The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1915, Page 17

j A Story of the Big West And a ‘Bad Man's” fove Comrie Ge Fens i » a breve . STkonne OF e Mele @ that 7 omen : ‘ ae Me vw ; ; = ha ; a ate ‘ : at ota meee . . . re ery wh eding . ’ p end lifted the “> ‘ . at the sunlight danced . tare aw king at iy, bie fave mad swupee ’ Mee Yvonne—end Winking. us Got t 4 Awd ank, ot lowly, ae wal Mack Hale way, bul taking It ewift fin Batme ei Pow jitde giase be slipped int we Sie Sank you" abe said simply And how what will you bave fret chicken of ham She strove to make (heir Uttle wal fue merry as the others had CHAPTER XI. The Gates of Paradise. HN the day @as breaking ross the i tremulourly 4 win tops and the ky soft blue and tender mreen with ft, and the litte springing up and the first) wisp of ringe-houne everything # nL ean ie teacher monn reer troficking wi emoke from ‘he wan just Teun talk pha Tam going aw pretty soon, and it Is very likely that We aro never golng ney, they rede out of the corrals to mee each other again Yvonne rode a little ahead of Hal “But lam not going to forget. And, Upon Starlight, the white-atockinged au Only knew ow mad it colt he bad broke tor her, He coult ee Geshaihed Cokie tothe fee the curve of ber cheek, with # wk to know that you were vad and being a tan; that joing your best; that you {ting the real man in you come top 1, Ma warm flush upon it ke the flush of the coming day ‘Thus they rode on across the sweep of the meadow and turned into the you we do you know that If you trail which leads into the Jaws of Big &1ye Vip How, If you slip back into the Vine Canyon, wull with no spoken)! earns hemi cer pe: word between them, still with Yvonne ,; r unhappy, should he?” horse; turning, she spoke to him, And here suddenly she drew in her horse, turning, she spoke to him, ae “LE wonder"—and he leaned for- “When you drink—ike that, you ard a little to cateh her low tones gre Killing (ie best that is in you. —"if you mind giving over your day Don't you know it? It is w horrible to me thing, an ugly thing, and you are too “I'd be happy, Miss Yyonne.* good for it He meant to Ko on, to teil ber bow “E don't want you to » ™much her friendship meant to him that you will f © after all that he was, all that she —Won't you promise me, can't you Sree ob tae promise ime, that you will never But he couldn't find the words, eo Gown again like you did yesterday paused a little, and he knew how hard it Was for her to go on. But he did not look up at her—did not pronise ma ever drink again; but ny, “Id be happy.” “tf 1 promised anything,” he de ‘She. thanked ‘isn as imply, and manded suddeniv, — bal fiercely, again they rode on, side by side now “W. you believe it after*— when the widening trail allowed, fter anything,” simply. “If you ailent ‘again. promised I know ‘that you would do Bo slowly did they ride now, so What you said you would do!” often pause or turn aside to follow an You are the sweet best lady in unexplored: inviting trail, that it was @ll the world!” he cried out suddenly, aften 10 o'clock when they came to brokenly. "And I'll promise, All that's the Valley of the Waterfal decent in me is there because of you ‘Of all spots in the world this is tt belongs to you!" the most wonderful!" cried Yvonne | He jerked up his head then and let happily. “I think that if 1 had my Dla torn ciearette paper flutter to the bin there, builded of great logs, with &round. And she saw the pain in his “wide doors and a big rock fireplac eyes and the sadness and the hunger, there upon the knoll where the five | He was standing above her, and she oaks are—Wwith little shelves for dishes ®4W the shiver that ran over his body and big shelves for books—I could ®% be strove to keep the calmness in find the contentment which all of us Ada in anal teva dream about and so few pt ue Bnd, ee Promise, And its be “he told Jes! because | love you cher orghte © He broke off suddenly and turned eT ea ee in wa warts ite aWay, already cursing himeelt for w oge and rocks are all handy!” feel Mey was no bigger than her secluded, favorite corner of Central Park. Op all sides rose the cliffs steeply, Dare and rugged and black here, all covered With trailing vines there, Hal staked out the horses and slow- | Then he / ly went up the knoll, where Y that tho startled wonder had already gone, ‘There h cut of her eyes and sker sented with her back to the big- }#at was there. Keat of the tree trunks, her hands | And he knew then that the gates clasped about her knees, her hat ' Paradise had swung open to him, flung to the grass. and that he was all unworthy -to He dropped do enter—and he dropped to his. knees made hia cigarett before her, his face in his hands, a man, any- Vil keep my Use —Wwhy, 108 ‘3 what cities are for. It's cover'ment |: too, was on her feet, a wide rin her eyes But Sibyl? “You"— “Sibyl was only Sibyl Uind for a spell-and you “Hall and I was are you!” turned swiftly and saw had gone that another mn beside her and Yesterday—last had Sb catching In his throat, been drunk. = A few short hours ago his soul CHAPTER XII. Oscar Plays Poker. night—he had been seething with rebellion, bit- ter and reckless, He remembered how Yvonne had come to him, the look that had been re) Wo: men iwho whipped into her eyes, the other look 4 often at the Bear which drove that one out. where they found He did not turn to her, but Still, staring into the sk: “We'll be going before lon told him, watching the frolic stream, “Father will be coming out oon—I don't know what has delayed him go long-—and then we'll all be lay 4 ready welcome, who were frequently a time. was big John Brent, who, bestriding the stubborn, sturdy Nicodemus, journeyed far afield and 'm sorry," he said lamely, and he to litte mining and lumber camps to did not look at her. “It's goin’ to carry the word of the Lord, Ho diffrent when you go. t let's talk about It’ she said found many men who shrugged their don’t know that I want shoulders and turned away from him been so wonderful out in contempt, “And now." brightly, getting to her Apt he found, too, many men— | feet and going for her little parcel of rough and with litle enough thought | \unch, “we're going to have our lunch. of God in their souls—who knew the Oh, I know it's not noon yet; but We man in the preacher, and who gave Were up early and neither of us had Much breakfast, I'll venture. If you'll Bim their hands heartily and were make the fire for coffee I'll set the glad to see him. came upon an outfit that table." When 1 nded he shed his coat and and gone for many days at One of them He went about the building of the ¥ fire in a heavy silence. It was so nat-Wis slort-hi ural to do this, they had done it to- dropped into the vacant place, doing ‘ Fother so many times before, and now work of two men so tat they here was coming the end of it. ot that he was a preaci nt But (¢ Yvonne's though fa she at lost gave no s ran with sa only that ! was a man with a len of it as grout, hearty, contagious laugh and a she went singing over her work, broad sympathy and an and ding SF A real woman, & ruc woman, that was greater than their something to » deeper into a man's When there was a man tby a Heart than any idol his faney had fall nor timber John Brent found hin ever builded for him. oul wil nursed hin Like a wonan, The coffee had boiled, and he had Aud once there was wa bal born, Bet it aside when be heard her vorce and a » tie bewildered nen calling gayly to him that dinner was from the place, and, lifting lis yuice served, a Little ® God, rolled uj his sleeves He drove a amile into his eyes us ind saved two lives: he got up from his knees and joined The other man who came and went her under her oak, carrying the coffes free upon the Bear ‘Track was with him, Prines Victor, the ¢ . fetor, the gambler, Men sutd They sat down, with the napkih that he was harvesting a rich, crop aprend on the grass between tiem -~ this year—that he, too, sought oor oh, how many, many mes Had they the outlying camps, wheee hin quick feasted thus together, as ver it smile and generous land made. him as two children, and how many, many as generally x wae d Hrent days woul! come and go, bringing - and thot a In bla ited with Gaem only the memory of thay huang Nis saddle-steinieg sie thin 18 Carried Kew weoks of cards aud ora Uitte dropped his eyes os poler chips . felt the smile dying out em v1 hack word He saw the cold meat and sapd yay is Holloway wiches and olives, the tin cups for tle ut Track so al woffee—and then suddenly the blood rap Theen taxen with the gold rushed hotly Inte his face and ran out fver and Was prospecting in the dry ain, leaving it very white, beyond Mussian Guten Miss Yvonne!" ho cried Nuskily. There wos to change in Dufresnets “ET don't want it, And oh, God, ‘ner, nothing to hint that he eo {I'm ashamed!" much as remembered that he had Don't tmlsundersta he said driven a knife into a man's back gentiy, "I know bow > Bather Nor was there a hint anywhere that Uaed to drink sometimes—too much, lie should ever be called to account I know how felt the next day. for the thing whieh he You nev! tt. vad done: Mieuse drink it—drink = Vor Black Hal h } uot spukem, The Even ing World with the Hh oheresbouts had the way of ik swiftly With murderers, and 41 alread ere would 6 & merciless tn vestigation; there would be stern duestions set why Dufresne and Yel low Jim and ¢ Jordan had 4 in the rock rin hollow at nie. Why Osear Estabrook had joined r suxe the whole deal been xo Land because fl Would ask questions Were tot It Would pot be many da cattle country, from « Onear rang with the news © brook's connivance with thieves rob his own father, And, in Black way of t to e wo yon or lead now as inking, Just meet the gant Andy w ever be, Black Hal knew, too, that the hundred steers that had been back into the mountains fr level lands were still browsing in the orrow valleys; that not yet had they been turned over to Willoughby of the Double Triangle. Vor twice at night, when Yvonne ugit that he was working in his cave, he had ridden as far as the border line, and had seen that Yel~ jow Jim and Shifty Ward still bad their camp there, and that ell was well. Since the night of the wild storm there had been only clear days and nights. Perhaps that was the reasoa that nothing had been done, or pore haps there had been a hitch some- where that had delayed Willoughby, Now aan Dufresne was at the r Track—the same smiling, ur- surteous Dufresne that he had ever been, One would have said that there was nothing of weight in his mind, no tiny fleck of shadow across his horizon, He waited upon Mra, Hataprook as though she had been the great lad he the gallant courtier, She compared him with John Brent and confided in| whomever would listen that the Prince came very nh nearer being her idea of what a man of God should be than the great, lumbering uncouth savage with the Voice of @ bull and the manners of at r danced attendanee upon Sybl, 1 and made her such delicate apeeches that Louis Dancer began to be Viusuely uneasy, And although he was quick to ace that Fern mistrusted him and that Yvonne disliked him, he never lost the occasion to anticipate their wants, to ve them at table, to think of the Tite things which made for their Bla Ack” Hal kept his eye upon him Whenever there was | opportunity, never seeing anything but the pol {shed exterior and gently courteous manner, But he watched Oscar, too, here, In the nervous, Was'a barometer misread, And he knew that Oscar waa stand- ing upon the brink of the last, great- est wron “It ain't many days off.” he told himself heavy: "And how’ 'f Rimsait nea id how'm E goin’ To-night the light burned Ops r if Toni ga ack Hal going by to the bunk house stopped a littte ton, a and t Shaking his head, indie For he heard Oscar's v. , olce and Du- fresne's, heard that other souud he knew so w il, the rattle and ¢} lick of poker chips. “The por Pore fool! Ton {t had and anxiouw eyes Which he could not fool!" he muttered, “The been Oscar who, When the others had gone to hed, had rapped softly at Dufresne 001 had suggested that, they ple oe Just the two of them ENB Dufresne had looked much of up with ns urprige in his eyer as he den atlowed to show there, and had Shee ee ett t was late, “You've ty." retorted Os revenge, | sa T know jt! to give me iny » do my part Only—T beg wationing ite of your paper als of crumpled bank i ° , Eb borrowed tt from my mother, 9 raid harshly. "And if you're not au vek to her dn the # you of some to his feet and fi hut enatah, Bata hope it will break a Inswer as he poured nthe bottle on the lropped ng out the bank-n five hundred dollare there.* tossing the. mone Dufresne to eount ant iUs tableestakes to-night Dufresne glanced at the bills ana said Daily Maga Thu ine, “My f 1h He drew chips at cards from the ‘ tal abewer ow Stra sweetened five dollars ey of You a 1 een 1pu freane ay the t part, Oscar fovermhly ange Yelee muardedly low aud Gk : ni § Hite With: Une sate nei up aa they fell bor tashone in hie eyes cnt of Wonpreniras tert 4 koant through bit nervous muiner, eternally amilog or yawning a little Yeu don't understand 1 f alenpily tor midateht. ‘They would think atared about tho room, lis eyes rest. Met ine om often Upon the tomraph it of the dark-ey pon the dresse than upon tt faced young fel- low across the table fr m. im da the hy depth he saw only weariness and hope a, In the low voice he sensed that she was tired and heart- wick, And miration the pleture tempt in it Estabrook. Once when Oscar had lost heavily he got up and went to the other table Wiere the bottie Was and drank Dufresne, carelessly raking in the Pile of chips, did not turn, but sald Bently “You've got the making of @ great poker player in you, Hstabrook, And here Was a Va t of ad- Whig took when dt went to anday tof con when it came back to don't care what people think, Oscar tut Fern, dear’ Iie forked down the shade and came to her, putting out his arms impul- sively to take her to hin She did not speak, Just bending « Uttle over him, her hand going out slowly until it Tested upon his head, her fingers wandering gently through some day you'll learn that @ man jig hate. mustn't touch that stuff while he ls eye yoy ’ ‘ow only knew, Fern," he went Playing, It's Just as well” shuffling on prokenty, te with swift, delicate fingers Landi aie dae ULC g Not tO Ee tall, My deal, inntt ier About uu lost that on your own deal.” her with his flux of emotion tl they hurt her, “you would never Want to sen me again, If it were Juat touch it Yes, y Kt was juat as well to imprese It that £ had broken my promise to you Upon him, for presentiy he wis folN —jugt that 1 had nbied my monay to lose again—on Dufresne’s deal, and my father's money—you might yawned again, and again bi® forgive ma, Hut that's not the worst went to the picture on the of jt! 1 have tried, Fern; tried ao r hard. And I have wanted be “Next timo you've got to give YOUr- worthy of yan And T have gone an self a better hand. slipping down and down untii—oh, Oscar made no reply as he came , you would hate met" k to his chair and picked up hi ““sOgcar eho said then, her words rards as they fell before him, As be dropping down to him with a awoet- looked at them he smiled and oovered jess which hurt him, “what you have the smile with pursed lips: tone doesn't matter, If you have done Dufresne's eyes dropped swiftly. Wrang I am xorry, so porry for you That time Oscar won, and the next dear; but dt doesn't matter now. Ek time, don't care what you have done, Osea Dufresne glanced at the tittle clock je room and noted that it was after 1. He was both tired what the world woul world knew, Tt is to-morr say of it if the erday is dead, dear w that counts Os Iready from his day's ride and sleepy. Aud ‘sto sou love n eee ret after that Oxear won but tittle new start now? Do you want me At half past twelve Dufresne got tO enough to stop now tn the way you his feet, slipped the roll of bilis inte re going? Are you strong enough to his vest pocket and siched a ittle, do {t? It doesn't matter what the Aloud he said, laying his hand gent- Consequences are. If you can begin ly upon Bstabrook's arm: "You have now to be honest with yourself and run t the toughest vein of hard with me, to e stralght, und to be~ luck T ever saw Kin an absolutely new life wit And to hin very contentedly: absolutely wn slatotf you se 8 ‘Not bad for a night's piek- Up. ‘ that, Osear, that Iv all that matters, Oscar did not move as he sat at the there must be oo more— table, his elbow upon the scattered cards, his chin sunk in lis palm, hie aid not answer she loom: moody and restles Dufresne stood over hit ands from about his knees a little be- ew hin up #0 that he etood hind him, smiling openly, the eoo- . tempt In his eyes unvelled now Stull she held hia hands, and as he m sorry, Estabrook,” lie sald iifted his head slowly she. looked quietly when Oscar did not look Up. deep into his « may not ve it, but I'm "Do you have been elad to a change. but You sorry, Vd lost to you for all in the car Oscar threw out ms love mee have want me enough, to break the old it was fife short off? If there are conse Guences to suffer we will suffer them ddenly. together. And we won't ¢ for we sweeping th ards to the or, and wil have the world before us, and Jerked up his head our life ahead of us, and our dreams In his eyes Was a look that startled won't be dead, 1 won't tind fault, even the man so used to seuing down Oxcar, We wilt Just take things to: h, do you into men’s souls raw and quivering, gether, And we will forget, For I Damn your sorrow!" cried the know yon have trl oung fellow — hoarsely You've "Fer Lyon Mer heart heard the thine he wa Cleaned me again, and that's ng golng to say. And the love wh care. I-I— What are you w for? Haven't I eal! that u've does not blind a woman, but which cleaned me makes her sea ao clearly the thing “Good night!” sald Dufresne quiete Which ts hidden to other eyes, saw the thing that was bre shadowa tn the ‘ing through man's soul ly, from the door. i And when Estabrook made no an- the swer, but strode to the window to fhp . And she laid her finger acrons hia up the shade and stare into the Ups and drew his arins about her, the door, went out Her ps moving ait to the une F sites spol Words which gushed up from er heart Oecd What da. yout = CHAPTER XI, RAB Me Ke RE , 7 tbh Black Hal Takes Charge. Hike a strange tread ging TOR DUPRESNE in real. up in them. it Li | € a It was Bern Winston and very sleepy. word Tie saw 1 she was ver to a room, he had ow hie ligt tut oe the course af event r He saw her ck was thrown sharply into a new groove Win way toward tse, and had stopped sud 8 shadow of tho’ te ook Phot} « and 4 gambler Inst i} ex We w sd hed Oh roo ude might meant Home night Mi ' fw both of m, or at t Dufres , ide hue nto the ountaln: tered across the floor, to the b 1 rid \ mountains and glans on the othe to the 10 Join Yellow “and Shifty table, picture on his dresser, aa) for the rsday. May oS pe = HE DROSEED TO His KN His MACK IN His WAND? rushing of the five neroas the bord ‘The cowboy kr hundred steers w that Club Jordan bad not come into bunk house to- Hight, and Hittle things aroused bbw suspicions, So he sat down In the shadows and watched and waited An hour, two hourm--he kno’ r ed Ws Ah too, grew sleepy. Hut still he sat, leaning back dcainat the bole of th tree, waiting. He gaw Ose did not flip up the window shade and stand staring out into the darkness Durresne must bave gone back to In a Little he would and io to be his own put out his lamp Hut still Black Hal waited to be in saw that Oscar had wheeled phe guessed that some one had come into the room; le s.w the shade Jorked down Had Dufresne rejoined hin? He could not tell Hla only. knew, thought that » hoew, bier nad not . nee the yellow tot lis lamp at the elge of the window curtuin Naturally, bis suspicions ted) him Into an error, and he supposed that it was Dufresne with better And, sain natural Supposing that, It was that hia suspicions should be sharps ened al the hasty way in which Osear w lls window shat And he was stubborn ia his resolu. tlon not to move until after the Hyghte were out fn both noone After what ser to hima very long tne the light in Gscars room was extinguished And Bull he waite not know that Dufresne was already asleep. His eyes reated now always tipon the eambler's window Heard a little sound that at @rat id not make out. ‘Then he knew twas the noise of a window be- for he could Ing raised. very slowly, very eau Netra were alx windows along thin aide of the hours Ihe vuld mot tell whieh « of them tt was : Tt wos not a win Dufresne’s room; the Hebt told m that But everywhere else along the wall of the building the shadows lay thick and black He heard the window catch, heard the little click of the fastener which Ait no And in a@ moment, his 4 straining into the darkness, he de out a form under Oscar's wine w Some one had gott was moving swiftly zs toward t r corner of the house. In another moment the moving form had turped the corner and wie lost ty hin “Headed toward the mountaing!" n out there and He got quickly to. his feet, ran thranet a title patch of atariight, and, turnin into idow lying close to now, swiftly but the house, walking where the other noinelessiy, followed had He thought of hin horse, but there van not time to drop back. He wou Pate theomien a tittle, WNT he knew fit were Dut or Oscar and until he saw if he took to horse and rode He was tthat he would find the man vifident that Wout re > horse a y sadded an! Walting somewhere him. and bead om straight into (ue TeNTtetne) He came cautiously to the corner of whieh the huriyin nd paused a monet ne eagerly. here and lense shadows tks, Us ele for the sour Ant yonder, already Just beyon t of the grove vka, Walk wt ward the k ! ind, he saw the man he had fo weil And although the night was toa lark for lim to ses anythin: clea he recogniged something In the man cortlage, and he Knew that it was nol Vietor Dufresne, but Osean Batabrook 1 Mid the cowhoy hesitated balanced upon the ba Ma foot, 1 enough desive 1 ie ind swiftly ud t litte enough, } \ Wink, stepping Loiseien ty hidden a that if ¢ Hho woult not “They've roped the pore davil tn and are playin’ hun for the fall guy," Was the thougDt which decided Black 13, 1915 nT oe ee I rennin rowmnmannnt ey” r) NEXT WEEA'S COMPLETE NOVEL IM THE EVENING WORLD No. 2 Schuyler Place ’ Pw HOWARD | ALAN SARA RRNA odin idl dels RDO fede Re Redd > " ‘ ‘ e ond . ' . “ eT) wa A ‘ " uf «ft « a ewitiy e “ . Space ow (de et 1 «rowan t ito @ little hollow, had gone on and {N . the farther ’ t bad he fear apor trall to the be ¢ pit had the combeoy came upon mn Mawel fi t whieh be he was a haif mile fr {heen mm ead . house, upon hie hands and knees ee “eos » do about rock strewn ravine tark eee i , but not eo dark that Mack tte a 5 ded with eome bol ee What he was doing Ne that wae half contempt, half The cowboy stepped twenty » Diy . away and wate pureed : F he was ‘ . t : dow t Which Wiehe have welghed aeventys ehrinking Jew ow pore He wan cleaning (he loose sui anit What am Tt aoln’ to dot he aad wl "That's what we're goin that} at ou 4 @ what | could @ hands unde he’ Coots Very ® yw, inaking fy aound u © the pen for Hack Hal ear “ sid | reckon you Hi he w on fret Ny ha ta after be 1 f told You you wot to aplit ett waa tant ~ loge t wueee if you t or hin mu « cance With deep elen awa pried at ower, ‘ qt a the hoo ” muttered hinge that wisn ihe ben a hap atoopir netting ite b IK At his ancuser fro ‘ tle hale ' wildly with lis handa wh wk hat “Et wan ee been, scooping out snd a0, that T knew what f must da dropped inte it he had Hook 1 omvet break with them And taken fom lia pocket How You know everyth: and it Money!” wow Black Tale quick [at ” ” thos Dufresne got soared at, tly ae sald ‘it ain't never something ant han passed over tof. late’ was al wine old female lady him to keep (he money they've taken wk Hal drew meditatively at his In on crooked cattle work!" elgaratis The thing, whatever It was, would it happens T ain't out foon be hidden Bw had al none You're going ready lid his hands againon the flat * you ean, and t york and was Hitine It upon edge to alt p you “Help met wonderingly Yes, me And you @ot to be Plumb square with me from right Aud you got to atand he to cover the “Tou wend it tappling back hole he hb ma made, Back Hal maw his opportunity and took i He rope from among the i \ 1do your ah Sor shadows, and oat he came forward bgctlaes are. i fad abruptly, bat none the lems i." Cny ae Nihacd {a betters two. This quietly Tontre pan’ te tenis “L want to talk to you a minute, what t ave it up to me Katalrook.” what haf s ane. rig moin to Oncar had straightened un and right now to came to thon tenine® Jerked back at the frat word ax "SWnat ara you maine te dene dex thou a man had atruck bin. And manded Oscar wulkte the little ery whipped from his lips hie ee thing, T'm goin’ to head off hin big steal of five huncred Wack Mat came on and stopped youd oughta had more fell when only the freshly moved stone try that an. Nea’, Lay goin’ te cation lay between them the money as has already come in y dyin’ for a smoke for {Wo from sellin’ cattle to Willoughby. and he maid | 4 his hand aend it whore It belongs, tthe cle went to the pocket of tis unbuttoned man k t. Or else you and me vest, "We can amnoke now, TL gues will me more stocks to take Was one of startl there won't be anybody around «of them as is gone, That Wo damn ane the bn way, and we'd be cried Eaxtabrook hearsely, both t away with It without stir and fear in his voice now 1 know it And I n't Job none to speak on cond te eum abont it @ lot of talk. ritrind to laugh a erVOus attempt jarred on both of like my One Hut it don't Vata bre Hey ma 6 “You are going to collect that money? You talk as tf all you had to a ask f it and have tr r to yout is cigarette and lighted It oke further, while O if thie bewinn inn ing for iw to Ko on, eyeing him w Which comes purty near betn’ lousty true ‘The prince haa been keepin’ {t, "Now, Uin \ n’ te lay my cards on ain't he? He ge red about some. the table, fem, and face thing to-night and handed it over to up, Eatabr yuews it's th ns’ you, didn't het Be Pee hendclae it becauna t don't No!” with sharp emphasia, "We believe you're se much a bad man ae were together to-night, but we were enough for a just playing Pe “L was outside,” cut in Black Hal “T guess L know what happened. You piayed him and [ guess you dida’t wip heavy He went to his room and you went to your window and shot up the addy Hat Pim goin alk jes’ shade and stood lookin’ out and cus- sxame and ho ain't goin’ to fire sin’ your luck. In about @ minute a one come in” » you're tulk- Estabrook You've been trottin’ with men, as You cur!" Oscar spat at him ft ain't good and ain't wise te call “You dirty, sneaking curt” pardners Which means the Prince A sudden wrath d up in the whos eye His hand fell heavily end Club Jord And you've got in i bad somewhere, and got in di on Ketabrook's shoulder damn deep! Now, you're goin? ty 9 “E don't like t kinda words,” break with them Jaspers short off! be said sternly, “And you ain't jes’ ‘em to me right new! IVs Kinda late now it, but € the man to use i ain't too late" Hesides, I told you once TE didn't lke you go to telling me what ™Y Job Twaw what T saw, and it's o a good thing for you [ did—else, may- “Which I'm doin’ right now, stern. De. We Wouldn't have had this talk ly. “You Jes’ Heten. [don't know aa teonient Va Up to you to say anything this “You areem to have seen pretty near. trip. Poaln’t goin’ to even ask you lY everytt maid Oscar hotly. “But Mie qubations Inge bas happened YOu have no right to misunderstand 1 know purty near all f want ty to misjudge H show me what [ t do you Mean?” ae mea tt cone Walt a minute!” Black Hal Tho little apurt of anger Was Bone yy Nned out the words sitoriy, Met eam to me, just to must do, to make there waa only the Krowing fear left. Witney anything about & she What do you know?" gente , in ‘ ‘That's jes what 1'm goin’ to tell Warn't \t Dufresne who came into you 1 know fire blurt ag te lie weg that?” suddenty, d 5 lis voice @ little ONO, (lant, tte wan't, Du: ML about ; stlek-Up Party 86 frosne, {don't want to know about ba Suir by tsb ah i You Jerkel down the shade and 1 My God!” cried Oscar. “You Giant we “Your tryin’ to tall like a igor Then. Well = cowpunch didn't fool my any snoren p,hiet,. 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