Show the girl k X 1 9 1 r a ab io horse AL A na C pra FRANCIS acis and a doar 0 YNDE I copyright by chals scribner s boo gong CHAPTER continued 11 bould you have bell believed eved him I 1 asked grinning across the table at beasley it d a been a question of vee lacity s the court says with maybe you and nd HI III twombly too dead to testify at this daddy who had bad been eat ing like a man half starved put in his word I 1 reckon you can cant t get at them higher up stannie but if you don dont t shove charley fullerton Bul lerton just about as far as the law 11 allow I 1 in coln to call ye a quitter at that moment jeanie had just brought in another leaping heaping plate of the luscious corn cakes and I 1 was looking at her when ben I 1 replied we well 11 see about the shoving a bit later daddy the first thin ahing g to do Is to put the old cinnabar in shape to shell us ont out some money I 1 ra in broke 3 ou on know when I 1 made this admission beas lev the last man in the world from whom help could come I 1 haie hae eald said looked poked me squarely in the ees eyes stannie broughton lf if that s your name you ain aln t so dad blamed crazy as you look and act he remarked moneys money 9 what talks are you alf aln to swin onto this thing w with ith sour our own hands for keeps I 1 mean not to sell it out te to the first set 0 minin A that cones along sure 1 I you it I 1 in going to beep keep it and work it after I 1 get out of the jail all where bere you re going goin to land in for pinching that inspection ear awl getting it smashed why else did I 1 start out blindfolded to hunt for a gle girl a horse and a dog lie ile in the latter half of my reply go 90 without bommert charging it up to some sorna last lingering remains of the perhaps alneil lets see about where creek crack bour whip first he invited tl TI at part of it Is easy I 1 faugl ed what I 1 don t know about the end of the mining job would load a wagon III pitch out and hunt me up tp a it real for sure miner of course noti soil in so awfully crazy about that he granted lien llen what s the twitter with HI lit here for your boss miner not a thing in tl ti e wide world except that he cant can t be because he be is going to be he my p artner in tl e deal now you re till in a whole heap like a white man said the desperado ish one dog boned if L don t b bileve you are white 1 what do you say to ghin me a whack at the bossin lob job I 1 took jnet one little glance at dad dy and the mild blue eyes ald aid ies yes but youve got me under arrest mr beasley Beasl py y I 1 po anted out just to see what he bed d say I 1 lou ou can cant t very well close a business deal with sour our prisoner can you kill two r three birds with the one rock he mumbled cramming the half of his breakfast finishing corn cake into his capacious mouth A 4 chase you down to angels and turn yon you ever to the majesty 0 the 14 law the nine bein by name old squire dubbin then III jump my job 0 sartin out the bad angels from amongst the good angels and go out and rustle your ball time old bill dubbins s chewin over the law in sich pill fl Z 40 I 1 31 was look ng at jean e when I 1 re plied tases cases made ant an 1 per videl ike jile hes her bound fo da 10 lo 1 11 scrape up a brinch 0 men end and start era em up to begin on the repairs how does all that aou ou if my laugh was a bit grim there was a warrant for it it strikes me fair in the empty pocket my good friend I 1 told him just at III U la is moment I 1 couldn coulden t finance one solitary lonesome carpenter to say nothing of a gang of them with half a dopes steam fitters and ballem ika q thrown in bubl 1 borkin capital you mean sq that s about the easiest thing this side 0 hades with a mine like the old cinnabar with mith no more water in it than wl 1 at can be pumped out to bach back you I 1 reckon your title to the prop erty artys s all right ain aln t it it Is I 1 11 I 1 ave me a deed from roy my grind fabber so in i h I 1 laid said but I 1 didn dian t go on to elphin how tl it e quick wit of a girl ato nov hided me had saved saed tl ti at deed ft biorn om being a mere scrap of waste paler not that I 1 knew how sl si e ha I 1 done it 1 I ut the tangible fact m was n s fely in my polet fifteen minutes after this break fr ft t tal tri ie le talk tall I 1 w was as bidding a tern tem corar good I 1 y to tl it e wreck on the cinnabar ledge and was about to take the road to atropia with beasley both of os us intent upon catching a way freidl t to angels paddy diddy had lent me the piel aid poev for the ride to the rall roid station this either with or without jeaniel consent I 1 t know and forbore to ask and the harlequin faced dog w as readi to trot at tl it e pony s heels but the blue eye I 1 maiden had shut herself up in her room and I 1 thought ahe wasn gasn t going to come out and see me off at the final moment however after beasley had already steered his nag across the dump lead 1 ead and I 1 was w as about to climb into my saddle sher she came to the cabin door and was both curiously embarrassed and a bit breathless please I 1 one minute I 1 she begged and as I 1 took my foot out of the stir rup to vou know what they have done with with with fullerton Bul lerton I 1 helped out IN no 0 I 1 don dont t kno inov v but I 1 suppose taken him on to the county seat at cop ih with the others tl TI en th then en pi please ease let him got go I 1 it if you lafuse to prosecute mal alai e yourself entirely easy I 1 I 1 brol e in a bit sourly maybe agree not to play tl e part of the dog in the manger thank sou so much she mur aured and then she backed away quickly and went in and on through to the kitchen leaving me to follow beasley wl ich I 1 did with the sour I 1 amor telling me that of all the pua aling unaccountable things in a world of enig nills a woman s vagaries a garies were the least understandable for after all was said and done and after all that I 1 ad happened and been made to happen it seemed to be palpably ap parent that jeanie twombly was still in love with the jeet CHAPTER angels desert and urban our stop stopover over in angels friend beasley s and mine was of the short est our business with father wll wit liam dubbin was mas the merest tra travesty esty upon a trial at law and was speedily concluded since there would be no passenger train until afternoon beasley and i resumed our places in the freights caboose and in due time were set down in brewster the breezy little metropolis of Timan yoni park here my captor and friend ap feared to be very much at home he ile to k me to the best hotel where he was greeted with affectionate cama by a clerk who wore a dia mond big enough to serve for a loco motive headlight shook hands with and introduced me to a number of gentlemen in the lobb lobby yand and presently gave me orders to go up to 0 our ur rooms and take a wash preparatory to meeting a certain friend of his at lun junchen chen n the meeting contingent upon his being able to round up the friend in time for the feast it still wanted a half hour of the appointed luncheon time when I 1 de scented to the lobby A little before one clock beasley came in with a middle aged marf A who ho looked as if he might have been the retired manager of a wild west show not long haired hatred or anything lite that but with the cool ey eve e and bronzed weather eather m beaten face of one to 1 lived under house roofs only when circumstances forced him to A moment liter mier I 1 was shik hij hand hands with mr NN william Illiam starbuck mine owner ranchman a r in the me brewster national bank pre prescient silent of tl ti e brewster commercial club and the prime moi mover er in a lot of oti er eh civic lc activities too n to mention I 1 may pass lightly oer the events of it tie e tl ti ree days foll following ou ing my davs s in bullch air starbuck Stat st buck who seemed to ie te known to all the old in BreNg tei is lilly ani ant to it tie e 3 brunger r unger generation as uncle bit ly labore laborel I 1 ii in my behalf fro procured cured me tie lie riece necessary sir working credit at it tie e N national helped ne n e in the telegram tele grai 1 ic ordering of new mad inird belled belt ed beasley to rustle up a small army of meet antes to go al at s a I 1 I 1 f us to the cinnabar and last but not least made my nij feie with tt it e rali road company in the mat ter of the stolen and smashed inspect tion car this bring being a thing which he was ft as easily able to do because he lie was the brother in law once remo removed ed of tj tie e railroad company s N vice fee president and general manager on our last dav dal in brewster and as a parting fa favor faor or I 1 asked starbuck how bow I 1 t should in regard to quash ing the indictment against fullerton Bul lerton ami and when I 1 did so he gave gane me a shrewd look out of the thi cool gray eyes with a gentle uplifting of the shaggy brows brow s it if 3 ou are determined to let fullerton Bul lerton go all you have lime to do Is to da do nothing if sou don t appear in colah to prosecute him and his would be mine jumpers the case against them will III be dismissed as a matter of course but really you know vou on ought to make an example of them in the circumstances I 1 cant can t I 1 returned so we me let it go at that and an hour later peasley reasley and I 1 were on our way may back to atropia and cinna bar mountain CHAPTER cousin percy wires it was on the evening of the fourth days day s absence that beasley and I 1 left the train at atropia and took the mountain trail fai in reverse for a return to the ligh 1 agh bench on old cinnabar now youre talking like a white man beasley riding a borrowed horse and I 1 the calico pony which daddy hiram I 1 ad sent down to the station by one of the newly imported workmen n just as we me were mere leaving the rail road station buddy fuller the opera tor ran out to hand band me a telegram S nee it NN waa as too dark to see to read it and I 1 supposed naturally natural lj that it was nothing more important than a bid from some machinery firm anxious to supply our needs I 1 thought it might wait matt stuck it into my pocket and promptly forgot it our talk as we rode together up the now dow familiar trail was chiefly of busl bust ness the business of reopening the mine and it was not until we were nearing our destination that the ex marshal said still seichin in your craw that you ain aln t a coln to pop the whip at charley fullerton Bul lerton it is I 1 answered well now why not principally because I 1 have promised somebody that I 1 wouldn t prosecute not HI III twombly bed he d never ast you to do anything like that io no not daddy hiram he ile didn t press the matter any further and we rode on in s lence As we me approached the neighborhood of the mine evidences evi demes of the activities began to manifest them selves daddy hiram met as at nt the door of his newly repaired cabin across the dump head an ani I 1 insisted upon taking care of the horses beasley and I 1 washed up at the outdoor bench and basin liv atory tory and when we went in jeanie had supper ready for us she d t sit at table with us from which I 1 argued tl at she and I 1 er fail er had already eaten and I 1 tt bugl t she purposely avoided me avoided meeting my eve eye at least I 1 d t w conler on ter at it her position as I 1 had it figured out was rather awk mtr alv anomalous by this time I 1 had fully convinced myself that she was in love with fullerton Bul lerton and was pr bally engaged to be married to him and thit it was only her native I 1 that had driven h her r to take sides against him in the struggle e for tl it e binnal ar prompting her to do 0 the one thing which had haa knocked his s ne no barlous scheme on the heid head namely mely tie ile recording of toy my deed knowing nothing but hard bard work 4 ork dadda hiram was running the deep N w ell pumps I 1 itself or rather taking the t shift on them and about ten 0 clock just as I 1 hid had made up my mind to go to bed and let ohp repairing ac thaties take rare care of themselves I 1 saw jemie je mie going over to the boiler shed with a pot of freshly made coffee for her father here was my chance I 1 tl ought so I 1 waited and cornered her as she came back let lets s have it out jeanie I 1 said which I 1 confess was a sort of brutal I 1 way may to begin on the woman I 1 loved and yet the only way it if I 1 was to go on remembering that she belonged to an other man we can at least be good friends d lends cant we no she returned with a queer lit tie tle twist of her pretty lips and a flash of the blue eyes I 1 in afraid we cant can t even be that or those any more mr broughton it was awkward for both of us standing there before the open cabin door and I 1 pointed to the bench where daddy hiram was wont to smoke his evening pipe in good weather wont won you sit down until we can sort of flail it out I 1 begged its no use whatever she object ed nevertheless she did sit down and let me sit beside her I 1 know just how distressed you must be I 1 began and perhaps I 1 c can an lift a bit of the load from your shout ders there will be no legal steps taken against your against charles fullerton Bul lerton thank you she said just as short as that and anti that isn t all I 1 went on aft er we get into the ore and have some real money to show tor for it im I 1 in going to make over a share in the cinnabar to your father and put him in a post tion to do the right thing by you when you marry and he hell 11 do it you know hell do it how kindl she murmured look ing straight out in front of her it isn t kindness its bare justice between you you two have saved my legacy for me I 1 wish now it hadn haan t been sa saved bedl 1 she exclaimed as vindictively as you please truly I 1 thought the ways of women are past finding out or at least the way may of a maid with a man Is can t I 1 say anything auy thing at all without putting my foot into it I 1 asked lo 10 despair you break a man s back with a load of obligation one day and toss him lightly out of your oung life the next I 1 I 1 haven t done anything to earn bour to earn the back of your hand jeanie or if I 1 have 1 don t know vl 1 at it Is you have committed the able sin she accused coolly I 1 don t n onder monder blat tl at miss candib took your ring off I 1 n aan t going to let the talk shift to lisette not if I 1 knew it and could help it what Is the unpardonable sin I 1 ailed to misunderstand to think a per son capable oo 00 thing when a person is not to just take rt tt tor for granted that a person Is guilty oh with a little stamp of her foot I 1 cant can t bear to talk about it I 1 I 1 guess it s a part of a man s equip ment to be dense and sort of stupid in his dealings with women I 1 mean slowly so slowly that I 1 thought the catch would never snap and hold my fool foot mind crept back along the line searching blindly for the point at which all this fiery indignation toward me had begun back and still back to that moment of our deliverance daddy s and mine at the shaf shaft honse door with this dear girl untwisting her al aims ms from her fathers neck and with me saying I 1 ira in not hurt either wel wei come honie home miss twombly or should I 1 say mrs fullerton Bul lerton Jea jeanie I 1 gasped gaped do you mean that ou on re not going to marry charles fullerton Bul lerton that jahi y PU never meant to of course I 1 im in bot ot I 1 she retorted with a savage little out thrust of the adorable chin bt you thought so small ot or me that you simply took it for granted r I 1 w wagged a aged my head in deepest hu mality I 1 im in as the dust under your pretty feet fee t jeanie please don t trample me too hard Bil il lerton blat tl at Is er we had a scrap tl it e nert next morning after vou von went away you ou know and I 1 well he rather got the worst of it and when I 1 had him down and was trying to make him tell us where you were even 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