The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-04-20
! CHAPTER XXI \
The Sunset Gun

and once more 3rcuillard saw in thu
sandy-gray eyes the look which has
been in the sons eyes when the dere
Iict fought for freedom to finish killinl
Stephen Massingale.
Its a pretty dangerous thing to try
to hold man up unless you've got thu
drop OF him Brouillari." he said sig
nificantly. "lve got you covered froT
my pocket: I've had you covered that
way ever since you began to buck and
rear or rae couple OF moths ago
One little wire word TO Washington
fixes you for good and all If say the
word, you'll stay on your job Just as
long as 1t viii take another man to get
here to superse!e YOU"
Brouillard laughed.
THE pocket drop is never very safe.
Mr.. Cartwright. You are likely to lose
too much tiIne feeling fer the proper
range Then, too, you car never be
sure that you won't miss Also. your
assumption that I'm taking an un-
armed mans chance is wrong. | can
kill you before you can pull the trig-
ger Of the pocket gun you speak az
kill you so dead that you won't need
anything but a coroner's jury and a
coffin. Hcw long would it take you to
get action in the Washington matter
do you thiEk?"
I've told you; you have Just about
week longer to live. at the farthest."
81 can better that was the cool
reply. Il have asked you to d. GER
tain thing tomorrow night If you don't
do It, the Spotlight will print, on the
following morning, that letter | spoke
of-the letter from Lay friend in the
bureau OF land statistics When that
letter is printed everybody in Mirap5-
lis will knew that you and your accom-
plices are plain swindlers. amenable to
the criminal law. and from that mo-
ment there will never be another real
estate transfer in the Niquoia valley"
The promoter rose slowly out of his
chair ari stood leaning heavily with
his fat hands, palms downward. On the
fiat-tcpped desk. HIS cheeks were
pulled out and the bitten mustaches
bristled like the whiskers of gray old
leader Of the ti,rter wolves.
'Brouillard" he grated huskily.
does this mean that you're breaking
with us. once for all?"
1T means mere than that; II means
that have reached point at which |
ara ashamed TO admit that there was
ever anything to break"
Then listen: You've helped this
thing along as much as, or mere than,
anybody else in this town; and there
are men right here in Mirapolis-
plenty Of 'em-who win kill you like
rat IN a hole II you go back IN then
as you are threatening to. Don't you
know that"
The younger man was balancing the |
paper cutter across his finger.
THAT is the least Of my worries"
he answered. speaking slowly. Il an
all sorts Of a moral coward. suppose;
I've proved that often enough in the
past few months. God knows But I'm
not the other kind. Mr.. Cartwright"
"Then I'll take haad!" snarlei the
tyrant at bay. "Ill spend a r,illicn dol
lars, II have to, Slacklisting you from
one end OF this country to the other'
I'll fix It so you'll never build any
thing bigger than a hog pen again as
long as you livel I'll publish your rec
ord wherever there is newspaper to
print it," He pounded on the desk
with his fist-'Ill do it-money can
do it More than that, you'll never get
smell of that Chigringo mine-you
nor Dave Massingale!"
Brouillard tossed the paper-knife In
to half-opened drawer and squared
himself at the blotting pad.
That is your challenge is it?" he
said CURLY. so he it. Start your
machinery. You will doubtless get
me. not because you have money, but
because for time | was weak enough
and wicked enough to climb down and
stand on your level But II you don't
hurry, Mr.. Cartwright. III get you first.
Are you going? One thing more-and
It's kindness; get your son out OF
town before this Massingale matter |
comes up for adjustment 1t win be
safer"
is that all you have TO say?"
fretty nearly all, except to tell you
that your time is growing short, and {
you and those who are In with you had {
better begin to set your houses in or
der. IL you'll come over here at eight
O'Clock tomorrow night prepared to do {
the square thing by David Massingale, {
III withhold the publication of that !
letter which will stamp you and your
associates as criminals before the law;
but that is the only concession l shall
make"
You've got to make at least one
more!" stormed the outgoing magnate.
you don't have to set any dates or
anything of that kind for your damned
drowning act!"
I'm justice to good many people
who are measurably innocent, l shall
have to do that very thing" returned
the engineer firmly. "The notice will
appear in tomorrow's Spotlight"