Nevins returns to his room to await the developments of the thirteenth of October. BOOK IV. In Freedom's Name. CHAPTER XXIV. THE SYNDICATE IN LIQUIDATION. The crisis has arrived. On the bulletins in front of the leading newspaper offices in New York crowds congregate. Men discuss the startling tidings that come from all points of the compass and ask themselves what the next report will be. Golding's death is the forerunner of a long list of fatalities. JAVELIN BULLETIN. United States Senator Warwick, of California, was assassinated at his villa in San Diego. The murderer, after shooting the Senator, turned the smoking pistol upon himself and died with his victim. This bulletin is posted on the board in front of the Javelin office. "What's happening?" asks one of the crowd of the man at his side. "Is this a wholesale butchery planned by Anarchists, or is it a plot of the Mafia?" "God only knows," is the reply. And to the thousands who stand waiting with breathless excitement for the next announcement the inability to locate the source of the outburst of violence is quite as complete as this man's. They realize that a series of appalling crimes has been committed; yet none can ascribe the least pretext for them. The name of one after another of the leading magnates of the land is posted as the victim of a simultaneous homicide, and the notion that it is the work of anarchists begins to prevail. JAVELIN BULLETIN. Robert Drew, the Sugar King, while riding in Central Park, was stabbed to death by an assassin. The man jumped into his carriage as it was descending the hill leading to the One Hundred and Tenth Street entrance at Seventh Avenue. No sooner had the dagger been buried in the heart of Mr. Drew than the fanatic withdrew it and plunged it into his own heart. The murderer fell forward and died even before his victim. When this notice is displayed it causes a shudder to run through the crowd. This is the first of the deaths to be inflicted in New York. With the apprehension of men who feel that danger is imminent, the crowd in front of the bulletin shifts uneasily. There is the thought in all minds that some awful calamity may come upon them as they stand there. Then, too, there is the thought that they may not be safe elsewhere. In such a state of mind men become susceptible to emotion. A word can then sway a multitude. From five o'clock, when the first bulletin appeared, until the announcement of the killing of Mr. Drew, a period of two hours and a half, the list has grown to frightful proportions.