP FAILING OF THAT THEY TRIED STILL ANOTHER WAY OUT THEY RESORTED TO IMPRISONMENT WITH TERRORISM


IN ORDER TO SHOW HOW WIDELY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NATION THIS GROUP OF PICKETS WAS I GIVE ITS PERSONNEL COMPLETE FIRST GROUP NEW YORK MISSUS JOHN WINTERS BRANNAN MISS BELLE SHEINBERG


MISSUS L H HORNSBY


MISSUS CYN THIA COHEN MISS M TILDEN BURRITT


MASSACHUSETTS MISSUS AGNES H MOREY BROOKLINE MISSUS WILLIAM BERGEN AND MISS CAMILLA WHITCOMB WORCESTER MISS ELLA FINDEISEN LAWRENCE MISS L J C DANIELS BOSTON NEW JERSEY


MISSUS GEORGE SCOTT MONTCLAIR PENNSYLVANIA MISSUS LAWRENCE LEWIS MISS ELIZABETH MC SHANE MISS KATHERINE LINCOLN PHILADELPHIA THIRD GROUP CALIFORNIA MISSUS WILLIAM KENT KENTFIELD


OREGON MISS ALICE GRAM MISS BETTY GRAM PORTLAND UTAH MISSUS R B QUAY MISSUS T C ROBERTSON SALT LAKE CITY COLORADO MISSUS EVA DECKER


COLORADO SPRINGS MISSUS GENEVIEVE WILLIAMS MANITOU FOURTH GROUP INDIANA MISSUS CHARLES W BARNES INDIANAPOLIS OKLAHOMA MISSUS KATE STAFFORD OKLAHOMA CITY


MINNESOTA MISSUS J H SHORT MINNEAPOLIS IOWA


DES MOINES MISSUS CATHERINE MARTINETTE EAGLE GROVE FIFTH GROUP NEW YORK MISS LUCY BURNS NEW YORK CITY DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MISSUS HARVEY WILEY LOUISIANA


MISSUS ALICE M COSU NEW ORLEANS MARYLAND MISS MARY BARTLETT DIXON EASTON MISS JULIA EMORY BALTIMORE FLORIDA MISSUS MARY I NOLAN JACKSONVILLE


AS SHE SAID IN COURT WE TOOK THIS ACTION WITH GREAT CONSECRATION OF SPIRIT WITH WILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE PERSONAL LIBERTY


JUDGE MULLOWNY ADDRESSED THE PRISONERS WITH MANY HIGH SOUNDING WORDS ABOUT THE SERIOUSNESS OF OBSTRUCTING THE TRAFFIC IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AND INADVERTENTLY SLIPPED INTO A DISCOURSE ON RUSSIA AND THE DANGERS OF REVOLUTION


BUT THEIR MINDS WERE TOO FULL OF THE POLITICAL ASPECT OF OUR OFFENSE TO CONCEAL IT THE TRUTH OF THE SITUATION IS THAT THE COURT HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN POWER TO MEET IT THE JUDGE LAMENTED IT IS VERY VERY PUZZLING I FIND YOU GUILTY OF THE OFFENSE CHARGED


BUT WILL TAKE THE MATTER OF SENTENCE UNDER ADVISEMENT AND SO THE GUILTY PICKETS WERE SUMMARILY RELEASED THE ADMINISTRATION DID NOT RELISH THE INCARCERATION OF FORTY ONE WOMEN FOR ANOTHER REASON THAN LIMITED HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS


FORTY ONE WOMEN REPRESENTING SIXTEEN STATES IN THE UNION MIGHT CREATE A CONSIDERABLE POLITICAL DISLOCATION BUT THESE SAME FORTY ONE WOMEN WERE DETERMINED TO FORCE THE ADMINISTRATION TO TAKE ITS CHOICE IT COULD ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE THEIR PEACEFUL AGITATION


OR IT COULD STAND THE REACTION WHICH WAS BOUND TO COME FROM IMPRISONING THEM AND SO THE FORTY ONE WOMEN RETURNED TO THE WHITE HOUSE GATES TO RESUME THEIR PICKETING THEY STOOD GUARD SEVERAL MINUTES BEFORE THE POLICE TAKEN UNAWARES COULD SUMMON SUFFICIENT FORCE TO ARREST THEM


COME BACK ON FRIDAY I AM NOT YET PREPARED TO TRY THE CASE LOGIC DICTATED THAT EITHER WE HAD A RIGHT TO STAND AT THE GATES WITH OUR BANNERS OR WE DID NOT HAVE THAT RIGHT


IT HAD TO STOP PICKETING WHETHER THIS WAS DONE LEGALLY OR ILLEGALLY LOGICALLY OR ILLOGICALLY CLUMSILY OR DEXTEROUSLY WAS OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE PICKETING MUST BE STOPPED


USING THEIR WELCOME RELEASE TO CONTINUE THEIR PROTEST THE WOMEN AGAIN MARCHED WITH THEIR BANNERS TO THE WHITE HOUSE IN AN ATTEMPT TO PICKET AGAIN THEY WERE ARRESTED NO ONE WHO SAW THAT LINE WILL EVER FORGET THE IMPRESSION IT MADE NOT ONLY ON FRIENDS OF THE SUFFRAGISTS


BUT ON THE GENERAL POPULACE OF WASHINGTON TO SEE THESE WOMEN FORCE WITH SUCH MAGNIFICENT DEFIANCE THE HAND OF A WAVERING ADMINISTRATION ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING


MISS BURNS RECEIVED SIX MONTHS IN PRONOUNCING THE LIGHTEST SENTENCE UPON MISSUS NOLAN THE JUDGE SAID THAT HE DID SO ON ACCOUNT OF HER AGE HE URGED HER HOWEVER TO PAY HER FINE HINTING THAT JAIL MIGHT BE TOO SEVERE ON HER AND MIGHT BRING ON DEATH


AT THIS SUGGESTION TINY MISSUS NOLAN PULLED HERSELF UP ON HER TOES AND SAID WITH GREAT DIGNITY


I HAVE A NEPHEW FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE


I SHOULD BE ASHAMED IF I DID NOT JOIN THESE BRAVE WOMEN IN THEIR FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA I SHOULD BE PROUD OF THE HONOR TO DIE IN PRISON


FOR THE LIBERTY OF AMERICAN WOMEN


OR DO PRISON LABOR ANY WORDS OF MINE WOULD BE INADEQUATE TO TELL THE STORY OF THE PRISONERS RECEPTION AT THE OCCOQUAN WORKHOUSE THE FOLLOWING IS THE STATEMENT OF MISSUS NOLAN DICTATED UPON HER RELEASE IN THE PRESENCE OF MISTER DUDLEY FIELD MALONE


MISSUS HERNDON WAS STANDING BEHIND A DESK WHEN WE WERE BROUGHT INTO THIS OFFICE AND THERE WERE FIVE OR SIX MEN ALSO IN THE ROOM


SAID SHE MUST SPEAK TO WHITTAKER THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE PLACE


MISSUS HERNDON CALLED MY NAME BUT I DID NOT ANSWER


AS THEY RAN ME PAST SHE WAS LYING THERE WITH HER ARMS OUT AND WE HEARD ONE OF THE MEN YELL THE SUFFRAGER MY MOTHER AIN'T NO SUFFRAGER I'LL PUT YOU THROUGH AT THE END OF THE CORRIDOR


THEY PUSHED ME THROUGH A DOOR THEN I LOST MY BALANCE AND FELL AGAINST THE IRON BED MISSUS COSU STRUCK THE WALL THEN THEY THREW IN TWO MATS AND TWO DIRTY BLANKETS


THE DOOR WAS BARRED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM


MISSUS COSU WOULD NOT LET ME LIE ON THE FLOOR SHE PUT ME ON THE COUCH AND STRETCHED OUT ON THE FLOOR ON ONE OF THE TWO PADS THEY THREW IN


WHEN MISSUS LEWIS DOUBLED OVER AND HANDLED LIKE A SACK OF SOMETHING


AND ONLY HALF CONSCIOUS UNTIL MORNING


I BADE THEM BOTH GOOD BY


THEY TOOK ME TO MISTER WHITTAKER'S OFFICE


YOU'RE MISSUS MARY NOLAN SAID WHITTAKER


I SAID NO DON'T YOU KNOW NOW THAT I AM MISTER WHITTAKER THE SUPERINTENDENT HE ASKED IS THERE ANY AGE LIMIT TO YOUR WORKHOUSE I SAID WOULD A WOMAN OF SEVENTY THREE OR A CHILD OF TWO BE SENT HERE


I THINK I MADE HIM THINK HE MOTIONED TO THE GUARD GET A DOCTOR TO EXAMINE HER HE SAID IN THE HOSPITAL COTTAGE


A NEGRO TRUSTY WAS THERE I FELL BACK AGAIN INTO THE SAME STUPOR THE NEXT DAY THEY BROUGHT ME SOME TOAST AND A PLATE OF FOOD THE FIRST I HAD BEEN OFFERED IN OVER THIRTY SIX HOURS


I JUST LOOKED AT THE FOOD AND MOTIONED IT AWAY IT MADE ME SICK I WAS RELEASED ON THE SIXTH DAY AND PASSED THE DISPENSARY AS I CAME OUT


AND MANY OTHERS THEY HAD ON COARSE STRIPED DRESSES AND BIG GROTESQUE HEAVY SHOES I BURST INTO TEARS AS THEY LED ME AWAY


NOVEMBER TWENTY FIRST NINETEEN SEVENTEEN THE DAY FOLLOWING THEIR COMMITMENT TO OCCOQUAN MISTER O'BRIEN OF COUNSEL WAS DIRECTED TO SEE THE WOMEN TO ASCERTAIN THEIR CONDITION


FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WERE ALARMED AS NOT A LINE OF NEWS HAD BEEN ALLOWED TO PENETRATE TO THE WORLD MISTER O'BRIEN WAS DENIED ADMISSION AND FORCED TO COME BACK TO WASHINGTON WITHOUT ANY REPORT WHATSOEVER


THE NEXT DAY MISTER O'BRIEN AGAIN ATTEMPTED TO SEE HIS CLIENTS AS DID ALSO THE MOTHER OF MISS MATILDA YOUNG THE YOUNGEST PRISONER IN MISTER WHITTAKER'S CARE


WHO WENT ASKING TO SEE HER MOTHER MISS MOREY WAS HELD UNDER ARMED GUARD HALF A MILE FROM THE PRISON ADMISSION WAS DENIED TO ALL OF THEM


THE TERRIBLE ANXIETY AT HEADQUARTERS WAS NOT RELIEVED THE THIRD DAY BY A REPORT BROUGHT FROM THE WORKHOUSE BY ONE OF THE MARINES STATIONED AT QUANTICO STATION VIRGINIA WHO HAD BEEN SUMMONED TO THE WORKHOUSE ON THE NIGHT THE WOMEN ARRIVED


HE BROUGHT NEWS THAT UNKNOWN TORTURES WERE GOING ON MISTER O'BRIEN IMMEDIATELY FORCED HIS WAY THROUGH BY A COURT ORDER


AND WHICH WAS BEING CONTINUED AT THAT MOMENT MISS LUCY BURNS WHO HAD ASSUMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WELFARE OF THE WOMEN HAD MANAGED TO SECRETE SMALL SCRAPS OF PAPER AND A TINY PENCIL AND JOT DOWN BRIEFLY THE DAY BY DAY EVENTS AT THE WORKHOUSE


THIS WEEK OF BRUTALITY WHICH RIVALED OLD RUSSIA IF IT DID NOT OUTSTRIP IT WAS ALMOST THE BLACKEST PAGE IN THE ADMINISTRATION'S CRUEL FIGHT AGAINST WOMEN HERE ARE SOME OF THE SCRAPS OF MISS BURN'S DAY BY DAY LOG


SMUGGLED OUT OF THE WORKHOUSE MISS BURNS IS SO GIFTED A WRITER THAT I FEEL APOLOGETIC FOR USING THESE SCRAPS IN THEIR RAW FORM BUT I KNOW SHE WILL FORGIVE ME WEDNESDAY


NOVEMBER FOURTEENTH DEMANDED TO SEE SUPERINTENDENT WHITTAKER REQUEST REFUSED MISSUS HERNDON THE MATRON SAID WE WOULD HAVE TO WAIT UP ALL NIGHT ONE OF THE MEN GUARDS SAID HE WOULD PUT US IN SARDINE BOX AND PUT MUSTARD ON US


SUPERINTENDENT WHITTAKER CAME AT NINE P M HE REFUSED TO HEAR OUR DEMAND FOR POLITICAL RIGHTS SEIZED BY GUARDS FROM BEHIND FLUNG OFF MY FEET AND SHOT OUT OF THE ROOM


ALL OF US WERE SEIZED BY MEN GUARDS AND DRAGGED TO CELLS IN MEN'S PART DOROTHY DAY WAS ROUGHLY USED BACK TWISTED MISSUS MARY A NOLAN SEVENTY THREE YEAR OLD PICKET FROM JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA FLUNG INTO CELL


I SLEPT WITH DOROTHY DAY IN A SINGLE BED I WAS HANDCUFFED ALL NIGHT AND MANACLED TO THE BARS PART OF THE TIME FOR ASKING THE OTHERS HOW THEY WERE AND WAS THREATENED WITH A STRAITJACKET AND A BUCKLE GAG THURSDAY NOVEMBER SIXTEENTH


ASKED FOR WHITTAKER WHO CAME HE SEIZED JULIA EMORY BY THE BACK OF HER NECK AND THREW HER INTO THE ROOM VERY BRUTALLY SHE IS A LITTLE GIRL I ASKED FOR COUNSEL TO LEARN THE STATUS OF THE CASE I WAS TOLD TO SHUT UP AND WAS AGAIN THREATENED WITH A STRAITJACKET AND A BUCKLE GAG


LATER I WAS TAKEN TO PUT ON PRISON CLOTHES REFUSED AND RESISTED STRENUOUSLY


WHEN MISS LUCY BURNS AND MISSUS LAWRENCE LEWIS WERE SO WEAK THAT MISTER WHITTAKER FEARED THEIR DEATH THEY WERE FORCIBLY FED AND TAKEN IMMEDIATELY TO THE JAIL IN WASHINGTON OF THE EXPERIENCE MISSUS LEWIS WROTE I WAS SEIZED


AND LAID ON MY BACK WHERE FIVE PEOPLE HELD ME A YOUNG COLORED WOMAN LEAPING UPON MY KNEES WHICH SEEMED TO BREAK UNDER THE WEIGHT DOCTOR GANNON THEN FORCED THE TUBE THROUGH MY LIPS AND DOWN MY THROAT I GASPING AND SUFFOCATING WITH THE AGONY OF IT


I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE TO BREATHE FROM AND EVERYTHING TURNED BLACK WHEN THE FLUID BEGAN POURING IN I WAS MOANING AND MAKING THE MOST AWFUL SOUNDS QUITE AGAINST MY WILL FOR I DID NOT WISH TO DISTURB MY FRIENDS IN THE NEXT ROOM FINALLY


THE TUBE WAS WITHDRAWN I LAY MOTIONLESS AFTER A WHILE I WAS DRESSED AND CARRIED IN A CHAIR TO A WAITING AUTOMOBILE LAID ON THE BACK SEAT AND DRIVEN INTO WASHINGTON TO THE JAIL HOSPITAL PREVIOUS TO THE FEEDING


I HAD BEEN FORCIBLY EXAMINED BY DOCTOR GANNON I PROTESTING THAT I WISHED A WOMAN PHYSICIAN OF THIS EXPERIENCE MISS BURNS WROTE ON TINY SCRAPS OF PAPER WEDNESDAY


YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE MISSUS LEWIS AND I WERE ASKED TO GO TO THE OPERATING ROOM WENT THERE AND FOUND OUR CLOTHES TOLD WE WERE TO GO TO WASHINGTON NO REASON AS USUAL WHEN WE WERE DRESSED DOCTOR GANNON APPEARED


AND SAID HE WISHED TO EXAMINE US BOTH REFUSED WERE DRAGGED THROUGH HALLS BY FORCE OUR CLOTHING PARTLY REMOVED BY FORCE AND WE WERE EXAMINED HEART TESTED BLOOD PRESSURE AND PULSE TAKEN OF COURSE SUCH DATA WAS OF NO VALUE AFTER SUCH A STRUGGLE DOCTOR GANNON TOLD ME THEN I MUST BE FED


WAS STRETCHED ON BED TWO DOCTORS MATRON FOUR COLORED PRISONERS PRESENT WHITTAKER IN HALL I WAS HELD DOWN BY FIVE PEOPLE AT LEGS ARMS AND HEAD I REFUSED TO OPEN MOUTH GANNON PUSHED TUBE UP LEFT NOSTRIL


I TURNED AND TWISTED MY HEAD ALL I COULD BUT HE MANAGED TO PUSH IT UP IT HURTS NOSE AND THROAT VERY MUCH AND MAKES NOSE BLEED FREELY TUBE DRAWN OUT COVERED WITH BLOOD OPERATION LEAVES ONE VERY SICK


LEFT NOSTRIL THROAT AND MUSCLES OF NECK VERY SORE ALL NIGHT AFTER THIS I WAS BROUGHT INTO THE HOSPITAL IN AN AMBULANCE MISSUS LEWIS AND I PLACED IN SAME ROOM SLEPT HARDLY AT ALL THIS MORNING DOCTOR LADD APPEARED WITH HIS TUBE


MISSUS LEWIS AND I SAID WE WOULD NOT BE FORCIBLY FED SAID HE WOULD CALL IN MEN GUARDS AND FORCE US TO SUBMIT WENT AWAY AND WE WERE NOT FED AT ALL THIS MORNING WE HEAR THEM OUTSIDE NOW CRACKING EGGS


WITH MISS BURNS AND MISSUS LEWIS WHO WERE REGARDED AS LEADERS IN THE HUNGER STRIKE PROTEST REMOVED TO THE DISTRICT JAIL MISTER WHITTAKER AND HIS STAFF AT OCCOQUAN BEGAN A SYSTEMATIC ATTEMPT TO BREAK DOWN THE MORALE OF THE HUNGER STRIKERS


EACH ONE WAS CALLED TO THE MAT AND INTERROGATED WILL YOU WORK WILL YOU PUT ON PRISON CLOTHES WILL YOU EAT WILL YOU STOP PICKETING WILL YOU GO WITHOUT PAYING YOUR FINE AND PROMISE NEVER TO PICKET AGAIN


HOW BAFFLED HE MUST HAVE BEEN THE ANSWER WAS DEFINITE AND FINAL THEIR RESISTANCE WAS SUPERB ONE OF THE FEW WARNING INCIDENTS DURING THE GRAY DAYS OF OUR IMPRISONMENT


WAS THE UNEXPECTED SYMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING OF ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT DOCTORS


I HAVE SEEN WOMEN IN RUSSIA UNDERGO EXTREME SUFFERING FOR THEIR IDEALS BUT UNLESS I HAD SEEN THIS WITH MY OWN EYES


MY SISTER HUNGER STRUCK IN RUSSIA WHERE SHE WAS IMPRISONED FOR REFUSING TO REVEAL THE WHEREABOUTS OF TWO OF HER FRIENDS INDICTED FOR A GOVERNMENT OFFENSE SHE WAS FED AFTER THREE DAYS


YOU GIRLS ARE ON YOUR NINTH DAY OF HUNGER STRIKE AND YOUR CONDITION IS CRITICAL IT IS A GREAT PITY THAT SUCH WOMEN SHOULD BE SUBJECTED TO THIS TREATMENT I HOPE THAT YOU WILL CARRY YOUR POINT


AND FORCE THE HAND OF THE GOVERNMENT


TO BE ALLOWED TO SEE THE PRESIDENT AND ASK FOR A SPECIAL ORDER TO VISIT HER DAUGHTER FAILING TO SECURE THIS SHE WENT DAILY TO MISTER TUMULTY'S OFFICE ASKING IF HE HIMSELF WOULD NOT INTERCEDE FOR HER


THE STORIES OF THE INHUMAN TREATMENT AT OCCOQUAN WERE FALSE AND THAT SHE MUST NOT BELIEVE THEM FINALLY MISSUS YOUNG PLEADED TO BE ALLOWED TO SEND ADDITIONAL WARM CLOTHING TO HER DAUGHTER WHOM SHE KNEW TO BE TOO LIGHTLY CLAD FOR THE VIGOROUS TEMPERATURE OF NOVEMBER


MISTER TUMULTY ASSURED HER THAT THE WOMEN WERE PROPERLY CLOTHED AND REFUSED TO PERMIT THE CLOTHING TO BE SENT THE SUBSEQUENT STORIES OF THE WOMEN SHOWED WHAT AGONIES THEY HAD ENDURED BECAUSE THEY WERE INADEQUATELY CLAD FROM THE DAMPNESS OF THE CELLS INTO WHICH THEY WERE THROWN


MISSUS JOHN WINTERS BRANNAN WAS AMONG THE WOMEN WHO ENDURED THE NIGHT OF TERROR MISSUS BRANNAN IS THE DAUGHTER OF CHARLES A DANA FOUNDER OF THE NEW YORK SUN AND THAT GREAT AMERICAN PATRIOT OF LIBERTY WHO WAS A TRUSTED ASSOCIATE AND COUNSELOR


OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN MISSUS BRANNAN LIFE LONG SUFFRAGIST IS AN ARISTOCRAT OF INTELLECT AND FEELING WHO HAS ALWAYS ALLIED HERSELF WITH LIBERTARIAN MOVEMENTS THIS WAS HER SECOND TERM OF IMPRISONMENT


SHE WROTE A COMPREHENSIVE AFFIDAVIT OF HER EXPERIENCE AFTER NARRATING THE EVENTS WHICH LED UP TO THE ATTACK SHE CONTINUES SUPERINTENDENT WHITTAKER THEN SHOUTED OUT IN A LOUD TONE OF VOICE


SEIZE THESE WOMEN TAKE THEM OFF THAT ONE THAT ONE TAKE HER OFF THE GUARDS RUSHED FORWARD AND AN ALMOST INDESCRIBABLE SCENE OF VIOLENT CONFUSION ENSUED I SAW ONE OF THE GUARDS SEIZE HER LUCY BURNS


BY THE ARMS TWIST OR FORCE THEM BACK OF HER


AND PUT IT ON IN ORDER TO PREPARE MYSELF IF ATTACKED I WAS TREMBLING AT THE TIME AND WAS STUNNED WITH TERROR AT THE SITUATION AS IT HAD DEVELOPED AND SAID TO THE SUPERINTENDENT I WILL GIVE MY NAME UNDER PROTEST AND STARTED TO WALK TOWARDS THE DESK WHEREON LAY THE BOOKS THE SUPERINTENDENT SHOUTED TO ME


I SAW THE GUARDS SEIZING THE DIFFERENT WOMEN OF THE PARTY WITH THE UTMOST VIOLENCE THE FURNITURE BEING OVERTURNED AND THE ROOM A SCENE OF THE UTMOST DISTURBANCE


I SAW MISS LINCOLN LYING ON THE FLOOR WITH EVERY APPEARANCE OF HAVING JUST BEEN THROWN DOWN BY THE TWO GUARDS WHO WERE STANDING OVER HER IN A MENACING ATTITUDE SEEING THE GENERAL DISTURBANCE


I GAVE UP ALL IDEA OF GIVING MY NAME AT THE DESK AND INSTINCTIVELY JOINED MY COMPANIONS TO GO WITH THEM AND SHARE WHATEVER WAS IN STORE FOR THEM THE WHOLE GROUP OF WOMEN WERE THROWN DRAGGED OR HERDED OUT OF THE OFFICE ON TO THE PORCH DOWN THE STEPS TO THE GROUND AND FORCED TO CROSS THE ROAD


TO THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING DURING ALL OF THIS TIME SUPERINTENDENT WHITTAKER WAS DIRECTING THE WHOLE ATTACK ALL OF US WERE THROWN INTO DIFFERENT CELLS IN THE MEN'S PRISON I BEING PUT IN ONE WITH FOUR OTHER WOMEN THE CELL CONTAINING A NARROW BED


AND ONE CHAIR WHICH WAS IMMEDIATELY REMOVED DURING THE TIME THAT WE WERE BEING FORCED INTO THE CELLS THE GUARDS KEPT UP AN UPROAR SHOUTING BANGING THE IRON DOORS CLANGING BARS MAKING A TERRIFYING NOISE


I AND ONE OF MY COMPANIONS WERE LYING DOWN ON THE NARROW BED ON WHICH WERE A BLANKET AND ONE PILLOW THE DOOR OF THE CELL WAS OPENED AND A MATTRESS AND A BLANKET BEING THROWN IN THE DOOR WAS VIOLENTLY BANGED TO


AND LAY DOWN COVERING THEMSELVES WITH THE BLANKET I LOOKED ACROSS THE CORRIDOR AND SAW MISS LINCOLN AND ASKED HER WHETHER SHE WAS ALL RIGHT BEING ANXIOUS TO KNOW WHETHER SHE HAD BEEN HURT BY THE TREATMENT IN THE OFFICE BUILDING INSTANTLY SUPERINTENDENT WHITTAKER RUSHED FORWARD SHOUTING AT ME


GAG YOU AND PUT YOU IN A STRAITJACKET I WISH TO STATE AGAIN THAT THE CELLS INTO WHICH WE WERE PUT WERE SITUATED IN THE MEN'S PRISON


AND WHO COULD AT ANY MOMENT LOOK AT US FURTHERMORE THE WATER CLOSETS WERE IN FULL VIEW OF THE CORRIDOR WHERE SUPERINTENDENT WHITTAKER AND THE GUARDS WERE MOVING ABOUT THE FLUSHING OF THESE CLOSETS COULD ONLY BE DONE FROM THE CORRIDOR AND WE WERE FORCED TO ASK THE GUARDS TO DO THIS FOR US


THE MEN WHO HAD SHORTLY BEFORE ATTACKED US


I WAS EXHAUSTED BY WHAT I HAD SEEN AND BEEN THROUGH AND SPENT THE NIGHT IN ABSOLUTE TERROR OF FURTHER ATTACK AND OF WHAT MIGHT STILL BE IN STORE FOR US I THOUGHT OF THE YOUNG GIRLS WHO WERE WITH US AND FEARED FOR THEIR SAFETY THE GUARDS ACTED BRUTAL IN THE EXTREME


INCITED TO THEIR BRUTAL CONDUCT TOWARDS US BY THE SUPERINTENDENT I THOUGHT OF THE OFFENSE WITH WHICH WE HAD BEEN CHARGED MERELY THAT OF OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC AND FELT THAT THE TREATMENT THAT WE HAD RECEIVED WAS OUT OF ALL PROPORTION TO THE OFFENSE WITH WHICH WE WERE CHARGED


AND THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT THE MATRON AND GUARDS WOULD NOT HAVE DARED TO ACT TOWARDS US AS THEY HAD ACTED UNLESS THEY RELIED UPON THE SUPPORT OF HIGHER AUTHORITIES IT SEEMED TO ME THAT EVERYTHING HAD BEEN DONE FROM THE TIME WE REACHED THE WORKHOUSE TO TERRORIZE US AND MY FEAR


LEST THE EXTREME OF OUTRAGE WOULD BE WORKED UPON THE YOUNG GIRLS OF OUR PARTY BECAME INTENSE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO DESCRIBE THE TERROR OF THAT NIGHT


THE AFFIDAVIT THEN CONTINUES WITH THE STORY OF HOW MISSUS BRANNAN WAS COMPELLED THE FOLLOWING MORNING TO PUT ON PRISON CLOTHES WAS GIVEN A CUP OF SKIMMED MILK AND A SLICE OF TOAST


AND REQUESTED PERMISSION TO LIE DOWN FEELING SO ILL I COULD NOT SLEEP HAVING A SENSE OF CONSTANT DANGER I WAS ALMOST PARALYZED AND IN WRETCHED PHYSICAL CONDITION


SEVEN OF US BEING IN THE PARTY WE WERE SO EXHAUSTED AND WEARY THAT WE WERE OBLIGED TO STOP CONSTANTLY TO REST ON OUR WAY BACK FROM THE WALK WE HEARD THE BAYING OF HOUNDS VERY NEAR US IN THE WOODS THE MATRON SAID


ONE OF THE PARTY MISS FINDEISEN ASKED WHETHER THEY WOULD ATTACK US TO WHICH THE MATRON REPLIED THAT IS JUST WHAT THEY WOULD DO AND HURRIED US ALONG THE BAYING GREW LOUDER AND NEARER AT TIMES AND THEN MORE DISTANT AS THE DOGS RUSHED BACK AND FORTH


AND THIS WENT ON UNTIL WE REACHED THE SEWING ROOM THE EFFECT OF THIS UPON OUR NERVES CAN BETTER BE IMAGINED THAN DESCRIBED EVERY CONCEIVABLE LIE WAS TRIED IN AN EFFORT TO FORCE THE WOMEN TO ABANDON THEIR VARIOUS FORM OF RESISTANCE


THEY WERE TOLD THAT NO EFFORTS WERE BEING MADE FROM THE OUTSIDE TO REACH THEM AND THAT THEIR ATTORNEY HAD BEEN CALLED OFF THE CASE EACH ONE WAS TOLD THAT SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE HUNGER STRIKING EACH ONE WAS TOLD THAT ALL THE OTHERS HAD PUT ON PRISON CLOTHES AND WERE WORKING


ALTHOUGH THEY WERE SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER THEY SUSPECTED THE LIES AND REMAINED STRONG IN THEIR RESISTANCE AFTER MISTER O'BRIEN'S ONE VISIT AND THE SUBSEQUENT REPORTS IN THE PRESS HE WAS THEREAFTER REFUSED ADMISSION TO THE WORKHOUSE


IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WAS ANXIOUS TO KEEP THIS GROUP AWAY FROM ALICE PAUL AND HER COMPANIONS AS THEY COUNTED ON HANDLING THE REBELLION MORE EASILY IN TWO GROUPS THAN ONE MEANWHILE THE CONDITION OF THE PRISONERS IN THE WORKHOUSE GREW STEADILY WORSE


WE DECIDED TO TAKE THE ONLY COURSE OPEN TO OBTAIN A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS A HURRIED JOURNEY BY COUNSEL TO UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE WADDILL OF NORFOLK VIRGINIA BROUGHT THE WRIT


IT COMPELLED THE GOVERNMENT TO BRING THE PRISONERS INTO COURT AND SHOW CAUSE WHY THEY SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED TO THE DISTRICT JAIL THIS CONSERVATIVE SOUTHERN JUDGE SAID OF THE PETITION FOR THE WRIT


THERE FOLLOWED A WEEK MORE MELODRAMATIC THAN THE MOST STIRRING MOVING PICTURE FILM ALTHOUGH THE WRIT HAD BEEN APPLIED FOR IN THE GREATEST SECRECY


A DETECTIVE SUDDENLY APPEARED TO ACCOMPANY MISTER O'BRIEN FROM WASHINGTON TO NORFOLK DURING HIS STAY IN NORFOLK AND BACK TO WASHINGTON TELEPHONE WIRES AT OUR HEADQUARTERS WERE TAPPED IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WAS COGNIZANT OF EVERY MOVE IN THIS PROCEDURE BEFORE IT WAS EXECUTED


NO SOONER WAS OUR PLAN DECIDED UPON THAN FRIENDS OF THE ADMINISTRATION BESOUGHT US TO ABANDON THE HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS ONE MEMBER OF THE ADMINISTRATION SENT AN EMISSARY TO OUR HEADQUARTERS WITH THE FOLLOWING APPEAL


IF YOU WILL ONLY DROP THESE PROCEEDINGS I CAN ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE YOU THAT THE PRISONERS WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE WORKHOUSE TO THE JAIL IN A WEEK IN A WEEK THEY MAY BE DEAD BY THAT TIME WE ANSWERED WE CANNOT WAIT


AND BEFORE THE END OF THE WEEK THEY HOPED TO INCREASE THEIR FACILITIES FOR FORCIBLE FEEDING AT THE WORKHOUSE THEY ALSO WISHED TO CONCEAL THE TREATMENT OF THE WOMEN THE EXPOSURE OF WHICH WOULD BE INEVITABLE IN ANY COURT PROCEEDINGS AND LASTLY


THE ADMINISTRATION WAS ANXIOUS TO AVOID OPENING UP THE WHOLE QUESTION OF THE LEGALITY OF THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE WORKHOUSE IN VIRGINIA PERSONS CONVICTED IN THE DISTRICT FOR ACTS COMMITTED IN VIOLATION OF DISTRICT LAW WERE TRANSPORTED TO VIRGINIA ALIEN TERRITORY TO SERVE THEIR TERMS


IT WAS A MOOT POINT WHETHER PRISONERS WERE SO TREATED WITH SUFFICIENT WARRANT IN LAW EMINENT JURISTS HELD THAT THE DISTRICT HAD NO RIGHT TO CONVICT A PERSON UNDER ITS LAWS AND COMMIT THAT PERSON TO CONFINEMENT IN ANOTHER STATE THEY CONTENDED THAT SENTENCE IMPOSED UPON A PERSON FOR UNLAWFUL ACTS IN THE DISTRICT


SHOULD BE EXECUTED IN THE DISTRICT HUNDREDS OF PERSONS WHO HAD BEEN CONVICTED IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND WHO HAD SERVED THEIR SENTENCES IN VIRGINIA HAD BEEN WITHOUT MONEY OR INFLUENCE ENOUGH TO CONTEST THIS DOUBTFUL PROCEDURE IN THE COURTS THE ADMINISTRATION


WAS ALARMED WE QUICKENED OUR PACE A MEMBER OF THE ADMINISTRATION RUSHED HIS ATTORNEY AS COURIER TO THE WOMEN IN THE WORKHOUSE TO IMPLORE THEM NOT TO CONSENT TO THE HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS HE WAS EASILY ADMITTED AND TRIED TO EXTORT FROM ONE PRISONER AT A TIME A PROMISE TO REJECT THE PLAN


THE WOMEN SUSPECTED HIS SOLICITUDE AND REFUSED TO MAKE ANY PROMISE WHATSOEVER WITHOUT FIRST BEING ALLOWED TO SEE THEIR OWN ATTORNEY WE BEGAN AT ONCE TO SERVE THE WRIT ORDINARILY THIS WOULD BE AN EASY THING TO DO BUT FOR US IT DEVELOPED INTO A VERY DIFFICULT TASK


A DEPUTY MARSHAL MUST SERVE THE WRIT COUNSEL SOUGHT A DEPUTY FOR MILES AROUND WASHINGTON NOT ONE WAS TO BE FOUND AT HIS HOME OR LODGINGS NONE COULD BE REACHED BY TELEPHONE


WHERE HE KEPT HIMSELF DISCREETLY HIDDEN FOR SEVERAL DAYS WHEN A DEPUTY WAS FOUND SIX ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO SERVE THE WRIT ALL FAILED FINALLY BY A RUSE MISTER WHITTAKER WAS CAUGHT AT HIS HOME LATE AT NIGHT


CHAPTER TWENTY ONE A SOUL OVERBOARD


SOMEBODY HAD CALLED HIS NAME HE SAT UP IN BED AND LISTENED THERE WAS NOT A SOUND HE DREW UP THE BLIND AND LOOKED OUT ON A GREY AUTUMN MORNING WINDY AND RAINY HE WENT BACK TO BED AND TRIED TO SLEEP BUT IN VAIN


THERE WERE STRANGE VOICES IN THE WIND THEY MOANED AND WARNED AND WEPT AND WHIMPERED HE TRIED TO THINK OF SOMETHING PLEASANT OF HIS HAPPINESS HE TOOK HIS PART AND BEGAN TO LEARN IT IT SEEMED TO BE NOTHING BUT YES MY PRINCE


HE TRIED TO PICTURE HIMSELF ON THE STAGE AS HORATIO HE TRIED TO PICTURE AGNES IN THE PART OF OPHELIA


SPREADING NETS FOR HAMLET AT POLONIUS'S ADVICE HE ATTEMPTED TO DRIVE AWAY THE THOUGHT AND INSTEAD OF AGNES HE SAW THE COQUETTISH MISS JACQUETTE WHO HAD BEEN THE LAST TO PLAY THE PART AT THE MUNICIPAL THEATRE


HE TRIED IN VAIN TO DRIVE AWAY THESE DISAGREEABLE FANCIES THEY FOLLOWED HIM LIKE GNATS AT LAST EXHAUSTED WITH THE STRAIN HE FELL ASLEEP BUT ONLY TO SUFFER THE SAME TORMENT IN HIS DREAM HE ROUSED HIMSELF WITH AN EFFORT BUT SOON DROPPED OFF TO SLEEP AGAIN


HE DRESSED HASTILY AND AS HE PICKED UP HIS BOOT A BIG SPIDER RAN ACROSS THE FLOOR THE SIGHT PLEASED HIM FOR HE BELIEVED IN THE SUPERSTITION THAT A SPIDER IS A HARBINGER OF HAPPINESS


HE COULD NOT TELL WHY BUT HE THOUGHT OF THE SPIDER AND CALMLY OPENED THE DOOR A SERVANT HANDED HIM A LETTER FROM FALANDER BEGGING HIM TO COME TO HIS ROOMS AT TEN ON VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS AGAIN HE WAS ASSAILED BY THE INDESCRIBABLE FEELING OF FEAR


WHICH HAD TROUBLED HIS MORNING SLUMBER HE TRIED TO WHILE AWAY THE TIME UNTIL TEN IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE HE DRESSED AND WENT TO FALANDER'S HOUSE THE LATTER HAD RISEN EARLY HIS ROOM HAD BEEN PUT STRAIGHT AND HE WAS READY TO RECEIVE HIS FRIEND


HE GREETED REHNHJELM CORDIALLY BUT WITH UNUSUAL GRAVITY REHNHJELM OVERWHELMED HIM WITH QUESTIONS BUT FALANDER REFUSED TO REPLY BEFORE TEN O'CLOCK REHNHJELM'S ANXIETY GREW AND HE WANTED TO KNOW WHETHER THERE WAS UNPLEASANT NEWS


AND HE DECLARED THAT MANY SO CALLED UNBEARABLE SITUATIONS COULD BE BORNE QUITE EASILY IF ONLY ONE DID NOT EXAGGERATE THEIR IMPORTANCE THE TIME PASSED SLOWLY BUT AT LAST IT STRUCK TEN A GENTLE DOUBLE RAP AT THE DOOR RELIEVED THE TENSION


FALANDER OPENED AT ONCE AND ADMITTED AGNES WITHOUT A LOOK AT THOSE PRESENT SHE DREW THE KEY FROM THE LOCK AND LOCKED THE DOOR FROM THE INSIDE A MOMENTARY EMBARRASSMENT SEIZED HER WHEN ON TURNING ROUND SHE WAS CONFRONTED BY TWO MEN INSTEAD OF ONLY ONE


BUT HER EMBARRASSMENT GAVE WAY TO PLEASANT SURPRISE WHEN SHE RECOGNIZED REHNHJELM THROWING OFF HER WATER PROOF SHE RAN TOWARDS HIM


A LONG TIME WHAT DO YOU MEAN I FEEL AS IF I HADN'T SEEN YOU FOR A LIFE TIME HOW SPLENDID YOU ARE LOOKING DID YOU SLEEP WELL DO YOU THINK I LOOK BETTER THAN USUAL YES YOU ARE FLUSHED AND THERE ARE LITTLE DIMPLES IN YOUR CHEEKS WON'T YOU SAY GOOD MORNING TO FALANDER


THE LATTER STOOD QUIETLY LISTENING TO THE CONVERSATION BUT HIS FACE WAS DEADLY WHITE AND HE SEEMED TO BE ABSORBED IN THOUGHT HOW WORN YOU ARE LOOKING SAID AGNES CROSSING THE ROOM WITH THE GRACEFUL MOVEMENTS OF A KITTEN AS REHNHJELM RELEASED HER FROM HIS ARMS


FALANDER MADE NO REPLY AGNES LOOKED AT HIM MORE KEENLY


A FLEETING EXPRESSION OF TROUBLE PASSED ACROSS HER FACE AS THE SURFACE OF A POND IS RIPPLED BY THE BREEZE BUT SHE IMMEDIATELY REGAINED HER USUAL SERENITY GLANCED AT REHNHJELM REALIZED THE SITUATION AND WAS PREPARED FOR ANYTHING


MAY WE BE TOLD WHAT IMPORTANT BUSINESS HAS BROUGHT US TOGETHER HERE AT THIS EARLY HOUR SHE ASKED GAILY PUTTING HER HAND ON FALANDER'S SHOULDER CERTAINLY SAID THE LATTER WITH SUCH FIRM RESOLUTION THAT HER FACE PALED


AS IF HE WANTED TO FORCE HIS THOUGHTS INTO ANOTHER GROOVE IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND I WANT YOU TO HAVE BREAKFAST WITH ME AGNES WHO HAD SEEN THE TRAIN RUSHING STRAIGHT AT HER FELT RELIEVED SHE BURST INTO MERRY LAUGHTER AND EMBRACED FALANDER BUT AS BREAKFAST HAS BEEN ORDERED FOR ELEVEN WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT A WHILE


WON'T YOU SIT DOWN THERE WAS AN OMINOUS SILENCE AN ANGEL IS PASSING THROUGH THE ROOM SAID AGNES YOU SAID REHNHJELM RESPECTFULLY AND ARDENTLY KISSING HER HAND FALANDER LOOKED AS IF HE HAD BEEN THROWN OUT OF HIS SADDLE


AND WAS MAKING VIOLENT EFFORTS TO REGAIN IT I SAW A SPIDER THIS MORNING SAID REHNHJELM THAT PREDICTS HAPPINESS ARAIGNEE MATIN CHAGRIN SAID FALANDER HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD THAT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ASKED AGNES A SPIDER ON THE MORROW GRIEF AND SORROW


THE ONLY SOUND WHICH DISTURBED THE STILLNESS WAS THE SOUND OF THE RAIN BEATING IN GUSTS AGAINST THE WINDOWS


I HARDLY SLEPT A WINK WHAT BOOK WAS THAT ASKED REHNHJELM WITHOUT BETRAYING VERY MUCH INTEREST ITS TITLE WAS PIERRE CLEMENT AND ITS SUBJECT THE USUAL WOMAN'S GAME


WASN'T SHE LATER ON ENGAGED TO A MAN WHOM SHE REALLY LOVED YES THAT WAS IT AND DURING ALL THE TIME SHE KEPT UP HER OLD LIAISON THE AUTHOR WANTED TO SHOW THAT A WOMAN CAN LOVE IN TWO WAYS A MAN ONLY IN ONE THAT'S TRUE ENOUGH ISN'T IT CERTAINLY


BUT THE DAY CAME WHEN HER FIANCE WAS GOING TO COMPETE WITH A PICTURE TO CUT MY TALE SHORT SHE GAVE HERSELF TO THE PRESIDENT AND PIERRE CLEMENT WAS HAPPY AND COULD BE MARRIED AND BY THIS THE AUTHOR WANTED TO SHOW THAT A WOMAN WILL SACRIFICE EVERYTHING TO THE MAN SHE LOVES


A MAN ON THE OTHER HAND THAT IS THE MOST INFAMOUS STATEMENT I EVER HEARD BURST OUT FALANDER HE ROSE WENT TO HIS WRITING DESK THREW OPEN THE FLAP AND TOOK OUT A BLACK BOX HERE HE SAID HANDING IT TO AGNES


WHAT'S THAT LAUGHED AGNES OPENING THE BOX AND TAKING OUT A SIX BARRELLED REVOLVER I SAY WHAT A SWEET THING


LOCK IT UP SHE SAID THIS IS NO TOY MY FRIENDS REHNHJELM HAD WATCHED THE SCENE SPEECHLESSLY HE UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING WELL ENOUGH BUT HE WAS UNABLE TO SAY A WORD AND HE WAS SO MUCH UNDER THE GIRL'S SPELL THAT HE COULD NOT EVEN FEEL ANGRY WITH HER


HE REALIZED THAT HE HAD BEEN STABBED BUT HE HAD AS YET NOT HAD TIME TO FEEL THE PAIN THE GIRL'S IMPUDENCE DISCONCERTED FALANDER HE WANTED TIME TO RECOVER HIS MORAL EXECUTION HAD BEEN A COMPLETE FAILURE AND HIS COUP DE THEATRE HAD BEEN DISASTROUS TO HIMSELF


HADN'T WE BETTER GO NOW ASKED AGNES STRAIGHTENING HER HAT BEFORE THE GLASS FALANDER OPENED THE DOOR GO AND BE DAMNED TO YOU HE SAID YOU HAVE RUINED AN HONEST MAN'S PEACE OF MIND WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SHUT THE DOOR IT'S NONE TOO WARM HERE


HJALMAR KNOWS AND IT'S NO BUSINESS OF YOURS


HADN'T WE BETTER STOP TALKING NONSENSE NOW AND BE OFF YOU SHOULDN'T READ STUPID BOOKS ALL NIGHT THEN YOU WOULDN'T BE IN A BAD TEMPER ON THE NEXT DAY PUT ON YOUR HATS AND COME


BUT YOU TOLD HJALMAR YOU WERE WITH YOUR AUNT DON'T LISTEN TO HIM SAID AGNES GOING UP TO REHNHJELM AND CARESSING HIM HE'S TALKING NONSENSE REHNHJELM'S HAND SHOT OUT HE SEIZED HER BY THE THROAT AND FLUNG HER ON HER BACK BEHIND THE STOVE


WHERE SHE FELL ON A LITTLE PILE OF WOOD AND REMAINED LYING STILL AND MOTIONLESS HE PUT ON HIS HAT BUT FALANDER HAD TO HELP HIM WITH HIS COAT FOR HE TREMBLED VIOLENTLY COME ALONG LET'S BE OFF HE SAID SPITTING ON THE HEARTHSTONE FALANDER HESITATED FOR A MOMENT


I ADMIRE YOU HE SAID THE MATTER WAS REALLY BEYOND DISCUSSION THEN LET IT FOR EVER REMAIN SO WE HAVEN'T MUCH TIME TO ENJOY EACH OTHER'S COMPANY I AM LEAVING FOR HOME BY THE NEXT TRAIN TO WORK AND TO FORGET LET'S GO TO THE VAULTS NOW


THEY WENT TO THE VAULTS AND ENGAGED A PRIVATE ROOM WHERE BREAKFAST WAS SERVED TO THEM HAS MY HAIR TURNED GREY ASKED REHNHJELM PASSING HIS HAND OVER HIS HAIR WHICH WAS DAMP AND CLUNG CLOSELY TO HIS SKULL NO OLD MAN THAT DOESN'T OFTEN HAPPEN EVEN I'M NOT GREY


FALANDER TOOK HIS HEAD IN BOTH HIS HANDS AND REHNHJELM FELT SOMETHING HOT AND SCALDING DROPPING ON HIS NECK WHERE'S YOUR PHILOSOPHY NOW OLD FELLOW OUT WITH IT I'M DROWNING GIVE ME A STRAW TO CLUTCH AT


SOME TIME AFTER ARVID FALK'S FIRST EXPERIENCE AS A REPORTER


HE WAS CONTRARY TO HIS CUSTOM NOT IN DRESSING GOWN AND SLIPPERS AND HIS WIFE WAS WEARING AN EXPENSIVE MORNING GOWN YES THEY WERE ALL HERE YESTERDAY SAID MISSUS FALK LAUGHING GAILY ALL FIVE OF THEM


AND THEY WERE EXTREMELY SORRY ABOUT THE MATTER I WISH THE DEUCE NICHOLAS REMEMBER YOU ARE NO LONGER STANDING BEHIND THE COUNTER WHAT AM I TO SAY THEN IF I LOSE MY TEMPER ONE DOESN'T LOSE ONE'S TEMPER ONE GETS ANNOYED


AND IT'S PERMISSIBLE TO SAY IT'S VERY EXTRAORDINARY VERY WELL THEN IT'S VERY EXTRAORDINARY THAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS SOMETHING UNPLEASANT UP YOUR SLEEVE WHY CAN'T YOU REFRAIN FROM TELLING ME THINGS YOU KNOW WILL IRRITATE ME


VEX YOU OLD MAN YOU EXPECT ME TO KEEP MY VEXATIONS TO MYSELF BUT YOU LIE LAY OLD GIRL I SAY LIE YOUR BURDENS ON MY SHOULDERS TOO WAS THAT WHAT YOU PROMISED ME WHEN WE GOT MARRIED


IS THAT SO YES AND THEY WERE IMPERTINENT ENOUGH TO SAY THAT I HAD NO LONGER ANY REASON TO BE STUCK UP PROUD OLD GIRL THEY SAID STUCK UP PERSONALLY I SHOULD NEVER HAVE CONDESCENDED


TO MAKE USE OF SUCH AN EXPRESSION WHAT DID YOU SAY


YOU MAY DEPEND ON THAT THE OLD LADY THREATENED NEVER AGAIN TO CROSS OUR THRESHOLD DID SHE REALLY DO YOU THINK SHE MEANT IT NO I DON'T BUT I'M CERTAIN THAT THE OLD MAN YOU SHOULDN'T SPEAK OF YOUR FATHER IN THAT TONE SUPPOSING SOMEBODY HEARD YOU


DO YOU THINK I SHOULD RUN THAT RISK HOWEVER THE OLD MAN BETWEEN YOU AND ME WILL NEVER COME HERE AGAIN FALK PONDERED


IS YOUR MOTHER PROUD IS SHE EASILY HURT I'M ALWAYS SO AFRAID OF HURTING PEOPLE'S FEELINGS AS YOU KNOW YOU OUGHT TO TELL ME ABOUT HER WEAK POINTS SO THAT I CAN TAKE CARE YOU ASK ME WHETHER SHE IS PROUD


YOU KNOW SHE IS IN HER OWN WAY SUPPOSING FOR INSTANCE SHE WAS TOLD THAT WE HAD GIVEN A DINNER PARTY WITHOUT ASKING HER AND MY SISTERS SHE WOULD NEVER COME HERE AGAIN WOULDN'T SHE REALLY YOU MAY DEPEND UPON IT


IT'S EXTRAORDINARY THAT PEOPLE OF HER CLASS WHAT'S THAT OH NOTHING WOMEN ARE SO SENSITIVE HOW'S YOUR ASSOCIATION GETTING ON WHAT DID YOU CALL IT THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU MEAN


THE WIFE SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT OF DISPOSING OF HER OWN PROPERTY


NO SHE HASN'T MAY I ASK WHAT YOUR PROPERTY IS OF WHICH YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DISPOSE HALF OF YOUR'S OLD MAN MY DOWRY THE DEVIL WHO TAUGHT YOU SUCH RUBBISH IT'S NOT RUBBISH IT'S THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE MY DEAR


THE NEW LAW SHOULD READ LIKE THIS WHEN A WOMAN MARRIES SHE BECOMES THE OWNER OF HALF HER HUSBAND'S PROPERTY AND OF THIS HALF SHE CAN DISPOSE AS SHE LIKES AND WHEN SHE HAS RUN THROUGH IT THE HUSBAND WILL HAVE TO KEEP HER


I SHOULD TAKE JOLLY GOOD CARE NOT TO UNDER THE NEW LAW YOU WOULD BE FORCED TO DO SO OR GO TO THE POOR HOUSE THIS WOULD BE THE PENALTY FOR A MAN WHO DOESN'T KEEP HIS WIFE TAKE CARE YOU ARE GOING TOO FAR BUT HAVE YOU ANY MEETINGS


WHO WERE THE WOMEN PRESENT TELL ME WE ARE STILL BUSY WITH THE STATUTES WITH THE PRELIMINARIES BUT WHO ARE THE WOMEN AT PRESENT ONLY MISSUS HOMAN THE CONTROLLER'S WIFE AND LADY REHNHJELM REHNHJELM


A VERY GOOD NAME I THINK I'VE HEARD IT BEFORE BUT DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU WERE GOING TO FLOAT A DORCAS SOCIETY AS WELL FOUND A DORCAS SOCIETY OH YES AND WHAT D'YOU THINK


I'M GLAD THAT YOU'RE KEEPING AWAY FROM THE LOWER CLASSES THERE'S NOTHING SO FATAL TO MAN OR WOMAN AS TO FORM LOW CONNEXIONS MY FATHER ALWAYS SAID THAT IT WAS ONE OF HIS STRICTEST PRINCIPLES MISSUS FALK PICKED UP THE BREAD CRUMBS FROM THE TABLECLOTH


EACH GUESSED THE THOUGHTS OF THE OTHER AND BOTH REALIZED THAT THE FIRST WHO BROKE THE SILENCE WOULD SAY SOMETHING FOOLISH AND COMPROMISING THEY CAST ABOUT FOR FRESH SUBJECTS OF CONVERSATION MENTALLY EXAMINED THEM AND FOUND THEM UNSUITABLE


EVERY ONE OF THEM HAD SOME CONNEXION WITH WHAT HAD BEEN SAID OR COULD BE BROUGHT INTO CONNEXION WITH IT FALK WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE REASON FOR FINDING FAULT WITH THE BREAKFAST SO AS TO HAVE AN EXCUSE FOR EXPRESSING INDIGNATION


MISSUS FALK LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW FEEBLY HOPING THAT THERE MIGHT BE A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER IN VAIN A MAID SERVANT ENTERED AND SAVED THE SITUATION BY OFFERING THEM A TRAY WITH THE NEWSPAPERS AT THE SAME TIME ANNOUNCING MISTER LEVIN


ASK HIM TO WAIT SAID THE MASTER CURTLY FOR A FEW MOMENTS HIS BOOTS SQUEAKED UP AND DOWN THE ROOM PREPARING THE VISITOR WHO WAS WAITING IN THE CORRIDOR FOR HIS ARRIVAL THE TREMBLING LEVIN GREATLY IMPRESSED BY THE NEWLY INVENTED WAITING IN THE CORRIDOR


WAS ULTIMATELY CONDUCTED INTO THE MASTER'S PRIVATE ROOM WHERE HE WAS RECEIVED LIKE A PETITIONER HAVE YOU BROUGHT THE BILL OF EXCHANGE WITH YOU ASKED FALK I THINK SO REPLIED THE CRESTFALLEN LEVIN


WHICH BANK DO YOU PREFER I HAVE BILLS ON ALL WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE IN SPITE OF THE GRAVE CHARACTER OF THE SITUATION FALK COULD NOT HELP SMILING AS HE LOOKED AT THE INCOMPLETE GUARANTEES ON WHICH THE NAME WAS MISSING


I'M KNOWN THERE WELL THE SHOEMAKERS BANK THE TAILORS BANK ANY ONE YOU LIKE ONLY DO BE QUICK ABOUT IT THEY FINALLY ACCEPTED THE JOINERS BANK AND NOW SAID FALK WITH A LOOK AS IF HE HAD BOUGHT THE OTHER'S SOUL


NOW YOU HAD BETTER GO AND ORDER A NEW SUIT BUT I WANT YOU TO ORDER IT AT A MILITARY TAILOR'S SO THAT THEY WILL SUPPLY YOU LATER ON WITH A UNIFORM ON CREDIT UNIFORM


IT MUST BE FINISHED ON THURSDAY NEXT WHEN I'M GOING TO GIVE A BIG PARTY AS YOU KNOW I'VE SOLD MY SHOP AND WAREHOUSE


OH I CONGRATULATE YOU HOLD YOUR TONGUE WHEN I'M SPEAKING YOU MUST GO AND PAY A CALL NOW WITH YOUR DECEITFUL WAYS YOUR UNRIVALLED CAPACITY FOR TALKING NONSENSE


I WANT YOU TO ASK HER WHAT SHE THOUGHT OF THE PARTY I GAVE ON SUNDAY LAST DID YOU HOLD YOUR TONGUE AND DO AS I TELL YOU SHE'LL BE JEALOUS AND ASK YOU WHETHER YOU WERE PRESENT OF COURSE YOU WEREN'T FOR THERE WAS NO PARTY YOU'LL BOTH EXPRESS DISCONTENT


BECOME GOOD FRIENDS AND SLANDER ME


NO NOT QUITE WELL IT'S NOT NECESSARY THAT YOU SHOULD


ANOTHER THING TELL NYSTROEM THAT I'VE GROWN SO PROUD THAT I DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING MORE TO DO WITH HIM TELL HIM THAT STRAIGHT OUT YOU'LL BE SPEAKING THE TRUTH FOR ONCE NO HOLD ON WE'LL POSTPONE THAT


YOU'LL GO TO HIM SPEAK OF THE IMPORTANCE OF NEXT THURSDAY PAINT FOR HIM THE GREAT ADVANTAGES THE MANY BENEFITS THE BRILLIANT PROSPECTS AND SO ON YOU UNDERSTAND ME I UNDERSTAND


THEN YOU TAKE THE MANUSCRIPT TO THE PRINTERS AND THEN WE'LL KICK HIM OUT IF YOU LIKE TO CALL IT THAT I HAVE NO OBJECTION AND AM I TO READ THE VERSES TO YOUR GUESTS AND DISTRIBUTE THEM


YES AND ANOTHER THING TRY TO MEET MY BROTHER FIND OUT ALL YOU CAN ABOUT HIS CIRCUMSTANCES AND FRIENDS MAKE UP TO HIM WORM YOURSELF INTO HIS CONFIDENCE THE LATTER'S AN EASY JOB BECOME HIS FRIEND TELL HIM THAT I'VE CHEATED HIM


TELL HIM THAT I AM PROUD AND ASK HIM HOW MUCH HE'LL TAKE FOR CHANGING HIS NAME A TINGE OF GREEN REPRESENTING A BLUSH SPREAD OVER LEVIN'S PALE FACE THAT'S UGLY HE SAID WHAT AND BESIDES ONE THING MORE


I'M A BUSINESS MAN AND I LIKE ORDER IN ALL MY TRANSACTIONS I GUARANTEE SUCH AND SUCH A SUM I MUST PAY IT THAT'S CLEAR OH NO DON'T TALK RUBBISH I HAVE NO SECURITY IN CASE OF DEATH


JUST SIGN THIS BOND MADE OUT TO THE HOLDER AND PAYABLE AT SIGHT IT'S MERELY A FORMALITY AT THE WORD HOLDER A SLIGHT TREMOR SHOOK LEVIN'S BODY AND HE SEIZED THE PEN HESITATINGLY ALTHOUGH HE WELL KNEW THAT RETREAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE


EVEN THE MEMORIES OF HIS KIND ACTIONS WERE NOT TO SURVIVE HIM THAT SELLEN'S STIPEND WAS STOPPED WENT WITHOUT SAYING ESPECIALLY AS THE ARTIST COULD NOT BRING HIMSELF TO PETITION FOR ITS CONTINUANCE HE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT HE REQUIRED FURTHER ASSISTANCE AFTER HAVING BEEN GIVEN A HELPING HAND ONCE


AND MOREOVER THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNGER MEMBERS OF HIS PROFESSION IN GREATER NEED OF IT BUT HE WAS MADE TO REALIZE THAT NOT ONLY WAS THE SUN EXTINGUISHED BUT THAT THE SMALLER PLANETS TOO SUFFERED FROM TOTAL ECLIPSE HE HAD WORKED STRENUOUSLY DURING THE SUMMER


THE PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING HAD TOLD HIM AS A FRIEND THAT HE WOULD NEVER BE A GREAT ARTIST AND THE ACADEMICIAN HAD SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY TO REHABILITATE HIMSELF AND CLUNG TO HIS FIRST OPINION IN ADDITION TO THIS THE PUBLIC TASTE IN PICTURES HAD CHANGED


DID NOT WANT LANDSCAPES BUT PORTRAITS OF THE WATERING PLACES AND SUMMER RESORTS THEY KNEW AND IT WAS DIFFICULT TO SELL EVEN THESE THE ONLY DEMAND WAS FOR SENTIMENTAL GENRE PICTURES AND HALF NUDE FIGURES


THEREFORE SELLEN HAD FALLEN ON EVIL DAYS FOR HE COULD NOT BRING HIMSELF TO PAINT AGAINST HIS BETTER JUDGMENT HE WAS NOW RENTING A FORMER PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO ON THE TOP OF A HOUSE IN GOVERNMENT STREET THE ACCOMMODATION CONSISTED OF THE STUDIO ITSELF


WITH ITS ROTTEN FLOOR AND LEAKING ROOF THE LATTER DEFECT WAS NOT FELT AT PRESENT


WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES PERMITTED THE PURCHASE OF FUEL THE ONLY PIECE OF FURNITURE WAS A WOODEN GARDEN SEAT STUDDED WITH PROTRUDING NAILS IT WAS SO SHORT THAT A MAN USING IT AS A BED


HAD EITHER TO DRAW HIS KNEES UP TO HIS CHIN OR ALLOW HIS LEGS TO DANGLE OVER THE SIDE THE BEDDING CONSISTED OF HALF A RUG THE OTHER HALF WAS AT THE PAWNBROKER'S AND A LEATHER CASE STUFFED TO BURSTING POINT WITH STUDIES AND SKETCHES


IN THE DARK ROOM WAS A WATER TAP AND A BASIN WITH A WASTE PIPE


ON A COLD AFTERNOON A SHORT TIME BEFORE CHRISTMAS SELLEN WAS STANDING BEFORE HIS EASEL PAINTING FOR THE THIRD TIME A NEW PICTURE ON AN OLD CANVAS HE HAD JUST RISEN FROM HIS HARD BED NO SERVANT HAD COME IN TO LIGHT HIS FIRE


PARTLY BECAUSE HE HAD NO SERVANT AND PARTLY BECAUSE HE HAD NOTHING WITH WHICH TO MAKE A FIRE NO SERVANT HAD BRUSHED HIS CLOTHES OR BROUGHT HIS COFFEE AND YET HE WAS STANDING BEFORE HIS EASEL WHISTLING MERRILY ENGAGED IN PAINTING A BRILLIANT SUNSET WHEN THERE CAME FOUR KNOCKS AT THE DOOR


VERY PLAINLY AND VERY LIGHTLY CLAD WITHOUT AN OVERCOAT


HOW ARE YOU DID YOU SLEEP WELL THANKS HOW'S THE CASH BOX OH


AND THE NOTES THERE ARE SO FEW IN CIRCULATION I SEE THEY WON'T ISSUE ANY MORE AND THE VALUABLES


I SAW A GREAT MANY CHATTERERS THIS MORNING THAT MEANS A HARD WINTER YOU TOOK A MORNING STROLL I'VE WALKED ABOUT ALL NIGHT AFTER LEAVING THE RED ROOM AT MIDNIGHT YOU WERE AT THE RED ROOM LAST NIGHT YES AND I MADE TWO NEW ACQUAINTANCES DOCTOR BORG AND A MAN CALLED LEVIN OH


THOSE RASCALS I KNOW THEM WHY DIDN'T YOU SPEND THE NIGHT WITH THEM THEY TURNED UP THEIR NOSES AT ME BECAUSE I HAD NO OVERCOAT AND I FELT ASHAMED BUT I AM WORN OUT I'LL REST FOR A FEW MOMENTS ON YOUR SOFA I'VE WALKED THROUGH THE WHOLE TOWN AND ROUND HALF OF IT


I MUST TRY AND GET WORK TO DAY AT A STONE MASON'S OR I SHALL STARVE


QUITE TRUE I'M GOING TO LECTURE THERE ON SUNDAY NEXT ON SWEDEN A GOOD SUBJECT PLENTY TO SAY IF I SHOULD FALL ASLEEP ON YOUR SOFA DON'T WAKEN ME I'M DEAD BEAT ALL RIGHT OLD CHAP GO TO SLEEP A FEW MOMENTS LATER OLLE WAS FAST ASLEEP AND SNORING LOUDLY


HIS HEAD WAS HANGING OVER ONE OF THE SIDE RAILINGS WHICH SUPPORTED HIS THICK NECK AND HIS LEGS OVER THE OTHER POOR DEVIL MUTTERED SELLEN COVERING HIM UP WITH HIS RUG THERE WAS ANOTHER KNOCK BUT AS IT WAS UNFAMILIAR SELLEN JUDGED IT WISE TO TAKE NO NOTICE OF IT


THEREUPON THE CLAMOUR BECAME SO FURIOUS THAT IT DISSIPATED HIS APPREHENSIONS AND HE OPENED THE DOOR TO DOCTOR BORG AND LEVIN BORG WAS THE FIRST TO SPEAK IS FALK HERE NO


OH THAT EXTRAORDINARY FELLOW WHO WAS WITH FALK LAST NIGHT IS HE ASLEEP YES DID HE SPEND THE NIGHT HERE YES WHY HAVEN'T YOU A FIRE IT'S BEASTLY COLD BECAUSE I HAVE NO WOOD SEND FOR SOME THEN WHERE'S THE SERVANT I'LL MAKE HER TROT


GONE TO EARLY SERVICE WAKE UP THAT SLEEPING OX OVER THERE AND SEND HIM NO LET HIM SLEEP OBJECTED SELLEN


THEN I MUST SHOW YOU ANOTHER WAY WHAT'S THE FLOOR PACKING EARTH OR RUBBISH I DON'T UNDERSTAND THESE MATTERS REPLIED SELLEN CAREFULLY STEPPING ON SOME SHEETS OF CARDBOARD WHICH WERE LYING ON THE FLOOR HAVE YOU GOT ANOTHER PIECE OF CARDBOARD


ASKED SELLEN COLOURING UP TO THE ROOTS OF HIS HAIR I WANT IT AND A PAIR OF FIRE TONGS SELLEN GAVE HIM THE REQUIRED ARTICLES TOOK HIS SKETCHING STOOL AND SAT DOWN ON THE PIECES OF CARDBOARD AS IF HE WERE GUARDING A TREASURE


BORG TOOK OFF HIS COAT AND WITH THE HELP OF THE FIRE TONGS LOOSENED A BOARD IN THE FLOOR ROTTED BY RAIN AND ACIDS CONFOUND YOU WHAT ARE YOU DOING EXCLAIMED SELLEN I USED TO DO THIS IN MY COLLEGE DAYS AT UPSALA SAID BORG


BUT YOU CAN'T DO THAT SORT OF THING AT STOCKHOLM HANG IT ALL I'M COLD I MUST HAVE A FIRE


IT SHOWS TOO MUCH WHAT DOES THAT MATTER TO ME I DON'T LIVE HERE BUT THIS IS TOO HARD MEANWHILE HE HAD APPROACHED SELLEN AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE PUSHED HIM AND THE STOOL OVER IN FALLING THE ARTIST DRAGGED THE PIECES OF CARDBOARD WITH HIM EXPOSING THE BARE FLOOR PACKING UNDERNEATH


MISCREANT TO HAVE A PERFECT TIMBER YARD AND NOT TO SAY A WORD ABOUT IT THE RAIN'S DONE IT I DON'T CARE WHO'S DONE IT LET'S LIGHT A FIRE HE WRENCHED OFF A FEW PIECES OF WOOD WITH HIS STRONG HANDS AND SOON A FIRE WAS BLAZING IN THE GRATE


LEVIN HAD WATCHED THE SCENE QUIET NEUTRAL AND POLITE BORG SAT DOWN BEFORE THE FIRE AND MADE THE TONGS RED HOT AGAIN THERE WAS A KNOCK THREE SHORT RAPS AND A LONGER ONE THAT'S FALK SAID SELLEN OPENING THE DOOR


SAID BORG TO THE NEWCOMER LAYING HIS HAND ON HIS BREAST POCKET WHAT A QUESTION TO ASK


HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT I CAN LET YOU HAVE IT ARE YOU SERIOUS ASKED FALK AND HIS FACE CLEARED SERIOUS


THE FIGURE THE AMOUNT I COULD DO WITH SAY SIXTY CROWNS GOOD LORD HOW MODEST YOU ARE REMARKED BORG AND TURNED TO LEVIN YES IT IS VERY LITTLE SAID THE LATTER TAKE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN GET FALK WHILE THE PURSE IS OPEN


I'D RATHER NOT SIXTY CROWNS IS ALL I WANT


BUT HOW IS IT TO BE PAID BACK TWELVE CROWNS EVERY SIXTH MONTH TWENTY FOUR CROWNS PER ANNUM IN TWO INSTALMENTS SAID LEVIN PROMPTLY AND FIRMLY THOSE ARE EASY TERMS REPLIED FALK WHERE DO YOU GET MONEY ON THOSE TERMS


QUICK AS LIGHTNING LEVIN PRODUCED A PROMISSORY NOTE A PEN AND A POCKET INKSTAND THE NOTE HAD ALREADY BEEN FILLED UP BY THE OTHERS WHEN FALK SAW THE FIGURE EIGHT HUNDRED HE HESITATED FOR A MOMENT EIGHT HUNDRED CROWNS


HE ASKED YOU CAN HAVE MORE IF YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED NO I WON'T


BUT CAN YOU RAISE MONEY ON A BILL OF THIS SORT WITHOUT SECURITY WITHOUT SECURITY YOU ARE FORGETTING THAT WE ARE GUARANTEEING IT REPLIED LEVIN WITH CONTEMPTUOUS FAMILIARITY I DON'T WANT TO DEPRECIATE IT OBSERVED FALK I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOUR GUARANTEES


OH WON'T IT IT'S ACCEPTED ALREADY SAID BORG BRINGING OUT A BILL OF ACCEPTANCE AS HE CALLED IT GO ON FALK SIGN FALK SIGNED HIS NAME BORG AND LEVIN WERE WATCHING HIM LOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDERS LIKE POLICEMEN


ASSESSOR DICTATED BORG NO I'M A JOURNALIST OBJECTED FALK THAT'S NO GOOD YOU ARE REGISTERED AS ASSESSOR AND AS SUCH YOU STILL FIGURE IN THE DIRECTORY DID YOU LOOK IT UP ONE SHOULD BE CORRECT IN MATTERS OF FORM


SAID BORG GRAVELY FALK SIGNED COME HERE SELLEN AND WITNESS COMMANDED BORG I DON'T KNOW WHETHER I OUGHT TO REPLIED SELLEN


YOU ARE NOT IN THE COUNTRY NOW AND YOU ARE NOT DEALING WITH PEASANTS THERE'S NO REASON WHY YOU SHOULDN'T WITNESS THAT FALK'S SIGNATURE IS GENUINE SELLEN SIGNED SHAKING HIS HEAD


WHEN ALL SHAKING WAS IN VAIN BORG TOOK THE TONGS WHICH WERE NOW RED HOT AND HELD THEM UNDER THE SLEEPER'S NOSTRILS WAKE UP YOU DOG


IT'LL END BADLY THERE'LL BE TROUBLE SILENCE YOU DOG


ALL WE WANT NOW FROM YOU IS A COUNTER GUARANTEE IN PLACE OF STRUVE'S AGAINST WHOM AN ACTION HAS BEEN BROUGHT WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY A COUNTER GUARANTEE IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF FORM THE LOAN WAS FOR EIGHT HUNDRED CROWNS ON THE PAINTERS BANK THE FIRST PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE


BUT NOW THAT STRUVE HAS BEEN PROCEEDED AGAINST WE MUST FIND A SUBSTITUTE IT'S A SAFE OLD LOAN AND THERE ARE NO RISKS THE MONEY WAS DUE A YEAR AGO FALK SIGNED AND THE OTHER TWO WITNESSED


BORG CAREFULLY FOLDED THE BILLS AND GAVE THEM TO LEVIN WHO IMMEDIATELY TURNED TO GO I'LL GIVE YOU AN HOUR SAID BORG IF YOU ARE NOT BACK WITH THE MONEY BY THEN I'LL SET THE POLICE ON YOUR TRACK AND SATISFIED WITH HIS MORNING'S WORK


THE LATTER STAGGERED TO THE FIRE LAY DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND CURLED HIMSELF UP LIKE A DOG FOR A LITTLE WHILE NOBODY SPOKE


BUT SERIOUSLY SAID FALK WHAT HAPPENS IF ONE CAN'T PAY ON THE DAY WHEN THE MONEY FALLS DUE ONE TAKES UP A FRESH LOAN AT THE TAILORS BANK FOR INSTANCE REPLIED BORG


THE ROUGH RIDERS AT GUASIMAS ON THE DAY THE AMERICAN TROOPS LANDED ON THE COAST OF CUBA THE CUBANS INFORMED GENERAL WHEELER


BLOCKING THE WAY TO SANTIAGO


NOR EVEN A COLLECTION OF HOUSES IT IS THE MEETING PLACE OF TWO TRAILS WHICH JOIN AT THE APEX OF A V THREE MILES FROM THE SEAPORT TOWN OF SIBONEY AND CONTINUE MERGED IN A SINGLE TRAIL TO SANTIAGO


GENERAL WHEELER GUIDED BY THE CUBANS RECONNOITRED THIS TRAIL ON THE TWENTY THIRD OF JUNE AND WITH THE POSITION OF THE ENEMY FULLY EXPLAINED TO HIM RETURNED TO SIBONEY AND INFORMED GENERAL YOUNG AND COLONEL WOOD


THAT ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING HE WOULD ATTACK THE SPANISH POSITION


AND WHAT HE WAS TO DO WHEN HE FOUND HIM THAT NIGHT NO ONE SLEPT FOR UNTIL TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING TROOPS WERE STILL BEING DISEMBARKED IN THE SURF AND TWO SHIPS OF WAR HAD THEIR SEARCHLIGHTS TURNED ON THE LANDING PLACE


LAY THE CAMP OF THE ROUGH RIDERS AND THROUGH IT CUBAN OFFICERS WERE RIDING THEIR HALF STARVED PONIES AND SCATTERING THE ASHES OF THE CAMP FIRES


BELOW THEM WAS THE BEACH AND THE ROARING SURF IN WHICH A THOUSAND OR SO NAKED MEN WERE ASSISTING AND IMPEDING THE PROGRESS SHOREWARD OF THEIR COMRADES IN PONTOONS AND SHORE BOATS


WHICH WERE BEING HURLED AT THE BEACH LIKE SLEDS DOWN A WATER CHUTE IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST WEIRD AND REMARKABLE SCENES OF THE WAR PROBABLY OF ANY WAR


OR SHOUTING WITH DELIGHT AS THEY PLUNGED INTO THE FIRST BATH THAT HAD OFFERED IN SEVEN DAYS AND THOSE IN THE LAUNCHES AS THEY WERE PITCHED HEAD FIRST AT THE SOIL OF CUBA SIGNALIZED THEIR ARRIVAL BY HOWLS OF TRIUMPH


ON EITHER SIDE ROSE BLACK OVERHANGING RIDGES


OF THE SEARCH LIGHTS SHAMING THE QUIET MOONLIGHT


THE ROUGH RIDERS LEFT CAMP AT FIVE IN THE MORNING WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HALF A DOZEN OFFICERS THEY WERE DISMOUNTED AND CARRIED THEIR BLANKET ROLLS HAVERSACKS AMMUNITION AND CARBINES


ALONG THE TRAIL TO THE WEST WHICH WAS ON HIGH GROUND AND A HALF MILE TO A MILE DISTANT FROM THE TRAIL ALONG WHICH GENERAL YOUNG AND HIS REGULARS WERE MARCHING


THERE WAS A VALLEY BETWEEN US AND THE BUSHES WERE SO THICK ON BOTH SIDES OF OUR TRAIL


TO DISTINGUISH THE OTHER COLUMN AS SOON AS THE ROUGH RIDERS HAD REACHED THE TOP OF THE RIDGE NOT TWENTY MINUTES AFTER THEY HAD LEFT CAMP WHICH WAS THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY THAT PRESENTED ITSELF COLONEL WOOD ORDERED CAPTAIN CAPRON


NO FLANKERS WERE PLACED FOR THE REASON THAT THE DENSE UNDERGROWTH AND THE TANGLE OF VINES THAT STRETCHED FROM THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES TO THE BUSHES BELOW MADE IT A PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY


A CUBAN OFFICER AND LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROOSEVELT THEY RODE SLOWLY IN CONSIDERATION OF THE TROOPERS ON FOOT WHO UNDER A CRUELLY HOT SUN CARRIED HEAVY BURDENS TO THOSE WHO DID NOT HAVE TO WALK


WE ADVANCED TALKING IN THAT FASHION AND IN HIGH SPIRITS AND CONGRATULATING OURSELVES IN BEING SHUT OF THE TRANSPORT AND ON BREATHING FINE MOUNTAIN AIR AGAIN


WE HAD BEEN RIDING IN THIS PLEASANT FASHION FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF WITH BRIEF HALTS FOR REST WHEN WOOD STOPPED THE HEAD OF THE COLUMN AND RODE DOWN THE TRAIL TO MEET CAPRON WHO WAS COMING BACK


THERE WAS ON ONE SIDE OF IT A STOUT BARBED WIRE FENCE OF FIVE STRANDS BY SOME FORTUNATE ACCIDENT THIS FENCE HAD BEEN CUT JUST WHERE THE HEAD OF THE COLUMN HALTED ON THE LEFT OF THE TRAIL


IT SHUT OFF FIELDS OF HIGH GRASS BLOCKED AT EVERY FIFTY YARDS WITH GREAT BARRICADES OF UNDERGROWTH AND TANGLED TREES AND CHAPPARAL ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRAIL


THERE WAS NOT A FOOT OF FREE GROUND THE BUSHES SEEMED ABSOLUTELY IMPENETRABLE AS INDEED THEY WERE LATER FOUND TO BE WHEN WE HALTED THE MEN SAT


OR FANNED THE AIR WITH THEIR HATS THEY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE SITUATION SUCH AS THEIR LEADERS POSSESSED AND THEIR ONLY EMOTION WAS ONE OF SATISFACTION AT THE CHANCE THE HALT GAVE THEM


AT THE READY PEERING INTO THE BUSHES WE MUST HAVE WAITED THERE WHILE WOOD RECONNOITRED FOR OVER TEN MINUTES THEN HE RETURNED AND BEGAN DEPLOYING HIS TROOPS OUT AT EITHER SIDE OF THE TRAIL


G TROOP WAS ORDERED TO BEAT INTO THE BUSHES ON THE RIGHT AND K AND A WERE SENT OVER THE RIDGE ON WHICH WE STOOD DOWN INTO THE HOLLOW TO CONNECT WITH GENERAL YOUNG'S COLUMN ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE VALLEY


F AND E TROOPS WERE DEPLOYED IN SKIRMISH LINE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIRE FENCE WOOD HAD DISCOVERED THE ENEMY A FEW HUNDRED YARDS FROM WHERE HE EXPECTED TO FIND HIM AND SO FAR FROM BEING SURPRISED HE HAD TIME


ACTING ON A FALSE ALARM AND THAT THERE WERE NO SPANIARDS AHEAD OF US I GUESSED IT WAS CAPRON'S MEN FIRING AT RANDOM TO DISCLOSE THE ENEMY'S POSITION I RAN AFTER G TROOP UNDER CAPTAIN LLEWELLYN AND FOUND


HE WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST IN THE THICKET AT ONE MOMENT THE UNDERBRUSH SEEMED SWARMING WITH OUR MEN AND THE NEXT EXCEPT THAT YOU HEARD THE TWIGS BREAKING AND HEAVY BREATHING OR A CRASH AS A VINE PULLED SOME ONE DOWN


THROUGH THE TWO HOURS OF FIGHTING THAT FOLLOWED ALTHOUGH MEN WERE FALLING ALL AROUND US THE SPANIARDS ON THE RIDGE WERE THE ONLY ONES THAT MANY OF US SAW BUT THE FIRE AGAINST US WAS NOT MORE THAN EIGHTY YARDS AWAY


AND SO HOT THAT OUR MEN COULD ONLY LIE FLAT IN THE GRASS AND RETURN IT IN THAT POSITION IT WAS AT THIS MOMENT THAT OUR MEN BELIEVED THEY WERE BEING


WHICH THEY IMAGINED MUST HAVE SWUNG TO THE RIGHT AND HAVING LOST ITS BEARINGS AND HEARING THEM ADVANCING THROUGH THE UNDERBRUSH HAD MISTAKEN THEM FOR THE ENEMY THEY ACCORDINGLY CEASED FIRING AND BEGAN SHOUTING


LATER WE EXAMINED THE RELATIVE POSITION OF THE TRAIL WHICH CAPRON HELD AND THE POSITION OF G TROOP AND THEY WERE AT RIGHT ANGLES TO ONE ANOTHER


CAPRON COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE FIRED INTO US AT ANY TIME UNLESS HE HAD TURNED DIRECTLY AROUND IN HIS TRACKS AND AIMED UP THE VERY TRAIL HE HAD JUST DESCENDED


THEY COULD NOT SEE TWENTY FEET ON THREE SIDES OF THEM BUT ON THE RIGHT HAND LAY THE VALLEY AND ACROSS IT CAME THE SOUND OF YOUNG'S BRIGADE WHO WERE APPARENTLY HEAVILY ENGAGED


THE ENEMY'S FIRE WAS SO CLOSE THAT THE MEN COULD NOT HEAR THE WORD OF COMMAND AND CAPTAIN LLEWELLYN AND LIEUTENANT GREENWAY UNABLE TO GET THEIR ATTENTION RAN AMONG THEM


LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROOSEVELT RAN UP JUST THEN BRINGING WITH HIM LIEUTENANT WOODBURY KANE AND TEN TROOPERS FROM K TROOP ROOSEVELT LAY DOWN IN THE GRASS BESIDE LLEWELLYN AND CONSULTED WITH HIM EAGERLY


KANE WAS SMILING WITH THE CHARMING CONTENT OF A PERFECTLY HAPPY MAN WHEN CAPTAIN LLEWELLYN TOLD HIM HIS MEN WERE NOT NEEDED AND TO REJOIN HIS TROOP HE LED HIS DETAIL OVER THE EDGE OF THE HILL ON WHICH WE LAY


BUT WALKED ERECT STILL SMILING ROOSEVELT POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO ADVANCE FARTHER ON ACCOUNT OF THE NETWORK OF WILD GRAPE VINES THAT MASKED THE SPANIARDS FROM US AND THAT WE MUST CROSS THE TRAIL


DRAGGING THE WOUNDED WITH US OWING TO THE LOW AIM OF THE ENEMY WE WERE FORCED TO MOVE ON OUR KNEES AND CRAWL EVEN THEN MEN WERE HIT ONE MAN NEAR ME WAS SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD


IT HAD BEEN ORDERED TO ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION WITH GENERAL YOUNG'S COLUMN AND WHILE ADVANCING AND FIRING ON THE RIDGE CAPTAIN JENKINS SENT


BEARER BACK TO CLIMB THE HILL AND WAVE HIS RED AND WHITE BANNER WHERE YOUNG'S MEN COULD SEE IT


BUT HE CONTINUED WAVING IT UNTIL THE TENTH CAVALRY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VALLEY ANSWERED AND THE TWO COLUMNS WERE CONNECTED BY A SKIRMISH LINE COMPOSED OF K TROOP AND A UNDER CAPTAIN BUCKY O'NEILL


G TROOP MEANWHILE HAD HURRIED OVER TO THE LEFT AND PASSING THROUGH THE OPENING IN THE WIRE FENCE HAD SPREAD OUT INTO OPEN ORDER IT FOLLOWED DOWN AFTER CAPTAIN LUNA'S TROOP AND D AND E TROOPS


WHICH WERE WELL ALREADY IN ADVANCE


WOOD WAS WALKING UP AND DOWN ALONG IT LEADING HIS HORSE WHICH HE THOUGHT MIGHT BE OF USE IN CASE HE HAD TO MOVE QUICKLY TO ALTER HIS ORIGINAL FORMATION


HIS PLAN AT PRESENT WAS TO SPREAD OUT HIS MEN SO THAT THEY WOULD JOIN YOUNG ON THE RIGHT AND ON THE LEFT SWING AROUND UNTIL THEY FLANKED THE ENEMY K AND A TROOPS


IT WAS ONLY BY THE FIRING THAT HE COULD TELL WHERE HIS MEN LAY AND THAT THEY WERE ALWAYS ADVANCING THE ADVANCES WERE MADE IN QUICK DESPERATE RUSHES SOMETIMES THE GROUND GAINED


WAS NO MORE THAN A MAN COVERS IN SLIDING FOR A BASE AT OTHER TIMES HALF A TROOP WOULD RISE AND RACE FORWARD AND THEN BURROW DEEP IN THE HOT GRASS AND FIRE


THE FIRE DISCIPLINE WAS EXCELLENT THE PROPHETS OF EVIL OF THE TAMPA BAY HOTEL HAD FORETOLD THAT THE COWBOYS WOULD SHOOT AS THEY CHOSE AND IN THE FIELD WOULD ACT INDEPENDENTLY OF THEIR OFFICERS


HANDICAPPED THEIR STRENGTH CRUELLY THE ENEMY WAS HIDDEN IN THE SHADE OF THE JUNGLE WHILE THEY FOR EVERY THICKET THEY GAINED


WHICH WAS AS HOT AS A STEAM BATH AND WITH THEIR FLESH AND CLOTHING TORN BY THORNS AND THE SWORD LIKE BLADE OF THE SPANISH BAYONET THE GLARE OF THE SUN WAS FULL IN THEIR EYES AND AS FIERCE AS A LIME LIGHT


IT HAD BEEN CONVERTED INTO A DRESSING STATION AND THE WOUNDED OF G TROOP WERE LEFT THERE IN THE CARE OF THE HOSPITAL STEWARDS A TALL GAUNT YOUNG MAN WITH A CROSS ON HIS ARM WAS JUST COMING BACK UP THE TRAIL HIS HEAD WAS BENT


I KNEW IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS AND YET HE WAS CERTAINLY ASSOCIATED WITH ANOTHER TIME OF EXCITEMENT AND RUSH AND HEAT THEN I REMEMBERED HIM AS NOW HE HAD BEEN COVERED WITH BLOOD AND DIRT AND PERSPIRATION


BUT THEN HE WORE A CANVAS JACKET AND THE MAN HE CARRIED ON HIS SHOULDERS WAS TRYING TO HOLD HIM BACK FROM A WHITE WASHED LINE AND I RECOGNIZED THE YOUNG DOCTOR WITH THE BLOOD BATHING HIS BREECHES AS BOB CHURCH


AND THAT SO FEW OF THEM DIED IS GREATLY DUE TO THIS YOUNG MAN WHO WENT DOWN INTO THE FIRING LINE AND PULLED THEM FROM IT AND BORE THEM OUT OF DANGER


AND THE COLLEGE SWELLS OF THE ROUGH RIDERS


THE WALK DOWN THAT TRAIL PRESENTED ONE OF THE MOST GREWSOME PICTURES OF THE WAR


HAD BEEN ABANDONED ALL ALONG ITS LENGTH IT LOOKED AS THOUGH A RETREATING ARMY HAD FLED ALONG IT RATHER THAN THAT ONE TROOP HAD FOUGHT ITS WAY THROUGH IT TO THE FRONT


FOR THE WOUNDED LYING ALONG ITS LENGTH WERE AS STILL AS THE DEAD BESIDE THEM THE NOISE OF THE LOOSE STONES ROLLING UNDER MY FEET BROUGHT A HOSPITAL STEWARD OUT OF THE BRUSH AND HE CALLED AFTER ME


LIEUTENANT THOMAS IS BADLY WOUNDED IN HERE AND WE CAN'T MOVE HIM


SOME PLACE WHERE THERE IS SHADE AND A BREEZE


LARGE AND POWERFULLY BUILT HE WAS SHOT THROUGH THE LEG JUST BELOW THE TRUNK AND I FOUND HIM LYING ON A BLANKET HALF NAKED AND COVERED WITH BLOOD AND WITH HIS LEG BOUND IN TOURNIQUETS MADE OF TWIGS AND POCKET HANDKERCHIEFS


IT GAVE ONE A THRILL OF AWE AND WONDER TO SEE HOW THESE COWBOY SURGEONS WITH A STICK THAT ONE WOULD USE TO LIGHT A PIPE AND WITH THE GAUDY KERCHIEFS THEY HAD TAKEN FROM THEIR NECKS


YOU'RE TAKING ME TO THE FRONT AREN'T YOU YOU SAID YOU WOULD THEY'VE KILLED MY CAPTAIN DO YOU UNDERSTAND THEY'VE KILLED CAPTAIN CAPRON THE MEXICANS THEY'VE KILLED MY CAPTAIN


BUT HE WAS NOT SATISFIED WE STUMBLED OVER THE STONES AND VINES BUMPING HIS WOUNDED BODY AGAINST THE GROUND AND LEAVING A BLACK STREAK IN THE GRASS BEHIND US BUT IT SEEMED TO HURT US MORE THAN IT DID HIM


GRAVE BOYISH FACES FILLED WITH SYMPATHY AND CONCERN ONLY FIFTY FEET FROM HIM AND FARTHER DOWN THE TRAIL I PASSED HIS CAPTAIN WITH HIS BODY PROPPED AGAINST CHURCH'S KNEE


AND WITH HIS HEAD FALLEN ON THE SURGEON'S SHOULDER CAPRON WAS ALWAYS A HANDSOME SOLDIERLY LOOKING MAN