The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-07-05

what we was after without our sayin'
word.
"'You fellers,' he says, 'don't run
none of your - wizzies on me- he
says, and with that he ups with his
Winchester and lets silver. He took
old Bullwhack B:ll pretty fair and it
got plain they was goin' to be fight
/ take it he wasn't used to Wyoming
ways. Well, when he shot of course !
got out my gun and began to talk some
myself. They was considerable snoot-
ing going on, and seen that Miller's
hired man was pretty handy with
Winchester himself. He worked her
EASTERN any man l ever seen. Some
body knocked Miller over, and thought
it wouldn't be just square not to save
the hired man trouble, so I gave him
one that stopped his old Winchester.
Damn good thing did, too, for the
Laramie man, with the yellow chaps
and Bullwhack Bill and one of the
other fellow was done up.
"Well," said the colonel, lighting a
fresh cigar, "that was the kind of
men Hyde and Ducello were, and it
was evident that If they ever crossed
each other the shooting would not be
as long drawn out as accurate. They
crossed. That seems to be the newt
able when two bad men really have
Co ha1 tt,ot Inf
ers and DULLES, you know, that you can
hardly tell what any of them really
means to do. | don't know as / ever
heard just exactly what started the
row between them. Professional jeal-
ousy, most likely. Maybe Ducello
sneared about Hyde's escape from a
mad steer. 1t was at roundup, aud
Hyde got off his pony TO throw steer
another cowboy had roped. He started
In, but the other fellows rope broke
and the steer charged at Hyde. Hyde
dropped his own rope, pulling his gun
at the same time, shot once at the
steer and dropped once to the ground to
avoid the steers rush If he missed,
But he didn't miss However, the row
started it don't matter much how, and
the word went round that there would
be some of the quickest and cleanest
that the world ever saw. Well, they
met and there was shooting. But no
man alive is ever going to tell exactly
how 1t happened.
"Ducello was breaking a bunch of
bronchos for the 6 X outfit. Hyde was
in Cheyenne. 1t happened that on the
afternoon on which Hyde started for
Little iva, Ducello took it into his
head to ride into Cheyenne. That
evening their ponies came up the lane
to the X ranch together, but without
riders. The boys knew what had hap
pened, and started out toget the bodies.
Tney were lying not SO very far apart
on opposite sides of the road, only
about mile below where the lane
from the ranch turns into the stage
road. Hyde was shot through the
heart, Ducello through the top of the
head
"The boys figured that it happened
in this way. When Ducello and Hyde
met it just so happened that the
chances of the draw were even and
each saw 1t. Each wanted to gel
whatever advantage of the other he
could, and neither was in a hurry t.
pass by the other, so they stopped ant
talked, be about the Indians, maybe
about the stock; who knows! Maybe
they cursed each other, though tha
isn't likely, and it's Just as unlikel,
that they tried to make up. Wha
would you talk about If you happened
to meet the man you'd sworn to kill ant
who had sworn to kill you under sucl
circumstances2 Well, 1t was evlden
that whether they stopped to talk o
not Ducello turned back on his trail an
rode along with Hyde. His body wa
hardly cold when the boys found him
and they knew he had had time afte
he left the ranch to get a good dea
further away than the place where h
lay. So they rode together, talke
away about whatever it was, but eyin
each other every second. At last on
thought he had chance to draw. Tn
instant he reached toward his gun tn
other did too. You remember tina
Hyde had the reputation of being tn
quicker man. His friends argued fror
the fact that he was shat through tn
heart that Ducello got the advantage c
the draw. They conjectured that tn
shock of the bullet disturbed Hyde
aim, so that the bullet that would hav
struck Ducello's heart crashed throug
his head instead. don't know, som,
how | always thought Ducello was tn
quicker
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