The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1912, Page 17

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, February £9999999HOTHHDOONGHHHDTIOSHOTSOOHOHOHIHOOOSHOOSOSOOSS oer ODDOODODOGDANDHDOGO.OANCHGOSOGIVSTDTOSHS ner OK © uv To DOOSDHWOOOGHOE CE FOEGIEGEE HBOSOE SETI 36.99910G5EG499GOOHHHTOODOIOOSOSOOIWOSHIGSIOOS A Tale of the Big Outdoors—Third and Best of The Evening World’s Great ee ae se: Series of Western Novels. % # 2 | oe The Romance of, a “Bad Man,” a Frontier So Heroine, Cowpunchers, Indians and i “the Queer Chap From the East.” oo (Copyright, 1011, by J, B, LAppineott Company.) . head? niianat of It) ‘Thess bugsard- | and your inopportune reminiscences : eads has drawed every poun’ they kin |am a nervous wre CHAPTER I. ull. But T haw ome raagon to belteve | Wolce ended on hig oo ee that if you don’t hiat your hoofs out'n| “All right, Doo, suit " Me—Smith.” that mud-hole, you'll bog down, You'rs | Tubbs, temporarily susdues oe MAN on a tired gray horse reined in where a dim cattle-tra!l dropped Hod, jour pant-leg now, Onct | Pa ted eT bg entreat, lore, d ot call me “Doc'!"* into a gulch, and looked behind him. Nothing waa in sight, Ho half closed his eyes and searched the horigon. No, there was nothing—just the same old sand and sage-brush, hills, more sand and Tho little man threw out his hand! “sorry I spoke, Cap.” in a restraining gesture, and Tubbs,| The little man thi folled again, cloned his lips and | exasperation priate dee tksvese sage-brush, and then to the West and North the spur of the Rockies, watched his employer stand back on| °" i whoee jarred peaks were white with « fresh fall of snow. ‘The wind was chill, btn he plied’ the other out | Tuba, “if yourlt take thatehundred fant He shivered, and looked to the eastward, t few hours he had feit na nty pounds of yourn off the wagon emow in the alr, and now he could see it in the dim, gray mtst—still far off, but Leer an en wet some rocks and block the my cayuse co help spoke, she began un- ide riata which was ted creeping toward him, ‘ For the thousandth time he wondered where he was. Ife knew vaguoly that he was “over the line’—that Montana was behind him—but he was riding an Unfamiliar range, and the poaks and hilis which are the gulde-boards of the West meant nothing to him, So far as he knew, he the only human being within a hundred miles, His lps drew back in @ half-giin and exposed a row of upper teeth unusually white and slightly protruding. He was thinking of the Meeting with the last person to whom “I wonder if he's there yet?” Th he had spoken within twenty-four/man on horseback grinned. Heure, He reached in the pocket of his mack- He closed one eye and looked up at the|!"aw coat and took out @ handful of sun. Yes, it was just about the same | *USSr. how?" mused Smith, watching the pro- ceedings with some Interest. “Ife| couing lookm Hike one of them bug-hunters.!t, her gaddie. He's got a pair of shoulders on him IT approclate the kindness of yeur a yt ir} Kl intentions, Mins, but I canmot permit aoe eed in| YOU to put yourself in peril.” The iittle So intently were they all engaged in watching tho man's struggles that no| Ten Was watching her preparations with troubled ey one observed the girl on a galloping| ™,, horse until she Was almost upon them. a alt th oe LX cry. Croppy Sho sat her sturdy, spirited pony like a| Sar Pull Tike the devil, Wait till you cowboy. She was about sixteen, with a) 26 lim lay down on the rope. Thar Tre MnO Sitgmeation of boylshness in her appear- | Yap up there at the top of the hill sauté English ranch, a dude in knee breeches | te congratulated himself that he had ‘i - oe ese ; big Ze tt obe rose Siwaye with dared |fope to the X, and make @ knot that ‘and shiny-topped riding boots, had gal-} filled his pocket from the booze clerk's J © A Har eyes were gray, in curious! Wil hold.” loped confidently toward him, He had|sugar bow! before the mix came, The tito a tawny skin, She was sigh, | The girl's words and manner lemounted and pretended to be cinch-|act was characteristic of him, as wae ant niness, and, one might have| spited confidence, Interest and reli ing his saddle, When the duae was close | the forethought which had sent him to r rah i ht, InsuMfctently clad for the time] Were In the face of the little man cnough Smits had thrown down on him |t%€ door to pick the best saddle horse ‘ re. : ot eat, standing at the side of the road. with his gun at the hitching post before the lead be- Hosa , aed down, pardner?” she inquired| “Now, Windy, hand me the ropa “Feller,” he had sata, “t guess ri] & nyt? Ay J ra eee eM uldcr an aie rode up be-| Til take three turne around my sed Ranitade hore haoiie fat le the Cee rng ana hak the f fides 7 hind and drew retr Yoon In'that|die-horn, and when I say ‘Go; you eee have to trade horses with you. And fall} mist in the east was denser, and spread- } ’ ‘ presented, oer in etl that your team get down in thelr @el- off quick, for I'm in a kind of a hurry.” | ing, He Jabbed the spurs into his hor: 5 ; thy a sant bua Til wake pus Ga” 1 ‘The grin widened as he thought of the|and s xt the jaded animal sliding on hy S f é sy 7 aera ecableusly, be aripped the per he's a game kid, all right,” sald dude's surprised eyes and the dude’s| ts fetlocks down the steep and rocky ors , " . . mel ‘The pony had sunk to its knees, | Smith to himself at the top of the hill. face as ho dropped out of the saddle} tratl that led into the dry bed of « a a a ind ag ft leapad to free Tacit the Uttle| Wien the sorrel pony at the head of without a word. Smith had stood his} Creek which In the spring flowed banic 7 piety . 5 : “ man’s legs fairly snapped tn the alr, | the felt the rope grow taut on vfetim with his hands above Wi }.gu. In the bottom he pulled his horse m 4 : & d 1 “L thank you, Misa," he satd, remov-| work. Were asd taeiie 6 1 Glan : a ote eaaee to its haunches and leaned from iis . | f 4 é : ‘ ing hls, plaid travelling cap. as hel Work. The grit and muacle of dosen while he pulled the saddie from 118) caddie to loo at a footy ‘at In a little cs ; ‘ % . - Hopped on solid ground, "That was) horses seemed concentrated in the It- tle cayuse, It pulled until every vetn ‘horse and threw it upon his own. The! batch of amooth sand no larger than : . Sate ag ; if Rem, srerees ao, on oA yon ure dude rode a saddie with a double cinch, | }iy two hands. The print had. been L * gala the | and cord in ite body appeared to stand the fact had awakened tn the west-| inage by moccasined. foot, and. r : ‘ he : : ee ee ald Cie) att beneath its skin. Jt lay dows en Kind of interest, He had even! cently; otherwise the wind would have , ‘ ‘ “9 ie: é . “Onet I knowed some mud"—— began | the rope until its chest almost touched or the Man! wiped : out. F 5 ries ie j ? the driver, but the little man, ignoring | the ground. He threw his leg over the cantle of : ; him, eald: | There was @ look of determination Jo you come) the eacdle and stepped softly to the ‘4 banek wy y We are in a dilemma, Mise. Our) that was almost human in its beight, seem unable to pull our wagon | excited eyes as tt strained and strug- from the Manana country ground. Dropping the reins, he looked Mill, Night ts almost upon ua, on the slippery hillside with mo From Chepstow, Monmouth County, | 1p and down the gulch, Then he drew the dude had replied, in a shak- Ny Tiss cee IO led and an eres, en the Hn atie af tag . next camping spot 1s several | ae ot urging trees the Ba She 7 : 4 LAr ‘ eat Mies heyond." standing in one st » hand you get that double-rigged | searched, lis movements Were no longer, He might need a blanket with ‘that \. ‘ ghia ia the worst grade in the coun-/the cantle, the other on the pommel, replied the girl “A team that can| watching everything with Keen eyes. " | snow in the afr. It iooked Ike a Kood J ig ‘ those of a white man. His pantomime, atr voked Ike : : st ferided).. dnd atin. thee dtiver;. Joual SM ater. cautious, we th antomime| Dlanket. It seemed to be ‘k and oad eo ast gen- ‘The answer had pleased Smith. of the Indian, He crept upethe. gulch | Was undoubtedly warm, mouthed and vacuously profane, lashed What's Ks Hevea pai ialiee Ne leat \rieng ite moet leet the “You ain't losin’ none on this deai,”"| to @ point whero jt turned sharply. His] The Indian saw him the instant he - ‘ fe! them “mercilessly with tho stinging | What wy dou't he help?"-—pointing to| wheels, when to urge the exhausted © had then volunteered, ‘This horse| stealth became the stealth of the coyote. | rose from his hiding-place behind a . ta thongs of his leather whip. Smith, from] got! 4 team to greater efforts, when to relax. hat you juat traded for 1s a looker when e of the leather soles and exag-| huge sage-brush. Startled, tho ret p ¥ the top of the hill, watched him with a] 8m jee otstedt ‘and he can run like hell, | erated high heels of the boots he wore| man instinctively half raised hie gun. : 4 sneer on his face. me has made no offer of as your pile on him. Just burn| his movements were absolutejy, nolse-| The stranger gave the sign of atten- . “He drives like a Mi courtan," he mut- x oat thet “any 8 tress and run on your | lei ua tion, then, touching his breast and .- 7 tered. Missouri, They all act like that when} As the man at the roadside watched ve " Hant ttle brute struggle, Hter- uu can hold him easy, then, I age, in bluo| lifting his hand slightly, told him in He could have helped the troubled] they first come out. (the ; ARE g Vollee that tides a doublerigged | overalls, moccasins, a imp’ felt hat| the sien language used by all tribes driver, knowing perfectly well what to] “Onct eome Miseourians I knowed” | ally, FE ao ee ae i amraatie jaddie ina single-rigged country. S'long, | coming far down over his braided hair,| that “his heart was right”—he was a do, but At would have entalied an effort] ; he febt himselé choking with excitelnent Qnd Keep your hands up till I'm out of|a@ gaily striped blanket drawn about] friend. which he did not care to make, It was], /Oscar Tubbs. if you settee in way | the rear wheels of the wagon range." his shoulders, stood in an attitude of| The Indian hesitated and lowered hi!s Hothing to hin whether the roundeap| !te another reminiscence while in my |last the rear wheels of | the | wagon Mhank you,” the dude had repiled] listening, carelessly holding a cheay,| gun, but did not advance. The stranger On got up the hill that nigit—or| employ, 1 ehall make a deduction from | lurched 00d vhere 7 e Smith reached for the trail ing ropes and they were gone. ever. your Wages. I warn you-I warn you ground, while the Aorses with spread- Leder LURE ALM Hdl ae ene bd 5 MGmith thought the driver was atone; i! tho presence of this witness. ay Ing legs aud heaving sides, gasped for Nothing escaped her. She and the little worrel knew thelr work. food: single-barrelled shotgun. Hehad heard When Smith had ridden for halt a| the hor trail andy nearest house, and whether it was that . } mee mile he had turned to look behind him.! was waiting for it to appear on the! of a white or a red man. In swift par i ite until he began to back the team to rush|OVeF-Wrought nerves can endure no . Phe dude was still standing with his| bench abov tomime the Indian told hin t iow Unratinnae aNsulaare rena rabied CHAPTER II. the hill once more. ‘Then he heard angry |e: Between your inexplable Englies Gem Caheety hands high above his head, The stranger took in the details of| nearest house was the home of a It inthe dirt to obliterate the stain. He On the Alkali Hill Jexclamations coming from the rear of ~ dlood,” a woman, a fat woman, WhO! cursed when he raw that w bullet led . the wagon—excla mations which sounded lived ‘five miles to the southeast, in 4108] torn in tt two jameed, tellet 4 HERD was at least an hour| Ot unlike the buzzing of an enraged half of daylight left, UMbIe-bee. He stretched his neck and . | saw that which suggested an overgrown th struck @ wagon= : hoop-snake rolling down the ail, At oad. tte looked each way! the bottom « little mud-conted man | cabin, on running water. peg Before ke turned to go the stranger fs Lda i i stoopin. ipped one off. He ex. whe again touched his breast and raised his Rat eben Ti kee Cen hand above his heart to reiterate his| :, asin. 1 dian wa: ue moces ta 8 far from A UBRALILY, He is wanna! friendship. He took a half dozen steps.| home, tle examined the centre seams! house a esther to be crane Patoad WD, The part of lis face that was then whirled on his hee As he did £0} y. it Was sew with deer-sinew, se was quite as likely to be to the! visible above his beard was pale with | he brought his rifle on a line with the Oheee conten to teat ties right as to the left; there was no way| anger. His brown eyes gleamed behind Indian's back, which was toward him.] he muttered, “but I hates the sh of tiling. Watle he hesiiated his horse | MUd-splashed spectactes. Simultaneously with the report the In-|the Cree moccasin. The Plegans make | lifted its ears, Smith also thought he} “Oscar Tubbs," he demanded, “why dian a his back on a side ot the) tter." He tossed it from him con- | heard voices, Swinging ils horse to he | dla you not tell me that you were about Copyright, 1912 vy The Urese Vublishing Co, (The New York World), ulch, le drew up his leg, and the ptuously and picked up the shotgun, | Tight. he rode to the edge of the bench! to back the wagon?” 5 d ify . thinking he had raised it fora] “No good.” He threw it down wad Where the road made a steep and sudden ) “L would have did it i Thad knoweal By Sophie Irene Loeb. ;A7ni'y,'s 4 beautiful name, but ene riddied him with bullets. straightened the Indian's head with drop, myself that the team were goln’ lo OTHER tragedy was recently 1 The white man's bright blue eyes|toe of his boot. “I. despises’ to At the bottom of the hill he saw @ replied Tubba tn the conciliatory ada Sl tne little woman on the bey leamed; the pupils were like pin- points. | cramped up myrelt. driver on the spring seat of a roundup | tone of one who addrasves the man who chronicled. And in the words flwho, perchance, unloving of unloved, The grin which disclosed his protruding} Returning to his horse he removed his| wagon urging two lean necked and nar | pays him his wages one of the actors, the woman in |yet keeps the network of « family to- ‘ “ : teeth was like the snarl of a dog before| saddle and folded the Indian's bi row chested horses up the hill. They | man {n apactacies gro the case, “The geth lt ; a paisa Ce r r p hey pactacies f er and goes on, ON, regardless. Coprright, 1912, 9, The Prams fyplishing i he expression of the man’s / inside of his own. Then he recinched | were smooth shod, and, the weight of wages of sin 19 rises to heights of bravery and bigness ee \ that of animal ferocity, pure| his saddle and turned his horse's head | the wagon belng out of all proportion to death —and more.| which in turn give her a sense of sat! THE JARRS TRAVEL | and simple, He edged up cautiously, but} to the southeast, where “the full blood | their strength, they fell often in thet> | it's hades on) faction that no so-called breaking away there was no further movement from the|—the woman, the fat woman—lived in ajfutlle struggles. At the side of the| “nobody could learn me nothin’, | MACH ies whleklin ihe speniensatl 1 ORES IN SWIFT COMPANY. Indian, He had been dead when he fell. {lox cabin by running water.” road near the top of the hill the water | Onct I knowed" ‘ 1116 $88 copninors Hon oS Rte CNA aii The white man gave a short laugh| He glanced over nis shoulder as he 1 from an alkali spring, which kept have no thme for a remte jek) A Ma age eid. 2 everlasting call of) If for any reason the yoke Is too bind+ infatuation thatiing and living loses tts joyous aspect~ eventually fas) there is REMEDY at hand—an honor. two souls with{apie r ther our marriage of NOT a SI1né1e alvore right or not are the thought. I be settled In tho At the time tt{ future. ‘ was also told how; Mut at any rate, there are ways and SOPHIE IRENE a husband andjmeans by which things may be A Loge wife went to thelr |JUSTED without creating individual death in the breaking of the Ice bridge | creeds that MUST die In che faco of the at Niagara Falls, Ag stated by an eye} world’s decisio witness, “For simple dignity, self-sae- | Moe. Grand © & hard old wom fice aud bravery in face of horrible }an, put at least death the story t# unrivalled, Yet they |; showed the highest courage, self-fors \ when he realized that the raising of the | spurre #0 to FER the Oriental play was over | Mr. and Mrs. Jarr, with thelr hosts, Mra. Mudridge-Smith and her husband, who was plain Mr, or be Mr Jabex Smith (for his wife's hyphen was | employer. in hie wife's name) stood at the portals! But at night time ho was only a hus- of the theatre awaiting the appearance | band, even as Mr. Jarr, and must take luxurious motor car. his place as such , and Mr, Jarr,| After a nerve-rackinz, heart-dilating who had been blown full of uncooked | progress around street cars and in be- Dreakfast food, as he had sat in a front| tween other scurrying and hurrying seat during the great sand-etorm-in-the- | motor cars and taxicabs, during which ‘eeert-ecene, was scowled at by the! Mr. Jarr hoped something would hap- others emerging from the theatre be-|pen—not serious, you know, but Just to the cold winds of winter | break his boss's legs, or some little tually muddy, The horsey leg had been only @ musoular contrac-| “I'm a kill stra every nerve and mus tion, To save the blanket from the blood! grinned. t aud nostrils dis. ‘e you any reason to be. | Wo can get Up this MIM tor Jarr's grim, {mplacable (no etRettg By C. M. Payne (The New York World.) Ves many @ ef towhich that api sreat mistake 1) YOu CAN TELL WHAT, THE NEW RUTCHER worse tha is uodergoing ing the breakfast food “sand” that | thing like that—the luxurious mou WEIGHS AND YOu fulness and calm." a the tou hu axsing of the STO!’ leaked from his garments all over the| drew up at the portals of the gilded NEVER Saw 1M? And in the comment of the editorial, |—LOOK—LISTE kn, Given a bit ef attire of those who passed or stood near | restaurant cabaret. “Such stort are good to read. They | provocation 1 the thing ts done, store one's pride in the ordinary man, ‘There apparently was no thought of himself. He ralsec the woman to her feet, kissed her and clasped her in his arma, So they went to their 4 What 4 comparison of four deaths! f The only affinity pact that ever | nan) PROVED Its worth was that sanctioned | that by law and order, Convention sounds | ALON Ike a bard uame, omet QUARK vith Its concept. “Rules are made for mistaken for the thing, which ts very but rather te eft him, Here the merry party entered with Ty's all right to have your town car) coat boys, hat boys, glove boys and to take you to the theatre and call for}cane boys descending down upon Mr. you in answer to the flashing signal | Jarr and lls boss, and ladies’ maids, hat over the theatre portals. But it 1s cold | matds, wrap maids, fur malds descend- ‘and bitter, even to the rich, when they | ing upon Mrs. Jarr and Mrs, Mudridge- must wait in the wintry blast for the | Smith, and despolling them of all the motor car that comes not, because the | outelde apparel chauffeur and the motor footman aro| “Pipe de i ray * sult!” whispered {na corner gin-mill chucking dice, with | one vey brigand to another, Indic. nv idea that the show will be out s0|/Mr, Jarr’s breakfas: food, dust- soon. clothes, "Chee, dat's a new one!” husbands, mothers to suff n the wake @f orn ‘Apprised of the call to duty they may | Old man Smith was too deaf to hear for the INDIVLDUAL." It Is well, 1 ; iy the beauty of the rush to their machine and “turn her | what was whispercd and too feeble to The ople who think they can husband and wife who would die for over” and then walt for the flash of/ fight off the coatroom brigands, They a World of THEIR OWN and live happy fowcn o sid sho. thelr noble attt: after are misguided souls and sueh ftude of sAc sas the foresoing must needs | ny nter into the thinking belnga and ores | sutista ny bin the arene ate 4 corresponding | yut there is also some compensa n the feeliag-of GIVING U the carriage call, which the querulous| got his overcoat, his hat, bis cane, his ev 3 at the most cruolat Mr, Smith gets the attendant to flash | muffler anc his gloves trom him, but again, left no visible bruises, This time the luxurtous limousins | He had a cold, he was tired and tot- rolled up, with the chauffeur volubly tering, his poor old lungs were filed ure which inevita 5) explaining that “A lot of bucks block with the uncooked breakfast food tha One |s born into a world that 3 tration th) theca Re Hype me wit’ dere clook boats, til de bull | air, Jarr had permitted to blow trom his a mies these rules and regulations, and ther one odder side of de avéno0 held us |coat ax they stood in the draughty hall Manan tie fore the forming of one's ow may. often: (sine toakr nina “oD way of the restaurant, and that he had er and doctrines may last=for a Lit t nudiiy, yet on the othe SPranelated, this meant tuat a lot of |let blow on his beloved employer In tho NEw BUTCHER > = valle. But eventvally the omes mk Tolpes be GiubA Cement tagtead drivers got in front of him and | wind-swept stroet In front of the thea: ir 4 when each of us Wants the APPHOVAL, |in tho inistake which Was only realized the policeman then held them up at the | tre they waited for the motor car, the good-will of those about us-OTHER [when addest words had to be avenue crossing abuve. Jarr and Mrs, Mudridge-Smith than that created {n our tnmediate | chronicled--too late. All of which should tittle elrele. joe a ction, an d finally from the ladies’ dress- spiration, so that ‘As he had a witness In the footman it | appear gent,” but Mr. Jarr felt sure that he | ing room, teuched up with a little more And 0 naturaily—quite naturally ihe who hesitates shal! not be LOST ta had no thought but pity for the burdens | color by the lady brigands, they part tired to death of each other. Ithe long run, the rich endure, | The head walter met them at the res- Mine i a to the cabaret | taurant portals and greeted Mr, th ar tn half the | effusively, But he cast a glance of sour “ume they aad stood and froze In front} disapproval upon Mr. Jarr. of the theatro waiting for the luxurious) “Table Number Six!" sald the head Umousine to come up. | wait Mr. Jarr was made to sit by Mr.| Mr«, Mudridge-Smith gave a « Smith, for fear the uncooked breakfast! ‘There's Jack Sil ' she foad blown on him during the “sand! clutching Mre Jarr's arm, slorm” scene might injure the delicate | nome! garments of the ludies. So saying, she recovered, tottered a| ‘That {t would mark up od Mr, Smith's | i1ttle, then smiled and told the Mead | attire did not matter, of course, be-| waiter to put them at a table near. the 80, was only a husband. He|hendsome youns man with the merry might bave been a millionaire; be migh;' party near the window over there, He could have be de good as 4 atilete is P. ¢ King *# College, Cambridge. recently won the Whee well scholarship for international law, | Montana farm who have been Jt was hia victory in the mile race iast capped by the scarcity of laboreng summer that Qelped Oxford and Cam-| Fe delighted with an invasion of Hine bridge (o triumph over Harvard and | 4008, who till tately found employmens Yate in dhe intercollegtate contest. | ouly at day gabor on the streets or relly A student who has r Hak England, wh from Everywhere, \\ Belfast, Ireland. It te roe and WO feet wide. AN toid, As Weil a