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The loft was fragrant with the newly dried hay, sweet and empty. Woslosky descended the ladder again, the flash extinguished, and stood again on the barn floor, considering. Cusick was a man without imagination, and he had sworn that some one had come in. Then
"That's a family accident and you can't help it. But I do mean Doyle. Doyle and a Pole named Woslosky, and a scoundrel of an attorney here in town, named Akers, among others." "Mr. Akers is a friend of mine, Willy." He stared at her. "If they have been teaching you their dirty doctrines, Lily," he said at last, "I can only tell you this. They can disguise it in all the fine terms they want.
Woslosky had been in Russia when the Kerensky regime was overthrown, and had seen that strange three days when the submerged part of the city filled the streets, singing, smiling, endlessly walking, exalted and without guile. No problems troubled them. They had ceased to labor, and that was enough. Had it not been for its leaders, the mass would have risen like a tide, and ebbed again.
Woslosky, you've got the rope, haven't you?" "You fool!" snarled Woslosky from the floor, "let me up. You've half killed me. Didn't I tell you I was going out?" He scrambled to his feet, and to an astounded silence. "But you came in a couple of minutes ago. Somebody came in. You heard him, Cusick, didn't you?"
He called to Cusick, and had him try the same experiment, following the line of the gutter as nearly as possible in the darkness, on that side, and emptying his revolver. Still silence. Woslosky began to doubt. The pigeons might have seen his flashlight, might have heard his own stealthy movements. He was intensely irritated. The shooting, if the alarm had been false, had ruined everything.
Armed with the shotgun, and with the flash in his pocket, Woslosky climbed the ladder to the loft, going softly. He listened at the top, and then searched it with the light, holding it far to the left for a possible bullet. The loft was empty. He climbed into it and walked over it, gun in one hand and flash in the other, searching for some buried figure. But there was nothing.
Unlike Doyle the calculating, who made each move slowly and watched its results with infinite zest, the Pole chafed under delay. "We can't hold them much longer," he complained, bitterly. "This thing of holding them off until after the election and until Akers takes office it's got too many ifs in it." "It was haste lost Seattle," said Doyle, as unmoved as Woslosky was excited.
If you don't, we'll get you, and you know it." But he received no reply. Soon after that the two men carried in Pink Denslow, and laid him on the floor of the barn. Then Woslosky tried again, more reckless this time with anger. He stood out somewhat from the wall and called: "One more chance, Cameron, or we'll put a bullet through your friend here. Come down, or we'll "
He was thirty-three years old when Jim Doyle crossed his path, and the clubs were as far away as ever. It was Doyle who found the weak place in his armor, and who taught him that when one could not rise it was possible to pull others down. But it was Woslosky, the Americanized Pole; who had put the thing in a more appealing form.
Woslosky held his gun ready, and waited. Then, from a distance, he heard his name called. He stepped inside the door of the barn and showed the light for a moment. Soon after the sentry floundered in, breathless and excited. "I got one of them," he gasped. "Hit him with my gun. He's lying back by the stone fence." "Did you call out, or did he?" "He did.
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