Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-11-07
The Spoilers.
BY REX e. BEACH.
Copyright. 1906. by Rex L. Beach.
CHAPTER XXI-CONTINUED
BY REX E. BEACH.

out OF the store beneath, pumping into
Il pedestrian who had paused on the
sidewalk. and together they scurried
up the stairs. The dory which Roy
had seen at sea had shot the breakers,
and now Its three passengers were
tracking through the wet sand toward
Front street. Bill Wheaton In the lead.
He was followed by two rawboned
men who Travelled without baggage.
The city was awakening with the sun
which reared copper rim out of the
sea. Judge Stlllman and voorhees,
came down from the hotel and paused
10 gaze through the mlsts ut a caravan
OF mule teams which trotted into the
other end of the street with Jingle and
clank. The wagons were blue with
soldiers, the early golden rays slant
Ing from their Krags, and they were
bound for the Midas
out Of the fogs which chung so
thlckly TO the tundra there came two
other horses, distorted and unreal, on
one Il girl, on the other figure OF
pain and tragedy, Il grotesque creature
that swayed stlfily to the motion Of Its
steed. Its face wrlthed Into lines OF
suffering, Its hands clutching camille
and horn.
1t was as though fate, with invisible
touch. were setting her stage for the
last act Of this play. assembling the
principals close to the golden sands
where first they had made entrance.
The man and the girl came face to
face with the judge and marshal who
cried out upon seeing them, but as
they refined In, out from the stairs be-
side them Il man shot amid clutter and
uproar.
Give me hand-qulck.' he shouted
to them
What's up?" inquired the marshal.
ITS murder! Mcnamara and Glen.
lstcr. He dashed back up the steps
behind Voorhees,. the Judge following,
while muiiled cries came from above.
The gambler turned toward the three
men who were hurrylug from the
beach and, recognizing Wheaton,
| called TO him: Unite my feet! Cut
the rones! Ouickr'
"What's the trouble?" the lawyer
asked, but on hearing Glenister's nume
bounded after the Judge, leaving one
Of his companions to free the rider.
| They could hear the fight now and all
crowded toward the door, Helen with
her brother, in spite of his warning to
stay behind.
| She never remembered how she
climbed those stairs, for she was borne
| along by that hypnotic power which
| drags one to behold a catastrophe in
spite OF his will. Reaching the room.
she stood APPALLED,; for the group she
had Joined watched two raging things
! that rushed Mt each other with in
| human cries. ragged, bleeding, fighting
on Il carpet of debris. Every loose and
brcakable thing had been ground To
spllntcrs ms though by iron slugs In n
whIrling cylinder.
| TO this day, from Dawson to the
| straits, from Unga to.the arctics, men
tell of the combat wherever they fore
| gather ut flaring campfres or In dingy
bunkhouses, and, although some scout
the tale, there are others who saw II
and can swear 10 its truth. These say
| that the encounter was like the battle
of bull moose In the rutting season,
though more terrible, averring that
two men like these had never been
known In the land since the days of
Vitus Boring and his crew; for their
rancor had swollen till at feel of each
others flesh they ran mad and felt
superhuman strength. It is true, at
any rate, that neither was conscious
OF the filling ROOM nor the cries of the
crowd. even when the marshal forced
himself through the wedged door and
fell upon the nearest, which was Glen.
lister. He came at an instant when the
two had paused at arms length, glar.
ing with rage drunken eyes, gasping
the labored breath back into their
lungs.
With fling OF his long arms the
Young man hurled the intruder inside
so violently that his head struck the
iron safe and he collapsed Insenslble
Then without apparcnt notice of the
iuterruption. the fight went on. Ii was
! seen during this rcspite that McNa.
mara's mouth was running water ms
though he were dcathly sick. while