us so away we go the three of us bud an me that to take our away from us i guess we turn into the alley back of s nobody in sight bud stops short and the an me stop i don t think he wants to drive bud says an the says quick you life i do you re dead sure you want that job i says yes he s dead sure s goin to keep him away from that job why that job s what he come to town for an we can t lead him to it too quick well my friend says i it s my sad duty to inform you that you ve made a mistake how s that he says go on i says you re on your foot and honest to god saxon that looks down at his feet to see i don t understand says he we re goin to show you says i an bang fourth of july kingdom come blue lights sky an hell fire � just like that it don t take long when you re scientific an trained to work of course it s hard on the but say saxon if you d seen that before an after you d by ic the valley op the moon thought he was a change artist laugh t you d a halted to give vent to his own mirth saxon forced herself to join with him but down in her heart was horror was right the stupid workers and over the clever masters rode in and did not and they hired other stupid ones to do the and for them it was men like and frank like johnson and frank like belly and the like and all the rest of the who were beaten up shot or hanged ah the clever ones were very clever nothing happened to them they only rode in their you big the as he to his feet at the end was continuing you think you still want that i ask he shakes his head then i read m the riot act they s only one thing for you to do old an that s beat it d ye get met beat it back to the farm for you an if you come around town again we ll be real mad at you we was only this time but next time we catch you your own mother won t know you when we get done with you an � say � you seen m beat it i bet he s goin yet an when he gets back to or sleepy hollow or wherever he hangs out an tells how the boys does things in it s dollars to they won t be a in his district that d come to town to drive if they offered ten dollars an hour it was awful saxon said then laughed well appreciation but that was went on a bunch of the boys caught another one this morning they didn t do a thing to him my goodness gracious no in less n two minutes he was the worst wreck they ever hauled to the hospital the papers gave the score nose broken three bad wounds front teeth out a broken an two broken ribs he by ic the valley of the moon got all that was to him but that s d ye want to know what the did in the big strike before the earthquake they took every they caught an broke both his arms with a that was so he couldn t drive you see say the was filled with em an the won that strike too but is it necessary to be so terrible i know they re and that they re taking the bread out of the children s mouths to put in their own children s mouths and that it isn t fair and all that but just the same is it necessary to be so terrible sure thing answered confidently we just throw the fear of god into them � when we can do it without bein caught and if you re caught then the union the lawyers to defend us though that ain t much good now for the judges are pretty an the papers keep away at them to give stiff er an sentences just the same before this strike s over there be a whole lot of a they d never gone very cautiously in the next half hour saxon tried to feel out her husband s attitude to find if he doubted the of the violence he and his brother committed but s sanction was rock and profound it never entered his head that he was not absolutely right it was the game caught in its tangled he could see no other way to play it than the way all men played it he did not stand for and murder however but then the did not stand for such quite was his explanation that and murder did not pay that such actions always brought down the condemnation of the public and broke the strikes but the healthy beating up of a he � the throwing of the fear of god into a as he expressed it � was the o ly right and proper thing to do our folks never had to do such things saxon said by ic the valley op the moon finally they never had strikes nor in those times you bet they didn t agreed them was the good old days i d liked to a lived then he drew a long breath and sighed but them times will never come again would you have liked living in the country saxon asked sure thing there s lots of men living in the country now she just the same i notice them a to town to get our was his reply ed by chapter xii a gleam 