The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-12
"Tn kin your cried Mcnamara.

"I'll kill yOu," cried Mcnamara.
Glenister laid his six shooter upon the
safe and slipped of his own wet gar
ment. The difference was more mark
ed now and the advantage more
strongly with the receiver. Though
they had avoided aIlusion to II, each
knew that this fight had nothing 10
do with the Midas and each realized
whence sprang their fierce enmity.
And it was meet that they should
come toPether thus. 1t had been the
one certain and logical event which
they had felt inevitably approaching
from long back And 1t was fittin"
moreover. that they should fight alone
and unwitnessed, armed only with the
weapons of the Wilderness for they
were both of the far, free lands, We're
both of the fighters type and had
both warred for the first great prize
They met ferOciously. Mcnamara
aimed a fearful blow, but Glenister
met him squarely, beating him off
cleverly. stepping in and out, his
arms swinging loosely from his Shout
ders like whaebone withes tipped with
lead. He moved lightly, his footing
made doubly secure by reason of his
soft sOled mukluks. Recognizing his
opponents 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
1e han nd 10 HStC
went wild then, before the arms
could grasp him, the miner had brok
en- ground and whipped another blow
across, but Mcnamara was a boxer
himself, so covered and blocked it.
The politician spat through his mash
ed lips and rushed again, sweeping
his opponent from his feet. Again
Glenister's fist shot forward like Il
lump of granite, but the other came Oh
head down and the blow finished too
high, landing ON the big mans brow
A sudden darling agony paralyzcd |
Roy's hand, and he realized that he
had broken the metacarpal bones and |
that henceforth 1t 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. fling
p II s e e that nd a a fa @Ss force roe
low, but the youth squirmed catlike
in the air. landing with set muscles
which rebounded like rubber. Even
i'm no I
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,
to tear them apart, but
his left hand was useless, so with a
mighty wrench he freed himself, and.
locked in each others arms, the men
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 iron
muscles, the painful gasp of exhaus
ion--then the mind goes Suffering
pack into its dark recesses while ev-
Try venomous passion leaps forth from
is hiding place and joins in the horrid I
var.
They tripped across the floor, crash
ng into the partition, which split,
them with glass. They fell
md rolled in it, then, by consent,
themselves apart, rose, eye
o eye, their jaws hanging their lungs
Vheezing, their faces trucking blood ,
nd sweat. Roys left hand panied him
while McNamara's mac
rated lips had turned outward in a
ideous pout. They crouched so for IN
Instant, cruel, bestial-then clinched
gain. The office fittings were wrecked I,
tterly, and the room became a litter :,
( ruins. The mems garments fell ;.
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