He ends in a tumult of enthusiasm.
The multitude has been led from one emotion to another with such rapidity that they are fairly bewildered.
Two things only are clear in all minds. Trueman, the man who has become their most faithful champion, assures them that now they are to be free; that they are to be made the sharers in the wealth they create; he also tells them to select a leader.
By a spontaneous decision Trueman is the name that comes to every lip.
"Trueman! Trueman! You are the man to lead us."
The cry "Trueman!" sweeps through the crowd. It rises in an acclaim the like of which has never been heard before.
Men rush toward the orator and pick him off his feet. He is placed on the shoulders of the stalwart miners whom his eloquence and logic has won, and is borne in triumph at the head of the procession that goes to bury Carl Metz.
The millionaire's corpse lies on the steps of his late mansion. Clinging to it in the desperation of outraged womanhood, is Ethel. She had crept from the house while the eloquence of Trueman's words held the mob enraptured.
As Trueman is being borne in triumph down the steps his eyes rest on the terrible picture presented by the dead magnate and his daughter. In an instant the champion of justice forms a resolve. His heart and mind have a common impulse—Purdy's body must be saved from desecration; it must be buried with that of Metz.
"Pick up that body," he orders of the men who surround him. "It must be buried with Metz."