Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-01-26

spoken with a fine spirit of loyalf,
lie now added: I'm sorry. Tin,
mere. sure ought to be awful sorr,
and guess everybody else feels lik
we do. ! hope. chum. the feelin's ain
too hard"
They stilled as a group will when a,
answer to an important question /
due.
why. no. | see how 1t Is.
John said. but blankly.
mistaken for his fathers hire
bullyi And old Tom trying to rur
TINS other company into a corner?.
Old Tom. mixing 1t as. perhaps. ar
even older Belknap had done in the
pine days? Was that a possible ex.
pfanHtIon OF why he-young John-had
been so carefully kept away from
hampfest? We're things transpirinc
10 this country of which his father
was ashamed7
like a white-hot thread the fhonrhf
scared through his consciousness IF
q night was on here. waged By his ia
tner against a weaker competitor.
now. might that NOT offer a greater
vent. a more complete relief for his
swelling resentment than hashino
strangers with his fists? Until this
m his only possible vengeance
on his father had been to u away
bur now
4 a came In from outside. shoul
dering through the press haafine
snow from a Scotch cap with his
mitten.
Here ne said. holding Ii toward
John. Here's your zap.
guess ! Knocked it off and well
you see how 1t was"
He was flushed and SO evidently ron
trite that John smiled. and when he
smiled the tension that had been IN
those men relaxed The nresenta.
ton OF thai cap was equivalent to q
treaty gift. a token to heal d breach
q pledge and seal OF friendship
Anything we can do for Won
now after tryin' our best ticks
70 DO things TO your Way.Bil asked.
why | guess not. Thanks 8
lot He was finding his poise. shilling
the hot curiosity that might lead him |
INTO plumbers. making up his mind to |
learn this whole story, but to do II
adroitly. at the proper time. IF
s~omebody'i point out the hotel.
now. :
II was past the supper hour In Shoe
strings n public stopping place.
Rex Jasper's Palace hotel
But Rex was neither i~nhosDitabIa
nor unmindful of the dimes. No more
he an uncommnnicative host. So
himself spread cold but satisfac
Iory vlands on one end OF a long table
Ind SAT there. elbows on the oilcIoth
while his slightly marred but obyiously
outstanding guest ate. and responded
yell to the questions that John Steele
identity as yet unknown In
shoestring. put TO him.
The boy ate slowly. gazed much of
20 taspNf y td1E AS me man i
alked and talked and talked.
IL Just goes TO show" he said mar.
owing his watery blue eyes. @whaf
ne concentration of great wealth into
he hands of INSCRIPTIONS men will
ause- Now did you even read the
History Of Great American For
unes?s"
No. said John impatiently. @oai !
re you sure that this man BelknaD is !
ehind all the trouble?r !
Sure? Sure!" The little man bris, I
ed with assurance Wasn't it q Van. :
erpiit that said that the thing a 9
wanted more than anything else z
as more7 That's the way with This
g Belknap. Predatory. he is; of the {
redatory wealthy He's got the v
lenards comne In a corner and he I
goin' to let IL out. WHY. even a
. own partner. Gorbel. over here M II
ampfest. can't stop him. Gorbal b
SO bad. but Belknap gives the n
'ders. You cant blame Gorbel. IF 81
mans goin 10 exist ec0nomicallv g
lder a capitalist system he's gof Ia HI
with the capitalists. amt hea Now b
you've ever read 'Das Kapitar hy "
Marx you'll see" st
John showed back his plate and
pped the table with his fork. b,
Just a minute. Let's see If I've ds
I this story right: The logging rail. W
owned by the Richards Lumber n.
mpany. e through Belknap & Cor. be
timber. The right OF way was al
by a man named KamDfest Nj
10 used TO own that timber. Ralk.
p K Gorbel bought him out and ha- d
. to operate. Under the terms of CIV
old contract they can either force of
richards company to haul their
out to a mainline branch or order an
to pull their steel. And. To ait
this squeeze. the Relknap tie
nps are making logs In such ouan
es thai the mill here can't be safe off
iogged2 That itg' ri;
That's right This old Belknan In
Z satisfied to have a soft thing he mr.
r The Richards mills been geftin, {.
some way; God knows how mn loo
ms he sees that he starts pettjn. trv
JUST like any old feudal baron'd vi,
rough. lie has his hired helm Dut les
zee, the Richards woods boss o,,t nra