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“But not a Pittsburgh dodo,” said Isaac Bell

BOOK TWO

FIRE

18

Brother,” said Mary Higgins “I ah”

Ji about this and here it was Back in West Virginia, a thousand miners had been evicted fro in a tent city, their usual fate while a strike dragged on and scabs dug the coal Soh in hopes that newspaper stories aboutin cold rain would raise the nation’s syive President Roosevelt courage to intervene

A thousand ood chance of doubling their ranks and doubling theain as workers struck the hundreds ofthe way to join thein Pittsburgh ins dreamed of But he hesitated to join it

The murder of Black Jack Gleason had turned theto call up troops Prosecutors were staging trials And the coal mine owners had dropped even pretenses of restraint

“There’s plenty to keep us busy here Plenty The smelters’ strike is a disaster”

“Read this!” She thrust the Denver Post in his face and pulled a carpetbag from under her cot Jiot blown up”

“Keep reading Do you see what happened next?”

Jies that sank at Gleasonburg had blocked the river for four days

Mary asked, “The rivers are not deep at Pittsburgh, are they?”

“Not very The Mon’s about eight or ten feet Shallower in heny”

“And the Ohio?”