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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1911-01-05, Page 7• N.4404♦o4.so4oe,l/••oRO♦N111o.e44+3s44R411.l•#♦♦•e•••4o The "ound:U 1 A Romance of Arizona Novelized From Edmund Day's Melodrama By JOHN MURRAV and MILLS MILLER copyright, 1008, by G, W. DillinUham co,. Nose,•00040•4aoosa®o©e'9am•o4N••eeoe•N41N 4*•••+•a• around her. Whit, one of them was WncA iu lending Dick the money for a year's prospecting in the mountains of Sonora, Mexico, in search of a fabu- lously rich "lost mine of the Aztecs." lost of mines are plentiful in Arizona and northern Mexico. First taken up by the Spanish invaders of :800 years ago from the native Indians, they have passed down to each subse ;quest influx of white men. The direc- tions are always vague. The inquirer ,cannot pin his informant down to any 'definite data. Over the mountains al- ways lies the road. Hundreds of lives have been sacrificed and cruelty un- paralleled practiced upon innocent men, women and children by gold seekers in their lust for conquest. Prosperous Indian villages have been laid waste, and whole bands of ad- venturers have gone into the desert in • search of these mines, never to return. When the time for Lane's departure • came Echo wept at the thought of los- ing for so long a time the close com- panion of her childhood and the sym- ,.pathetic confidant of . her youthful thoughts and aspirations, Dick, in whom friendship for Echo had long "before ripeued into conscious love, took her tears as evidence that she was • similarly affected toward him, and he . allowed all the suppressed passion of his nature full vent in a declaration of :love. The girl was deeply moved by .this revelation of the heart of a strong .man made tender as a woman's by a ;power centering in her own humble self, and, being utterly without expert- .ence of the emotion even in its protec- rtive form of calf love, which .is the •varioloid of the genuine affection, she 'imagined through sheer sympathy that she shared his passion. So she assent- ed with maidenly reserve to his plea that she promise to marry him when lie should return and provide a home Ice. her. Her more cautious mother se- .cured a modification of this pledge by limiting the time that Echo should swait for him to one year. If at the ex- piration of that period Lane did not rretuin to claim her promise or did not •.write making satisfactory arrange- ,ruents for continuance of the engage - :anent Echo was to be considered free rto marry whom she chose. Soon after Lane's departure Mrs. .:Allen persuaded the colonel. to send Echo east to a New England finishing •.school for girls, where her mother •hoped that her budding love for Lane ,might be nipped by the frigid atmos- phere of intellectual culture, if not, in - ,deed, supplanted by a saving interest. lin young men in general and perhaps in some particular scion of a blue blooded Boston family. The plan succeeded in part only. :The companionship of her schoolfel- lows, her music and art lessons, her ;books (during the limited periods al- lotted to serious study and reading). -and, above all, her attrition at recep- tions with another order of men than that she had known in the rough, un- cultured west occupied her mind so fully that poor Dick Lane, who was putting a thought of Echo Allen in every blow of his pick, received orgy the scraps of her attention. so .essentially chivalrous as the west rn man—so modest, so self sacrific- ing, so brave and resolute and re - sour ful? Diek Lane, Jack •t e, or Ja _I. Pny- sen, for that matter, in all save the adventitious points of education and culture was the higher type of man- hood, and Jack, at least, if not poor, Dick, could hold his own iu mental and artistic perception with the brightest, most cultured of Harvard graduates. At the end of the year she came back home to await Dick's return from the wilds of Mexico. There was great anxiety about his safety, for Geroni- mo, attacked by Crook in. the Apache stronghold of the Tonto basin, had es- caped to the mountains of northwest- ern Mexico with his baud of fierce Chi- ricalruas, Now, Dick Lane had not been heard from in this region. When he neither made appearance nor sent a message upon the day appointed for his return, his brother, Bud, was for setting out instantly to find him and rescue him if he were in difficulties, Then It was that Echo Allen discov- ered the true nature of her affection for her lover—that it was sisterly re- gard, differing only in degree, but not in kind, from that which she felt for his brother. She joined with Polly in opposing Bud's going, urging his reck- lessness as a reason. "You are certain to be killed," she said, "and I cannot lose you both." Jack Payson, for whom Bud was working, then came forward and offered to accompany him and keep within bounds. Again there was a revelation of her heart to Echo, one that terrified her with a sense of disloyalty. It was Jack she really loved, noble, chivalric, wonderful Jack Payson, whom, with a southern girl's intensity of feeling, she had uncon- sciously come to regard as her stand- ard of all that makes for manhood. Plausible objections could not be urged against his sacrificing himself for his friend. With an irresistible impulse she cast herself upon his breast and said, "I cannot bear to see you go." Payson gently disengaged her arms. "I must, Echo. It is what Dick would .do for me if I were in his place." However, while Payson and Bud were preparing for their departure Buck McKee apeared in the region and reported that Dick Lane had been killed by the Apaches. He told with convincing details how he ,bed 'met Lane as each was returning from a successful prospecting trip in the Ghost range and how they had sunk their differences in standing together against an attack of the Indians. He extolled Dick's bravery, relating bow, severely wounded, he had stood off the savages to enable himself to escape. When he banded over Dick's watch to Echo—for he had learned on his re- • turn that she was betrothed to Lane— as a last token from her lover, no doubt remained in the minds of his hearers of the truth of his story, and Payson and Bud Lane gave up their purposed expedition. ; Dick had few opportunities to mail The owner of Sweetwater ranch, a letter and none of them for reedy- ; while accepting McKee's account, Ing one. Unpracticed in writing, bis could not wholly forget the hal • epistolary compositions were crude in breed's former evil reputation and was the extreme, being wholly confined reserved in his reception of the ad - to bald, statements of fact. Had he vances of the ex -rustler, who was anx- been tis tender on paper as he was in ious to curry favor. Warm hearted, •:his words and accents when he kissed impulsive Bud, however, whose fra- ternal loyalty had increased under his bereavement to the supreme passion of life, took the insinuating half breed into the aching vacancy made by his brother's death. The two became boon. companions, to the great detriment of the younger man's morass. McKee had plenty of money, wbich he spent :away her tears at parting her regard -for him, would have had fuel to feed • ,oe and might have kindled into genu- rine enu-rine love. As it was, she was forced to adroit that in comparison with the brilliant university men with whom the Conversed Dick Lane intellectually , was as quartz to diamond. On the other band, she contrasted Dick in the essential point of manli- dess most favorably with the male •.butterflies of society that hovered `1"wkeiling of the Nerves. Wonderful ,cure brought about by DR. A. W. 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It cures inNetere's way 1 v e•uriehlug the blood and for this tea - '1.,' enriching the blood and its benefits .xl+•e lasting. 50 tts. a box,all dealers,. ..5rµ' 1::.,..3e.:on, Dates w Co., oronto, • "I Cttn''t bear to Seefrau• iso."' liberally, *Ambling and carolling in company with ]dud, P0113? was wild with indignation at her 'sweetheart's desertion and savagely upbraided him tor' his conduct w heneVer they met, which. as mar be inferred, grew, leets Tai; W ilV xHAM T1ME,t , JtNUARY S, l►ii and less frequently. In revenge she made advances to another lean who. had long loved her from Afar," This was William Henry Harrison Hoot/ r e e sU ff thecounty, of eau ty, known as "Slim'? Hoover by the humorous propensity of men on the range to give nicknames on the principle of contra, ries, for he was the fattest man in Pinal county. Slim was one of those fleshy men who have nerves of steel and muscles of Iron. A round, boyish face, twinkling blue eyes and flaming red hair gave him an appearance of In- norence entirely at variance with Ws personality, A vein of sentiment made him all the more lovable. His asso- lates raze -reeve men of the plaiust soldiers and the owners and frequent- ers of the frontier barroom—respected him greatly, "He's P',s square as Slim" was the best. recommendation ever given of a man in that region. Pinal county settlers had made Slim sheriff term after term because he was the one citizen supremely fitted for the place. He had ridden the range and "busted" bronclios before election. After it he hunted wrongdoers. Right was right and wrong was wrong to him. There was no shading in the meaning. All he asked of men was to ride fast, shoot straight and deal squarely in any game. He admitted that murder, horse stealing and brand- ing another man's calves were sub- jects for the unwritten law. But in his code this law meant death only after a fair trial, with neighbors for a jury. Ile was not scrupulous that a judge should be present. His duties were ended when he brought in his prisoner. Hoover's rule had been marked by the taming of bad men in Florence and a truce declared in the guerrilla warfare between the cattlemen and the sheepmen on the range. Slim's seemingly superfluous flesh was really of great advautage to him. It served as a mask for his remarka- ble athletic abilities and so lulled the outlaws with whom he had to deal into a false sense of superiority and security. Slow and lethargic in his ordinary movements, in an emergency he was quick as a panther, never failing to get the drop ou his man. Furthermore, his fat exerted a ben- eficial influence on • his character in keeping him humble minded. Being the most popular man in the county, he would probalaly have been swollen with vanity had there been any space left vacant for it in his huge frame. He was especially admired by the women, but was at ease only in the company of those who were mar- ried. It was his fate to seethe few girls of the region, with every one of whom by turns be was in love, grow up to marry each some less diffident wooer. " "Dangnation take it!" he used to say. "I don't git up enough spunk to cut a heifer out o' the herd until some- body else has roped her an' slapped his brand on to her. Talk.about too many irons in the fire! Why, I've only got one, an' it's het up red all the time waiting fer the right chanct to use it, but somehow I never git it out o' the coals. What's the use, anyhow? Nobody loves a fat man." Slim was inordinately puffed up by Polly's preference for him, which she showed by all sorts of feminine tyran- nies, and he was forced continually to slap his huge paunch to remind him- self of what he considered his dis- abling deformity. "Miss Polly," he would apostrophize the absent lady, "you don't know what a volcano of seething fiery love this here mountain of flesh is that you're wallsin' over. Some day I'll erupt an' jest eternally calcify you if y,ou don't look out!" The sheriff took no stock in Buck !Ic1Zee's professed reformation and was greatly worried over the influence he . had acquired over Bud Lane, who had before this been Slim's protege. Accordingly he readily conspired with her to break off the relations between the former outlaw and the young horse wrangler, but thus far had met with no success. Payson, feeling himself absolved by the death of Dick Lane from all obliga- tions to his friend, began openly to woo Echo Allen, but without presum- ing upon the revelation of her love for him which she had made at his propo- sition to go into the desert to Lane's rescue. She responded to his courteous advances as frankly and naturally as a bud Opens to. the gentle wooing of the April sun. Softened by her grief for Dick as for departed brother as the flower is by the Morning dew, the petals of her affection opened and laid bareher heart of purest gold. The gentle, diffident; girl expanded into a glorious woman, conscious of her pow- ers and proud and happy that she was. fulfilling the highest function of wo- manhood—that of loving and aiding with her loVe a noble than. Jack Payson, however, failed to get the proper credit for this sudden flow- ering of Echo's beauty and charm. These were ascribed to her year's schooling in the east, and her proud mother was offended by the Way in which she accepted the young ranch - man's advances. "You hold yourself too Cheap," she said. "It .is at least due to the memory' of poor click Lane," whom, now that he was safely dead, she idealized into a type of perfect manhood, "that you make Jack wait as long as you did him." When Payson reasonably objected to this delay by pointing but that he Wes tally able to support tt Wife, as 'Lane had riot beep, and proposed, with Echo's Assent, sit Menthe sur the limit of waiting, Mrs. Allen resorted to her old expedient- tears, "Peohool You are going to take away my only daughter!" The colonel, however, though he had Loved Dick Y,ane illi it til hetea werebottom his owfs0u, „wx.-.._ of his hospitable soul that it was a man not already in the family circle who was to marry Echo, especially when lie was a royal fellow like Jack Payson. So he arranged A compro- inise between the time proposed by Mrs. Allen and that desired by the lovers, and the date of the wedding was fixed nine months ahead, "It will fall in June," said the old. fellow, who knew exactly bow to han- dle his fractious wife, "the month. when swell folks back in the east do all their bitchin' up. Why, come to think of It, it was the very month I ran off with yen in, though I didn't know then that we was elopin' so strictly according to the book of eti- kwot" CHAPTER III, •"- .,-.T-' HE first instinctive thought of a man reveals his innate charac- ter thosethat follow,t m r he oa h 1 , T nature that he has acquired through environment and circum- stances. That Jack Payson was at bottom a good man is shown by his erst emotion, whieh was joy, and his first impulse. which was to impart the glad news to everybody upon receiving the letter from DIck Lane telling that he was alive and soon to come home. He was in his house at the time. Bud Lane had just brought in the packet of mail from Florence and was riding away. Jack uttered a cry of joy which brought the young man back to the door. "What is it?" asked Bud. But Jack had already had time for his damning second thought. He was stunned by the consideration that the promulgation of the news in the letter meant his loss of Echo Alien. He dis- sembled, though as yet he was not able to tell an outright falsehood: "It's a letter telling me that I may expect to receive enough money in a month or so to pay off the mortgage. Now your brother's debt needn't trou- ble you any longer, Bud." • "Whew -w!" whistled Bud. "That's great! Where does it come from?" "Oh, from an old friend that I lent the money to some time ago. But, say, Bud, there's another matter I want to talk with you about. You've got to shake Buck McKee. I've got it straight that he is the worst man in Arizona territory --yes, worse than an Apache. Why, he has been with Geronimo, torturing and massacring lone prospectors and robbing them of their gold." "That's a lie, Jack Payson, and you know it!" cried the hot headed young man. "It was Buck McKee who stood "That's a lie,' Sac* Payson!" by Dick's side and fought the Apaches. And I'll stand by Buck against all the world. Everybody is in a conspiracy against him—Polly and Slim Hoover and you. Why are you so ready now, to take a slanderer's word against his? You dere keen enough to accept his story when it let you out of going to Dick's rescue and gave you free swing to court his girl. Let' me see the name of the snake in the grass that's at the bottom of all this!" And he snatched for the letter in Payson's Wind. The ranchman quickly thrust the missive into his pocket. Tho injustice of Bud's reflections ou his former ac- tions gave to his uneasy conscience just that pretext he desired for justify- ing his present course. His cause being weak and unworthy, he whipped up his indignation by adopting a high tone and overbearing manner, even demeaning himself by using his posi- tion as Bud's employer to crush the younger man. Indeed, at the end of the scene which ensued he bad well nigh convinced himself that he had been most ungratefully treated by Bud while sincerely attempting to save the boy from the companionship of a fiend A BAD COLD Developed Into A BRONCHITIS. Neglected Bronchitis is very often the direct cause of Consumption, and on the first symptom appearing Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup should be used and the Bronchitis cured. The symptoms are, tightness across the chest, sharp pains and a difficulty in breathing, a secretion df thick phlegm, at first white, and later of a greenish or yellowish color, coming from the bron- chial tubes when coughing, especially the first thing in the morning, Mrs. Dan. J. McCormack, Cleveland, N.S , writes: "My little boy two years old caught a bad cold which developed into Bronchitis. Ifo was se choked up he could hardly breathe. Reading about your wonderful medicine, Dr. Wood's' Norway Pine Syrup, I decided to try a bottle and with sueh good result I got another which completely cured him, without having a doctor. I cannot say too much in its praise; I would not be without it in the house as I consider it a sure cure for Colds and Bronchitis," The price of "Pr. Wood's" Norway Bine Syrup is '25e. It le put upin a yellow' wrapper. Three pine trees is the trade mark. Ile ,aura and accept no substitute for Dr. 'Wood's. Manufactured only by The T. i1#iibuira Oy Y4• 441t 0 It°tbbto� Obt. ... _ E-- •�tllta. .tii1i111tierf in human guise, "No, matter wile told tno, young man," he exclaimed. "I got it straight, and you can take it straight from me.. Yon Qithei &iVo Buck McKee or leave Sweetwater ranch, Snake in the grass!" he cried, working hlmeele up into false passion. "It is you, un- grateful boy, who, are sinking the ser- pent'stooth into the hand that would have helped you. I tell you now that I intended to make you foreman, though. Sagebrush Charley is an older and better man. It was for Diek's sake 1 would havq done it" "No," Bud burst forth, "for your guilty conscience's sake! . It would have been to pay for stepping into Dick's place in the heart of a faithless girl, Keep your job. .I'm. through with you." And, leaping on his. horse, Bud rode furiously back to rejoin "Buck ul y ba ejo b McKee is Florence. Jack Payson's purpose was now cinched, to suppress Dick Lane's letter until Echo Allen was irrevocably, joined to him in marriage. Ile argued with himself that she loved him, Jack Payson, yet so loyal was she by na- ture that if Dick Lane returned before the wedding and claimed her she would sacrifice her love to her sense of duty, This would ruin her life, he reasoned, and he could not permit it. There was honesty in this argument, but he vitiated it by deferring to act upon the suggestion that naturally, arose with it: Why, then, not take Jim A11en, Echo's father, to whom her hap- piness was the chief purpose in life, into confidence in regard to the mat- ter? There will be time enough to tell the colonel before the wedding, he thought. In the meantime something might happen to Dick, end he may never return. He is certain not to get back ahead of his money. After the time that the note secured by the mortgage fell due the young ranchman had already secured two ex- tensions of it for three months each. IIe now arranged a third and began negotiating for the sale of some of his cattle to take up the note at the next time of payment. 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