Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-10-31

tlrel, US SIG SHOreIy HAS CHll W,
a-ridin with such a lOcocd inebriate
40miles as Old Monte, an the minute
she's out she goes into the stage Of
fee.
"'That young female, says Doc
Peets-an you can bot your mocoa-
sins Doc Poets knowed his business
every TRIPS undoubted heap
elegant, but whatever she = meditat-
in whom she comes rOpln at camp
like this j. u stack too many for me.
Whatever do you think youse'f, En-.
| right
II shorely has to pass n hand like
that, says Enright. AT the same
time l deplores pore rank stranger
like this yere young woman strikin
camp an no ono to meet an spread a
blanket for her. Now yere's Nellie,
Enright continues, turnin at Faro
Nell, who's gettin her nose paint
with tho rest an stands lOokin on,
AN it strikes mo rs good safe play
for Nell to go hold a powwow with
her; Nell bcin person of tact an
likewise II female, all similar to the
other. blrrnwhile we stands our
hands till Nell comes sCoutin round
to us ag'in.
me go talk to hor?' says Noll
We'll, I'll jest fool you up Il whole
lot. You hear me! don't go near
her. Not aS I'm none too good, con-
tinuos Noll, a-shovin of her big SOM
brero back kinder Uneasy, but if
you alls had as much savoy as some
prairie dogs you'd know mighty
well this ycre lady wouldn't talk to
no such cattle as me.
Just thun this yoro strange girl
comes to the stage station door an
looks out
She's sendin up n signal smoke
now, says Doc Poets, an I'm allow.
in I'll pint up that away an see
whatever is up anyhow. So Doc
threw his belt and gun behind the
bar, an up he goes, jest rs placid as
a sod house. We was all watchin
him, an the bow he makes when he
throws his rope for her makes us
feel proud, cause we sees the camp
wasn't goin to get the worst of it.
We'll, people, says Cherokee
Hall, were all some nervous an
stampeded, so s'pose we absorb some
beverage pendin Docs roturn?'
1--WE gets our whisky an sets
round, not thinkin much, an bime-
by in half an hour Doc comes in.
'Gonts, he says, 1T devolves on
this yore camp to mako mighty
delicate play. This yere maiden,
who this day hops into our midst,
is broko-clean busted; nary a sim
gle contous in her warbags. a broth
or of hers, she says, with no brands
or y ear marks, strays on to this
range two years back. She says his
name was Good-Jim Good-an they
tells her i'll Tucson hos over yere.
/ recalls this yGro maverick myself
as a man who IS downed over in
Red Dog last summer grabbin of
bet in faro game. OF course I m
plenty cunnin an don't divulge none
about this shorthorns death, but
puts it up guilcful as how he's gone
som 'ers else. / allows he has plenty
of dust an is rollin POGO high when
he makes ais last camp with US.
This yere, continues Poets,
'pleaseS her. She says she got a
whole outfit of relatives in Frisco
and figgers he's gone there an says
she'll go too As soon rs she done
earns the dincro to take her There's
how the deal stands, an I wants
your action. wants to say in closin
that when ] sees the joy a-gleamin
in her ey" when ! lets go tho lie
about heI brother. I makes up my
mind immediate to formulate and
tell her some more.
It's unfortunate, says Enright,
at a crisis like this that the simple
life of Wolfville don't afford a null
titood of trails by which a young
woman of repoot an rectitood may
travel safe to wealth. l shorely ro-
SAoeo ~ oup LII SOlSIIaluSu W say
this yere camp is no place for this
female, an she's quittin winner to
leave. 1t appears farther by the re-
port of Doc Poets she needs money,
an | hopefully calls on you to sug-
gest a way to round it up
Let's all throw in round" says
Dan Boggs, an make pot for her.
Travelin amt high, an three or four
stacks of blues would take her any
whar.
THAT won't do, says Poets. 4
makes little bluff all similar on
my own hand, an she gets hostile at
the bare mention. We can t give her
no money, none whatever. We've
Jest got to rig deadfall an trap
her into takin it.
IN go ten blind, says Enright,
that what Poets states is right. Fee
males is mighty funny that away
about takin money from strange
men, an 1t has come to my notice
the deal bein reconnaissance to this
AS how they seem to regard every
bill rattlesnake. Now yere's how
we fixes it. Poets brings this female
to the New York store, we mean
while adjournin similar. The Red
Lights all right, only it amt no
place for the caucus we contem-
plates.
Now this yere Is how We'll do, :
says Enright. Wen stampede over
to the store, as l remarks, an then
when we re located Doc Poets IL
bring in the girl. Thon Poets up an
says, WhDovGr Is were unk Won re-