Show ir- ir I of th the Day Dav ill RED HAWK BY IZOLA L. L FORRESTER led Hawk wk was vas what they called him In the tepee village over the north the i o Of the Big Bis Horn At he lie was Just Peters Kid and ad had been since the day he had been found on the front stoop of the store with Bones 10 him Im A cub Shoshone as Pete said thin ugly dirty and a yellow cur cury y skinny and half starved Both sad-eyed sad and Indifferent both used c and curses but all the world to each other efer ii er r adopted both In Jn the eyes of the fort at least they had full permission under his front stoop and take whatever scraps of food chose chose to toss to them from frOl the kitchen door It was not a pleasant civilizing for either but they accepted it as one of fates fate's little little ways grew w and thrived and were recognized reco as permanent over the If I Vh Jack Ellis came over the range ten and tod stories on front stoop one summer night the Hawk and Bones stood over near door r among the shadows and the following morning when Ellis took the I Esain ain he had two unsought comrades He h d come come up from below lelow the lakes he told the me men at from where down In Indiana Business Nothing special Just drifting t mind striking something good If It came caine his way People None of 1 inexactly There had been a 3 girl I going Ing over the line Peter asked finally I Maybe be Going to hunt something or oth other otier r. r I 1 The e. e following morning when they had passed the fort tort and were out on clear stretch of prairie Ellis looked his companions over quietly specula- specula ij standing knee deep knee in tall yellow prairie grass that bowed lazily Inand in ines es L and ripples as s the breeze brushed by The Hawk stood motionless Tg rig the survey as a matter of course Bones sat down and snapped Idly at st stOna ejima COna Ona yellow daisy dals- I Shoshone or Rapahoe asked Ellis Dont know Little French little Moth all full-blood full Shoshone Where did you come from before bO Petes Pete's I Kicked out tepee village Bones Bone's Bon s and m me Why v I t- t tI I Bones steal rabbit Jim Bad Eye throw Bones fire In F J J The pa w with th closed lips and eyes th that looked far over the Big Bis Horn r a I Jim plant planted d over yonder somewhere I threw knife at him i J 4 Ellis drew drewa a long Ions deep breath i Come on kid he said shortly Youre You're all right So the three passed on drifted as the leader said up over the over the Canadian line up through the moose country up through the wilderness northward northward taking thelt tIme time hunting only enough to supply food foo 1 It dont don't p pay to o shoot things Just to see them die Ellis said I 1 dont don't like the look of dead eyes when whim Ive I've done the killing There was little conversation between the two They would sl sit together at night hour after hour beside a campfire Ellis lying over on a heap of pine boughs smoking the Hawk a lean gaunt half clad young animal sitting In the glow of the flames with Bones stretched peacefully at his feet snoring restfully until a spark from a rosined knot would mal make e him start and growl sleepily At mi midnight night Ellis would look at his watch It was not a handsome one one Merely an old silver-plated silver open face but in the back case there was a picture of a girl laughing One night the two had been sitting thus for tor hours All at once Ellis handed the watch to the boy her he said The Hawk Ha looked at it lo long Ions g and Got Cot yellow hair he asked ed as he handed It back You bet she has kid replied Ellis under his breath Soft warm yellow yellow yellow yel yel- yel- yel low like prairie grass in n August I saw a woman shot in said the boy after a pause as he pushed Boness Bones's head away way from the fire with his foot Yellow hair Ellis was silent He lie never showed the picture picture again again but h always felt that the Hawk knew kle his Ida weak point and respected him accordingly When they reache reached l Forty Mile creek leek It was an outpost of the world an odd corner of earth where w. the last of of tl the old miners made n final a-final stand against the onrush of modern civilization It was a pleasant corner cotner and they rested there Then one day some lome one ol happened to find the root roof of or all evil lying around lo e eIn in itt the everlasting hills and in a month all the world b below low was ShOuting Ilon Klon dike I Ellis b built q shack near the first trench that was sunk Well Vel get gel In Inon on the ground floor kid he said grimly j sold out I for fifteen t thousand yesterday what cant can't be ought bought for half a million next week And ther theres there's s 's a girl irl down In Indiana And while he worked and fought and planned down in the trenches that were vere slashed like great wounds in the breast of the mountain the Hawk and Bones remained in the shack cooking and anti caring for Cor everything and worshipIng worship- worship Ing ins as master the tall deep boy from Indiana Its up to a quarter kid he would say at night When its it's a million straight well we'll go EO out Continued tomorrow I |