The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1900, Page 8

THE SUNDAY CALL. the evening Danke he'll make a story of it that'll tickle the TG STeRRE Denkes and Zella would st tier comprehended the anecdotage phase her woman's clothes, a complete outflt, to - X ¥, O, a3 Dankes y of the soldler's career; but wl’:’non‘ e minutest detalls; skirt, glouu. et, city folk.” left, en? loved to «all it, “the stocp,” which o U - :;g:x:asw!errla of nmg;n:mg and l;ah‘-bmd(h hat, Dot todm;nuu:uunm:‘clo(hlnc. no:;e g:eg:-'m Interviewed the h"liu - ::fdc ;:roa’:’x/.»‘ ne:ny:!;ps that hag 2 . Zrim c - jewelry, 3 A fully manipu- i o 1 id chopped and sawn t ing. The ribald side of & man's Nfe was lated. o that sShe could wear it as a Wig, Valley. the Drift, the Ridge. a string 0f onch, GO Gpe, [honped and sawn ¢ new to her and made her sick at heart. A Chicago theatrical wigmaker had done mules, and the Drift's ne Vato Bis note- in the distric a beeeh, Danx ked i L ; 3 Once in a4 way her mental sufferings her this service. So far as was possible blind drunk and worked four days! Was, & solitary trec that had, drive were appeased by the manful protest of Zella aveided lying, but this part she was book jthe entl:g cab&]?l’:_s’dfifixcuse me; vast Toots right away under the . some strong fellow. who was too much In Pplaying was a lie in itself, and a ile has “Is that so?” sal el 1 thirk 1 may and!down into the trail, show g love with some good woman to endure to supported. She had told the perru- I am but a visitor, but higk fake a and then In serpent-like "feelers. any -camn{ at the sex. A San Frantisco :\lfller thnn she wanied the m‘i for a crl::;: jeigl\‘.;e_ to ask you if you- f?.\;:ed Gllu\'«r ":uu-{ notice, [ remember, : man won her h nging €r she was 10 rej ent in a . —dr] ? . . tes O m_stepy the i day he come; saii ; remark: “m:d‘;%:gggm'& t:r:‘olt ym‘x There was truth in this, for «4n"the *“Me and Ol Prudent u};:‘; Knlw,é;‘;one 1 could Boas€ what a gregt lord or e b ot s e e e L world's a stage." and Zella had cast Her-- me in 's heart ltke pisch. iines lald of the oldex time b d, at & place in OJ' 2. TI0N ported with, ““Stranger, I th you; T Eelf for a serious role, for the perfect real- fair and square, fought om FHCH England he called - e iy Temember my mother.”” ‘‘And, by gosh, ization of which she uired the cunning down by the p, and he wa steps of the hall w >ped out it's a pity tilt you dldn't bring her ©f the fox and the sfrength of the lion ali-fired skunk and two oak tree, the lke of R soes along!” retorted the ribald-monger. Noth- Having relocked the trunk and dragged Zella fetched the jar of W - ch in Amerie But he o knowledg: Scile fE O o abnshed’, et ;‘d repllcd‘ that she It into the furthermost corner of the glasses, and placed them on the benc o(_uur Tighty monarchs n Callfornia. u're for & pipe, w roads is dear. Ned G! : ; corable op- 1 ‘accoms s would be s . - room she undid her male traveling bag, outside. She thought it a fayora > Qv Bt have B ey g gD potlons; one was that it was & DIty €010 §i°hih "of Guch company. jot alone being In Which she had packed as much Shenge Dortunity to study Disses. Her palicy, attv. oL A g T T e s Lad ever blen struck in Platts Valley. Na- i, it wanq damme, It thée voungeter isn't Of dfess as it would conveniently carTy, from her first conception of her plot. was hat-3 A h el aay ture should ha' bien Ieit us God had 1eft ryopiv“the Californian had rejoined. Zella At Carson City she had left a case of to make friends with him, to B K v T . sald Dankes. T guess T've e W yober” e Oho 'S BASK It sort o earthly paradise, he sald it §5d however, done her best, a3 the cons MININg tools and other thinge, which Were the seeret of his fence, 10 Oor. o win taken to you Ikewise; most on your own . L yon: st ha' b'en, before men c: i ro o7, J Pork v 4 i sica por, 2 . chly £o Sensen about With ‘tools and shovels and. fire- {LO¥CISYy becaine hot, to cool it down, and 10 be, delivered at ihe Forks, for ulti- weakness of his physical atftif, There uchly for the reacon that you arette. 1 have jhrands, clearin’ the forest and breakin’ up f;?‘i‘i‘;‘,flfiegdflfli,fi(’;h Ana‘pleasant Dot L e T L s e e At O S Rdatuar t) the ground. But O e hamber that had been oc- knife the Southern general had giyen her. condoned or justo at say that "bout most cupied by her lover at Prudents Guleh, Sbeé unsheathed it, examined the blade, fied in o contest bétween a W xy!rurll -“;; with Abner D d.d thfg!Ll;eJ l:)‘;ei_ael,\- ce with a vague sense of illusion; a and, having made a few pusses with 1t, such a monster. It was wonderful, s 5 ~“Oh! well, i bout my de pard. thing, you don't the rocks, and om the depths of his an ola tobacco pouca p store), and ook out 1_reckon you e t is be on 2 ‘ lng akt th v he evol fastened it to her wrist; gripped it, twist- felt afterwarc, that she could have hed il & MY ‘Wwhen thescd “My pa uset now And . agen 0 isw't eut up with rafl- (TCTRE S Lo (»Q‘;.ér‘.‘..:‘fn"; tnfec:;:élm:e‘;! ed it round and fingcred 1t by way of exer- tieny interc: ed’s murderer: fl""gv're::‘a r‘:‘n{h o But smoke & Cigares s be aade up hisself; 02d tracks and coal pits, and bricks and i i PEC (R CTRRNC 5 TG BOML SEBC clse; and then, sheathing it, hung 1t upon B o aid so, : came to thé o law or p < < his faney was, nevertieless, a pipe But and churches and barracks and 3 the wail. For her own defense on her corclusion thef, v had met before, I¢t K ¢ ver she? What was she? Who was s i cum- 2 you let alone parks, o m‘;o)“,“, i Bolaaatidi She B“} journey she had carried a revolver in the it nad been uzder agreeable circum- TEZ ueen lives and the like; that DeT €ry was rapi e came out Of ) 5ok pocket of her trousérs in some infamous resort, perhags, d that plenty lives O cioulieds wide awake. She latenod. - hat she hung these by the side of those — “Wall. what's the odds whar’ _ we've as is anchored in a4 208 25 l';IOLVemC;I.L‘;fi the Mx‘*m‘:&" poor Ned had left, and alcngside his met, youngster? Here we go!” 2 a and ports; and the room is-8o That wouid be oid Solomon getting up, A clothes she pegged a coat and waistcoat. Here we gol re wed Zeolla an Wi d his boo! 12} - N Ne. on,as have been born bave a fancy oth- erwise, Jet alone iivin’ in the cities. Philip helped himself 10 us smuil a quan- ky us might be sufficient ex- ed-u cigarette storfes and ex- nearcr ihe stove. :;:aellg A 1_!‘»:_\"'(;\3:)l::.‘ftte}‘(e;mdho:::um‘s'ma# dog barked. That was Jim. = Somebody ‘hllnl:Cgpz:E&CUnt;rCm h:;xnt-ag alsnlm}l'lc:sfi deank the heaviest giass of whisky she A = atitg (Do SXbp, Hith B Pag- out the blacks and pushin’ them on, just Pa Sime mornin’, guv nor.” That,would Neaw Photograph, At fisst she. ad T T R G S e g Gava vouid he Jack Fomn- Glover, ho. give quite a. different account. §OLLOR curtain partly trom the small Win- §¢ ynperved her too much to have it con- Da_nk;s S - as 1 grouted Jish wade fo the alor. with He usér ter say. 'Solomon, old chap, Sol- §o% The light streumed in. She cllmbed tinualy nhoat her. Heving pressed it ton. Lhi, i (e ; sald Danke B i e 5 4 Vi it t Vs & rth. P COu b e D = d % > U ] 'son s ed SR e s W RITRE Yoa Jheiwinduw, sudely MBHe alid 1o th 7 ST e At U el and bRovs i L AR, M. caylight srivle 18 like & deep Pool b 2 B St hep Best” 5 or, and examined ihe window: N s e - 2 ayHght. - = ead 5ld Jumper, with &t her best 4 she sald “I am no “§fa" 1y @own the trail, his great overgrown wering s 2 4 i Zells kept her.eyes’ el upo~ The 0O ome could see in without standing va na len; He lumbergdl do et A hrenks T a Woman, since g ket { a scum of re £ a barrel, or hauling cn to the window i n‘m'l::‘, “lvr 1’.’;’5? Jroad’ bk Swiying like the beam of ¥ "nr» is suniight and tall reeds smolderl. frame. She would aiter the blind; but, & wood that glimmered brightly of the smal 10 mote, 1 ;a4 man with ngne b lugger in a mough sea, his thick beots which . i« purpose,’a strong i g Bt T fing that up from such a depth, you jade o acieimpt lo'stay the A eniy i tio: she el b ange in B mion (Y more, tham once pale-feared B o i e ant nk what would happex to you hat blurred the piciures sihe saw jo= oo e ght was anni did you aot, my POOT {rail gg if he were dr always v tefully to his master and there, all of them with one prominent fig- i, £93¢ivec. She lay stlll, and contem- cear? Yet it was'in a mannish'act I won (=il as it be wer i Whea : or from the advantage of Ure In the forezround—Ned Glover, in his "girange, that two rooms of Glovers Yoonjsuscohiible heart. ‘That night. under yes feched himsel and thens s tlanzels, wait {o join bim O should have been left undisturbed. out of e auiek Sa e Camirat shot) that ay he straight i an alacrity o { Dave, opening the door. the shore of 1 e ng the doo X 0 n. . mere sentiment: the one at Parkside, and soui maCKoas, A7 hot, that my that was wonderful to see his room 1. The bag he tles in Spain,’ he says, ‘vou may think, "8R8 Lo o trouble. Oh! but I loved you; and I hated jhied: black-hearted rion fer - exelaiiags b runk he flung Solomon, old chay find 1810 < yie DAt i poroof Foush timber, Will .to-haye ¥eu:go awey. 1t was for me you Jolé when Be had dissppeared o irw ut clothes, the Carlyle book. I . Hoor. r from Lon- e b o clothe Jent away, that you might get money 0 ng 1t shall be done all o as felt a rep { at first. But Ned ‘W B & g sh _our mest, vou said. Why didn’ 2 done all or s et T : Se Fnapen e et i In the room hung Ned's mining rig, his cap the whisper i mb hears cry oat i fall h rtten in the m = ; and kis hat; oh anogher a biue serge suit tones and 5 2 g ? Solomon's 4 ; and protest against your going? he sets to, 4nd @ broad felt hat. Close by was a Why did I so tamely consent? What wouid ) the most IACK or shelf, with volumes of {t have tered if they had said you e uibes s sirl, with e oSt DooESt SihesdlR new papers crammed on were a coward when we knew differently? e oy WhEG It ht,” said Dave, layi ' * llut there, ¢f you gets me on this » e Say 8 ¥ was a beautiful dream while it lasted, C: o YoRr v e B at runk. wiltin' with tiredness. Come on, Mister g & gun rack, carrying a . besutiful ut it is over; and your Zella 5 g v & the difference between ‘one = P .A}i‘fné““f(“yw Bil. Take a dritk and Grey..and lof me fp the” dnners-gtoom ot double-barreled shotsun and a rifle. A is a man; a comrade already of your = d-{'tfl'.{'w ‘;l!‘;l“v:)"r‘l‘j__-“b::"‘e:g ef you ain’t no serious objection & dollar the bed chamber.’ Ned Glover used ter revolverand a ‘“'gg,c ol knives Were hang- aner‘ and a comrade who shall do'you ¢ne feil! in the eyes of the blue cyes b in the L and the overhay t a glimp: s, you Temple, after yo and he’ describes & boughs, t *em in Mister Glover’s room, among the waving r X o » ing onr hooks. e doorside of the tice; who shi = poor weak spirit t B he high ana mighty.” P h? 1l me, stice;' who shail play the same of man ¥ t 80 "Don‘t ‘Want no dollar, boss, but T'll take 1M 10 DIS Bunk. whom he Was Just Fo0m there was a roush drop-board, with Tkes ‘ha vhispering in ** ‘Purple and fine iinen, 1 think the Bi- better than even nkes has played it; W shade below par’ as he would sy, & £mall looking glass and sundry simple for, loving you so, how could he have be’; “Vensean ble b said Dankes. ® QMK I contribute a trifie to your acthlgkin of Hio gal. Youl fng hor pla: {ollet things, a”comb and a pair of consented to let the monater live who ° A0R.IE JhS Te g Yes,” Zella replied, surpeised hy the Syngpsis. 3 . 3 st as he left it. Drushes, shaving utcasils, and a wicker vowed vour death in Chicago. and whose I shall be his minister. S ouRt™ mab : tur alongside his bunk . " y 4 s Athietio Club and type. Coins that jingled, % my pard quit the g it might Keep you there hung her own = photograph, with~the rules of a camp? You see, Ned, I am into the tyrant ¥ AN e “Not s glest, mister, which you @wake, thinkiy', and that ain't no good $uch a happy expression on the youthful a man, and can talk to you as a man. It Slew him? Judit oot A g -7 are, 1 reckon,” interposed Dankes. “Biil's to @ féller as have b'en workin’ his way face that she paled whilc looking at it, may be that your dear spirit hovers over Vens S gt home by a ruf “pay Yor civilities with dol. Over the trail from the Forks, 'bout as gnd felt the tears rush into her c_\-?, me here, whkeére vou !ived and talked of does not alw But T owe Bill on accotnt. and i Tough a hit of fravel as L'k . * * But this would never do! She me, and loved me and wrote your one i te ay 1 noe e b e i s b e must suppress all womanly emotipns. Tt t letter to me. Was it all ordained, o, 1t's goin’ 1o be & shootis mat. followed him, her throat too dry for Seemed to her that she had done noth- ou told Dankcs evervthing is or- Tl 518 " speech, She felt as a bride might, who IU& but ery, in a furtive way, ever since dained? Was it ordained that I should was being conducted to her nuptial ¢ouch, $he had entered old Soiomon's hospitabls drift into athletics and sw wh ¥ lord lay desd doors, must buckle on a manly reso- Wrestlin E ere’s her 1@ Dankes, walk- lution, with her jerkin and boots. trun ss of the old man's remark; “and thing like the text. Clothes beneath, we are all alike, e grandest: a Duke, Judge, the t of the United States, either, to now, If he wero ipped, just a d radish, with a ticaily carved head. If we had all ked we shouldn't know one from m e with thunderboits. pling who brought a sling and cut off with his own sword. to have been Ned's =nd lunges at Glover, wn by a blow from Zel uldn't we! I'd pick Abner Digges { whole naked world,” sad e 2ih 10 R B Jh that hung IMUSt be no more whimpering. no more re- pass that 1 " said Zella with a blush. 5 ¢ g Ipto Duey Rl U DS ¥ membering that she Brunneni, ancel? First. ur sweet \ there's wuch the same lines ad with the SUE 3 except to fortify her its mission, imagination, ti lossam into eddicated, weli-grown youngater me; 1 know her hand and her eyes for the work that the angel brow and the world over; though I reckon 1'q yer pride; was before her, s b Grey. Ned. T sometimes 3 for possibl ou by your eyes, yot to speak of Al _ She listened ag slomon was wash- lla’ Brunnen and c the rema tn.” s as he closed the ing outside the cabin. She looked 'round 2 rest, and that I bait ‘of i hat oue would call o e the room. There were no arrangements ag. Philip Grey. . . . It tigure a springy, well- T Pt up with. e, for washing. may be th, e really changed indeed; g fellow wouid have, Ame n e which o L2 friend. . and for the _ - Don't you go for to that what I was belcnged to another narrow in the walst, s 8. e rest, you'r make use of world . . . Untii the blade falls that shoulder: T Svereiiint Fon vl splashings of the water; hangs over the fiend that cuc the thread you row into a strong fel- o saved feels AR A ed Wwonld: & ster needs ali the s! of your life ile yet our dream was well set up at startin’. You're urb him, guv'ner, YOUDNg i sful, T am no more Zell you du ned build that 1 was or wouid like T gain't a 3 L v e % B 't mean let ver. He's just Brunnen. . . . After that? Well, G age." ter's 8 Biegn gl L TBt hmary, St ta e hisself in. % Or Tite, or the Recording : r Old Prodent. Sestag . May, miother: Pin te be ‘Queen: ol the he thinks we're bandits,” said V sighf. she kissed the picture. and you must have been a A ok e wshing an unusual quantity of Teplacing it in her bag, which she lifted anxious wnen you were three- o WOt ues S0, o out. . to the top of her trunk. Then he straight- of money. “Shouldn’t wonde: said D ¥r that he was g John, God bless “He's ened the room and did the like for the t a young Herk'le est weppins you C€abin generally; which done, she tnok ver into the same mp with the I seen one to nowled, s > like eRpInS YOU G i hen chl: aud sanaterodant upon the who had sworn to kill him? * * * Dt T Conld grayuie w Mar el i Tiok . s a see ef ther h o a plateau, where Solcmon Dankes had erect- Dexter's absurd passion for her s of a scout when the Indians i at sort of a weppin? - : . s e t be a ladies’ gun, ef ladies ©d his abiding-place. . £0 tempesiuous, o cru e oy e ek e S & Where the trail Tan out into the rutted hi lousy of Glover 0wt it now; so big?"” doerw. v that led to the valley and the inst his Hf him, was the faint- ice she g that had been her lover's X s destined 10 be her own. Dankes! . » b X % RS ths 2 No, so litle! ana tucked Int 5y drifs beyond a long span of mules loaved was too r'hmd‘umpm et bt « 'f‘l;eU‘h “335[‘11: breeches s if Le wornted to hide it e with ore were making their way to BE B Mo . Ol \r,:'{l.l.': it iy ok I “You've taken .stock of him, Dave?’ distant forks, followed by a wagon drawn She nad known of hing his beard, 1t to “the stove. - " aYou bet! Liever see such 8- jay this DY a8 many »s-tweige or(fourteen 1 could Soaks OB & - = vou. fe P side Carson.” als. he” shouts Vers_c v t P of smoke up amor B \ ML & ho-f?i,l! ;s;gagaegki( “Don’t think much of him, eh, Dave?" faintly u'pw;‘lldi *fl’d there v\‘us a di a ,k"f oy, n most men, many iilling his fresn, and addressing thee ‘There Yer wrong, guv'ner; T think a fnkle of the bells.’ The air was mild. ! rder the ence of wine 3 ~ by - t g 0! ) Y. L! A T e A bae by mighiy lot of him. He's got a kind of Abeut a’s feet blades of grass were as, gurely, under the uence of e Gr Now I cuce dressed up 4 S S i g o Ister, sald coB ot ooKed 2L e With ONe.SICBY smlle on him that's like you feel with the forcing themsclves shrough cracks and * Anyhow, shé would mot entertain g girl {0 act in a play, and those who did - . here's. Then. B SRVE HE S0 bo I R TR L R oRocs light of spring.’” crannics. Away over the valley, cooped for a moment the &ruel thought. tha n:"d not know me thought I really was a er gt L B T R LR, et pummin’ around with Dave put. , Have he, now, said Dankes. “I never UP On tlie side of the tall foothills of the crossed her brain. = Surely if there woman, 3 s = . e adihon. Al S0 Shuune SUF 88 o’ nup that mule 1 Peckon. fetnuvinrds - bW G an-eraads distant range of mountains, was the min- had been any business relations| ° Don’t say! Guess they wanted to be Zella res o D . VIS VL DUDDEA ing of Abmer Dy U that mule I reckon, somewheres, Ul CcifTor Mia remiar was Furothersd IDEcamp. of the tidge, 114 shaftings and tween him -3 before the mon.. complimentary to the acior. WhY, bless e drift. Digges in- Dig . ¥ inidag el “ha'e called a scrumptiogs i swishes of water and grufitings un- its mill plainly visible. On the near side ster's apy icago she would me, the swasger that's nat’rul to a young- s drift. Digges in- 20 s 3 poult hae cAId s aelRIib LoRS Cohnnciahle: of it, no doubi between Platts Valley and now she re- sep jike you, the swing of the arms, and ver and challenges P, who was prob- £ beet or ; N “Them city favs has a way with ‘em the Gulch, was the Drift; sho couid see ca n vivid de 1 : ha' giv'n you away to = : aid Dunkes, with Ned | Jim thut his half-closed eve and opened that’s thin, but this feller ain't no durned ‘hfiit!movke the = L."‘."nl‘};s‘“k e Md(‘lk-m vel of the triumph. of Sald Zella * . > 4he Deset. _As soon ind, “there's men as might the other for a second, and cuddled his Pride: might be a young millfonaire from White wreaths among the trees, . It was matic sequel of 1l o ieht sald Zgl T ddn’t » the shock of this rews, 0 s mind, “there’s men as might the ot or a 4 %, "Frisco; and vet he might be a dude, and there that Abner Digges reigned supreme. O'Hagan. To concentrate my fe-t were 8o big.’ " put ba’ chummed with the Angel Gabriel.’ stub of a tale between his legs, as if he i p He had been the luckiest man in the Val- work is the great taing; she would think ot too big for a m but for leave for a trip to Burope, but T, Cg ot " caid Phillp, her heart was determined not to-be led Info recrim- if he was a dude. it mowt be one of them X€ L e Dexter.at present. & © * Her - R s -,y s male sttire and sets out for _ T dare say.’ ea I ek e as you gets to like, if you ‘ever does ljke 1eY: His luck had conle with a dritt that no more of Dexter at present, T ° Jie7 man, just cances,” said or St SRS going out to mol.:une sweet }1‘48“30{" and l“()h B hrw bt well emough; yowa dudes; bui ef you ever did, them comic he had driven blind_ as a man might gaise one ém‘)le.( thD s”u v{ag .Ahr:»r iencs hén you don’t think 1 .hould,p'- for e Bty ey Tnd ot Hle Brunnen undes shicld him whatever ha ald. - You knywin' Papers 'ud settle yer. I dunno what ter e e Yomra Mmowi Hed Glavers said. om0 Iut O3 et esetet by Joseph Hatton. i laiced toward the old ragamuffin, it's a good thing I knows Make of him. Might ‘pn s for anything you Uked, ong fools! There was a troupe of pla come to a camp whar' 1 was workin® | v ” e Zella by the stove ; g Rt 3 “Don’'t let us try to mak - and a former shaft, which the boys of the Dankes, as he and Zella sat by v you. ~You cap't humbug - Solomon "ROWY let, ws try prg‘s:n;“y‘.'“;‘;m’n’:; Valley had driven, as they -thou@ht, in at bediime, “you'd felt fit to bhad shot IR XXXIII—Continued. chamber and w 2 " shert wal i i the wrong direction, and so had aban- him. 2 & rs ago, in California, and two of the your aget” She had not cxacily contemplated thia Jim moved uneasily and raised his head, e alt I his Cherations af the tub. doned it, as it turned out, right on tha It was he, then, who Kiiled your part- iciory poitotmed os women: ut fords? prhen #he made Wp BAC SHM £0 ek ot oy it Solomon wad indulzing in an utuseally Very lead they had been working for. mer = lordy! they never deceived nobody for half » Solomon Dankes and abide there at least of appeal. 2 . Digges had beeén one of the first in the Murdered him! a second.’ ¢ Euvior me that way” for the night. Something had, however, ‘You wowt do It again? Well, come o, e hriresy aghing himeelf, 1o DS Vailey, though! not before Dankes: and “But I thou bt it was @ ueize " S50 et, if they'd been gotten up to . Dok i Al QeerTBen. Tior ASvRRUNG Fad T WAt i . ®4% ¢ since poor Ned Glover was buried, Asserted a physical supremacy over mosi figl : passable”? u know st,” sa - Er 3 el S 3 o) =1 g 3 ,, i ticed 'way down South.” “That's so. But it's different when yo . o Ak han ains - s Presently, when he had finished his Of them. At Blind Man's Drift he was On & time prac : y - & n the whole, the had man- lpg:mc‘x:r-n.?{h‘ ar u‘,h'}‘m(mf_ ";;'L‘:;e%,?ég ablutions, and Zella heard him dressing, DOss. In the adjacent camps of Platts [Yearsagor’ == o sioeao gogq SOME 19 W e aua e G Tt vas well pechanaacter Tmore the bDest of iriends: and before She left her bunk. put on her flannel Valley he was feared; but he had oppo- Yes, and for ihat matter, $1of a5 £ood particular evening of taik ended & | Defore. she St (ol et i pipe was burning smoothly Shirt, and strapped her belt loosely abour Nents. His record was ome of blood. ana 8% Sn¥ QLT Fo Zelia had more than once feared that i me Dosk: T - fomen Henalt tu ety wnl asteep, i her waist. The modern women's fashion he gloried in It; at the same time claim- NBaRES BAS FERR o g y es half-suspected her. She had call me boss; S T e <5200 smokea and wonderea Of the blouse heiped Zella's disguise. " She I e i puc UEht falr. ast “Seenrd as he lost his head. I put him fore, resolved to probe his thoughts : ke _ for @ short time, his very clothes, which guest might be, and what his Pulled her shirt above her belt and undid | 75.Q, 5699 *904® daje ahd mountaln, UP 1o the way o' the theng, and, right the subject of clothes, with a_resuit " sald Dave pour- .y “had kissed ‘with reverence and on . and was giad he'liked the cut of (he coliar: it was the modern blouse, and Gite "ok 5 hends of the river, that had here, he was on t, clean: but when the that was very satisfactory (o her: for she g e Bt stan: O AR mads, Beby VoW DI Wenge- be” he said to himself, “ Opening her door just sufficiently to see DIE shallows about the Drift, shut in by lme come lost, K, head, struek, fows had found It o far more serious business sliwels o Limse pard, for example,” con- Dexter, the hanker, have sent mim to re. Dankes, breeched and almost fit to re- & sudden banik and bowlders and rock, ¥here he should he struck wp, DRCe [ to maintaln the identity of Phillp —— his hame was Glover— port on the work Glover had done or left Ceive company, she sallied into the open lhat cdually hid the busily worked clatms B many, s of bread and push- prior to pouring out e € 7 . i it warn’ to be! * d cheek o' day than it was when she was moving S "There was never in this one; mote Be he i 4 soungster sesking. N (8, L Sugerpe 000G, morning Shere. "The restfainess of It. however ar> Digges, comin’ herel” : Sari G R te another on WE Sowenny. et ned milk and sipp! & 1d a better felier. 1 spotted him for rience., A yery différent feller to him Dankes, tucked up her, shirtglecves and THCe o0 i e s Cp e IRREV I not - Was so anxious about Mr. Dexter; and She had trouble with her braces. “Onee or By A HEHY 3 e Washe e Heweraper, mauirin into he dgath 5¢ | Then, standin before Ned's glass, she anticipate. It scemed to say to her “Lel Frcm the first she had put aside corsets. me’ when T've sald to myself o fellers Glover. Don't know as I ever see d reg'ler felt as'if he might be looking over' her the dead rest: go back to Pavkside: leave DEFEIL .xackly say that; but perbaps Fxercises at the Symnssium of Chisass c 1n the stranger kere for? real rit, one to Stand by & friend and 4 Out-and-out mewspaper man come dircct Shoulder. She did not dave fo use his venseance to Goli vou are a woman: u'iient'have been inferred. He's gotton had taught her freedom of limb and chse 1 s you mean ter ac- comrade, where he do stand, as stands to t a mining camp afore; but they gets COWD and brush, Vet she had worn his PUL o YORL Jerth Sne Tesume VOUT money due, as don't come, It appears; and of carriage. A woman's hips are broader them sorter chaps, nowa- Clothes. She picked up her loose coat. f Tt > there’s a letter in the camp tellln’ as than a man’s. She had modified her fig- . i - 3 . 3 o & N SRR that was lying across her trunk, and took Scene with a negw scar of tragedy? Did Nen' N ure, to the outward e: with 1 Setion, 'that 1 ehould Dave said o you was ens b ki $lce as e was o Hewsaper chap hix from the inside pocket a small case con. Dot vour lover, Wnoin you would avenge, SOmethens wrong Sut e e broad sash ef silk about her waist, be- riy in thie employ of Mr. you shall {urn In, ef vou feels like it, Self, but 1 know'd better than, that: he !aining the humblest kind of brush, and declare that, tuould have ben hetief co .yes' He's disappeared. Nayther Chi- meath her shirt and blouse. The effect the minute I set muy eyes on hin in't been deceived much in m 3 to have said I came from twice she tried th get along with a beit. to give the stranger a bed?” ta the death. IU's a true saying that the cverywher . g rall. va ful, g smoothed her closely cropped hair. She eago New York knows anythin’ 'bout was to give what you may note in the fin- e feler, T dome LSRG 8¥Ey. Not “Wellsanother Qrink, Jas such w Teustful, romenelnl Kind er. (¢ 30 ssaly ‘aronnf her throat & colored gen_ benexthi the bills and covered’ with JIAR.S9F ¢ i est classical figures of Deautiful women, » Your face is = “Thank you, I am quite comfortable.” all right? ¥is candles is still Deckerchief, pulled on her jacket and flowers? Sosve “Strange.” a natural waist, fitted for its organs: not ve knows an honest man said Zella, trying to suppress herself, and I'd 'a’ thought he'd be'n asleep 100ked at herself. She thought ker eves CHAPTER XXXII “For a millionaire. TRink of the stocks & skimpy abbreviation, that forces them had a dull, tired expression, that her face be indeed Philip Grey. by now. ’ o And has glven me a good character?’ “Youngsters woon ’!fi, over beln’ tired; _He got up and went to the door of WA t00 gale. but she felt strong and la with a grateful smile. I remember there was nawthin’ I could do Philip’s room, and would have opened it, Well rested. e as he's interested in; think of the threads out of place, and often leads to premature 5 | gettin’ tangled! Why, death. She bad larger hands and larger BEHIND THE MASK OF PHILIP e e e n panic in Wall feet (ham some would commtder beant] 3 E mi t 7 . ¢ h ver in Wall street?” ' In a woman: but she was largely mad P o i B s 8, S sl g, TONCPY e T ” D T I Savah s AT bE: Sl s s o R iaune Etkicn s wibod T srhsssy, eTh VAR yon ovey MR el s Youss st . (i T e 1 se!d ‘as you was no tramp or greaser, But you are not an old man. b o s R : * 1 nter Abner Digges. Yet it “You seems to ha' zot along with this In Carlyle’s naked world thers would hava or sech,” said Da But I didn't reckon “Ain’{ sixty, or thereabouts, old?" ened voice. Like a top. A glcay BECA. SXat. Kooms D ieccas: i been no mistaking Zella for one of the ore You up, nayther. “Not at all ‘in these days.” Oh! I beg pardon. I thought as you “That's good. Dave's made the coffee, no cther than he who almost suddenly ap- vyere it ht to be civil to him. dinary herd. She and Diana would have 1 &am not just & mere adventurer. I've +IWhat do you call old, then?” mlgx&n be wantin' something; often found and gone off after that mule, then’s he peared to her. for she had been so ab- 1 thought "t“.g to offer him your been 2kin, though the sculptor might have o bit of money; Just enough dollars, I “Oh, ninety or a hundfed.. as Ned did. 3 to the mill_we're crushing’ some stuff sorbed with her thoughts and the scene it, %as & liberty ¥ taken exception to the muscle of Diana'e k. 1o pay for & claim, if there is ohe T Wouldn't want to live that long.” 'No, thank you, Mr. Dankes." was the {o-day. What'l you do?” before her, that she bud not noticed his " yoy can't take no iiberty here, Mister VAl One couid Imagine such a persone r ving. But, first, 1 want to «Why not?" reply. “Excuse me, but'T always fasten «Have some breakfast,” said Philip approach; nor could she for a moment Gi 1 reckon you 4id the right thing.” ality as Zella’s among the bands of Mil- L iy S5 SN nd ths Sort 7Y fivnbby N e My et s e the NIth a laugh, “Afn't that the first part pURIOTTH IR ST COL O S B G K. - ler's “Isles of tha Amazons. £ wo w ved to be e ~five, and he was dod- a) ve, clo: e 2 7 . 5 2 3 ¢ you mind explaln’,” ald Dankes. Jerin' and mumblin', and couldnt ses, Erate and drawing aside a variezated biug °L %hf;x;]eas)u! 57°"51a - Solomon Dankes. bad ieft her under the impreésion that she | “11] R e 1::?1:2\39- A e e G paraye of Yo . eald you was Worn out, just dead and that's no sort of good in our busi- curtain, that shut out a recess at the back «maito and help yourself. Liberty Hall, Wwould not be disturbed. mglnowl o 5 Bl g - the beat, and we'll leave what you want t0 ness.” of the cabin, disclosed his own bunk you know, as my dear pard would ha’ puf “Morning, | e sald. “I reckon you're 1 Was EuIng oo MRS T A My They would thread the forest, would dive or fihy 3 e Sive o Mster’ BoTedi eyen gl TS 0N b fe Reew your ‘e tadten 1 0T o g e I MEREL'N® DA ana Jooked ut ner, aa BoLS B T —— eyes open and your hands busy.” o me s o ess. e pau ed at her, as . And swift OO0 S Teks R the bunk and put 1 guess so: not as he was a burden, the Young fellers ltke that seems m':‘nn} .»’é:‘.““:mi’" %fi“ e -‘:&“un: e it for a moment he was searching’ his “Boner what, mister?" 5 . to the ngs & bit to rights, won't you?" dear old dodderer. He'd be'n & fine man their mothers at night. Frightened of gome ically at the mention of e sort of guarantee as (o a *T've set the stove hat v-’fl to spealk.” ‘Would brave the fungles, would beard the memor.: sibilit: to aitack the cold beef 'Yes. £ald Zella, with as much uncon. My Tesponsibility, goin wunst, and he was my f: was bogys? I remember the time when I used e e Th B0 the Dhars mp Wik e e s i e & '“'y"""y"’:‘t:'g"‘.‘.gfg.}n my “"Z‘a‘ that way myselt, before I grew & L I A¥ e oM, Wmand. " "My uame s Suitas oW Al mie e Ny AL e ut o o e b 5 ile time, I reckon. You got a father?’ beard, and—well, good-ni agaln, mis- ~ “Reckon youw'll want ter hang round a P ¥ in’ th 1 used Wi through, a&nd then, I guess, T'll go down “I 'had; hi ter!” © - 1 . “Mine's Abner Digges. I hear” sayin’_the same eng. u ter notice ould bear them as bravely as ever ‘men. e5d see to Mister Gres's old mule, ek LR 2 :’;‘gu’_‘c@fl_fin the Indian e o4 ight again.” In a muMed voice, “PSILECLorS Eol down o the valiey? Pradent wis ko savin® Uice was & ol It in_Ned Glover. ‘If yowre wakin' call But love found out the g Bring 1t up, Dave; it won't be the fust "..:p soigjer?” came from the next room, and Dankes +p'r'aps you mowt like to unstrap your Ster here, come from Mister Hiram Dex. me early, mother dear!’ Suppose it had a had found out Zella; though £ sae méade comfortable in the shed «yeqg™ noticed that the light no 'longer shome paggagar” . ter, as:1 aiy't hoar'n of him way back KIE0e Foter o A O e With my ojucthing m her ideds of foat 7, the well at the back: 2 “God rest his soul!” ilirough the chinks of the door. g take things casy?” each answer- for months or more, I wornted to see the Nas 2 e Tuky nd Johw: ooy Dight well have Bemn fw by their D) oots of I think he'll climb men. Turning out the light that swung from ‘ing the other’s question with another. youngster as had” Matthew, Mark, 7 wild, untaught natures. It is nd your mawther?” the rafters, he climbed, only half-un- 4 possibls L d & am not coms from Mr. Dexter,> bless the t T lle on!' I wunst knew there was a touch of vanit ¥ Diea ‘when T was'a plokaninny.» dréeect nto "y burlc, Shd presently RIS ey OIS 10 00 5o el St 1% & foher as thought, that' was the Looi's o nuver feed ot practiaine o be s g * “I never knowed my mother. aly oine m in a nocturnal duet, a stead V fi: “Oh! ? ¥ e -of manhood; whil, e e P U0 by e Philadeipiia when me and my fadhcr and profound base, fo Jim's halting and it har dyer then of TIng serseler el ot exacts, Liaia 1 naa st oo SUHe, oMt HCheT ' Then Lord s T ke, TeY oo i coniMence and con . T .y i v spectin’ and tryin’ our luck’, and fitful tenor. " o SR in't no hotel, I guess, nor aj e beel o yment of r. b, . I pra; s 2 " n en s slho o in the far-reaching light of the open Diasibe hocrn s alvan our Lying in the very bed where her i v e B B Y Pexter.” soul ta keep.’ And the jedges in the camp times that she hated and sed. stove, now began to take an fnterest in RNINE SMCKS Sl Qroles witly the few , LN¥IAE 1D he Viast thae. borconchlover. sort of boa ding-house? . “In Chicago?" X ave it to “Matthew, Mark, Luke ha Bad e and despised. But tbe proceedings. Zella, revived by the S owve hid & Defd tos, thant” Siinan he Rad worn, sich Dustt v es Tee What, hece sl g Caldhy R S oman s pewrtter there.” 59‘,,‘9_- 1t's curlous, the ideas of camps.” and it gave a Tresh sttimupas g G oo, e e s pog o At Iadat. o Nawthil’-to complain of Iy a romantic accompaniment to Zell's “Nary a one,” sail Dankes; “but I _“Don't say. Well, it don't foller as you ,yCycudtourcs = o G fice and training for it on tirieg e P e e i5e:, 30d then rubbed mhe two went on talking in this give and Strange not to say weird seusations. She -guess vou'll Just lodge here.” . mayn't know where he is, and what he's | ‘Scems el d B8eS hav: the leaves of Ned's copy of Emerson i, his nosp fpainst the flour-barrel leg of her take way, Zella now and then lighting a lay awake. as it seemed to her.-for hours: © LT muy be staying come. time.” doin' 2 e A .. De met with the words. “The gun prudenc Vouches for yer ais’ s [y Sl€uieite, Dakespeaswing hie plpe, chul, 1o tiih, For les e otes. war nico) e longer You stays, the more yownl | “Sorry 1 do not. since you seem anx- A0l Y “Perhaps the Wand ot Paie B Ufe 18 concentration. One of he hish 3 * g vy : 3 : Sy e : = ; % 28 an of the a r Dankes, as Zella turned to-dook'at the "U\iiiert did you come off the track? At Ik was no less brief. Nauture, which was ool e, that’s very Kind of you, - ~Wall, 1 hear'n it said as he's vamooched WAS In It Good might. Mr. ‘Dankes. Newion to the mauiry, ow e teh heot O%F; Sox tncrer Capson Cityz? Kngly in lts sueet obiivious antidote, car. but § didn's réckon to come hero and be 4 or 15 a-hidin R’"deel" Eve been ex: 0 abic o achieve M diseoveren "By “British, " said Dankes. “My lat ., R o . burden on you." : A " reciittan . ef you ways intending my mind. - For was a Britieher; and Jim he Juet chume gy ie S8 1o the Red Horse fet and a loved comnanion: w "iow o You mean a burden, mister?* kuows nawthin', let it stand at that, and at night were a continual vous arhes med up to him the fust minute as they ~ iyeer “I'd like to pay my own way, don’t you l’n,xB:lor?' 1 spoke. f P exercise, in the morning was g o, B z into a happy haven. s that's fair re.” “But I dare say ! can get to know all e. with tho met, like as if they'd know'd each other . wpaek of mules at the Forks?' Alas for the awakening b Vo0 s Toarte b abet e about him.’" o for years. I guees thar's a kinder knowl- .yec d L 3 a fol o g “Kin? Kif yer? Wall, I'd be yer debtor S o o nather It e Goks oF soeat e Pesky critters, them mules.” ChATTERXNXXL o bjcetion, we'll talk % for drinks, ¢f you would * * * ‘Seuse TRo dotbt > said ip, in 2 low Voice, There was a mule team most of the “THE PHILOSOPHY OF " ba f you 'u,!:n ‘“a‘ me’s seen one an- on n't \wonder,” sald Zclla, with end & pipe, and thén " Dave, pangs of a great sorrow. y e A { jad Y bunics all right, eh? Ain't {5 pis Jebers . £od Bent abast iin Eresh though her v it seemed to een slep’ mon! from ince . > “And there ain’t been o rain to molder (E3DS, SN Magcons from, Platts Valley. TOUS THih the mews of hek lavere: s “Let me edvise just one go of whisky ““yoy gon’t say. Then it's aig. Nothing like occupation to relieve the o bef Tirem Dexter. Ll g e things, either,” sald Dave, m the in- ‘Masquerading as ‘had ner toom. “ut I've got the blankets and .., think they called it Pike's Canyon.” PiiMUSICE T row {Hantity. Thers wers 12 1ne ruge afore the stove, all the same, ,,Y“‘E, DR after that, eh?” unz‘when she fd:jlt‘?tt "“& re guv'nor.” S la Brunnen; ‘times felt “Good! He's a right cute fellef, Dave,” Es they could work a way round the g.r own personality o £aid Dankes, once more ad Phil- biuffs we'd got the Tght through, would biuch With W : = A Bp “Ef it imdut ben for Dave, T think bus (hat's ‘our trouble; I's the Post o} hed petu s it “Goddurn the younsmters hrn aid. ra iancholy mad Jost. transit. You strike it ever so ric gone melancholy 'B'a‘ my ua‘::'t‘- h anda pard. Here y'are; genuine Rye.” thick, but Denkes lugged the jar from the chest, :l'onu ®nd pushed it toward Philip of 3 mz to “he’s. B‘h‘ T as a wil- ¥ but he must pat Zella on the and ::m d:nks. e =