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"And I'm staying to kinder superintend," said Nueces dryly. "Sheriff," he added, as the main body of the posse fell off down the hill "and you, too, Barela I don't just know what's going on here, but I'm stayin' with you to a fare-you-well. You two seem to be bucking each other." No one answered. "Sulky, hey? Well, anyhow, call it off long enough to drive this Pringle thing away from here.
It is worthy of note that Casimero Barela, known as the perpetual Senator who had opposed equal suffrage since the question was first raised in Territorial days, esteemed it a privilege to introduce the resolution for this amendment. The vote on Nov. 4, 1901, stood, ayes, 35,372; noes, 20,087; carried by a majority of 15,285, which was nearly 64 per cent. of the vote cast.
"You are, for one thing, if you don't moderate your voice," said Anastacio. "Nueces, you bellow like the bulls of Bashan. Mr. Applegate, meet Mr. Pringle." "What does he mean, then, by such monkeyshines?" demanded the other old Nueces River, chief of police, ex-ranger, and, for this occasion, deputy sheriff. "I got no time for foolishness. And you can't run no whizzer on me, Barela.
Then I heard them a long ways off but I couldn't make any sense to the words. Here; let me lean my back up against this rock and sit quiet for a while. Then we'll go. I'm giddy yet." "I've got it!" announced Nueces a moment later. "Barela, he's hankering to be sheriff that's the trouble. He wanted to take Chris himself, to help things along.
There's a lot of the Barelas, Ben. I'll tell you what I'll do, though I'll slip the idea to my crowd, and any time you want to kill me on an even break, no Barela or Ascarate will take it up. Put it right in your little holster put it up, I say! That's right. You see, Breslin? Don't let Foy out of your sight if he should be taken." "But he'll never let himself be taken alive," said Vorhis.
They won't see any romance in it just an open outrage; they will flock to us to the last man. Ours is the party of law and order " "Law to order, some say." The veins swelled in the sheriff's heavy face and thick neck; he regarded his deputy darkly. "That comes well from you, Barela! Don't you see, with the law on our side all these men of substance will be with us unconditionally?
Evidently the company officials had been keeping the telephone-wires busy that night; they were bringing in, not merely this train-load of guards, but automobile loads from other camps from the Northeastern down the canyon, and from Barela, in a side canyon over the mountain. Hal told this news to the meeting, which received it with howls of rage. So that was the bosses' plan!
There had been a sympathetic outburst in Barela, Hal learned starting quite spontaneously that morning, when the men heard what had happened at North Valley. A score of workers had been fired, and more would probably follow in the morning.
The young Irishman smiled, rather sadly. "You're new at this game," he said. "If a mine-disaster was enough to win a strike, God knows our job would be easy. In Barela, just down the canyon from you, they've had three big explosions they've killed over five hundred men in the past year!" Hal began to see how, in his inexperience, he had lost his sense of proportion.
It hurts, it cripples them, they ride thirty miles to vote against you; it costs you all the extra mileage money to offset their votes. As a final folly, you purpose deliberately to stir up the old factions. What was it Napoleon said? 'It is worse than a crime: it is a blunder. I'll tell you now, not a Barela nor an Ascarate shall stir a foot in such a quarrel.
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