Arizona republican., 1911-04-30
DANIEL TANK AND THE
UNFINISHED FIGHT
BY p. c. Macfarlane.
Copyright. 1909. by the Pearson Pub
fishing Company
Continued from Yesterday


Now" he bawled, fereely. Have
you got your revenge? Have you hu-
inflated me enough? You charge me
with takin' bride. You try me be-
hind my back, in the Grand Jury room.
and you find me guilty without givin'
/ ne chance (The crowd did not
know Tank had been before the Grand
! Jury. True, they would know in an
hour. But Tank wanted that crowd.
now And then you come out here
and arrest Ire in the presence of my
fellow-citizens, the men grew up from
a boy with, right here on the Court
House steps where been talkin' to nv
friends and neighbors: the men have
helped. and the men at have helped
me. But that amt enough. You send
man 10 arrest me who is the worst
enemy | got in the whole organization
this man Big" Campbell. Every
body knows how it is between him and
me. and you send him TO arrest me.
You didn't need to arrest me at all.
| amt goin' to run away. You know
that. / got friends here. I got prop
erty interests here. love this old
town. I'm Twin here and I'm goin' to
die here. They charge me with takin'
bride. But that amt enough. They
indict me. And then they arrest me
here-not privately in my own office
They could found me easy enough
God knows ! never hid from a Twin
man or woman. But that wouldn't do
EN-. That don't satisfy the personal
spite Of these outs that wants 10 get
in. So they not only want to get me
rrt hut h..rr
and disgrace me and disgrace my fam
lily" CTank's family was. so far as
his audience knew, a negligible guam
tity. but the appeal was good with this !
Unthinking mass)
And now | want 10 tell you my last
word" and here his voice rose to a .
hoarse scream. don't know what /
you all think of this" He was ian
Cling the handouts and shaking his /
clenched fists menacingly Il don't I.
know what you think, but / think it's /
a damned outrage"
A sullen roar Of approval burst from
half the crowd
No mans liberty" he continued
amt safe with this hungry wolf
chasin things down" Tie nodded tC
Dunne.) II was only yesterday this
man was in my Office takin' advice
from me, and givin' me some, and 10
day he's spyin' on me. and arrestin
me, and handcuain' me. and l want tc
tell him" Tank seemed working al
his handouts His face grew red with
the exertion. His huge shoulders were
bent over. His face was half hidden
from the crowd. and his voice sounded
smothered. as he grunted out in great,
sobbing syllables. the measure OF his
final burst of wrath want TO tell
iim-here before you that though
he's trapped me (another mighty
tug that he can't cage met"
As he roared out the words Tanks
mighty shoulders We're Strengthened,
his flaming face was lifted high: the
chain that bound the handouts to-
gether had parted He was shaking ;
his clenched hands above his head /
whirling them wildly. with the jan
Cling bits of broken chain an eloquent
testimonial to the mans almost super
human strength.
They don't make 'em strong enough !
to hold me-" he was shrieking. I'm !
break EN-! I'll break EN-! And"
with leap at Big " Campbell" I'll
break the man that tries 10 break me"
He seized Campbell with one hand
at his throat and. the other at the back
of his neck In the parOXysm of his /
rage he lifted him clear and shook him
like mannikin, then hurled him clear
of the steps over the heads into the
crowd, which had become a seething
mass OF cheering, yelling men that
milled round and round like a restless
band of cattle s
AS Big" Campbell fell. Tank stood. n
breathing quickly, looking over the t
crowd For a few seconds of dramatic e
he was still, and the crowd s
instantly hushed 10 hear what he 7
would say His voice sounded like the Il
low mutterings of distant thunder
after the storm had passed. Y
"Mr Dunno" he said, has APP \
pealed to the law I. too. invoke the a
law. stand here a prisoner OF the
law. appeal to that law TO do me
Justice, to set me free, to give me back
70 my friends and to my good name.
| stand by the law and by the courts
and by the officers of the courts. | al L
ways have. Go to your homes. What
ever you do. don't knock your own
town. Leave that to them that likes
o. | don't. and | won't. Remem- n
Der" his voice was solemn almost re- 7
ined, in the stiffness" the law has \
made me prisoner. The law must set "
ne free"
II was the last. supreme play OF r;
A full half OF the crowd h
,heered heartily. but there were also fl
GERS and Kisses Il
The throng was swirllng, shifting, a
mass, with a half-dozen n
nen trying to address ii from various l!
POINTS of vantage and with hundred
Irguing knots Of men sown here and NJ
here throughout il. Soon It crumbled d
Il the edges. then broke in two, and re- p
ivided into smaller gatherings and
hese into groups that jostled onto
treet cars. drifted into nearby saloons
IT moved chattering down the streets
o buy for a penny the story Of the
rama which had just been enacted be- =,
ore their eyes.
Soon the Court House yard was g