The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-18

Nicholson % Fire him out here
"Sure there's no one here you
want
"we know all about that" eried
Rucker. breaking in. 'We want the
scab.' He pushed her back and crowd
ed into the door after her.
The room was dark, but the fright
was too great for Mrs Mullenix, and
she cried to McTerza to leave the
ment some one tore down the curtains;
the glow Of the burning yards lit the
room, and out Of the gloom, behind the
lunch counter. almost at her elbow-a
desperate sight they told me-pant-
ing, blood stained. and torn, rose Nc
Terra. His fingers closed over the
grip on the bread. knife on the shelf be
side him.
"Who wants me1' he cried, leaning
over his breastwoTk
'Leave my housei For the love OF
God. leave it, screamed Mrs. Null
lenix, wringing her hands, The scab
| leaped across the counter, knife in hand.
| Nicholson and Rucker bumped into
each other mt the suddenness of it, but
before McTerza could spring again
there was a cry behind.
"He shan't leave this housel' And
Kate Muleuix. her face ablaZe, strobe
sharply forward. ''He shan't leave this
house'' she cried again, turning OH
her mother. Leave this house, after
he IS Just pulled your boy from under
their cowardly clubs! Leave it for who9
He shan't 90 out. Burn 1T over our
headsl' she cried passionately, wheel.
| ing on the rioters. when he goes we III
90 with him. It's you that want him,
Curtis Rucker, is it? Come, get him,
you coward! There he stands. Take
him! -
Her voice rang like fire-bell. Ruck-
| er, burnt by her words, would have
thrown himself on McTerza, but Nichol-
son held him back There never would
have been but one issue if they had met
then.
"Come awayl' called the older man
hoarsely. "It s not women we re after
She's an engineers wife, Curt; this is
her shanty. Come away. / say and
saying he pushed Rucker and their coy:
ote following out of the door ahead Of
forward to lock the door, AS they ran
, back, McTerza, spent with blood,
dropped between them. So far as l can
learn, that is where the courtship be-
gan, right there and then--and as Nc
: Terra says. all along of Sinkers. for
Sinkers was always Kate's favorite
brother as he is McTerza s. now:
:. SllkeTS Udl tlEao lbulliHS
after the clubbing. Polacks hit hard:
There was brain fever and no end, OF
trouble before he came out Of it, but
I, Sinkers was tough, and be pulled
through, only to think more OF Me
Terra than of the whole executive
staff.
At least that is the beginning of the
! courtship as 7 got it There was never
] any more trouble about serving the new
men at the short order house that !
3 ever heard; and after part of us got
back to work we ate there side by side
l with them. McTerza got his coffee out
: of the hot tank, too, though he always
!, insisted on paying twenty-five cents a
: cup for II. even after he married Kate
e and had kind of an interest in the
4 business.
s It was not until then that he made
e Good his early threat. Sirkers being
z promoted for the toughness Of his
t skull thought he could hold up one end
t of the family himself and McTerza eX
!, nressed confidence in his ability to take
! care of the other; so. finarr an
V through his rersuasions. the short or
a der house was closed forever. It's cotfe'
: today is like the McCloud riots-only a
0 stirring memory,
S As FOR McTerza. it is queer, but ne
r never suffered after that night; no'
!. even at the marriage service; he claims
g the inpedlment was scared out OF nm
1 Rnt that night made the reputation ~
McTerza a classic among the good men
nj McC1oud. McCloud has, IN truth
, many good men. but the head of the
nneh is generally conceded to he the
q husband of royal Kate Mulleni1-Jim
n ME McTerza.