Clancy saw this, and gave vent to a mocking laugh.
“It’s anybody’s fight yet!” he yelled.
No longer fearing to show himself, he turned and made straight through the timber, coming out on the road in the vicinity of the blacksmith shop.
Coming upon this blacksmith shop was an entirely unexpected event, but it was one of which Clancy did not fail to take instant advantage.
There was only one man in the shop at the time Clancy made his advent on the scene—one man and the red-headed boy before mentioned.
The boy was having the horse shod, and just before he went to work on the horse the smith had been heating a crowbar for the purpose of repointing it.
The crowbar was still in the fire, one end cool, but the other sizzling hot.
The blacksmith looked up as Clancy burst in.
With a quick blow, Clancy knocked him out of the way, and looked around for a weapon.
The crowbar was prominently in his view, and he caught it out of the fire.