Show Selwood of Sleepy Cat Cap n l' STORY FROM THE START John S c n gem bier ant and of ot a stage a e tin line nt III Sleepy Cat Ct comes upon a e tutor filler whose whole ha has hall fd I. I li Ii a creek k tin III helps Ip K get t the out HI nt clear clur after atler picking up a hoe ahne end n 1 b ing b by the up ir J owner thereof In J Fy Iy I T 01 lr- lr w walton gon MO Moe M II a youth In III rot b l of 16 0 In n a Sleepy iy Cat d Mn den n 1 foyers the tho ewin diem Mario find and to 10 re te return reo turn the money monr Fyler Ir opens open adry n II dr dry Hood Knode aIB store H or rB with Jig tl a mock auction I d the KIN shoe ahoe lm hh ho to puked filc up l I I. Ki ilia male k ChrI II mid and lid Wayne war Kyler Vyler Atkins In la a rrok h hea head a 1 of the RII rn ra ft nit II to 10 with ehr Christi lh Thin Tho l in nand lInd I ml In he pol pole enned 1 I I. I beaten noel Ch Christie l mete met Sel Kel- wood end Informs him het At At- tine kin Imn hll thrown h her r father ether out of or hl hla hie store claiming to own It ItI It I Ijler ler I U tc not nol badly hurt tell Illa pile Selwood of made h by glen alan l o that Hint he h. hod nuked her tier to 10 marry hit hint With hi hie hi two ram companions drives drive Atkins and Mayne from Hors i CHAPTER VII Continued VII Continued g 9 gi i Selwood once marled darted warmed to 10 r tho the subject I It I Isn't nt nOIl nonsense In I Youre You're the first ono one I ever eler w w In III my lilY life life- s' s I 1 I wl wish h you rou 1 wouldn't tun fun of ot tool tuel I protested meekly meek ly Iy hut hilt In mutter of ot rut fusel out nut unhappy un un- happy In tier her All my lilY life since I run rail away from front home I i. i She ho opened her eye eyes e. e Hid Did you jou ou runaway run nw away y front from home hams t I 1 never tr hud had a 8 homo home rightly speaking speak ing hilt hat I run ran mt front from nn uncle I lived with A And 1111 ever er Ive I've Ih t d on nn the Ihl frontier mind seen nothing but those thee boor H or 1 emigrant i women or or worse When I see anybody lilly any body like Ilk you why you I why shouldn't I help If It I 1 cnn can lIn Ch Christie II 1 Id I'd lo do thing for tor you you-i ou 1 I mean ammo It every Iry word lust luet give Rl me rue n to tn do things thing for jou Sou If my own were Iro in no straightened out ns nl most mens men's ar ore lie he 1 Bred i I never would ask nl anything more amoro than the chance hp he he toward her In his Intensity It triad ll frightened nt sit what she hud q aroused I stood with her eyes t down on hl her clasped nervously bees he bee s r toro tore her hf on the Iho counter t to 10 to do du everything for you you he exclaimed cx Ilea Her heart boat bent n R tattoo Shei She he heI fn toot t In spite of ot herself This Tula I Willi n II new tone In III n I mans man's voice fur tur i Christie III unit she kho und mill kill kilt un uny unit that stepped J bet between rut its its it's du you jou nU hear henr Christie It It ns 1111 not lIot hard t fl to hear words such lIh at as th Ilir-f Ilir words word's hint bill Id to know y vat T hll I to In tiny oily II I r Ih the 1 MIS the host hest Yes she lIp ie answered Id fib lly t Look runk tit nt me rite he h. said MId MIdI ild r I sternly III ki t up I her She Rhe he III I. I ewe eyes fine race red to In the lie tem Ilm pin tiles ples Ills H I eyt ejen s glowed Her Iler ht hear arl almost al III mil most 1 Mopped nt lit their tI 1111 time Hunt he said In deadly ear nest test Im Inn going Koine to tell jou IIII every everything r thine thing then be the Jude t Christie lh lie Ile down lIo street with Ma his thrown thio will well and 1 kept on onto onto to 10 I the h. h lent lit quarter Tor hl his dolly dally l vigil ll to Irney 8 no lv l found hi in much diet disturbed lie II hud hail Just I u a vl tI j I ll It from front an un f S unusual culler euller Hurry no on r rr r of or hl his old nid time Ill I'll enemies 1111 Its Harry Inn lord w told lohl him n II long lor story hoUI fur tor meanness In cleaning Ate At- thiM hiM mid and lartH out nut of ot store the in nu n ii TI ii I. I ni nun left It'll the nit III sick ok man Gunn n SIV WIc H made light of t the Ih complaint tint mitt Tracy took lo It I II seriously I v l. What did you ou do It II for flIT tip Ie ticked asked with n t I dont don't like ilia to 10 1011 get eel hut hunch binds up tip in 1 hlll Ie the IIII Oll tried In aln lIln to True Trims to 10 bin hi w WilY way of ot Tracy was much mach iii upset et Unit that should t lilt dip Into luto H s quarrel not Ids hi own I dunno John he hl 1111 said hI a alast nt III last lust I d ct nt guess gloss joure tilted Ju i t e s ii et l 3 for tur keeping t out o ot t of ot o u rt other h r faI folks Ice rn rows row vs You Yuu that Hint kind Tulin hll 1 Youre You're ure too tau much of u a lh Ilie I In follows Ito U lilt hit I It shout hut rl right hl Oh I Know u dont don't i. i II Ike It It I didn't used to tl like ilkI to he ue heale ale l 1 Smooth I e but hilI they t hud bid me IIII Youre You're too h of r a II p f tI tIan an so joure youre all 1111 Ih the lime with these rimer ruts ruts ruts- I E All the tho lImo dame 1 t echoed choll Selwood od I 1 I 1111 II Well a good deal dIll I of ot the fhe time hells lella time me Hut But why stir up 1111 At t. tk and tend and fo for tur k this his man mun nt's he to 10 you ou Sol Selwood wood squirmed but held his liU i f pease 1 f I 1 know hes he's tilt Rot n a girt girt- Dout dreg her name nome Into Inlo It It ex exclaimed S claimed Selx Selwood savagely 11 Suppose UI they are art robbing people Tracy went on Oil shifting ground In or shooting people they Ihl the n I robbed jou OU k vc my 01 company Interrupted In Inv Sel o d sharply that t 1 robbing me tae Ihl they shot Kliot Son I ou didn't t I U. U they That's shooting hooting m me What hlll nr Ill are jou Sou OU toll talking about be he blurted ou oula out OUI OUIla I la it s rage raI I 1 Tracy Trac feebly pat pot him blot olt orr That Thane FRANK CRANK H. H SPEARMAN b by Charles Scribner Sons Sou Vr mice ice tie the trouble you Oil ou get cot It mud It mild If you was 1111 lust a 8 Rambler sod wasn't a gentleman gentle gentle- man limn you yon wouldn't set get road mud Si od I In a 8 teat heat flung out of ot the tho II tint tent II L CHAPTER VIII Dad lad Newt News for tor Christie No further attempt woe was nauda anthe on an Ih he the store and while hll her hr father woe gel well Christie II as no tutu n KIT r. r IIII so Inning partly of ot e evil II ll Intent hubs his Ion Ilan salts sales III went on n lint on one i cia day iy rolled culled on fill to 10 May any hl his hi own O at stock oik of ot ooiN would not lust last n er n 0 ne we nek k Ic lodger hi il to r ln- ln 1 tale state him nt At the Iho hall boll And on 1 se of ot goad liehn 1 lor Sel toll dm hirn when Ids his roods were Ift sold ho Ito would give phe him Ih e II III walked on nit If To ro herself she else her Interest lt In Selwood Indeed elite h found herself sensitive niter lifter a n fl few lays days because Selwood did not lIot rail cull oftener I Yet Vet some remembrance ot of their heir last folk wits was pleasant In her some thought of ot n a l III u t her expressed by hy the only nan In her new and stir whom she Mt felt sure kilo felio night trust Starbuck came orne In one day especial Iy Iv y to 10 tell it'll her that he had learned nil all ho time circumstances of ot the lie row between her lather father and huh his partners nod and bought It If her father would figure 1 out ut Ids hilt damages when hen ho he hons was ns well enough to do 1111 so SO he Starbuck would see Ie that Atkins paid And Christie I lie hI te added In earnest of ot his hU Intentions tell tIll your father not to be he modest about fling fixing the Iho amount At Atkins AIkin Is III n 11 timid bad tJ that's that's the untie of or It It II I get along with hint I tune hove to keep he the pence lucre here I t get along with e 1111 Hut your father ought never lexer to hove hate had hod anything to do with witha a man Mice like that hut lie He music no reference whatever to 10 the unpleasant II alternative II I II he tie h of ot f- f Vred before heror and seemed to wish It ost lost sight of ot for tor he lie showed now cow only in an Interest In seeing what d clearly a wron wrong properly righted l Ijler accepted I the olive ollYe branch Christie received Starbuck's overtures coldly A man he hI fooled more 1111 ban thin once but hilt n a woman provided pro her a lions Tec-lions are not involved 01 Ill I'll Is III not easily lIy ed the second time h by n u mUll man she lute has once distrusted IId Christlo was vies Just enough afraid of ot the man anima manto to III treat him helm civilly hut but she Bhe threw Into her talk with wills him hint little blithe hit tilts hits that kept Slat Stu-buck Stu buck though they did not cool his hits ard ardor r. r. r Indeed they tilt rather her l I It with witha a n resentful 11 to 10 to bring brill the rl Irl In III smile wise to tine time Theres n a h hussy y that's Rot got em nil all heat Doctor Carpy to Sel- Sel wood Shy h hey us 1111 an Sum antelope anti a no n on her feet W We never tr ne no 1111 women like that duct down domm n In ho my rimy country tike She hl asked me tut this morning what hilt hind hail become of you jou Oll Less lees than lion that dust much of ot a would have hate sent Kent Selwood's I re rl resu o o. to hI keep 1 trout from lie Tyler Ijler up ut la smoke Sl What hat he ought ulI tilt to 10 do du hat he ho Wanted to d do were us as fur far impart as all the 1110 North l p pole plc l und and the he South South and and In the Ihl clash or o of opinions the Ihl South pole pule won uon Leaving 1111 Carey Carpy walked up liP to tu the Ihl null on n the Itie HIM lilli The Ilie only anly sl mi of lit the lilt place e was toll null lagi mm who ho was Willi tilling filling and shining up 11 Ih the lamps cl spoke kindly to III him bin Hull II was H II de 1 Walking to the back of ot the IIII hall Selwood II went he hI hind Us Iris de dl desk k He Ile lifted the Ihl gla glues s I chock dome doubled the Ihl shoe shine up Ul am and put It Into tI one nue e o of hl ills his capacious 11 tick x k ens lie r had lino mentally menially to ask Christie ti It today whether Ihl this wits was tier her shins hilt It If the she 11 It It he lie meant 11 In to make her prove prom e tier her claim b h by trying It ou on tor for him helm It was useless to 10 pretend nd he tie could ls visit I lt her without sum hue preparation is The hue least tain main man would same hUll to 10 l look xA Ids lies best fur tor a n call rail on tilt the only pretty gill girl In ht Sleepy Cat ii t Pardu toe loe claimed she hl was Willi the III only pretty t pu-t putty ty Iy girl on the Ihl Mountain dim dl id 1110 And 1111 V S el w i wa ma aln I ti I lie III 1 t t o oIt It ably bl y did not think so st i but hilt hl hI his m c dress among vu careless men Inca him This Ihl that he went l ti to III call all on min II he ht wis a In III hit hint dm dut groll state of ot preparedness I that hal hail gl en Ii him iw hU ills h nickname I I ler sal sat In ho a U near the door himself At the whip rack nes wets wax helping a II nun man pick out a n wagon whip hip In to the Ihl darker rei end of I the hI store St 11 d. d pan at lit the tie door dour to I shake bunds wit vial 1111 I 1 1 and a ask k after MIlr hU his caught a II glimpse of or talking to some man wh whose lu e back buk wile was oo so 0 turned this Selwood I could not nol see tP who It was The quiet mm with bib Ith ills his left ham resting reeling easily on out the toe We of ot tie the siu sh shot e eto In to hU imis side aids vat teat pocket limited hll It reI foa fo fill foru for U a moment with the father of lit the Ihl girl gir mm who 1100 ho claimed 8 so 1 of or Ii hits his Is talked 1 with Ith him bleu II about I the Ihl news new front from the Last MI tie the Increase e In III travel tra the Ihl growing rs In III the town and at lit length get getting thag noway from hi him lin walked Into the store Ilg I I him hint Ii slopped I John he tie said cull I 1 understand rth will h bo he here tomorrow Yes IS old Roper Hoper with wilio b ha- ha I So o Im I'm told Selwood heard lIeli voice Just jnet Justh then h n In the huc back k of the stor store And Awl Andt It t was Tins nil raised In Indignant protest I Ilont dont don't any uny such thing thine she he was sayIng a Ing hotly hOlly Selwood heard a mans man's match tin Ito rf It us III Hw Ito hoard ul also ilso o subdued hut butt retort k him helium sometIme I J 1 will Mill ll hp Ill iII I iii musk k him the tile very next line time I see nee him turn The talk between the two Iwo In hind bad evl- evl dently gone gene on an In Ignorance of It S Sl I woods wood's iod's I presente rt eiK-e. eiK To fo know hint Stir Uk buck was Willi In III the store story and and with lIh Christie Christ was le-was was quite to tn stir SI Into an are nay uly mood mood-ind mood ind some sonic lii Intuition U sum suggested they might IIII be hI talking him hirn in 1111 I Impulse III ICe to 10 walk hack Where here he hI he be seen 1111 Selwood wood Ids ht's left ern resting on nn n II hale hile of ot blankets piled titled n a n II t box between the ht two tI outliers and holding In III the 1111 fingers tIt sit if his left 1111 tumid hand nn unlimited cigar stood perfectly still eyes and ears ripen open lie Ito hid had not net long Ion to w willI He lie soon anon heard leard Christies Christie's footsteps light and quick she quick she came down donn on her heels with such decision I And they were nuie town toward reI him hint She hp stopped ns as she glue saw lilY Her flushed fare face her hr challenging expression ex It and questioning eyes ejes betokened ened Ind her excitement She hl looked fixedly fix city edly nt lit him hirn Het her gaze 1070 he hI lifted Ids his hat hot with his left lert hand hund and andR andi andy i R y Who Told You I 1 Was Wu a Gambler He Asked laid It carelessly sly on the blankets Thin Then he ht waited for tor her to speak and as Its she did dud not 1101 at III once one he hI broke the pause e himself Good morning he said If If Its It's not too late Inte who hill had followed follo bristle halted a II few tew feet away ny TV fut passageway Ill I'll was narrow and he could nut not hUe hove passed forward It If he Ifould ie If would Selwood gave ga no Intimation hint he hI was mens aware 81 of the Ids presence Christie struggling with some Iome sort of ot suppressed feeling hesitated hesi hest tilted She hl forgot to In return Ill Selwood's greeting Then looking nt him as nv It If she would look clear ilear through him the he question pressing tar for answer burst from her lips hips Are jou n gain ram rambler bier bler the sloe uski-d uski bluntly The words were loud and clear lm t eti en heard heird I them He lie looked surprised across the counter mind and saw III Christie confront confronting lu g Selwood with lI ej es es here was a moment of ot straining with Selwood returning I question bad pile gaze That been expected hut but U It was DS n none th the Ihl less lees dreaded mm II when hEn It came amI only to 10 lie spoke oke and his voice lIon but ask another question amid rein rein- pitch I mc ked Its 1111 accustomed nance mince Who ho told you ou I a gnat Ban bier he 1 asked 1 This ThIll man man- whirled Christle poll pointed I to Starbuck Starbuck me nil so jut JuM now now now-I's h It true truer The canto came like bike bullets coldly Selwood looked ot Rt and long I then he lie turned his KB gaze 1117 buck back to Christie The truth had hod to 10 rom conic come 1 I 1 am mum 11 a 0 g gambler he He lie saw nw her horrified amazement ns nil s the realization of II what hal his ills worth meant sank In It made It the harder to face furl her with what now V seemed even en to him a shameful tact fact You San told me the he responded with |