it she sobbed i ll be all right in a minute our little girl think of it and i never saw her she was still lying on her bed when one evening mary fit to break out in bitter that she had escaped and was destined to escape what saxon had gone through aw what are you about demanded by ic the valley op the moon get married some time again as sore as beans is beans not to the best man living she proclaimed and there ain t no call for it there s too many people in the world now else why are there two or three men for every job and besides children is too terrible saxon with a look of patient wisdom in her face that became as she spoke made answer i ought to know what it means i ve been through it and i m still in the thick of it and i want to say to you right now out of all the pain and the ache and the sorrow that it is the most beautiful wonderful thing in the world as saxon s strength came back to her and when doctor had assured that she was sound as a dollar she herself took up the matter of the tragedy that had taken place before her door the had been called out immediately informed her and was then at the foot of pine street on the waste ground next to the railroad yards as for the fifteen of them were in jail a house to house search had been made in the neighborhood by the police and in this way nearly the whole fifteen all wounded had been captured it would go hard with them gloomily the newspapers were demanding blood for blood and all the ministers in had preached fierce sermons against the the railroad had filled every place and it was well known that the striking not only would never get their old back but were in every railroad in the united states already they were beginning to scatter a number had gone to and four were talking of going to to work in the shops of the railroad that ran over the to with anxiety keenly concealed she tried to feel out s opinion on what had happened by ic the valley op the moon that shows what s violent methods come to she said he shook his head slowly and gravely they hang johnson anyway he answered indirectly you know him you told me yon used to dance with him he was caught red handed on the body of a he beat to death old belly s got three bullet holes in him but he ain t goin to die and he s got s number they ll hang m on belly s evidence it was all in the papers belly shot him too a by the neck on our saxon shuddered belly must be the man with the bald spot and the tobacco stained whiskers yes she said i saw it all it seemed he must have hung there for hours it was all over from first to last in five minutes it seemed ages and ages i guess that s the way it seemed to belly stuck on the smiled grimly but he s a hard one to kill he s been shot an cut up a dozen different but they say now hell be crippled for life � have to go around on or in a wheel chair that ll stop him from any more dirty work for the railroad he was one of their top gun � always up to his ears in the thick of any that was goin on he never was of anything on two feet i ll say that much for m where does he live saxon inquired up on near tenth � fine neighborhood an fine two house he must pay thirty dollars a month rent i guess the railroad paid him pretty well then he must be married i never seen his wife but he s got one son jack a passenger engineer i used to know him he was a though he never went into the ring an he s got another son that s teacher in the high school his name s paul we re about the same age he was great at i knew him when we was he pitched by ic the valley of the moon me out three times hand once when the played the school saxon sat back in the chair resting and thinking the problem was growing more complicated than ever this elderly round and bald headed too had a wife and family and there was frank married barely a year and with a baby boy perhaps the he shot in the stomach had a wife and all seemed to be acquainted members of a very large family and yet because of their particular families they battered and killed each other she had seen johnson kill a and now they were going to hang johnson who had married out of the and she and had worked together years before in the paper box factory vainly saxon waited for to say something that would show he did not countenance the killing of the it was wrong she ventured finally they killed he an a lot of others an frank did you know he was dead had hi whole lower jaw shot away � died in the before they could get him to the receiving hospital there was never so much at one time in before but it was their fault she they began it it was murder did not reply but she heard him hoarsely she knew he said god damn them but when she asked he made no answer his eyes were deep with troubled clouds while the mouth had hardened and all his face was bleak to her it was a 