Show A YELLOW FEVER VICTIM sa escaped the bullets but the scourge overtook him in the year of the last yellow fever epidemic in the south says the yew york tribune one of the first men to catch the disease at a summer resort on the gulf was a tall rather heavily built man whose eye was dark and keen and who wore a very fine gray imperial be was a strikingly man with his military carriage and his strong face but his manner was grave and chilling and he made few acquaintances staying at the big hotel was a man who in earlier life had lived in the west but who shortly after the war had married a southern widow who owned a sugar plantation on the mississippi sis sippi river lie knew major wells the stranger and on the evening when the major died told the following story to a group of men who sat on one of the hotel verandas when I 1 first saw wells he was a deputy united states marshal in nevada he was so cool and daring that he seemed absolutely indifferent to death lie would calmly walk into a barroom bar room filled with reckless gamblers and desperate outlaws pick out his man scarcely saying a word and march him out the door without placing his hand on a weapon or holding himself in readiness for anit tack coming down the street one day I 1 heard rapid firing and looking up saw wells standing behind the stump of a tree the stumps still stood in the streets where the trees bad been felled and three men blazing away at him wells was as rigid as a statue his face a little whits but unmoved he was a sure shot with a revolver and 2 expected to see him draw his six shooter and drop his men in one two three order but he did not stir for a moment the bullets rained around there and then the sound of the shooting suddenly ceased the three men had emptied their revolvers at that instant quick as a flash and with a tiger bound wells leaped before the three men and whipping out his revolver with a swift stroke of his arm covered them they all stood stock still the whole thing took less time than it does to draw a long breath then he grimly walked the three of off and he saw them securely locked up 1 I met him afew hours later leaning carelessly over a bar as easy and unconcerned as if he had never heard the crack of a six shooter good heavens wells I 1 eaid to him why did you let those fellows blaze away at you without re a shot the chances were fifty to one agal it you there was a quiet smile on his lips when he answered that words can not describe and in his eye was the twinkle of a man who loved a good joke lc there was just one ball in the chamber of my revolver he said and I 1 thought I 1 might need it later and there is a man said the speaker after a slight pause who defied the bullets of desperadoes foi years and who went down like a child before the |