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A Rornance Of Arizona
Novelized From l elrrlurtd Day's melodrama
By JOHN MURRAY and MILLS MILLER
Copyright, 1908. by C. W. Dillingham Co, •
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ess.o welch leu to cne mica- - drone the marriage service.
en garden, a part of every ranch home It is the little things of life that
in Arizona. It was cut oft` from the count, after all. Men will work them -
house by a straggling' hedge, on which selves into hysteria ov the buzzing
Echo had spent wavy hours. trying to of a fly and yet pian a btleship in a
keep it in shapes into the boiler shop. A. city full of people will
Jack hesitated about going at one tieno become panic stricken over
house. Even if Echo married him he the burning of a rubbish heap and at
knew that she would" never forgive another camp out in the ruins of fire
him when she learned of his dastard- swept homes, treating their miseries as
ly conduct from Dick Lane's own
•mouth. It was better to sacrifice the
life of one to save three lives from.
being ruined.
Jack followed Lane up, partly draw -
,Ing his gun. It would be so easy to
shoot him. No one would recognize
Dick Lane in that crippled figure.
Jack's friends would believe him if he
told them the stranger had drawn on
him and he had to shoot him in self
defense.
Then the thought of how dastardly
was the act of shooting a man in the
aback, and he his trusting friend, smote
laeither had noticed Basle McKee
;him suddenly, and he replaced the pis-
tol in its holster. "It is worse than
the murder of 'Old Man" Terrill," he
muttered.
Dick walked 4d, entirely unconscious
of how close he had been to death,
• with his friend as his murderer.
So interested had the two men been
in their conversation that neither .had
noticed Buck McKee hiding behind the
hedge, listening to their talk and cov-
. ering Jack Payson when he was fol-
lowing Dick with his hand on his re-
, volver. McKee heard Payson's ejac-
ulation and smiled grimly.
Jack's absence had aroused ,Jim Al-
len, who hurried out on the porch,
storming. "Say, Jack, what do you
mean by putttu' the brakes on this here
weddin'?"
"Jim -say, Jim, I -I want yon to do
something for me!" cried Jack as he
rushed toward his future father-in-
law,
vvxNatt4$ T14Ei3, fBIUART 28, frit,.
cato Intentlen to Shoot, he laid hie
hand on the butt of hie revolver, say
lug, "Not if l have to kill you,"
Dick began to realize that whatever
was wroug was of the greatest cense,
queueo. It was a shock to hint to have
his oldest, his best friend to the west
treat him in this fashion.
"Jimi" be cried in hie anguish,
"Yeifve got to go back where you
come from, Dick," sternly answered
the ranchman. "If ever you loved my
daughter, now's your chance to prove
it. She must never know you're
lu
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"Rut"-
"It's
,
"But"-"It's a whole lot I'm askin' of you,
Dick," Continued Allen. "But if you
love tier, as l think you do, it may bo
it drop of comfort in your heart to
know that by dein' this great thing Per
her you'll be Makin' her life better an'
happier."
"I do love her," cried Dick passion-
ately, "but there must be some reason.
Tell tae.""
Allen held up bis hand to warn Dick
to be silent. He beckoned him to fol -
a huge joke, low' him. Slowly he led him to the
Philosophers write learnedly of cause door and, partly opening it, motioned
and effect. In chemistry certain com- lam to listen.
binations give certain results. But no “Forasmuch as John Payson and
man can say, "I will do thus and so; Echo Allen have consented together in
this and that will follow." All things holy wedlock," were the words that
are possible, for few things are prob- fell upon his ears.
able. As the doomed mien stands motion -
Dick Lane had, planned to shield less before his judges and hears his
Echo by writing to Jack Payson, let-
ting him break the news of his return.
Fate would have it that she would not
know until too late of his escape. A
letter sent directly to her might have
prevented much unhappiness and many
heartaches. Not till months later, when
happiness had returned, did Jack real-
ize that his one great mistake was
made by not telling Echo of Dick's
rescue.
Both Dick and Echo might have had
a change of heart when they met
again. Echo was young. Dick had
wandered far. Both had lost touch
with common interests. Jack Payson
had entered her life as a factor. He
was eager and impetuous. Dick was
settled and world worn by hardship
and much physical suffering. Now
Jack was at the altar racked with men-
tal torture, while Dick waited in the
garden for his traitorous friend. The „
innocent cause of the tragedy was"Nothave
wiudmL'il and the outbuildings of the
borne ranch, Navajo blankets were
scattered over the floors and seats,
Echo had taken the souvenirs of the
tient and, trail which ,Tacit had collect -
ea, and, with a woman's touch of re,
finemont, had used them fer deem -
tiro effects. She lead in truth made
the room her very own. The grace
and charm of her personality fere
stamped upon the environment,
The men of the ranch fairly worship-
ed Eelxo, Sending to Kansas City,
they purchased a piano for her as a
birtbdey gift. On the morning when
the wagon brought it over from Flor-
ence station little work was done about
the place. The instrument had been
unpeeked and. placed in the living room
in Echo's absence, Airs. Allen, Polly
and Jim rode over to be present at the
presentation, The donors gathered in
the living room to admire the gift,
which shone bravely under the ener-
getic polishing of Airs. ,Allen.
"That's an elegant instrument," was
her observation as she flicked an imag-
inary speck of dust from the case,
Polly opened the lid, saying, "Just
what Echo wanted."
Jim cocked his head as if be were
examining a now pinto pony.
"`Sent all the way up to Kansas City
fer it, eh?"
"That's right, Uncle Jim!" chorused
the punchers,
"Now the room's complete," an-
nounced Polly. "Echo's made a big
change around here." The • group
gravely followed Polly's approving
glances.
"That she has,"' assented firs. Allen.
"Looked like a barn when Jack was a
bachelor. This certainly is the finest
kind of a birthday present you all
could have thought of,"
"Josephine '11 cry in a minute, boys,"
chuckled Allen.
"You besh up!" snapped his wife,
glaring at the grinning ranchman.
Sagebrush poured oil on the rough-
ening waters by changing the conver-.
sation. Speaking as if making a dare,
he challenged, "What I want to know
Is, is there anybody here present as can
rassle a tune out of that there box?"
No one carne forward.
"Ain't there none of you boys that
can play on a pianny?" he demanded.
He tried to whistle the .air. That de-
vice failed him.
"Will yon. ail whistle that tune? I'm
forgettin' it," was his plaintive request,
"Sure! Bet her go, boys!" cried Sage -
Falteringly, with many stops and
sudden starts, they tried to accompany
Fresno's halting pursuit over the key'
board after the tune that was dodging
about to his mind, All at .once the
player struck his gait and introduced
a variation ou the bass notes.
"That ain't in it!" shouted Show Low
indignantly,
"Shut
.
bellowedSagebrush.
but". w
S P!
;With both hands hammering the
keys indiscriminately,, Fresno made a
noisy if not artistic finish and whirled
about on the stool, to be greeted by
hearty applause,
"Well, I reckon that's goin' some!"
he boasted when the hand clapping
subsided, bowing low to Polly and Mrs.
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sweetly and calmly replying to the death sentence read without a tremor, down at the Lone Star," gravely piped
questions of the marriage ritual, while ofttimes thinking of some trifle, so up Show Low.
Jack was looking, as Allen said to Dick stood for a moment. At first he ,"what did you piny?" asked the in
himself, "darned squeamish.' •did not fully realize what it all meant, quisitive Polly.
"According to these words, it is the Then the full depth of his betrayal "Poker," answered Show Low se -
will of God that nothing shall sever flooded him. "What?" he cried. "Pay- riously, his face showing no trace of
the marriage bond," were the words son!" Allen held him back. humor.
that fell upon Allen's ears as he stoop- Again the minister's voice fell upon "Palter!" Polly repeated. in disgust.
wed, repeatingthe solemn words: "That's sou it "
in the window at thew their ears, all theyever play
ed to look
ding party. "And have declared the same before explained Show Low indignantly.
"The sky pilot's takin' a long time God.,and in the presence of these wit- Polly grew impatient. This presen-
to make the hitch. Darned if 1 tresses, I pronounce them husband and teflon was a ser:ous affair and not to
couldn't hitch up a twenty. mule team wife. What God bath joined together be turned into an audience for the ex -
in the time that he's takin' to get them let no man put asunder." ploitation of Show Low's adventures.
two to the pole,"' said Allen, speaking Dick, shaken and hurt, slowly sank Moreover, she did not like to be used
to himself. to his knees, covering his face with his even indirectly as a target for fun -
Dick bad grown impatient at• Jack's hands. A dry sob shook his frame. making, although she delighted in
absence and wandered back from the • Here was the end of all his hopes, making seine one else a feeder for her
garden to the front of the house. Spy- here the sad reward for years of toil ideas of fun.
ing Allen, he greeted him with, "Hello, and waiting. Fresno modestly announced be was
Uncle Jim." �� "Now you know why you can't stay
something of a musical artist.
"That's my name, answered Allen here," said Allen, his tones' full of "I 'low I can shake a tune out of
suspiciously, "but I ain't uncle to every pity. rhat," he declared.
stranger that comes along." "Now I know." "Let's hear you." cried Polly, rather
"I'm 'no 'stranger," laughed Dick. Dick staggered to bis feet and start -
doubtful of Fresno's ability.
„ ed blindly away/ from the house.
"You know we. "Step up, perfesser," cried Alien
"Do I?" replied Allen unconvinced. "Dick," cried Allen in a broken voice, heartily, slapping .him on the back.
"forgive me. She's my child! She
"Who are you?" Fresco grinned and solemnly rolled
"The poor orphan you took from an loges him novel" •tip his sleeves. Ills comrades eyed his
asylum and made a man of -Dick The betrayed friend took his hand every move closely. He spat on his
without looking at him. In vain he hands, approached the piano and
Lane." tried to hide his deep emotion. 4`1
"Dick Lane!"repeated the astonished dared fiercely at the keyboard.
ranchman. "Come back from the dead!" know," he faltered. "I71 never trots. "My ma had one of them there
"NO; I'm not. dead yet," answered bee her. I'll go away never to return." things when I was a yearlin'," he ob-
Dick, holding out his hand, which Al- "Where'll you go?" asked Allen. served.
len gingerly grasped as if he expected "Back where I came from -back into Fresno spun the seat of, his piano
to find it thin air. "I wasn't killed. I the desert, into the land of dead
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have been in the hospital for a longscrew. IIis actions created the great -
time. I wrote Jack. He knows." As he wrung the ranchman's hand est interest, especially to Parenthesis,
law, greatly excited. "My God!" Allen cried. "Tack acid turned to walk out of the life of who peered under the seat to see the
I "Sure," answered Allen heartily. knows -you wrote to him -he knowal" his old comrades and the woman he wheels go round. Fresno threw his
Over and over he repeated the eaten- loved he heard the minister repeat: lea over the seat as if mounting a.
Ov <•the Almighty h Father
"Standat this door during the been broken to The blessing of g ty horse.
here tshing news which had b
"Well, boys, what'!l you have?" he
asked, glancing from one to the other
in imitation of the manner- of his
friend, the pianist in the Tucson
honkytonk, ou a lively evening.
"The usual poison," absently Answer-
ed Show Low.
Sagebrush struck hint in the breast
with the back of his hand. "Shut up,"
he growled.
Turning to Fresno, he said, "Give u"'
the-er-"The Maiden's Prayer."'
Fresno whisked about so quickly
that he nlnuist lost his balance. G. -z-
ing at the petitioner in blank name
Molt, he shouted, "The whet?"
Sagebrush blushed under his ta.i, 1•.t
a most apologetic voice he said. "Wel
that's the first tune my sister leaned
the
piny, art she played. it continuous -
_s. which is why 1 left home."
"I'd sure like to oblige you, but
maidens' prayers ain't In my repetory,"
explained the' Mollified musician.
Fresno raised his finger uncertainly
ovei• the keyboard, searching for a key
from which to make a start. The
group watched him expectantly. As
'be struck a note each tuember of bis
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pens, don't let any one in." •
"But"- interrupted Allen.
"Don't ask me to explain," blurted
Jack. "Echo's happiness is at stake."
"That settles it. I've not let any one
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