CHAPTER XXXIV

THE BALD KNOB STRIKE The room with the bullet hole in the swing door at the Ormsby House had become a place of pilgrimage. The proprietor of the hotel and its patrons pointed it out with pride to strangers and told the story of how Scot McClintock, left for dead, had come to life by sheer will power and killed one of the murderers through the door without even seeing him. In Scot’s actions there had always been a quality which distinguished them from those of other men. He had the gift of the heroic touch—somehow s…