Show STUD EXT LIFE 2C8 er man of cowardice explaining to the others that had he net refused posite side of the rock and waited As he sat there gazing off to where they could have rohbed the house the landscape met the long grey and still have escaped as safely as clouds he wished that his partner in the long wait was there to share they did The large man finally succeeded n quieting him and took him its end with him His face was set and hand the which held the away That night the bartender sent a Winchester was ominously steady The two men rode slowly around messenger to Jack with the information also that the men intended the rock Jack stood up and walked to go east the next day on the old towards them They reined their horses in surprise He stopped and Bridger trail trail follows for miles a long in a quiet voice asked “Do you felThis high level divide which is broken lows remember the two kids you killed a long time ago down on only once This break is the outcropping of a huge pile of rock the Muddy?” Terror came into Leading till from this divide are their faces They seemed to formany ridges separated get their rifles and both men from each other bv valleys so narwheeled their horses and spurred row that in the distance you get madly for the shelter of the rocks the effect with the exception of a Jack’s first shot emptied the tali few buttes of an unbroken country man’s saddle but for the first time in his life his accuracy failed him as can awav far as you stretching Xo one lives in the country see and he missed twice the other who It is the range Old Jack rode up went out of sight around the rock this divide to the rock when he As lie mounted his horse to give chase another shot rang out and got the message He dismounted climbed up with a pair of field when he got there Toot’s brother glasses and waited Toot’s brother stood over the dead body of the was away so he must meet the two small man The bullet had entered men alone lie was sure that they the center of his forehead The were coming but after ten years of tall man was shot squarely in the waiting he was impatient That middle of the back scene in the moonlight so long ago The pathetic cheapness of talk and the oath he had taken then kept is nowhere more apparent than coining back to him Xow some-bod- e among these men of the range and was doing to die for it But a simple handshake across that dead bodv conveved ail the intense feelperhaps he might be killcdhimself a mile Half away two ‘men rode ings of desire for revenge the disa ravine of out onto the divide up appointments the renewed hopes It took but one look to show him and the satisfaction of having rightthat he had been right in waiting ed a PTeat wrong Crude as that there lie climbed down on the op way of righting was these two men flat-top- ped |