Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-15


week. 1t would have to be a dark
night, wouldn't In You couldn't 10
aud get box like that In tho dnv.
Time and take it anywhere, for tho
whole country would DO out looking
for the man who had IL. Maybe n
month. That would 10 better. II
would all blow over by that time.
Lots see, would III Ten thousand
was n good deal. Those stage stop.
pcrs were always striking the box on
the wrong day. They never got 80
much rs that at ono hhul. In two
months, then-pcrhups two months.
But II would have to be well hidden.
And tho thought stuck 90 him, de
spite oil attempts TO keep It OH.
though by tho time no had driven
the mustangs into Rcd canyon his
indignation at having beon suspected
by tho company had died down. The
box at his foct had taken on now
meaning for him. 1t meant smart
gowns for tho wife II meant n good
schooling for the children. Those
five little ones had had q hard "rus.
to- OF It to get what few scraps OF
learning they had thus far MANAGED
10 clutch; and IA for clothes they
We're dressed ike juvenile scare.
crows Yes, all the hard scratching
would bo over il no dared 10 do what
many another hard pushed man had
done. Resolving tho whole matter
down 10 a plain, clear cut PROPOSE.
ton, 1t was. after all simply qucs.
ton Of nerve"
Here was the place TO do it. Right
here, where the high, sctaggly rocks
with the patches OF sagcbrush atop
came so near 10 the blackboard. II
could DO thrown over there, any.
where, into the sngcbrush. IL would
be us well concealed rs though buried
in six feet OF earth. Tho blackboard
had reached the top Of long down
grade. Zach put ON tho brake and
twisted the rcins about tho brake
handle. AZ II about to take a plunge
into ice cold water, he reached down
Tor the box. But wait u bit He tool;
OIL his big sombrro and hung II on n
projecting rock. Then ilnshing ont
his six shooter no sent II bullet
through tho biim Of the hat, which
he then replaced on his head.
Though II had been hot enough
whom he started ont from Thimblo
Spring, there seemed to be chill in
thcuir just now. Would they believe
the story TINT he would have to con.
coct, oven though ho showed them
tho hole In the hat brimi What
would he care whether they did OF
mott They already suspected him.
If he had the namo lac might rs well
hive the game He looked mt n spot
whore the sagcbrtish clustered thick.
est and made a mcntal throw or two
IN tentative way, in order TO get
the distance
Then hc laid two nervous hands on
tho box He gave alittlc tug Lord,
how heavy II wasl Could II bc tossed
over there after alll 1t might have
to bo carried. He lifted it upon the
seat "Nia Thimblc Spring Stage
Line" What was tho sensn in putting
ON such a direction rs thatl 1t was
the only way It could go, Tho only
way. And that way was now closed,
for no was about to
God KANT they trust you-you
Zach Springeri KANT they trust
Old Zachi" ho burst out hoarscly.
"Yos, but why don't they do ~ any
other decent minin comply docs
turn their stuff into tho bank at
Frisco artcr it's mintcdl What in
he'll do they want ON It mp thar
Wei, after all, that was their bust
ness. But ho couldn't 10 trusted.
What would Bill sayi Bill was an
honest man. Ho would blush with
shame every time his brothers name
was mentioned after that, for OF
course he would know sue would
mover suspect ANY kind OF a story
would bamboozlc her, Bill was smart.
He could put two and two together
Us quickly us any man in the coun'
try. Aud yet Bill himself was lit
tie reckless sometimes He had been
acting very queer Of late, and had been
over to Johnson's n good deal, drink.
ing and playing cards with the boys,
That would not do. Bill must bG
looked aftor.
Ho was only II young fcllow-a
merc boy, even IL he had been trying
10 raise a mustacho lately. Yes, Bill
was "A good dcal younger than he,
Why, he remembered well the day
he was born, when they took him in
10 show him his new baby brother.
lie used to carry Bill all around, and
ho was the first ono TO stand him on
his legs and try to mako him walk.
lilo remembered how he used TO hurt
his own head whom Bill got II knock
by falling out Of his high chair Bill
was just M much to him now as over,
and those knocks which fatc and tho
weaknesses Of his nature wcro giving
him now hurt him Just as badly
worse perhaps than they did Brother
Bill.
What would Bill sayl
lilo laid his hands upon the box
again. II would be safe enough bo-
hind the rocks there under the sage,
brush--as safe us if
"Git up thar an ycl Git, Buck
skinl Git, old Cabot We lazy crit
ters, Glangw And down Game thu
long lash upon the dust covered backs