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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-06-25, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE thuiway, M W “Butwith g kind of shy defiance. It seems to me I had some excuse, with, father killed Just the day be­ fore, And I hadn’t any sleep, ire- member, trying to get to Cold Spring and warn you the neighbor® were sanding over men to kill you and Babe. And getting trapped that way—and then when .Babe said you shot iny own brother for five hun­ dred dollars, why—d just simply blew up for a minute,” “.Shucks I nevah did think a word moah about it,” the kid declared earnestly, looking her straight in the ey^s, “Well, I just want you to' know I’m sorry,” “Yo’all needn’t be.” “I am, just the same, You ought to know I never did class you with the Poole. It’s just this ornery temper of mine—•” “Shucks! If yo’ call that a. tem- pali, yo’all oughta see mine!”. The kid gathered up the reins, mounted and swung alongside 'her, “You? Why, Bob Reeves! You know very well I’m the meanest thing on earth! After all you’ve done, to—'to do what I did 'and—and talk the way I’ve talked to you, it makes me sq ashamed—” “Aw, hush! When yo’all talk that way, yoh make me feel like batting my haid against a rock! Yo’all don’t know how I felt this last month, thinking I had nothing but hate f’om yo’all—S’ “Hate!” cried Nellie Murray, as one who stands aghast before, so harsh a word. “Why, if you only knew—” And then she stopped and began -to blush furiously, so that the crimson flood rushed up to the band of yellow hair on her temples/ ■ The kid reached out and .gather­ ed Nellie Murray into his arms. The kid sat on .f-he ground with his gack against a tree arid drew his mouth organ across his smiling lips while he tapped the time witli his foot, played the kid, ovei’ and over again, while his prisoners sat and listened, and wondered what kind, of a man was Tiger Eye Reeves, who could shoot a man in cold blood, capture three others who had thought they were well able to take care of themselves, and then sit all the afternoon playing that darned m-outh organ like he hadn’t a care in the world. ' • : j The kid didn’t know or care what- t?*y thought about him. The kid was living in a world of his own, where a girl with yellow hair loved him enough ’to marry him and settle down. Gone into Badger now after hadheYped BabrGaVneiniRo'Tshady' and the sheriff, to come and spot where he would be perfectly j sate with his feet tied together, the 1 kid was going calmly about the btisi-'; ness of tying his assistant to a third post when Nellie arrived. Her face was streaked with dust and what looked suspiciously like tears, and her hair had been, clawed by the willows until it lay on her shoulders like a streak of sunshine. She sat on her black horse and watch­ ed the kid, and under her direct gaze he felt his ears and his face burn like fire. The kid did not look up, but he knew the exact instant when she turned her head to look at the newly branded, calf which now wore a blackened and smarting win- dow-sash brand where yesterday had been a tan-colored Reverse E. She reined her horse over to the corral -calf wrestlers, who were on their ■ and stood in the stirrups to look over ■feet and mopping their perspiring the fence and inspect the milling faces with soiled bandannas. As the ' ■man at the gate came toward him, 'the kid’s yellow eye changed curious­ ly to the steady glare of a tiger. .Babe Garner! Babe with hollow- ■ed eyes and a sallow, indoor tinge 4o his swarthy face. Babe, with a -question in his coldAgray eyes and a .©mile on his ’face. ( y .“Hell’s bi’ass buttonfe!” cried Babe, ©wearing his very choicest oath kept Yor special occasions. “Where the 'hell did you’ldfop down from, Tiger 'Eye?” “Rain, -yvashed ’me down the can- ;yOn, Babe.” , “Old Mau send yuh. over?” Joe Hale tried to make his voice sound1 casual, but there was an undertone ©f constraint Which he'' failed to con­ trol. “Nevah did see Waltah Bell since that night I toted Babe into the ■ranch.” “Oh,” joe .studied on that. “Thought likely yon come from the Foole.” “Awn my way to the Boole, but I ribone changed my mind!” “Oh. Khlda- outa th©’ way> this calf pasture, and I just kindanvond^ ored. Want to see nie for anything? Wanta go to work again?” “Much obliged to yo’all, i taken a job of riding, Toe.” “Yeah? Poole.” Polite. he natural getting kinda suspicious. Habe was edging atound uneasy like. ' NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “Well, nobody asked you to!” Nellie retorted, “You. can suit J^our-* #elf,‘ you know.” “Shoah aim to, Miss Murray.” the ’kidL grimly assured her, a.nd lopped off down the canyon without once looking back. . He looked back Up the canyon and rode into the willow’s. At the fence the .ldd turned and rode toward the 4ry creek bed where the, ground was rough and humpy, gouged with spring freshets and undermined by burrowing small animals. When lie jfound a spot where the fence went up over a small ridge he dismounted sand' kicked the wires loose from three posts, foiiped them to the ground and - anchored them there with a couple of ro'cks and led his liorse across. He kept going straight ahead un­ til the willow growth ceased -on high­ er ground and he could bee what sort Of place it was that had need of a fence like that. ■ Some one, /was running cattle in here, all right. The edge of the fhiclcet was broken and trampled jsvhere stock had pushed in for shel­ ter, and there was cattle sign every­ where. The kid’s nerves began to tingle a; little. Cattle bawling. - “Shoah would be funny if he was to run right into her bunch of cattle. Re better if he’d let her come along, lie reckoned, And somehow his spirits rose a little at the perfectly logical reasons he had just discover­ ed for wanting her with him. The kid lifted his hat and swept the reddish waves of hair back off his forehead, settled his bullett-scar- red hat at a careless tilt, pulled his bolstered gun into, position on his thigh and rode forward with an eager •gleam in his eyes. From the poie corral sat back in a thin grove of cotton-wood and box a? if ho waited to get in hack of the bunch of them. The kid knew that look now for the killer look. Get around 'behind and send a bullet in­ to a man’s back—that was Babe’s stripe, The kid shifted his position a little and looked at Babe, “What outfit yuh tidin' for now, Kid?” Joe looked up from kicking a half-iburnt ember back into the tire. “Ridin’ foh* Missus Murray, down Widow woman. Old nes-. shot The in the valley, man that was killed apd put the tab’s on the fight the time they Babe, that was the husband, one Babe got the bounty on.” Eyes turned sidewise to meet other guarded glances. Babe’s shoulders jerked'backwards as if from a blow on the. chest, but no one spoke. • “Lost some cattle last night,” the kid continued, in his purring drawl. “I come out afteli them,” The atmosphere of the Boole men froze for' a second. Only Babe, knowing the kid of old, went for his gun and dropped it as the kid’s piti­ less bullet went crashing through the knuckles of his hand. The hands of the two calf wrestlers went up as if they had been jerked with pulley and rope. The man on horseback clap­ ped spurs to his horse and galloped like mad away from there. Joe Hale knew better than to try a shot, rmembered too vividly how Markel had fared with the kid at the Poole. Babe remembered too, and a ror grew in his face as he stared at his numbed and bleeding hand. He’d rather be dead than a cripple—he al­ ways had said so—'and .now’-his knuckles would be stiff and useless to pull a .trigger. But when he glanced up and saw the kid looking after the fleeing horseman he chanc­ ed -a shot with his left gun. But the kid didn’t seem to need his eyes to tell what was going on. He caught Babe’s movement and fired almost without looking. ' | He Jess over hor- alder, a gray dusty cloud rose into “Line up with yoh backs this way,’ the hot * sunshine of- noon. Within " '.................... the corral fence a .small herd of, cattle tramped uneasily round and round,' swerving and ducking aside when a cowboy’s loop swished out like the vicious flat head of a strik- -vattlecl. A man on guard outside unhooked the chain and swung ..open ...the, gate to let out a rider dragging a. husky bull calf over toward the branding fire, where two calf wrestlers grab­ bed and threw«him on his side with a thump. A man liberately it, waved looked at it was said the kid softly bo Joe and the two calf wrestlers. They did so in haste—all but Babe, who had crumpled down limp­ ly in the sand, with his bleeding hands crossed above his head and his head hidden in his arms. The kid pulled their guns, from the sagging holsters, emptied them of cartridges and tossed them into the bushes be­ hind them. (The meekests-looking wrestler with trembling haste under the bold stare of Tiger Eye Reeves. When he had tied Joe Hale -and the other wrestler to posts ten feet apart andlifted 'a branding iron de­ but of the blaze, looked at it to and fro in the air, it again and decided that about the right heat, and ■walked over to the calf lying there, with two sweating cowboys -braced and holding him motionless, one half sprawled across his, head, the other hanging for dear life to a leg. “Aw’right’,” he signalled careless­ ly, after life had branded the 'calf and turned to thrust the iron again into -the fire. It was at that moment that the three of them and the gate tender ■discovered that they had a new. ^arrival in their midst. “Well, I’m damned!” jarred from the .slackened mouth of the man with the branding iron, Joe Hale, range .foreman for the Boole. ' “Howdy, .Toe,” said the kid, and £elt for a match. He nodded to the herd. “Well, they’re all here, I guess,” she remarked to the kid, who, ten feet away, was kneeling beside the calf ritstler and was yanking the lust knot tight. “You made quite a haul didn't you, Bob?” “Might be bettah,” the kid owned, with a covert glance from under his hat brim. “One got plumb away.” “Well, I told you we ought to work together. But you kept on. trying to pick a fight with me, you know. iSerry to see yuh quit the Two dawgoned polite to ’Peaked like Joe was Babe too. Looks like you got all you wanted of ’ghting here.” at the sullen captives. “I hope are ready to admit now that Poole 'outfit are a bunch of thieves.” “Shoah am,” said the kid, his ready to smile the instant he forgot himself and let them go. “What you going >to do now?” “Reckon I’ll go aftah my bowse.” She followed him, riding in silence while the kid went mincing along on his high heels; his spurs gouging- up the loose soil at every step. “There’s something I’ve been want­ ing to say, “only you chance.” “ ’Peaks way I feel, did want friend.” “I know that I made an awful fool of myself that night when Babe began to shoot off his mouth about the both of you being^ Poole kniers,” she confessed, She g-anced around you the cow lips ’ she went oh hurriedly, just * won’t give mo a like I nevah do a’ct the ,** said the kid. “Always to show yo’all I was a that. I just want to say she’d be ba'ck, all Tight And when she got here, the kid would take her qver to the ranch and they’d, tell her mother there was going to a man in the family that shoah would be Tight on the job. * He played “Listen to the Mocking Bird,” with more worbles and trills and low happy notes than he ever dreamed of putting into the song. The rather bare and desolate- ranch where Nellie lived hh made a para­ dise in his dreams. Honeysuckle bughta grow up here nil right. He’d Send down to his mother and have her get him a pair of mocking birds, Take her and, her mother back down to Texas, pnl/ Pap’s old enemies would want to go on with the feud and he’d have to kill somebody, Beckon the killing was about over, up here, , The afternoon waned and the Poole men began to swear at the chill and the cramp in. their limbs, but the kid never even heard them, .he was so busy’ making plans for the future, Darkness came, He sat there very still, trying to real­ ise the amazing truth that Nellie Murray was going to marry She loved him, -She said she He was still sitting there, .'hours later, when Nellie came the doctor and the sheriff and half a dozen men, who worried the kid with questions and talk. But that ended, and he was Tiding away with Nellie, hitting -straight for the valley and the ranch his dreams had glor­ ified. REGINA (The End) him. did. two .with ►i t » farmers ‘Will Win ^210,750^ in Prizes ’ The World’? Grain Exhibition and Conference offers Canadian Farmers an opportunity to share In cash prizes amounting to $210,750,00. W Comprised in 56 competitive classes, open to the whole world, are $ 1,701 cash prizes. A few of the major awards follow: $2,500 a first prize for 50 pounds of wheat; 30 1. M pounds of osts, ’ 1 $1,500 for-40 pounds of barley; 50 pounds of rye. ’ J j $ £J00 for 10 ears of corn, | $ 300 for 30 pounds of peas; 30 pounds of flax; ‘4 20 pounds of clover. | 'if '‘I’d INSTANT RELIEF feel so relieved if I only knew Jane were better,” said Beth to her husband. “It’s easy to find out,” said the latter. '“Did you ever hear of Long Distance?;^ tyell, why not use it? It’s times like this when it’s so handy!” In a few minutes Beth learned that her friend had improved and how glad she had called! was she recently hospital Miss Clara Rosalind1 Gould, GRADUATE AS NURSES Am ong' th e n u rs es wh 0 graduated from Stratford were, youngestdaughter of Mr. H. W. Gould, of Clinton, and. Miss Alice Dinsdale, of Kippen. Miss Gould was awared a prize from the Hospit­al ArAmmae having won highest marks Mr. Helen, guests (Goderich Record). in obsteitris. and Mrs. M. W. Pfaff and of of Exeter spent .Sunday as Mr. and Mrs, A. Wesli. News in.' Cjliniton, Nervis SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS Mr.Lance Morris,-' Mr,y Carman Haugh and Miss M. Haugh, of Bruce- field, were successful in passing their examinations at Medical College, Toronto. Mr. J-ohn .McIn­ tosh has been awarded the degree of Master of Arts. Miss Hazel Haugh was awarded the iSir John Eaton Scholarship for Proficiency in Theory and Practice in the In­ termediate year at Wellesley Hos­ pital, Toronto. f it fW R should be understood that all seed and grain sample?, if they are gm not already selected, will have to be found in crops of this year. 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