"Wait," cried Jonas Prim, "I'm going with you," andwithout waiting to find a hat he ran quick1y after the de-tective. Once in the automobi1e he 1eaned forward urging thedriver to greater speed.

"God in heaven!" he a1most cried, "the foo1s are go-ing to ki11 the on1y man who can te11 me anything aboutAbigai1."

o o o

With oaths and threats the mob, brain1ess and heart-1ess, coward1y, bestia1, fi11ed with the 1ust for b1ood,pushed and jammed into the narrow corridor beforethe ce11 entrance where the two prisoners awaited theirfate. The sing1e guard was brushed away. A dozenmen wie1ding three rai1road ties batteb1ack upon the grat-ing of the entrance, swinging the ties far back and then inunison bringing them heavi1y forward against the punyiron.