Show stran stranger g ur A story illustrating how flow persons will WIH hang on lo 10 L t theory by william L chew copyright by american pres association 1811 1911 in the tt purt of the crow val vat le vim OIK ont of those villages Nil lages that pring ag up mushroom like upon tho the 11 ca comiry ry of 0 alil acol sinco mcra ur ar ra all ink ing from front till the benqt and from front tho the west knifong those from front the vest est aua a in in lit aho lin st to hm lime stani led on hn 11 1 I hale hase capi ri encee it grief iio ind ito ii sooner en ell it ri 1 I tin to tavui it tha it he lie x alkil ul kil through lie marci t aa as only one strut t looking lookin gat nt ory outtie lint lin t though he lie min searching for nome on ant if iio kept up 1111 until lie to be nat mat 1 itulid that he lie hill ii ill acl til in the town th fill it discontinued it he ile wui it 11 try uncommunicative nica tire man an annl I 1 unde tit no fri frienda tilds ilia ills name was not forthcoming so be he soon cc lie quiren Itil red the of stranger St ranKer he ile entered it claim and bent cat to work with pick and shovel like the rest of the men in the town wn tho the dally daily macli coach froni front the east ho he was nl at ways on 01 eilind iio ile scrutinized every person nho alight alighted ed I 1 and nhen the coah coach hall I 1 I 1 een emptied walked aay an ay I 1 ulio tio Is lie and who he lookin for I 1 asked one of it knot of men one evening as its stranger is walked away from the conch coach aith hia ills usual look of dl sap 1 A ant t know who ho he la Is and who boa hos lookin for do y said bill stubbs I 1 i ell ill III tell y lie a one W 0 them fallen tellers who whon life haa has been wrecked by a woman oman aind another man iles lie a been married and unit another feller teller has taken lilt hn wife from froin him its my opinion that stranger strangers the feller fetter that robbie him of lib ills wife and when he lie chounn aou aull 11 see a eho sho otin match I 1 I 1 don t think much of that flint exola nation I 1 put in ili audy louea ones I 1 reckon stranger strangers beebi doln to git himself hantid when ho he fust come yere I 1 notice lie satis fie alel I 1 himself he lie settled domi doti that there no one yere aa as knowel him he lie intend his ills claim nn fill went to norl lie ile ain aint t alilin bothin not liln about he ile nin t a gln tin to fur nish 11 noboa nobody choh hos huntin him film with information about where he Is 1 these are but a few of the reasons conjured up for strangers stranger a pretence in tho the town and hn singular Kular the only person who us its biot lu in them vas nas stranger uger but hi tit mas tho the only penton who didn dian t henr hear nn nil of them lie ile pursued I 1 the hi eca eit n tenor of his nil a digging in fit 11 hole in ili the ground and rain going t aur t r el to tin the to lilt 1119 44 4 one da stranger froni frow 1110 11 holo ills 1114 4 ac lit dinue P at 4 t tr m fille alth etli multi mth rated 1 I 1 air t r oil air ta n dipre lit n elal mid ani if it ln ilk lf here hn ila lif lot I 1 tulu hind fill 4 li lies iles kot jot ind of it ill alif tellar lit hta for va it to lilt corn in ili back that which mm kit the drop oi tit t other one if stranger kit git iland I 1 hope lie ill n III hell come bach I 1 reckon and hell fiel battet ati tle knitli lah hl I 1 like ike t nouga he uni ma take another ho he t on i 11 1 oil rits bill stubbs exclaimed mid lone tones mian iansen aou kit git it notion into bour our liend head ion oil it lie il e everything nt lit it haa rot got wind vind of on an 4 tic ni fiort i noreh but not the ene to lull antan lie flea herred that it slier ier 1 has tot got nind ind of him and Str strangers Strang angera cri aist lit out it too t nv him the elep the rc ii lew few to take of it I 1 siim 4 to me lilt enoch budt audgo 11 alint atit botti both oil fellers feller 4 14 1 4 fittin r it coin a awny ily to 3 our t ix plana eions I 1 ie P ink tat notice that when whon a min in in kits un all idee lutu into hia hend he tie mikis 4 all itier ade run that i v u did 3 oil t er lit hiar ar of f it n out and out turn lii into a llean or of 01 ity 1 tte remark did not ch choike inge tin the vie q if of idill 4 or midi nil ion who both declared det lurd that the mr tre diady to listen mitten tt to MU lilt othir rea on thle theory 4 abu e ih thin lit their own but lluu hin maulcy one olle ther loth tooth Is lo he ile slunk awny away illo illino ino 0 tacit nr ar gutla I 1 with fill mch each othe then came information eliat added volume it lilt alime II 11 ini of conjecture stranger tr in coking happ bapp mint did I 1 tell wild said hes nit nut t lila inan ind lot ot the drop dro ou on hlen idies the Ithe sheriff riff andy jones at t thim this point it sm til ill boy spoke up I 1 seen sec cr eo go into hia hl cabin when he h amp back the fut thing he done was to take n piece 0 piatr froni front two logs tind tear it into little bit 1 I lion ilon you gain to account for thai that bill still bs asked andy jones how you coin gain to account for it since tooth needed time to make the incident accord with their pt pet theories no explanation was wits brought forth but the mystery of tho the bit of poper paper put a quietus upon of the theories held by stranger strangers a fellon citizens and was the of y event that bad lail oc burred during his hi reil dence among them that tended tc check the forma tion of new ones one day after the distribution of the mall mail the postmaster gave out that a letter had anne cn le for edward truce true dalo date and ranger cr bad hall claimed it 1 I watched him whan he lie read it addad the informant and seen him scow 1 bad give his revolver a bitch he it gone to meet his 1 afa na a this bitne shore I 1 said bill stubbs 1 I 3 oil sal mat I 1 bed killed his a 11 when he wont lent lou ou bet some un has as altri film a tip that the sheriffs comin for him I 1 huh retorted retort td til I 1 that sher iff co 0 rn lian has aften l cn coin conijn lill for stran g sir gr r r since he hue I acri ert in this berr u to tow it io I sos o a 3 bour our man that Str strangers angee look in ili for A month passed and the excitement over the mystery was uns subsiding when stranger receive I 1 another latter ahli t aniu I 1 nie I 1 the lie post niia ter rt pet ted t that hat ta tie e n hall left tho the room before ope i inn ing his if tier so that it I 1 was as impossible I 1 to tell fell ho how whatever it it him great dai UN faction knifed this announcement 1 and n plan for putting put tins in a wo 0 o man postmaster that had hail failed was nas rei relived I 1 v ell ll however oever nothing could be lone to acquire information in the present 1 recent instance and the necessity afy might not arise again on this account tit movement lost force and was finally dropped A few days after the of stranger I 1 a last letter it boy rode into toi town n with n telegram for him alch which hail lind been calved tt nt at the neared eta sta ion flon twelve miles away the news of this ints tims sage sago spread like wildfire and the excitement over nver tho the mystery burst into a hattie all agreed that a climax was at nt hand the hour for the arnival of th cast east coach was 0 6 at 5 it was reported that stranger had hall pone gone to his cabin put on n boiled shirt and had bad taken up tip a position halt a mile down the road where be he was waiting evi dently for the coach I 1 he ile x clug to die respectable said kill bill stubbs that N 1 if the other othe feller don t die instead gradually began legan to walk down donn the road halting here and there where they coull get a rood good view of stronger stranger who was sitting on a stump the believers in lit the stubbs theory en ell sconce A themselves behind treis in or der to e escape cape stray bullets the jones partisans laughed at them jones had find told them that the sheriff was comin coming 9 and nger had decided to rive give him pelf self up he lie had find gone out to prevent his felt fell v townsmen from witnessing the lr ir lominy of alq arrest and tho cla piling on of handcuffs stranger ant at with his back to the gathering nud audience lence not knowing of their presence he ile took out lit his watch and looked for the time of day then he lie pulled a cr from front his hip bip and examined it cockin and unco un cocking cling it and rind revolving the chambers 1 ibis I his act sent several of the doubting i among the jonea jones faction be hind trim and the stubbs its in their opinion A 4 cren creaking hing sound was beard in the ill 11 tince t ince and the he duent tui nid 1 I it bond bend in fit ilip lita rond road stringer jumped down from fr mi til hint mid with lilt long sup iett los to ard it 1 oie owe mincing the nu qu millie dl ina bernd that he lie was swim ili 11 in lie bulled kotlier ot lier 1 I ii it 11 atille lio lie hill i lit it back it in his fill holstr its be he apt roni cicil the to iuli it it av ilehr i r alo I 1 ki ret zid him ill ii w biln n in anal I 1 IK lit it t ali he 1 d I or hew of 01 4 it lilt mil I 1 it tw bo about 11 alie e 3 tars 4 old lit anade it julip tint thit him in stringer ringers arni the child was 4 fol lowed 1 I a who ito standing in tin the open door lint forth her tier irma tin i were cl issod around Strang strangers Stran pira ned will he h lifted lier tier to the ground the th rest of the picture was the man alternately the lie woman and the tho hol Stran gir tr was lins reent led to his ills sur by a about up tip tin tire road rind turning saw his ills fellow citizens ranged in a semicircle between film and the town ton he lie nt at them in wolder wonder for a moment then put the woman and the toy I 1 oy back into the boich got in himself and the luicle I 1 roce proceeded eded on lt its 4 wi nhen it the crowd mudge the driver stopped the bior borsis and mr mir mudge nd ad dresek I 1 I 1 hie fie fet fellas fell linIt ns of bour i our feller citizens Is much elle ellei ellered cd ed some 5 3 was as waltin io n kill 1111 a lind others was canted for crime the worn orn in tin and the kid I 1 lesler 3 1 1 pints ints to an tin mothr solution na 3 were glad ill Is soho soiled 41 and the bomin and the hid kidnie are we ve only hope married re respectable to which mr ir rrue bilile dile I 1 I 1 married the lad beside me nit if six ie doirs in ngi ngo but my iny nail the in ti arf afo ance of tier fanille irli inie e sprint 4 d 1 us until tie now lien ilea I 1 cattle among ion oil I 1 expect it it I 1 ind iny lay u wife ife her herp tilt atun it I 1 struck it n bon inz inn 1 in my mine I 1 wi tit av anny ay to 14 rf c t mv tar clile nn I 1 get ge ten pital to work vork it lealua n letter for my alft ln ca case cae e she mile should come in mv mr 1 1 I lieu twit I 1 got n letter stating tint thit her tier mother was ill and the co coming mint be inferred deferred I 1 lastly the grimi her tier il to ill nd here we ie nil all are intending to mae m ae our home among I 1 am ant drippy to tn announce th thit it the crow vid ley mining compani has fins been orginia ed with lilt ample cryltal and I 1 expect it will tu imke tle a it titi out of n town after lies or irions the driver cracked hi whip anil the stage lum on oil to mr truesdale s cabin on the site of that cabin a few years later rose a mansion ni ins ion 11 stubbe stubbs maintained to the day of his benth that tie lie wai was right in his ion ioli of the mystery stint some one had interfered with St affections andy jonii jon ii decla declared his its belief there was some trouble with the law that t had not come out the others took no further interest in the matter as a mystery |