The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-02-17
CHAPTER Aforementioned.
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The men are still holding out?"
We are holding out. The plant Is
closed, and 1t will stay closed until
We a get another force OF work.
men"
There will be lots of suffering" she
ventured.
ITS no use." he said. answering her
thought. There is nothing in me TO
appeal to-"
There was yesterday, or the day be.
fore" she suggested.
Perhaps. But yesterday was yes.
terday, and today is today. As ! told
Raymer n little while ago. I've changed
my mind"
NO" she denied, you only think
you have. But you didn't come here
to tell me that?"
mo; came 10 ask n single ques.
ton. How is Mr.. Galbraith?"
He Is a very sick man
You ear that there is a chance
that he may not recover"
More than a chance, I'm afraid"
After a m OF silence Griswold
said. Il did my best; you know | did
my best?"
Her answer puzzled him a little.
Il could almost find II In my heart
10 hate you II you hadn't"
Silence again. broken only By the
whispering OF the summer night
breeze rustling the leaves OF the lawn
oaks and the lappings OF tiny waves
on the lake beach. At the end OF IL.
Gri5wold got up and CROPPED for his
hat.
I'm going home" he said. III has
oeen a pretty strenuous day. and there
Is another n coming. But before
40 ! want you to promise me one
thing. VIII you lee me know imme.
diatciy. by phone or messenger. II Mr..
Galhraith takes a turn for the better?"
Certainly" she said; and she let
him say goodnight and get as far as
the steps before she called him back
There was another thing" she be.
gan, with the sober gravity that he
could never be sure was not one OF
her many poses. and not the least al.
nring one. DO you believe In God.
Keuneth?"
The query took him altogether by
surprise, but he made shift 10 answer
IL With becoming seriousness.
II suppose ] do. Why"
1T Ia a time TO pray to him. she
said softly; ITO pray very earnestly
that Mr.. Galbraith's life may be
spared"
he could not let that stand.
Why should | concern myself, spe.
eially?" he asked. adding "Of course,
I'm sorry, and all that, but"
Never mind" she ~interposed, and
she left her chair to walk beside him
to the steps. I've had a hard day.
too. Kenneth. boy, and IL guess It has
got on my nerves. But, all the same,
you ought TO do II. you know"
He stopped and looked down into
the eyes whose depths he could never
wholly fathom.
why don't you do IT." he demand.
ed.
81? oh, God doesn't know me: and.
besides, ! thought-oh. well, II doesn't
matter what | thought. Goodnight"
And before he could return the
ieave-taking word. she was gone.
Raymer's prediction that the real
trouble would begin when the ATTEMPT
should be made to start the plant with
imported workmen was amply fulfilled
during the militant week which fol.
lowed the opening OF hostilities. Each
succeeding day saw the inevitable In.
crease OF lawlessness. From taunts
and abuse the insurrectionarlas passed
easily 10 violence, Street fights. when
the trampish place.takers came in any
considerable numbers, were Of daily
occurrence, and the tale Of the wound.
ed grew like the returns from n bat.
tie. BY the middle Of the week Ray.
mer and Girls wold were asking for a
sheria's posse to maintain peace in
the neighborhood OF the plant; and
we're getting their first definite hint
that someone higher up was playing
the game OF politics against them.
mo, gentlemen; I've done all the
law requires and a little more" was
the sherin's response TO the plea for
better protection.
"In other words. Mr.. Bradford.
you've got your orders from the men
higher up, have your" rasped Girls.
void, who was by this time lost 10
all sense OF e~xpedieney.
Il don't hav" to reply to any such
charge as that" said the CHIEF peace OF.
fcer, turning back TO his desk; and so
the brittle little conference ended.
"All OF which means that we shall
lose the plant guard OF deputies that
Bradford has been maintaining" com.
mented Raymer, as they were de-.
scending the courthouse stairs; and
again his prediction came true. Later
In the day the guard was withdrawn:
and Griswold. savagely reluctant. was