CHAPTER IV

FORTUNE GIVES HIS PROMISE It was Zorn who quieted the outburst of hate. He did it by the simple expedient of stepping to the edge of the platform and raising his hands to invoke silence. As he began to speak the assembled men slipped hastily to their benches and listened with the docility of children. "Are we men, endowed with reason, or are we beasts?" Zorn reproved them. "We tell ourselves we are gathered here in the cause of justice and human rights--and we act exactly like the Wild Polk! Enough of this!" Th…