The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-18
Come out Of there" she said.

Come out Of there she said.
Red-faced and heavy-eyed from
drink, Arizona Dan, hitchlng up his
revolverless belt, shuffied his huge form
| through the fieXile branches of the
bushes into the path.
"Sh-sh-sn!" ne sad, his heavy face
folding into a dull smile intended to be
! reaSSuring, q amt a goln' TO nurt you,
MISS
Hurt me!' said Miss Reed, con-
temptuousIy. Il should think not.
WHAT are you doing here?'
Just layln low, miss, and waitIn'
| for night. er see, L was on what you
might call a sort OF spree, ana broke
glass or TWO. Maybe somebody was
nurt, too. The whisky done it. good
lookln young LADY IKE you, miss,
wouIont give the word on man, now,
L bet boss
Arizona Dams numbering attempt at
compliment produced no effect. Boadl-
cea regarded hun sternIy with I'M
swervlng, dlsaoprovng eyes.
You don't want to be loatting around
these dIggings, she saId, substituting
the local IorIgl OF parlance Tor ner ordI-
narily more eIeVated SIyIe Oh CONVERSE
! Ion, as beng more worthy or her
audience. "1ou are nor AFRAID, are
your with innnite disGaln.
Il amt atrald, saId Arizona Dan,
being LOCK. l can't Hgnt the "nole
! town.
is any one after you?"
If they am |, they VIII be. Rad Con-
rad 5 IL town. anu
! Arizona Dan vi IKE of, with an oath,
! ana IoUkea oOWn lne Steep -4itn" tiy-
here &c comes now, ne nIdttei ed.
Boao-cea Iose 20 ner Ieet ana petred
| over the TOPS OF the intervening
Il /
summer SUI lhar set OIL 10 advantage
MS SIronS, q aCeLOl nS uIS, A,e.-5 COi4i-
lEs5 u LIE pain With .Iie sun striking
sO4delI llsn.s from nis neau oI cuIAJ
pionae heIr. 15oaClcca looked upon
MN 2no loVeG.
When WITHIN ten PAGES OF his man
the sheriII JoUk Oh nat ana Wloed
ms ol oW with 4 silk nandEefcnIet.
Dan, he sald, III an even tone' l
want you
Arizona Dan drew nine-inch bowie
knlIe Ion Inc les OF ms DUoc Come
ana get me, re s~iC, with grin, and
d suggestive upH ara movement Oh ms
r1gnL .1anC-
me oid, well known nauseating,
deathly, coWaloIy physical lear callie
upon the sherln Us ne saw the shining
biade held BY the huge desperado ne nad
come unarnied TO ca-'td.e. ais prlue
and the wonoeiiuI moral pulssance
that ground OUT courageous deeds from
heart-Slnk.rg apprehension urged nm
forward anUIne4 SEP. Arizond Dan
laughed a low, naiI-sODer, but chllling
laugh. So Cuier Ii was that the voice
OF the broo1l sounded IN TIE snerifI's
ear IKE the derisive mochery OF men
at mis- poltroonry.
For one instant Radcliff Conrad
swung in the balance. An all-pervad
ing panic seized him, and the loot he
lifted to take a forward step weighed
hundred pounds. The rustling OF a
branch to mis- right, above the path,
drew from him swift glance, and he
looked Tor ten seconds INTO two dark
eyes that seemed to flash some strange,
eXalting essence into mis- veins. A
weight seemed loosened somewhere
within him, and he felt that he could
hear it fall down, down, to unsounded
depths. He looked at Arizona Dan and
laughed low and joyously, as child
does who has come upon long-desired
toy.
will you Gomez" said the sheriff in
tone a bridegroom might have used
to his bride.
III cut your heart out, Rad Con-
rad" said Arizona Dan, IF you come
two steps nearer
Boadicea, on the ledge above, rustled
little, and the sheriff, without looking
up. smiled again. Arizona Dan held his
knife as one holds a foil, point out
ward, with his thumb against the
guard. The Sheriff crouched some three
inches, like cat, and seemCS 20 gather
himself together, with his weight bal
anced evenly on each foot. Arizona
Dan stood still, with his knife ready.