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The Tocsin's hand slipped away from his arm. Jimmie Dale's set face relaxed as he read the underground Morse, and he replaced his revolver slowly in his pocket. "The Magpie!" said Jimmie Dale, in an undertone. "What's he want?" "I don't know," she answered, in a whisper. "He never came here before. There's a back way out, Jimmie, if you " "No," he said quickly.
"It was brief," said the officer in charge of the file, "but, still, long enough to convince me that we arrived here at the right time. There is an army forming here, no one seems to know what for, and renegade Americans are mixing in the game. The signals called for a gathering some distance above us." "That's the way I took it," observed Jimmie.
Evidently he made an effort to keep his self-control; when he spoke again, his voice was quieter. "Listen, my good fellow," he said. "You have a chance to make a good deal of money to-night " "I don't want your money!" broke in Jimmie. "I wouldn't touch your filthy money, that you get by murdering men!" "My God!" said Lacey Granitch; and then, weakly: "What have you got against me?"
That Jimmie Higgins did not pay more attention to this terrifying incident was in part because he read it in the capitalist papers and did not believe it; but mainly because his whole attention just now was centred on Russia, where the proletariat was about to make its bid for power. Now you would see how wars were to be ended and peace restored to a distracted world!
But the narrow-chested and knock-kneed boy staggering over the sun-baked asphalt no longer concerned him. It was not Jimmie, but the code preached by Jimmie, and not only preached but before his eyes put into practice, that interested him. The young man with white hair had been running away from temptation.
"They'll get along all right now," says the hired man James, or Jimmie, or Jim, whatever you ought to call him. I couldn't believe he was young Mr. James Wisner. Sometimes I don't hardly even yet. "You ought to be ashamed of yourselves," says Bonnie Bell. "I declare, men are brutes anyhow!" "I know it, Bonnie Bell," says I. "I've made plenty of trouble, but not no more.
The boys dashed down the slope to the tent and found Uncle Ike, as Jimmie insisted on calling a tall, ungainly, raw-boned mule, chewing at a slice of ham which he had pilfered from a box by the side of the fire. "There's one thing about Uncle Ike," Jimmie grinned, as Ned drove the animal away with a club. "He always looks like he had been sent for to lead an experience meeting!
The man had faults, brawled enough, and drank enough to have brought him several times to the notice of the police but this! Jimmie Dale's eyes had never left the scene before him. Both men were throwing their weight upon the bar, and the stone that they were trying to dislodge they were into the heart of the masonry now seemed to move a little.
"Come, let's go," she said. As they went out Maggie perceived two women seated at a table with some men. They were painted and their cheeks had lost their roundness. As she passed them the girl, with a shrinking movement, drew back her skirts. Jimmie did not return home for a number of days after the fight with Pete in the saloon. When he did, he approached with extreme caution.
All over the country that sort of thing was happening, so now if you argued with Jimmie in favour of the war, his answer was that America was more Prussian than Prussia, and what was the use of fighting for Democracy abroad, if you had to sacrifice every particle of Democracy at home in order to win the fight?
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