The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-02-22

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 Il reference
10 Glenister that she found intolcrable
Hush. Nil not listen" she cried
passionatcly. II warned him because
YOU would have sacrificed him after he
had saved oar lives. That is all. lie
IL an honest man. and am grateful 10
him. That is the only foundation for
your insult"
Mcnamara, with apparent candor,
broke in:
"You thought YOU were doing right,
| OF course, hut your action will have
terrible consequences. Now well have
riot. bloodshcd and heaven knows
what II was to save all this that
wanted to break up their Organization.
\ weeks Imprisonment would have
done IL, but now they're armed and
belligerent, and wen have n battle to-
| night"
NO, no. she cried. There mustn't
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
Ill have fifty soldiers waiting for them
there. Ii is shame. for they are de-
cent fellows blinded by ignorance and
mlsled by that young miner. This will,
be the blacklist night the north has
ever seen" 4
With this Mcnamara let the house,
and went in search OF Voorhees,, re-
marking TO himself: "Now Miss Helen,
send your warning-the sooner the bet
ter. If know those vigilantes, 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 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 Ninchesters.
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 If you can do this one thing and
not get balled up. II you fail. I'll
make you answer 10 me-"
"Why don't you get the troopsT'
ventured Voorhees,.
IF there's one thing want to avoid,
It's soldiers, either here or az the
mines. When they step in, we step
out. and I'm not ready for that just
yet" The receiver smiled sinlsterly.
Helen meanwhile had fed 10 her
room and there received Glenister's
note through Cherry Malotte's mes
senger. 1t reklndled her worst fcsrs
and bore out McNamara's prophecy.
The more she read of II the more
certain she grew that the crisis was
only a 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 II seemed to her she had
been the instrument To set these forces
In motion, that she had loosed this
swift speeding avalanche Of greed,
hatred and brutality. And when the.
crash should come-the girl shudderedI
II must not be. She would shrek N
warning from the hOusetops even at
cost Of her uncle. of Mcnamara and of
herself And yet she had no proof tina d
crime existed Although Il all lay
clear In her own mind, the certainty
of II arose only from her intuition.
II only she were able 10 take hand
If only she were not a woman. Then
Cherry Malotte's words anent Strive
required TO her, "a bottle of wine and
woman's face" They brought back
the lawyers assurance that those doc
uments she had safeguarded all
through the long sprlngtime journey
really contained the proof. If they
did, then they held the power to check
this impending conflict. Her uncle
and the boss would not dare continue
II threatened with exposure and prose
cution. The more she thought OF II
the more urgent seemed the necessity
10 prevent tie battle OF tonight. There
was a chance here at least, and the
only one.