Show Se wood of of- Sleepy Cat By FRANK H. H SPEARMAN V t Sae SOB Sent Serla Copyright CopTI tor by 4 r I STORY FROM THE START STAnT io 1 At Sleepy Cat Doctor Carp I f lens Vi Wentworth orth fr freighting l bos yv nt td r a II scraps ral In eon don den In which Johnr John r t ti gambler In defence o of If lilt hie vo partner Dave l Tracy Y kill J and nil nerve rv A nr afterward I KP Sel Selwood wc wood od now Ow W Vent s a at Cat rumen comes ome up 1110 n n a settler whose wagon wn on has Imi P mired In n Il creek creoli cr ell Ha Ire help hI Ket get the Ilio outfit clear after picking up upA A 1 girls girl's hoe Khoo and toeing and b be nn attracted by the supposed II II Il owner thereof In to l r i Ilia lite settlers settler's VA wagon l Mourn Moses Mc t rn II n a youth I la le robbed il u ut In n Sleepy Y Cat gambling Jon don I N fortis the and end Atkins Aikin to lo return the tha I money t tI l tt t f I CHAPTER IV Continued iV-Continued Continued 4 4 I. demanded i with n hadt f-hadt more of f mill marl care carefulness 1 In his hla tono If tone If Tracy snit p q that ot l your word nt at nil all sst Set not Iu wood not 1 tit lit nil till Hut But In n tO town 1 like Ilk till this tins hns to In f 1111 e r 1 1 act In ns II l you r-you know d i r J rite flip bays hoys seemed to 10 on rim DIP for or the lip joh It of n a job Jab nor norL L ono I r wn 1111 looking f for r. r Put But I 1 wits was S and took tonk It to oblige l' l I T timid I 1111 nil HIP kicks nn nil nili l i I u p ll-p ho hoes nil till the HIP money PO Ao 0 1 t i asked kd them to chip hip In down diva thet the I t a tint of or did Troey and ax a n x tow few others didn't- didn't the only ono PilI tint 1 didn't II IM oll ll II hII Ft r Tint Tim lu I bl I dont don't Hut flit 1 I no hoer pr rr hind had any feeling 1 t Tracy 1 on tint Hint I 1 X 11 wont II t you to know that lint SHw nd t Von tou seem p M l k wit II I some oine In to hr n want lInt to 10 toft to tn ft I didn't here hrc to to- i I night tl to n er old w Avres 1 I come 7 here to 10 try to tip up new v cites SI Sel- I ot wood hood fJ we a Itt gt out the i plaster II went on evenly I lets 1118 pot get It IK HII position po noel clear-noel mine I hove 1 felt frit lint hilt t n tI inn like this place 1111 where n it l is III i dealt didn't heed nit Prot protection neither the nor the proprietors r t It cony h hp lie III merle a n ml ln but hul Hints Hint's the th way Dave P folt felt Hints Hint's the Ihl way I I 1 feel Now in III HP lie tod-iy tod 1 n boy hn with Ms hll it of six hundred dollars I toM told to 11 lioy luick Ills hili j money I Ho tic refused I told Mm hint Id I'd l noun n tutu him dut In the morning or lIP he I 1 could t me HIt Theres There's no nn use III u p pIS IS of It more word sheds about It It nil all t. t lher ll IM If I to It II Well 11 I wouldn't Any tints Hints nil all V Kelwood pl observed ohr 11 assertion assert ion Ing himself Im here e to keep lawand law and order and I 1 CM cant can't nt hire have may plow places I burned hlll In HIP lie business IIII quarter of If I Sleepy Cot Cat HP'S In the ly J business b same flume ni ns jou 1 0 are are are- i Pel G I wood jumped ns If stuns stung and n d a ti t strong rOil word Sane Same lilt ni 1 I 1 Zm I net hI he echoed 1 Do nn o I send nut not jailbirds Atkins to drug drill men 1111 1 In here to 10 rob rub I them do tin you yours OU OUt t mean lf rs 4 It needed nil of or RI diplomacy diplo J macy ann 1 to 10 quiet things down lie Ile r rp- rp I learned defense l' l II He lie urged's urged s 's good III all nil to no tie purpose Ile found f hI he IP could make 1 ni nn Impression wl i on nn lIl I. 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I I 1 see sec I cant can't with Ith you YU If tr happens dont don't don't dont hold me 1 responsible Not If it you yon keep out of It observed oh ob served tf Selwood t unperturbed limn Im 11 here to tn keep this the peace not Keep out III retorted i Ing to tn Ills hiM full foil height bet hlf its s Ii- I troublesome om rn customer lh mt I ose sae saen p In III n t turn I 1 e believe you jou OU left Thief Thiel 1 liver Just Jut before I went there here I he Ile Mild euld calmly You hail stone home e trouble I ic claim J signo KIIS 1 it lIk blazed What do you A 1111 II t he 1 Miners will trill travel Iru nit nil night to toi Hind n i up 11 u a claim Jumper Hut I 1 feet feel I exactly ns OM gnu jou ou dt do k Why h ask uKe Ihk up ull old scores As 11 fir f II ns na Im I'm concerned t ex- ex echoed MarinaK tic n ns as Set o wood cI purposely retreated Ill I'll If It yett you yet t I Iiran the nit bunch that Hint tried to jump I in III claims down n there bring bring on un your our tuners I Im not It snuck on un old scores Star Slur d fc sold ld Aulet ly I 1 do don't dont n t tw w think were we're to tn huts have tiny trouble li not here re not you and I I. I anyway Our teamsters u hm can con take care of Utility's t t outfit tomorrow Im I'm riding down to f Thief myself tonight on un busl- busl gild and ve told McAlpIn l to keep III it II I saddled 1111 II for tor tile me Rut nut shant shan't start till tilt eleven I I t act eft be lie- before fore that Bartoe will have that thAI six lx hundred here herl Drop Droll In any all tl hub time 1 r Always Alway Kind glad IIII to see vou iI With this Judicious mud even II I Ji ed rd mixture of nf threats hints any whys ways mod small talk d Ill pf g tv 1 with feathers s onca more liMe d. d But nUl neither had footed the HIP o oner In III tine Hie alighted degree Rath understood It 11 was VIIi only 1111 H n possible lol N to shunt hat hl arr fur Into Coto the future c. c At t Oll one minute eleven ln Selwood left leCt the gambling halt forthe for the Hie burn ills tf petty taa 18 wl Into lute the he hI bended t south for fur the Thief hirer r mad rOHI try try- III Ine out ont the 1111 new pony's steps Ho Ifs hart bid lw ld the river bridge 1 and was II ln out nut en on tin till Spanish sinks ii he henad the clatter of f hoofs hoota bi him A rid fo O him nail he hI tanked looked around to lo greet Hob itoh lola Foot Sent Scott reined In InI I beside 11 II Ihn Iho with hl Ms tie pony on at Its ia The moneys money's up lip he hI grinned You wont won't need neol to bother the HIP 1 miners 11 They t rilo otie nt at n purl pure put lt up Ill their horses and walked to o- o gether up 1111 the HIP hill Bel wood Rot got Ih the money counted It It 11 to Scott I told him him to find the own owner n r and deliver deller It Toll Tell 1111 her to tn pet get h herboy her hr r IrO boy out of If town Ir before fore somebody else clip acts It It away from him Ihn was bU Ida only Injunction t C e e eif e If It theres there's human humn stunt ocum In till the whole United It States that nhi t landed In Sleepy Cat gram bled hied Carpy It must heist he be because e they n I 1 I tenet I 1 n f 1 t n H n yet n Portor was wn an nn educated who knew II quite well how to spook h. h But like Ilko many another front of lul hl kind he hind caught the lie slovenly l of t I Iho ho torn men with i hoin he was thrown lu In contact ow ow w loc look k nt at that lint coat he continued con on timed calmly I I bought It new nt at Tin 7 auction 1 Last night I roil rodo down to to see set n sick RIck team nt the ono bunkhouse-ono one o o 0 your our men Selwood Sol wood While t I wan WM him tip up It to When I II started f I for T put on the Ihl not cant By Ry time lime It was liS raining nil fired har hard I 1 lifted my lilY whip will to touch up the tho horses horl's and the whole sleeve reeve p part pirt parted rt ed I nt ut the th shoulder Joint I l When 1 I reached h 11 around to see Sll what t the matter mot mat ter the other sleeve tell fell tint off I t ClI out of the buggy hU the cant cont come In two right across the buck I Look nt ot It t. t With some sane violent punctuation of or his complaint the doctor n vho lIn bo In Sleepy Cut Cat never by 11 ony chance received re rev than the first more syllable of hits hi professional ol title and rarely ills Ids telling John Selwood of lit how he haul been cheated Where hll did 1111 the you Oll buy Imy matt Ont Selwood I though tho less t moved n ns a n listener r limn the doctor was o ns nn 11 orator r Down nt III that new IW ploll opposite the ln warehouse In tho Ihn old blockhouse e. e A man named 1 Fyler Is running n a dry lr goods dry stern storo thorp there A And 11 1 Is U running n a mock h h on 1111 1111 to Milt Milt- Miltin in lit It the me i Clime null nn u down You lick and Ill I'll lick lid rl i iThe The two tuo turn men n were talking In the story one lI and communicating com with the lintel hotel tint hurl burp the HIP email wood sign sign known known II ns as the th hlll ot of the shingle of solo doctor In Sleepy Cut Cat or within n a hundred m es of Sleepy I fat run Cart nt II nn 11 pro pro- and nit net always S cool surgeon hilt but one who whose e fallings f were ferl lu In rough roush by a gen Jn moils heart and tile the benefits of a Ilk skip skill II I fr free Crt o without It to nil 1111 comers Selwood tI nod and II I IIII In III the tho rough gear o of the rail had l' l Just come In III from n trip over tr th t HIP hI division loII lint and sat In to hi his hIli with the air of a n mini who how store more serious on his hlll mind How lIo low Is Dave P coming canting on nn one 2 hIn he hI n as without J responding pr to 10 I Carpy's Invitation to denim clean help Iii up the new lIew trader The 1 doctor one CHIP elbow on the HIP tall scratched his hb bend Hung nn f he hl said perplexed 1 lip tie aint towing coming m. m I cant can't got get all any life Illo Into lulo him It Its It's close 1101 to tn a n year jear now hp hI got t hurt But you t u I got to remember John hes he's nn nu old man anti put put put-In In three years ji-ars In the tIll Army of the Now low o look ok nt ut you yon The fhe first r t II III Have Dane roue IIII to SPA sea me site n II year ago to III sat Kit t slime medicine for fur ou yott Ise hI said suld you yon 1 0 were In iii I the Hie lust host III stages of f con n It wasn't so 0 tint but you r t that U way nil mill rl ht L 10 1 t I you ou now V IIII spry mw spry Ir ns its nn an antelope You Mott look good 11 care of the 1111 me Carpy disclaimed cure care nothing It was aa Ills Ids dry mountain not not too high un and II thin neither neither- Hint t took look care of lit you ou and youre you're Now low ow hove e Is U Just t wound along along wound nil all healed up Uti hut tint Just kind of stow slow paralysis Nothing 1 I 1 con cnn put In III him tutu seems t. t to pull him III lip ip It t sure surl was hard to get what he gothere got gothere here In Sleepy Cat otter three years In the army This ills town Is III certainly tough and lough-and getting tougher It was liS touch before you and oud I It Doctor It rill he hI saw lilt tough titter litter were we're laid up UI on the hill hit I replied re rev plied Selwood 1011 Indifferently If youcan you OU cnn can pull Pave Dave II I through you'll save e tine one good man for fill It It It-it If he U le n a gain gam Liter bIer Where you yon going Down own to o the he tent lent understood under under- understood stood what ho hI that II that he was Os going to 10 see Itle hi Ida t wounded partner Imd 11 been mo ed from the gnat gam- Ming hull to quieter quarters on at the theof he of the tent tIll I colony of the town H Ax All the HIP two then men parted 1 and walked down the hotel hotd steps n a toll tall odd looking man accosted 1 him Stranger r he hI salt with a n Im 1111 tor John i Seltzer Selwood promptly If not definitely What do you jou stunt with John Seltzer Im 1111 n 0 i end nd mule bow boss stronger stranger from Mend Bend hI ninn Seltzer r Is our superintendent dent lure here Youre William Just plain pima 1111 Bill Io VIII Bill Par Par- do tin they cull you 7 It H depends somewhat Bill on who does docs the calling my lilY friends friend call me John 8 11 Then that's what I t want to 10 null call you jou stranger t I dont don't give I n hang who you ou ore are or what your jour name i Is Ii- Ii were we're friends Selwood RI looked Bill over oer with saute game curiosity l' tI lie Ito was wall nn an unusual man even among unusual men In hla hili left Ifft hind hand with the stock resting on the till ground he held ns nil he talked u double ruled shotgun t of a ft size and calibre unique In the mountain country It nb 1 In n f t ft I ld Ito It n s ea ac an u. u o mu e g 1 gaug e Ish gun with barrels thirty six Inches Ion tong long Its normal charge as 09 Selwood t v r rt t t W What Do You You Want With John Seltzer afterward learned will ten tams of powder cold a 11 handful of buckshot In rack each barrel This Thill extraordinary weapon 1 wets carried ostensibly ns as n protection against ho tle Indians though Indians hall had for years I Cased ceased to tn molest freight wagons on hut hilt trail troll In size matched up with his gun II He lie stood well ell above aho six feet u II 11 his which he wore he became confused ns as to i there here he hI laid left Ifft hI his boots and boots he arched his hili arms and legs pretty prell h akimbo He lie was us long limbed lid nd gaunt of wit wll h n browned bro skin drawn dra like parchment over O a aIe atiue I e ris II nut lean as liS n II hounds hound A sharp shary nose e shot out nut like hike nn an Interrogation mint upside down II between beetling cheekbones and his Ids upper lip Ill and tower lower lI were covered rO with a n growth of beard heard n a growth growth tint that In a n beauty contest would have damned Adonis Ben lien spoke poke to 10 me about sot von Bill returned Selwood sold said IP II ns going oln to send you 1 0 up ull here hr here here- That wasn't what hint I 1 looked you ot up tip for now now John John ln I told me Ill Id you 1 nt nl the flie hotel hutel t I want to fJ Ill I'll tiny wiy lit t ranger suggested the Ill I'll encouragingly 1011 Im n a brother of Sirs Mrs McCracken Muse Is m my nephew She I. I wrote wrol n. n nm alit hots' hots you Ou got Jot her money hack buck front from theft river rl rats rats- rats That Will was Rell 1 want lInt to say say-Pm Im I'm with jou Sou And Ill I'll get Il your our name set t titter lr u a while Mille Wentworth told me he hen n sync trans transferring ferring you OU to this dh Islon What were Ir ere 1111 they paying you jou ou on the Hie plains pintas Job 7 tire y Forty up here Bill gradually caught the Import Im lm port of ot the words Much obliged John Juhn hI he said II gravely costs n II quarter here I see said Selwood significantly ou j youve 1 e found that out Walt for me ment ment nt lit the burn Ill I'll Ill I'll h he bp there In n II few minutes initiates 1111 n nt I. picking up hit his gun In Ids hh left Ift hand hal and resting his hh rl right ht 11 on the hail haft of a huge hUfe howls bowle knife fashioned from a II blacksmiths blacksmith's file 10 nn slung nt nl his hip hll wandered nn on his hIli VII way Selwood directed Ma steps toward to to- toward ward Tracys Tracy's tent To this tent tnt quarter had III also alo enu rOll coine e Christie Tyler Kyler Ier and her ber father for temporary lodgings II I. I Selwood SeIn-oo paid pah little attention to 10 the of or th the tent colony lie Ih hod only peen been to 10 pitch and equip a tent for tor his friend a n hundred yards from front any other tent Bat Dave Duve 11 hind had lingered lingered- refusing to die tile and aud not Dot quite equal to getting welt well elt In consequence no the th newcomers ne encroached on hl his privacy until the Tyler 1 tent was wall pitched almust al almost nl most must back bad to 10 buck bade with his hi own o and nil aIL that Christie had lind ever tr heard of ot other her neighbors neighbor's tent n a n larger lor and bet better ter ler tent than the others others that It t sheltered 11 fI sick gambler Christie lle saw nt at times it nn looking Indian looking man mUll coaling coming com coal ing and going from |