Show 2G2 STUDENT LIFE lost with the result he lay upon tin! floor senseless and bleeding profusely Tliis was when Kingsley the superintendent “tied into” the game and on seeing his foreman cold and this coldness due to a Bugle man his scheming brain began to work Soon he had determined on an elaborate plan The cry of “kill him” gave him his clue and when he saw the Bugle devil using his pedal appendages to good advantage the mine superintendent placed himself at the head of the dazed mob and with “Come on fellows : let’s lynch him” he led the Gold Xugget patrons up Market Street towards the Bugle office which J Leamington intended to make his place of refuge The pursued reached his destination just in time and giving tli? iron lock on the door a push he was safe inside with the editor This was just exactly what Xow was the Kingsley wanted chance to demolish the newspaper office and most of all the cursed type one-stoIt was a little table-roofe- d frame building containing a single window and a rattle-tra- p door and over the door extended a ' weather-beate- n sign “The Bugle” In front of this little unpretentious structure stood a line of roughly clad mountain men all clingiing to a young pine log At the word of their leader they backed off across the street and then with “Xow fellows” the line moved forward with a jump and then a crash was heard and immediately followed an bar-roo- m ry inebriated cheer from the throats of those poor “liquor sotted” fellows Kingsley at once made a jump for the broken door expecting his mob to follow and then — and then the afternoon stage drove up and from it alighted a woman Just a woman With her were two men but men were nothing A woman in Dutch Flat —a real woman The mob faltered it stood still and then one by one those rough clad mountain men removed their hats Kingsley had lost a strange woman unconsciously had won It was Dick Shea who first suggested that an adjournment be taken to the Gold Xugget Round after round was drunk to the health of the girl Jenkins was forgotten in the new excitement but it was all right for Jenkins was able enough to handle his share of the liquor by now Just as the sun sank behind the mountain peak Bliss walked into the Gold XTugget and without a word he passed a copy of the Bugle still wet with ink to the bar-kep The glanced at the sheet then looked blank with surprise but a minute later he was standing on the bar and was reading from the paper to his audience When he finisheda wild yell pierced the air and as Bliss threw his bundle of papers right and left bedlam broke loose and the frenzied men like a leaped from the herd of maddened cattle Need it be said that Jenkins’ men didn’t ep bar-kee- bar-roo- m “jump” that night? |