There was a nation-wide organization of these assassins,
so the paper said; they published hundreds of papers, with millions
of readers, all financed by German gold. Also, there was a
double-leaded editorial calling on the citizens to arise and save
the republic, and put an end to the Red menace once for all. Peter
read this, and like every other good American, he believed every
word that he read in his newspaper, and boiled with hatred of the
Reds.
He found Miriam Yankovitch away from home. Her mother was in a state
of excitement, because Miriam had got word that the police were
giving the prisoners the "third degree," and she had gone to the
offices of the Peoples' Council to get the radicals together and try
to take some immediate action. So Peter hurried over to these
offices, where he found some twenty-five Reds and Pacifists
assembled, all in the same state of excitement. Miriam was walking
up and down the room, clasping and unclasping her hands, and her
eyes looked as if she had been crying all day. Peter remembered his
suspicion that Miriam and Mac were lovers. He questioned her. They
had put Mac in the "hole," and Henderson, the lumber-jack, was laid
up in the hospital as a result of the ordeal he had undergone.
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