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Show '4 Helped by Tanlac III for many years, nou keeps pace with youlhs of 2f. Friends wonder at his health and vigor. Tells than Tanlac did if. Air brake testing Is strenuous work. but after 35 years ot it, Joseph C. Adams is still going strong. I In his home at 309 West 7th St., this By FRANK H., SPEARMAN , Copyright WNU Service, by Charles Scribners Sons. respected Pueblo STORY FROM THE At one minute past eleven oclock Selwood left the gambling hall for the barn. Ills pony was waiting. Climbing Into the saddle he headed south for the Thief Itiver road, trying out the new pony's steps. He had crossed the river bridge and was swinging out on the Spanish sinks when he heard the clatter of hoofs behind him. A horseman riding fast overhauled him and he looked around to greet Bob Scott. Scott reined In beside the gambler, with his pony on Its haunches. The moneys up, he You wont need to bother grinned. the miners. They rode back at a leisurely pace, put up their horses, and walked together up the hill. Selwood got the money, counted It, handed It to Scott, told him where to find the owmer and deliver It. Tell her to get her boy out of town before somebody else gets It away from him, was his only Injunction. " START t Al Sleepy Cat Doctor Carpy tells Wentworth, freighting boss, of a shooting scrape In Bartoe's gambling den, tn which John Selwood, gambler, In defense of Dave his wounded partner, Tracy, shows remarkable skill and nerve A year afterward, now Wentworths repre-- ' sentative at Sleepy Cat, comes upon a settler whose wagon has mired In a creek. He helps get the outfit clear, after picking up a girls shoe and seeing and being attracted by the supposed owner thereof In Fyler's (the settlers) wagon. Moses McCrack-e- n, a youth, Is robbed of $600 In a Sleepy Cat gambling den. Selwood forces the swindlers, Bartoe and Atkins, to return the money. CHAPTER IV Continued 4 Whats that? demanded Selwood, slth a shade more (jf life and care- If theres any human scum In the fulness In his tone If Tracy said whole blamed United ? States , that that Not doubting your word at all, aint landed In Sleepy Cat," grum Sehvood not at all. But somebody bled Carpy, It must be because they It yet. In a town like this always has to aint heard of Doctor Carpy was an educated know act as peacemaker that. you The boys seemed to pick on me for naan, who knew quite well how to the job. It aint much of a Job, nor speak good English. But, like many one I was looking for. But I was another frontiersman of his kind, he foot-loo- e and took It to oblige. T had caught the slovenly English of men with whom he was thrown I found was getting all the kicks and the contact. In the boys getting all the money, so I Now look at that coat," he conasked them to chip In down along the I bought line. Most of qm did. Tracy and a tinued, calmly aggrieved. It new at nn auction yesterday! Last fow others didn't " night I rode down to see a sick teamWnnt Tracy the only one that ster at the bunkhouse one o your Selwood didnt? asked impassively "That may he I don't remember. men, Selwood. While I was fixing I But I never had any hard feeling him up It began to rain. When I coat. on for home the started put against Tracy on that , account. I d want you to know that, Selwood By that time it was raining to I hard. lifted touch my up whip Vou seem, continued Starbuok with rorne Irritation, to want to stick to the horses, and the whole sleeve partthat subject. I didn't come here to- ed at the shoulder joint ! When I reached around to see what the matnight to rake over old scores; I came ter was, the other sleeve fell clean Selnew here to try to patch up ones, off. When I stepped out of the huggv, wood. Before we get out the sticking the coat come In two right across the ! Look at It Selwood went on evenly, back plaster, some violent punctuation of With lets get Daves position clear and mine. Dave felt that a place run like his complaint, the doctor, who In this place, where a straight game Is Sleepy Cat never by any chance received more than the first sj liable of dealt, didnt need any protection neither the place nor the proprietors. his professional title and rarely Ills It may be he made a mistake, but surname, was telling John Selwood of how he had been ohented. thats the wav Dave felt thats Where did you buy the coat? I feel. Now about this Bartoe business. lie robbed today, among asked Selwood, though less moved others, a boy here with his widowed os a listener than the doctor was as mother, of six hundred dollars. I told an orator. Down at that new place opposite Bartoe to give the hoy back his money. lie refused. I told him Id the warehouse In the old blockhouse. clean him out In the morning or he A man - named Fyler Is running a s store there. could clean me out. Theres no use And Big of more words about It thats all Ilaynes Is running a mock auction on one side of the store. Come on there Is to it. Well, I wouldnt say thats all, down. You lick Haynes and Ill lick Selwood. observed Starbuek, assertFyler ! The two men were talking In the here to himself. 'Tm law keep ing y and order and I cant have any places building adjoining and com burned In the business quarter of municatlng with the hotel, that bore Sleepy Cat. Hes in the gambling the small wood sign known as the business same as yon are shingle" of the sole doctor' In Selwood Jumped ns If stung, and Sleepy Cat or within a hundred m.fes Same as I of Sleepy. Cat an used a strong word. proDo I send fane, and not always am? he echoed angrily. out Jailbirds like Atkins to drag men surgeon, but one whose failings were in here to rob them? What do you In rough measure redeemed by a gen erous heart and the benefits of a skill mean V It needed all of Starbueks diplo- free, without question, to all comers. and dressed Selwood, travel-stainemacy to quiet things down. lie rein the rough gear of the trail, had hearsed Bartoes defense. He urged good feeling all to no purpose. He evidently just come In from a trip found he could make no Impression over the division and sat listening whatever on Selwoods firmness. He to his friend with the air of a man I see I who has more serious matters on rose at length, Indignant. cant reason with you. If anything his mind. How Is Dave coming on? he unpleasant happens dont hold me asked, without responding to Carrys lesponsihie! Not if you keep out of It, flippant invitation to help clean up Selwood, unperturbed. the new trader. Im here to keep the peace, not to The doctor, one elbow on the table, retorted Starbuek, ris- scratched his head. Hang Dave, keep out, ing to his full height before his he said, perplexed, "he aint coming troublesome customer. Selwood rose on. I cant get any life Into him. Its I believe you left Thief close to a year now since lie got hurt. In turn. lilver just before I went there, he But youve got to remember, John, You had some trouble hes nn old inan, and put in three said calmly. legarding claim signs. years In the Army of the Potomac. Starbuek blazed. "What do you Now, look at you. The. first time mean? he demanded. Dave came to see me, a year ago, to Miners will travel all night to get some medicine for you he said round up a claim jumper. But I feel you were In the last stages of conexactly as you do, Starbuek. Why sumption. It wasnt so; but you were rake lip old scores? headed that way all right.. Look at exAs far as Tm concerned, you now spry as an antelope. claimed Starbuek, advancing hotly, as You took good care of me.", Good disclaimed. Selwood purposely retreated, If you care Carpy mean the bunch that tried to Jump nothing. It was this dry mountain my claims down there bring on your air not too high and thin, neither miners ! that took care of you ; and youre Im not much on old scores. Star-buc- young. Now, Dave Is Just teeterin said Selwood soberly. I dont along wound all healed up, but just think were going to have any trouble kind of slow paralysis. Nothing I here not you and I, anyway. Our can put In him seems to pull him up. teamsters can take care of Buntys It sure was hard to get what he got outfit tomorrow. Im riding down t& here In Sleepy Cat, after three years Thief River myself tonight on busi- In the army. This town Is certainly ness and Tve told McAlpin to keep a tough and getting tougher. horse saddled for me. But I shant It was tough before you and ' I bestart till eleven oclock. I expect saw It, Doctor; and it will be tough fore that Bartoe will have that six after were laid up on the hill," rehundred here, brop In any time, plied Selwood Indifferently. If you Starbuek. Always glad to see you. can pull Dave through youll save d With this Judicious and one good man for It If he Is a gammixture of threats, hints, bler." any"Where you going? ways, and small talk, Selwood let Slat buck go. with feathers once more Down to The tent. Carpy underunruffled. But neither had fooled stood what he meant that he was the otner In the slightest degree. Both going to see his wounded partner. t was only a possible Tracy had been moved from the gamblunderstood to quieter quarters on the preliminary to situations that might ing-hall tent colony ol the town. the of Into the future. far carry .edge parted and Selwood walked down the hotel steps, a tall, him. odd looking man accosted Stranger, he said with a suspicious air, Im lookin for John Seltzer. Selwood answeied promptly If not What do you want with definitely. John Seltzer? Im a Itussell and Wentworth mule boss, stranger, from Medicine Bend This man Seltzer Is our superintendent here. , Youre William Pardaloe Just plain Bill, stranger Bill Pardaloe what do they.cUU you? It depends somewhat. Rill,, on who does the calling; my friends call me John Selwood.' Then thats what I want to call you, stranger I dont give a hang who you are or what your name is were friends. Selwood looked Bill over with some curiosity. He was an unusual man even among unusual men. In Ills left hand, with the stock resting on the ground, he held, as he talked, a double-barrele- d shotgun, of a size and calibre unique In the mountain country. It Engwas, In fact, an old eight-gaug- e Inches lish gun with barrels thirty-si- x long. Its normal charge, as Selwood As the two men 1 I the-wa- y I 1 i dry-good- i I one-sto-- open-hande- cool-heade- d d li k, I , even-hande- ( i 1 out-of-da- g hard-workin- g all-fire- r to getting well; in consequence, the Selwood, listening to Big Haynes' newcomers encroaehed on his privacy thundering praises of his wares and colduntil the Fyler tent was pitched alcomplaints of the astonishing most back to back with his own; and ness of his buyers, used his eyes all that Christie had ever heard of about him. He saw that the stock her neighbors tent a larger and bet- was of a sort not infrequently shipped ter tent than the others was that It to the frontier because sheltered a sick gambler. Christie saw elsewhere. It was desperately for the needs of western men, man comat times an Indian-lookinand from the tent, though it might have suited western going ing gamblers and at tlipes a woman who came women, had there been any number to bring In Sleepy Cat to suit. Sehvood edged somewhere daily from broth and to tidy up the quarters of gradually over to where Fyler was at work wrapping goods near the the wounded man. Once 'Christie, nt her own work, money till. He remembered then that had caught a glimpse of this womans he had some' business with Fyler. face. She was not old In years, but You seem to have the best part her complexion, ruined by the sun of the Job, he said presently, and and the winds of the mountains, made solely because he wished to talk to her look old. Her features showed him. traces of an earlier beauty, and her Fyler looked up without recognizelastic step proved her health and ing his benefactor of Crawling Stone wash. strength; it was care and unhappiness that aged her expression. Her Hows that? eyes fixed themselves in Christies Next the money drawer." memory; they were dark, rather deep laughed. "Mighty little In eyes, with a hard look, as if of hope, It !Fyler like her youth, faded. Meeting her , My names Selwood, said the gamagain Ip the street, as the two passed I without raising his voice. bler, on their ways, Christie had paused Wentworth and Russell the to ask a question. The response had look after boss tells me been cold not calculated to invite freight here. My wagon some short were goods for you In acquaintance. the last shipment. Margaret Hyde. Indeed, courted no The trader looked at him with a Many women passed acquaintance. new interest. You were; twelve cases through Sleepy Cat, but among the of boots all I had coming; just about few that called Sleepy Cat their abidme out of business. Where were ing place she walked alone. She was put lost? they Doctor at housekeeper Carpys hotel; a They werent lost. They wer housekeeper under the hardest possible conditions; but she stolen. I came in to get a descripstuck to her Job and walked her way tion when youre through with the alone. And cold and hard though sale. As he spoke, a man that would InsheJtras, she was never too tired to to to or attention entered the front door, vite the delicacies ailing bring sit up at night to- - care for a sick lie was short, almost squat In stature, and square-buil- t teamster. everypractically On this morning that Selwood partthing about the man could have been the Irascible surgeon, measured by a right angle. He was ed from his head was square, Christie Fyler, leaving her own tent smooth-faced- , to go up street, caught sight for the his forehead square, his shoulders first time of a new visitor c.r the sick square, his feet broad and square, mans tent. This was Selwood. No and his Jaw was square. He walked slowly and planted his liob nailed day passed, Indeed, without Selwoods seeing Tracy; he made his visits hoots squarely before him. Ills legs usually In the early evening, before were short, his arms long, and he going to the hall. On this particular would have disputed build with a gomorning his anxiety had got him up rilla and strength with ,a grisly. This early for him that Is, before noOn, iwas'Abe Cole, the Sleepy Cat blackto see Carpy and discuss his friends smith. Other blacksmiths there were From the tent Selwood In Sleepy Cat; but Cole was known chances. walked back to the hotel for his own as and designated as the Sleepy Cat breakfast and dinner usually one blacksmith. meal. On the way he had to pass the Fortunately he was as peaceable as old building made over Into a store powerful when not aroused, but his by the trader, Fyler the man of disposition was naturally positive, and whom Carpy had so feelingly com- he was known as a fighter. and passing, Selwood, Abe shouldered himself through the plained moved-b- y an Impulse of curiosity, crowd without hesitation or difficulty looked In. whenever his shoulders encountered A midday auction was In progress. ah obstacle, the obstacle gave way. Before a counter, where Selwood enHe walked straight to Fyler, holding tered, was gathered a small crowd of out a handful of soggy scraps of black men emigrants, settlers, teamsters, A bedraggled hatband hung fplL and loafers ; while on the counter, from his wrist. Look here, Haynes!" and in his stood he thundered. The auction stopped. Haynes, running an eloquent auc- "Heres the hat you sold me yesterBig tion. The bidding was good, stuff was day! Cole added, In no uncertain moving briskly. At the rear end of the tones. Haynes gave him prompt atcounter Fyler, behind a box, tention. ThatS what the rain did was wrapping up purchases and taking to it! bellowed Abe. In the money. It looked like a queer Haynes, leaning down, picked up to Selwood, the new the shoddy wreck, the hatband combination last trader and the two Sleepy Cat and very carefully, for fear It should worthies, but he had no comments to fall to pieces, and examined the rerecord on that point, either to him- mains with solicitude. self or to any one else. (TO BE CONTINUED.) What You"I'Want Seltzer? Do With John afterward learned, was ten drams of powder and "a handful of buckshot in each barrel. . This extraordinary weapon was carried ostensibly as a Indians protection against "hostyle though Indians had for years ceased to molest freight wagons on hat trail. In size, Pardaloe matched up with his gun. He stood well above six feet in his moccasins which he wore when he became confused as to d left his. boots and he where carried bis arms and legs pretty d much akimbo. He was and gaunt of figure, with a browned skin drawn like parchment over a face as lean a3 a hound's. A sharp nose shot out like nn interrogation point upside down, between beetling cheekbones, and his upper lip and 'ojver face vere covered with a scraggly growth of beard a growth that In a beamy contest would have damned Adonis himself. ' Ben Wentworth spoke to me about returned Selwood; said vou, Bill, he was going to send you up here That Wasnt what I looked you up for now John McAlpin told me I'd find you at the hotel. I want to say, stranger Selwood, suggested the superintendent encouragingly. Im a brother of Mrs. McCracken Mose Is my nephew. She wrote me how. you got her money back from them river rats That was nothing." Well, I want to say Im with you, stranger! And Ill get your name set after a while. "Wentworth told me he was transferring you to this division. What were they paying you on the plains he-ha- long-limbe- Job?. "Thirty-five- . Forty up here, Bill." Pardaloe gradually caught the imMuch obliged, port of the words. John, he said gravely. "Everything costs a quarter here. I see, said Selwood significantly, youve foun.fl that out. Walt for me at the barn Ill be there In a few minutes., ' ' Paradoe, up his gun In his left band and resting his right hand on the haft of a huge bowle knife, fashioned from a blacksmiths file and slung at his hip, wandered on his way. Selwood directed his steps toward Tracys tent To this tent quarter had also come Christie Fyler and her father for Selwood paid temporary lodgings. little attention to the flotsam of the tent colony. He had only, been careful to pitch and equip a tent for his friend, a hundred yards from any other tent But Dave had lingered refusing to die and not quite equal pit-kin- g shirt-sleeve- red-face- d dry-goo- Odd Method of Travel Called Ride and Tie Salmon P. Chase, Lincolns Secretary of the treasury, showed financial-abilitearly in. his life. When he went from Ills New Hampshire home to Worthington, Ohio, to live with his uncle, he was acompanled by an older Brother as far as Cleveland, where he was given instructions as to how to reach Worthington. Finding that he had to wait several days for a coach to take him as far as Medina, he obtained a canoe and earned several dollars by ferrying people across the Cuyahoga river, relates J. H. Galbraith, Ohio historian. In Medina he met two young men from Worthington, whom he was to accompany on their, return trip. They had come on horseback, so young Chase was introduced to the ride and tie method of travel. One of them would mount the horse and ride forward several miles, of course, outstripping the one who walked. Then the rider would dismount and tie the horse by the roadside and press on by foot. The other would reach the horse, mount It and passing his companion, would tie It and go ahfad on foot. In this way the horse was spared a double burden and the travelers made good speed. Land of Lottery Lottery tickets are sold In Madrid just the same us newspapers are sold on the streets In the United States. One Is never out of range of the lottery ticket seller. Everybody indulges In this dissipation, and there Is ample opportunity for there la a state lottery distribution every two weeks. There are official agencies, but these seem Curiosity Wins to be patronized only by those who Look here, began the youth, as buy the tickets to sell again. Ordihe entered a butcher's shop and dis- narily purchases are made of the perblack-ang lovely-lookinsons along the street who call their played two blue eyes, you have fresh beef for wares Just as the huckster and newssale? boys do, and as the day for the drawI have, responded the butcher. ing approaches they grow more and "And fresh beef Is good for black more excited, each one claiming that , he is about to sell the lucky ticket eyes, is It not? Hunchbacks are the best salesmen, It for there Is a superstition that these Very well. I have the eyes, you persons bring or give luck. Chicago Do think beef. can you you the have Journal. pell me a pound or so without asking how I got ornamented? F ew ,Wild,r Horses Ill do my best, sir." As a wild animal, the horsv is The butcher cut off the meat and found received his money without another only In the open arid or desert plains of Central Asia and Africa. Those look at his customer. ,At the last moment, however, the old Adam proved found In North and South America an Australia art,' not true wild hors to strong for lilm. Look here, he said, handing back The mustangs and broncos, of and of South America the cash, "Ill make you a present of Now tell me all about the mesticated animals that have nre the beet mn wiio or those descended truri fight,'htui man, working now for the Santa Fe, spoke cheerfully of I his experience. The younger men have nothing on For many years I me now, he said. was in bad shape and could hardly keep going- - I was weak, nervous and rundown, had dizzy spells and internal nervous tremors that frightened me. certainly thought I was through then. The first relief I ever got was frog; Tanlac. I persevered with it and soon won back my old time strength and vigor. Now at 66 1 sleep, eat and feel as well as forty years ago. I enjoy my work and hold my own in competition with men in the twenties. 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