But as he turned the Master stood before him and took him by the
throat.
"Traitor!" he cried. "You would betray the innocent. Already your
soul is stained with my sleeping children's blood." And with his
hands he choked the false Guest to death.
Then he shot the bolt of the side door, and barred the window, and
called the servants, and made ready to defend the house.
Great was the fighting that night. In the morning, when the robbers
were driven off, the false Guest was buried, outside the garden,
in an unmarked grave.
February 2, 1918.
JUSTICE OF THE ELEMENTS
So the Criminal with a Crown came to the end of his resources. He
had told his last lie, but not even his servants would believe it.
He had made his last threat, but no living soul feared it. He had
put forth his last stroke of violence and cruelty, but it fell
short.
When he saw his own image reflected in the eyes of men, and knew
what he had done to the world and what had come of his evil design,
he was afraid, and cried, "Let the Earth swallow me!" And the Earth
opened, and swallowed him.
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