Station armed guards at every point where it is necessary,
and as many as are necessary. Use ten thousand men, if you need that many.
But don't fail. We'll give Ridgway a dose of his own medicine, and teach
him that for every pound of our ore he steals we'll take ten."
"He'll get an injunction from the courts."
"Let him get forty. I'll show him that his robber courts will not save him.
Anyhow, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
Hobart, almost swept from his moorings by the fiery energy of his chief,
braced himself to withstand the current.
"I shall have to think about that. We can't fight lawlessness with
lawlessness except for selfpreservation."
"Think! You do nothing but think, Mr. Hobart. You are here to act," came
the scornful retort; "And what is this but self-preservation."
"I am willing to recapture our workings in the Copper King. I'll lead the
attack in person, sir. But as to a retaliatory attack--the facts will not
justify a capture of his property because he has seized ours."
"Wrong, sir. This is no time for half-way measures.
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