The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-09-08

Brouillard shook his head. II don I
want to stop the retreat. I've heard
from President Ford. The entire west
tern division will hustle the business
of emptying the town, and the quicker
1t is done the sooner it will be over"
For a tumultuous week the fight
from the doomed city went on, and the
overtaxed single-track railroad wrought
miracles of transportation. Not until
the second week did the idea Of mate
rial salvage take root, but. once start
ed. 1t grew like Jonah's gourd. Hun
dreds of wrecking crews were formed.
1T begins to look a little better"
said Arson on the day in the third
week when the army of government
laborers began to strip the final forms
from the top Of the great wall which
now united the two mountain shout
ders and completely overshadowed
and dominated the dismantled town
IF the avenue would only take its
bunch and go, the agony would be
over"
ut will be worse before it is better"
was the young chiefs prediction, and
the foreboding verified itself that
night. Looting of more or less brazen
sort had been going on from the first.
and by nine O'Clock of the night OF
prediction loosely organized mob OF
drink-maddened terrorists was drifting
from street to street, and there were
violence and incendiarism to follow.
Though the property destruction
mattered little, the anarchy 1t was
breeding had to be controlled. Brouil-
lard and Leshington got out their re-
serve force and did what they could to
restore some semblance of order. 1t
was little enough; and by ten O'Clock
the amateur policing of the city had
reduced itself to a double guarding OF
the dam and the machinery, and
cordoning Of the Metropole, the re-
clamation service buildings, and the
Spotlight Office. For Harlan, the dash
of sporting blood in his veins assert
ing itself, still stayed on and continued
to issue his paper.
II said ! wanted to be in at the
death, and for few minutes tonight /
thought l was going to be-" he told
Brouillard, when the engineer had
posted his guards and had climbed the
stair to the editorial office. Then he
asked a question: When is this little
hell-on-earth going to be finally extin-
guished, Victor?"
Instead of answering, Brouillard put
a question Of his own: did you know
that Cartwright and Schermerhorn and
Judge Williams came back this eve
ming, Harlan?"
81 did," said the newspaper man.
They are registered at the Metropole
as large as life
whats up?"
"That is what I'd like to know.
There's a bunch of strangers at the
too, sheriffs posse, |
Poodles thinks; at least, there is a
deputy from Red Butte with the
,rowd."
Harlan tilted back in his chair and
scanned the ceiling reflectively. This
hing is getting on my nerve, old man.
wish we could clean the slate and all |
20 home"
''It is going to be cleaned. Notices |
will be posted tomorrow warning !
that the waste-gates will be
losed promptly on the date adver-
ised."
When is 1t? Things have been re-
diving too rapidly to let me remember
UGH a trivial item as date"
1T is the day after tomorrow. at
oon"
The owner of the Spotlight nodded.
Let her go. Gallagher. I've got every
hing on skids. even the presses. Au
svoir-or perhaps one should say, Au
sservoir.''
Fresh shoutings and a cracking of
istols arose in the direction of the
laza, and Brouillard got up and went
ouse burnings doomed against the
,mber background of Jacks noun
in.
"Senseless savages!" he muttered,
i'd then went back to the editor. 81
mt like this Cartwright reappear-
ice, Harlan. l wish l knew what 1t
cans" !
Lets see," said the newsman {
oughtfully; what is there worth {
king that they didn't take in the :
i've Qui peut? By Jove-say! Did G
/ David Massingale get out of j. I
esley's clutches before the lightning 6
-uck?" =
II wish could say Yes, and be sure t
1t" was the sober reply You knew t
out the thieving stock deal, or what {
u didn't know / told you. Well, c
d Massingale, as president. call . s
'eting of directors-which never Il
It. Afterward. acting under legal s
vice, he went on working the mine. 0
he's been working 1t ever since, d
pping good bit of ore now and s.
N, when he could squeeze 1T in be- u
cen the getaway trains. or course.
re Is bound to be = future OF some /,
t; but that is the present condition d
Affairs m
How about those notes in the bank? =
ISN'T Massingale personally involved +;
some way?" r,
,rouillard bounded out Of his chair \