The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-12

/ sUnerEun1U Strength Tt ts
| ans rate. mar neither was culse. RI
Of the filling room, nor the cries rF
/ crowd. even when the marshal fbraei
/ himself through the wcl-7 door st
fell upon the nearest. which wa G.el-
ister He came NJ an instant when RI.
two had paused AZ arms length Slar-
/ ing with rage drunken eyes. gasUius
the labored breath back into their
lungs.
With a fling Of his long arms tie
young man hurled the Intruder a-!ds
so violently that his head struck tle
iron safe and he collapsed inscnsi's'c
Then without apparent notice Of the
interruption. the fight went on. II was
seen during this respite that McNl.
mara's mouth was running water rs
though he were deathly sick. while
every reich brought forth a sroan.
Helen heard herself crying. "S-oa
them, Stop Them But no one seemed
capable of interference. She heard her
brother muttering and his breath coln-
ing heavily like that of the fighters his
body swaying in time 10 theirs. The
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McNamara's distress was patent 10
his antagonist, who advanced upon
him with the hunger of promised vic
tory, but the young mans muscles
obeyed his commands sluggishly: his
ribs seemed broken. his back was
weak, and on the inner side of his legs
the flesh was Quivering As they came
together the boss reached up his right
hand and caught the miner by the face.
burying thumb and fingers crablike
into his cheeks forcing his slack jaws
apart thrusting his head backwa.'.
while he centered every ounce Of b
strength in the effort to MAIN. Rn-
felt the flesh giving way and f-"~
himself backward to break the no,
whereupon the other summoned i
wasting energy and plunged tow
the safe, where lay the revolver I
stinct warned Glenister of trcaclcr
told him that the man had sought ~
last resource to save himself, AMI +.
he saw him turn his back and r"ar'
for the weapon the youth leapel like
panther seiZiug him about the Wis.
grasping McNamara's wrist with l.
right hand. For the first time DUR
the combat they were not face to far
and on the instant Roy realized
advantage given him through the
er's perfidy, realized the wres,l1
hold that was his and knew that l.!
moment of victory was come.
The telling takes much time, but
quickly had these things happened tn
the footsteps Of the soldiers had ~
yet reached the door when the me
were locked beside the safe.
OF what happened next many g
bled accounts have gone forth, for
all those present none but the Broac
Kid knew its significance and ever -
counted the truth concerning it. Som
claim that the younger man was seized
with a fear of death which multiple
his enormous strength others that the
power died in his adversary as reward
for his treason, but 1t was not so.
No sooner had Roy encompassed Nc
Namara's waist from the rear than he
lid his damaged hand up past the 9th
,rs chest and around the back of his
heck, thus bringing his own left arm
lose under his enemy's left armpit
yedging the receivers head forward
While with his other hand he grasped
he politicians right wrist close to the {
evolver, thus holding him in a grasp {
which could not be broken Now came {
he test. The two bodies set them ,
elves rocklike and rigid. There wa
10 lunging about. Calling up the fin2l
tom of his strength, Glenister bore
ackward with his right arm, and il
became a contest for the weapon,
which, clutched in the two hands. j
waved back and forth or darted up +
nd down, the fury of resistance caus-
lg it to trace formless patterns in the
If with its muzzle. Mcnamara shook
afe and could not escape, his head d
owed forward by the lock Of the min
RS left arm. and so he strained till the .
reath clogged in his throat. Despite 2
lie grievous toll his right hand moved a.
ack slightly. His feet shifted a Bit
lille the blood seemed bursting froLi :"
Is eyes, but he found that the long
ngers encircling his wrist were ~. d.
yves weighted with the strength O. d
lie hills and the irresistible vigor o. OF
1uth which knew no defeat Slowl fc
oh by inch, the great mans arm wd
jagged back, down past his side. vii.
e stranging labor of his breath SHOW
at what awful cost. The ruz7lc e W
e gun described semicirc- and IL NJ
lotted hands began to tray~' iowa" lie
e left, more rapidly now, across his fir
Dad back. Still he struggled and n
but uselessly. He strove to
e the weapon, but his fingers were
oven about it so that the hammer III
ould not work Then the miner be- re
II forcing upward. be
ITO be Continuedl