Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 14, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO 2 s EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ElL fEatasesesasesssassasisssiesetarartizarisaisatetassd HS JUST REVENEE By GEORGE ELMER COBB. ' Lone Wolf, once an Indian chief, though he did not look it now in his rags and misery, but come of a proud | race, sat sunning himself on the pave- | ment. His squaw, a tiny pappoose at her breast, occupied a near doorway. | They were footsore, homeless, tired. Hungry, too, and it was fully ten miles to the reservation where they had! friends. | Suddenly the door behind the woman was pulled open inwards. Some one had come down the stairs from the gambling room above the town tavern. He was a flashily dressed, not unhand- some fellow, but the scowl of a loser was on his face. [ “Out of the way,” he growled rude- ly, and gave the squaw a vicious push with his knee. She could not help but topple over. He heard her head strike the hard pavement unmoved. She ut- tered a concerned cry, striving to shield the helpless pappoose, and rolled to a stop, sustained by one hand, with eyes and thought only for the little one. Then Mort Dwyer drew back and his hand whipped to his hip pocket like a streak of lightning. An inert mass, that squalid form on the pavement was suddenly infused with Iife. Straight as an arrow, a gleaming knife upraised, Lone Wolf made a wild spring for the miscreant who had im- periled wife and babe. Speedy as was the gambler, he would have been at fault and disad- vantage had the Indian perfected that maddened swoop. Lone Wolf's flight was checked by a low beseeching word from the squaw. Seemingly it told him that the pappoose was unhurt. Further it awoke the savage to the realization that an attack upon a white man in that section, no matter how pro- voked, would culminate at a rope's end. The woman was bruised about the face and bleeding, but what mat- tered that, when the child was safe! So with a muttered curse Dwyer | strode from the spot. Lone Wolf gath- | ered up his traps. His squaw prepared to move on. The child wailed at being disturbed by the rough shaking up. “Wagh! Lone Wolf will remember!” | spoke the Indian with a last menacing | glare after the gambler. The latter forgot the incident with: ! in the hour. He was of a profession and border experience where Reming- tons and Bowies played conspicuous parts. Free of the babbling business thoroughfare of the town he paused re- flectively. A man of coarser mood than himself joined him den rudely dashed to the ground. It was only recently that old John Bare- lay, father of Eva, had made over all his property to her preparatory to moving to a real city over the divide As the sole lawyer at Rocky Gap Worden had made out the papers That was only three days before. d'hey deeded to Eva a ranche and a resi- dence, the most pretentious in the dis- trict. That afternoon Worden learned that the first stage coach through for a week was to convey Eva to the coun- ty seat, on her way to the city, where she was to advance her musical edu- | cation. Her father was to accompany | her. | Dwyer owed Worden money. Be- | sides that Dwyer was a schemer and | fortune hunter and willing to pay a I liberal commission for money bene- fits received. Worden addressed him now in a confidential tone, with stealth- iuy, evilly gleaming eyes. ’ “What would you say,” he insinuat- ed, “if I can gain you the whole Barc- ’ lay property without the girl?” in His Hunting! “I'm game!" replied the knave promptly. “What's your scheme?” .| It was told—and carried into effect. “"Dowh Oh Your 1uck, it seems?” ob- | It was simple, for Worden knew his served the latter, stealthily studying grounds well. He was aware that the face of the other. | while a legal transfer of the Barclay “It seems right to you, then,”| property had been made to Eva, the growled Dwyer. “The cards have deed was not yet recorded. turned wrong and Monte Pete has got| Her father was to be hired into a me for more than I am worth.” specious gambling plan. He was to be “Try the heiress, Miss Barclay,” swindled out of his ready money. Then smiled Luke Worden, lawyer and Dwyer was to offer to stake him to a blackleg—principally the latter. fair amount for a quit claim deed on “Hey?" ejaculated Dwyer with a what property he might own in Rock start. county. Barclay had several mining “Why not? With her fortune you can prospects in litigation. He was to be afford respectability.” | made to believe that it was these that “You say it easy. From all I gather Worden was after. she is as good as engaged to that Now, in the meantime, by a strange young fellow Preston, the cashier at coincidental circumstance Lone Wolf the bank.” and his family became denizens of a “You get a start with the girl, and little house at the rear of the Barclay you'd ought to, for you've got fhe place. Eva had seen them. The looks and ways with you to captivate squaw was ill and she had offered women folks, and it's easy crossing them shelter, food and care. out Marcy.” Resentment at the wrong done him “I'll=T'11 think of it,” said Dwyer— by Dwyer the Indian had nourished. and he did. He not only thought of it, He had waited, watched for revenge, but he met his friend and familiar that and one afternoon, lurking near the evening more glum and despondent office of the lawyer, he overheard their than ever. | conversation. “Well?” interrogated the maker of Lone Wolf was intelligent enough to plots and benefited from the same, comprehend its purport. He was full “What luck?" of gratitude towards Eva. He knew “Miss Eva Barclay simply stared at of her lover, Preston, sought him out, me in wonder. Then she turned a ring and in broken dialect revealed his on her finger around several times. story. One hour later the faithful In- Why, she has been engaged to Rolfe dian, mounted on a superb steed, was Preston for nearly a month.” on his way across a 40-mile prairie “What would be your chances with stretch, the precious deed in his hunt- that forward young champion of law ing blouse. and order out of the way?"” At almost the same time, similarly “Not the slightest in the world,” de- mounted, Dwyer left the settlement by clared Dwyer definitely. *“The girl the same route. Lone Wolf knew that sn't of my class and never would be.” he had a 10-mile lead, but two leagues ~ Lamas angtochemo of Tawver Wor- beyond that his horse broke down. “Ibjs welll” B2 criod, 23 he settled The Precious Deed Blouse. LITERARY SOCITIES L. H. S. RHO SIGMA LITERARY SOCIETY ALPHA OMEGA LITERARY SOCIETY jate genius in others, : #t sounds like it AND, FLA., MAY 14 the wind direction and the probable distance of his rival. He knelt and struck a match. First a creeping, hissing snake of flame, then the mighty uprising of a P and then a wall of fire. It ran like lightning. It would not pause until it had swept Dwyer into retreat, as Lone Wolf well knew. And then, on foot, the dauntless sav. age started for his (hsmmtimll, g When Mort Dwyer, by a circuitous route reached the county seat the next afternoon, he knew that he had been outwitted. When he returned to the settlement that night, hot with rage and seeking for Lone Wolf, it was to find that the ! jarclays had sent him to & point of safety. Lone Wolf, the despised, had scored a just revenge! (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) WOMEN ARE VERY ACTIVE Big Things Members of the Fair Sex Are Doing All Over the World. England has a society of women bookbinders and also one of women printers. Dr. Anna Shaw, the well-known suf- fragist has refused to pay her income tax. ! New York university has founded a night college for women who have to work in the day time. Salt Lake City will have a school for nurses in connection with the County hospital. Miss Anita Grish has assumed her duties as superintendent of poor in Jersey City. Mrs. Cora Sharp has been appointed as postmistress at Foraker, Okla., to succeed State Senator W. R. Dutton, who resigned. Mrs, Sharp won the appointment in a competitive exam- ination, defeating several male con-| testants, Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, who lives at Hawkes, England, has jJust completed her hundredth year, but has a remark- able memory and can recite Scripture passages taught her in childhood by her mother. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst has been appointed a member of the Pan- ama-Pacific exposition commission by Governor Glynn of New York. She {8 the first woman to be appointed under the new law. Clear-Seeing Massenet. Critics have not yet assigned the late Mongieur Massenet his perma- nent niche in the Temple of Fame, but most of them agree that he was a charming, although not a great, com- poser. He had one quality of char acter, however, which I8 not the in- variable accompaniment of genius, musical and other: he could appreci- An anecdote taken from Figaro attests it A critic was indulging in extrava- gant praise of Massenet to his face, and wound up his flattery: “Wagner! What was he? His tal- ent is most absurdly exaggerated. I have to pick and choose among a lot of rubbish in Wagner.” “Is that so?” commented Massenet, suavely. “I should be quite happy with what you leave.”"—Youth's Com- panion. 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