Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-29

A sentative man has no business on
the desert De viii get proddsd every
where II he take ofense AT rough
banter, I 81 help him when he gets
into mining camp. IL he wear his
heart upon bis sleeve, let him steer
clear Of the Mexican towns and their
pretty senoritAs- IL he would know
any peaes, let him keep away from the
cattle range. for the COW boys iests are
- xeen and cutting "a the spurs at
their heels
Frank Robbins was beginning To ind
out some OF these things But II you
gave him a whole decade he would not
dad them all out
what the boy wants is toug hening,"
said Mart Selby
Mart Was big and tough, and he saw
no good reason why any body but
child or a woman should be tender
Hes a Young colt that wants
Mexican DIT showed into his mouth.
aad then TO De ridden through tho
cactus"
At Lucin's ranch she boys toked and
trritaEed Robbins. but IL aid not seem
TO tougher him They cared nothing
for whisky shat didn't scratch as IL
went down, and when he put water in
his they called him perfect lady and
laughed loudly.
stand there joshing." said Mart to
Robbins, and you'll get along better.
They'll always make it hot for man
that don't josh back "
''Oh. don mind IT," replied Rob
bins. badly OVERRIDING MS effort to
look anconcorned-
Is had eeen the same everywhere he
had been IN the West He was one Of
those men who are never any thing but
tenderf-et. he simply would not take
men a. ne found them, though they
were perfectly willing 70 take him 81.
And the absurd ideas that had lodg-
ment ia his head Chief among these
were that he must have a friend-a
ehum-who should be a man after his
own heart he had been looking for
suck a man for two years de picked
him out occasionally. but he never
found him 10 suit This one was not
ate, and the other was not nice in his
speech There was someLhing lack ing
ia each one.
wv hat / want is whole man ne
sighed, II never could take mp with
these half made fellows But il is not
so easy. Even when and a man that
Is temperate aud intellectual. he turns
out To De selfish What would 4 not
give for a whole man for q friend and
companion-a whole man
He would not take up with Mart
selby. though Mart saw the young
fellow sorely needed friend and
helper. particularly one who would
tougher him lie kept on looking for
his made To order man, cut he never
soemsd To hit upon him Few such mel
rs hs WAS looking for are to be found
Sithin thousand miles Of Lucin' $
IN fact. at Lucins you would be at a
oss 10 discover single man who did
rot like to take observations of Old
Ashbys cloth and paper ceiling through
he bottom Of a WHISKY glass. and il
you heard hoice. will give you my
sord OF honor il was no eherub's
One day the boys on sdid all theil
yther listle meannesses 20 Ro bbinS by
getting him hopelessly drunk d
sourse. il was no killing matter; but
he had never been drunk before and hi
took it very seriously and resolved Il
leave camp next day.
Mart did not like this His hear
had warmed toward the young fel
low. - and be hated To see him leav,
the place. Finally. he resolved TO e
with him.
They agreed between them that theJ
would not 90 on the range again TheJ
would go prospecting for gold
And thus il was that they came u
make the journey over the desert to
ward Dead Horse Guleh- Now. a.
every body in shat country knows. tn,
wealth OF Dead Horse Gulch is great
but IL il very hard To reach. Miners
who have lived out the awful heat OF
aiksh plain that lies all around tn
bu,tes wherein the gulch makes il
gasa. have come back with full belts
but none Of them have ever gone
second time.
In suggesting This journey. Mar
Selby had a double object. First, h
wanted 10 tougher the young fellow.
aud next. he wanted 70 enrich then
both Mart knew that Robbins hs,
come out West 10 make enough mone'
~ NARY a nice girl who lived in Della
ware. and he Knew TOO. that ''th'
young fellow had found money max
ing very slow work
FROM f.acins % The great aka
plain that lay before the buttes il
which the gold was hidden was Ions
AM toilsone journey. But the rca
work only began With the crossing o
the aiksii desert
White and aaked az the dead lane
before their aching eyes The eye q
heaven shone down with most unre
leutiax 6erceneSs No breath Of al
was stirring aud the whole wori'
Wa - them a. dumb as death.
Mart bad counted on the JOURNEY
seiug a hsr3 one. but not 50 had a
shiS he hsd NOS dreamed that th'
wster would give cut 80 soon. no
shat the horses would sink down ans
d - they did
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