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IRA N. NOCHUMSON, President
HOWARD NOCHUMSON, Vice President
P. O. BOX 810 DALTON, GEORGIA Broadway 8-2045
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DALTON, GEORGIA
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CHENILLE AND TERRY ROBES — CRIB SPREADS
SCUFFIES — NOVELTIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
Stroup Funeral Home, Inc.
J. Farrell Stroup, Mortician
810 Selvidge St. Dalton, Ga.
Phone BR. 8-5339 *
24 Hour Ambulance Service
Ambulance Equipped With Oxygen and 2-Way Radio
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DALTON, GEORGIA
their guns with jerking move
ments, pointing them in all direc
tions. Never before had there
been such an outbreak in Kasala.
There were mild demonstrations,
yes—the captain of the guards
had even warned his company
that signs of new violence were
developing, but nothing could
have made him imagine this. Two
of the guards threw down their
guns and ran, one of them joining
the crowd. Then, as a great
wound opens, the crowd gushed
towards the remnants of the com
pany with a deadly vengeance.
The captain began firing into the
mob. The crisp crack of the first
shot lost itself in the chaos and
was soon joined by the firing of
many bullets, into the air, the
crowd, everywhere.
For Pierre the first was like
hearing a chain snapped. The
next moment was minutes long
during which he forgot his iden
tity and could only think of his
mother’s idiotic grin, her weary
frame, and the terror he felt for
the Whites. Like pincers, the fear
and shame tore away at his re
serve, at the mold imprisoning
him, and reeling blindly from the
confusion and panic that racked
his quaking body, he felt an over
powering animal oneness with the
gaping monster that swallowed
him alive. His open eyes, unsee
ing, saw him numbly draw the
revolver. “I can throw it away!”
he thought shocked. Behind him
the captain roared “Shoot!!” and
Pierre froze completely, his fing
er paralyzed on the thin and
worn trigger. In an instant’s vi
sion he saw an old crone in line
with his barrel, lighted by a
nearby torch. She was being
pushed forward by the rest of
the mob. She blazed like an ap
parition in Mwambe’s eyes. Her
breasts were bare and corroded,
her toothless mouth contorted
with murder—the image of his
mother! Sinking into an ocean
of despair, Pierre knew at once
with the crowd the overwhelming
misery both his and theirs J He
knew, he knew. Then, within him
something evil and foul, that had
festered over a lifetime, over
generations, for time immemorial-
contracted. And the chamber ex
ploded thrusting its projectil like
a plow into the chest of the
woman and she slumped, slowly,
almost gracefully to the ground.
The others were still firing into
the crowd when the dazed Pierre
ran . . .
“Where can I go?” he wondered.
A voice said,
“Report for duty as if nothing
happened,” but that was senseless.
A lone cloud stared dully at him
from the cobalt sky commanding
him to rise. He shuffled some
meters, paused, and looked east
ward, away from the road. "The
Ilonga’s camp is about forty
kilometers from here.” Mwambe’s
feet moved noisly over the under
brush, but the noise was masked
by the approving screeches of
the birds.
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CATERING SERVICE
J. METCALF, Owner
201 W. Cuyler
DALTON, GEORGIA
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Since 1869
115 W. King St.
DALTON, GA.
SHACKLEFORD
DRUG
CO.
Prescription
Pharmacists
Phone BR. 8-4433
Dalton, Ga.
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