They felt that the American forces
were a little too near for comfort. Great Scott, how they hate the
Americans! They fairly frothed at the mouth when they spoke of
them. They blame us for their defeat. I've heard them say many a
time that if it hadn't been for us they'd have been in Paris long
ago and maybe in London."
"I guess they were pretty near right at that," remarked Frank.
"They surely were," agreed Billy. "Your Uncle Samuel came along
just in the nick of time."
"But go ahead, Tom," urged Bart. "What did they do with you after
that?"
"Just about the same, only more so," replied Tom, with a grin. "I
was taken from one town to another until they finally settled down
here. They seemed to find it a promising place to carry out their
program of loot and murder. There was some pretty sharp street
fighting here for a few days, and then the Spartacides got the
upper hand and commenced killing some of their hostages. What you
saw this morning has been going on for some time, only this was
the biggest batch they have had yet. Going to make a grand wind-up
as it were. They haven't spared the women, either.
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