Show STUDENT LIFE the house cut the clothing off laid them out on a blanket washed the blood from his brother's face covered them with another blanket and piled a mound of saw ice upon them The lantern he had been using burned out and when he struck a match to find his way out of the room the ice looked very much like a pile of stones He found another lamp and while he was waiting for daylight he built a fire and prepared the breakfast his brother had begun lie could onlv drink the coffee and as he sat there in the flickering lamplight the full force of his loneHis brother liness came to him had been his only relative and all the love of a big nature had been centered in him He wished himself dead but blotting out his desire for his own death came a great desire for revenge and a cold grey dawn broke on a cold grey set face in which a great loneliness was almost covered up by a terrible hate towards the man who stood with the big rifle in the barn door At sunrise he followed the horse tracks up the hill and from the top he could see ten miles off toward the mountains a hated white speck a sheep camp When he got to it it was deserted and the sheep were badlv scattered The horse tracks divided here The men had gone in opposite directions Inside the camp he found amunition exactly like the small spent cartridges on the barn floor A hurried search found nothing more and he lost dust-cover- over-poweri- ng ed 2 07 the horse tracks when he tried to follow them but hiding in the sage brush half a mile from camp he found a very much frightened Portuguese from whom he scared a description of the two men The man who owned the camp the man of the small cartridges was short and had a red beard and hair The other was tall dark had no beard and was very Jack rode quickly to a neighboring ranch where he learned that the cowboys and sheep men had had a fight in which several of the latter had been wounded The sheep had been scattered and the herders told to leave in a hurrv without them Everv cowboy in the region turned out in a vain hunt for the two men Jack and Toot's brother traveled half over the West following even the most meagre clues always to be disappointed They would come back to the ranch for a time but would be off again on some new possibilitv of finding the murderers Only after years did they give up these trips and even then thev expected some day to find their revenge stoop-shoulder- Jjs ed 3c One night in a town down the river from the ranch a bartender who knev the story heard a half intoxicated stranger a short man boasting to a crowd of sheepherders of the killing of two A large dark man with cowboys stooped shoulders had tried to quiet him and take him from the saloon The intoxicated man became angry refused to go and accused the oth- red-hair- ed |