'They haven't troubled much about law in
the whisky business here. They get a keg of high wines and some drugs
and begin operations. No!' he went on; 'if we can get the crowd out, and
ourselves in, we'll make them break the law in getting us out. The law
won't trouble us over smuggled whisky. It will be a great lark, and they
won't crow too loud over the League.'
I did not like the undertaking at first; but as I thought of the whole
wretched illegal business flourishing upon the weakness of the men
in the mines and camps, whom I had learned to regard as brothers, and
especially as I thought of the cowards that did for Nixon, I let my
scruples go, and determined, with Abe, 'to get back at 'em.'
We had no difficulty getting them out. Abe began to yell. Some men
rushed out to learn the cause. He seized the foremost man, making a
hideous uproar all the while, and in three minutes had every man out of
the hotel and a lively row going on.
In two minutes more Graeme and I had the door to the ball-room locked
and barricaded with empty casks.
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