The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-26

I'm tolerate none of your high and
mighty airs!"
! Trevors laughed at her, sheer In
his laugh. II talk the way / talk" he
answered roughly. IF people don't
like the sound of 1t they don't have to
! listen! Lee, you round up those
seventy three horses and crowd them
over the ridge to the lumber camp. Or,
| II you want to quit, quit now and I'll
send a sane man."
The hot color mounted higher in
the girls face, a new anger leaped
up in her eyes.
Take no orders this morning that
I don't give" she said, for moment
turning her eyes upon Lee. And to
Trevors: Busy or not busy, lou take
time right now to answer my ques-
tons I've got your reports and all
they tell me Is that you are going in
the hole as fast as you can. What
business have you got selling off my
young steers at sacrifice"
go, get those horses, Lee" said
Trevors, ignoring her.
Again she spoke to Lee, saying
crisply: what horses is he talking
about?"
With his deep gravity at its deepest,
Bud Lee answered: "All LIS stock.
The eleven Red Duke three-year-olds;
the two Robert the Devil colts; Brown
Babes FLY, Comet"
"All mine, every running hoof of
'em," she said, cutting in. what
does Trevors want you to do with
them? Give them away for ten dol
lars a head or cut their throats?"
Look here" cried Trevors an
grily, on his feet now.
'You shut up!" commanded the girl
sharply. Lee, you answer me-"
He's selling them fifty dollars
head" he said with a secret joy a
his heart as he glanced at Trevors'
flushed face.
Fifty dollars!" Judith gasped
Fifty dollars for a Red Duke colt
like Comet!''
She stared at Lee as though she
could not believe it, He merely stared
back at her, wondering just how
much she knew about horsefesh.
Then, suddenly, she whirled again
upon Trevors.
II came out to see if you were
crook or just fool" she told him,
her words like slap in his face. "No
man could be so big a fool as that
You-you crook -
The muscles under Bayne Trevors'
enough" he shot back at her. "And
even if you do own third of this out
fit, I'll have you understand that I
am the manager here and that l do
what 1 like"
From her bosom she snatched big
envelope, tossing it to the table. "Look
at that" she ordered him. you big
theft I've mortgaged my holding for
fifty thousand dollars and I've bought
in Timothy Gray's share. i swing two
votes out of three now, Bayne Ire
vors. And the first thing l do is run
you out, you great big grating fat
head! You would chuck Luke San
ford's outfit to the dogs, would you?
Get off the ranch. You're fired 70
You can't do thing like this ~
snapped Trevors, after one swift
glance at the papers he had whisked
out of their covering.
81 cant, can't II" she jeered at him.
Don't you fool yourself for one little
minute! Pack your little trunk and
hammer the trail"
''Tll do nothing of the kind. Why,
don't know even who you are! You
say that you are Judith Sanford" He
shrugged his massive shoulders. "How
do / know what game you are up tor
"You can't bluff me for two sec
onds, Bayne Trevors," she blazed at
him. you know who / am, all right.
Send for Sunny Harper, she ended
sharply.
discharged three months ago."
Trevors told her with show of teeth.
Johnny Hodge, then" she COM
manded "Or Tod Bruce or Bing
Kelley. They all know me-"
Fired long ago, all of Them"
laughed TreTors, ''to make room for
competent men,"
ITO make room for more crooks I"
she cried, her own brown hands balled
into fists scarcely less hard than Ire
vors' had been. Then for the third
time she turned upon Lee. "You are
one of his new thieves, / suppose?"
Thank you, ma'am," said Bud Lee
gravely.
"Well, answer me. Are you?"
"No, ma'am," he told her, with no.
hint of q twinkle in his calm eyes.
"Leastwise, not his exactly. You see,
do all my killing and highway rob-
hin0 on NV own haOlyS It,S ir1St q