"Stop them!--Stop them! Don"t let them bring him in here!"
He sank limp into the chair and stared at the door as it swung open and Phil walked in, with Ben and Elsie by his side, in full clansman disguise.
The old man leaped to his feet and gasped:
"The Klan!--The Klan! No? Yes! It"s true--glory to G.o.d, they"ve saved my boy--Phil--Phil!"
"How did you rescue him?" Doctor Cameron asked Ben.
"Had a squadron lying in wait on every road that led from town. The Captain thought a thousand men were on him, and surrendered without a shot."
At twelve o"clock Ben stood at the gate with Elsie.
"Your fate hangs in the balance of this election to-night," she said.
"I"ll share it with you, success or failure, life or death."
"Success, not failure," he answered firmly. "The Grand Dragons of six States have already wired victory. Look at our lights on the mountains!
They are ablaze--range on range our signals gleam until the Fiery Cross is lost among the stars!"
"What does it mean?" she whispered.
"That I am a successful revolutionist--that Civilization has been saved, and the South redeemed from shame."
THE END