Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-11-30

waists. stepped out and struck 1t each
other suddenly and vicieusly. Then
followed a desperate struggle. out ot
which Little Bill called presently In .
harsh shrill tone:
Hes cntten me with knife! jim,
Joe! H-yuri Quick!''
In an instant three man sprang ii
the two-one of them leaping with such
terrible yigor that he actually bounded
over the heads Of the two combatants
tall men though both of them were.
Then arose n hoarse agonized cry from
Take nm %! Take um of! They're
. stobbun me! There"
There was rush forward Of all the
crowd. But the loud voice of Bill bikes
sounded thrsateningly:
Stand back. men! He 0rt to be
killed. Stand backl Let um finish i'm. !"
And the crowd swayed back again
before the drawn knives Of the Dikes,
revealing to my Mortified gaze the for
sign client down upon his back aud
two Of the Dikss STOPPING down to
make sure that their keen knives
should 60 straight to his heart
But bursting out Of the jinson
Jungle and with . crowl that ..fairly
ris my hair o1un my scalp" - Sect
Dairy afterward told told Bogus
Leatherwood crashed through the
crowd as a buffalo bull might have
crashed through this slender plume Of
gold-twig willows in n mad race to
quench long and parching thirst
What he did, or what he said. mo-
body knew exactly, 20 far rs tho immi-
nent peril of the client was concerned.
However, when the crowd, includ-
ing the court and the bar and the rival
physicians. had gotten little way up
the road toward the tavern, Buck and
l. who had fingered little. heard old
Bogus Leatherwood saying to the four
Dikeses:
las If you wasn't libul ut any min
ute to have some iightun to do that's
with someth'n'. F.ghtun at you'd be
obleegcd to do"
And then continuous deep bass
growl, accompanied by sundry violent
gestures with clenched hands that
would have broken a mans ribs, each
and every one Of them. Then the gi-
gantic landlord strade off At a rate that
put the Dikeses and the Sparkses and
sven long Bill Shipley almost ITO the
trot' to keep in sight Of him.
Buck and sat SO long there on the
battlefield talking over all the events
Of the day and wondering SO much at
sveW thing that bad happened, dis
cussing the treachery of the foreign
client and the great peril from which
he had been 50 OPPORTUNITY rescued by
the astonishing sortie Of Bogus Leath-
srwood from the jimson jungle, that
the moon had dropped down into the
thick tops Of some gigantic elms on the
little island just opposite. and warned
~ of the lateness of the hour with
silent upward sweep of black shadow
that Glove the bright river and the gray
plume Of the gold-twig willows in two
and swept the little grass plot sudden
" from our vision.
Then we rose up silently, wen know.
ing that all the doors of Bogusses were
shut for the night; and that any aur-
reptitious opening Of them was certain
10 bring the vig7lant wrath Of Bogus
lseatherwood upon the laggard; and
hence that tn, way to peace and . bed
ny over the ,of Of the kitchen and 20
along the shed roof Of the ell directly
under the littlo north window Of Polly's
bedroom, ana 20 in 1t . little attic
window strangely enough construeted
h The end q the shed roof and leading
into Bucks little bed-room. whers, ON
many such summer niehts. and ost..
With ~ winter blasts bowling about
Tie little attic gable. Buck and I had
lain awake and talked in almost