You see what he was up to?
Way down in Cantigny they could turn a switch and start this blamed poison, half a dozen hogsheads of it, flowing into the stream.

They waited till they lost the town before they turned the switch, and they probably thought they could poison us Americans by wholesale.

Maybe they had some reason to think the blamed thing hadn't worked, and sent this fellow up.
I beaned him just as he was going to turn the stop-cock." "Maybe you saved a whole lot of lives, hey ?" said Tom proudly.
Roscoe shrugged his shoulder in that careless way he had.

"I'll be glad to meet any more that come along," he said.
It was well that Tom Slade's first sight of deliberate killing was in connection with so despicable a proceeding as the wholesale poisoning of a stream.

He could feel no pity for the man who, fleeing from those who fought cleanly and like men instead of beasts, had sought to pour this potent liquid of anguish and death into the running crystal water.