Years passed, and in vain the Fighting Groups strove to execute their decree.

Comrade after comrade, men and women, failed in their attempts, and were cruelly executed by the Oligarchy.

It was the case of General Lampton that revived crucifixion as a legal method of execution.

But in the end the condemned man found his executioner in the form of a slender girl of seventeen, Madeline Provence, who, to accomplish her purpose, served two years in his palace as a seamstress to the household.

She died in solitary confinement after horrible and prolonged torture; but to-day she stands in imperishable bronze in the Pantheon of Brotherhood in the wonder city of Serles.
We, who by personal experience know nothing of bloodshed, must not judge harshly the heroes of the Fighting Groups.
They gave up their lives for humanity, no sacrifice was too great for them to accomplish, while inexorable necessity compelled them to bloody expression in an age of blood.