Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-11-21

| lHc s'll HSAcHeu WIFI ctplrc Sell coh-
troll until her uncle made a reference
TO Glcnlstcr that she found intolerable.
Flush. | will not listen" she cried
passionatcly. 81 warned him because
you would have sacrificed him after he
had saved our lives. That is all. He
Is an honest man, and am grateful TO
him. That ia the only foundation for
your Insult
Mcnamara, with apparent candor,
broke In:
"You thought you were doing right,
of course. but your action will have
terrible consequences. Now we'll have
riot, bloodshcd and heaven knows
| what 1t was to save all this that |
wanted to break up their organization.
A weeks Imprisonment would have
| done II. but now they're armed and
bcllgorent. and Wen have n battle to-
! night"
mo, no." she cried "Thore mustn't
be any violence"
"Thcre Is no usc 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 shame FOR they are do
cent fellows blinded by ignorance and
miSlcd 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 warninR-the sooner the bet
ter. If know those vigllantes. 1t 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 he'll
has moved north
"Mr. Marshal" said he to his tool,
81 want you TO gather forty men quiet
~ and to arm them with Winchesters
They must be fellows who won't faint
at blood. You know the kind. Assem-
bic them at my Office after dark. one
at time, by the back way. 1t must
be done with absolute secrecy. Now,
SEE IL you can do this one thing and
not get ballcd mp. II you fail, III
make you answer TO me-"
"Why don't you get the troopsT
veutured Voorhees,
"If there's one thing want to avoid
It's soldiers. either here or at the
mines When they step in, we step
out, and I'm not ready for that just
yet the receiver smiled sinisterly
Helen meanwhile had fed to her
room and there received Glerister's
no;e through Cherry Malotte's mes
sengcr. It rekindled her worst fears
and bore out McNamara's prophecy.
The more she read of it the more
certain she grew that the crisis was
only question of hours and that with
darkness tragedy would walk the
streets of Nome The thought OF the
wrong already done was lost in the
lonely girls terror of the crime about
to happen. for it seemed to her she had
been the instrument to set these forces
I'm motion, that she had loosed this
swift speeding avalanche of greed
hatred and brutality. And when the
crash should come--the girl shuddered.
It must not be. She woulS shrek n
warning from the housetops even at
cost Of her uncle. of Mcnamara and of
herself And yet she had no proof that
n crime esiq,ed Although II all Law
clear In her own mind. the certainty
of It arose only from her intuition.
If ONLY she were able to take hand
If only she were not woman. Then
Cherry Nlalotte's words anent Struve
required 10 her. "a bottle Of wine and
woman's face" They brought bnck
the lawyers assurance that those doc
umon-s she had safcgunrded nil
through the long srrlnrtime Journey
really contained the proof. If they
did. then they hcld the power to check
this impending conflict Her uncle
and the boss Woull not dare continue
if threaten with exposure and prose
cutiop. The more she thought of il
tn. more urgput seemed the necessity
was Il chance here nj least. and the
ONLY ono.
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+ha c,r.,,,t .,ei.,,. ~ ,1,t Coco IN +ho
crrtoin4 M tho Nnvfbnrn If was bor
brother vet wbot mystery sbrouded
this affair also. What Ennt him from
her: What caused him 10 stink AWAY
like thirf disooyeredp She grow
dizzy and historical
STRIVE t,rned IN bis chair nc tho
door to his u,iyote Office onened then