The Lamar register., 1919-03-19
Illustrations
oIr~siSsny-r.

aud take punishment, and soul that
could drive both body and nerve Ia the
limit. Also I've found out what 1t
means 10 love II woman"
Stnrhuck checked the cars speed II
little more 10 keep ii well ia the rear
# the nmbling cavalcadc.
"That's your one hest bet, John,
he said soherly.
at Is. I've cleaned out another room
since you called me down back yonder
in the Little Creek road. Starbuck. L
can't trust my own IeadingS any more
they are altogether too primitive and
brutal 81 Tin going To take hers. she'd
send me into this fight that Is Just
ahead Of u. and all the other fights
that are coming. with II heart big
enough to take In the whole world.
She said I'll understand, some day
| that I'd know that the only great man
| Is one who is too big to he little; who
can fight without hating; who can die
to make good. II that Is the only way
that offers"
"Thaf's Cory Baldwin. every day
I'm the week. John. They don't make
'em amy finer than she is" WAS star
bucks comment. And then: I'm be-
ginning to Kick myself for not letting
you 90 aud 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 a chance
T to stop myself. It's all over now. Billy.
and my little race Is about run. But
whatever happens Ia me. either this
night. or beyond II. ] shall he n free
man. You can't put hnndcuffs on n
soul and send IL to prison, you know.
That Is what Corona was trying to
make me understand: and I couldn't-
or wouldn't"
Over "a low hill Just ahead the pole
bracketcd 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 no guards on
the north bank. and that the stagings.
on the downstream face Of the DAM
were also unguarded. Thereupon
Harding mnde his dispositions. Half
Of the posse was TO go up the northern
bank, disinounted. and rush the camp
by way OF the stngingS. The remain
Ing half also on foot. WIS to cross
ut once on the railroad trestle and to
make Its approach 10y 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 ut 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
sherlff's query he answered that ne
was unarmed. Il
You've got nerve" was all the
comment Harding made, and at hat
they topped the slight elevation ant
came among the stone debris In tn,
north-side quarries.
From the quarry cutting the view
struck out by the camp mastheads wa,
unobstructed. The dam aud the un
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 thundered through the splllway
gates. which had been opened to theii
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 spillways
should be closed, the charter-savlna
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 Simms' canteen dog
| qery From the latter quarter aounds