Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-05-18

Wally stumbled On helplessly.
They got Off here. Course I
didn't know whether you'd sent for
her or not, so stopped and kinder
gave her the glad hand just to size
things up"
| "Yes."
"She had the address of Miss o'Nela.
that Irish girl staying at the Pagets',
the one that came in"
"Go on" snapped his chief.
$50 directed her how she could
get there and"
Wally found himself lifted from the
chair and hammered down into 1t
again. His soft flesh quaked like
jelly. AS he stared pop-eyed at the
furious face above him, the fat chin
of the little man dropped.
"My God, Mae, don't do thatP he
whined.
Macdonald wheeled abruptly away,
crossed the room In long strides, and
came back.
"What's the user" he said aloud.
you're nothing but spineless put
terer. Haven't you enough sense even
to give me chance TO decide for
myself? Why didn't you keep the
woman with you till You could send
for me, you daft monkey7"
s'If I had known"
"D'ye think you've got sense enough
to take plain, straight message as
far as the hotel? Because Ii you have,
I've got one to send"
Waliy caressed tenderly his bruised
flesh. He had chlldlike desire to
weep, but he was afraid Macdonald
would kick him out of TIE office.
"Course I'll do whatever you say,
Mac" he answered humbly.
The Scotch-Ganadian brushed the
swivel chair and its occupant to one
side, drew up another chair in front
| Of the desk, and faced Selfridge
| squarely. The eyes that blazed at the
A little man were the grimmest he had
ever looked into
"Go to the hotel and see this man
Elliot alone. Tell him he's gone too
far--butted into my affairs once too
often. There's not man alive Ia
stand II from. My orders are for him
to get out on the next boat. II he's
here after that, I'll kill him on sight
The color ebbed out of the ford
face of Wally. He moistened his lips
to speak. Heavens, Mac, you can't
do that. He'll go out and report"
"Let him say what he likes Put this
to him straight: that he and ! can't
stay in this town--and both of US
live"
Wally had Tapped up too many high
balls In the past ten years to relish
!. this kind of mission. His nerve was
gone. He had not the punch any more.
J Yet Mac was always expecting him to
|, help out with his rough stuff, he re-
: Elected fretfully. Take this message,
now. There was no sense In 1t. Self
: ridge plucked up his courage to say so.
"That won't buy us anything but
u trouble, Mac. In the old days You
. could put over"
Tho little man never guessed how
close he came to being flung through
the transom over the door, but his In
:. stinct warned him to stop, His OBJ
u lection died away In humble.
90 course I'll do whatever you say,
he added a second time.
"See you do" advised his chief, an
:. ugly look in his eyes. 'Tell him he
. gets till the next boat. If he's here
after that, he'd better go heeled, for
I'll shoot on sight wherever we meet"
SeIfridge went on his errand with
= modify alone on the porch of the
: hotel.
In Gordon's pocket there was note
to Macdonald explaining that he had
nothing to do with the coming of Me-
teetse. He had expected to send 1t by
u the hotel porter that evening. but the
curt order TO leave town filed him
with a chill anger. The dictator Of
. affairs at Kuslak might think what he
Y pleased for all the explanation he
!" would get from him.
"T'ell your master I don't take or.
ders from him." he told Wally quietly.
+ "I'll stay till my work here is DONE"
They had moved few yards down the
; street. Now Gordon turned, lean
Joined and active, and trod with crisp,
! confident step back to the hotel. He
!. had said all that was necessary to say.
Two men standing on the porch
: nodded good evening to him. Cor
don, about to pass, glanced at them
again. They were Northrup and Ire
lawney, two of the miners who had had
trouble with Macdonald on the boat.
On impulse he stopped. Found
work yeti" he asked.
"Found a job and lost 1t again.
Northrup answered sullenly.
5 "Too bad"
Macdonald passed the word along
that we weren't to get work. SO our
: boss fred us. The whole district IL
closed to us. We been blackiisted,"
explained Trelawney.
"And we're busted" added his mate.
Elliot was always free-handed Per-
haps he felt just now unusually sym
pathetic toward these victims of the
hjgh-handed methods of Macdonald
From his pocket he took a small
I. ofhar ni1rSp and Dnva "a pfapa nf cold