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THE :METEOR
a§ttange §tory
During the period of the 1·cccnt "Heel" agitation, one of a
band of Bolshevist auarchists was secretly ordered to blow
up the state capitol. Therefore about dus~ of the e\·en~ng
appointed for his deed, the would-be pcrpetra~or w~s wendmg
his way towards the object of his plaus. [n Ius hand he
carried a small suitcase, which he was Ycry careful not tO
shake. He was constantly looking at his feet so as not to
stumble because in that suitca!'c there were the means of a 1
free ride baH-way up to hcave11, and all the way to a little recontre with Satan. \Ybat was in this little satchel was due to explode within one hour!
And so the shaggy-haired gent1cman was hurrying towards the state capitol. On the '"ay he stopped to wipe the pr1'spi- 1·ation from his face, and then suddenly he thought of how much hotter than the weather was the place to which he was going when he died. He began thinking wh.cther it was bc~t to follow up his plans or not, ~mel finally Ins better self tn- umphed. Bnt wlwt should be do with the suitcase? . At first he thought of giving it to a small boy to hold but he mstantly banished the thought. ' What should he do~ There was no river or creek nearby in which to throw it, and he dared not take it back to where it came from, for fear of his fellow·
conspirators. Suddenly there arose in him a gTeat resolu- tion, a noble resolution, a feeling of superiorit.'· oYer every· thing else. He had started off in this enterprise, he would finish it. lie would hold the satcl1el until it "·ent off and then-oh well, he would cease to hold it. So he went o\·er to a somewhat isolated spot and snt dow11 on the srrass to await his departnre for the nc::-.i world.