Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-02

mess you've made! If had even one
helper with brain the size of flax
seed, this game would be a gift. but
you've bungled from the start. Bah:
Put a spy in the bull-pen with those
prisoners and make them talk. Offer
them anythine for information. Now
get out!"
He called for certain deputy and
questioned him regarding the nights
quest, remarking finally:
There's treachery somewhere.
Those men were warned
Nobody came near Glenister's
house except, Miss Chester" the man
replied.
"What?"
"The judges niece. We caught her
by mistake in tn dark"
Later, one of the men who had been
with Voorhees, at the Northern asked
to see the receiver and told him:
The chief won't believe that I saw
Miss Chester in the dance hall last
night but she was there with Clients
ter. She must have put him wise to
our game or he wouldn't have known
we were after him.
~, u,
when alone. rose and paced the floor
with heavy tread while his face grew
savage and brutal.
$50 that's the game, Ell? It's man
to man from now on. Very we'll,
Glenfster I'll have your life for that,
and then-you'll pay, Miss Helen" He
considered carefully. A plot for a plot.
If he could not swap intrigue VITA
these miners and beat them badly, he
deserved to lose. Now that the girl
gave herself to their cause he would
use her again and see how we'll she
answered. Public opinion would not
stand too great strain, and, although
he had acted within mis- rights last
night, he dared not go much further.
Diplomacy, therefore, must serve. He
must force his enemies beyond the
law and into his trap. She had passed
the word once; she would do SO again
He hurried to Stillmans house and
stormed into the presence of the judge.
He told the story SO artfully that the
judges astonished unbelief yielded to
rage and cowardice, and he sent for
his niece She came down. white and
silent, having heard the loud voices.
The old man berated her with shrew-
ish fury, while Mcnamara stood silent,
The girl listened with entire self-con-
troll until her uncle made a reference
to Glenister that she found intoler-
able.
Hush! I will not listen. she cried,
passionately. II warned MIN because
you would have sacrificed him after
he had saved our lives That is ALL
He is an honest man, and am CRATE
full to him. That is the only foundation
for your insult"
Mcnamara, with apparent candor,
broke in:
You thought you were doing right,
terrible consequences. Now we'll have
riot, bloodshed, and heaven knows
what. It was to save all this that l
wanted to break UP their organization.
A weeks imprisonment would have
done 1t, but now they're armed and
belligerent and We'll have battle to-
night"
No, moi" she cried. There muslin
be any violence"
There Is no use trying to check
them. They are rushing to their own
destruction have learned that they
plan to attack the Midas tonight, and
I'll have fifty soldiers waiting for them
there. 1t is u shame, for they are de.
cent fellows. blinded by ignorance and
misled by that young miner. This will
be the blacklist night the north has
ever seen"
With this Mcnamara left the house
and went in search Of Voorhees,, re-
marking to himself: Now, Miss
Helen-send your warning-the sooner
the better. If l know those Vigilants IS
it will set them crazy. and yet not
crazy enough to attack the Midas
They will strike for me, and when
they hit my poor, unguarded Office,
they'll think hell has moved north"
Mr. Marshal" said he to his tool,
81 want you to gather forty men quiet.
ly and to arm them with Wnchesters
They must be fellows who won't faint
at plood-you know the kind. Assem-
Bile them at my Office after dark, one
at q time, by the back way. 1t must
be done with absolute secrecy. Now,
see If you can do this one thing and
not get balled up If you fail, I'll make
you answer to me-
Why don't you get the troops?"
ventured Voorhees,.
II there's one thing kwant to avoid,
it's soldiers, either here or at the
mines. When they step Mn. we step
out. and I'm not ready f6r that inst