Show I Sort Short Story orv of the Day ill illI RED HAWK I BY IZOLA IZOL I L. FORRESTER 1 Continued from yesterday to ll asked Hardy Interestedly ats at's all His neck was broken at made you throw him over the blur bluff then 1 ElI Ellis s shuddered d pfd d I say I threw him over Hardys Hardy's dYs dY's slim white fingers closed suddenly and he bit his under lip Yes you told me before he returned f remember Some devil put it in my head that maybe they'd find gown wn n there on the rocks a ald ad d think that was how It had happened So I pad ped him over easy lIe He looked over Hardys Hardy's head to where the firelight eTa ed So a witch game of ot tag with the shad shadOws ws The eyes wouldn't shut he under his breath They looked at me as he went over nd or of course courte someone had seen you fight and told concluded Hardy u Jack old man youre you're a fool Such a thIng Isn't a crIme Its It's an odd dd In a mans man's life lite Forget the eyes and dont don't get sentimental Youre You're a a. i r alre Go 00 down to Indiana and Ret get the girl Ill I'll go too W Its It's ts too long by the river Ellis had said Well go to Juneau and take amer amer down to Seattle Hardy had kicked against the company of the Hawk and Bones Dones but it was iSs Ellis Eilts had ordered them back back but the next day found them keeping dUy y to the trail and Ellis laughed and said he wouldn't go back on old ms The way was long and tedious and as they neared Juneau his nerve 2 an to leave him In every possible way Hardy urged him on It was Fly ny five years he argued He had changed wonderfully If necessary he take another name until he found how bow the land lay And there was the perhaps waiting for him But Ellis wavered I It t was equal but we each meant to kill If It we could he said again and tin n murder That's what they'll call it If they get me The le le climax came twenty miles from Juneau It was dawn and they were up camp The Thc splendor of ot the sunrise glorified the whole waking i there was the sharpness of the frost In It the air all and the touch of ot Its Itson Itson er on every blade and twig Ellis stood looking at the eastern sky when id denly he turned to the other I i cant can't go any further Hardy he said Bald determinedly I Im m going back on The Hawk and I will go together hardy lI had been on his kne knees s strapping up the blankets His lips closed Straight line as he drew his knife and severed the rope from the knote knot n nUie e I e rose lose and faced Ellis s strong young and sinewy and there was a new newie ie elm din n his eyes I I Y Y ull not go to Seattle h he hp repeated quietly No I IEli Eli Ellis t turned his head from the sunrise and looked into Into the the barrel of a reY I J t I I r I 46 fJ i i L r ft j I You shall go said Hardy between his hla teeth for I I. I Intend to take you We happen to be on good American soil soli once more John Ellis I arrest you for the murder of Robert KerwIn and It if you ou move your hand Ill I'll put a bullet through your head f r fEllis Ellis never moved a muscle but kept his eyes on the man before him and anda a great terrible weight seemed to press upon his breast as he realized what the meaning of i It iP all had bad been A A. whole year of close faithful comradeship p pa and friends He lie thought of how he had taken the stranger into the little shack on the mountain side and nursed him through the battle Did you mean to do it all the time Hardy he asked huskily That was the little private business I came up upon upton on returned the detective curtly The other fellow died you know That was why two were sent I took his place Sit down there on that log I can c cover ver you easier In about an hour the party W we we passed last night will come up and help me me I half halt expected this ever since we crossed the boundary and kept In their way EmS Ellis seated himself on the fallen tree and again his sought eyes the sun sun- rl rise f You have done your work well he said after a time I suppose Its It's right but Lord Harry its it's hard Why Hardy his voice softened Id rather swung swung- for it than h had d you the man You dont don't know how I liked you That girl marrIed another man interposed Hardy keeping the revolver in position and reaching for his pipe with his left hand I meant to tell you before but it seemed to be the only thing that would bring you out Ellis glanced suddenly at the tree trunk against which he had leaned his rifle It was gone There was a tightening of the long sinewy frame a seconds second's hesitation hesi heal tation then he sprang sprang- forward like a panther for the throat of the detective Halfway a bullet struck him and he fell feU forward his face burled buried in the damp thick leaf mold Before Defore Hardy could move before the smoke had curled away from hI his revolver a So second shot snot crushed through the bushes behind him and the head of the Hawk rose above them with Elliss Ellis's rifle leveled The second body lay boot to boot with the first when the Indian stole out into the open space and Bones gave a long quivering howl as he Jay lay down at his masters master's side and licked fearfully at one upturned hand The Hawk stepped lightly past the detective and raised Elliss Ellis's head nead There was a flask of ot whisky in the latter's latter's latter's lat- lat ter's pocket and he un uncorked It and forced some between the shut close-shut teeth then felt for the heart It was beating softly The rhe minutes passed Silent and expressionless as a graven image the Hawk sat between the two bodies his knees drown up wise tent-wise his rifle restIng restIng resting rest- rest Ing on them as he watched the trail ahead One or twice he bent over Ellis and end gave him him more of the whisky until at length he opened his eyes and looked up at the patch of ot blue sky shining through the tangled branches over over- head Bones Dones whined and crept closer to him and the Indian nodded his hs head toward what lay on the tho other side of ot him De Dead td whispered Ellis moistening his lips with an effort The Hawk bowed grimly There was a long silence and the full glory ofay of day ay had spread over over the mountains The autumn sunlight lay warm and pleasant where the frost had been an hour before and somewhere off oft in the hills a bird was singing madly Ellis turned his head and looked at the hard ugly face of ot the boy Hawk he finall finally Take my hand will you Youre You're white all right If It he hadn't said sal she was married married- The Hawk looked down lown in his face a minute after and laid the corner of a blanket over it When the party Hardy had waited for came down the trail It was sunset again and they illey were l laughing and singing for the long bog tramp was early over on an had a pile and the of the one at 1 l home me to cheer At the turn 0 of the pa h pa they stopped and the music died away at ai of the sit sight Picture there Two stark lark silent forms lay side by side and an Indian and a I yellow do dog kept vatch b their dead r v i P I e C t o l J b t |