Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-28

"rhsy Used to Call Me MOnty-soy."
and take punishment. and soul that
could drive both body and nerve to the
limit. Also, I've found out what it
means TO love n woman"
Stnrbuck checked the cars speed a
little more to keep IT well in the rear
of the ambling cavalcade.
That's your one best bet, john"
he said soberly.
1T Is. I've cleaned out another room
since you called me down back yonder
In the Little Creek road, Starbuck. I
rant trust my own leadings any more
they are altogether too primitive and
brutal so I'm going to take hers. She'd
send me into this fight that is just
ahead Of us, and all the other fights
hat are coming, with heart big
enough to take In the whole world.
She said I'd understand, some day
that I'd know that the only great man
Is one who Is too big to be little; who
can fight without hating; who can die
60 make good, If that is the only way
that offers"
"That's CORY Baldwin, every day
in the week, John. They don't make
'em any finer than she is" was Star
bucks comment. And then: "rm be-
ginning to kick myself for not letting
you go and have one more roundup
with her. She's doing you good, right
along"
"You didn't stop me-" Smith af-
firmed; "you merely gave me chance
10 stop myself. It's oil over now, Billy,
and my little race is about run. But
whatever happens to me, either this
night, or beyond 1t, shall be free
man. You can't put handouts on a
soul and send 1t - prison. you know.
That Is what Corona was trying to
make me understand; and couldn't
or wouldn't"
Over a low hill just ahead the pole
ring themselves against the sky, and
the group Of horsemen halted at the
head Of the railroad trestle which
marked the location of the north side
unloading station. Harding had sent
two Of his rlen forward and they re-
ported that there were no guards on
the north bank, and that the stagings,
on the downstream face of the dam,
we're also unguarded. Thereupon
Harding made his dispositions. Half
Of the posse was to go up the northern
bank. dismounted. and rush the camp
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Ing half, also on foot, was to cross
ut once on the railroad trestle, and to
make its approach by way Of the
wagon road skirting the mesa foot.
At an agreed-upon signal, the two de-,
tachments were to close In upon the
company buildings In the construction
camp, trusting to the surprise and the
attack from opposite directions to over
come any disparity In numbers.
At Smiths urgings. Starbuck went
with the party which crossed by way
of the railroad trestle, Smith himself
accompanying the sheriff's detachment.
With the horses left behind under
guard at the trestle head, the up-river
approach was made by both parties
simultaneously, though In the dark
ness, and with the breadth of the river
Intervening. neither could see the
movements Of the other. Smith kept
his place beside Harding, and to the
sheriff's query he answered that he
was unarmed.
you've got nerve" was all the
comment Harding made, and at that
they topped the slight elevation and
came among the stone debris in the
north-side quarries.
From the quarry cutting the view
struck out by the camp mastheads was
unobstructed. The dam and the un-
completed power house, still figuring
to the eye as skeleton masses of form
tlmbering, lay just below them, and
on the hither side the flooding tor
rent thundered through the splllway
gates, which had been opened to their
fullest capacity. Between the quarry
and the northern dam-head ran the
smooth concreted channel of the main
ditch canal, with the water In the res
ervoir lake still tapping several feet
below the level Of its entrance to give
assurance that, until the spiIlways
should be closed, the charter-saving
stream would never pour through the
canal.
On the opposite side of the river
the dam-head and the camp street
were deserted, but there were lights
In the commissary, In the office shack,
and in Blue Pete Slmms' canteen dog.
gerry. From the latter quarter sounds
of revelry rose above the spillway
thunderings, and now and again q
drunken figure lurched through the
open door to make its way uncertain
ly toward the rank Of bunk houses.
Harding was staring into the farther
nlmbus of the electric rays, trying tc
Dick up sou,a sign Of the other half oi