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"'
Look
at
yourself
in
the
mirror
,
'
I
commanded
.
"
He
did
so
,
and
at
sight
of
his
scarlet
face
,
the
color
deepening
as
he
looked
at
it
,
he
sank
down
nervelessly
in
a
chair
.
"'
My
God
!
'
he
said
.
'
I
've
got
it
.
Do
n't
come
near
me
.
I
am
a
dead
man
.
'
"
Then
the
convulsions
seized
him
.
He
was
two
hours
in
dying
,
and
he
was
conscious
to
the
last
,
complaining
about
the
coldness
and
loss
of
sensation
in
his
feet
,
his
calves
,
his
thighs
,
until
at
last
it
was
his
heart
and
he
was
dead
.
"
That
was
the
way
the
Scarlet
Death
slew
.
I
caught
up
my
handbag
and
fled
.
The
sights
in
the
streets
were
terrible
.
One
stumbled
on
bodies
everywhere
.
Some
were
not
yet
dead
.
And
even
as
you
looked
,
you
saw
men
sink
down
with
the
death
fastened
upon
them
.
There
were
numerous
fires
burning
in
Berkeley
,
while
Oakland
and
San
Francisco
were
apparently
being
swept
by
vast
conflagrations
.
The
smoke
of
the
burning
filled
the
heavens
,
so
that
the
midday
was
as
a
gloomy
twilight
,
and
,
in
the
shifts
of
wind
,
sometimes
the
sun
shone
through
dimly
,
a
dull
red
orb
.
Truly
,
my
grandsons
,
it
was
like
the
last
days
of
the
end
of
the
world
.
"
There
were
numerous
stalled
motor
cars
,
showing
that
the
gasoline
and
the
engine
supplies
of
the
garages
had
given
out
.
I
remember
one
such
car
.
A
man
and
a
woman
lay
back
dead
in
the
seats
,
and
on
the
pavement
near
it
were
two
more
women
and
a
child
.
Strange
and
terrible
sights
there
were
on
every
hand
.
People
slipped
by
silently
,
furtively
,
like
ghosts
--
white-faced
women
carrying
infants
in
their
arms
;
fathers
leading
children
by
the
hand
;
singly
,
and
in
couples
,
and
in
families
--
all
fleeing
out
of
the
city
of
death
.
Some
carried
supplies
of
food
,
others
blankets
and
valuables
,
and
there
were
many
who
carried
nothing
.
"
There
was
a
grocery
store
--
a
place
where
food
was
sold
.
The
man
to
whom
it
belonged
--
I
knew
him
well
--
a
quiet
,
sober
,
but
stupid
and
obstinate
fellow
,
was
defending
it
.
The
windows
and
doors
had
been
broken
in
,
but
he
,
inside
,
hiding
behind
a
counter
,
was
discharging
his
pistol
at
a
number
of
men
on
the
sidewalk
who
were
breaking
in
.
In
the
entrance
were
several
bodies
--
of
men
,
I
decided
,
whom
he
had
killed
earlier
in
the
day
.
Even
as
I
looked
on
from
a
distance
,
I
saw
one
of
the
robbers
break
the
windows
of
the
adjoining
store
,
a
place
where
shoes
were
sold
,
and
deliberately
set
fire
to
it
.
I
did
not
go
to
the
groceryman
's
assistance
.
The
time
for
such
acts
had
already
passed
.
Civilization
was
crumbling
,
and
it
was
each
for
himself
.
"
I
went
away
hastily
,
down
a
cross-street
,
and
at
the
first
corner
I
saw
another
tragedy
.
Two
men
of
the
working
class
had
caught
a
man
and
a
woman
with
two
children
,
and
were
robbing
them
.
I
knew
the
man
by
sight
,
though
I
had
never
been
introduced
to
him
.
He
was
a
poet
whose
verses
I
had
long
admired
.
Yet
I
did
not
go
to
his
help
,
for
at
the
moment
I
came
upon
the
scene
there
was
a
pistol
shot
,
and
I
saw
him
sinking
to
the
ground
.
The
woman
screamed
,
and
she
was
felled
with
a
fist-blow
by
one
of
the
brutes
.
I
cried
out
threateningly
,
whereupon
they
discharged
their
pistols
at
me
and
I
ran
away
around
the
corner
.
Here
I
was
blocked
by
an
advancing
conflagration
.
The
buildings
on
both
sides
were
burning
,
and
the
street
was
filled
with
smoke
and
flame
.
From
somewhere
in
that
murk
came
a
woman
's
voice
calling
shrilly
for
help
.
But
I
did
not
go
to
her
.
A
man
's
heart
turned
to
iron
amid
such
scenes
,
and
one
heard
all
too
many
appeals
for
help
.
"
Returning
to
the
corner
,
I
found
the
two
robbers
were
gone
.
The
poet
and
his
wife
lay
dead
on
the
pavement
.
It
was
a
shocking
sight
.
The
two
children
had
vanished
--
whither
I
could
not
tell
.
And
I
knew
,
now
,
why
it
was
that
the
fleeing
persons
I
encountered
slipped
along
so
furtively
and
with
such
white
faces
.
In
the
midst
of
our
civilization
,
down
in
our
slums
and
labor-ghettos
,
we
had
bred
a
race
of
barbarians
,
of
savages
;
and
now
,
in
the
time
of
our
calamity
,
they
turned
upon
us
like
the
wild
beasts
they
were
and
destroyed
us
.
And
they
destroyed
themselves
as
well
.
