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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH LJ CHAPTER XV Frank H.lpearman Continued No explanations were forthcoming from the stage barn. It had happened that was all. The man captured by He left Margaret In the office and took McAlpln well down the dark Selwood was his owm prisoner, It was said, and he was the person to feel gangway, near one of the big Where hare you got Haynes?" most aggrieved. Bill Pardaloe, when told that Star-buc- k asked Selwood. was missing, stamped and snortMcAlpln shuffled about and scraped but under the skillful ministraed; his feet he said John, apologetitions of Bull Page was diverted from cally, bnt speaking fast to skate over his noisy Intention of heading a death very thin Ice, Its this way. Haynes wasn't the worst of them devils now, chase after the fugitives, and was persuaded Instead to go to bed. was he? The breakfast served that morning The barn boss looked hopefully for a sign of assent from his listener, in Doctor Carpys Sleepy Cat hotel bnt Selwood was silent and emotion- was unuspal. At sunrise a barrel of less. It made It a little harder to go salt pork was luckily found In, and The rolled from, a dark corner of the stage on, but McAlpln pushed ahead. teamsters was for stringing up every- warehouse, and, together with a barrel of flour and a sack of green coffee, body they ketched after this last fight commandeered for public need. down at Bartoe's. But I Just stood Not until he had assembled this 'em off on Haynes. He told me how d come the bunk-hous- e burned. Star-buc- k provender could the busy surgeon-landlorget away to Interview the and Bartoe sent him to tell you that they wouldnt touch company padre, who, he was then told by Scott, had gone up to the railroad station property if you stayed neutral. But to visit the wounded. he couldnt find you and gave the door Carpy opened the waiting-rooword to Lefever, and, Lefever said man his look to for and paused. the teamsters would stay out of it. At the far end of the room, sitting But some of the teamsters had grievkeg, his back supances agin the gamblers, and went on an wall, Carpy saw out with the Vigilantes, so Starbuck ported against the d Vigilantes. said that released em and they fired one of his Bending over him with a cup of water the while the wounded man drank was a Where Is Haynes? man of advanced years, whose dark Right here In this bln, explained soutane easily Identified him as one bln to at the their McAlpln, pointing small but widely scattered of that hand; hes under the oats tied up band of men known to the Indians of and all safe till you decide whether of from the tribe the West, every youll let them dashed Vigilantes Staked Plain to Hudson bay, as black-robebang him but he wasnt the worst of them devils, John, not by no manner Padre," said the surgeon, coming o means, at all. with blunt raillery, Im glad to up directed him Get out," Selwood, see you making yourself useful. If still want a Job nursing, Ill hire you you his to lantern McAlpln, handing now; Im doctoring this outfit." right Selwood, sprang Into the bln and When the back-rob- e smiled, his feadown Into to oats. In the paw began stern their lost tures It would repose. one corner he had left an airhole, not be new work," he replied In a contrived with empty cunningly sacks, foreign accent, "but Im sorry and after digging at this corner, Mc- heavy to see such warfare, such bloodshed cut uncovered the Haynes, Alpln and what about?" ropes from his arms, and, digging out Padre, some of this Sleepy Cat his feet, cut the ropes from his ankles. blood needed to be shed In fact, a Selwood. Ed began of It, observed the doctor deal good Dont Haynes Interrupted him. Til tell you all about It evasively. I John. can't help the say anything, I want to ask you a though, First, way things have gone. But Ill say few about something Padre, questions. no know moren a I child dont this: in this country a long, that happened unborn who fired the hall. Bull Page time ago going on thirty years. told me the Vigilantes were coming long have How traveled this up the hill after me, so I had to light country.longPadre? you out Carpy was not a hard man to read. Well, whatevers coming to you, Single-mindebluntly outspoken, his Ed, theres nothing coming tonight. of intent was written on his You know this country tween here honesty and the experiopen countenance, and Medicine Bend? of men before him perreader enced John. and Backwards forwards, ceived It all The composed black-rob- e Meg Hyde has begged Starbuck parried his question, all In good from me. Its not coming to him, but with another : How old are you. part, Ive been fool enough to give In. If Doctor?" they can get to Medicine Bend theyll Carpy laughed and shook his head. be safe. If one of the teamsters Doggond near forty. Padre If I catches sight of Starbuck hell shoot must say It" him. Theyve got to get to the Bend, Then I crossed these mountains, by keeping off the big trail and sneakfirst, a good time before you were ing through the canyons and behind born. the rocks. Its your chance, Ed. Ive Why, you must remember. old Fort got nothing like hanging against you Pierce. not anything like It. McAlpln will I was years before Fort have the horses at the back door, and Pierce was here built." you can do your best to make It with Well and good. Do you remember Starbuck and Meg Hyde. Hustle." an old fellow there named Colonel Leaving McAlpln to explain, Sela long wood walked rapidly back to the Roper; he commanded there added time of course, apoloCarpy dingy, smelly office. Margaret Hyde "he wasn't as old then a3 was feverishly waiting. He directed getically, and he Is now. her to go Into the harness-rooI did not know him." the her only husband, making apprise Ever know his son, Lieutenant cirno request that Starbuck under cumstances apeak to him. After Mar- Roper?" I never knew any of the officers garet had gone In and come out at the fort again, he told her to go to the gangWere you ever there?" way door and wait, took the lantern No." from her hand, went Into the room d The surgeon began to Starbuck. over himself, and, bending warm In his difuncomfortably grow cut the ropes that bound him, steadied ficulties. Well, then, you never marunlocked on his the him cramped feet, ried anybody at the fort?" gangway door, threw it open, and Never." outside. to Meg pointed Was there any other black-rob- e blear-eyeand Starbuck, through this country thirty years ago, his hair dishevelled and his Padre? he continued, with oozing trousers and shirt awry, was a desper- hope. ate sight. He gazed at Selwood stand The padre answered after careful ing with the lantern in one hand and thought said he. No, Barbanets gun In the other. Selwood It ! exclaimed Carpy, "Doggone silently handed him the gun. his brows, but reduced In the knitting Starbuck had been forbidden to clerical presence to his one effeminate Ills lips were sealed. He epithet; I can't see how It Is and speak. tucked the gun Into his trousers waist- Bob Scott swears you are the man ! band, and took a step toward the door What do you mean, my Doctor?" that meant freedom. Before the thresDid you ever marry anybody out hold he stopped, turned to Selwood here?" and spoke. Many of the Indians, of course, m.v John," he said In a tone that sur- Doctor; sometimes a white man a prised his listener, Tve been a . trader or a trapper, and an Indian He applied to himself the scurrilous woman very rarely a white couple, epithet so commonly and freely used very rarely usually on the steamboat. But Selwood Once, camping on the river below among frontier men. heard It from the lips of one who Fort Pierce, I married a young army meant now to condemn fittingly only officer to a young white woman. But his own shame, not his mother. Ive that poor man was killed soon afterbeen one I know It, he hurried on. ward But If I can ever make It up to In the Roper massacre at CrawlMeg and you ing Stone wash ! My God ! exclaimed Never Selwood waved him on. Carpy, the perspiration starting from Your his forehead. mind me," he said evenly. Thats the very story! chance lies ahead of you." He pointed He seized the padre Incontinently by to the door. Take It. the arm. Come ! Before the two men reached the CHAPTER XVI hotel the padre, urged to a brisk pace by his companion, had all of the story Face to Face. the doctor had. Selwood had brought With a good part of the town Tracy up from the barn to the hotel, burned, most of the people in hiding, made him comfortable In a room, and and with few provisions saved from was walking down the stairs when the burned stores, Sleepy Cat lay Carpy opened the front door of the stunned by its misfortunes. hall and ushered his companion in. From the cross-ba- r of the first teleHes got it! cried Carpy to Selgraph pole planted In Sleepy Cat with wood, loudly, and before any one else grandiloquent words, hung two sin- could speak a word. "Hes the man ! ister reminders of the work of the H married them." Carpy, In his exreinforced Vigilantes. But sensational citement, caught the padre's arm with was the unheaval when It became one hand to urge him forward, and unown that Starbuck, organizer and shot the other like a semaphore out Brains of the crooks, had, together at Selwood. Hes got It, John," cried the doctor. This U the man I He mar- .with Big Haynes, made his escape. 19 oat-bln- Son. a. up-end- much-bandage- bunk-house- Copyright by Charlei Scribner WNU Service. rled them. He knows everything. Padre" Carpy turned to his companion and pointed to his friend "thats their boy standing right there I" Selwood had need of all his restraint He stood, motionless, on the lowest tread of the stairs. The scanned the serious features before him with composed and penetrating eyes. "Is this, then," he said, for Selwood made no attempt to break the silence, Is this," repeated the black-rob-e slowly, the child of my marriage of that young lieutenant so long ago?" The gambler made no answer. Instead, he sat down on the stair and burled his face in his bandaged hands. mis-slon- Selwood spent long hours that He morning with the black-roburged him to come up to the hotel and remain over night But the old campaigner would not leave his Indians, and professed himself unwilling to risk sleeping in a room lest he take cold; he preferred to camp with e. ." s. 1 m good-hearte- d , blood-cruste- and burnt it. Well, that pleased him. Dash It, Doctor, he says finally,-bloowill tell; It will tell I The boys got it in him. Taking the credit all Could to himself!" laughed Carpy. you beat that? Now, John," continued the doctor, I had him brought up here to the hotel. Hes asleep now. After a while go up and see him. He wants to see you " I dont Selwood shook his head. want to see him. Dont be Carpy raised his chin. a mule ; that's some of your old grandfather coming out in you not your mother. Some while later go up like a man and see the general to tell you the truth, he ain't a long time for down here, even if he gets well of this wound which I think he will." Then, In Carpy fashion, he sprang a further surprise. How you feeling this morning, John? Selwood almost stared at him. This was a question the doctor never asked of anybody under any circumstances ; Doctor Carpys patients were told, not asked, how they felt But Selwood was ready for him. I'll ask a question, myself, Doctor. Did you come out here In a wagon train? I did. The first Job I got west of the Missouri river, continued Selwood, was driving a team of mules. Same as I, John same as me. I was a youngster and you know I wasnt a husky one. By the time Td driven those mules a week, If the owner had knocked me on the head Id have thanked him for It Everybody in the outfit was dead afraid the Indians would get us; after the first week I was dead afraid they wouldnt. I had sneezed and coughed and snorted In that alkali dust till my nose and eyes and throat were plum burnt up. Then one evening, after the hottest, scorchlngest day Id ever felt In my life, on the Platte bottoms Hottern Carpy nodded hard. blazes on those bottoms, want It I somebody up ahead yelled was Just about able to raise m.v head and look over the mules ears. There, ahead of us far, far away I saw snow, the snow on top of the Rocky mountains. Youre asking me, are you, how I feel tonight? If It wasnt Just for one thing, Td say I felt better than Ive ever felt since that evening I saw that snow, on top of the Rocky mountains." Whats the one thing?" You Selwood shrank in a little. couldnt mend It. I know whats with you. And, maybe, I cant cure you not L myself. But theres a little huzzy upstairs with her . head as full of you as your head Is full of her. That girl can do a thing I cant do. Go upstairs, man, knock on her door, and If you cant tell her anything else, tell her some of the good news you heard today. I gave her a hint. But shed like to hear a few things straight from you Did she say that? That and a whole lot more, averred Carpy, making his prevarication violent, since he felt he had gone C-on upstairs too far to retreat and have a talk with 1 The Roper Massacre at Crawling Stone Wash. his escort, who had pitched his tent down by the river and could not be dissuaded. But he wrote out for Selwood such details as he could remember of the eventful night of the marriage of his father and mother, and gave It to him. Next morning Carpy dragged Selwood Into his office, planted him In u chair, and sat down facing him, eager to hear all of the padres story. When the younger man had recounted It In full, Doctor Carpy told a story himself. "John, he chuckled with much enjoyment, "Tve been kind of mean. What have you been doing? Ive been riding the old general told him the padre's here and proved all you claimed up to the hilt Then I says: 'What have you got to say to that? What did he say?" What In blazes could he say? But the old mans changed, John. Then Hes broke old age somebody planted a bullet close to his ribs last night and that, annoyed him considable. I told him about you going down to Bartoes alone, and leaving directions for Lefever to bring the teamsters Into action, soon as you "got Christie out. And how you cleaned up Starbuck and cleaned out the place o face-to-fac- e brown-eye- s. Perspiration dewed Relwoods fore- head. Encouraging him in roughly honeyed fashion, Carpy got him to the foot of the stairs. He never did remember. Just how he got up the familiar flight that morning. But. once above, he had wit enough to turn toward his own room to consult the looking-glas- s about his hair. What was his surprise to find the door of his room open and, looking Inside, to see Christie smoothing up the counterpane on his bed. He stood perfectly still, watching her. In a moment she had finished and, turning as she straightened up, she saw him in the doorway. She gave a startled little cry, and her face was a picture Oh!" she exof crimson confusion, claimed, trying to speak and to laugh at once, You can come right In! Pm all through. Margaret has gone, you know, and Doctor asked me If I wouldnt tidy up his room and yours Just for this morning I so I made the beds and I oh, Mr. Selwood, were you very much hurt In that dreadful fight?" Selwood protested he had received no serious Injury, but seemed unable And to add much to his disclaimer, all this morning, continued Christie, hardly giving him time to speak, anyway, Tve been trying to get a chance to thank you over and over again for all you did for me and for Father last night I dont know what would have become of us where should I be now, If it hadnt been for you! You can come right In, she repeated, growing a bit hazy herself; "I think things are In some kind of order, she faltered, not only out of breath but out of thoughts, for she had stood his silent eyes, and something she saw in them, about as long as she could stand them and keep her senses. And, she said, dropping her own eyes before him, Im Just going." Dont be in a hurry," he suggested, standing exactly In the doorway through which she was trying to make her escape. Oh I" she exclaimed for the fourth or fifth time and her eyes bulked large with fear and apprehension. I must go to the doctors room now his bed Isnt made yeti" If Christies burning cheeks and distressed manner were to be believed, this fact pictured a terrible situation. But It did not Impress Selwood. As Christie showed fright, he showed composure. If Doc Carpy ever saw his bed made, he wouldnt know where to get Into It," he retorted unfeelingly. He sleeps In a buffalo robe. Christie," he added, Id like a little talk with you. Do you remember the morning I met you and your father on the Crawling Stone trail?" InChristie spoke up promptly. deed, I do. I picked up a girls shoe that morning on the trail. I thought It was about the prettiest shoe Id ever seen. There was a horseshoe lying there on flne side of the trail and this girls shoe on the other. Id had nothing but horseshoe luck all my life out here, and It had been rotten luck. So I thought Id take a chance on that girls shog and I picked It up." Christie laughed. What an Ideal And what did you do with It? Tve got it. And what I want to find out from yog right now and right here Is, what kind of luck Its brought me. Sit down a minute, will you? Christie, somewhat flustered, dll sit down. I said to myself, continued SelIt must be a nice girl that wood, owned that shoe. And If I could find her and ever get some things in my own life straightened out Td ask her whether shed marry me " He seemed to be running out of words and ideas, and Christie came to his aid. Well, of course, I hope" her eyes fell "Its my shoe, John. Its going to be a terrible temptation to to claim it. Couldnt we make believe its mine, John, anyway? Do you really want It to be yours?" Christie looked up very, simply. How could I want It to be any one elses, John? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxz Boys who have grown Into successful men will; as a rule, say that the greatest asset and blessing they enjoyed was the exactions of poverty, the struggles they had to make through which they kept their appetites in check. In keeping with their earnings ; that frugality was necessary because they had to make ends meet, had to pay for their keep and could only have what they were able to buy after contributing to their families or relatives. They will say that the they made for others were the most valuable lessons on the road to success, and that the practices forced upon them by necessity lasted through their business careers and made success possible. It 1 hard for the boy who earns a dollar a week to' give part of It for his keep but there Is more In It than the mere contributions of the money. The boy Is learn- self-denia- Cottontail a Mixture The American cottontail combines the characteristics of both hares and rabbits, though he Is distinctly smaller than the hares, with shorter legs and smaller feet and ears. The chief distinguishing mark Is the fluffy snow-whit- e underside of the tail, always visible in retreat, says Nature Magazine. 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Theres noPoor Is the boy who is denied this body at all up here." part of his education. It matters not "Yaull start your arms bleeding how great his money riches. Macon again, John," she whispered In alarm. (Ga.) Telegraph. "I cant get a breath!" Selwood looked down Christie! at her face, her head cushioned In the First Ballot Box hollow of hls arm. Ive got to tell A plain wooden box In Brooks clubTm too dead broke." you this, house In London bears a little brass She laughed who as well as lovers plate with the inscription: The first can face the world broke? I guess ballot box used at a parliamentary election In England. Pontefract. Aug. everybody Is broke in Sleepy Cat, 1872." The clubhouse once was the John. Then, besides risking your rendezvous of the Whigs.' It has more precious life for me, youve had a dignity and solidity and terrible misfortune they burned your comfort about It than any other Lon- hall, didnt they, John? And you lost don club, says the London Chronicle. everything? He looked down at her. Christie," From the coffee or dining room up the I suppose youll fine staircase Into the smoking room he said seriously, be willing to prove property by letting Is an Impressive tour. me try that shoe on you to see If It fits? China Once Cathay Oh, It Isnt necessary to bother Cathay was the name for China you I can try It on, myself." which Marco Polo brought back with If youll let me try It on you, Ill him from bis travels In the Orient. tell you a secret It is supposed to have been derived Go ahead, then. by him from the Khltah or Khltan, a I burned the hall, myself. tribe of medieval conquerors of north- he continued, as she looked at Yes, him ern China. The term was long ap- amazed. Why? Well I was done plied by Europeans to the Far East with It and everything In It. All In general. The only language In thats behind me, Christie. which It survives as the customary There was Just an Instant of breatk name for China is the Rusr.iun, where lessness. Then she tipped up on he It has the form Khltui. toes Just as high as sne possiDI) could, and flung her arms as tar as Some of the clippers reeled she possibly could around hls neck, off as much as 400 in'ies a day under and smothered the rest of his woraa! exceptionally favorable conditions. (TO BE CONTINUiCD.) Success Credited to Exactions of Poverty For Motor Boating own a motor boat - 75 Champion SparPIugs I ( TOLEDO, OHIO For your protection be sure the " Champions you buy are the original Champion U.JJ TEN DOLLARS buys interest in three large California companies. New safe plan for small investors. Free Bulletin. Commerce Co. Crocker Bldg. San Francisco, Calif. 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