Show HOW Row tHE fHE DEMON RUM m JACK 1 r 1 JF a Gun Fighter Had a Not of Bought a Flask as of o I Whiskey Wh s i t if a i 1 r t and an a Bit rt of v Its Cork Had Not Ot Clogged 0 His Revolver d N T rr r l irr f J rw 1 i t tJ X t N 74 Nan R A tv J p the Famous Marshal Would Have Deed en a Duel i ti 1 J H iLu f J J Lf wT T would d be bo difficult dUll CUlt to pick out tho the most 1 IT I Ufo life of Mar Marshal f n happening In the ri shill shat Abernathy A whose whole life lire has been beon one serien serle oC ot adventures turcs Th character of these them can bo imagined when hen It is said that sinco his appointment to office 1 f ho has moro mora than ono one thousand arrests c thirty per cent of ot which were for murder and the majority m i ori yot of the prisoners wore were of pi tho the gen genI I oral oral character of the desperate criminals and bad men of tho West Born in Central Texas and brought up by his i p pioneer rk ranchman ichman father on a ranch in Western Texas ho has bas lived the full cun life of the tho frontier 1 that merged at nt last into the rough and tumble t 1 civilization cl tio that flint now oSt prevails in the theries Territories ries deS I I This story was drawn from him with dif difficulty difficulty difficulty and that it t should be chosen from any I of the many others which are well known tales r of or Oklahoma t oni is due to tho fact that it deals with 1 GI t his narrowest escape from death deathA I r O I 1010 by the tho NeW ew Tork Fie Herald aId C Co j All rights r rc td 1 I Ir r 1 GOOD many mans folks dont approve of ot rum t Lots Its of ot folks who know what talking g 1 A about and all nil of ot those who dont donit will tell j you JOu ou t i that tho the little red demon lurking in the bottle works nothing but evil for tor mankind L But when w n Jack Abernathy hears any one light into I mm rum and call It out of ot Its name namo and trot out all tho bad results the lecturer can think of due to it ha lie li j smiles unto himself a l comfortable smile He lie knows know better I Now Jack Abernathy himself is no devotee of the th flowing bowl bow Ho afford it IL He would find p It too expensive A man who has to be ready at a al l any my minute to handle ye gs and bookers hookers and killers 1 with members of various kindred professions that 4 make life lite interesting in Oklahoma who have bac u no e f causo canso a to love loe o him apt n nt to be convivial The Tho ho t practice would be he likely to make him just the frae frat Hon of ot a n second slow on the trigger And the reason i 4 Jack Abernathy Is still pretty much alive alle is the fact i i it I r t that he always Is up to his best speed and always has bas been i Still It should be he recorded r that Jack Abernathy has nothing to say against rum As United States i i r Marshal of Oklahoma he is IK not railed hUed upon to lend lead i temperance meetings n nJ so he Uc He He remembers docs does Jack that J 7 anyway once upon Ill a time he looked pointblank into the eye e e of death when all aU his courage and ond gun Cleverness cleverness could not save him and when nothing but n a fantastic accident traceable to tho the aforesaid red demon saved hima him a r ri from But this Is the story i 6 On the ere eo of New Years Day lOrO 1010 two men were i ii loaning leaning the side eldo of n shack In an nn unfrequented L buck back street of Oklahoma City They lounged there peaceably p enough g hands In pockets apparently met metto metto metto to exchange remarks about the weather cather and enjoy an nn 1 evening smoke They Ther were ruggedly built and andI i I I dressed in ha ro rough gh travel worn garments As smudged ed edI I against the darkness d by the thc uncertain rays of ot a dis distant Ig tant taut lamp their faces were strong and lean le n and aDd heavy jawed with quick predaceous eyes Their attitude for all nIl Its It ease case suggested watchfulness and something subtly furtive and alert Cattle or railroad men the they might have been unmistakably of ot active ii I life ille and the open spaces of the West What 6 gone with asked one who wore a I greasy red necktie n with some affectation an of ot style about the flared collar of his Ws blue flannel shirt I Huh still plastered p from last night likes t not I I returned the other in a tone lone of or deep disgust l l i you ou tell that rant hed got ot to stay sober i Sure I told him plenty plent lento I gave him lea leave leare a to stay I j soused for tor the next nert year If Ie hed keep off oft the stuff today t lode I He aint safe sate what Imm Dy mean talk f t Yes v rl Nothing in it Why yon you could feed it to him d through a hose and every time he took a breath hed never say aay a word ask for tor more Talk alk No It never hits him in his talk works Hes lIes pretty m flighty when hes dry and nervous but not when hes bes hesI wet iI I dont like it you hear bear me returned the wearer t of oC the tho necktie n I dont like going on the tho job with a barrel Quigg Q the Gun Fighter Fighte 1 His companion shrugged broad shoulders Aint Alot i no ono one can handle soup like him Ive le worked with t l 1 men who thought they knew kne something about lt It it Why tt t they load a brass cannon of or Quigg gym He Hc does it like cracking crocking a n peanut And say hc can lk shoot You know It it Well he dont go If It he be aint sober Bober I The other looked down the street toward the lamp lampHere lampHere Here he be comes now nowA nowA A figure detached Itself from the night and noil nOl sidled i up to the two The newcomer was a little mUll i fled tied in an absurd overcoat many sizes too loo large for him He held his bis head forward on a thin neck at nt an Inquiring angle that gave him tho the appearance of or of A at t turkey after a n worm Ho lIo wore a n cap pulled tight over his biB eyes That you Carpenter he asked Who you ou got 1 r with Ith you ou Yes and shut up and Its growled the tho oue one who held heki such a high opinion of the little mans soup abilities Been the booze asked aus sus auspiciously J viciously 1 1 i Naw Saw I 1 aint snapped Quigg It to you your If It you rou have you dont go what X y m Say none of your I it Aw dry up Interposed Carpenter quickly Hed Re s I R all ill right He Lie aint scrappy only hes hed sober Aint had a drink all day said said Quigg ul nervously IJ rous Not a none one I And tb ts a wife wee bet Youre Your Jumpy enough g b re rc 5 turned Carpenter Did you bring your outfIt 1 II Did I bring my head hend rasped I Then wed better hetter hike for Harrow s ald said Dic Dici l 1 i back i iThe The throe started off down clown tho the street streel toward the W e railroad yards Two blocks I further along they came cam e 1 abreast of ot a window whereon a dingy yellow jot of oC e elight f light etched out the words Larrys ran 8 Cafe Quigg s 1 steps I IJ J r Im m going In here luio a minute ho f l lI do of or the time kind 1 was tiros 9 pr I t iT ponso of ot as ns he ho caught the I little Ulan mar n i br hr h the arm arm r I I Ii i ii J t Quigg stood still and peered up t him In ID the chI rl re reflected fleeted 11 ted flare I Say son he began with a tone of ot patronage patro age that would have been ludicrous hurl hud It not held lick o a certain grim quality of at conviction my m last legal k was planted down own in Texas two yenta yeans ago ngo and null I 1 aint been able to stand the thought though of another since dropped his hand quickly All right go goas gons gois as is ns h farus tar far as you ou like he swirl said but the whole things off orr you hear bear me v Look here Quigg you aint going to queer the thc game gamo you Interposed Carpenter Well Hell never got get g t ti tl soft thing like Uke this again Ill have no pal loaded on a job Insisted Did back Quigg snarled at them going to got get g loaded I 1 aint had n a drink nil all day and Im cold If you rou go In stay st y till your skins full said sahl Thell with Hh you Jou tl Quigg with emphasis thrusting his face nl nt The other making no reply he turned turne his buck back upon him and spoke to lo Carpenter Now Anti ow Im going in III and tact get t u n little flush Hask to take along Ill be he out In n two lino shakos shakes If you roll two Jaspers want to walt wait well swell you can cnn Quigg trotted away and amid passed through the swing lug ing door grumbling ns DB he went The Time place wan empty save for tor the time fat fn t putty need faced barkeeper who nodded familiarly at Quigg and amid put down his neWl s paper The Cork a flask Jask lice Ike said the tho customer flipping a n quarter on the bur bar The attendant looked at the coin dubiously as he reached for or an 1111 empty emPt flask While he filled It he be studied Quigg with some somo attention Cant slip me that thc fire you JOU borred n a year ngo ago can cnn you Quigg ho he asked ashen Naw Nair said Quigg sucking In hl lIps as ns he fol followed followed 01 lowed the pouring of ot the red stream m within with avid eyes e es Ill pay you tomorrow Yes you yon will remarked the barkeeper sadly What but In tobacco tags Would you take asked Quigg absently his attention still on the tho whiskey kor korTh The Th other glanced at him quickly but buL made mude no reply He finished filling the and find groped grope In a II drawer dra for tor H It cork corl which he drove In with within his list Say grated Quigg as ns he be seized the bottle cant you stop It decent This here corks worm oaten eaten All 11 I got replied the tho barkeeper It ought to La keep kc p as long Iou as keep the whiskey so grinned Quigg with sudden good hu hin humor humor mor He stuffed the flask fial into one ono of the time capacious Hide side pockets of or hits his overcoat It wont hint last long Ion Ho He started for the door but stopped slopped to 10 ask How far Is IsIt IsIt isit It to Harrow Not Note Nott far nil un hour bour answered the bar barkeeper barkeeper keeper r Quigg nodded d and disappeared 1 Into InLo tho the night After Altor the departure of at his customer the gave ne evidences of a n strange e For fully full five minutes he stared stured motionless emotionless at thu tho door through which Quigg had hud gone For five O more minutes he be stared at nt the telling his fat fa t face tuce puckered in him lines flues of or effort t Then Thou he took tool lo to scrubbing his bib hal bur briskly stopped to scratch his chin and ancI proceeded with greater grenter energy l Finally he threw down his hie nig mg rag with n a throaty exclamation and nu faded Into tho the at the end Cad of the room Thence might have IHle C been beon heard presently tho the click of or n a telephone receiver and In duo due time this cautious monologue You better see Leahy dy d hear heur And If It theres anything In It t Im halves dy d see seo What Well Fell up Ill to lo his old ohI game again I said Bald lies hes on time the theold old trail troll Sober Sobol nil all day tIny first Ive seen IH ell him In III two years year ar Post Yeah No at Harrow Harrow Yeah I am UW but I aint piped Halves I said sal Some hour bour or HO so later United States Ia lal Jack Tuck acting on ou Information received from rem Leahy ealy f the post poat office otice Inspector of the district set net out ou b City for the little mile town of or Harrow with within two of or hIs bis best deputies Chris aud au rl John hues II 11 throe three mon men went heavily r I t m f 1 1 1 r 1 h I II k Ir r r r 6 r 1 t as ash I h r t r 7 r j 1 w 11 is W i r ll I i iS l lt lJ S S Si SL i t J L 1 J t J i I I IJ J I f JJ Ir H 1 1 i iH M I IE f p f r r ty cr I I l 4 11 y r I i tt q Ol T 2 r o r j 1 i r i 1 i J dS rA J I T With a Crash Si Six Weapons Began Beg an Interchange F Civilities of W I ill I 1 the old hands bands they were First they made a n circuit of or the bank satisfying themselves that no watchman lurked In the die background The officers kept close and were not discovered Then one of the visitors stood on the curb holding something that glittered evilly In im his hand baud and the other two crouched down against the thedoor thedoor door oo I IFor For the th next ten minutes there was no change In hi thin the th disposition of ot the forces The gentle grate and aud clink of metal showed the progress of sapping at the banks outer defences Then Theu with a rattle the door swung Inward and the guard came back from the curb Ap All Apparently Apparently the tho smallest of or the three burglars was manag managing managIng ing lag the affair r Before permitting the others to enter e be lie went vout Inside e and anel brought out a n chair This he ho placed on the sidewalk sidewall From the time inner pockets of or his over overcoat overcoat coat cont he lie drew out several small 8 a 11 objects o with Infinite tenderness anti and placed them carefully upon the chair Having accomplished this ceremony which the watch watchers ers e observed with great respect be he motioned time the way within I 1 I 1 0 rt 1 r 1 t v r 1 c Would You Take Postage C Stamps SUmps Asked Abernathy carried can c Illet led his favorite tt equipment nn an auto automatic matic shotgun with whim shells hells loaded loa c with wilh buckshot and andu anda u a magazine I revolver of ot large calibre That re r was twins the Uie tried tiled friend and nuil true and he lie un it as a man can chum who has hm to depend upon a U weapon time ami 1111 again Among other othel notable exploits In Us its II he had bid ha once on co used It to im a three LImes lime aiming by the dash of ot ota ofa ofa a gun gun gurl eighty yards away In dead darkness The he little force proceeded d by a n roundabout route to their destination arriving scoff lifter alter the New Year Yea I had hud been ushered In lu on a still wind Harrow lb Js ouo tUC IU of those virtuous towns lowns that celebrate New cw Years by r going to bed hed an nn hour lour earlier than thuu usual Ihre l was no bibulous soul abroad ahr nd III lu the time streets street as itS the thc theli li m mapped out hisa lit plum of or campaign which was Ovals enough Cornering the Burglars Jones 1 ones he be placed well swell Iowa till the street at one end Winters Inter at the other Lie He took look up his bin own opposite the tho post In um the time shadow of a brick block black There Thore were were scudding clouds that obscured the but from time lime to time lime he lie had bud u II clear view of at the plain square Ht that thul represented the sacred of or the time government r rIt It was about ono one when Jones came gliding back from his bis post along the dark side Il e of ot the tho street street and ami told Abernathy A that he be had seen three figures rL Into the town from his bis hl end Time The word woid passed to tn and II lid the time took cower cover r In lit n a doorway keeping sharp watch The Tho moon sailed uil out of retirement presently and nn In him Its Illi thin light they lher mode out tho the three whom they lied bad III come conic to welcome The he visitors kept close crose to together t together gether on the bright side of the street and headed bended hell c l toward the post omee Several doors from that building they the come came In trout front Of bt ouo one of or Harrows two small banks bunks It was nn an ordinary bunk bank but oue one story atory Ator In III height ty bum and none cone too strongly barred The visitors I c stopped d before its door 1001 and und gathered In consultation By Br Jinks jimm g going D l try the bank first whispered Winter Parlaying suggested Jones Joncs Abernathy warned them to silence The Tile burglars hud had evidently wl cometo come to nn aim nuil aUll they ther pro pm heir work In iii n t Hk IJ Ilko 1111 y a d J t c iiI J r h jf u rr a at t V NS 1 n r rl i l r 1 r arc I rr I The three burglars bUl were on time the steps of or the bank bauk baukIn In iii the time act of entering when Abernathy gave se Ills his Dashing from their hiding place and spreading out hi lu fan fau formation the 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