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Show A Murderer's Falc. Borderdale was a backwoods village composed of some fifty cabios, a tavern, a store and grocery, but loj no cburcb. Forty years ago I squatted there, oi carrying witk me a moderate stock Cke and Blackstone not enough to glut the market and "set up shop" in a shanty that took considerable cheek to call an- office. There being no other lawyer within a circuit of th:rty miles, I had the field to myself. But, though the law was there in theory, there was Men very httla of it in practice. own settled their disputes; generally and Judge Lynch disposed of most of the criminal business, leaving very little of it for the circuit judge. My shingle had swung six months without attracting a client. My legal stock was growing musty, and there was danger of its getting un didn't merchantable if customer - drink, of which he would take no re fusal. "I do not wish to drink." I said Lumber, Lath, quietly. i in i ii i By jingo, yon snail driDK : roar ed Jim, pouring out a glass of whis- ey, and approaching me witn it in his hand. I repeated my refusal. "Ef you don't swaller every drop that I'll throw it in your lace I" I made no reply, and the ruffian made a movement as it to execute his threat. I knocked up his hand, and the liquor was dashed in his own THE NEW SHINGLES! MUD'S ASPEN, WYOMING, Mi Orders along the line of the Railroads mica. SEND ace. TIP-TO- In an instant he had his hand in his pocket. I knew what was coming and was too quick for him. My pistol was drawn, cocked and leveled before e could withdraw his haud. II is eye quailed. I saw that the man at heart was a coward, and that 1 had only to preserve my coolness. lie had slain his victims Dy getting the start, which ae was very expert in doing. J his time he was baffled. He stood with his hand is his pocket, evidently soon couio. One appeared at last a plain, earing to draw it out, lest I should honest looking settler, whose case fire at the first movement. II hold on, stranger!" he said, briefly stated was this: He had bought and paid for a his features pale and quivering; "this ho am t fair sleddin . xou ve got the quurter section of land, for which a draw on me. Fit fair, an' I'm Near held a government patent. your line spring of wster on it, he bad man." "I'll fight you fair,"I said, determ built a cabin for his family, whom he had left behind at their old honxS f,ill ined to expose his cowardice to the he should have their new one ready. bottom. While he was gone to bring them, i'Wa'll, what d'ye call fair?" he which required a journey of Borne asked. weeks, Jim Brawley, a lawless char''Come," I answered, "let each lay claimed who his title, by squatter acter, pistol on this table, one standing an adjacent tract, whose boundaries on each side; neither party to touch fluctuated with the changes of bis his weapon till the word is given, then fancy, taking advantage of my both to seize and fire." client's absence, entered on his prem"That would be delib'rit murder I" ise and fenced off a portion, includ he whined. whereof and sprinc, "A man vho has committed three ing the house : w' . of now them ought not to stick at that," Jim kept possession. asked do?" I shall 'What my I said sneeringlv. client. "1 I guess 1 11 send a friend to and head out "Pitch the rascal to range the prelimi you heels," I would have answered, had naries, stammered Jim, sneaking the intruder been another than Jim out amid the jeers of those present. was gone, and that night Brawley. But Jim Brawley was the Itlis prestige n li i .. tt was seen do had He settlement. the ne louowea it. lie terror of in killed throb men quarrels pro more in that community. The eject voked by himself, and had been ac ment case went by default, the right quitted, each time on the ground of ful owner having resumed possession ins latnta n t long betore. More than five years afterwards, I taunt his adversary into some ag out then to had occasion to take passage on whip gressive movement, his pistol and blaze away, trusting to Mississippi steamer, at a point many a jury of bis peers to lustily trie act. miles from Borderdtle. The river Longingly as I had looked forward was swollen by a freshet, and there was no safe landing place. A man to my first case, I must confess should have preferred its bein offered to take me out in his canoe, The with a light wherewith to hail the against a different person. would Jim chances were that try to boat, a plan often resorted to on such which in I occasions. I accepted the offer and force a quarrel on mo, submit should be compelled either to paid the price demanded. to gross insult, or expose my me to Presently we heard the puffing: o whatever But the my misgivings steamer, when we sprang into the peril. de could in that felt I I net, Honor, canoe, which the man paddled out case. cline the proffered into the stream, 1 carryms the heht We had nearly reached the middle I got down Chitty, and drew up as of the river, when my companion good a declaration in ejectment as tould, and then looked about for stopped, and laying down his paddle, some ono to serve it. But nobody looked steadily at me. seemed inclined to undertake a duty "Yer don't seem ter know me, so perilous; so it devolved upen my stranger," he remarked. self. It was at this point the trou The light shown full into his face, ble, if trouble there was to be, was which was savage and brutal to the likely to begin, and I resolved to be last degree. Where had I seen it prepared. I had an excellent revol before? Like a flash the recollection ver, which I had purchased before came. The man was Jim Brawleyl le iving home, at the advice of friends "I've got the draw on you this who knw the character of the com time!" the wretch exclaimed, with a enmity I was about to cast my lot gleam of hate and triumph in his with; I had never yet carried it, but eyes, as he drew his pistol and thought it well enough, on the pre levelled it at my breast. sent occasion, to put it in my pocket The torch fell from my hand into I felt a good deal nervous on ap the water and was extinguished. "Never mind," he sneered, "I can proaching the cabin where Jim was supposed to li intrenched, and more see ter shoot yer without a light." Still no S3 still as I knocked tgain. I heard the click of the pistol. I answer. I tried the latch but it was my last moment had come. fastened. It was plain that Jim was thought blood curdled, and the beating of My I lost no time in tack my absent. heart was audible. ing the copy to the door, which A stream of light blazed upon us. knew was legal service: after which The expression of malice in the desI hurried away, not a little relieved perado's face changed to one of inin mind. tense fright. The murderous weapon A few hours afterwards, on ester from his grasp, and he uttag the apartment of the villngo tav dropped tered wild a cry of dismay as the ero, which served 'or office, barroom steamer came plunging upon and parlor, I saw Jim Brawley great and ran us down. us etandiog at the counter, talking ex 1 was picked up alive but insensicitsdly to a crowd he was in the act ble Jim Brawley was never seen of treating again. "flello! you" he accosted me ''come up an take a nip like a mas arter which I ve got a couple Shakppeare says we aro creatures vords to say to you about that thar that look before and after, the more lyin' dockyraent you've been an' surprising that we do not look around nailed to my door." Jim's favorite mood of getting up a little, and see what is passing un- a quarrel, waa by an invitation to ' der our very eyes. Carlyle. ' s66-3u- Double-Thre- mm MILLS, U.P. R. A 1 AND "DOMESTIC"! mm 1 ad Lock-Stit- ch R promptly FORFiUCE LIST. kfftt KM its If QUALITY! 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