threat or to intimidate, and never to draw unless one meant to
shoot, if need be.

"And the other," added Logan, "always go in force to make an
arrest--never alone unless necessary." The Hon. Sam moved his head
up and down in hearty approval.

"Why is that?" asked Hale.

"To save bloodshed," he said. "These fellows we will have to deal
with have a pride that is morbid. A mountaineer doesn't like to go
home and have to say that one man put him in the calaboose--but he
doesn't mind telling that it took several to arrest him. Moreover,
he will give in to two or three men, when he would look on the
coming of one man as a personal issue and to be met as such."

Hale nodded.

"Oh, there'll be plenty of chances," Logan added with a smile,
"for everyone to go it alone." Again the Hon. Sam nodded grimly.
It was plain to him that they would have all they could do, but no
one of them dreamed of the far-reaching effect that night's work
would bring.

They were the vanguard of civilization--"crusaders of the
nineteenth century against the benighted of the Middle Ages," said
the Hon. Sam, and when Logan and Macfarlan left, he lingered and
lit his pipe.

"The trouble will be," he said slowly, "that they won't understand