Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-03

knock off work and let the claim lie
/ Idle till the thing is settled. You can't
| really expect US to surrender posses
sion OF our mine on the mere allega-
| ton of some unknown man. That's
ridiculous We won't do 1t. Why,
| you'll have TO let us argue our case
at least before you try to put us off"
/ Voorhees, shook his head. "We'll
have to follow instructions. The thing
| for you to do is to appear before the
court tomorrow and have the receiver
dismissed. If your title is as good rs
/ you say it is, you won't have any trou-
| BILE"
you're not the only ones to suffer"
added Mcnamara. We've taken pos
session of all the mines below here
| He nodded down the rulch. I'm an
officer of the court and under bond
GLOW muchT'
/ claim"
"What2 Why. heavens man, the
| poorest OF these mines is producing
that much every day.
! While he spoke Glenster was rapid
| ~ debating what course to follow.
| "Thc place to argue this thing is be-
! fore Judge Stillman." said Strive, but
| with little notion Of the conflict going
| on within Glenister. The youth yearn-
! ed to fight. not with words nor quib-
bles nor legal phrases, but with steel
and blows. And he felt that the i'm
/ pulse was as righteous as it was natu-
{ raj, for he knew this process was I'M
I just, an outrage. Mexico Mullins
/ warning REQUIRED to him. And yet
/ He shifted slowly as he talked till his
| back was to the door OF the big tent.
! They we're watching him carefully, for
all their apparent languor and loose
ness In saddle, then, as he started to
leap within and rally his henchmen,
! his mind went back to the words OF
! Judge Stllman and his niece. Surely
! that old man was on the square. He
couldn't be otherwise with her beside
| him, believing III him, and Il stepicion
| Of deeper plots behind these actions
was ground'ess. So far all was legal.
| he supposed, with his scant knowledge
Of law. though the methods seemed
ing what they thought ~ y" right.
Why be the first to resist? The men
on the mines below had not done SO.
The title to this ground was capable
OF such easy proof that be aud DcX
/ need have no uncasiuess. Courts do
/ not rob honest people nowadays. he
/ argued, and moreover, perhaps the
/ girls words were true; perhaps she
/ would think more Of him If he gave up
, the old fighting ways for her sake.
+ Certainly armed resistance to her I'M
/ clo'S first "di't would not please her.
She had said he was too violent. SO he
would show hcr he could lay his SAFE
ager- aside. She might smile on him
. approvingly. AMI thar was worth TAX
/ ing a chance for. Anyway it would
/ u'an but a few days delay in the
mines run. As he reasoned he heard
n low voice speaking within the open
door 1t was Slapjack S.mms.
Step aside, lad I've got the big un
covered"
/ Glcnister saw the men on horseback
snatch at their holsters and just in
| time leaPed al his foreman, for the old
man had moved ont into the open,
| Winchester at shoulder. his check cui-
| ding the stock his eyes cold and mar
! row. The Young man flung the barrel
| up and wrenched the weapon from his
hands.
"None of that. Hank" he cried
/ sharply. "I'll say when TO shoot" He
( turned to look into the mu72lcs Of
guns held In the hands Of every horse
( man-eyery horscman save one, for
Alec Mcnamara sat uumoved his
, handsome features, nonchalaut and
! amused, holding approval 1t was at
/ him that Hanks weapon had been
. levelcl
This IS bad enough ut the best.
/ Don't let's make it any worse said
he.
1 Slapjacl inhaled deeply spat with
disgust and looked over his boss in
credulously.
well, Of all the different kinds Of
/ blame fools" he snorted. you are the
4 EndeSt" He marched past the mar
/ shall and his deputies down to the cut,
! put on his coat and vanished down the
/ trail toward town. not dcigning a
backward glance either At the mine or
/ Al the man unit 10 tight for.