New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1922, Page 14

Continued From Our Last Issue On the evening of the tenth Burns put in the cork, A string eight-ineh pipe feet long wus slid forward and ricked the stream T'he thad been fitted ous slzes to the gradually Bix hours later a mewspaper carried the headline BIG GUSHER HARNESSED AFTER WILD RAMIPAGLE Jackpot No. 2 at Malapl Tamed, Long Battle 1. CHAPTER XVII o sixty over pip well casing, these It was a surprise to Dave to dis- | of | 1 eover on setting out for the scene the hold-up that the horse Steve had got for him was his own old favorite Chiquito. The pinto knew him. He tested this by putting him through some of his old tricks, He nuzzled his silky nose against the coat of his master just as in the days of old, Crawford searched over ground. ‘“Just like I thought, The posse has been here and stamped any tracks. No w of tellin' which of .all these footprints belonged to them. Likely none of 'em.” They made a wide circle to try to pick up the trail wanted, and again a still larger one. 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ADKINS 68 CHURCH STREET Jday [over a | der-'0 with valves of vari-|looked down upon After it had been (astened [ca were | reduced to check the flow, | metropolitan puncher Dave, |by ¢ s — |wvard to cor Printad by Permisaion of and by special arrangement with el (s through the divide beyond, und down into Jdg cabin squatted on the sigpe, | had to be almost upon it Lefore could e en Its back door | the entrance to a fenced across to od canon, | \ it T'his a corral ittleman and the cow- | sked at each other without | This was the haunt!| or Wus The verhal comment {of rustiers Horses were drowsing sleenily in the corral. Dave slid from the saddle land spake to Crawford in a low volce, | | "I'm going down to have a look at/ those he sald, unfastening| his rope from the tientos, | Dave walked down the steep hill- side and dropped into the corral. A man came to the back door of the cabin and stretched in a long and luxuriant yawn Carelessly and cas- ually his eyes wandered over the cor- ral. For a moment he stood frozen, his arms still lung wide, From behind him came Crawford's voice, cool and ironic. “Much obliged, Shorty. Leave 'em right up and save trouble.” The squat cowpuncher's eyes found there the owner of the D Bar Lazy R. “Wha'lya want ?** he'growled sul- len horses," step for- Keep ou——just now. Dave, ward and get his six-shooter. “WE'RE GOING TO HANG YOU,” HE SAID QUIETLY. him between you and the house. If anything happens to you I'm goin’ to kill him right now.” Sanders took the man's gun and ran his hand over his thick body to make sure he had no concealed weap- on. “I'm going to back away. You come after me, step by step, so close i1 could touch you with the gun,” or- dered Dave, The man followed him as directed, his hands still in the air. His captor |kept htm in a line between him and |the house door. Crawford rode down |to join them. I “You live here, Crawford curtly. “Yes."” The answer was sulky and reluctant. “Alone?" iy es. Crawford turned to Sanders. ““What about the horse you looked at, Dave?” “Same one we've been trailing. The one with the broken shoe." | “That yore horse, Shorty?” | “Maybeso. Maybe npt.” | “You've been havin' company here ‘lately,” Crawford went on. ‘‘Who's yore guest?" “You seem fo be right now. You and yore friend the convict,” sneered the short cowpuncher. on't use that word Shorty,"” -advised the ranchman e gently ominous “Why not? True ain't it? t none, does he 2" ore he could answer Dave spoke “Man coming up from the creek.” Crawford took erisp command “Back in that corner, Shorty. Dave you stand back, too. Cover him soon he shows up.” Dave nodded stood in the doorway, big He was a mountain His breath came in Shorty?” asked again, in a Doesn't 18 geeri sagging fi wheezy puffs “Next time The . | protut r s, still 1lly from in the room lemighty!™ T give uj your own—"" died away. The 1d and fishy one to another ot e passe he gaeped. “Don’t burket of water, opped from his nerveless fingers ilt over the floor. Like a bullet ont of a gun Crawford uestion at him Where have Aden the money you got from stage?"! The loose mouth “Why, we. Keep vore trap ordered Shorty. jabbed rustler of the convict e shut, you durn fool,” Crawford of the rifie into the “Yours, too his ribs Shor But the | Miller’s flabby will ronger one. done broken had been had been sh 1a ardily and spoke |again. “Third degree oh 2" Mil- ller wasn't in that hold-up any more'n or stuff i | own talkin', lead n-nmi Miller do his He don't need any ‘Let Shorty. vou." Dave drew keeping a viel his aside, still it eve on the prison- to play our hand Shorty is game. He can't’ But Miller can. T found s e squeals at physical We'll start for home. After 1 while we'll give Shorty 4 chance to| make a getaway. Then we'll turn the| screws on Miller.” i “All right, Dave. You turn ft. I'li] back yore play,” his friend sald | They took the back trail across the | valley to the divide. Tt was here they gave Shorty his chance of escape., Miller was lcading the way up the chief % | pain agely. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY and Dave | rode for awlord, Shorty wd trai with Cr Dave the D Bar Lazy KK, For three seconds his turned to the squat he order nar fer w | was cow puncher Shorty wildly 1 his horse and fung, the whirle I down sander the pursuit party on the Crawford glance heavy chaparral a bit Dave The younger agreed turned to Miller We're going hang you," he said quietly The pasty ebbed titl his bloodless My od! o that!" he moaned Underneath a rather scrubby cedar Dave drew up. He glaneed It over critically “Think 110 do? he asked Crawford in & volce the prisoner could Just hear “Yep, That big (imb'll hold him," the old cattleman answered in the same low voice. “Retter let him stay right on the horse, then we'll lead it out from uader him."” Miller pleaded. for his life abjectly, His blood had furned to water. “Honest, 1 didn't shoot Harrigan, Why, I'm that tender-hearted 1 wouldn't hurt a kitten, T--Y-—" Crawford's face was as cold £nd as hard as steel ‘Why not? You're # murderer. You tried to gun Dave here when the boy didn't have a six- shooter." The man under condemnation could hardly speak. His throat was dry as the desert dust below, “[—I done Mr, Sanders a meanness. I'm sorry."” “You lied about him and sent him to the penitentiary.” “I'll fix that. Lemme go an’ make that right." “How will you make it right?" asked Crawford grimly, and the welght of his arm drew the rope so tight that Miller winced. “Can you|g give him back the years he's lost?" 1 “No, sir, no,”" the man whispered | eagerly. “But 1 can tell how it was |y —that we fired first at him. Doble did that, an' then—accidental—1| killed Doble whilst I was shootin' at | Mr. Sanders." “Yessir. 1 did it—accidental—when Doble run forward in front of me. Tha's right. I'm plumb sorry I didn’t tell the cou't so when you was on | trial, Mr. Sanders. I reckon I was | | | | precipitous slope gave up to the 1ort ehase e baek after a He v summit il the off around at How about here He to man f the fat man scemed entirely You wouldn't [ \ o h 1 1 4y bi Irn scairt to."” “Will you tell this of yore own free will to the sheriff down at Malapi?" asked Crawford. | “I sure will. Yessir, Mr. Crawford."” | The man's terror had swept away all | thought of anything but the present peril. 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N.Y, —— "hbe ["nless he'll clear that up, I ote to finlsh the job." better," tie the agreed the rope to the lead the orse from under him Dave."” Miller broke down. He groveled. T'll tell. T'll tell all 1T know. Dug Joble and Shorty held up the stage. don' know who Kkilled the driver. hey didn't say when they came ack." “When did you escape?" “On the way back to the peniten- A fellow give the deputy heriff a drink on the train. It was oped. When he went to sleep I got ff at the next depot. Horses was vaitin’ there for us."” “Who do you mean by us? as with you?" “I don' know who he was. Iellow sent him to fix “Maybe we'd attleman, “Tll Who Continued in Our Next lssue. CROWLEY BROS. 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Remond, who also had ideas the land had other values, including gold deposits and clays good |for pottery. tions as encountered in the new col- ony, dificulties of farming and other problems caused the colonists to grad- ually abandon their project, and many moved into Dallas, county in of Vietor Prosper Cantegral, for whom Cantegral street in Dallas is named, with Considerant, 7' 00 19: DRY FARMING BEING WORKED BY TEXANS Experiment Is Successful in Town Near Dallas Dallas, Tex,, Peb, 7.—The first dry [farming In Texas is believed by older |residents here to have been attempted | successtully just west of Dallas, In- “l‘hln‘nlnll)‘ where it was attempted has land with valuable Development of the land for farm- undertaken by a I'rench political refugees The first dry Inexperience with condi- The French colony came to Dallas 18556, under the leadership Considerant, M. was prominent ‘The colony consisted of political most of whom distingulghed They refugees from I'rance, were men who lhad themselves in politics or science settled on the hill west of which Is called Westery Helghts and which was then known as Flanders Heights, The colonists took up agsl- culture and bullt houses of stuff quar- ried from the hills Only two or three houses still stand and they are in a dilapidated condition, One of the colonists was I, Rer ond, who was famed as a sclentist an spent the greater part of his life de- veloping the possibllities in the for- mations of those western hills, He | made pottery and cement and terra cotta and varlous other things from the materials found there, 1t was sald to be duc to his efforts that the existence of gold in paying quantities in the hills was discovered, but It was found to be more profitable to make cement than to separate the gold. 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