Comrades Part 49

He suddenly leaped to his feet.

"They are coming!"

Listening a moment intently, he cried:

"There it is again--the scream of fifes from the hills!--now, they are driving in the pickets--hear the crack of those rifles!--G.o.d in heaven, isn't it music!"

He sank back on the cot with a sob of joy.

In a rush the troops surrounded the jail. The sheriff lifted his hand and shouted:

"In the name of the peace and dignity of the State of California----"

Wolf answered with a defiant wave and charged at the head of his guard. The soldiers poured into their ranks a deadly fire. At the first volley the leader fell. The charging column hesitated, halted, threw down their arms, and surrendered.

In five minutes Colonel Worth entered the jail and father and son silently embraced. Barbara followed and Norman clasped her in his arms.

A shout rose from the troops and the group within moved to the prison window. The colour-sergeant had hauled down the red ensign of Socialism from the flag-staff on the lawn and lifted the Stars and Stripes in its place.

Norman's hand sought his father's. They clasped a moment tremblingly, and, still looking through the barred window at the s.h.i.+ning emblem in the sky, the young man slowly said:

"It _is_ beautiful, isn't it Governor!"

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