, 1906-06-20

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Word has come to us through reliable
sources that your nice friend Munro
has planned a raid, and every young
man in the town has been enrolled in
the home guard"
Ann laughed outright at this. jean
nette, you people have been eating too
much lobster salad and ice cream.
You're all suffering from nightmare.
There isn't a word of truth in what
you've been saying"
When Don came down she continued
to mock. and all through dinner she
perversely defended Munro and listen
ed to Barnett's boastings of what they
were going to do to open their mines
with entire lack of sympathy.
81 don't pretend to comprehend what
YOU men call business she said, "but
it GEMS to me that rather than waste
millions on Il useless war | would al
low the miners a few more cents pay
just as Il matter of economy
But it's the principle of The thing.
We don't intend to be dictated to by
these red neckers.' They must come
~ olI lC1 llN. W btth -
Rob. lie and Kelly are playing a two
faced game with u.s."
Il beg your pardon, they are not!
she holly answered. 'They are doing
Just what you ought to do. They're
paying their men good wages and
treating them properly
Peabody put in "A word. IF might
venture. | don't know a thing about it
except what Munro and Raymond told
me. but it seems to me Ann is right.
As | understand it, these chaps are con-
tending that i'll making this change
from three shifts of eight hours each
YOU shouldn't lay off Il lot of men and
put the rest on two shifts of nine hours
each at eight hours pay. Isn't that itY'
"Well, yes; but, you see, it's really a
new system altogether"
But i'll the change you don't intend
to accidentally pay 80 cents or 80 cents
or whatever it may be for that extra
hour?'
'.The pay for a days work will re-
main as it is now"
Peabody smiled. "A mere shuttle.
IOlllc, We lldllh. iOh Atiio'P -
fixed uD a new deal in which the cards
go against the miners. They protest,
and now it is Il matter of gun play as
you say out here"
Mrs. Barnett looked relieved. Il
wish you'd talk him out of it, Wayne
Peabody, with Il lawyers pleasure,
went on with his analysis. But there's
4I:,I .,,4 homo which 10 of moro. in
terest to me than either you or the un-
ionists, and that is Raymond's party
of the third part. They are standing
clear for the present. but if you GROVE
them to the wall they'll take hold, Il
then, as Kelly said, you'll have a wild
cat by the tail | wish | could wait
and see how you come out, but V got
a big case on for the 10th and must be
in Washington
sThe whole thing will be settled in a
day or two declared Barnett. when
we go up there again it will be with a
thousand men and fully armed"
THAT is a harsh arbitrament,' said
Peabody, with a gravity which was al
most solemnity. Il would advise you
to settle this case out of court"
Ann %interposed. 81 think you both
take too serious II view of the whole
thing. Mr.. Raymond laughs over it."
MIR. Raymond was probably trying
to keep you unalarmed," answered Pea
body. And now that you are out OF
it | do not think it we'll for either you
or Louis TO return t. it."
louis uttered indignant cutlery. ooh
see here. I've got to go back. I'm help
ing Raymond"
u guess he'll have to stagger along
without you, Louis" replied Barnett
you better not go into this mixup
again"
'Ill go back whenever | please
The dinner was finished with a pleas
anter topic, and when the men were
alone with their cigars Peabody care
lessly remarked: I'm going to take
Ann back with me if she'll go. ! don't
like the idea of this youngster dragging
her into ali This filthy turmoil. Why, /
found her living in a log cabin with an
Irish family-nice people, but no place
for her"
''That's the singular part of ii She
seems to enjoy it. She wrote Jeanette
from up there pretty regularly, and she
out and out said she liked it. And she
is gay rs a bird-she's lost some OF her
fat-I never saw her looking hitter"
Peabody unused. "She is changed. l
can't quite make out why or how. She
was like Il schoolgirl for spirits last
night. DO you suppose it's the high
altitude?"
My dear chap. I suspect it is a man,