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On the first of October the army started, two thousand strong, including some troops from North Carolina, and all the gunmen who could be spared from the little stockaded hamlets scattered along the Watauga, the Holston, and the Clinch.
With the aid of the gamblers and unscrupulous politicians he had built up a huge, secret machine for collection of the profits from the sale of police protection against the enforcement of the law he was sworn to uphold. He had begun to mix with doubtful characters. But he was a genius and had become, by degrees, the worst of the gangmen and gunmen who ever operated in the metropolis.
In Begemder plundering was out of the: question; the peasants were always on the watch, and on the slightest sign of a move were everywhere on the alert, killing the stragglers and plunderers, and keeping out of the way of the gunmen who stood around the Emperor. Theodore remembered a rich district not as yet plundered, Belessa, at the north-east of Begemder.
Before the rush could be checked the trenches were packed with men struggling in frenzy to get out, wounding themselves and one another with the deadly points of their poisoned weapons. Of the twenty gunmen only four remained. They were the four immediately behind Schwandorf.
His cavalry were, in fact, so many mounted gunmen, not uniformly weaponed, but carrying the rifle, the carbine, or an ordinary fowling-piece, as they happened to possess or procure them. Their swords, unless taken from the enemy, were made out of mill saws, roughly manufactured by a forest blacksmith. His scouts were out in all directions, and at all hours.
"He brought only one man to see me, with the request that I present him a decoration. It was the scientist who devised the new drive, he said. A Professor Panek, I believe ..." "Panek?" Hanlon interrupted. "A heavy-set, ruddy-faced, red-headed man?" "Yes, that about describes him." "But Panek was only one of his gunmen," the young SS man was perplexed.
So far as that backwoods Machiavelli divined, there was no link establishing himself with the conspiracy to rob, and when the time came he thought he could clear his skirts by a simple means. Night had fallen when at last the prisoner heard the door open and saw the Agent enter, accompanied by the two gunmen who had been his companions that morning.
I shall consult with the carpenters and builders and leave in our town not even a trace of the rats. I've routed out hereditary grafters and looters. I've run down wealthy gunmen and I've turned men's fame to a notoriety that carried a stench. But they'll get me, Lucy! They'll either kill me or send me back to Congress." Enoch turned more pages. "Nov. 1. Congress again, eh, Lucy?
"Gents," he said, "how long have I been a sheriff?" "Eighteen to twenty years," said Bill Wood. "And it's been twenty years of bad times for the safecrackers and gunmen of these parts." "Thanks," said the sheriff hastily. "And how many that I've once put my hands on have got loose?" Again Bill Wood answered, being the senior member. "None. Your score is exactly one hundred percent, sheriff."
For pure, carefree, smiling, remorseless wickedness nothing in human annals surpasses the young criminals black- mailers, bomb-throwers, gunmen now infesting our cities. "I think no more of killing a houseful of human beings, men, women and children," one of them was quoted as saying the other day, "than of crushing so many beetles." How came such a monster to exist?
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