Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-02
A GHOST STORY.
WHAT jim EExAR AND HIS
PARTNER BOB SAW
Ia 'DoDe on the kenmore Ranch-A
Dead NexiCan's Head an u Pickering
Light Not Conducive TO Sleep

| Special Correspondence Of the Gazette.
| New YORK, June 4.-'sJim, | said, edo
| you believe n ghostS?"
! We were all sitting in the cosy little par
! lor of the Cameo fiat after tea, rakin@ up
| odd furniture from our mental garrets, and
| each one trying to beat the other tai eX-
| perienceS.
Huh" said Jim, do I believe in my
| boots2" looking down a. those inconteStable
| and conspicuous facts belliGerentlY.
| Why everybody vOciferated smoker
| ingly, we thought you weren't superstl-
| tious,''
Amt, " said jim, ''but I've got sense
| enough TO know Il thing when | see it"
| When YOU see il ~ The giggling ceased.
| ooh Mr.. Bexar, tel US about it, please
| and we al settled ourselves for a good
| creepy ghost story. jim gazed around on
| the circle of respectful and deeply inter-
/ ested faces with modest pride, and nothing
| 10Th began:
L had been out cow-hunting ali day, on
| the track OF little bunch of Il cattle that
were missing. 1t was wet and cold, every
arroyo l came to was running full, and my
pony had to win more than once; and
every time | crossed a divide and failed to
| find the bunch in the next draw | was a.,
broke up, and had half a mind to go back
home. l kept on bearing further west
from my own place, and no sign of them !;
so finally decided, as it was getting late,
to push on and spend the night with Bob
Cross al the Kenmore rauCu.
THE kenmore is owned by Scoth COM
pauy; Bob is their resident manager. and
lives pretty snug in little 'dobe house that
was on the ranch when they bought. When
l came to the place what did l see but Bob,
all by himself, sitting out in the front of the
house, with his chair kicked back against
it, smoking his pipe.
miStinC y1rnffy-. had ahOIt that
time, and hollered to him: Amt you
got sense enough to go in out of the
rain2'' -
RAINS all right he growled out; then
when he Jaw me getting down, and who L
was, he whacked his chair down and got
up with whoop. Jim BeXar, by thunderf
he said: 'goin 10 stay all night"
'I'm used to having folks being right
glad TO see me-in Iexas-they're lone
some, and glad to see anyone: but Bob was
most too glad. Taking it with his sitting
out there in the rain, and being all sole
alone. thought maybe he was little off.
He turned my pony into the little pas
ture, and told me I'd find something to eat
in the kitchen. / hustled round, got fire,
made some coffee and hunted up some bread
and canned goods; and all the time Bob sat
in the front of the house and smoked
thought this was a blessed funny way to
treat folks that come to see you; but / was
too hungry to get mad; l thought maybe he
felt bad somewhere.
81 supposed he'd had his supper; but
when l was eating mine called out to ask
him if he wanted anything, and he asked
Ine to bring him out a cup OF coffee and a
chunk of bread
H.What's the matter you can't come in
here said, broke your lege'
He got sulky and wouldn't answer, so
toted the grub out, and he ate as if he
was half starved. He said the Mexican
that cooked for him had gone OH that morn
ing. and he'd been sitting out there without
bite to eat all day. Said he had a mind to
cut and run about 3 O'Clock.
"Cut and rum says L you talk funny