The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1915, Page 15

The Evening World’Daily Magazine, Monday: September 20, 1915 meereicties,, A Tressure Hunt Story With « N By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR oor aad Where , “+ ~~ ped ene HP Oh Ue witout the ermcmie af Ory Ce | CHAPTER 1. Waal oo yes mien to 00. Marge” Birds of Prey eetiiea. "the o tnnten, 6 (he Chance of geuting ews? “This one en’ over yet.” | growled im @bipmewed thie time, but . ‘ we gee, #04 whee BAYRCT prerty everynoty beween the Arete ithe of Poneme b 4, more of lena, of the Northe Mounted Por. They re wine wih the veers 6 everything Cine We Wis one-time buffalo « ry) but 6 Canada shippe them West, to keep low end ont 4 ee , ryt + © tet of tour) Heow'e aped ¢ ' wine out south of the bnew ” cree saunas were, a2 one wit wt Indians as enaip- lifters, eminently fitted | lit 1 cam oumte berkes FU cena thoes Sedan, She Gam 6 Siearcoden pooray then wo boys home, and write to the oid OmBriet Jockots and yellow etriped breeches, and fwony Melle ro sty part of that rol in OB ONO wide of their heads, ond held there by a strep that ra riveree t a tie re "one ie, They Got wine after they'd beon on the p ee them, Sve OF © ON te Wearing Mietson heats, but | often Wondered bow om ‘ tte ehal Ean es 1 Beater | « what I'd do.” he anewered, “It Bt d0een's seem long ago, but i was tn ‘74 that they filed down the eane re Une the average rue ef men Way of thet Missourt Kiver boat at Hentor ) walked as etraieht nod wtitt) 00 if every mother's son of them had @ Fomrood under hue tunic, « WANT fo SEE ture @ trick of that kind, theyll THe OTHERS ive (herwelves away if you let then rickety 014 whart that was mroaning under the Weight of @ kings re : baled buffalo hides They robed everiand from fentom to the ¢ The big bile will be (heit Our ais-shootere ft y Undertake to apend @enbbarde, the four Mille; and Fort Waleb was headquarters for the Northw loeated. in Ue country--ead ten thou over the horn of M. od Gollare inn’ big envugh sake Maybe it didn't feet all righ About two years after that, the La- wae tn an glien land, where the Pere outht sent me to Fort Walsh in 16% \* upheld to the | to pull vut wit on the hurricane deck’ of going to stay re an horse once more! Whenever eharge of a bunch of saddie-horses AN,'ne arm of Mt ie « 1 | through. It’s an ugly to walk a mile oF two, and if old Hane told ue true, ith see where « horse thief OE og the M. P. quartermaster had said he'd — “Hiere es my authority, yu bie runt,” he yelled, and jerked lin ma worse before it's cleaned up, if ther ha We broke out of & sake cached around Writing-on- tom on & high lope, all. pel these virates will trouble, ff tt came our wey fire thoughtful of those out! I turned them phoutier to a level with the police Over, and started back with over ten man's breast. “Mack from that! thousand dojlare—the sale money— Kes, OF Vi hang your hide to dry on ny Wagon-wheel ih ® holy mit Koen lookt) rit And it leave everytnt end the first day out I had a chance ute!” be any Bunday-sehoot pienie I with them, either they've showed @ ff ; yotdoned (2 Whi to ebserve how high the “Iuders of = ‘The policeman's shoulders e#tiffen- the Plains” stacked up when they un- ed, and he put one foot on the Kem ve ane ritory thet wee rigor wmid il & Year or tw Fi 4 F $7. & when they gut Kk and uae strong hand there.” i Froy where 1 was lying | could nee place where Rutter lay. was midnight when we The best thing for {ato Pend 4’Oreilie, From then’ wat dertook to keep the peace and en- the fingers of hin left hand whut danse the 1 tight over his thumb, pressing till tinued, after @ little, "in to 6 o'clock Manitas and 1 al: ‘wide right’ now and hoof tt to Pend by aide in a government banks the We'd pulled into « buffalo-hunter’s stood wee ee itire eek vf hie hand rejile, We have two extra horses last bit of I reat ot |there, and we can be moving bright to know for many’ many weeks, — camp for dinner, myself and two other I'd seen that be snd éarly in the morning. Ili have report tn person at Walsh, but be- CHAPTER III. fore 1 do, we must go to Btony Cron. » and I knew in 1d look fo it LS A horee-wrangiers; and firet thing they that J wasn't mistaken In the man, 1AM DEAD TiRED You ARE RIGHT , HAY ing and took for, Hank Rowan, | If Reduced to the Ranks.” Gid Was to apring a keg of whiskey on {N0UED his fico woe turned from LOOKING AT TS SOHN. LET'S OWED YOU NEE fambia that trouble bas camped in HERES Stony Croesing, Mow,.the whole Northwest was fieesn Bicith woe nearer Gnbda| LET'S GO AND TAKE Go BA = IS, MORNING. fur door yard for a lengthy stay Sarge; and over yonder, at years, No boose of any description He did havo the drop on tie man ITS BY FAR THe RENT IT. nie Ar N » give YOUr MeO, OA ei out this ridge, i@ Writing-on-the- > Vas supposed to br din the Tereie ith, the Acarlet jacket, Ho was ~ Now THAT. | HAYE Het of tt. There's about one Stone.” SeGky. SC G64 ‘ov 06. Wuiraty. You AotlOne fables Gus Senin SEEN THEM ALL chance in a miiiion of our finding that: At the foot of the long slope on couldn't stand it any longer, you could Only the fact that Piexan was hait| (AM SATISRED fold, even if tn there, and fang Which we atood Milk River glinted tn help : ne Tho held us up, if the sunshine, deceptively beautiful, catch the mn insides of the {ine shining example of thé truth of that iota to tatktng anout It." O14 saw aboUL disianoe lending en. se om,” pied. “T guess : Vit tell Wes fy aon Tra acinch SB@Atment; for, looking down on the lactd wt roam slippl Y the men that set us slipping smoothly along Af wea cae the cold-blooded between narrow fringes of scrubby pa that put Hane Rutter’s Nass timber, you'd never that Hut Tht T dant eae Maived up 24 miles of hungry quicksand lined thowe oles Man, hele cattle the river-edge, an unseen trap for the In m deal oon the Canadian bad ® feet of the unwary, on pent to death fof MONCY- tony Crossing I could see, makings | now. You see’ Without Mac's guiding finger. Tho AE ey Noe Ni a low, oven tone, a8 Whoop-up trail, a brown streak Mactiag Poet aa it he were, apeakiN€ against the vivid upland green, dipped 7 or Urunk, and tho other performing an petition tho Lieutenaut-Goveruor for impersonal duty, waa all that pre- what they called a “permit"-—which vented the opening of a large sized game granted you jeave and Iicense to package of trouble have in your possersion one gallon of Pad ad on the surfa whiskey. If you were a person of ir- {il the Dest ot i. reproucbable character, and your an even fovtit Mac- humble petition reached His Excel- ee ina i of that sort; Mac- bly di dy ae was the type of man that can leney his a i bo amial tae ae keep hie feet and burn powder you might, In the course after you've planted enough lead in weeks, get the desired permission— his system to sink him in swimming but anyway you figured it whiskey Water. was hard to got, and when you got It Picking betty halt minuto of pasty seis lence. Smith stvod glowering, his is camo mighty high, Pistol up, and at full cock, His foot Smith had t ad fon ordon ‘That sort thing, naturally, didn’t still on the keg, the pollveman faced » round-wp— down the Phy appeal to most of the high-stomached ine sh as 3 Kun, motionless, wait of the ; ig trom, ‘cannes, Toya pees ae Faapiar gre yas: children of fortune who ranged up and !&. The keg was almost ‘empty and % fol! out—feury 4 called river by the down the Territo:tes--peing nearly all “yom the trooper spoke again, and Ken in our feclings, af y the great boulders that gave “Don't be a fool, Sinith.”” he quiet- that ten thousend of another man’e qualities of that descent. 1f ther outit, of COUrS®. the ford ite name, The bi Aso a, and born fi had dead—thore might be @ chance to —Injuns—firet; got us at the—the jt of. fault the oul eo next ue ridge erivans, and born with the notion yy said. “You can't buck whola money was @ responsibility L wanted been boulders on that hillside, the square Chings later, Btone, Hank an’ ine—yuh know Went to Colorado and up her atter the river. I gave scant heed that it 1s a man’s incontestable right force, you know, even if you did to be rdof with the least possible noise of our coming would have — ‘The silent partner knew right where Hauk—Rowan, You'll nd Hank—tn spring. Three YORrs AE vi cyor on Welting Stone was only @ name t to drink whatever he pleases when- Ket the best of ‘me. Put up your y. Also Macktae, I'd discovered, alarmed @ deaf man, but the soft to look, which was another thing I the timber—-Stony Crossin’. I trled— | joined the Poltee, © PYM". that me, for I'd never seen the place. Tho ever ho pleases; consequently, every “4 i prospered In the service, and was dirt and siippory grass gave no didn’t sabe. Ile reached down Inside to make the post--W Two of the Whoop-up trail Wim Fort patch of dark. her'a son of them who knew tow, Plegan hoard him, all rieht, but his now a sergeant in charge of Pend sound, though wo slid and tumbled my shirt with a none too mentle hand, ‘em—masked, Tried to make me tell tank st anol viaa a barrel of crossing y rh pon trees below the mother's son 0! m » pistol never wave His mouth was @'Orelile, a post lying twenty-five and dug inoue heels fora foothold Uil and relieved me of the belt that held ‘em—tell ‘em—where Hunk cachet and dump my roving os “worm,” 5 : ‘ ° . ‘ ‘That, whether I would 1 and could rustle a “worm,” took up pinched close; so tight tho scrubs sto the south of us—a long aft- the sweat streamed déwn our cheeks. the money, ‘Then the two of them the dust. I'm—oh, God, God! A—ah! rotting clear. That, or no, I've ridden his post in a deep coulee, and started bY beard his chin stood straig ride, but we were glad of At the bottom we mounted again backed up and faded away Into the [I'm done, Tho dust—it's"—— Tho y, war that iran coy tho. tle! Ree ecerce i aoa than the one @ small-sized distillery. Some of them OUt In front; hia chest was heaving ers company and the shelter and followed Mackae in a cautious stoom, goaried hands shut up into clenched ing, and an outhrent, ‘hem. © day, lke y Crossing that MAG C A a ean blood stood darkly red st would be welcome In that file around clumps of willow and sts, and the feeble voice tratied off gover, just about bro hone told oY x got rich at it, » which wasn't odd under his tinned cheeks, Al tile country oe ae 3 AR: plan ee iene CHAPTER IU. in an agoniged moan. fellow said an Opatalle, ps M much pice er ee I muttered, “to- when you consider that everybody had he looked as if his trige here were Do road agents to speak where the biuze should have shown >. 1 Inved bis pain-twiated face with yim about it 7 Rav t'm berinning Slept me aan you've eaten and & big thirst and plenty of money, I've ™sht crook without warning, It was of, for no sums of money large enough But no crackling fire rose up to gree A Tale Half-Told. the cool water and Jet a little of it or it at the times DULL anare's Tet to h, and called, your friuad, ry hiskey, ON Of those long moments that to wmpt gentry of that ik passed us; the coulee bottom lay more dark HEN they wer a trickle into his open mouth. He to think he bad tt Che away to shined brat a aeon barrels of moonshine w! ys i f they were gone we drew fe h hi t yt placer mi ekinn buffalo, wi makes a fellow draw his breath sharp over those isolated trails; but here and silent, if that were possible, than gasped a few times, gathered himsclf jjnon a lot ¢ vam three OF Sia rmen Ot ele can ’o new und rank that two drinks of when he thinks about tt afterward. and there stray parties of Stonles the gloomy hills abwye, Porplexed, a long breath, and let our together and went on slow! the north of here tho Nii ve dritted Rowan down there” we'll find Hank ft would make a Jack-rabbit spitina — If any one had made an unexpe: and Blackfeet, young bucks in war Mackae halted, and each of us hands down to # natural "Lyn—-was to be at Wali They pyar years, They MIEN Tg and Mowe know be a ae een sul death in that camp. And, t of th t dicine, \ or 801 i n that on ood 5 ot it or her. atfenty wtte ade ‘al af six and seven dollars a quart—and @ Wyte ine dot of us mit and stood eeiS tase ies ty pie pd Reunite Plack See rae Ve TalanE AT We appear to be UP Cached under—under tho stone-yuh Py husiness off a placer in We did know—ail too soon, In the ck, ghostly quiet, We might quar ic atabinran i a * ip, ston a clump of cottonwoods we found twenty dollar gold piece was short about, not daring to move or speak in touch with the drifting buffalo though, our senses had playe againat it,” I observed, “The LaPere know—Writin’ Btone. ‘Three sacks. you know Ang broke, money for @ galion feat the wrathfal old cuss equints herds and alert fora chanes to am: trick that the flame wed. ae outfit is shy ten thousand doMars— That's what they—wanted, You'll rirat Thenrd of thelr tore & ase come, Gale Baad, ey A Of course vii this was strictly sng down the gun barrel would shoot, bush straggling white mon and lift an itaginary thing—but for the rank, and we're afoot, minus everything You'll—on the rock above—marked— y aid “Hut | MONE Mtg years, Dockets had been turned inalde against the peace and dignity of the the policeman took his foot off the thelr hair, unmistakable odor of burned wood. sk : : 1K gold—raw gold-—that's {t—gold—raw from the Panhandle, ih Eee ang pod urned o, ; de t ct raganrsehy pig , but cigarette material It's a wonder © : Silaoahtao=st oar n the Judith ¥ and his papers and letters lay . Crown; and the red coat boys rode empty cause of the disturbance, and Dark came down on the four of us @ sinell no man bred in # land of is 4 kold—on the rock—raw gold--Mac—I rye hoon In nt begun to OOMS terea wround. These we the high divides with thoir cagle eye Goliberately iurning his hack on Fle- gs we topped Manvberriva Idee and campiires can mistal they didn’t take that, too, A mighty want want” Ive eal herds fate oo may nen around. These re oaineten tee for anybody that looted xe gan’s leveled six-shooter, Walked over ten miles of rolling orairie #ull lay After a bit Mac caught a stronger 004 stroke of business, all right.” ~The tense muse 4 in the in there vet, fm ot va, gan thane a whiskey runner, And if they located ty his horse, between us and *Penu d'Oreille, We whiff of the ) and circled a 1 finished, fo his head think-worka ko f won't be ates beneath tus bores aaa’ ee ee Oe ey rela: ling pretty sore, When game old Dutchman's noe ‘one peddling the contraband, Ue Smith lowered his cun with frank jogged along easily, saving our horses’ oj aay some slay upon it was too ki could think of a fell back Imp, and the rest of his at anything TS" 00 Od peter the soft Ie gentioman was due to have his outft astonishment. “The nerve uh the & Or wnat amern might the, banked barely visible’ at donor was ~ Hy ht ave escapes Meamugo wont with bin wero the 1 though, 1 reckon we Una tavled hig Utectiase: oheiaae Gonfiscated, and get a chance to pull darned—— Bay! don’t go off mad." be arise in tho long journe he south. ghort range under its covering of (osen wave we mig weaped great divide, srarts Nadn oy. ‘The four of US early in the morning, When we had oe ar) Coat bint estes walk. yelled, his auger evaporating betore A pall jouds blew out of the west, earth, A dim bulk lay begide it, and, Ketting stuck up, “There's a lot back of this I don't Mac il Wii “ie vrushy bottom 44 finished, McRae hung in a tree ton for shoer pluck, “Yuh hiding the stara, and tho dark jeaning over in our daddies, the faint “I got you into it, too,” MacRae understand,” ackae suid slowly, a. aS abd but, ey 1 Wrapped us like a black sea mist. m glow of the coais revealed a man's muttered. “But don't got excited and tore to, bisa ie tne to the Kent of uess yuh do now any better. the suliry, velvet gloom no sounds jody, half naked and—or, well, such yp, . us. Vhy should those two old cow- We a took a drink when these No hard feclin's, anyway. Stop un’ grose but the night song Of frome In (oudta are “ao utterly devilish you Tue On ie rope this early in the inen be here in this country, tangled Yuffalo-hunters produced the “red- eat with us.” Vehrouenon unaccustomed tO spade he had a king might 0. leaving Rutte d'Oretile, and A Onert Mo ly indisturhed by the DiackenIng® and tui thee Rakes horses morning we would come Walsh. heads toward Fort Aidn’t make an exceedingly fast get- 5) away. 6 upland sloughs, and the hollow "t credit dt. ty bad enough Same, Sarge ; you'll only throw youre up with buried gold-dust, and huated > Tn the mornim, but for that ‘It js sevent ~.’ Piegan Smith get the keg on no policeman withdrew his foot Gank of the sicel bite keeping time fyrnevegen: but f nee eee NeD oll, Brace up. We've been in worse down Ike wlid beasts (or the sake of back and bury Ni ON lg any prom Stony ei tg yy Bg the ground handy to the fire, where from the up, and siniied at Die- to the creak of saddle leather, Hint how any white man could take hole before.” Never a word of what jt? Old Hang was in lis right mind, night weil I) Ut injure, and YoU night we slept outdoors without hard- everybody could help himsolf when gan suith Piewan to show that "Hatt way down the abrupt ridge, A deat out of ‘tho Indian's torture !t Wight mean to hin; never even or he wouldn't have known us, and if man's power Ve Ai) Toe uy that W® hip in a grassy hollow, for the night he took the Botton} eee ie Soe his intentions were good, unbuckled yracttae and I, riding a few yards in book Mated that the high TREO at are he was right, Hank Rowan bas. be on ranat at An arin the dark. was comfortably warai, an@ noon of wagon-wheel while dinner was }, rid, belt and threw it and ‘o ry n ie ash Were more Unan Ukely to bre: murdered, too, If Lyn is at Walsh, left him Dg , for Ritts “cocked” After a lot of long, tho sixcshooter on the ground. “ve the lead of the other two, Pulled MP | qhe fre had been heaped over with im for ietting such lawless Cumtom- ghe may know; but I'll swear I can't | We stumbled aunt, close up, foF that day brought us to Walsh, hard days in tho saddle it was Feat piyinb fowl all desire for trouble,” he ealght A Tree ee are cowie STO seen tO rreht! on “We. oie ue trough his fngera in bis own seo through Jt.” the | thick: plied —ORUAa Cs IE A lr orgh rg > | when somebody fave an angry yelD. Nin "sweaty horse, turned him jose Wnnattral bincknass Oyee TONG iG, clowolys then he uy pearing from ang 19 to be brought in fect first. wasn't in the bachkround by any Avery, Meni AML stot my mind dinner fires. By the post storercom ME iad’ nappened. ‘eufitito, Mact” I hailed, as ho walk. AM instant bent on the HEN) Gave, amoldaring einbere and, £4 the sparks ing by the fire » Tat aouta ours ist a Friend: know ie wan may curning aver tA DAL: At Wee tae eee eeaian thal Moat of the hunters were bunched oq up to the fire. He ilanced at Gone Ot Sa atient tn tHe inky eee cnee & bere $18 Mrehind. us he ont ou tt Aoeantt eoasd, Sarge.’ {f gho was around; especially this far tues haphamdumble it came to brought food and raiment to. the of the fire, and they were 44. with v. sre conde ther thing, how did Out of the thought-Jumble | : 4 e & Mounted Policeman, who wai 7 : : held the ma 2 We swung around to behold twe memory for faces, But—Ko ahead; see ‘nd where I carried it? had spoken to mo Nn “ % ml look ae e with his back to nie, hold or Tm @ sinner!" ho ,, caste, Be sumnebody camped down asked faces regatding us from be- !f you know him.” a ae jeri siddie for ua; * to Lan Rowan—t mene: a: Oe ee ee ing the bconaay tte up fo wine He there Nee np wouldn't flash Uke hind steadily held Winchesters. ae fast tol a iiek cr mUnE cioealy and our eurroufdings at that par- the ‘ ed me a sunny tanoh on tho swung’ off our horses before the A litle, way Off stood Tip HCmMe, You sure are,” L retorted, as we (7s SAP ae inswored thougit- The very suddenness of the hold-up ang : ticular moment weren't the moat ielly er he 1 quar- bullding where the officer of the da: sing and i an i Sa ¢ wered 4d turued his face toward the fire. “af no they had 4 re S) bridie-reine 4 TER and uid amet eHovk Mandy, ee pet Se east not_an ordinary one. mado tt w compic to, auccend. | Aparty gerry , favorable to cohurent thought oF C4) i 4 tt off held forth, "They must have coms Reickeriskey, ‘The trooper wnifted a , Me sat down beside me ar 1 began phere are a few pe in this coua- and snoving, we might have scattered “Eiviy, mold Huns Rutter," Lerted, Plausible theory building, | When a Fey mole of the by way of Assinabolne, I wonder e i Cite heat down to roi & cigarette, Not a very dew (ny y yw, who t in the brusa like young quai, ABe and shrank back, a mite startled, Hig ™an's son and 36) é rot ne . average human's cussedness. Lyn whgre Chat, ot Me pare ‘a from! oa second, see ee eo goth Monstrative greeting, perhaps, for (Ve Peek "§ given the gentlemen @ hard run for gye_” had dropped open, showing heart of an unpeot F Merete lust #8 hauehty and Im- | "Paymaster's train," Mac answir Ger he sake: I Afar ewe campaneros who'd grown up POTD R fire or a signal. Let's the money Ve WETO DIL CT (Oe ee eee a oe eeomeg dead man and a dying fire for com- could be Just ee Natt Oy gra. “At least he's duo, apd 1 ni Rieti voioe Way Tad In'gt) ty together and come Weat full of high either @ Vie gether, staring at the piuful figure at Ge way, and closed again, “He's not f2¥, his nerves are apt to Ket a Little }ori™ ve viiural enough, see. DUCK trooper herding the hora ring to me. have liquors in your Nobody said a word sm to enap- htul enthus th spirits and you atiy Joust with fortune amon ny a_minute our feet, when Machae unmaske then Machae fire, and the Hare of It surround tne tus We stood staring dow dead, Mac bit on edge, Things that wouldn't Clots whlines natural enough, ee: BUGR Pad ator Gis eaters that lengchened to fv Co sou followa get some tux your fortitude in daylight iouk Ink she'd ruled a catia Wk AEN tna what Teall it, anyway. It hap- t ae y areal and hair-lifting Comanches of that lenurhened to TAN! Me’ cantence with . yellow nimbus that ua Martie tows wet, SOme like Che works of the dovil when you sunburned range riders Mood eas geet that I didn't stay around those wasn't anything they could s He The ut wes Macitag's Drow of I” Meaned up, Mickered Af falr marks for a gun. With the daz- A beside mo, Hfting, Rutter's bave to face them in the black Bee tote ie art of man police posts long enough to wet famll- Bad tein aaa e te end ehey Ke atyie pped Wer, no mat- 24 the flame ln tied out again, T ling ight in our eyes, and those UKIY= head, 1 pecled off my coat and spread Of the night. If It enor ; ee eee ve to heel at any wom- lar with the technical terms for URE ee Cinee ey ply asking aa a ter ti Hin way was always (stant: ind eee T heard @ cry Of jyokihg customers at the business-eud yt over the marred Mmbs, In a min- My lot to take the loud tral! at abot Il’ Nile On, 1 could aabe how everything. Not that they didn't Polloman waa simply ovine we tT oven His looks gave no fain | Of the Runs, 1t Would have been OUt- yte Brus wan back grom the creak Rewce, L hope it will be under a blue un Milne 8. Toor them want me; faith, thelr desire for my Marter, of form mpi the recresn= int of tie real man under tho sure PAI att" one of the boys asked and-out aulolde to reach for a six- That whimpered just deyond the wile SKY, ahd a blazing aun It wow hard UAPbi iad Ce that dublous sort company wan only equalled By my 0 fo empty ” an » philosophic, « en deve you'd never have gues move wonline eroand: if they fot np smebady hollered shooter, We were fairly caught usty about it, he might hase ti hove bunch of us into Fort Walsh and that meant cach of ua contribu low patch with his hat full of water, th . . ot prid hat has buste up more capagity for dodwing them, nd if ities Tx te's aome sort of funny bual- there was nothing to do but Hee eee ne eecull dip la my culm, standing there gn the gickly of pride that tae, e they'R been a little awifter, or I a bit with heavy-la aac! noan going on down ti MacRao our digits and paw the air 4s com> hand and sprinkle Ruttor's face, flON OF the fading oduia, with old Uitieen hundred yards or more slower, 1’ have had ample leisure to and plain, thin said ina low tone. “I'm going to see manded, After a little there wad a dry rattling @ ton lous thread, easily. snipped, \he uuulea Te tripped over a observe life in the force from the tn- vite 1 neh een ited up just @ t hat it is. You fellows better stay It took one of those Western Tur- throat, he moved his head Mie lurred to me that our maaket cottonwood and drove the side-——-of the guard house. fer, a bigs iat 0 Atk he Hy u pine ab aoiminute to relieve ue of yo and looked up at us, @ Hgbt pe pobier aly anenk up and ney f a projecting Hmb clean | As I remarked previously, we went mgheauer, ino law.” he went’ on, ance had parted us in the Texas “Not on your life," T protested, and our artillery and lead our horses out tion in his eyes. Trees ei ferthournt, they decided thrmigh the uber of my Boot and into the anteroom, and I got my Bret in the game kid voice, “Where ts Panhandle, sending me North and the hoya seconded me. “You might of sight. I had hopes that they mere- — “A-—drink," he whispered huskily, to do a real workmanlike job, Doubt into the fleshy part of my leg not a peep Of he divinity that doth nedge-— Your authority to have thie atuft?” him to Kansas, five years before: I's sun into 'mowt any kind of formas ly wanted our borees, and weren't 2 propped him up eo that ho {rp “weant the dead man at our feat disabling wound, but one that lacked got a king. but a petty eMcer in her If old Piegan Smith hadn't sampled @ fur ory from punchng cows In the tion—and Im kind of curious about onto them oney t carried, but my could slp from the hat brim, | He conte’ that cask so indu jouth wes oO Wearing the queen's thig gipnal business myself.” Opes were shattered instanter, for came near going off again, but ralted, ? ot ¢ Rea contante Ot never have made a colors and keeping peace along the — go eres to the post 1c Was that Mac- he was back in & moment, and the and after a second or two his lips Oe Ee i alore of those days snug which had broken off the we'd convinced Bim that our busines: Break. For a hot-tempered pilgrim bhorder-line; but I knew he'd tell ine thaw knew the very fect of the ground man behind the gun Indicated me with framed a question, along the Hne—you'll turn le red trunk; and while Twas at it @ clat- Was urgent, an not for his ears, he he had good judgment, which a man the why of It in his own good time, underfoot, He ied us a hundred a wave of his Winchester “Did yuh—get ‘em pages. There were no half-way mea- terint nolae wprose nearby condescendingly Slowed us to enter Needed if he wanted to live his al- if he meant that I should know. yards along the bank, and stopped ‘That long, stoop-shouldered gaza- I shook my head, “You might say gures in the code of a “bad man’ fiver hear a horse shake himself, the Presence—who a8 heavy set lotted span in the vicinity of the When he'd made his cigarette afd again, gatedld bo,” he growled, “has the stuff!” that they got us,” I blurted out, then; the pair who held us up Would jike « water spaniel frewh from @ person with any w rs, set bias forty-ninth parallel in those troubled Jlchted it began to talk, and wo “Have to lead your horses,” ha Thera was half a second when I "Who was it, Hans?" Macao ques- haye taken our lives as nonchalantly dip, when he's Hen thed for hours in Pn Faun Fe poUnteanges His ays. But he'd put enough of the ranged from Amarillo to the Can Ja warned, “It's a devil of a scramble had a wild notion of getting fractious. tioned eaxe ‘Tell us all you can. ag they relieved us of our material ¢ with the dead weight of braid trimmed uniform was cut to fit \ing !n the way of pain, ‘The mafsesty's N. W. M. P. ‘ toppad while I patied ont the An orderly held us up, and whi convincing proof of their capacity n y der his belt to mako Hine In the few minutes It took from | to the bottom." A fellow hates to make a regular We'll make them sweat biood for possessions had we been tn the least ck saddle on his back? Dim like the skin of @ well stuffed or ee under Jurlorematch; and medley of cooks to prepary coffes and “Wo dismounted and. found that bungle of the first decent trust he's this, Did you know them?" Rogree troublesome, Cy a lite byplay of grunting Sausage; and from Dehind a fiat Mon the trooper, retting no answer, hot biscult and brolied buffalo steak, Mactan hadn't exaggerated the evit had in @ long tlme; but I was in a "No," Rutter spoke with a great J hinted my fears to MacRae, and, and clearing of nostril, then the topped desk he gazed upon us with fy the keg over with his foot, When we'd eaten, one of the hunt- tight place, and It didn't take me long effort; short, Jerky utterances, born when he agreed that it was a possible rattle and slap of skirts and strings, the wisdom of a tree full of owls a) ‘and the whiskey trickled out minong ers rounded up the horses, and we — to decide that it was a heap better of pain and weakness and numbered contingency, we filed out of the and stirrup leathers—you never for~ the dignity of a stage emperor, the grass-roots, Piegan forget that caught our nage and saddled up— *Pon-deray (French) meane ‘‘eerring,”* @ll round to be robbed alive than moments, “White men—dreased like treacherous light and squatted in the get the sound of it, if you've ever (To Be Continued.) es st - ee = Se See . pe ee uN. ; - Se -