CHAPTER VIII

"I SERVE THE TORCH!" Fortune went to his task with the zeal that works miracles. It was well for the cause of freedom that he did. They had need of miracles, the Folk of that day! The Comrades, complying with Zorn's order, had recruited fighting men from the Under City. Daily fresh numbers of them came stealing to the secret arsenal. They were all sorts and conditions of men, and the task of making them into soldiers was probably as difficult as a man ever undertook. There were big, clumsy, hulking fellows from…