It is twenty minutes of eight by the local clock in the cable office.
The clock indicating New York time registers two-forty P.M.
A glance at the Bank of France notes decides the question in the operator's mind. He takes the money and transmits the message.
Nevins returns to his room to await the developments of the thirteenth of October.
BOOK IV.
In Freedom's Name.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE SYNDICATE IN LIQUIDATION.
The crisis has arrived. On the bulletins in front of the leading newspaper offices in New York crowds congregate. Men discuss the startling tidings that come from all points of the compass and ask themselves what the next report will be. Golding's death is the forerunner of a long list of fatalities.
JAVELIN BULLETIN.
United States Senator Warwick, of California, was assassinated at his villa in San Diego.