CHAPTER 34REPERCUSSIONS
President Tolbert had been watching the event through a window on the top floor of the Executive Mansion. He was visibly trembling. His lips quivered as he clenched and unclenched his hands. When the masses had fully dispersed and the Guinean troops reassembled, he turned to Honorables Wilson and Chesson and said that he wanted the traitors Sawyer, Matthews, and Cheapoo arrested and brought to him immediately.
“And tell them that if they try to escape, they will be executed immediately; and if they run, they will be hunted down like the animals they are!”
Honorable Chesson acknowledged these instructions with enthusiasm, and the two men left to find the Police Commissioner.
Commissioner Barnes was a short, obese man with large buttocks that pumped up and down as
