Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26

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others cunning blows, while Clients
ter's every bone was wrenched and
twisted under his enemy's terrible on
slaughts. The miners chief effort It Is
:rue. was to keep his feet and to break
che mans embraces. KNever had he en-
countered one whom he could not beat
by sheer strength till he met this great.
snarlng creature who worried him
hither and yon as though he were q
child. Time and again Roy beat upon
the mans face with the blows OF
sledge. No rules governed this solitary
combat; the men were deaf to all but
the roaring in their ears, blinded to all
but hate, lnsenslble to everything but
the blood mania. Their trampling feet
caused the building to rumble and
shake as though some monster We're
running amuck.
Meanwhile bareheaded man rushed
out Of the store beneath. dumping into
pedestrian who had paused on the
sidewalk, and together they scurried
I'D the stairs The dory which Roy
had seen ut sen had shot the breakers,
and now It's 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
to gaze through the mists at caravan
of mule teams which trotted into tho
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
Tricky to the tundra there came two
other horses, distorted and unreal, on
one u girl, on the other q figure Of
| pain and tragedy grotesque creature
that swayed stifily to the motion Of its
steed, its face writhed into lines Of
/ suffering, its hands clutching camille
1 and horn.
1t was as though fate, with invisible
I 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 man shot amid clatter and
uproar.
"Give me hand-quickv he shouted
to them.
whats up?" inquired the marshal.
Its murder! McNamara and Glen
isterw He dashed back up the steps
behind Voorhees,, the judge following.
while muf11ed cries came from above.
The gambler turned toward the three
men who were hurrying from the
beach and, recognizing Wheaton,
called to him: "Untie my feet! Cut
the ropes Quick!'
whats the trouble?" the lawyer
asked, but on hearing Glenisters name
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 warming to
stay behind.
| She never remem bered how she
I climbed those stairs, for she was borne
along by that hypnotic power which
drags one to behold catastrophe in
spite of his will. Reaching the room,
she stood appalled,; for the group she
had joined watched two raging things
| that rushed at each other with in
human cries, ragged, bleeding, fighting
on CARPET Of debris. Every loose and
breakable thing had been ground to
splinters as though by iron slugs in a
whirling cylinder.
To this day, from Dawson to the
straits, from Unga to the arctics, men
| tell Of the combat wherever they fore
gather at faring campf1res or In dingy
| bunkhouses, and, although some scout
| the tale, there are others who saw 1t
and can swear to 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
| yitus Bering and his crew; for their
rancor had swollen till at feel of each
others flesh they ran mad and felt
superhuman strength. 1t 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 a fling of his long arms the
young man hurled the intruder aside
SO violently that his head struck the
iron safe and he collapsed insensible.
Then without apparent notice Of the
interruption, the fight went on. 1t was
seen during this respite that Mona
mara's mouth was running water as
though he were deathly sick, while
every reich brought forth a groan.
Helen heard herself crying. aStop
them! Stop thenn' But no one seemed
capable Of interference. She heard her
brother muttering and his breath COM
ing heavily like that OF the fighters, his
body swaying in time to theirs The
| Judge was ashy, imbecile, helpless.
| NlcNamara's distress was patent to