The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-09

ultimatum. which GriswoId hfmsef
snapped out at the leader of the con-
ciliatOrs: Tell your committee that
it is unconditional surrender, and it
must be made before five o'clock this
afternoon Otherwise, not a man of
you can come back on any terms
Then Griswold proceeded to make the
breach impossible by calling upon the
sher1n for a guard Of deputies Ray
mer shook his head gloomily.
THAT settles it beyond any hope of
a patch-up," he said sorrowfully. If
We hadn't declared war before, we've
done it now I'm prophesying that no
body will weaken when it comes to the
payroll test this afternoon
Because we have taken steps to
protect our property" rasped the
fighting partner.
Because We have taken the step
which serves notice upon them that we
consider them criminals, at least in
intention You'd resent it yourself,
Griswold- If anybody should pull the
law on you before you had done any
thing to deserve it, I'm much mistaken
if you wouldn't"
"Oh, hell" was the biting Interrupt
ton; and Raymer could not know upon
what inward fires he had unwittingly
flung a handful of inf1ammables.
Broffin was as sure now that Girls
void was his man as he was of his own
present inability to prove it. Hell
make miss-go, sooner or later" the
pertinacious one was saying to himself
as he strolled past the Raymer plant
with keen eye for the barred gates,
the lounging guards in the yard, and
the sober-faced workmen coming and
going at the pay Office. IF he can
carry steady head through what's
comm to him here, he's a better man
than I've been stacking him up to be"
Later, big, red-faced man with his
hat on the back of his head and a
paste diamond in his shirt bosom, came
to join the shifting group on the Of
fee sidewalk. Broffin marked him
The mans name was Clancy; he was
Chicago ward worker, sham labor
leader, demagogue; a bad man with a
pull" What chance had brought
the Chicago ward bully into village
labor fight he was not long in finding.
Clancy had come because he had been
hired to come. The remainder was
easy. The town gossips had supplied
all the major facts of the Raymer-
GriersOn checkmate, and Brofhn saw
a great light. 1t was not labor and
capital that were at odds; it was com
petition and monopoly. And monopoly,
invoking the aid of the Clancys, stood
to win in a canter.
Broffin dropped the stick he had
been whiting and got up to move
| away. Though some imaginative per-
sons would have it otherwise, a de-
tective may still be a man of like pas
| sions-and generous prepossessions-
with other men. For the time Broffin' s
Anglo-Saxon heritage. the love of fair
play, made him forget the limitations
of his trade. "By grapples, the old
swine!" he was muttering to himself
as he made slow circuit of the plant
| Enclosure. Somebody ought to tell
them two young ducks what they're up
against. For picayune, I'd do it, my
self. HuhI-and the little black-eyed
girl playin' fast an loose with both OF
EN- at once while the old money-octo-
| pus eats 'em aliyei"
Thus Broffin, circling the Raymer
works by way of the four enclosing
streets; and when his back was turned
the man called Clancy pointed him out
to the group of discontents.
Dye see that felly doublin' the
fence corner? Ye're fine lot of jays
up here in tn backwoods! Do know
him? Full well l do! An that shows