Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-06-15
A WHOLE MAN.

~ desert. He will get prodded every
sbere. Il ne take offense at rough ban
.ar Lord help him when he gets into
timing camp. If he Wear his heart
.no,, his sleeve. let him steer clear of
,be Mexican towns and their pretty sem
,rtas. II he would know any peace,
q him keep away from the cattle
! ,opqe. for the cowboys jests are as keen
8 md cutting as the spurs at their heels.
Frank Robbins was beginning to find
ant some of these things. But if you
ave him a whole decade he would not
ind them all out.
What the boy wants is toughening,'
aid Mart Selby,
Mart was big and tough, and he saw
no good reason why anybody but a child
ra woman should be tender
Hes young colt that wants Il Mex
can bit showed into his mouth, and then
% be ridden through the cactus"
AZ Lucin's ranch the boys joked and
rutated Robbins, but it did not seem to
oughen hi-4l. They cared nothing for
whisky that didn't scratch as it went
own, and when he put water in his
! hey called him Il perfect lady and
aughed loudly,
stand their joshing." said Mart to
| Robbins, and you'll get along better
4 They'll always make it hot for man
hat don't josh back
"Oh, | don't mind it, said Robbins,
sdly overriding his effort to look I'M
l ,oncerned.
| lthad been the same everywhere he
had been in the west. He was one of
hose men who are never anything but
enderfeet. He simply would not take
men as he found them, though they
we're perfectly willing TO take him SO.
f And the absurd ideas that had Judgment
in his head! Chief among these were
hat he must have a friend-a chum-
who should be a man after his own
oeart, He had been looking for such
man for two years. He picked him out
Nasionallv, but he never found him to
1N This one was not truthful, that
81 me was not temperate aud the other
y vas not nice in his speech. There was
something lacking i'll each one.
what | want is "A whole man." ne
sighed Il never could take up with
these half made fellows But it is not
SO easy. Even when | find man that
| Is temperate and intellectual he turns
out to be selfish. What would | not
/ give for whole man for a friend and
cOmpanion--a whole mani
He would not take up with Mart Sell
t by, though Mart saw 1.-The young fel-
cw sorely needed friend and helper,
particularly one who would tGughen
nlm. He kept ON looking for his made
JO-Order man, but he never seemed to
nit upon him. Few such men as ne was
lo"klng for are to be found within a
thousand miles of Lucin's. In fact, at
Lucln's you would be at loss to dis
cover single man who did not like to
AXE observations at Old Ashby's cloth
and paper ceiling through the bottom of
whisky glass, and if you heard IA voice
Will give you my word of honor it was
no cherub's.
One day the boys outdid all their
little meannesses to Robbins by getting
MIN hopelessly drunk. OF course it
80 80 tAAii'b5 ultilLcI, DhL nc Ildu tltNtI
Oeen drunk before, and he took it very
seriously and resolved to leave camp
next day.
Mart did not like this His heart had
WARMED toward 1.-THE young fellow"
anu he hated to see him leave the place.
finally he resolved to go with him.
they agreed between them that they
would not 20 on the range again, They
would go respecting for gold,
ana thus it was that they came to
make the journey over the desert to-
'ard Dead Horse gulch. Now, as every
"uy IN that country knows, the wealth
DEAD Horse gulch is great, but it is
'ery hard 70 reach. Miners, who have
uVed out the awful heat of the alkali
pam that lies all around the buttes
wherein the gulch makes its cash, have
'oine back with full belts, but none of
uenl mas yer gone a second time.
IN suggo ting this journey Mart Selby
aau double object First, he wanted
toughen "the young fellow" and
aeAt, he wanted to enrich them both.
mart knew that Robbins had come ont
"eSt 10 make enough money to marry a
lice girl who lived in Delaware, and he
anew, too. that 1.-The young fellow" had
'O1nd money making very slow work.
;. from Lucins to the great alkali plain
Ia. lay before the buttes in which the
soiu was hidden was long and toll
pohe Journey. But the real work only
Segan with the crossing of the alkali
desert
white and naked lay the dead land
Oelore their aching eyes. The eye of
ae@'en shone down with most unrelent-
s herceness. No breath of air was
''lilng, and the whole world was to