Show Lin L tee t Chinese e I y yI I Tramp B By JOHN PALMER 0 C im tit i. i N Nn r Unto IT L LIN IN first at the Uie Sa homestead bom tagged og rand and thin and hungry anil UH A Chinese Chines tramp m 6 something unheard unheard-of ot ard-ot In to the annals an an- nab nals of f the We West t. t n Il- He Same ame up t to the kitchen h n do door r and end stood tood with hands hand crowed crossed over his hi stomach N No one could mistake th the meaning of that at Glue GIve hint him a meal commanded Mrs Banford Sanford of ot the Tap lap cook Lin stayed The Jap cook was t tea leav av b Sag ing g and Lin took his hll ll place ce He lle cooked to pert perfection Uon The Sanfords found Lin Indispensable I Three months went by Lin grew tout and complacent Everybody trusted trusted trust trust- ed him hirn The children loved him Wm Lin LID was a a find a tre treasure sure Sanford 1 kept ept the money to pay his laborers hi m an Iron safe In his study It was a good safe and on S Saturdays It held a great grent quantity of ot money Mrs Sanford had often otten been afraid There were were bad men mn In the hills bills rustlers who If they learned of ot It t would not lies hesi hesitate tote tate to tr try to get th the contents Sanford Sanford San San- ford laughed at her lie He had bad his shotgun shot shot- shot hot shotgun gun and of ot b bad d men He Be took Mrs Sirs Sanford and the chii- chii dren out to se the new Irrigation ditch one Saturday m morning When they returned returned re re- re- re turned the safe Inte stood wide Ide open picked 2 by an on experts expert the lie mon money two money two y-two two thou thousand sand dollars dollars' and anda a little inore w inore-w was more was gone gon So was was a Lin So was wal Sanfords Sanford's favorite horse The There was a telephone on the ranch Within an n hour the sheriff and aDd anda a posse had bad to foregathered ready e to ride tide down be 1 f 11 tory h ame must be Ibe made mad an e example ampe oL oft ot But who would have hav o oLID of 0 Lin LID Mrs Mra S Sanford and the children cried They watched the posse polle headed beaded by br Sanford ride off tt Dont Don't hurt hart him Wm l I Mrs Mrs Mn Santo Sanford begged her husband Sanf ord's lips w were let grimly He Be wae- wae Was wasa a slow Itow to give hit his trust truit He Be Lin Un and and Ith N It h n b et betrayed y He Be was a n not t feeling merciful The trail trail led to toward the hills into a t barren district Lie was a fool to have havi taken that route the sheriff agreed with Sanford They would trap him at atthe at atthe atthe the water hole If they r rode d fast talt They did Dot apar their hor horses es The Wat water water hole hole ol came into sight flight Sanford Say San Sayford ford tord uttered d a shout ashout shout The The horse that thai LJ Lin Liu had stolen n was was browsing on on tire c scant cant th herbage ag n nd th there re a waterhole wa wa- a hole ter-hole lf drinking was as Lla Lt j S Sanford dellb deliberately rat ly a aimed r 1 d. d and ari tired fired It was was half a mile away there was was 88 lit Ut- little tle Ue chance of bitting Lin Ln They gaJ gal loped furiously forward LtD Lin arose arose- at thre hundred bundred yards they could distinguish dis him e easily iD In t. t the thin a al 1 Biosphere Apparently he be had bad bet beer been JI hit he lie carne c came me stumbling Ung forward hi hIt palms outstretched b d. d Sanford boiling with chagrin was wa about t to fire again but the sheriff struck ck up rifle Wen Well aim to Ital take him alive be said Lin col collapsed upon the ground at at Sanfords Sanford's feet He De was wu shot through the body He De was as upon the thoe point el 01 death D lie He turned his eyes appealingly appealing ly Iy upon upon his hlA masters You yellow thief 1 r shouted Sanford Sanford Sanford San San- ford tr trying to down th the feeling of pity th that t In in him Ir 1 No thief t said and Lin Lin arid died They Jook looked d at one ODe another th they y looked looked at lit the body The sheriff Uttered uttered ut Ut- an exclamation Theres There's three bullet hol holes s in him 1 t by said It was true true three three bullets ba had passed through the Chinaman's body each lrich one of ot h would in have bave proved mor mortal ni Who the 7 the sheriff began One of ot the he be posse who had bad ridden on ahead came galloping back Cote Come har I be shouted aborted They Thep spurred their horses horse As Am the they bey in en red the hole writer the they saw un UD other form crouched down It wan waa JUI that of a Mexican He Ill was quite dead with the top of Jf Ms fda Lead head blown off ott There were sl signs ns of ot a desperate struggle around the water water water-hul hoie Th The bills that had beet fot taken from frow Sanfords Sanford's Sanfords San Sun fords ford's safe sate lay everywhere I He lie Ue him I reckon sale said i the sheriff swallowing hard hurd Sanford made no reply lie lle was wan thinking of ot the day dllY Lin had WIDe tome up to the tiLt rant randl house bouse door and be he betaken had bud taken hIm In |