The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-05-23
CLUB.
ARoLnancc Of West Virginia,
BY DAVID LOWRY.
CHAPTER NH.

first"
The crowd prckcd up their ears.
"What were You doing on the road
near Biggers' about three o'clock this
mornings
"Who says we were on the road?"
answer"
"Who says it? How'd You know it?"
Il was on the road"
ooh, YOU was! What was you dom
on the road, then? Didn't you tell the
folks you'd stop till daylight at Big
gcrs?"
"lcS"
but you didn't
no? Least my recollection is net
one of your gang on the way home
We'll, why don't you te ! why you said
one thing and did anolher?"
"lo haven't answered my question
Nor you mine"
"Nou deny being on the road"
Il can prove we weren't .
"Itow? All Of your associates will
swear it, will thcy?"
NO matter-I can prove | wasn't on
the roa |, nor five mites near Biggcls, if
that's plain enough,
I'VE ], | supp pse You don't know who
shot Tom Il Ggers' dog along about three
thi- mornirg?'
Didn't know it was shot"
"lou didn shoot it,"
NO"
">or your brother Ned, nor Pete, nor
SIuatty there"
4 guess not May be the dog shot
hiSsc f."
The Monks laughed now.
1t was very funny.
Say, Hank Dawson, how do you know
Dan Bash didn t run of kind ru,d
an lit ont in time?"
what do you mean, Bin Monk? Put
it in plain words"
"Why 'taiI.t the first time a mans
changed his mind. And ii he did. whose
business is it, 'cept yours? The hull
county amt interested N it. or oughtn't
to be +"
No, Very true Ny friends might
be. Wen. any moro, Bill? Speak freely
| now whats oeVcr : in Your mind.
| "Sincc you want to know. think -
| and there : more II IN. thinks its mighty
| Gurus how chap nobody knows any
! thin about, ceptn' he's Spry an sharp
an a crack shot and jumper. can come
| here an, get a school, an put on heap
| o airs over people as We're here afore lie
! was born"
! Us SdIu -Ntd MUM. Wv no IL InlS
/ here Dan Bush anyhow? Nobody knows
where he come from, 90 they? Don t
| know If ne has folks. or whether he
hant something II keep dark about.
and sneaked OF mp here in the moan
tains where nobody would think Of look
ing for him."
Lots o people are saying Just the
same thing, Hank Dawson" said Bill
Monk, with an ug lecr at those nearest
him.
Are YOU through now?' inquired
Club Dawson, quietly.
The Monks stepped closer together:
there was movement a though they
Were prepare g for All attack
90, don mind Your pistols and knives
just Yet. Let's talk little longer. You.
| Ned and Bill Monk-you know YOU
tried To murder Dan Bash once. You
dare not deny ii
20, pshaw. you mean the fight we had
that day right here"
No, / dent | mean when Won tw,
and one of your gang laid among the
bushes BY the spring. and when Ned
aimed al Dan, | scared him. shooting
over his head When you jumped ont
on the road with knife on Dan. and the
coward With you had club. Butt Shot
Your arm-you dare not bare it now-aud
Dan and ne drove yo@ three down thl
/ road like dogs"
-hS Club uttered these words, she tx
tended her hand toward the Monks
Who fell hack in dis1nay.
They rallied. however, again, and Bi
| Monk aughed--2 hard. unnatural laugh
il was
$50 IN, Why, that's as good as what
-. - -
lie-a lie out OF whole cloth. Club naw
SON"
Very well suppose you are read,
10 swear now you weren't on the road
this mornings
it"
and you didn't see Dan Bash?7
NO"
Not since the day he rode over from
Bigg, rs'?"
You didn't look for him.
"No Twan't none OF our business
You was lookin' for him"
You hadn't any one out or the road
neither?'
Mary one
Didn't Kill Biggers' dos?7
I'm glad its dead though, for il hi
me once
There's good many witnesses here
mind what the Monks say said Club
calmly.
Now then said Club. suddenly. a:
she stepped back and grasped her riff.
f. ON Eli Potts hand, throw up you,
| hands,
As The two Monks facing her obeyec
reluctantly. Pete and one or two Of tht
gang found themselves covered with
rifles drawn by the crowd
Then Club addressed hersef 70 IL.
crowd:
Take their knives and guns, boys