Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-10-17
.They Used to Call Me MOnty-Roy."

"They Used to Call Me Monty Boy"
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 a woman"
StaEbuck checked the cars speed a
little more to keep 1t 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 Greek road, Starbuck.
can't trust my own leadings any more ;
they are altogether too primitive and
brutal so Pm going to take hers. She'd
send me into this fight that is just
ahead of us. and all the otter fights
that are coming, with a 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
TO 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: "Tm 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
to stop myself. It's all over now, Billy,
and my little race is about run. But
whatever happens to me, either this
night, or beyond Il, 1 shall be a free
man. You can't put handouts on
soul and send it to prison, you know
That is what Corona was trying to
make me understand; and 1 couldn't
or wouldn't"
Over a low hill just ahead the pole
bracketed lights at the dam were star
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 men forward and they re-
ported that there were 30 guards on
the north bank, and that the stagings.
on the downstream face of the dam,
were also unguarded. Thereupon
Harding made his dispositions. Half
of the posse was to go up the northern
bank, dismounted, and rush the camp
by way OF the stagings. The remain
ing half, also ON foot, was to cross
at once on the railroad trestle, and to
make It's 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
sheriffs query he answered that he
was unarned.
you've got a 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 I'M
completed power house, still figuring
to the eye as skeleton masses of form
timbering, lay just below them, and
on the hither side the flooding tor
rent Numbered through the spillway
gates, which had been opened to their
fullest capacity. Between the quarry
and the northerp dam-head ran the
smooth concreted channel of the main
ditch canal, with the water in the res-
ervoir lake stil tapping several feet
below the level of its entrance to give
assurance that. until the spillways
should be closed, the charter-saying