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Show A DUEL UNFINISHED. WHAT A rtEVOLVEn RECALLS TO A WCSTCIINEH. ralslad (ll.amlas Weapon! al S'acli tlhrr la lha Ilarknaai, hat Tfliau lha Trlss'ra Cllaaari No t'raek rollowad A llloodltta Tragedy, "Do you see that gun?" said an old-timer, old-timer, pointing to a revolver In tho window of a Ijirlmer (Mont.) secondhand second-hand sloro "Well, that gun's got a history. 1 hat's the gun what didn't put daylight through Pete Mallory on the plains In '75 when me an' him was herdln' tontther." The second-hand store Is next door Io a saloon and three or four loungers who overheard the apeaker stepped up to take a look at tho formldablo weapon, "It makes me Isugh yet when I think of It Them two fellers standln' up holdln' their guns out and then counting' ten Hut their ain't no tell-In' tell-In' what would a happened It ihcy hadn't changed guns." "Were you there?" said one of the Interested Pstsners. "'Was I there? Well, I guess t was. Didn't me an' Pele Mallory work together to-gether fur a year? You aee It waa this way. Mo an' Pele was workln' on a rsnch In darneld county, Kansas, and one day a feller cornea riding up ami he says, 'Hay pard, what'a the chanca of gettln' a bite an' a awlg of aomsthln' that's wet' 1 sex, 'Ilully, pnrdner; hitch up and come In ' Well, ha gets off nnd pickets his broncho and walks right In bihlnd me. Pelo was aettlli' on a stool smokln' his pipe kind o' quiet like Ho looks up and nods, but that's all ho sex. "Ily an' by tho stranger sex, 'Partners, 'Part-ners, what ii the chance fur stayln' all night?' I speaks right up and sex, 'Stay a week, we like company' but Pete he didn't say nothln' nt nil Well, by and by It came on night and I seta out the big Jug and wo all takes somethln' and then rolls up In our blankets, Pete an' me we takes off onr boots, but the strangir keeps hls'n on an' ho lays his gun right where It's handy. Me and 1'ote didn't get no chanco to talk private, but pretty soon I waa sound asleep, "Ily and by I hears suthtn' and I wakes up and rubs my eyes. I sees tho stranger crawlln' along on the ground like a rattler Just edgln' his way to the door. I looks over to where Pete wss Isyln' and I sees him stir. I lays still, fur I knew then that suthln's wrong The stranger crawls bsck to hit blsnket an' I sees that he's got suthln' shiny In bis hand I know, ed It was a knife, fur I saw htm take It out from under tho saddle at the door, I reaches nvor to git my gun an' then I laya there waltln' Pretty aoon I heara the rtrangcr movln' again and the next thing he's over at Pete's bunk, I gets ready to blase away, but afore I cud git my gun up I heara tbe two a-talkln. Pete sex, ses he, 'I knowed yo,i waa comln', but I'm ready fur ye,' and then the stranger he act, 'know you was game, Let's go about the business now afore your pard wakes up.' Bo they both slips out and I follows them a-crnwlln' like a' In-Inn. In-Inn. Pretty aoon they stood still an' I felt mighty queer when I sees Pete iteppln' off ten paces and levelln' the tun at the stranger, I sees the stran-ter stran-ter level his gun and then Pete he lex, 'Count ten and then let 'er go' They both teglna to count kind o' slow ind solemn like, but afore they gits to live I up an' sex, 'You (I urn Injuns, whst do you mean,' but Pete he talks ouxti an' sex, 'Bhet yar mouth er I'll put daylight through yer.' Ho I sets lown and hears them count 'six,' seven,' 'eight,' 'nine' and then they both atopa i little to take breath 'ten,' ind then I heara the pistols snap, and they don't go off. They both atanda lookln' at each other, and by and by the stranger laugha right out, and COUNT TEN AND LET 'Kit 00," Pete he laughs and then they shakes bands, I ctsnds tbero lookln' at 'em with my cyea poppln' out, and by and by they walks to me and shakes hauls with me. I never sex n word, fur I thinks thev're daf. Well, Pete ho up ind tells mo the whole thing. It wasn't nothln' but about a girl, and Pete and tho stranger they agrees to fight a Juel when they meets It was lomewherei In tbe east. They meets an' tbe stranger he's kind o' cute and he sex to Pete store they goes to fight, Let's change, guns, so all will bo qusrs.' Peto changes but he gives the stranger a gun that ain't loaded. "But what'a that got to do with the gun In tho window?" asked ono of the bystanders. "Why, that's the gun what belonged Io Pete. He gives It to me and sez, Nsver want to see that gun agin, fur It sax I'm a coyote and a coward.' Well, ( brings the gun to Denver and aelli IL Every dsy I comes up here and looks at It and I have to laugh when I M thinks of what big fools them fellers M made of mo and them," H |