"I have tellerphoned 'round the world and there ain't no justice nowhere fur a black man. We'll fight it out right here."
In the meantime five young men had formed an agreement that they would make the dash to the building. They had figured that Gus could not shoot all five before one of them could reach the lower door and be sheltered from the fire. They made the dash, but Gus was quicker than they fancied, and one by one they went down before his deadly aim. The city was in a frenzy.
We must leave the scene of combat for a while in order to be prepared for the dramatic turn events were about to take.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Tiara Mystifies Us.
Tiara was sitting on the front porch of her home gazing pensively out upon the blue hills that fringed the distant horizon.
On the day previous she had been able to pronounce the wounded Earl well and he had gone forth solemnly pledged to no longer rebel against the overwhelming desire of the Negro race to pursue steadily the policy of moral suasion, as exemplified by Ensal.