Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-11-23

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blocked for the next twenty-four hours,
our charter win be gone"
! This world and another, and then
the fireworks" Starbuck threw in.
with the property all roped ~ - al
law tangle, and those stock options Of
yours due to fall in. it looks as IL a
few prominent citizens of the Timan-I
yoni would have to take to the high
grass and the tall timber. 1t sure
does john"
DO you know, Billy, l have been
expecting something of this kind-andI
expecting it to be fake. That's why
sent SdHings to Red Butte; TO keep
watch of Judge Lorching's court. Still
ings was to phone Ine If LorchlnR L.
sued an order"
And he hasn't 'phoned your"
mo; but that doesn't prove any
thing. The order may have been is
sued, and Stillings may have tried to
let us know. There are a good many
ways in which a mans mouth may be
| stopped-when there are no scruples
on the other side"
"Then you think there Is no doubt
that the court order is straight, and
that this man MGraw is really
deputy marshal and has the law for
what he is doing?"
I'm the absence of any proof to the
contrary, we are obliged to believe it
or at least to accept it. But we're
not dead vet Ellly IFS RIM
ming in my mind that we've got to so
out there and clean up Mr.. MGra!s
and his crowd
Starbuck threw up his hands and
made a noise like dry wagon wheel
Holy smoke - so up against the
whole United States?" he gasped.
Smiths grin showed his strong, even
teeth
''Starbuck, You remember what
told you one night?-the night ]
dragged you up to my rooms in the
hotel and gave you a hint of the rea.
son why 1 had no business to make
love to Corona Baldwin,?
yep"
"Well, the time has come when
may as well I'LL out the blanks in the
story for you" And with Billy look
ing straight into his eyes, he did So.
At the end Starbuck was nodding so-
berry. You sure have been carrying
a back-lOad all these weeks, John,
never knowing what minute was going
to be the next. Now | know about
this Miss Rich-pastures. She knows
YOU and she could give you away II
she wanted to. Has she done it, John?"
NO; but her father has. Stanton has
got hold of the end of the thread, and,
while don't know 1t definitely. it is
practically certain he sent vire. Ii
the Brewster police are not locking for
me at this moment, they will be short
ly. That brings us back to. this High
Line knockout. AS the matter stands,
I'm the one man in our outfit who has
absolutely nothing to lose. l am an
officer of the company, and no legal
notice has been served upon me. Can
you fill out the remainder of the or.
der?"
mo, I'll be switched If l cam"
"Then I'll fill it for you. SO far az
/ know--legally, you understandable
raid has never been authorized by the
courts; at least, that is what I'm go
Ing to assume until the proper papers
! have been served on me. Therefore ]
am free to strike one final blow for
the colonel and his friends, and I'm
going to do it, If l can dodge the police
long enough to get action"
Starbuck's fitting chair righted itself
with a crash.
You've thought It all out?-just
how to go at it?"
every move; and everyone of them
a straight bid for a second penitentiary
sentence"
"All right" said the mine owner
briefly. Count me In"
"FOr information only" was the
bruSque reply. "You have a stake in
the country and good name to main.
tain. l have nothing. But you can
tell me a few things. Are our work.
men still on the ground"
"Yes. Ginty said there were only
few stragglers who came TO town with
him. Most of the two shifts are stay
ing on to get their pay--or until they
find out that they aren't going to get
it."
and the colonel and Williams: the
marshal is holding them out at the
damp"
"Uh-huh; locked up in the Office
shack. Ginty says"
Good. / shan't need the colonel,
but 1 shall need Williams. Now an
other question: you know Sheriff
Harding fairly well, don't you? WHAT
sort of a man is he?"
Square as q die, and rs nervy as
] l.