Glacier County chief., 1939-11-24

This is against the law and I don't
intend TO have any part In it,
responsibility"
IT I'd known you went to Ever
glades for dynamite I'd never have run
you up there. I'm warning you to lay
Before what?"
Il Just don't know. I've got a feel
ing it's like murder"
Vel, I'm in a mood for murder,
and III do a lot less damage out here
than back yonder. At least I won't
oloW up your yacht" Viciously Muir
ray tugged at the cord of one of the
claimed:
49,, *Yoa leave that stuff alone till I'm
In silence he rowed ashore and
stepped out Of the skiff.
Eeeiing the imminence of something
evn, shocking, he proposed to put him
sen OUT CT sight and hearing of it if
possible, but curiosity tugged at him
SO strongly that he went only as far
as the point and there clambored up
inlet. 'iie
Small, half transparent clouds OBJ
Scured the moon at intervals. never
tneieSS, he could make out Murray
seated in the skiff and working at his
aepth charge. 1t would serve him right
The man was no good and he never
had liked him.
Murray showed off finally. and
rowed out into the channel, Bangs
heard him ship his oars, then saw
him lower the charge of dynamite
over the side. After it had reached
bottom, he continued to pay out line
as the ebb tide drifted him closer to
the tnlet's mouth.
Bangs felt, rather than heard, the
explosion an instant, then he beheId
the surface of the waters bulge up-
ward and break. Waves formed and
Went racing away from it as if fright
ened; the skiff bobbed and tossed.
soon ne could make out the bodies
OF fish large and small, boiling up
out OF the depths, the bellies of some
cleaned palely in the moonlight, from
others which had been merely Stunned
came a feeble struggling Murray
rowed among them examining one
| after another.
or sudden he spun his skiff and
o Grove 1t forward. then dropping his
something. He shouted eXcitedlv to
Bangs and the latter saw him striving
70 mt the thing, whatever it was, into
the boat. '1''0
But in this he had difficulty. There
came commotion, a threshing close
to the skiff, other bodies surged to the
surface and milled about it. To the
astonished observer they looked like
seals but-they appeared to be con-
lending with Murray for the posses
sion OF their dead comrade. They piled
over each other with such swiftness.
however, that it was impossible to de-
termine what was really going on. They
roiled and darted and flung them
selves about like hungry porpoises in
school of bait.
Then Bangs realized that thew had
taKen the aggressive, for Murray leaped
to his feet and began Striking with
an oar. He yelled again and now there
was terror in his voice; it was a cali
for help. With it came other sounds
unlike any the guide had ever heard
Out of that frothing melee issued a
meWng and a screaming similar to
that from flock of sea gulls except
through it.
Something seized the gunwales of
me boat and rocked it so violently
Knees He beloved hoarsely above the
caterwauling and the noisy explosions
OF spray and foam, but he was in the
grip Of unseen hands, or tenacles. They
dragged at him and caused the tender
10 careen. It dipped lower, water
poured in over the side; it capsized.
For the space of a breath or two