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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1917. Doubleday, Page & Ce. ® I reasoned with tiem for a long time, bringing to bear all the argu- ments I had heard advanced at vari- ous times during our discussions in Danny Randall's Back room. At last, seeing I could in no manner shake their resolution, I gave in. After all, I could pot blame them. The case was to them only oue of cattle steal- ing. They had no chance to realize that it was anything more. Without solicitation on my part they agreed to | keep secret my opposition to the ver- dict of acquittal. : Our decision was greeted by wild yells and the discharge of pistols on the part of the rough element. meeting broke up informally confusion. It would have less for the presiding officer to have attempted to dismiss court. The mob | broke through en masse to congratu- late the prisoners Iminediately the barkeepers were overwhelmed with work. Here and there 1 could see a small group of the honest men talk- ing low voiced. with many shakes of the head. Johnny, Ol and Cal, who had attended with his arm sling up, had their heads r Danny R The | and in been use together in a corner udall, who, it will be re membered, had not appeared publicly in any stood at his corner bar watchin way, of the going on, paring After conferring together a moment the three express made | customary g all that His gamblers were pre to redpen the suspended games wus messengers _- The camp soon bad a concrete illus. tration of the opinion the roughs held of themselves. It was reported quiet- ly among & few of us that several of our number had been "marked" by the desperadoes. Two of these were Joe Thompson, who had acted as counsel for the prosecution inthe late trial, and Tom Cleveland, who had presided. and presided well, over the court Thompson kept one of the stores, while Cleveland was proprietor of the butch. er shop. No overt threats were made. but we understood that somehow these men were to be put out of the way. | Of course they were at once warned. CHAPTER XXIII. The Rule of the Lawless. MONG the occasional visitors to camp was a man who called himself Harry Crawford. He was a man of perhaps twen ty-five years, tall. rather slender, with a clear face and laughing blue eyes Nothing in his appearance indicated | the desperado. and yet we had long known him as one of the Morton gang This man now took up his residence fn camp, and we soon discovered that he was evidently the killer The first afternoon he picked some sort of a petty quarrel with Thompson over a purchase, but cooled down instantly when unexpectedly confronted by a l:ialf dozen miners who came ip at the opportune moment. A few days after ward in the slack time of the after noon Thompson, white drinking at the bar of the Empire and conversing with a friend. was approached by a well known sodden hanger-on of the sa- | loons "What about 7" fellows this man are demanded you talking fmpu- | dently. { Thompson | was a "None of your business," impatiently, for the man public nuisance and besides was deep in Thompson's debt. The man broke into foul oaths, "I'll dare you to fight!" he cried in replied | a furious passion. Facing about, Thompson saw Craw- | fora standing attentively among the listeners and instantly comprehended | the situation. | pistol," "You have the odds of me with a sald Thompson, who notori- | ously had no skill with that weapon. { "Why should 1 fight you?" "Well, then," cried the man, "put up your fists! That'll show who is the | best man!" { on the bar. The White Smoke of the ddied and Rose. - Discharge their way slowly across the room to the bar.. I could not see exactly what happened, but heard the sudden re verberations of several pistol shots The Jamps and glasses rattled with the concussion, the white smoke of the discharges eddied and rose. An im mediate dead silence fell, except for | the sounds made by the movements of those seeking safe places Johuny and his two friends, shoulder to shoulder, backed slowly away toward the door Johuny and: Old presented each two pistols at the group around the bar, while Cal, a revolver in his well hand, swept the muzzle slowly from side to side. Nobody near the bar stirred The express messengers backed to the door "Keeps your heads inside," On warned the words they vanished. Immediately loose, pandemonium broke Fhe men along the bar imme diately became very warlike. but none of those who brandished pistols tried to leave the building. From the swing and sway of the crowd and the babel of yells, oaths, threats and explana- tions I could make nothing. Danny Randall alone of all those in the room held hig position unmeved. At last a clear way offered, so I went over to him. "What's happened?" 1 shouted at him through the din. - Danny shrugged his shoulders. "They killed Carbart and Malone," Danny replied curtly. | Although for the moment held in '| check by the resolute front presented by these three boys, the rough element | showed that it considered it had won & great victory and was now entitled to. run the town. Members of the gang selected what goods they needed at any of the stores, making no pre- tense of payment. They swaggered ¥, boldly about the streets at all times; infested the better places, such as the : Bella Union, elbowed anide insolently any inoffensive ¢ifizen who might be In their way and generally conducted themselves as though they owned the place. Robberies grew more frequent The freighters were held up in broad daylight; rumors of returning miners being relieved of their dust drifted up from the lower country; mysterious disappearances increased In number. Hardly an attempt was made to con- ceal the fact that the 'organized gang that conducted these operations had its beadquarters at Italian Bar. Strange men rode up in broad daylight, cov- ered with red dust, to confer with Morton or one of the other resident blackguards. Mpysteriously every des- perado in the place began to lay fifty dollar octagonal slugs on the gaming tables, product of some lower coun- Gx atrocity, : { other | sheathed bis pistol with an oath. He snatched off his belt and laid it Thompson did the same. "Come on!" cried the challenger, | backing away. Thompson, thoroughly angry, reach- | ed over and slapped his antagonist. The latter promptly drew another re- voler from beneath his coat, but be- | fore he could aim it Thompson jump- | ed at his throat and disarmed him, At this moment Crawford interfered, ap- parently as peacemaker. Thompson | was later tld secretly by the barkeep- er that the scheme was to lure him into a pistol tight in the street, when Crawford would be ready to shoot him as soon as the Orst shot was fired. On the strength of this interference Crawford next pretended to friendship and spent much of his time at Thomp- son's store. Thompson was in no way deceived. This state of affairs contin- ued for two days. It terminated in the following manner: Crawford, sit. ting balf on the counter and talking with all the great charm of which he was master, led the subject to weap- ons. "This revolver of mine," said he, at the same time drawing the weapon from. its holster, "is one of the old navy model. You don't often see them nowadays. It has a double lock." He cocked it as though to illustrate his point, and the muzzle, as though by accident, swept toward the other man. He looked up from his affected close examination to find that Thompson had also drawn his weapon and that the barrel was pointing uncompromis- | ingly in his direction. For a moment the two stared each in the eye. Then Crawford "What do you mean by that?" he cried. "I mean," said Thompson firmly, "that 1 do pot Intend you shall get the advautage of me. You know my opluion of you and your gang. 1 shall not be shot by any of you if 1 can help it." Crawford withdrew quietly, but lat: er in the day approached a big group of us, one of which was Thompson. "There's a matter between you and me has got to be settled!" he cried. "Well, 1 can't Imagine what it is," replied Thompson. "I'm not aware that I've said or done anything to you that needs settlemént." "You needn't laugh!" replied Craw ford, with a string of insulting oaths. "You're a coward, and if you're shy: thing of a man you will step out of doors and have this out" "I am, as you say. a coward" re plied Thompson quietly. "and I see no reason fer going out of doors to fight you or anvbody else". After blustering and swearing for a few moments Crawford withdrew. He made no attempt to fight, nor do I be- lieve his outburst had any other pur- pose than to establish the purely per- sonal character of the quarrel between Ihomoson and himself. At any rate. Thompson was next morning found murdered in his bunk, while Crawford | had disappeared. ( I do not know ! whether Crawford had killed him or pot. 1 think pot. | { About this time formal printed no- | Hees of some sort of election were | posted on the bulletin board at Mor- [ ton's place. At least they were said to have been posted and were pointed out to all comers the day after elec- tion. Perhaps they were there all the time, as claimed, but nobedy paid much attention to them. At any rate, we one day awoke to the fact that we were a full fledged community, with regularly constituted court officers, duly qualified officials, and a sheriff. "What do you mean by that?" he cried. Prof. Co. The y With ladies' and gents' hair ydours, curly fringes, pin curls, ete | toupees and wigs, the most { Dorenwend stands world renowned. styles; why not you? KINGSTON, 'DAY, BELLEVILLE, PETERBORO, ------ The sheriff was Morton, and the most | worthy judges were other members of his gang. | This move tickled Danny Randall's | sense of humor immensely. "That's good headwork." he said ap- | provingly. it in him." "I didn't think Morton had | "It's time something was done to | run that gang out of town," fumed Dr. Rankin. | "No; it is not time," denied Danny, | "any more than it was time when you and Johnny and the rest of you had your celebrated jury trial." "I'd like to know what you are driv- ling at!" fretted the worthy doctor. Danny Randall laughed in his gentle little fashion. I will confess that just at that time I was very decidedly | wondering what Danny Randall was |at. In fact, at moments I was strong- | ly inclined to doubt his affiliations. | He seemed to stand in an absolutely neutral position, inclining to neither side. Tom Cleveland was killed in the open street by one of the Empire hang- ers-on. The man was promptly ar- rested by Morton in his capacity of sheriff and confined in chains. Mor- ton as sheriff selected those who were to serve on the jury. I had the curi- osity to attend the trial, expecting to assist at an uproarious farce. All the proceedings, on the contrary, were conducted with the greatest decorum and with minute attention to legal formalities." The assassin, however, was acquitted. From that time the outrages in- creased in number and in boldness. No man known to be possessed of any quantity of gold was safe. It was dangerous to walk alone after dark, to hunt alone in the mountains, to live alone. Every man carried his treas- ure about with him everywhere he went. No man dared raise his voice in criticism of the ruling powers, for it was pretty generally understood that such criticism meant death. This is a chapter I hate to write, and therefore I shall get it over with as soon as possible. One Sunday in the middle of October two men trudged into town leading each a pack horse. I was at the time talking to Barnes at his hotel and saw them from a dis- tance hitching their animals outside Morton's. They stayed there for some time, ¢hen came out, unhitched their horses, led them as far as the Empire, hesitated, finally again tied the beasts and disappeared. In this manner they gradually worked along to the Bella Union, where at last | recognized them as McNally and Buck Barry, our com- rades of the Porcupine. 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