heart was he too like the would he kill other men who had families like and frank and johnson had killed t was he too a wild beast a dog that would over a bone she sighed life was a strange puzzle perhaps was right in her cruel statement of the terms of existence by ic the valley op the moon what of it laughed harshly as if in answer to her questions it s dog eat dog i and it s always ben that way take that scrap outside there they killed each other just like the north an south did in the civil war but can t win that way you say yourself that it spoiled their chance of winning i suppose not he admitted reluctantly but what other chance they ve got to win i don t see look at us we ll be up against it next not the she cried he nodded gloomily the are loose all along the line for a high old time say they re goin to beat us to our knees till we come back a for our they ve up real high an mighty what of all that the other day the troops out is half the fight along with the an the papers an the public behind em they re their mouths already about what they re goin to do they re sure for trouble first they re goin to hang johnson an as many more of the fifteen as they can they say that flat the an the an the times keep it over an over every day they re all union to beat the band no more closed shop to hell with organized labor why the dirty little come out this morning an said that every union official in ought to be run town or stretched up pine you bet it s fine look at us it ain t a case any more of sympathetic strike for the mill workers we got our own troubles they ve fired our four best men � the ones that was always on the conference did it without cause they re for trouble as i told you an they ll get it too if they don t watch out we got our tip from the water front with them us we ll go some you mean you strike saxon asked ed by the valley op the moon he bent his head but isn t that what they want you to do � from the way they re acting what s the shrugged his shoulders then continued it s better to strike than to get fired we beat em to it that s all an we catch em before they re ready don t we what they re they re camp drivers an mule all up an down the state they got forty of em em in a hotel in right now an ready to rush em in on us an hundreds more like em so this saturday s the last wages i ll likely bring home for some time saxon closed her eyes and thought quietly for five minutes it was not her way to take things excitedly the coolness of that so admired never deserted her in time of emergency she realized that she herself was no more than a caught up in this tangled conflict of many we ll have to draw from our to pay for this month s rent she said brightly s face fell we ain t got as much in the bank as you think he confessed had to be buried you know an i up what the others couldn t raise how i was it forty dollars i was goin to stand off the butcher an the rest for a while they knew i was good pay but they put it to me straight they d ben the right along an was up against it themselves an now with that strike smashed they re pretty much smashed themselves so i took it all out of the bank i knew you wouldn t mind you don t do you she smiled bravely and bravely overcame the sinking feeling at her heart it was the only right thing to do i would have done it if were lying sick and would have done it for you an me if it had been the other way around by ic the valley op the moon his face was glowing saxon a fellow can always count on you you re like my right hand that s why i say no more babies if i lose you i m crippled for life we ve got to she mused nodding her appreciation how much is in bank just about thirty dollars you see i had to pay an for the a few other little things an the union took time by the neck and a four dollar emergency on every member just to be ready if the strike was pulled off but can wait he said as much he s the goods if anybody should ask you how d you like m i liked him but i don t know about doctors he s the first i ever had � except when i was once and then the city did that looks like the street car men are goin out too dan s come to town came all the way from new york tried to in on the quiet but the fellows knew when he left new york an kept track of him all the way they have to he s on the spot whenever street car men are licked into shape he s won lots of street car strikes for the keeps an army of strike an ships them all over the country on special trains wherever they re needed s never seen labor troubles like she s got and is goin to get ail hell s goin to break 