Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-10
/ CHAPTER XXI "a:
The Sunset /. Gun
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Copyrights b. Charles Scribner,s Soos

Mr.. Cartwright sat back in hi. chair.
nd once more Brouillard saw In the
hndy-gray eyes the look which had
een In tho sons eyes when the dere-
lot fought for freedom to finish killing
stephen Massingale.
TITS I pretty dangerous thing to try
% hold man up unless you've got the
lrop on him, Brouillard," he said sig
hincantly. 1--WE got you covered from
ny pocket; I've had you covered that
way ever since you began to buck and
ear on me couple of months ago.
Dne little wire word to Washington
xes you for good and all. If I say the
Ford, you'll stay on your Job Just as
! png as 1t will take another man to get
lere to supersede you"
Brouillard laughed.
1.-THE pocket drop is never very safe,
Mr.. Cartwright. You are likely to lose
Too much time feeling for the proper
range. Then, too, you can never be
sure that you won't miss. Also. your
assumption that I'm taking an un-'
armed mans chance IL wrong. can
kill you before you can pull the trig-
ger Of the pocket gun you speak Of
kill you 80 dead that you won't need
anything but = coroner's fury and
CONN. How long would it take you to
get action in the Washington matter,
DO You thinks
rive told you; you have Just about
! . week longer to live, at the farthest."
II can better that" was tho cool
reply. ,"I have asked you to do GER
tain thing tomorrow night. II you don't
do it, the Spotlight will print on the
following morning, that letter spoke
of-the letter from my friend in the
bureau Of land statistics. When that
letter is printed everybody in Mirapo-
! lis will know 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 and stood leaning heavily with
his fat hands, palms downward. on the
aat.topped desk. His cheeks were
pulled ont and the bitten mustaches
Abristled like the whiskers Of gray old
leader ofsthe timber wolves.
.Brouillard," he grated huskily,
does this mean that you're breaking
with us, once for all?"
ut means more than that; 10 means
that I have reached . point at which
am ashamed to admit that there was
ever anything to break"
Then listen: You've helped this
thing along as much as, or more than,
anybody else In this town; and there
are men right here in Mirapolis-
plenty of 'em-who will kill you like a
rat in hole If you 90 back on them
n you are threatening to. Don't you
know THAR"
The younger man was balancing the
paper cutter across his finger.
THAT is the least Of my worries"
he answered, speaking slowly. II am
all sorts Of q moral coward, suppose:
rye proved that often enough in the
past few months, God knows. But I'm
not the other kind. Mr.. Cartwright"
"Then I'll take hand!" snarled the
tyrant at bay. 'I'll spend a million dol
lars, II / have to, blacklisting you from
one end Of this country to the otherl
I'm AZ It so you'll never build any
thing bigger than hog pen again -
long az youlive! I'll publish your REQ
prd wherever there is newspaper to
print it!'' He pounded on the desk
with his flst-'1Il do it--money can
do It'll More than that, you'll never get
p smell Of that Chigringo mine-you
nor Dave MassingAlei"
Brouillard tossed the paper-knife in.
to q halfopened drawer and squared
himself 1t the plotting pad.
THAT is your challenge, is 1T" hc
said CURLY. 80 be it. Start your
machinery. You win 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 IL you don't
hurry, Mr.. Cartwright. III get you first.
SAre You going7 One thing more-and
lt's . Kindness; get your son out of
town before this Massingale matter
ZONES up for adjustment. 1t will be
safer"
rs that all you have to say?"
"Pretty nearly oil, except to tell you
that your time II growing short. and
you and those who are in with you had
better begin to set your houses in or
der. II you'll come over here at eight
o'clock tomorrow night prepared to do
khe square thing by David Massingale.
In withhold the publication of that
letter which will stamp you and your
Associates as criminals before the law;
but that Is the only concession I shall
make"
You've got to make at least one
tnore!" stormed the outgoing magnate.
fYou 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, shall
na'fs to do that very thing" returned
tne engineer firmly 1.-THE notice will
apl1ear In tomorrow's Spotlight
was the final straw in the stocky
Promoters crushing wrath burden, His
rat face turned purple, and for sec
ond a. two he ciawed the air. xaspins
for breath. Brouillard sat hack in his
cnair waiting for the volcanic up
heavsl But II did not come. When he
mao rsgained . MEASURE OF seiI.controii