New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1922, Page 9

CHAPTER 1. It was a land of splintered peaks, of deep, dry gorges, of barren mesas bugat by the suns of a million torrid summers, The normal condition of it was warfare, Life here had to pro- tecl Itself with a tough, callous rind, Only the fit survived. Around the camp-fire the drivers of the trail herd squatted on their heels or lay sprawled 'at indolent ease, The glow of the leaping flames from the twisted mesquite lit their lean faces, tanned to bronzed hecalth by the heat of an untempered sun and the sweep of parched winds. ut of the soft shadows of the summer night a boy moved from the remuda toward the camp-fire He was a lean, sandy-haired young fellow, his figure still lank and unfilled. As he sat down on the wagon tongue the stringiness of his appearance became noticeable. A young man waved a hand toward him by way of introduction. “Gents of the D Bar Lazy R outfit, Mr. David Sanders, formerly of Arizona, will make oration on the why, where- fore, and how-come-it of Chiquito's superiority to all other equines what- ever.” # “I'd like right well to make love to that pinto my own se'f, Bob," con- mented a weather-beaten puncher. “Any old time Dave wants to saw him off onto me at sixty dollars I'm here to do business.” “You're sure an easy mark, Buck,"” grunted a large fat man. His white face and soft hands differentiated him from the tough range-riders. He did not belong with the outfit, but had joined it the day before with George Doble, a half-brother of the trail foreman, to travel with it as far as Malapi. He was known as Ad Miller. Doble backed up his partner. “Sure are, Buck. I can get cowponies for ten and fifteen dollars—all I want of ‘em,” he said, and contrived by the lift of his lip to make the remark offensive. “Not ponies like Chiquito,” tured Sanders amiably. “He's some bronc,”” explained Bob Hart. “Got a bagful of tricks, a nice disposition, and sure can burn the wind.” “You don't say.” The voice of the fat man was heavy with sarcasm. “And on top of all that edjucation he can run, too." The temper of Sanders began to take an edge. “I don't claim my pinto’'s a racer, but he can travel." “Hmp!" grunted Miller skeptically. “Don't look to me like no raccer,” Doble dissented. “Why, I'd be most willin’ to be that pack-horse of ours, Whiskey Bill, can beat him.” “Job Hart helped things along. “I've got ten bucks says the pinto can beat yore Whiskey Bill.” “Go you once,” answered Doble after a moment's apparent considera- tion. “I got fifty dollars more to back the pack-horse. How about it, Sanders? You got the sand to cover that?" “Betcha a month's pay—thirty-five dollars,” retorted Dave. “Might as well lose a few myself, seeing as Whiskey Bill be- longs to me,” said Miller with his wheezy laugh. “Who~wants to take a whirl, boys?” Inside of three minutes he had placed a hundred dollars. The terms of, the race were arranged and the money put in the hands of the fore- man. An hour later Buck Byington drew Sanders aside. “Dave, you're a chuckle-haided rab- bit. If ever I seen tinhorn sports them two is such. They're collectin’ a livin’ off’n suckers. Didn't you sabe that come-on stuff? Their packhorse is a ringer. Both of 'em are crooked as a dog's hind laig."™ “Maybeso,” admitted the young man. “But Chiquito never went back on me t, These fellows may be overplayin’ their hand, don't you reckon?" “Not a chanct That tumblebug Miller is one fishy proposition, and his sidekick Doble—say, he's the kind ‘of bird that shoots you in the stomach while he's shakin’ hamtis with you. Me, I aim to button up my pocket when them guys are around” CHAPTER IL A course was chosen for the race. From a selected point the horses were to run to a clump of mesquite, round it, and return to the starting-place. Dug Doble was chosen both starter and judge. Dave watched Whiskey Bill with the trained eyes of a horseman. The animal was an ugly brute as to the —_— T I T BUY THE MOLLY-0 SHOE AT KINNEY’S ven- bucks CROWLEY BROS. IN PAINTERS AND DECORATORS 267 Chapman Street TEL. 755-12 Iistimates cheerfully given on all {obe ———————e——r e e e ] BRING HOME THE OYSTERS : FROM HONISS’S ALWAYS FRESH 20-30 State Street Hartford Telephone 3374—3375 - ©107 by WILLIAN MACLEOD KAINE: \ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED = Printed by Permission head, But in legs and body it had the fine lines of a racer, The horse was bullt for speed. The cowpunch- er's heart sank., His broncho was fast, but the little range pony had not heen designed to show its hecls to a near-thoroughbred, “Are you ready?" Doble asked the two men in the saddles, His brother said, ‘‘Let 'er go!' San- ders nodded. The revolver barked, Chiquito was off like « flash of light, found its stride instantly. Be- fore it had covered seventy-five yards the pinto was three lengths to the good. oot by foot the distance be- tween the horses lesscned to two lengths, to one, to half a length. The ugly head of the racer came abreast of the cowpuncher. With sickening certainty the range-rider knew that his Chiquito was doing the best that was in it. Whiskey Bill was a faster horse, The halfway mark was just ahead. The cowpuncher knew exactly how to make the turn with the least pos- sible loss of speed and ground. Scarce- ly slackening speed, he swept the pinto round the clump of mesquite and was oft for home, Dave was halfway back before he was sure that the thud of Whiskey Bill's hoofs was almost at his heels. He called on the cowpony for a last of “GODDLEMIGHTY,” SCREAMED DOBLE, LEAPING TO HIS FEET. spurt. The plucky little horse an- swered the call, gathered itself for the home stretch, for a moment held its advantage. Then he knew that the bay was running side by side with Chiquito. The two horses raced down the stretch together, Whiskey Bill half a length in the lead and gaining at every stride. Daylight showed be- tween them when they crossed the line. Chiquito had been outrun by a speedier horse. CHAPTER III. Hart came up to his friend grin- ning. “Well, you old horn-toad, we got no kick comin’. Chiquito run a mighty pretty race. Only trouble was his laigs wasn’t long enough.” The owner of the pony nodded, a lump in his throat. He was not thinking about his thirty-five dollars, but about the futile race into which he had allowed his little beauty to be trapped. Dave would not be twenty- one till coming grass, and it still hurt his boyish pride to think that his fa- vorite had been beateh. The voice of George Doble cut in, openly and offensively jubilant. “I'N tell you now that broomtail never had a chance to beat Whiskey Bill."” “Yore hoss can run, sch,” admitted Dave- “He didn’t have to take the Kinks out of his legs to beat that plug.” “You get our money,” said Hart quietly. “Ain't that enough without rubbin’ it in?" The usual give-and-take gay repartee was missing at supper that night. What hurt was that they had been tricked, led like lambs to the killing. None of them doubted now that the pack-horse of the gamblers was a “ringer.” These men had de- liberately crossed the path of the trail outfit in order to take from the vaqueros their money. The punchers were sulky. Instead of wu fair race they had been up against an open-and-shut proposition, as Russell phrased it. The jeers of Doble did not improve their tempers. “They say one's born every minute, Ad. Dawged if 1 don't believe it,” of he sneered. Audibly Hart murmured his senti- ments aloud. “I'm liable to tell these birds what 1 think of 'em, Steve, if they don’t spend quite some time layin’ off'n us.” “Don’t tell us out loud. We might hear you,” advised Doble insolently. “In regards to that, I'd sure worry if you did.” Dave was at that moment return- ing to his place with a cup of hot coffee. By some perverse trick of fate his glance fell on Doble's sinister face of malignant triumph. His self- control snapped, and in an instant the whole course if his life was de- flected from the path it would other- wise have taken. With a fiip he tossed the tin cup so that the hot coffee soused the crook. “Goddelmighty!" screamed Doble, leaping to his feet. He reached for his forty-five, just as Sanders closed with him. Millgr, with surprising agility for a fat man, got to his feet and launched himself at the puncher. Dave flung the smaller of his opponents back against Steve, who was sitting tailor fashton beside him. 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