to these two—or to Boggs and Mendell for that matter. Much more definitely than yesterday I was able to place them—gunmen from Cawder's criminal organization, gunmen trained to the modern vehicle, the airplane, and introduced to the modern weapon, the airplane bomb.
Much more positively than yesterday, they impressed me as purely practical souls adhering to Bane because he had started something which they would carry out as they pleased and for their own purposes and ends. No; nothing of the impractical about them. Bane had trained them and put into their hands tremendous engines of destruction which they would employ for no fanciful revenge upon society but for loot for themselves and their women.
I was thrust into an automobile; and after three minutes, arrived at the terrace where, as yesterday, ladies lounged; but their temper, too, was changed. The atmosphere also was of completed preparations, contemplation of great gains to be got—and risks to be run.
Donley's bride, more over-rouged and with
