Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-23
"Now turn around. All right! just
wanted to see If you were lying about

"Now turn around. All right! l just
wanted to see IL you were lying about
your gun"
'I'll kill your cried Mcnamara.
Glenister laid his six shooter upon the
safe and slipped off his own wet gar
ment. The difference was more marx
ed now and the advantage more
strongly with the receiver. Iholgh
they had avoided allusion to IT. each
knew that this fight had nothing 10
do with the Midas and each realized
whence sprang their fierce enmity.
And 1t was meet that they should
come torether thus 1t had been the
one certain and logical event which
they had felt inevitably approaching
from long back. And 1t was fitting.
moreover. that they should fight alone
and unwitnessed, armed only with the
weapons of the wilderness, for they
we're both of the far free lands, were
both of the fighters type and had
both warred for the first great prize
They met ferociously. Mcnamara
aimed fearful blow, but Glenister
met him squarely, beating him oil
cleverly, stepping IN and out, his
arms swinging loosely from his Shout
iers like whalebone withes tipped with
cad. He moved lightly, his footing
made doubly secure by reason OF his
soft solcl mukluks. Recognizing his
opponent's greater weight, he under
took merely to stop the headlong
rushes and remain out of reach as
long as possible. He struck the poll
tician fairly in the mouth SO that the
mans head snapped back and his lists
went wild, then. before the arms
could grasp him, the miner had brok-
en- ground and whipped another blow
across. but Mcnamara was boxer
himself. so covered and blocked 1t.
The politician spat through his mash
ed lips and rushed again, sweeping
his opponent from his feet. Again
Glenister's fist shot forward like
lump of granite, but the other came on
head down and the blow finished too
high. landing on the big mans brow.
A sudden darting agony paraiyzed
Rows hand and he realized. that he
! had broken the metacarpal bones and
that henceforth it would be useless.
| BEFORE he could recover Mcnamara
| had passed under his extended arm
| and seized him by the middle, then
! thrusting his left leg back of Roy's,
he whirled him from his balance, ding
ing him clear and with resistless force
| 1t seemed that fatal fall must fol
low, but the youth squirmed catlike
/ In the air, landing with set muscles
which rebounded like rubber. Even
SO. the receiver was upon him before
he could rise, reaching for the young
mans throat with his heavy hands
Roy recognized the fatal strange
hold and. selling his enemy's wrists
endeayored to tear them apart, but
his left hand was useless, so with
! mighty wrench he freed himself. and
locked in each others arms, the mer
strained and swayed about the Office
| till their neck veins were bursting
their muscles paralyzed.
Men may fight duels calmly, may
shoot or parry or thrust with cold de
liberation, but when there comes the
lar Of body to body, the sweaty con
tact of skin to skin, the play Of iro1
muscles, the painful gasp Of exhaus
tion-then the mind goes skitterin'
back into its dark recesses while ev
cry venomous passion leaps forth from
its hiding place and joins in the horrit
war.
/ They tripped across the floor, crash
ing into the partition, which split
showering them with glass. They fel
and rolled In IT, then, by consent
wrenched themselves apart rose, eye
to eye, their jaws hanging. their lung:
wheeling, their faces trickling BLOOD
and sweat. Roy's left hand panied hin
overwhelmingly, while McNamara's mac
Grated lips had turned outward in {
hideous pout. They crouched so for al
instant, cruel, bestial-then clinchet
| again. The Office fittings were wrecked