The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1917-08-31
CHAPTER XVII.


! ne he0aloHanlaC.
SIxty-0dd hours before thc expiration
~ the time limit, hartley Williams.
lean and sombcr-cycI from the strain
be hid been under for many days aud
lights, saw the presidents gray road
ster plowtng it's way through the mesa
sand on The approach 10 the conStruc,
ltan famp and was stath'
= - tfS9r4 .ts,Nr tfs4fs Mt NV. faati,SasisS
squeeze out time to get into town. h"
told Baldwin, when the roadster came
! to stand Ia front Of the shack com
mlssAry Where Is SMITH
The colonel threw up his hand In Il
gesture expressive OF complete detaeh-
mcnt.
Don't ask me John has gone plumb
loco In these last two or three days,
It's rs much rs your HES worth To
ask him where he has been or where
he Is going or what he means 10 do
next"
Gle hasn't stopped fghtingT snli
! the engineer. half aghast NJ the bare
possibility.
"Oh, no; h. Is at II harder than
ever going 1t just shaving toe
strong, Is what I'd tell him. II he'd let
me get near enough 10 shout 81 HIN.
Last night after the thentcr. he went
around TO the Herald otlicc and the
way they're talking ii on the street,
, he WAS aiming 10 shoot IN the whole
newspaper joint II Mark Allen, the eas'
| tor, wouldn't take back II bunch Of the
! lies he's been publishing about the
HIGH Line Il wound up In n scrap
OF some sort. don't know who got
the worst of II, but John isn't crippled
( M my, to speak Of, this morning--only
In his temper"
Williams shook his head. 81 guess
Wen have to stand for the Crouch. II
he'll only keep busy He hns the hot
eud OF II. We couldn't very well get
along without him, right now colonel,
With nil due respect TO you and the
mpmhers Of the hoard, he t. the fight
ing backbone Of the whole outfit
Gle Is that" was BaldwIu's ready
admission. lie Is just what we've
: nCrn eating f.u from thr fr-t, Bart
/ Icy--a thrce.ply, dycd-ln-the-wool Wen
der In hts speciality. He Is fighting
/ now Ike man Ia the last ditch, and
| believe he thtnks he Is IN the last
altch."
ut viii be only two days more,
| saii ,hr engineer saving II as one who
has been counting The days In Keen
anxiety. And then: "StjlljnGs told me
Yesterday that were not .oioE 10 get
I'M extension Of the time llmit from the
state authorities"
No: that httlc Are went out blink
lust rs Smith said IL would. stanton i,
hackers have the political puli-An the
state AS well as In Washington. They're
going 70 hold US ~ the letter ~ the
law"
( Let EN- do II. Wen win out yet
Il We don't run up against one or both
VI the only two things I'm afraid OF
now high water, or the railroad call
down"
THE railroad -rah' Have you heart
anything mora about that?"
! THAT is what was trying &c rct K
town for, Il talk the railroad bushes,
over with yen and Sui'ings and Smith
They've had a gang here this morn
ing bunch " engineers, with (
stranger, who gave his name as Hal
lowell m charge. They claimed ~ b
verifying the old survey and llaliowc,
uot.eyl me- formally that ogr darn Stno,
squage,y In their right * way for ;
bridge crossing ~ the v,ycr,"
'srhey dtan' serve my papers o.
yoa. Hd they 80 inquired the colone
anNiau>'y,
No. the noy!cc was verbal III
Ua'looel, wound W with threat. II
Sal5, You've had due warning legal,
aud otherwise Mr. Williams This {
, our rich; q way, bou.h, aud Taid III
: US We can prove when the matter eet
, int the courts, You mustn't be sur
yr.sa,i ii we take whatever stgpS ma
, he necessary 20 recover what belong
, 70 Us"
, "Force1" Queried the Mssour!ar
; with a gin; % the border fighters FIR