The Pulaskian., 1921-11-03

fhp iupll4uaIlS. once LIS " A'sClShec ! askea him question--and he an .wered il with another question. Was ba doing that which was right2 Might not inc Liftlcfords Ill be killed by lhose drunken cutthroats while he Vas waiting for the arrival of q com pany of militia from city miles dis fant?
 Anyway. the militia would fight His elan would do no more than that. lie satisfied his conscience quickly.
 When they had reached the lower end of the cleared valley. there came to them the sounds Of slow firing, the firing of snipers. Each man kicked lis horses Hanks and rode faster.
 When they came in sight of the be siesed building, they saw puffs of pow 4er-sInoke rising lazily from the upper windows and from the mountain side above and to the right. Again they kicked the Hanks of their horses and rode faster.
 At John Morelan8's old cabin they disrlounted hastily and turned their horses into the drab meadow. With Dale still leading, they hurried on foot to the rivers nearest bank and went ! rapldly, under cover Of tke thickly- standing syeanOres. to point within seventy yards of the office and sup plies building. Then they made dash across the open space. and Ben Lit tieford, with one arm bound up in red-staiEed blue bandann, opened the door fer them.
 ''Who else is hurt?" panted Dale.
 little Tom" answered Iittlef0rd. eand Saul. Little Tom, he got q bal let onder the shoulder. Saul, he got one in might nigh the same place. They've riddled the whole t'other side O the house to splipters, They're a-caIlin fo' you"
 "They't get all they Want Of me. ]" Dale groYied.
 Flo turned and ran up the rough stairway, and Ben Littletord and the Aforciands followed close upon his heels. At the front and side windows, behind anything they had been able to find that would stop a bullet, knelt Littlef0rds with rifles in their hands, patiently watching for q human target to appear on the mountainside above. Saul and Little Tom lay in corner, where they were fairly safe from chance bullets. Hayes had bound up their wounds as well as he could with the material at hand. They were both white and helpless and suffering, but still full Of the old LitIleford fighting spirit.
 Dale seized his Winchester and belt Of cartridges from the hands of the man who had brought them to him, and turned 10 the others. 4 bull let crashed through the wall and struck the floor at his foot, he paid no attention to it.
 Listen to me, boys.e Dale was buckling his cartridge-belt with rapid. steady fingers. From where they are hiding, the Balls and Turner's can hardly sec the lower story of tb!s building. We'll go downstairs, open the front door, and run to the edge Of the lauvels at the foot of the noun tuin. Then we'll turn to the right, make a wide detour, and get above the Ball outfit; we'll be fighting down. hill Instead of sphll. Get me? Are you all rcudy?"
 To man. they were rendy.
 They reached the thick under growth without being seen by the en- emy While the Balls and Turner's fired more or less aimleSsly at the building drank white whisky and called drunkenly for the surrender to them of Bul Dale Bill Dale and his men were making their way steadily II a wide half-eirele up the side of l David Mnrelands mountain.
 Half an hour after they had left the office building Dale had stationed his men deployed HIS Il line Of skIrmishers, behind helterina trees some two hun dred fee above the Balls and their Snsi1e...
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