• HAY COUNTY TIKES. TWBAY. HABCH 11.JM7-

Page Six

■mt- Jay tie'll UU her. *;oT the fu*t gudseon she's 1

. to feed to him."

I saw all. or .nough. 1 reived no more than l dv-

WHAT WAS GONE BEFORE: It Is 1868 and the Pacific Railroad has reached it* newest "farthest west" Benton. AVyomIng. a town described as •'roaring." as each new terminus, temporarily, was. Prank Beeson, a young man front Albany. New York, comes here because he 1* In search of health and Benton 1* considered -hUth and dry " Edna Montoya, a icllow passenger on the train from Omaha, impresses Beeson with the beauty of her blue eyes and the style of her apparel. Equally she astonished him by taking a "Bmlle" of brandy before breakfast. A brakemuu tells Beeson she l..••followed her man” to P‘ nton. Jim. a typical western ruffian whom she knows apparently well insults and Is floored by Prank whose prowess impresses the pa-“-Col. Lundcraon and "8111" Brady volunteer to entertain young Beeson. Frank avoided being raugbt by any of the numerous gambling games, but 1* robbed of all his

money.

At the "Big Tent" Beeson again meets the Lady with th» Blue Eyes. At "Monte” someone tarns tip the corner of the winning Queen of Hearts and Beeton. bid whole *22 bet on it. turns the card—which instead of being the Queen is the Eight of

Clubs.

Awakening My fingers left it as though It were a snake. The eight of club*! Where 1 had seen, in fan y. the <jiiee:i of hearts, there la like a changeling the eight ol clubs, with corners bent as only token of the transformation. "We can’t both win gentlemen." the gambler said. •’Bin am willing \o give you one won chance, from a new deck.” What the response was 1 di< not know, nor care My ear

drummed an., seeing nothing I pushed through Into the open,

painfully conscious that 1 “

flat pennlle.- .-.n'l Iti-'ead , : l -'- ’ ing play-d the know I had P**: od the fool,, for the ~<jueen oi

The lost of some twenty dol-

lar* might have been a trivial matter to ra once tail hrf I bad lost my all whether Istg- or small: and not only had i»<n bilked out of It--I had bilked myself out of it by singing, in pretended amarineas. bel.-w the level o. - mere artful J’.'i| I heard My Lady speaking be-J side me. ^ ■

hand upon my sir* re. Y-u

iii.-h of blood. Oh!" sh.- breathed. Her hand .: i: ;ej for the pocket in her • k'rt. but I sprang between th iwo. P'orgetful of my revolver, with a blow I sent him ns-ling

bee kward.

He recpvered. With lightning movement he thrust his right hand Into h.s waistcoat pocket. 1 heard a rush of h-m. damor of. voices; and all the while. I was lugging, awkward with deadly peril at my revolver. His fingers had whipped fr••• •4 the pockc-t. 1 glimps'd as with second sight (for my eyes were held strongly by his) the twin liftle black mutxlea of a derringer concealed In his palm spasm of fear pinched nm: they spurted, with ringing report, but Just at the instant a flanneled arm knocked h!« arm up. the ball had sped ceilingward and the teamster of the gambling fable Stood against him. revolver burr'd boring into bis very

bluff invitation:

"Come and hnv- n drink. ••But you'll : rn. You must! ho •

» speak with you!”

My l.ndy. pleading earnestly. 1 Mill c.uld warely utter a word: my bt**’* *'*“ in a smother. My new friend moved me away from her. He answered

for me.

••Not until we've hav

confab, lady, "e ve got matter* | cho! importance Jest at present." | cai I .-aw lor bite her lips, as shir;

m».- ■»

.mi 1 mralUr O..J - o .... b~t«. »'«• «»•

” .„„ V .« .ti. lm., jou .o lb. .

Hundred or two and cleaned you prop. : I on hadn't been worked jjjp | alone yi. to the right Pitch o'

i. .: why Montoyo struck hie .... I don't know." the teams-

went on. "Do you?"

, : S?he had cautioned me,

littlei and h. must have heard her/And!

-howed which was the rich ^ I don't understand that."

in the morning.

And In caee| "impnrolble. madam. ’ I ott- .e. lou J a little Sort. . beg otj This i. ^ ^

iZ ‘ nl -v- qwc ol the en- a, staggered and wim ch»ed. wiih my he*! Wlabe* j a Meant but WMo fckrtg

add a'pologle*. ^ oU ro *l r 1 * k '

Utterly

lapped both hands to her ; kr . ikaring back, as I hastened. ! her still there, teasing ag.

bobtaU. wide open in the middle “ •Sir." I gratefully, may 1 let you know In the morning. "here w.li I «nd T***

We artanged

day and 1 returned to the hotel.

having paid in advance. unconsciously wadding C.ax.ng neither right or left. l‘ ** u ^ lr — s'i-^c resolutely tor thawtuhunho^ ^ J ^ ,b. al the door I »ae ^ dro# r>n ror irom »b

band laid upon my arm. and j ^

Nutw-* 1 *-

(.• -ntinw

Neat Week i

They Ml Da

save her fare, and egg you | t^^iy paused, replying

. twenty dollar.- . . —

my life,

md a small table in The affair upon

• merit'd even that diaiincTbe place had mumed Stsj ' program o! dancing, playing and ! drinking ae though after all a .od shot was of no groat mo-

• nt In the Big Tent.

Montoyo must Well now what u going to do?”

I don't know." I replied. i«t find and earn enough to

iho:u' wiih.” To write for fund*

impossible through very

By t

“Blend yot."'

pat. Mister

I call

id 1 mean

to get it. So do y»u. don't you. partner?" he appealed to me. A* with mut* sickly denial I turned away seemed to me that I M-iew-d a shifting of forms at the moni< table eaught the words “You watch here a moment.” and el'M- lollowing. n slim white hand fell heavily upon My Lady's shoulder. It whirled her about, to fare the gambler. Ill: smooth olive J countenance was dark with a venom of rage Incarnate that posioned the air; his syllables

arkled

il! I heard you. at

j the table. You meddle with my , comeon*. will you?*' And he ' slapped her with open palm, so j that ihe impart smacked. "Now get out o' here or I'll Mil you." ' She flamed red. ail in a cingle

all entry of any it (on vanished from '* handsome face, saving i; olive tinted, cameo, neri. II* steadied a little, and mllcd. •urveying the teamster's "You have cie covered, sir. My land L in the discard.” He comKMrdiy tucked the derringer Into j his waistcoat pocket again. “That gentl'inan struck me; he was j about to draw on me. and by j right* 1 might have killed him. ’ My ai*(logic*, for this little dia-

i lurbance."

He bestowed a challenging look upon me. a hard unlorglving look upon the lady; with a bow be

| turned for his hat. and sopping ^ ewiftly went back to his :abi-. ;

Now In the reactio- 1 fought ' >-ly against a trembling ]

the only plan

a person of my greenness.” lat no- make you a proposii; • b. said. ■Tin on my way Sait Ijke with a hull outfit t*l j and 1m in need of another man. And the woman la the main'ill give you a dollar and a half .- t-erer." he concluded. "That, .t da} and found.” puny piece who damn nigh lost • You are teaming weal, you j you your lift as well as mean?" I asked, you your momy!” ' Yes. sir. Freightin' "You mean the lady with the) Mub-w hackin'." bin ••yea?" i "But 1 never drove spans In "Don': you savvy that your; say life; and I'm not iu shape to lady's M • wt, -hie wo- stand hardships.” 1 faltered. "I' man anyh •'■ her' for my health. 1 have—" "Montoyo? Who's Montoyo?" : "Stow all that, aon." be Inter"Th- in.in'- thrower: Thai ! iupts.1. "Forget your longs, lighti -am.- -pi'ier who trimmed us.” land liver and stand up a full h*- rapped impatiently. . sited man. In my opinion you'vi ".-'Ji- " Montoyo. He'*; had much doctorin.' A month a bre-d. .--me .Spanish. som* j with a bull train, a diet of beans white. lik- not some Injun. A j and sow -bellj. and you can look d- vil, and a- -lick as they make j anybody in the eye and tell him ’em. She'* a power too whltt : to go to hell! This roarin’ In . »r him. herself, but he uses her ; !lfi—IF* not life for you. IF

of the kn«

th-:

r.raiillations, a hubbub of voire* issailing me—and the arm ol the; •ahunr through mine and hi*;

Forgetful of my revolver. with a blow I sent biro reeling backward.

—you are

has be n said about

angry--”

I iwitched free. With such as

she. a vumpire and yet a woman, a man's safety lay not In words

but in unequivocal action. Oond night.” I bade thickly. Bearing with me a satisfying but

somewhat annoying persistent Imprint of moist blue eyes under shimmering hair. I roughly

stalked on and out. free of h free of the Big Tent, her lair! In the morning as I left t hotel the clerk handed me

^Douar's

0^ V*«TH-

1 had to tarn »**>«* •" Km- -No. dear, bat IU ptek . „ . .he further degradation of ! porkHa. Il^he ^uld have ^UlnedU-^^ snUtlag W ’ l. no no! Not Ibis »j > iVhe"hoie^*" I was a!: aid >•* u mistake. * I wouldn't answer mj no'... •*' -, *be.p n, ;r '’.Ton-ATw'" h m .t tUt “ ° n deard—I don't know what “j where you're going.

Oeorge Jcfck* has engaged yo« j You don't have to turn boll-1 whacker or mule-skinr.et! It s a| hard life; you're not fitted tor D j —never, never. Leave Benton Hj you will. Let U» go together." i "Your husband. n.»dj ' *

prompted.

"Montoyo. He 1* no husband j to me. I eould kill him • »Bj[ do It yet. to be free from him." | "My good name. then." Ij taunted. ”1 might fear for my. good nune more than I'd fear a

note.

It could hare been sent by, „

only one person—the superscrip-j ^

tlon. dainty and feminine, be- n» v<s

trayed it. That woman was stiil

puma!

Bu; I'm not asking you

_ .king you to lovi me n* a para ; mour. sir. Plea*.- underwtand’ • Treat me as you will; as a sister In friend, hut anything human ;

If you une good judgment when you are buying building materials. you will come to u*. Here you get a real dollar's worth for

every dollar.

Couldn't she understand that 11 oh rm ' n Hw! ' ^ mysrlt. 1 was no longer a fool—that I hadi n . t iun truv ,- m under faWs 1 wrenched absolutely loose frotnl,^ AnJ !hrt( „ Montojo j her and that sh- could do noth- j cajoling me. watching with me? I was minded t" inR j, u . Jim ^.-n- rtiff.-rant ! tear the note to fragments, un-jj (oo u»hl|r wl»hed to h-fp you.' road, and contemptuously scatter; bul laJj thc p ] ;) » r n« them. Had she been proa. nl l| mrung Anil sj, lD t, >ro .(nick tar i should have done so, to show - mt . , n put(I[r . oh. w hy couldn't-b,-r ' ji have killed him. You'll say I But around the corner. 1 toreij-m i n (ove with you Perhaps I. the envelope open. The folded! >n4 —qulsi, nbrT 1 only ask a paper within contained a five- J kind of part.i*r>hip- the encour-■ dollar bank note. J ag.’nw-ni of some decent man near j That was enough to pump thei m ... f h*ie roon-y. plenty until! blood to my face with a rush. It: «« i„,ih gut a footing. But )> u ;

Insult—a shame. With cheeks twitching I managed to read the linns accompanying the dole:

Sir:

You would not permit me to explain to you tonight, therefore i must write. The recent affair was a mistake. 1 had no Intention that yo i should lose, and 1 supposed you were In more funds. I Insist upon speaking with you. You shall not go away In this fashion. You will And m* mt the Eiit,

Cafe.

■uldn't

would be glad merely to tide you j over. If you'd let me. And 1 [ I'd be willing to wash floor* tn | a restaurant II 1 might be freej o' insult. You. Fm *ur». would at least protect me. Wouldn't' you? You would wouldn't you? Say something. «ir." Sfc pau-»d.; aquiver. "Shall we go? Will you (

help me?”

For an Instant her appeal, of I

swimming blue eye*, upturned! far*, tensed grasp, breaking I

ice. swayed to me. But I

> table, at ten o’cloc'i i ml rod not to b. ■

led again.

MASTER IT CHARCEEY Claries K. Landis. Jr. CODRSELLOR-AT-LAW Real Eitatc Law a Specialty Title* Searched and Cleared Mortgage Loans Conveyancing Office: 102 N. Landis Ate. SEA ISLE CITY, N. J.

You Gain Nothing By Waiting!

Isn't it funny people will, often, wait to build a home until they feel they have enough money to finance it? They will put as much money into an automobile, which depreciates rapidly, as it would take for the first payment on r- house, but they WAIT for the house until they have the money—often they keep waiting all their lives! E3— auito [A HOME SFIRSTifl

If they would reverse the order, and build a home first, and then spend their surplus on luxunr the immeasurable comfort and happiness that would o --.h would more than make up for the temporary sacrifice . pleasure.

Think This Over - - Let Us Help You Build a Home.

\m | i c H flg fill 1 gPf! il (* / _

_ __?-•* / i! il j

- j FLOOR PLAN

The lime lo n,akc up your mind to build a home i, NOW. ■ th j ! ' OU I r y ’'I'- wh « l »' y«» around or aummer. i. a day of financial loo, to you, and a day of loss of comfort, independence and real'happiness

No matter what you have i plan to do.

mind to buy. or what you

ahome n tf-IRSTidt

"ol ! 'y"u W, lw V ^iJTr^ 'mULT, X " J ‘' ‘ W ‘u C,.y .. 'he .deal plate Cld Iha, h-me ^ i,U We Will Be Glad To Tell You How You Can Build a Home - - Now!

DAVIS-WADDINGTON LUMBER COMPANY

Yards: Swain Street, at Railroad, Sea Isle City, N. J.

“ £uer> "‘' n * for Th * Home - - From Founda„on To Roof

BELL PHONE 16