The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1898-04-26
! DOC PIPPIN.
BY CY wARMAN. !
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hind harrow, and he hailed me. Whom
he came out he hung his chin over
the top of the fence and said: I'm
goin' west"
When" saSrsssaa
Tonight" E-xs
"No." $780,
"Yes. Will you jine me?"
whats it cost?" / asked
"Forty-nne dollars second class from
st. Louis to Denver"
Have you got the money!"
Doc shook his head.
did you ever see that nuci, money!
"Weli, rot at one look, but I've got
il all figured out"
allow much have you got?"
Haven't got any. but I got job at
Whitcer's stable in Carr street, an II
You go I'll see that you never want.
We can sleep in the haymow and board
around
How'll we get to st. LOUISE" |
asked.
ride when we're tired OF wallxin' an
walk when we can't ride" was his re-
ply.
The thought OF getting up at morn
ing and not knowing where | was go
ing to sleep at night frightened me,
and told Doe so, and we parted.
A few years later, when the west
bound train stopped at u little bleak
and drcary mountain town where |,
haying gone west, had elected to drop
anchor, looked out from the car win
dow and saw Doc sitting close up to
the trooper of an old sorrcl horse that
was hitched To an express wagon.
went over to him at once, for | was
lonesome. A mountain town is not
thing that one is apt to love at first
sight. Dcsolatc. That is better than
four columns of agate to describe the
place. The dry March winds came out
Of the canyon and swept the sands of
the mesa up into eddirs and swt~hsd
and swiried in around your collar and
cut your face. Tie sunlight was SO
dazzling that il bcwildered and seemed
unreal, and the cold winds were con-
stantly contradicting its warmth.
Are you homcsick, Docw | asked.
as | rode uptown with him, for he was
there to haul people and their baggage
mp to the hotel.
Mop" he said ITS the dry wind
it's busted my lip so that look like
I'm goin' TO cry when I'm tryin' To
laugh. I'm goin' back home this fall
he added, after pause, ''to get my
money-pm 81 now, but I'm comm
back out here-this country is all
right"
Doc, who had earned his title by doe
toring his unclc's horses, had inherited
little fortune OF 81 800, and when the
summer had come and gone he went
back home in a Pullman car, for he had
saved $50 out of his salary of 500 and
board every month.
Five years later, IN the dawning of
the morning. as I was climbing out of
an upper berth at another mountain
town, man caught hold of my coat
tail, ard found that the imam under
my bed" was Doc Pippin. He said he
was living in Denver; so was |. and
in a few days he came in to see me.
He came often, and told the best stories
had ever heard. He was thin and
pale, and / noticed that he coughed
and pounded his left lung when he
did so. Those stories were not told to
me for publication, but [ know he will
not care, for he is careless now.
Doc went 10 Chicago after receiving
his money and became acquainted with
n well-known detective. | think he said
it was Billy Pinkerton. II was like the
Pinkertons TO detect in this almost
beardess boy remarkably intelligent
person.
Pippin got an offer of employment
he accepted it and was sent at once tc
Il small town in Illinois to find out 4
band of thieves who were stealing hogs
and robbing shops.
If Doc had tried he could never have
dressed well. Even clothes that wer,
made for him didn't fit, and he wor'
his hat crosswise, like the leading mar
al French funeral His appearance
upon this occasion was in his favor, am
he was not long in forming the ac
ouaintance of the toughest lot of loaf
ers in the town. They liked Doc, Il
everyone did who know him, but it wa
long time before they would trus
him. Docs money gave out, and he trie
to borrow, and the gang gave him tn
laugh. "Gt out an turn trick
work" said one of the men.
.sXVbnt can | do? Show me and the