The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1902, Page 4

HE SUNDAY CALL by Alfred Ke [0 known graves. So don’t you-all pester me, for the outlook’s dark.” ““It’s now that Yuba—who's a mighty ®on, cross up with Yuba an’ let him do his worst. The nervousness of extreme youth doubtless {s what goads me to this When TOUtt First “aWIEc 50N. c t, 1902, by Robert Howard Russell cautious sport, an’ forethoughtful, an’ yere decision. prome to look ahead—regyards the talk as “ ‘It's about Second drink time t down to cases an’ makes a flash for his afternoon when, havin’ donned my gun. It's concealed by his surtoot an’ I ons, I rides into Tucson. After ain’t noticed it none before. Which, if I my pony at the corral, I turns had, most likely I'd pitched that conversa- main street. It's scorchin’ hot, an tion in a lower key. However, by this hardly anybody in sight. Up in fre time I'm quarrelsome as a badger; an’ a the Oriental, as luck has it, stands ¥ willin'ness for trouble subdooes an’ sets an’ a party of doobious morals who slays its feet on my nacheral timidity an’ holds hay for the Gov'ment, an’ is address her down.’ Lon Gillette. As I swings “ ‘Dave, you-all makes me plumb nerv- way, Gillette gets his eye on me ous,’ says Boggs with a heap of heat, straightway fades into the Oriental, leav- e next from the common Eastern theory, ks on Arizona as a region where lynchin' for a from that how £pe n' of dooels,” remarked it's murder st You-alls may 1 han' ‘gettin’ thar, lyin' about your timidity In’ Yuba alone in the street. This yers el e M o L that a-way. You're about as reluctant strikes me as might i ”m"' gt Ve i for trouble as a grizzly b'ar, an’ you beads of water come couldn’t fool no gent here on that p’'int an' I begins to crowd my gun a for so much as one white chip.” further for’ard on the beit. I'm walkin’ ' “‘Jest the same,’ says Dave, slightly up on the opposite side from Yuba. who dogmatic, ‘I still asserts that in a con- stands watchin’ my approach with a se- cealed, inborn fashion, I'm timid, abso- rene mien loote. ‘1t you-all has ever beheld me stand “* “It's the ca'mness of the tiger herally of swa ' sin s up with ke a p birds, an’ d hums ar their merry vs. However these busy seasons ) often nor last so long, but e chance to Dz has a up ag’in the iron, it's because I'm 'shamed crcuchin’ for a s * thinks I . e to quit. I'd wilt out like a jackrabbit if “‘As I a opposite, Yuba stretches : I bar wit to as many I ain’t held up by pride.’ out his hand. “Come over,” he sings out i . soraneous remainders but *“ “You're plenty ready with that Colt’s;’ ** “Which he's assoomin’ airs of friend- we . thar's cause. It's in a I says to Yuba, an’ my tones is severs. ship,” I roominates, “to get me my xas [ the t arkeep brings the ‘That's because you sees me weaponless. gyard." & a ck onde r 2 tra whereon If T has a gun now, I'd make you yell like ‘“ ‘I starts across to Yuba. I'm watchin’ s wer inks. Which m;. 1];.«-.;\_; a coyote.! * like a lynx; an’ I'm that harrowed up, if et g yu-all wei * ‘S'pose you ain’t heeled,’ remonstrates Yuba so much as sneezes, or drops his Yuba, ‘that don’t-give you no iicense to hat, or makes. a rarward move of his stand thar aboosin’ me. Be I to blame hand, I'm doo to open on hi But ne because your tollette ain’t complete? You stands still as a hill an’ nothin’ more m= go frame yourse’f up, an’ all wait’; an’ nacin’ than smiles. As I comes clost with that this yere Yuba takes his hand offers his hand. It's prior to my shootin’ from his artillery. quick an’ ackerate with my left hand, so I “‘Thar's a footile party who keeps the don’t give Yuba my right, holdin’ the rnest an’ Common, number; ipment. Shore, il's As many as seven : dance hall, who signs the books as same in reserve for emergencies an’ in . 2 rant, 1 takes good Colonel Boone. He’s called the “King of case thar's a change of weather. But a ’ Al the Oriental. T s a old the Cowboys' 3 most likely In a sperit.,of Yuba, who can see it's fear that a-way, is derfoot’s us i xpisinfors y cimmaron hit about the bar, facetiousness since he's a heap more ke too p'lite to make comments. He shakes a deuce that a king. This Boone's packin’ my left hand with well bred enthoosiasm. & most excellent six-shooter loose in the Then he turns an’ heads the waistband of his leggin's. Boone's passin’ Oriental. by as Yuba lets fly his taunts, an’ this < A5 we fronts the bar an’ demands I casts my g tifies myse's nt with that Jeffords blush mountin’ in my ay short- o parents’ shel- but I concedes I t. yere piece of ordnance is in easy reach. nosepaint, Yuba gives up his arms: an’ A = Paiad S I replies, “speakin’ confiden- With one motion I secures it, an’ the MO~ ful] of a jocund lightheartedness as I 4 ogss. ¢ nt an’ gent, this yere ment followin' the muzzle is pressin’ realizeg that I ain’t marked for nt coneeit oss I'm a bigger plumb novel to me ag'inst a white pearl button on Yuba's siaughter, I lMkewise yields up mine We eed *“Which I allows as much,” he says, sginat & sisughter, T ikewise sicids up mine : cow “from the egreegious way you fidgets w % WBoht sidw organtbel= T Sayw; {Bl. ayias i Y va\w:p;:_p ret. a;fi:; of } hour it Now let me pa vou a plinter war dance may proceed.” pusiiunrvn orseion B el Bgte Do they lock you up? asks Dave. from the peaks of experience. You caper “‘I'm that scared I fairly hankers for «.«Then thar ain't goin’ to be no el A ‘ 1 ¥ don ek me Dack. to the tavern an’ take that weepon the privilege of howlin’, but I realiZes petween us?” I says to Yu o s ff. Or what's as well, you pass it acros acoote; that havin’ ‘come this far criste when he's ot & . I¢s at a the ep. If you-all goes romancin' towards homicide I must needs 89 figgers he'll be more g (e ] > sists T mighty und with that hardware at your belt, threugh if Yuba crowds my hand. But el Sl e e Y . 3 g s even money it'll get you beefed. Aliers e L e s TEA M L= aventy 4 on remember while in Arizona that you'll way, an’ stands mute an’ still. LiKewlse, " shore done tork - er get plugged—o s by inadvertence 1 sees his nose, yeretofore the color of & in' to me, an' as : N over-ripe violin, begin to turn sear an’ plumb young an' my e S : gray. I recovers sperit at this, as I Knows begin. That pooerile spat ve : I'm saved. Still I keeps the artillery on count. I'm drinkin’ at the ti b e ST him. It’s the inflocence of that gun that don't reckon you a B ey R s holds Yuba spellbound, an’ I feels shore if what a gent savs v i 5 il be all over me like a bag- ““Not to what ez < Old Jeffords is shore right; the gage W down hill.” “but T does to wh : e e “‘Which 1 should say so, says Jack with grav Moore, drawin’ a deep breath. ‘You . tak ave, when you don't cut loose that Z « “When this Boone beholds me,’ says -, Dave, ‘annex his gun that a-way, he al- pop'lar witl o b most ¢l a fit. He makes a meetin backward shows he a lived “‘Both our $ among 17 in vain. Then he settin’ thar as 3 stretches hi d toward me an' Yuba, pected an’ says: “Don't shoot! Let's take a Dlete peace, J arink; it's on the house! drinks a whole lot “Yuba with his nose still a peaceful refuses to return my oy o gray, turns from the gun an’ sidles for won't be sep'rated from Yu & the bar; I follows along, tristy. but plenty can no longer drink, we turn ~ it 7 \ alert. When we-all is assembled, Boone wickeyup an e him, ‘I makes a wailin’ request for his six- mornin’ we p . b . | Weall - ; g i i in’ P 7 shooter. ciliation where it slips fro . repeatin’ these yere We-all is that thickly amiable, secn pards as Damon an’ Pythias by compar’son shore ain’t on speakin’ terms e B e S N e Bt 4 0 : ‘]‘::S s an' gone, ‘where frivolities wherein she he name. I enough of lovely woman an’ her ways Fair as a lily bloomin’ in May, animadvertin’ at Yuba with the muzzle. reepair to my camp when we A ) Sanle: she's s Mind, tro0. 5o fecd es 20 not to go sayin' things while livin' with my former wife tomake Buceler that Wses, Loell as U fay! .« -Yuba passes his weapon over the bar, but after the tbird con'jint drink, be o Jennie; she’s a kind, troo to feed her doubts h Tucson Jennie, sech requests sooperfluous in my case. = pwer o0 OTS s her gentle (o0l Ws sult with Boone’s. Then We me and Yuba sees so meny reninc, o he'pmeet ever since that onfortunate first business is to live down my Speshully since if it ain't for what the Rosalic, the Prairie Flower. drink with our eyes on each other in si- it's fool play for us to g 0 a Ay entanglement with the English towerist : neighbors done tells the lady, she'd never “‘On this yere o'casion I'm so fortunate lent scorn. the idee utter. g - ady her suspicions sets up nervous in You-all can bet,” says Texas Thomp- go ropin’ 'round for that Laredo divorce. as to be five drinks ahead, an’ tharfore «+ «Which we-all will see about this ““ ‘Gents, it's no avail to pursoco me a 2 I'm 1 J iheir blankets at the mere mention of son, while his brow clouds, ‘that I learns No, Dave; your secrets is plumb safe with would sooner listen to myse'f talk than to later,”” STOW ba, as he leaves the bar. Yuba throughout them four 2% g Bbpese ’ ;8 gent who's suffered like me.’ the warblin’ of said cantatrice. As it is, *‘“Go as far as you like, old sport,” I We drifts from one drink shop to the 4 ¥ “‘Which T saveys I'm safe with'all of pm conversin’ with a gent who's stand- retorts, for this last edition, as Colonel other, arm In arm, as peaceful an’ | you," says Dave, his confidence which the in hard by. Sterett would say it, of Valley Tan, makes pleased a pair of sots as ever q bs the thoughts of Tucson Jennie sort o' stam- pedes, beginnin’ to return. ‘But now an’ then them gusts of apprehensions fre- quent with married gents sweeps over me, an’ I feels weak. But comin’ back to the dance hall: As I su'gests, thar's many a serene hour I whiles away tharin. Your days an’ your dinero shore flows plenty t in that temple of merriment. An’ chilled though I be with the stiff dignity of a wedded middle age, if it ain’t for my infant son, Enright Peets Tutt, to whom I'm strivin’ to set examples, I'd shore ad- mire to prance out an’ live ag'in them on nights; that's whatever! s quite a sprinklin’ of the elect ‘At my elbow i posted a shaggy an’ forbiddin’ lookin' outlaw, whose name Is Yuba Tom an’ who's more harmonious than met He wants to listen to “‘Rosalie, the Prairle Flower.” Of a sudden he w'irls about, plenty peevish. «eugtick a period to that powwow,” observes this Yuba; “I wants to hear this prima donna sing.” « Bein' gala with them five libations, T turns on Yuba a heap haughty. “If you're sobbin’ to hear this songstress,” I says, “go for'ard an’ camp down at her feel. But don’t come pawin’ your way into no conversations with me. An” don’t hang me that brave I'm miseratin’ for a riot. «t's the next day before I'm firm enough to come ag'in to Tucson. This yere stage wait in the tragedy is doo to fear exclusive. I hears how Yuba is plumb bad; how he's got two notches on his stick; how he's filed the sights off his gun; an’ how in all respects he’'s a mur- derer of merit an’ renown. Sech news makes me timid two ways: I'm afraid Yuba'll down me some; an’ then ag'in I'm afraid he's so pop’lar T'll be lynched if I downs him. Shore, that felon Yuba be- gins to assoome in my apprehensions the stern feachers of a whlpsaw; At last I'm Sreyed on to that degree I'm desperate, better element. Which we're the scandal of Tueson; we-all is that thickly amiable sech pards as Damon an' Pythias by compar’son shore ain't on speakin’ terms, Thus ends my first doocel; a conflict as bloodless as she is successful. How long it would have taken me an’ Yuba to thor- oughly cement our friendships will never be known. At the finish, we-all s torn asunder by the Tucson Marshal an’ I'm returged to my camp onder gyard. Me an’ Yuba before nor since never does wax that friendiy, with any other gent; we'd be like brothers yet only the Stranglers over to Shakespears seizes on pors Yuba one mornin’ an’ strings him up a whole of Tucson in the dance hall the evenin’ up no bluf as in mind. The bar is busy, while up ** ‘ ““Which if you disturbs me further,” an’ down each side sech refreshin’ pas- retorts Yuba, “I'll turn loose for shore times as faro bank, monte an’ roulette an’ crawl your hump a lot.” hold$ prosperous sway. Thar's no quad- “‘ “Them foolhardy sports” I replies, s 6 Nat Me'ted Und w t rile £ofit at the. CRorpent, ol 5 last o .*who has Werétofore’ attempted that end | S u‘!av & ¥ aver 2 the r'ar is carollin’ “‘Rosalie, the Prairie terprise found it to be more than a mere Flower.” formality. 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