The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-15

Well lets aeEad him cut quick Ev-
cry day Means $4,000 10 "a. TIN take
him = mouth to make IL Founa trim.
80 ! s'poee he ought to-leave steals -
on the Roanoke1 x.~s.s "a
Yes. but wherNss the money "a l6
It with7 Mcnamara has ours. NY
God. What mess we're h. What
fools we've been. Dexs There's i con-
sphaey here. I'm beginning 10 see IL
now that It's too late. This man is
looting cur country under color Of law
and figures on Cutting all the mines
before we can throw him on That's
his game. He'll work them as hard
and as long as he can. and heaven
only knows what wiz become Of the
money He must have big men behind
him in order to fix q Unifed States
Judge this way. Maybe he has the
Frisco courts corrupted. too''
If he has, I'm goin' to kill him."
said Dextry. i've worked like
dog all my life. and now that I've
struck pay I don't aim to lose it IL
Bill Wheaton can't win out accerdin'
to law, I'm goin' to proceed accordin'
to justice"
During the past two days the part
ners had haunted the courtroom where
their lawyer. together with the counsel
for the Scandina VANS, had argued and
pleaded. trying every possible profes-
SIGNAL and unprofesSionai artifice In
search of relief from the arbitrary raj
ings of the court, while hourly they
had become more strongly suspicious
of some sinister plot, some hidden,
powerful understanding back of the
judge and the entire mechanism of JUS
tice. They had fought with the fury
of men who battle for life and had
grown to hate the lines of Stillman's
yaeillating face, the buster of the dis
triet attorney and the Sinking conf
dence of the clerks, for it seemed that
they all worked mechanically. like
toys, at the dictates of Alec McNa-
mara. At last when they had ceased.
beaten and exhausted, they were too
confused with technical phrases to
grasp anything except the fact that
relief was denied them. that their
claims were to be worked by the re-
ceiver and. as a crowning defeat. they
learned that the judge would move his
court to ST. Michaels and hear no
cases until he returned month later.
Meanwhile, Mcnamara hired every
idle man he could lay hand upon and
ripped the placers open with double
shifts. Every day a stream Of yellow
dust poured into the bank and was
locked in his vaults, while those mine
owners who attempted to witness the
cleanups were elected from their
claims. The politician had worked
with Incredible swiftness and system,
and fortnight after landing he had
made good his boast to Strive and
was in charge of every good claim in
the district, the owners were ousted,
their appeals argued and denied and
the court gone for thirty days, leav-
ing him clear field for his operations
He felt contempt for most of his vic
TINS, who were slow witted Swedes,
grasping neither the purport nor the
magnitude of his operation, and to
those Htigants who were discerning
enough to see its enormity he trusted
to his organization to thwart them.
The two partners had come to feel
that they were beating against a wall
and had also come squarely to face the
proposition that they were without
funds wherewith to continue their bat
tie. It was maddening for them to
think of the daily robbery that they
suffered. for the Midas turned out
many ounces of gold at every shift,
and more maddening to realize the re-
ceiver's shrewdness in Gripping them
by his theft of the gold in their safe.
That had been his browning stroke.
I'VE must get money quick said
Glenister. do you think we can Dor
row.
Borrow" shifted Dextry "Folks
don't lend money In Alaska
They relapsed into moody silence.
q met Teller this morain' that's
workin' on the Midas" the old man
resumed. HE came in town fer
pair of gum boots, an he says they've
run into awful rich greund-so rich
that they have to clean up every morn-
in when the night shift goes of cause
the rifles clog with gold.''
Think Of itv' Glenister growled. eff
we had even a part of one Of those
cleanups we could send Wheaton out
side
In the midst of his bitterness
thought struck him. He made as
though to speak, then closed his mouth
But his partners eyes we're On him,
filed with suppressed but growing
fire. Dextry lowered his voice eau
tiouSly:
"There'H be $4,000, in them sluices
tonight at midnight
Glenister stared back, while his pulse
pounded ut something that lay in the
others words.
lit belongs to u.s. the young man
said There wouldn't be anything
wrong about it, would there?'
Dextry sneered. Wrong. Right!
Them is fine an soundin' titles in a
mess like this. What do they mean?
r tell YOU at, midnight tonight Alec
Mcnamara Will have $4,000 OF our
money
God! What would happen il they
caught us? whispered the younger,
following out his thought. They'd
never let us get Off the claim alive. He
couldn't find better excuse to shoot
us down aud get rid OF US. If We came
UP befnre this Judge for trial, we'd go
to Sitka for twefify years"
..s;ure. But IT'S our only chance. I'd
rutller die ON the. Midas in fair fight
than sat here bitins my hangnails. I'm
growiA old, ans. I won't never make
another strike As to bein' caught